Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. .4 A. J. HILL, Editor nnd RuwlncMS Manager. TERMS : ONE Ahn FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER IJAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office ever Adame Co. Rook 2nd door. Wil attend to all profeeeional calle promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Restdencc »n north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf W. H. AI YERS ~ Brick k Stone Jlason lonlrac'r ’ DECATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his lino. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n46m3. E N. WICKS, J. T. MKBKYMAK. •WICKS 4 MERRYMAN, attorneys at law AND Ural Estate Agents. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Partition, settlement of decedent’s estates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone's building—4th door. ▼ol, 25, no. 24, yl, drTkitchmiller will be at the BURT HOUSE, UZV’ATvR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of inch month to treat all Chrouic Diseases. Consultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua. Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him aud make a statement of your case.—v2sn36ly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Spectacles, cfco Repairing done at lowest pricss to guar antee good and sound work K B. Alumn, Pren’t. W.H Ntbli on .Cashier. B Stvd*»akbb, Vice Pree’t. THEADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and soil Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN, I ATTORNEYS *AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adame 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 and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE 4 KING? ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR.IN DIAN A. E. N. WICKS, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone's building 4th door. v25n24 year 1.

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Joh.n T. Bailey, attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent Decatur, Indiana. Special attention given to collections.—nos2.tf. R. B. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON; « Daughters, Wires, Mota t Dr. J. B. MARCH9S9, UTICA, N Y, discoverer of DR MABCHISI'S UTERINE (’ATIIOLim A POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. Thia Remedy will act in harmony with the Female system at all time' l and also immediately upon the" abdominal and uterine mitrc'es* and restore them to a healthy and strong condition. Dr. Marchi!*i's Uterine Catholicon will cure falling of the Wotutt, Lcuccorrhoea, Chronic Inflammation and Ulceration < f the womb, I ridden tai Hemorrhage or Hooding, Painful, and Irregular Menstruation, Kidney Comp’aint. and it* eepec ally adapted to the Charge of Life, Send for pamphlet, tree. All letter-of inauiry freely answered Addrrfs at* a ov**. FOB SALE BY ALL DRi GC.KFS. Fr ce $1 5 > per bottle. Be fare and at-k tor I ’r. Ma tiei'o Uterine Catholicon Take r<> other. —— i» arwwm—M— Making Hands Beautiful. [New York Sun.] In one of the side streets up town is the office of a “Hand Doctor.” The exterior of the house has no sign or door plate to attract the notice of the general public, but it is evident that the fashionable world has been informed of the doctor’s whereabout*, from the number of richly dressed people who frequent the office. Curiosity induced a reporter to visit the place. The servant who answered the door-bell showed the visitor into a front parlor, where a young woman stood ready to receive patients. The reporter pulled out an un.-esthetic looking hand from his pocket, and expressed a desire to have it made a thing of beauty. She examined it critically, and said: ‘•Your hand has been sadly neglected, and needs treatment. The skin is bail in color, the knuckles look dark and the nails are dreadful. If you will be seated until the doctor is through with the patient he is now treating, lie will attend to you.” While waiting, an examination of the curiosities of the office was amusing. In a case on one side of the room were wax models of hands of all shapes and sizes. Fat hands, thin bony hands, some with long fingers, some with short—hands as they should be and hands as they should not lie. Opposite these a showcase contained an assortment of soaps, salves and lotions, and a lot of gloves, eoarse and clumsy, tliat seemed strangely out of place in a place devoted to hand-beau-ty. The young woman said: “They are cosmetic gloves. These are only a few of the kinds we use. The doctor prepares others to suit the need of different patients. These are prepared to whiten the hands. They are spread in side with a preparation of yolk of egg, oil of sweet almonds and tincture of benzoin. The double lap at the wrist effectually protects the cuff from being soiled. The gloves next to them are to soften the hands, and the lining is saturated with a mixture of honey, myrrh, wax, and rose water. The gloves in the corner are still more powerful. They contain as strong agents as ean safely be applied to the hands, and cannot be used when the skin is chapped, sqorched or broken in any place. They are lined with a preparation of tartaric oil, lemon juice, oil of bitter almonds, brown Windsor soap and some other ingredients. ” Some puffed out bags looking like boxing-gloves proved to be bran mittens and the attendant explained the use of a box of curious looking thimbles about two inches long. “These are finger-tips for shaping the ends of the fingers. Tapering fingers are not an impossibility. Ladies are willing to undergo inconvenience and injury for the sake of tapering waists, but make no effort to improve the shape of their hands.” As a lady closely veiled came out from the back parlor and left ttie room, the doctor announced himself ready to attend to another patient. The treatment was begun by scouring the hands with fine white flint sand, soap and hot water. Then followed a bran bath, which is merely rubbing the hands with bran until thoroughly dry. Stains and dark lines about the knuckles were then touched with some acid on a piece of chamois skin, and the hands were anointed with cold cream and held in warm towels till dry. This process being completed, the doctor requested his patient to sit before a table near a window, and seating himself opposite, and opening a ca-e of ivory instruments, he asked: “Are you superstitious about nailspots?” “No. What do you mean? ’ , . “It is an old belief that white spots ' upon the nails bring good fortune, while black ones are considered unlucky. Both are ugly, however, and if you have no prejudice I will remove them;” and so saying, he applied a black, pitchy substance that smelt of sulphur to each spot, and during the ten minutes he allowed it to remain there, employed himself in pushing down, with a dull ivory instrument, the skin growing round the base of the nail. When the salve was removed from the nails the fingers were dipped into a pink wash, and then polI ished with a powder and chamois-skin I brush until each nail shone like a conch I shell. . , By this time it seemed as though a I scribbler’s cramp had seized each finger, and a strong desire was felt to thrust ■ the aching hands into the pockets. “Character is shown by the shape of I the nails,” said the doctor. “When they ■ are long and narrow it is a sign of dull I ness and when curved they indicate I rapacity Short nails 'mply goodness. ' You do not affect that, I see,” said he, as he tightened his grip on the fingers, and commenced filing off the nails at each corner, leaving them as sharp and pointed as the thumb-nail of a scribj bling dervish The veiy latest agony in earrings is a pair of tennis racquets in gold and ! tnamel. *

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1882.

THE FARMER AN# THETARIFF. The OutrngeouM Manner In Which Farmers FWeced llihlef Pretence of Protecting American Indvteirltp. [From a H]>eech in ConCTess by Hon. Oscar Turner, of Kentucky. I Sir, is it just? Is it right that the agriculturist of this country should lie discriminated against in this manner? Where is the protection given our labor? There is none. The honest farmer asks none; but he does demand equality under the law, and he has a right to it, Sir, I have. been a farmer all lily life, and I have felt and understood the burdens under which we labor, and the injustice done the farmers of the country, and the doctors, lawyers, artisans ami laborers of the land. Here is a statement showing a few .of the burdens of the farmer : Under this tariff he rises in the morning, puts on his common flannel shirt, taxed 95 per cent. ■ his coat, taxed 57 per cent.; shoes, taxed 35 per cent.; and hat, taxed 112 per cent.; takes the water from a bucket taxed 35 per cent., and w ashes his face and hands in a tin bowl taxed 35 per cent.; dries them on a cheap cotton towel, taxed 45 per cent. He sits down to his humble meal and eats from a plate taxed 50 per cent, with knife and fork taxed 35 per cent.; drinks his coffee with sugar taxed 68 per cent.; seasons his food with salt taxed 69 per cent.; pepper, taxed 61 per cent. He looks around on his wife and children all taxed in the same wav; takes a chew of tobacco taxed 199 per cent., or lights a cigar taxed 118 percent. And. sir, even the sunlight from heaven that pours into his humble dwelling ninst come through window glass taxed 59 per cent., and yet he thinks he lives in the freest Government under heaven. Then he starts to work: puts a bridle taxed 35 per cent, on his horse, and takes his horse that 111 AM Ir’CH ahull Ilio xiailu u»o<l in ing being taxed 59 per cent.; driven r>v a hammer taxed 20 per cent.—and hitches him to a plow taxed 45 per cent., with chains taxed 85 . per cent.; and, after the day’s lalior is closed and his family are all gathered around, he reads a chapter from his Bible, taxed 25 per cent., and kneels to God on an humble carpet taxed 51 per cent.; and then he rests his weary limbs on a sheet taxed 45 per cent., and covers himself with a blanket that has paid 104 per cent. Nor do these grasping manufacturers stop here, but even the broom with which his good wife sweeps the is taxed 35 per cent.; and the cooking vessels used in preparing her husband's frugal meal are taxed 42 per cent,; ami the soda used to lighten his bread is taxed 59 per cent. She sits down to her sewing with a needle taxed 25 per cent., and a spool of thread taxed 74 per cent., to make a calico dress taxed 85 per cent.; or, if she wishes to knit warm socks to protect her husband and children from the bitter cold, she uses yarn taxed 120 per cent.; and thus, daily and hourly, must the hard earnings of the laborer go to satisfy the manufacturer and add to his ill-gotten wealth. But, sir, we are told that this tariff system is necessary to protect American labor and industries; under' what clause of the constitution of our fathers do gentlemen find the power and the right to tax the honest farmer—to take from him the fruits of his hard labor and put it in the pocket of the manufacturer—to enhance the value of his labor? Give ns equal rights. You have no right to tax 45,000,000 of our people to enrich 5,000,000; no, only one and a half million, for the operatives do not get the profit or bonus. You live in a country abounding in the raw material—the iron, coal, cotton at your very doors. The broad ocean, across which the manufactures of Europe have to come, gives you all the protection you need or ought to have. You have been protected in your infancy, you have grown to manhood, and do not keep up your cry for “protection.” You have got most of the banking capital; haVe got the bonds; you got them for 40 cents to 60 on the dollar, and in God’s name you ought to be satisfied. If manufactories will not pay, why you have no right, legal or moral, to tax others to keep them up; but, gentlemen, you know that they will pay, you know that they ship plows to England and machinery of various kinds and sell them lower than they do here, and then make a fair profit You know that while we only make 31 to 4 per cent, in agriculture your iron lords are realizing 30 and 60 per cent., and that you are making in average of over 30 per cent, on all manufactured commodities; but you are not satisfied, and the American people will have to rise in their might and assert their birthright to be free. The shackles of slavery have been struck from the African, yet you hold in slavery the white men of the country, the toiling masses, and compel them to pay you tribute on the necessaries of life, and deny to them the right to exchange the fruits of their labor for the commodities they need in the markets of the world. It is an outrage. [From the Detroit News.] Notwithstanding the doleful forebodings of a few weeks ago, when the Michigan and Indiana wheat was sprouting, the wheat crop this year is going to be enormously greater than any preceding one. The State of Illinois alone will produce 50,000,000 of bushels, or about one-quarter of what would have been considered a fair crop for the whole country a few vears ago. The total crop is estimated at 600,000,000 bushels by OAi:q ppioqs MJi sqooj qt pun quusu uvq, xoqsoaft os[u nan sqjos'iin jo tqooa pun pu.ij ‘jfepreq pun sqno ‘iuoa jo sdoao •’’ll '•sainStj asmp uaa.wqaq A«-w jpiq p.j.i oq ajBS oq piM l[ 'OOO‘OOO‘OOS lU! 'H ssai auou pun ‘setquoqqnn pooh atuos such a quantity of food to export as would feed the whole earth and tax our railroads and lake' shipping beyond their capacity. General prosperity will prevail, and the Republican party and the tariff monopolies will claim the whole credit of it, but nothing could more clearly prove that it is not the protected manufacturer, but the unprotected farmer, that makes our country smile with abundance. While the farmer who produces all this wealth will be compelled to compete in the markets of the world against the giuper labor of Russia, of India, ot gypt, of France, of Germany, of Italy, of Great Britain and of Ireland—for his wheat will meet rival wheat from all these countries when it gets to market —he will have to pay tribute to the steel maker of Pittsburgh' and Chicago in increased freight over protected rails; he will have to pay tribute to the iron monopolist* in every tool used in his

I work, on every nail in his buildings; the I cotton monopolists will squeeze him on his clothes and on his blankets, and the lumber maker will have a share out of him for every piece of wood worked on his farm. These are all protected by the tariff at his cost. He is not protected at anybody's but his own, and if the soil were not so rich and so cheap, enabling him to pay all these exactions, he would be poor indeed. WHAT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY! [From the New York Sun.] The Republican party has lost nona of its greatness in Mr. Blaine’s eyes. Though it has denied him the Presidency and turned him out of the Cabinet. he is still a faithful follower. Witness the picture of its achievements in his speech at Portland: “For twenty-one years past last March, the destiny of the United States of America, in so far as that destiny can lie controlled by a political party, has been in the keeping of the Republican party of the United States; and if there be a greater chapter of history written in the annals of the human kind, I would like Gov. Plaisted or any other gentleman supporting him to he kind enough to point it out. If there be any chapter of history in which human progress has been so rapid, in whiili human rights have been guaranteed so firmly fttid enlarged so grandly as within that period, I am ignorant of where to look for it and where to find it; and now, at the end of these twenty-one. years, in this blessed year of 1882, we find an opposition made up of two or three parties, and what do they propose to do? Noth* ing. The positive measures, the aggressive policies, the definition of the lino, and the metes and bounds of legislation have all been taken and prescribed by the Republican party, and outside of it we have had objection and cavil and quibble and slander and all mumier (Ji aau mean cmics following as camp-followers after a great procession that has gone ahead; but I challenge any gentleman to show that in the whole of twenty-one years the Democratic party and its various side issues, like the Greenback and Labor and other organizations, has ever proposed a measure that was able to be materialized into the form of a bill or resolve In the Congress of the U nited States for the amelioration of any human woe, or for the advancement of any public good.” It is surprising how differently history is read by different persons. Here, for instance, byway of contrast to Mr. Blaine, is a sketch of Republican misgovernment drawn by Mr. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, then a Representative in Congress, in 1876. when addressing the Senate of the United States as one of the managers of the Belknap impeachment: “My own public life has been a very brief and insignificant one, extending little beyond the duration of a single term of Senatorial oflice. But in that brief period I have seen five Judges of a high court of the United States driven from office by threats of impeachment for corruption and maladministration. I have heard the taunt from friendliest lips that when the United States presented herself in the East to take part with the civilized world in generous competition m the arts of life, the only product of her institutions in w hich she surpassed all others beyond question was her corruption. * * * J have seen the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the House, now a distinguished member of this court, rise in his place and demand the expulsion of four of his associates, for making sale of their official privilege of selecting the youths to be educated at our great military school. When the greatest railroad of the world, binding together the continent and uniting the two great seas which wash our shores, was finished, I have seen our national triumph and exultation turned to bitterness and shame by the unanimous reports of three committees of Congress—two of the House and one here—that every step of that mighty enterprise had been taken in fraud. I have heard in highest places the shameless doctrine avowed by men grown old in public office, that the true way by which power should he gained in the republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service, and the true end for which it should be used when gained is the promotion of selfish ambition, and the gratification of personal revenge. I have heard that suspicion haunts the footsteps of the trusted companions of the President.” There is not much similarity between the views of the gentleman from Maine and those of the gentleman from Massaohusetts. To make the contrast more effective Senator Hoar ought to bring his sketch town to the present time. A good deal aas happened since the centennial year. The Republican party has taken possession of the office of President and held it for four years by mere fraud. It lias destroyed the navy. It has corrupted the postoffiee. And it has just Sanctioned the plunder of the treasury by directing the expenditure of millions if the public money for purposes not warranted by the constitution. We may add that' this last wrong was perpetrated with the aid and approval of Mr. George F. Hoar himself. To appreciate still more vividly the lepths to which a great party has fall'll, let the young men to whom Mr. Blaine would appeal contemplate its □resent condition in the State of New York, where the various Republican factions rage in contention, not over any luestion of principle or public policv, but over accusations of dishonesty affecting their most-noted leaders. Mr. Blaine says that, whatever else the Republican party is, it is brave. It was brave once, in the liest sense. Ot late vears its bravery has been too much like that of a highwayman. Egypt As It Is. The Egypt of to-day is soon seen: Arab towns of mud huts, long lines of loaded camels and donkeys, and their naked or half-naked drivers, and lazy Arab boys and women begging for backsheesh; the fields of the Nile and the great river itself: the mosque and minaret; the hooded women and turbaned, long-robed men; the acacia and palm: and in the two great cities, lux ury along with poverty, dirt with despotism: all the plagues, including an abnormal government; sugar millsand palaces, and an equable temperature, with a '.unset that never fads to allure and detain the eye. —-“From f/ie Porte to the ISiramnW l/>i Heil. S. S. Cor Cu ose the company of your superiors, whenever you can have it, tliat is the right and true pride.— Chesterfield-.

INDIANA ITEMS. The Hamilton County Fair Association has been so successful this- year that it will be able to pay all obligations in full and have a good balance in the treasury. A 2-year-oLi) child of William Barnes, who resides on one of the farms of Samuel Hamilton, east of Shelbyville, fell into a kettle of boiling water and was scalded to death. An effort is being made among the teachers of Indiana to place a monument over the grave of Mil ton B. Hop kins, late Superintendent of Public Instruction at Kokomo. A party of ladies in Jackson town ship, Madison comity, while on a fishing excursion, discovered the decomposed body of an infant which had probably been buried some time. Robert F. Overton received a judgement in the Circuit Court at Salem for injuries received on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad in 188(1, in having his ankle mashed. The judgment was for $4,500. Ora Burns, a 12-year-old boy, of Shelbyville, in attempting to climb on a moving train had a miraculous escape from being killed. He missed his hold, falling against the wheels, which caught his clothing, stripping him almost naked. He was not eVen scratched. Jacob Coli p, a young married man jf Vincennes, went hunting in Illinois recently. He stopped at a house to avoid a shower of rain, but when h<> went to pick up his gun caught it by the muzzle and pulled it toward him. The load entered his breast, causing inotant death. Hensley township, lying southwest of Franklin, has been at fever heat for several days past over the trials and tribulations of the Zook family. David Zook had his two sons arrested for *r »-«» nip finil t.lui iurim liavz. entered suit against the old man for false imprisonment. M. H. Rosenfeld, the composer of ‘‘See that My Grave's Kept Green,” who was recently sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the northern penitentiary, Michigan City, for passing a fraudulent postoffice money-order on Joseph Schloss, is making an effort to secure a pardon. At the temperance tent meeting at. Terra Haute, recently, a large crowd was in attendance, and John R. East, a prominent Democrat of Bloomington, came out for the Republican State ticket, and said he would continue to vote in that way until his party advocated prohibition. During a heavy storm seven miles north west of Washington, recently, Thomas Glenn and James Steen, team sters employed on the White River levee, were struck down by a bolt ot lightning. Glenn was fatally burned by the electric fluid, but it is thought Steen will recover. The horses which they were driving were severely shocked, but not fatally. The ninth annual Harvest Home war held at Hardenburg, and, in spite of the torrents of rain that came pouring down recently, between three and foul thousand people attended. The exlii bition of agricultural products and implements, stock, etc., would rival that usually exhibited at a county fair. Thcjneeting was a grand success, and the people are correspondingly happy. The proposed turnpike between Now Albany and Jeffersonville will be onilt. The trustees of the town of Clarksville have voted $15,000 in aid of the pike Fire at Frankfort, twenty-five milei east of Lafayette, Sept. 4, destroyed . lot of frame buildings between the northwest corner of the public square and the Frankfort and Kokomo depot, occupied bv small houses. Loss ovei $25,000, with about $1,400 insurance. The fire did not reach any building* fronting on the public square. The corner-stone of Clinton county’s new Court-house was laid at Frankfort, Sept. 2, with imposing Masonic ceremonies by Grand Master BruciCarr, in the presence of fully 15,000 people. The display of the Masons. Odd Fellows and other benevolent or ders was grand, far exceeding anything here. The marching and drill of the Uniformed Patriarchs of Anderson were especially fine: the Knights Fem plar also. Captain J. N. Sims deliver- ( d the welcome address and Hon. Leander McClurg the oration. Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Lynch, of Indian apolis, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary recently, at the residence of their daughter. Mrs. W. 1. Mason, of that city. Dr. Lynch is pastor of the Grace M. E. Church, and a reception was given him there, at which congratulatory addresses were made by Governoi - Porter. Presiding Elder J. K. Pye, Rev. S. K. Houshour, and others. Dr. Lynch is one of the pioneers of Methodism in the West, and is 75 years old, his wife being two years younger. They were married in Augusta, Ky., in 1832. A bloody riot occurred at Nashville, on the night of Hept. 2, between a lot of ’ stovemen employed by J. M. McGregor, agent of the Standard Oil Company, and citizens. The trouble began over an old fend. The fight lasted over two hours, and no less than thirty to forty persons were engaged. Pistols, knives, clubs and stones were freely used, and seviral persons were carried off the bloody field. As it was. three were mortally wounded. Officers were so overpowered that no effort was made to check the rioters m their bloody work. Next day all was quiet, and it is thought the wounded w ill all recover. William Henry, a wealthy and wellknown farmer, living within three miles of Shelbyville, met with a terrible accident late in the evening of Sept. 4, which will probably terminate fatally. Mr. Henry and his son William, a young man aged about 18 years, were engaged in blowing up stumps with cartridges filled with Hercules powder, and while a fuse was ready and placed under a stump, his son. in passing with some co.-fls. accidently dropped some in a basket which sat near, containing a half-dozen or more fuses ready for use. which immediately set on lire the fuses in the basket, when an explosion followed with a terrific noise, which was heard fully two miles. Young Henry was bl/v n some twenty feet, but was not injured save a few bruises, but his father was seriously hurt, having received two large and severe gashes in the right leg. His left hand was blown off, and his body was frightfully burned all over, presenting a horrible appearance. Medical aid was summoned as

soon as possible, and the shattered portion of his left hand taken off, nnd such other remedies administered as were possible. At about 11 o'clock on the night of Sept. 2, after nearly all the respectable citizens had retired, Mount Vernon was aroused by loud swerfting and general disordA- upon the streets, anil, upon investigation, it was learned that CityMarshal Paul had attempted to arrest one of the bad characters of the city, who was drunk and disorderly, but had been interfered with by a crowd of roughs, who took the prisoner from him. During the trouble many pistols and knives are said to have been drawn, and he life of the Marshal threatened if he did not let the man go. The Marshal happened to be unarmed, with the exception of his mace, and of course had to submit. After the crowd had dispersed every body retired for the night nut at anoui * o eiocx in tie morning the people were again aroused by the cry of lire, when it was discovered that Marshal Paul’s residence was in flames, the house having been set on fire by incendiaries. In firing the house’ the parties had used coal-oil pretty freely, having poured it upon the floor through a window which they had succeeded in opening. The smoke from the fumes of the coal-oi 1 came very near strangling the little 4-year-old son of Mr. Paul, who was sleeping in the room, and its struggles awakened Mrs. Paul, who first gave the alarm. The Fire Department came out as quickly as possible, and succeeded in saving the adjoining property. The citizens are thoroughly aroused, and great indignation is expressed at the treatment of Marshal Paul, who is one of the best officers that our citv ever had. What They Ate Two Hundred Years Ago. An Englishman’s appetite has always been famous. He was fond of good oultil eatimr., Hie tarmer. alwavs hail Ins bacon ami Ins flitches ot salt mutton on hand, in addition to salt beef and barreled herrings from Yarmouth. In all good houses there was an imposing array of salting-tubs. The art of stallfeeding was almost unknown, and fresh meat, if procurable in the winter, was very lean. It cost from a half-penny to a penny per pound, which was equal to a penny or twopence of our money. Fresh fish was the luxury of the rich, obtained from their own ponds and streams. Salt fish was a common article of diet amongst the working classes, and barley broad were eaten by the poor. Wheat was often three pounds a quarter, or, as we would say, 120 s. The prices of bread and beer were regulated by local assize. Horsebread was the name given to bread conveyed in packs; inanchet was a fine wheaten loaf of six ounces; niesline bread was the penny loaf, and mayn bread or demain, was the same as that used in the sacrament. Cakes of oat.' and spice were on all good tables. Pies and pasties were made of all sorts of things. Page invited Falstafi to a dinner of “hot venison pasty,” wound up by "pippins and cheese.” The fee farm rent of Norwich consisted of twenty-four herring pasties, of the new season fish, flavored with ginger, pepper, cloves, galingals, and other spices. On one occasion King James I.’s servants complained that four instead of five herrings were in each pasty, and that they were “not baked in good and strong paste, as they ought to be.” Artichokes were also baked in pies, with marrow, dates, ginger and raisins. Pilchard pasties were a Cornish dainty. In fact, the various pasties still to be met with in Devon and Cornwall are representative “survivals’ of Elizabethan diet. The cooks are chiefly French, but a few of them were Italians. Very few vegetables were used, and some were regularly imported, and salted down. Cabbages and onions were sent from Holland to Hull. The Flemings commenced the first market gardens. Lettuce was served as a separate dish, and eaten at supper before meat. Capers were usually eaten boiled with oil and vinegar, as a salad. Eschalots were used to smear the plate before putting meat on it. Carrots had been introduced by the Flemings. Rhubarb, then called Patience, came from China about 1573. The common people ate turnip-leaves as a salad, and roasted the root in wood-ashes. Watercress was believed to restore the bloom to yonng ladies’ cheeks. In fact, all vegetables were regarded more as medicines than as necessary articles of food. Flesh meals were more believed in than anything else. They were eaten with a knife and a napkin, "The laudable use of forks,” as Ben Jolmson has it, did not commence until 1611, and was rare for many years after. The custom came from Italy, and the first forks were preserved in glass eases as curiosities. A jeweled one was among the New Year's gifts to Queen Elizabeth. Probably the absence of vegetables had something to do with the immense potations of the time. lago said the English could beat all other nations, and were “most potent in potting.” As tea did not come into England until 1610, and coffee until 1652, beer or wine was taken at all meals.— From “The England of Shakespeare.” Quite a sensation was created at a circus at Marquette, Mich., recently. In the act where a circus rider, disguised as a drunken tramp, falls into the ring and wants to ride a horse, the ring-master threw the drunkard oit and. with much seeming indignation, asked why there were no policemen around to kce > order. A German policeman who was standing by, and who knew the man belonged to the circus, felt indignant at having the policeman abused: so he took the alleged drunken man, and, notwithstanding the circus people tried to explain the circumstances. ho was hustled off to the lock-up, and the act was left out. After the show the proprietor went to the jail and got the performer out. and abused the policeman a little for being so officious. The policeman said: “Veil, a choke is a choke, but ven a man zay vere is de holice and vv dom'd dey arrest dat drunk man, den do Marquette bolice is in dot vicinidy, und don'd you forget id, Mr. Circus, I lied you.” The first white hair! A woman still young in years held it up to the light and gazed upon it with tender melancholy, for was it not a harbinger of age thatmust surely come to her should she live, and she thought she would ? It was the first white hair she had found iii a new red wig she had bought a few days before, and she was naturally mad about it. — <’■ iieiutiati, Satnrday Night.

SPARE THE CltllfllßEN. The Danger* of Diet Which the Little Ones Meet—How They Should anil Shook! Not He Fed. [From the Detroit Poat.] A foreigner traveling in this country nnd Observing the habit of cramming small children with eatables at all hours of the day and night might imagine them some species of human geese preparing for a />ate de fol gras. But it is us who are the geese and the children the helpless victims. A Detroit mother was observed on an excursion with two dim-eyed, pallid babes. At the hour of noon she produced a basket and gave to each child a piece of meat, some pickles, a large sweet cake and a section of pie, and remarked as she helped the smallest one, “ I don’t believe that child is hungry. She has been eating steadily ever since 10 o'clock.” ami then sho added emphatically, " You’ll be sick, Miss; see if yon ain't!” What that child had eaten was enumerated as follows: One bag of peanuts, one paper of candy, two peaches, two pears, three cookies, 5 cents’ worth of plums, a slice of bread and butter, and' a large doughnut. The passengers were troubled at the capacity of the child, fearing it would prove inadequate, but they need not have been alarmed. It ate as much more for its regular dinner and drank water to an extent that was simply phenomenal, and it did not have a fit or drop dead, or do anything but look more sallow and pinched and hungry, and at 3 o’clock in the afternoon it was leaning against its mother complaining, " I ain’t had a bite to eat since dinner, and I'm most starved,” etc., etc. Prof. Chandler, of New' York, has been approached on the subject of infant statistics, and the following dialogue gives his idea of what a child's food should be to insure health: “ What are the greatest desiderata in iakiug ewe of children in the sum- | “ Plenty of fresh air—these river and harbor excursions are splendid —early hours and proper food.” “ What is the best food for children ?” “ Milk and cereals, bread, oatmeal, cornmeal and cracked wheat are the best food. Poor people often give their children corned beef and cabbage when they are only 2or 3 years old. That is simply frightful.” “ Are not veal and pork almost equally indigestible for children ?” “ They are very trying, indeed, to their digestion; beef, mutton and fowl are by far more nutritions and easily digested.” “ How as to fruit, green apples and the like'?” “ Fruit, if it is ripe, is healthy, but green apples are to be avoided; they often produce cholera infantum.” “ And our national, omnipresent pie, I Professor ?” “ That is the very worst of all. Pie of any soft is bad because the crust is so indigestible, but mince pie and lemon pie especially are diabolical.” “ And candy?” “ Candv eaten in moderate quantities is not bad if taken after meals’. The trouble about candy-eating by children is that it generally takes away their appetites for wholesome, strengthening food. There is no stamina, of course, in sugar; it is simply a heating food, and won’t make brain or muscle.” It is enough that the poor little things must contend with all the diseases natural to childhood without being sacrificed to the gross stupidity and selfishness of their parents. With oatmeal and milk a child can live and thrive until 3 years old without tasting meat or vegetables, much less indigestible pastry. But there is another evil almost as fatal to young children as the system of I cramming with miscellaneous food. It ! is the nurse girl. This creation is a growth of the present century. She is a pedestrian with the listless day-come day-go step of a member of the police force, and. like him. she has a regular beat round and round the block and ’round and round the park. She feeds the baby on green apples, in the interest of her lover, the , street-car driver, who meets her on his off days; she inures the infant frame to I early hardships, such as sleeping in a | doubled-up position, or balancing on I the nape of its neck while the sun shines in its face. If she is young—and she ■ has probably seen about sixteen slack i summers —she always has candy to sol- I ace the child with while she tells her ( beau that “me and missus had a fuss,” j and if the mother is in the habit of us- | ing soothing sirup she knows when to give an extra dose; and she carries her ] pocket full of cakes and crackers on which the young heir is nourished while she entertains her friends. The food, : the jolt-jolt of the carriage as it rumbles up one block and down another, the threatening looks of the nurse girl who fascinates the little victim like a siren, culminate in cholera infantum, and this is all going on while the mother is doing fancy work in the cool, shaded parlor, and telling her friends what a treasure she has in that girl! A California Millionaire and His Travels. Charley Crocker, as he was familiarly known in the early days of Sau Francisco, was one of tile projectors of the [ Central Pacific Railroad, and is to-day I hale and hearty, and worth perhaps | $100,006,000. Alter his wealth hail acciiniulated to more than, in his boy- ' hood's wildest dreams, he ever imagined ! he would possess, he determined to take a trip around the world. He took particular pains, however, torinipress upon every one lie met that he was a "selfmade man.” Probably to-day he would forego that luxury. ‘While passing through the Red Sea on an English steamer, nearly all the cabin passengers being English, he again and again impressed his traveling companions with the fact that he was a self-made man. He carried this theory so far one day as to come to the table with his coat off. saying that a self-made man did not need a coat with the thermometer at 110 to 130. Our English cousins were so much disgusted that the captain was , requested to see that Mr. Crocker re- i snnied his coat again. Charlie took in the situation and very politely complied with the request, but as he was returnI ing to bis place at the table he .coidd not refrain from insisting that he was a “sell-made man." A quiet old Englishman. who, with his wife and daughter, occupied a seat next to bin', gazed at him critically for a moment, aud i**■narked: "What a responsibility tie Almighty was relieved I wh. n you nude vourself.” — The Son " Health in Cyprus. Health statistics ot the English gai - risen in Cyprus are said to show a gre. t

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improvement, especially in the case of the royal engineers, who form the only part of the garrison that has been Stationed on the island without interruption for two years. Last year the deathrate for the entire force, numbering an average of 113 men, was about 2f per 1,000, as compared with nearly 19 per 1,000 in the previous year. How accurate ami fair these figures are it would be hard to say, but unless there has been a very remarkable and real change in the healthfullness of the islandone, in fact, that is almost incredible—there must lie something wrong about them, for they go on to say that for the same period the mortality among British troops in Canada was a little over 6J, in Bermuda a little over 81 per 1,000. Courtesy at Home. Good breeding, like charity, should begin at home. The day is past when children used to rise w hen their parent* entered the room where they were and stand until they had received permission to sit. But the mistake is now made usually in the other direction in allowing to small boys and girls too much license to disturb the peace of the household. I think the best way to train childrenin courtesy would Is; to observe toward them a scrupulous politeness. 1 would go so far as to say that we should make it as much a point to listen to children without interrupting them and to answer them sincerely and respectfully as if they were grown up. And. indeed, many of their wise, quaint; sayings are far better worth listening to than the stereotyped commonplaces of the morning callers. Os course, to allow uninterrupted chatter would be to surrender the repose of the household, but it is very easy, if children are themselves scrupulously respected, to teach them in turn scrupulously to respect the convenience of others, and_to know If a child is brought up in tiic constant exercise of courtesy toward brothers and sisters and playmate*, as well as toward parents and uncles ami aunts, it will have little left to learn as it grows older. I know a bright and bewitching little girl who was well-in-structed in table etiquette, but who forgot her lessons sometimes, as even older people do now* and then. The arrangement was made with her that for every solecism of this sort she was to pay a fine of 5 cents, while for every similar carelessness which she could discover in her elders she was to exact a fine of 10 cents, their experience of life being longer than hers. You may lie sure that Mistress Bright Eyes watched the pro ceedings of that table very carefully. No slightest disregard of the most conventional etiquette escaped her quick vision, and she was an inflexible creditor and a faithful debtor. It was the prettiest sight to see her, when conscious of some failure on her own part, go unhesitatingly to her money-box and pay cheerfully her little tribute to the outraged proprieties. The best brought up family of children I ever knew were educated on the principle of always commending them when it was possible to do so, and letting silence be the reproof of any wrong doing which was not really serious. I have heard the children of this household, when their mother had failed to say any word of commendation after some social occasion, ask as anxiously as possible, “What was it, mamma? I know’ something was wrong. Didn’t we treat the other children well, or were we too noisy ?” In that house reproof was never bestowed unsought—only commendation, of whatever it was possible to commend, was gratuitous. I think this system would be as good for those grown-up children, the husbands and wives, as for those still in the nursery. —Mrs. Louise Cluuidlet' Moulton, in Our Continent. A Desperate Duet. Two worthies entered a railway ce« in which a Neirg man was seated. They were picturesquely attired in sombreros, rubber boots and pearl-colored suits of military cut. They glowered around the car a minute and then seated themselves and commenced a whispering conversation. Thoughts of train robbery flashed through the minds of the tenderfeet in the train, and a conservative looking old gentleman was noticed to surreptitiously slip his gold watch and pocketbook under the cushion. Suddenly one of the “Wild Bills ” stood up and there was a general movement among the tenderfeet to throw up their hands, and to allow the supposed desperadoes to get through with their work of acquiring their booty as expeditiously as possible. But a general relief was experienced when it was found that the blood-thirsty looking fellow merely wanted to borrow a chew of “navy” from an acquaintance at the opposite end of the car. He had scarcely left his seat when his companion turned to his nearest fellowpassenger, and remarked: “ That’s the hardest man in Colorado.” “Has he killed anybody?” " Killed anybody? You betcher life. Mor’n you've got fingers and toes on you. Why that’s Dead Shot Bill. Never has to waste a second cartridge. Always takes ’em an inch above the right eye." “Is he a robber?” hesitatingly inquired the passenger whom Dead Shot Bill s companion had taken into confidence. “ Naw! He ain’t nothin' of that sort. He kills foi sport. Wouldn’t steal nothin’.” “ Might I inquire if ho has shot auy one recently ?” "Waal, no; not since a week ago, Friday, that I can recollect on.” This was carefully noted flown by a stout, fat gentleman, who appeared to be all ears and looked as though he might be an English tourist “ Well, don’t the authorities make any attempt to—to restrict his amusement ?” “Authorities? Guess not; why he’s Sheriff himself of this county, and since he shot the last Judge for fining him for contempt of court, when he shot a lawyer that hail the impudence to say that I the man the Sheriff had taken in for horse stealing wasn’t the right man, ; there hasn't been anybody felt like tak ing his place.” Then he rose and joined his bloodynamed companion. “ Do you know these men ?” asked the Newt man of a quiet-looking stockman, who had got on at the same station. .“Know them? Well, yes, I’ve known i them for a few weeks, since they came ! from the East, and I hired them to look after a flock of sheep, but I bad to let them go because they were afraid to leave the ranch on account of the Indians—in their minds,”—ZL/ii’to-Aeu;*.