Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1893 — Page 4

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ff. RLAOKBVRJT, Proprietor. MR/' FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1893. | Rates of Subsrription. One Year. In advance. ■, •* ® > Six Months , " Four Months f * All subscriptions not paid during the ycai will bo charged at the rate of *2.00. Ofiico in Democrat Building, east side of Second Street— ground floor Postmaster Hawkins, Marion, has been fined for riding a bicycle I; on’the sidewalk. The New York actress who lost her bushy golden wig does not congratulate herself over her hair- ? breadth escape. The New 7 York Sun has become so interested in the silver and tariff questions that it has temporarily ceased annexing Hawaii. Congress spent ten days discussing the Sherman act. Already our moneyed men seem to feel that they will do what is best for the country. A Sing Sing prisoner charges that the officials tried to poison him by putting nitro-glycerine in his wine. It would have been more dangerous in his cigars. It is all right to let National banks issue currency up to par value of their bonds, and on the same principal any man ought to be allowed to deposit U. S. bonds, and draw 7 their par value of currency. The Rhode Island supreme court has gone republican again and the usual Rhode Island custom of counting in the defeated republican candidates for state offices will now proceed. Susan B. Anthony declares that saloons are increasing, at the same time that women are receiving more of their rights. No one else would dare to say so because of unpleas, ant inferences. The meeting of Congress has inspired confidence in financial matters, so that the money kings will let go their money. Congress should not disappoint the people. They are expected to right the great wrong done the people by the late republican Congress. The Conrad brothers did more in one night to suppress whitecapism in Indiana than the legal authorities in the Whitecap counties have done in five years. A few more such in this state will clear the state of its bad men who commit such outrages. * It is hardly worth while for Congress to spend time discussing whether gold is worth 16,17, 18„ 19 or 20. times as much as silver. The t markets of the worlk settle that question. Let them do something to relieve the financial depression and the country will call them blessed. At last a bug w reported which is a friend of the farmer. This strauger of the insect world has begun a war of extermination upon the potato bug. It is twice as large as the potato bug, of longer and of slighter build, and has red wings. Lt does not eat the vines but slays ' potato bugs at the rate of.ten. a minute. Since the silver question has g been discussed so much, v«. have" ; frequently been asked: AVhat is meant by the term so. frequently used 16 to J or as som® of the silver men say they should have 20 to 1? It means that tnere are 16 times as many grains of silver m the silver dollar as there is gold in the gold dollar we now have. . When the ratio ot 16 to 1 was es- | tablished, it was then at ihe priced that silver bullion was selling, but • 7 at the present selling price of silver j bullion the ratio is about 25 to 1, ( so that the silver dollar should iweigh about twenty-five times as ( much as the gold dollar weighs. t

t’l’iiE funniest strike of all is in Germany, where the unmarried belles and debutantes of garrison towns have refused to attend the _ military balls if so much attention f. is paid to married women by the officersand soldiers. Our sympathies are with the girls. 50 5 Senator Vest, of Missouri, leads ir the free coinage men in the Senate While our Dan favors an increase in the National Bank circulation, with a goodly number of Green- = backs issued and put into circula- '» tion by the Government, thus make ing money plenty for all purposes. Between the white caps of ♦ 1 southern Indiana and the tramps who are marauding the northern part of the state, ouj 7 commonwealth seems to be getting back to the days when the Indians scalped and „ killed the early white settlers. F J History repeats itself with some ' variation. Insurance agents that do business for legitimate companies file r statements with the county clerk, as J they are by law, required to do, every six months. There are a , good many people that never know 7 how to find out the standing of an insurance company, but if they will step into the clerk’s office and inquire they can always learn if it is a company licensed to do business in the state and has any standing. Not long since it was discovered that the kick of a mule straightened the oculars of a cross-eyed man, and now New York furnishes an instance of a colored woman turning white after being stabbed with a bread knife- It is apparent even to the lay mind that possibilities of the mule and the bread knife aye still unsolved problems with those who practice the healing art. The Democracy did well to pay tribute to the patriotism, integrity and exalted courage of President Cleveland. Democrats may honestly differ with him as to details, but they can never forget that it was his sturdy leadership that recalled the Democratic party to power, and his honest and able management of affairs during his first administration that won for the party the confidence of the country. A man with a broken neck is lying in a New York hospital waiting for death, which is not far away. His injury came from diving into the water from a spring board. The water was but a few feet deep, and his friends supposed that his head struck the bottom, but the physician expresses the belief that his neck was broken when he struck the water. This theory will be accepted as plausible, at least by persons who have looked upon diving from points high above the water as a risky business. Water has a strong resisting power, and though the clasped hands above the diver’s head are expected to break the force of contact, the head must meet with resistance that a slight change of position might make dangerous. In support of the opposite position it must be acknowledged that men have jumped from the Brooklyn bridge to the water below without serious hurt. Our expo rts of gold coin for the year ending June 30th, last were i 101,84 4,01 7. Our imports for the fame period were §6,074,899 ; net balance ag amst the United States, §9a,769j1f 8. The value of the wheat am I flour exported during the same lira. . was §169,028,317. The importam t fact revealed by consultat ion- of the official figures is that thiseou®. try exported in the twelve month e ading with June, 1893, more than ik 1,000,000 bushels of wheat lees thri n in the twelve months ending Jour e 30th, 1892. There was a falling off in receipts from that sourote of 4nore than riiis-fij ot, which is but one of many tendiin] • to show how and why prohibited y tariffs are a menace to the currewi ;y and business of a country, shoiilti not escape the attention of a Gougst iss called in special session to met .t a financial emergency.

The peach crop may not be a failure after all. Early information was to the effect that the crop would be very small m Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland, but later intelligence is more encouraging. Advices from southern Indiana are to the effect that the crop will be above the average; and an old fruit grower ot northern Ind.ana, who lias recently returned from Michigan, says that the trees are breakdown with the fruit and that peaches would sell for 50 cents per bushel. The quality he also pronounced to be excellent. «' j : "7 '"i" „ The law-abiding public of this state will not regard with any great depth of sorrow, the killing of those four would-be lynchers down in Harrison county. It is probably true that the Conrads, whom they were seeking to drive from the country, were tough characters, but it seems equally apparent that the men who were trying to oust them were actuated more by a sort of dime novel bravado, than by a burning desire to have the law enforced. They were young, and yearned for excitement, and they got it. Scabcei-y a day passes without an account of loss coming to some frightenedindividual who has drawn his or her money from ike bank and put it in hiding. One of the latest is a Pittsburg woman who got al raid of the banks and drew out a thousand dollars and hid it under the mattress of her bed. When she looked for it the next day it was gone. Somebody had removed the deposit, and now she wishes she had left it in the bank. A good many other people will be in substantially the same fix before this senseless distrust of the banks ceases.

The present House of Representatives is composed of 359 members, of these 152 served in the last Congress and 137 are wholly without experience and have never sat in Congress before. Os this number 174 had College training, though all of them are not graduates; 69 of them had acadamic education, 106 a common school educa* tion only, while 5 were “self-edu-cated.” The political complexion of the lower House stands 218 Democrats, 128 Republicans, 8 Populists and 2 independents. There were 113 members that served in the war of the Rebellion, 57 on the Union side and 56 under the banner of the Confederacy. As to occupation the fifty-third Congress has 245 lawyers and only 27 agriculturists, including farmers, planters, fruit growers and stockmen, 16 are merchants, 14 manufacturers, 13 bankers, 8 editors, 7 lumbermen, 3 oil men, 2 mine owners, 2 civil engineers and 2 school teachers. These are the men to whom we look to for relief from the condition the Republican party has placed our country in. The fruits of the McKinley law is now upon us: wheat selling at fifty cents a bushel, with twenty-five cents tariff on each bushel. Truly the Republican laws bless the farmer. Secretary of Slate, Walter Q. Gresham, with a salary of <B,OOO a year, draws S3O a month pension for a wound in the leg received before Atlanta; Congressman-at-Large, General John C. Black, of Illinois, with a salary of $5,000 per year, receives <IOO a month pension; General Neal Dow, of Maine, the Prohibition orator who has contributed so largely to Democratic success, is one of the wealthiest men in the country, yet draws a handsome pension. We have no objection to these gentlemen, all of whom were good soldiers, drawing pensions, but the fact that they draw pensions completely explodes the present administration’s byprotical pretense of “pension reform.” If Hoke Smith is in earnest about dropping from the rolls only those who are able to earn a living without the aid of the government, he had better drop some of the distinguished gentlemen mentioned above, and let up on the legless and armless veterans be has been robbing and insulting during the last three months. If the rebel Secretary intends to retain only absolute paupers on the rolls, men who are receiving from $5 to #B,OOO per annum salary dropped. The Winchester Herald publishes the above editorial, not because the party believes anything of the kind but, thinking it is good “clap-trap” politics such as the republican party has £gd the people on during the existence of the party. The reform that they uteption is those cases, where the evidence does not warrant a pension, or rather the correction of the abuses that have been practiced by the republican party. While we

believe that all soldiers should be pensioned, and that at a fair rate we believe that all should be equal Those who are incapacitated for manuel labor should have an amount sufficient to keep them, let the geperal and the private rank alike in the pension, while the widow of the private should receive the same amount that the widow of the late general does, thus doing away with all rank. Let the private rank with the general and the widow of the private rank with the widow of the general. In times like the present, everybody should make a point to promptly pay their accounts, especially small ones. Nothing tends to produce hard times more than deferring payments of small bills. Those of many business men are always small, but owing to their number, they aggregate a large amount. Usually grocery bills are not large in size; the milk bill, barber’s accounts, and many others that could be named, are of this class, and when times arc good are usually paid when presented. When they grow close, however just w 7 hen prompt payments are all the more necessary, very many people defer payment, and help t$ make times closer. This is all wrong, 'lhe prompt payment of a debt enables the man to whom it is due, to do likewise with those he owes, and a single dollar started on its way can be made to pay very many accounts, if kept moving. Remember that is what money is for; to keep moving and not hoarded away in a safe, paying none of the accounts due from one man to another. Let everyone resolve that he will pay his small accounts, and do that much towards preventing still harder times, if such are to come upon us, as is predicted by many people.—Warsaw Union.

Editorial Brevities. —Two postoffices in North Carolina are respectively named “Joy” and “Worry.” —Peaches, called Persian apples were known in Europe before the Christian era. —Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stuart always handled their meat with their fingers. —Most of the fine coral known to commerce is obtained by divers along the cost of Italy. —A watch is said to tick 157,680,000 times in a year and the wheels travel 3,558 3-4 mileb jier annum, —As high a price as § 100 was paid in London not long ago for a Canadian twelve-penny stamp. —A number of Cherokee Indian girls supplied the singing at a church service in New York on a recent Sunday evening. • —Louis Napoleon was fond of mimic warfare, and would often have forts constructed in his garden to illustrate some tactical point. —The electric light has been introduced into a new flour mill near to the supposed site of Calvary, and close to the Damascus Gate at Jerusalem. —During the late high water on the Grand River, in Missouri, a fence post of an inundated farm bore this truthful legend: “This place for sail.” —About 60,000 people arc added to the population of London every year, while the outcome of those moving from the city, is comparatively very small. * — There >b a litter of seven pigs On the farm of Thomas Hornbeck, near St. Croix, Ind., four of which have six legs each, while one has feet like a dog. The wives of Siamese noblemen cut their hair so that it sticks straight up from their heads. The average length of it is about an inch and a half, —A Brooklyn woman the other day complained in the police court of that cji-y that her husband only gave her from his weekly wages §ls out of the §l6 he received. — The first seagoing vessel of aluminium is being constructed in the dockyards of the Loire. It is a cutter which would weigh, if made of the usual materials, 4,500 tons, instead of its actual weight of 2,500 tons. —While a man was swimming across the river, at Clarion, Pa., recently,“he near being drowned by an immense ccl winding itself around his legs. After considers-

ble trouble he killed the eel, which measured over three feet in length;” —Of the arid lands of the southwest ahd west, in 1890, 3,631,381 acres are now redeemed to agriculture and grazing by irregalion, but for every acre irrigated there are 247 still unblessed by the touch of the water drawn from the mountain bights. —The ancient IlarnnfOnd house in Marblehead, Mass., is being torn down, and some <f its spruce timbers, which have been protected from air and wind for more tlian 200 years, are being eagerly sought after by violinmakerb i<-r in the manufacture of their instruments. No Divisions In The Party. There will be no parting of ways in the Democratic party. The majority will rule, after the minority has exercised its full privilege of argument and voting. Majority and minority will stay in the party, after a bill for free coinage at a proper ratio is passed, and will take up the tariff for revenus reform. Then the majority, hailing cheit« ly from the West and South, will get ready for 1896. To say the least of it, fair play calls for a Western man at the head of the ticket next time. We are very anxious to see how it feels to have a Western president sending in messages and c arryinga 45-caliber vqteo around in his belt. There’s no difficulty about nominating and electing • a Western man. It cannot so soon have been fprgotten that the rank and file of of the Western Democracy dictated Mr. Cleveland’s nomination. The East did not nominate him. It was not the northeast but the northwest that raised the victory to a tidal wave. What the west and south did in 1892 they can do in 1896. The Presidential domestic visits of 1897 will be made on west-bound trains. For 1896, a western man or bust. And we want those Eastern fellows to vote for him. — ledge Waxem's Proverbs. What a Congressman lerns in Washington be don’t allways take back to his deestnek with him. A statesman that can’t piay poker ain’t as good a statesman as one that won’t. The Amerikin eagel cooden’t, run fer offis without gittin has his tale feathers pulled out. Thars no rule agin a pollitishun doin’ whatever he kin to elect his man. Politiekie leaders air afeeard ther own shudders. A man with a vote can’t be treated disrespeckful, annyhow not about eleckshun times. Bein’ a statesman ein’t no qzy job. Sosiety makes a good deci uv our politicks. Farmers ain't finansedrs. Legislashun won’t raise pertaters. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. Notice Is hereby jrlven to the heirs and legatees of Ix>t French, deceased, to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the Ist day fit September. 18«1, and show cause If any, why the final settlement accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved: and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Jons Andriison, Administrator. Decatur. Ind., August 7,1503. France & Merryman, Atty’s. 21-2

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