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©he democrat DECATURTfND, ®IjACKBUBN, • • • PXJBX4SBX*. A Mishovki family left the cars at Balina to take in the town and the train went on having a sleeping baby on .board. There was a squally time until the family got together at the next station. Thk Japanese delegations that have visited Europe have picked up so much valuable knowledge of manufactures that the Japanese are now competing with the Germans in China with remarkable success. Thk Mt. Carmel aeronautic company has been chartered at Springfield, 111,, with a capital stock of S2O, (MM),000, for the manufacture of flying machines. There is every reason to believe that the company, at least, will go up. The wire rope used in the tunnel at Glasgow, Scotland, is the largest and longest wire cable in the world. It was made at Cardiff, Wales,'in 1885, and is s,4<)o fathoms in length, or al>out 2 miles and 108 yards. It weighs 214 tons and has nearly 100,000 fathoms of wire in its make-up. A recent writer asserts that the habits of the fish are little understood. That maybe true, but enough isTtnown to make the average, angler fracture one of the most stringent commandments into a thousand: pieces, and do it unblushingly and-repeatedly. There can be no doubt that the fish is vicious and small-minded. Thk salary list of the forthcoming Exposition of Chicago is thus detailed by the G'ohe of that city : Gage, president, |6,000; Bryan, vice president, $12,000; Butterworth, secretary, $lO,000; Seeberger, treasurer, $5,000; Palmer, national president, SI2,(MM); Davis, director general, $15,000; Dickinson, secretary,'slo,ooo. Total, $70,000. ■- A preventive of hydrophobia has been discovered by Col. W. G. Hill, of Georgia. Some time since his dog, with several others, was bitten by a rabid canine, and remembering a remedy which he had often successfully .used for rattlesnake bites, he drenched the dog with alum water. Alt the other dogs bitten developed hydrophobia, while his has never shown the slightest symptoms of rabies. There' 3 are over 80,000 stuttering children in the schools in Germany. The increase has been so great during the past four years that the defect is considered contagious. The famous Dr. Gutzman is authority for the statement that the increase is due to mimicry; that the young mimics who imitate stutterers soon become involuntary stutterers. The schools of the city of Breslau have a total of 2,400 stuttering children. The French duel is a perfectly pleasant and harmless affair as a general thing, but once in a while a duelist has been known to receive a slight scratch which requires a little attention lest blood poisoning should follow. But even this slight danger has been overcome. At every French duel nowadays the surgeon is supplied with an antiseptic, with which he smears the swords of the adversary just before the battle begins. In this way a sword scratch is harmless, and the only possible danger, except, perhaps, taking cold while fencing in one’s shirt sleeves, is removed. On the Terre Haute race track Belle Hamlin and Justin recently made the world-beating record of trotting a mile in 2.15. There was not a break or skip by the noble animals in the entire circuit, and the record for team trotting will hereafter stand at that figure until faster spans are put in harness. The trotting season has not produced any other record-breaking except by the kite-shaped track in lowa. But the hope of the owners of fast trotters is to produce the two minute horse. When the two-minute horse makes his record his owner will be the notable man of the age. e 1 The snobbish Court Journal says „ that “the number of w'ealthy Americans who rent moors and fishings in Scotland is greatly on the increase. A financially gifted man from New York reckons the sum total expended by his countrymen at no less than £600,000 a year—this for rent albne; which certainly does not cover half the outlay incurred by the modern sportsmen.” And in the same connection it throws out the fling that much of this is spent by American parvenus who are fishing tor titled husbands for daughters. Alas this is too true. What a precious pared of fools we are anyhow. Out in Mattoon, 111., they tell this atory of Gen. Grant: It was in that town that the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry was was mustered in. A Mr. Goode was made colonel. He was a man who neglected his duties, and the Twenty-first is said to have been a rough crowd anyway. It became the terror of that vicinity. Nobody was safe after dark, and it required some ' courage to go out in daylight. The citixens sent a petition to Gov. Yates to save them from the devastation of the Twenty-first. The Governor sent over Grant, and in a week an angel could have camped on the place without fear of molestation. | T — — 'r— . A strange story comes from Bjelina, in Bosnia. A rumor is current among the peasants of the district that Baron Albert Rothschild has been sentenced to death, and that his execution will shortly take place uni ess he suceeds in finding a substitute prepared to suffer death on the scaffold consideration 1,000,(MM) florins. The authorities at Bjelina have for several weeks past been pestered by applicants prepared - to have their heads off for the benefit i of the Austrian Crcesus. It appears. | however, that the applicants have formed a syndicate, among whom the million was to be divided, and that lots were to be drawn for the victim. The vnthorities have experienced some

difficulty in attempting to convince tk candidates for death that the rumor is without foundation. The Gloucester fishing schooner Lizzy Griffin, with sixteen men on board, had a startling experience not long since, off the banks of Newfoundland. During a storm the vessel turned over. All those on board, with the exception of two men on watch, were below at the time, and the first they knew of what had happened was when they found themseves suddenly turned upside down and the water pouring over them. They thought they would be drowned like rats in a hole. The inverted position was retained for about two minutes, when fortunately, the vessel righted itself. Nearly all of the crew were more or less hurt —two of them so severely that they had to be sent the hospital in St. Johns. The little daughter of the King and Queen of Holland will be the richest heiress in the world. She is a r simple-minded, intelligent child, and talks four languages fluently. Her chief delight, when she was the or six, was making mud pies, but this pleasure she was not often allowed to indulge in. The little princess has. an enormous number of white frocks, and she is dressed in nothing but white in summer, and has a clean dress every day. When driving out her English governess has great difficulty in keeping the poor little princess perpetually acknowledging the public salute. “Why do all the people want to look at me?” asked the little mite one day. “Not for your own sake, dear, but because you aro your father’s little girl,” was her governess’ reply. Some curious statistics are published by the Presbyterian conference. The denomination has 6,894 churches in this country, of which 1.170 are without pastors. It has 6,128 ordained ministers, 1,122 of whom are without churches. There are just enough of ministers to “go round.” but they are not able to find situations. Some ministers receive calls from a dozen or more churches, but others “candidate” at a dozen churches and never get accepted. The Catholics and Methodist denominations are the only ones that have no vacant pulpits and no ministers without a charge. We may find in this state of things the chief cause of their success. There may advantages in an elective ministry, but there are certainly some disadvantages. Apparently churches are no better satisfied with the ministers they elect than with those that bishops assign to them. What promises to be one of the most important features in water irrigation in California has been brought forward at Riverside, in the question as to the right to tap an underground flow or percolating water. A company is at work upon a tunnel which will tap the underflow that makes a vast body of land around San Bernardino moist. Should the land be drained to such an extent that the moisture will be diminished near the surface, and thus compel irrigation where the character of soil has heretofore not required it, a great hardship will fall upon property owners, and protracted litigation will follow. It is a wholly distinct feature in riparian law, and may result in riparian legislation. It would seem to be much on the same principle that one artesian well may be sunk on a lower level than another, and demolish or even dry up its flow, yet the owner of the upper well has no recourse at law. The question is fraught with immense importance to Southern California, and the result will be watched with ■ great interest. A Colored Priest. The only person of African descent in America who has been ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic

Church lives in C h i c a g o—Rev. ) Father Augustine Tolten. He was born a slave in Ralls County, Missouri, April 1, 1854. He obtained his freedom in 1861, and went to ' Quincy, 111. He , worked for twelve ' years in a tobacco factory in that, citv, beginning at

aogustinb Toi-TEN. 50 ceuts a week, boarding himself, but rose to a position of trust and good wages before the end of his service. While working by day he obtained a common school education at the parochial school of St. Peter’s, where Sister Mary Eustacia, a Sister of Notre Dame, took great interest in teaching him and encouraging him. He began the study of Latin under the tutelage of Father Wegman in 1873, and in 1875 went with a priest to Marysville, Mo., to assist in the services there. In 1876 he returned to Quincy, and finished his classical studies at St. Francis College, and on the 15th of February, 1880, started to Rome. He was admitted at the Propaganda in March, and at onee began a six years’ course of studies—two of philosophy and four of theology. April 24, 1886, he was ordained a priest. He returned to America in 1886, and held at the Sisters’ Hospital, Hoboken, the first Romish service ever celebrated in this country by a negro. He then returned to Quincy, where he was made pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, a congregation of colored people, July 25, and labored therg four years. Nov. 9, 1889, he was called to Chicago by Archbishop Feehan, and since then has been 5 in charge of St. Monica’s Church. Weililing Anniversaries. Somebody gives out the following as a correct list of wedding anniversaries; Three days, sugar; sixty days, vinegar ; first anniversary, iron; fifth anniversary, wooden; tenth anniversary, tin; fifteen anniversary, crystal: twentieth anniversary, china; twenty-fifth anniversary, silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton; thirty-fifth anniversary, linen; fortieth anniversary, woolen; forty-fifth anniversary, silk; fiftieth anniversary. golden; seventy-fifth anniversary, diamond. “Rambo’s eyes seem to be perfectly sound. I don’t see why he wears those goggles.” “He does it to protect his eyes from the glare of his nose.”

JOURNEY TO NAZARETH DR. TALMAGE BIDS JERUSALEM OOOD-BY. ••Where the Bine Wave* KoU Nightly on Deep Galilee”—Last Look at Meant Zion, Monnt Calvary and the Meant of Olive*. In the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Dr. Talmage preached the seventh of his course of sermons on his recent tour in Palestine. Following is the sermon from the text, “So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the North” (Ezekiel vlii, 5): At 1 o’clock on a December afternoon through Damascus gate we are passing out of Jerusalem for a journey northward. Ho! for Bethel, with its stairs, the bottom step of which was a stone pillow; and Jacob’s well, with its immortal colloquy; and Nazareth, with its divine boy in his father’s canpenter shop, and the most glorious lake that rippled or flashed — Blue Galilee, tweet Galilee, The lake where Jesus loved to be; and Damascus, with its crooked street called Straight, and a hundred places charged and surcharged with apostolic, evangelistic, prophetic. patriarchal, kingly, and Cbristly reminiscences. In traveling along the roads of Palestine l am impressed, as I could not otherwise have been, with the fact that Christ for the most part went afoot. We find him occasionally on a boat, and once riding in a triumphal, procession, as it is sometimes called, although it seems to me that the hosannas of the crowd could not have made a ride on a stubborn, unimpressive, and funnv creature like that which pattered with b im into Jerusalem very much of a triumph. But we are made to understand that generally he walked. How much that means only those who know who have gone over the distance traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to read that Bethany is two miles from Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles without fatigue. But not more than one man out of a thousand can walk from Bethany to Jerusalem without exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion is necessary to keep you from falling prostrate,- I, who am accustomed to walk fifteen or twenty miles without lassitude, tried part of this road over the Mount of Olives, and confess that I would not want to try it often, such demand does it make upon one’s physical energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a day—in the morning from Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the evening from Jerusalem to Bethany. Likewise it seemed a small thing that Christ walked' from Jerusalem to Nazareth. But it will take us four days of hard horseback riding, sometimes on a trot and sometimes on a gallop, to do it this week. The way is mountainous in the extreme. To these who went up to the Tip-top House on Mount Washington, before the railroad was laid, 1 will say that this journey from Jerusalem to Nazareth is like seven such American journeys. So, all up and down and across and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked. Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode. Herod rode. Antony rode. But Jesus walked. With swollen ankles and sore muscles of the legs, and bruised heel and stiff joints and panting lungs and faint head, along the roads, and where there were no roads at al), Jesus walked. We tried to get a new horse other than that on which we had ridden on the journey to the Dead Sea, for he had faults which our close acquaintanceship had developed. But after some experimenting with other quadrupeds of that species, and finding that all horses, like their riders, have faults we concluded to choose a saddle on that beast whose faults we were most prepared to pity or resist. Wo rode down through the valley and then up on Mount Scopus and, as our dragoman tells us that this is the last opportunity! we shall have of looking at Jerusalem, we turn our horse’s head toward the city and take a long, sad and thrilling look at the religious capital of our planet. This is tjje most impressive view of the most tremendous city of all time. On and around this hill the armies “of the crusaders at the first sight of the city threw themselves on their faces in worship. Here most of the besieging armies encamped the night before opening their volleys of death against Jerusalem. Our last look! Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount Calvary! Will we never see them again? Never. The world is so large» and time is so short, and there are so many things we have never seen at all, that we cannot afford to duplicate visits or sec anything more than once. Farewell, yonder thrones of gray rock, and the three thousand years of architecture and battlefields. Farewell, sacred, sanguinary, triumphant, humiliated Jerusalem! Across this valley of the Kedron with my right hand I throw thee a kiss of valedictory. Our last look, like our first look, an agitation of body, mind, and soul indiscribable. And now, like Ezekiel in> my text, I lift up mine eyes the way toward the north. Near here was one of the worst tragedies of the ages mentioned in the Bible. A hospitable old man coming home at eventide from his work in the fields finds two strangers, a husband and wife, proposing to lodge in the street because no shelter is offered them, and invites them to come in and spend the night in his home. During the night the ruffians of the neighborhood conspired together, and surrounded the house, and left the woman *’'>ad on the doorstep, and the hushand, to rally in revenge the twelve tribes, cut the corpse bf the woman into twelve parts and sent a twelfth of it to each tribe, and the fury of the nation was roused, and a peremptory demand was made for the surrender of the assassins, and, the demand refused, in one day twenty thousand people were left dead on the field and the next day eighteen thousand. Wherever our horse to-day plants his hoof in those ancient times a corpse lay, and the roads were crossed by red rivulets of carnage. Now we pass on where seven youths were put to death and their bodies gibbeted or hung in chains, not for anything they had themselves done, but as a reparation for what their father and grandfather, Saul, had done. Burial was denied these youths from May until November. Rizpath, the mother of two of these dead boys, appoints herself as sentinel to guard the seven corpses from beak of raven and tooth of wolf and paw of lion. She pitches a black tent on the rock close by the gibbets. Rizpah by day sits on the ground in front of her tent, anti when, a vulture begins to lower out of the noonday sky seeking its prey among the gibbets Rizpah rises, her long hair flying in the wind, and, swinging her arms wildly about, shoos away the bird of prey until it retreats to its eyrie. At night she rests under the shadow of her tent and sometimes falls into a drowsiness or half sleep. But the step of a jackal among the dry leaves or the panting hyena arouses her, and with the fury of a maniac she rushes out upon the rock crying, “Away! Away!” and then, examining the gibbets to see that they still keep their burden, returns again to her tent till some swooping wing from .the midnight sky or some growling monster on theroek again wakes her. And what are the political parties

of this country doing for such cases? They are taking care not to hurt the feelings of the jackals and buzzards that roost on the shelves of the grog shops and hoot above the dead. I am often asked to what political party I belong, and I now declare my opinion of the political parties to-day. Each one is worse than the other, and the only consolation in regard to them is that they have putrefied until they have no more power to rot. Oh, that comparatively tame scene upon which Rizpah looked! She looked upon only seven of the slain. American motherhood and American wifehood this moment are looking upon seventy of the slain, upon seven hundred of the slain, upon seventy thousand of the slain. Woe! woe! woe! My only consolation on. this subject is that foreign capitalists are buying up the American breweries. The nresent owners see* that the doom of that business is coming as surely as that God is not dead. They are unloading upon fofeign capitalists, and when we can get these breweries into the hands of the people living on the other side of the sea our political parties will cease to be afraid of the liquor traffic, and at their conventions nominating presidential candidates will put in their platform a plank as big as the biggest plank of the biggest ocean steamer, saying: “Resolved unanimously that we always have been and always will be opposed to alcoholism.” I bear down on you to-day with a mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph said, “Where is our Jesus?” and you say, “Where is John? or where is Henry? or where is George?” Well, I should not wonder if you found him after awhile. Where? In the same place where Joseph and Mary found their boy—in the temple. What do I mean by that? I mean, you do your duty toward God and toward your child,and you will find him after awhile in the kingdom of Christ. Will you say, “I do not have' any way of influencing my child?” I answer you have the most tremendous line of influence open right before you. As you write a letter, and there are two or three routes by which it may go, bat you want it to go the quickest route, and you put on it, ■‘•via Southampton,” or “via San Francisco,” or “via Marseilles,” put on your wishes about your child, “via the throne of God.” How long will such a good wish take to get to its destination? Not quite so long as the millionth part of a second. I will prove it. The promise is, “Before they call If will answer.” That means at your first motion toward such prayerful exercise the blessing will come; and if the prayer be made at 10 o’clock at night, it will be answered five minutes before 10, “Before they call I will answer.” Well, you say, I am clear discouraged about my son, and I am getting on in years, and I fear I will not live to see him converted. Perhaps not. Nevertheless I think you will find him in the temple, the heavenly temple. There has not been an hour in heaven the last 100 years when parents in glory had not had announced, to them the salvation of children whom they left in this world profligate. We often have to say, “I forgot,” but God has never yet once said, “I forgot.” It may be after the grass of thirty summers have greened the top of your grave that your son may be found in the earthly temple. It may be fifty years from now when some morning the towers are chi ning the matins of the glorified in heaven that you shall find him in the higher temple which has “no need of candle or of sun, for the Lord God and the Lamb are the light thereof.” Cheer up, Christian father and mother! Cheer up! Where Joseph and Mary found their boy you will find yours—in the temple. ,You see, God could not afford to do otherwise. One of the things He has positively promised in the/Bible is that He will answer earnestjrhd believing prayer. Failing to do that He would wreck His own throne, and the foundations of His palace give way, and the bank of heaven would suspend payment, and the dark word of “repudiation” would be written across the sky. and the eternal government would be disbanded and God himself would become an exile. Keep on with your prayer, and you will yet find your child jn the temple, either the temple here or the temple above. Out on the Western prairies was a happy but isolated home. Father, mother and child. By the sale of cattle quite a large sum of money was one night in that cabin, and the father was away. A robber who had heard "of the money one night looked in at the window, and the wife and mother of that home saw him and she was helpless. Her child by her side, she knelt down and prayed among other things for all prodigals who were wandering up and down the world. 'The robber heard her prayer and was overwhelmed and entered the cabin, and knelt beside her and began to pray. He had come to rob that house, but the prayer of that woman for prodigals reminded him of his mother and her prayers before he became a vagabond, and from that hour he began a new life. Years after that woman was in a city in a great audience, and the orator who came on the platform and pleaded gloriously for righteousness and God was the man who many years before had looked into the cabin on the prairie as a robber. The speaker and the auditor ,immediately recognized each other. After so long a time a mother’s prayers answered. But we must hurry on, for the muleteers and baggage men have been ordered to pitch our tents for to-night at Bethel. It is already getting so dark that we have to give up all idea of guiding the horses, and leave them to their own sagacity. We ride down amid mud cabins and into ravines, where the hbrses leap from depth to depth, rocks below rocks, rocks under rocks. Whoa! Whoal We dismount tn this place, memorable for many things in Bible history, the two more prominent, a theological seminary, where of old they made ministers, and for Jacob's dream. The students of this Bethel Theological Seminary were called “sons of the prophets.” Here the young men were fitted for the ministry, and those of us who ever had the advantage of such institutions will everlastingly be grateful, and in the calendar of saints, which I read with especial affection, are the doctors of divinity who blessed me with their care. Years ago I went up to the door of a factory in New England. On the outside door I saw the words: “No Admittance.” I went in and came to another door over which were the words: “No Admittance.” Os course I went in, and came to a third door inscribed with the words: “No Admittance.” Having entered this I found the people inside making pins, beautiful pins, useful pins, and nothing but pins. So over the outside door of many of the churches has been practically written the words: “No Admittance.” Some have entered and have come to the inside door, and found the words: “No Admittance.” But, persisting, they have come inside, and found us sounding our little niceties of belief, pointing out our little differences of theological sentiment—making pins! But the most distinguished was Bethel for that famous dream which Jacob had, his head on a collection of stones. He had no trouble in this rocky region in finding a rocky pillow. There is hardly anything else but stone. Yet the people of those lands have away of drawing their outer garment up over their head and face, and such a pillow I suppose Jacob had under his head. The plural was used in the Bible story, and you find it was not a pillow of stone, but of stones.

I suppose, so that if one proved to be of uneven surface he would turn over in the night and take another stone, for with such a hard bolster he would often change in the night. Well, that night God built in Jacob’s dream a long splendid ladder, the feet of it on either side of the tired pilgrim’s pillow, and the top of it morticed in the sky. And bright immortals came out from the castles of amber and gold and put their shining feet on the shining rungs of the ladder, and they kept coming down and going up, a procession both ways. I suppose they had wings, for the Bible almost always reports them as having wings, but this was a ladder on which they used hands and feet to encourage al) those of ns who have no wings to climb, and encouraging us to believe that if we use what we have God will provide away, and if we will employ the hand and foot He will furnish the ladder. Young man, do not wait for wings. Those angels folded theirs to show you wings are not necessary. Let all the. people who have hard pillows, hard for sickness or hard for poverty or hard for persistence, know that a hard pillow is the landing place of angels. They seldom descend to pillows of eider down. They seldom build dreams in the brain of the one who sleeps easy. The greatest dream of all time was that of St. John, with his head on the rocks of Patmos, and in that vision he heard the seven trumpets sounded, and saw all tfae pomp of Heaven in procession cherubic, • seraphic, archangelic. The next most memorable and glorious dream was that of John Bunyan, his pillow the cold stone of the floor of Bedfory jail, from which he saw the celestial city, and so many entering it he cried out in his dream: “I wish myself among them.” The next most wonderful dream was that of Washington sleeping on the ground at Valley Forge, his head on a white pillowcase of snow, where he saw the vision of a nation emancipated. Columbus slept on a weaver’s pillow, bnt rose on the ladder letdown until he could see a new hemisphere. Demosthenes slept on a cutter's pillow, but on the ladder let down arose to see the mighty assemblages that were to be swayed by his oratory. Arkwright slept on a barber’s pillow, but went up the ladder till he could sec all England quake witlnthe factories he set going. Akenside slept on a butcher’s pillow, and took the ladder up till he saw other generations helped by his scholarship. John Ashworth slept on a poor man’s pillow, but took the ladder up Ymtil he could see his prayers and exertions bringing thousands of the destitute in England to salvation and Heaven. Nearly all those who are to-day great in merchandise, in statesmanship, in law, Injmedicine, in art, in literature, were once at the foot of the ladder, and in their boyhood had... a pillow hard as Jacob's. They who are born at the top of the ladder are apt to spend their lives in coming down, while those who are at the foot, and their head on a bowlder, if they have the right kind of dream, are almost sure to rise. I notice that those angels, either in coming down or going up on Jacob’s ladder, took it rung by rung. They did not leap to the bottom nor jump to the top. So you are to rise. Faith added to faith, good deed to good deed,* industry to industry, consecration to consecration, until you reach the top, rung by rung. Gradual going up from a block of granite to pillar of throne. That night at Bethel I stood in front of my tent and looked up, and the heavens were full of ladders, first a ladder of clouds, then a ladder of stars, and all up and down the heavens were angels of beauty, angels of consolation, angels bf God, ascending and descending. “Surely God is in this place,” said Jacob, “and I knew it not.” But God is in this place and I know it! The Creole Character. The French creoles of the lower class are a hand to mouth class of people, purchasing the stick of wood to-day and the handful of herbs that are to cook and season their potage, filling their small market bags with innumerable pinches of this, that and the other, laying in a few sous of sugar and coffee at a time, and going next day, for 365 days in the year, and doing identically the same thing, in saccular siecculorum. Dislike to the accumulation of household goods, to well-stored cellars and pantries, to generous abundance, to picturesque profusion, to the essentials of a large handed hospitality even within the narrow limits of their neighborhood acquaintances, an ant like economy and abstemiousness, a curious juxtaposition of eternal self restraint and a passion for sensations, colors, sounds, perfumes, fantastic sensualities, an instinct for microscopic money getting wedded to an instinct that has filled New Orleans with noble institutions for the poor, the blind, the sick, the world weary, a passion for novels and for splendid churches, a fond endurane of the cold and hunger for the brilliant efflorescence of careme prenant and carnival, a voluntary exile from all laughter and joy that’ their raptuous feet may twinkle a night or two on the mirrored floor of the masque balls down in Chartres and Royal streets—such are the fragments of sweet and bitter herbs that go to make up part of the paradox of creole character, and communicate to it an indefinable piquancy and strangeness by their thick* bars of light and shadow.— Omaha World-Herald-. A Peculiar Fowl, Fred Deppe, a butcher, has in his shop a peculiar-looking fowl which he has kept there as a pet for weeks. The fowl, he thinks, is a cross between a chicken * and a turkey. But it has the head and beak of an eagle, the back of a hawk or crow and the breast and legs of a chicken of the Shanghai order. In fact, it is an ornithological nondescript It is a female and slightly larger than an ordinary hen. It is somewhat ungainly in form, having a large head and large feet and wings. The color is chiefly red. interspersed with white feathers, and its feathery covering is quite heavy. When standing or walking its position is almost erect very similar to that of a crow, but its head is extended far forward, with an arched neck, giving its upper portion much the appearance of an eagle. When standing its tail feathers extend forward between its legs in a ridiculous manner.— St. Louis Dispatch. Explained. Mrs. Youngbride—How is it that you charge a cent a quart more than the other milkmeu? Water potts—Madam, you must remember that all of my milk is handmilked. That, of course, makes the price a little higher.— Light. Once. Col. Bangs—Been up in the north woods for two weeks with a hunting party. Lots of sport, I tell you. Maj. Bungs—See any big game? Col. Bangs (confidentially) — Ten dollars limit last Saturday.— Detroit Free Press: Marrying rich widows, like drinking liquor, is often done solely fordhe “effects.”

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SPRING ARRIVALS! Our Counter* are brimfull of New Goods Which are arriving daily that are choice colors and right in weight for spring and summer wear. AU the Noveltie* in Imported and Domestic Suitings Are shown in our new arrival*. « . . . ■■ \ Large lines of—Henrietta Cloths and Silks in all the new and elegant styles. — • We also call your attention to the magnificent assortment of White Swiss -:HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES:Flouncings and all Over Embroideries, of which there are many new designs this year. —Large Stock of— White- Goods! Check Nainsooks, India Linen, etc., just arrived, at special prices. We shall continue to sell -:MUSLINS, SHIRTINGS:And all other Cotton Goods for a short time cheaper than any other house. Our variety of Notions-—-Dress Trimmings! And Fancy Goods can not be excelled. o Full lines of— 1 o MEN’S and ROY’S CLOTHING Just in stock, all styles and prices, for less money than any store in the city. HATS & CAPS VERY CHEAP o■■ New arrival of — o ) CABPETS, OIL CLOTHS And Smyrna Rugs. Now is the time to buy these goods. -GROCERIESOur stock has been selected with great care, and we are prepared to offer special inducements in every department. Low Prices and Square, Honorable Dealing, is our motto. We have ths Goods to sell, so call and see our new arrivals and the immense bargain* w have to show you. MRS. M. BREMERKAMP Second SL. Docatur. InA11 REMEMBER 7— Ws are always p*psm* to * FIRST-CLA.S9 111 818 ON SHORT NOTTCB REASONABLE PRICES.