Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1894 — Page 3

tiwST’ifK ■ . w ■ Business Directory. ,■ sax ,r r? ~ — ■ 1 THE IHfflll lunom BM * CAPITAL. J.VI.O'X). SUKI'LI’S. #11,500. Organized August 15. 1883. Offioem:—P. Rndth. Pres. Dnniel Weldy. , Vlco-pre*.. K 8. Peterson. Cashion J. 8. Peteri ton, Ass't Cashier. RV Do a general banking biiHlnoss, Bl Intercut paid on time deposits. ■ Buy and sell Domestic and Foreign Bxobango, County and City Ordcra. | Adams County Bank CAPITAL, #75,000. SURPLUS. #75,000, Offloers:—D. Studnbaker. Pres.. Rnb’t B. Allison, Vice-pros; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking business. Collectlona made in all na.it,s of th<w>ountry. County, City and Township orders bought. * Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and •old. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney at Law Decatnr, Indiana. ■■■■•■■■••■amMaaßsawßanamnwaa—— A. P. BICATTY, J. g. MANN. MANN A BICATTY, Attorn.oyn-atsljaw, , '• larles Public. Pension Claims Prosefllce in Odd Fellows' Building. J. T. PRANCE. J- V. MERRYMAN. FRANCE A MFKKYMAN. A.ttom.oy«*at«ljaw, * \ Office:—Nos. 1. a and 3, over the Adams , County Bunk. Collections a specialty. J. 2EL- 8080, MASTER COMMISSIONKK ANO 4 ATTOHNEY-AT-LAW. Heal Esiate and Collections. «—' — R. K. ERWIN, A.ttoin.cy-at-xjnw, Room i and 2 Niblick & Tonnellier Block. Decatur. Indiana. TyjHN. M. L>. HOLLOWAY, M. I>. Offide and residtence one door north of M. E. church. Diseases of women and children a specialty. a7~G~J HOLbO WAY, Physician and Surgeon. Office over Bunts' harness shop. Residence one door north ot' M. E. church. All culls promptly attended to in city or country night or day. , _ — — AK|>KIH . WS , Physician and Surgeon, MONROE, INDIANA. ’ Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of E E. church. DENTIST. I Now located, over' Holthouse's shoe store, k is prepared to do all work pertaining to the ■ dental profession. Gold tilting’a specialty. ■ Ay the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to K extract teeth w ithout pain. Work guaranteed. I GO TO — H. M. ROMBERG I T’or Your XsIVEYIY. I The Rest Rigs and most Reasonable Prices. Ilti MONEY TO LOAN ffi On Farm property on long time. H INTo CommißHion. I ’-Low rate of Interest. L Partial Payments. f In anv amounts cari be made at any time and ■ stop interest. Call on or address, I A. K, GRIBB or J. F. MANN, ■ Office:—Qdd‘Fellows’ Building.

I Look Here! ■ I am here to stay and can sell IDm aid Pianos B cheaper than anybody else can afford to ■ sell them. I sell different makes. f CLEANING AND REPAIRING ■ done reasonable. See tne first and save ■ money. x . ■ J. T. COOTS, Decatur, Ind. —AT — „■ I MERRYMAN’S |< • M Von can get all kinds of I Hard and Soft Wood, I Siding, Flooring,! I Brackets, I Moulding, fl Odd-sized Sash and Doors. SB Wnds of building material made or ■r. W. VogeWi^ B^ M glass. I > 1 m> ■ '. I ■■ ■ ’? IL ■L iL

’ THE PHele BIFID IN SPRING. The water drips from ihu mossy caves In jewel drips on lust year's leave*; The earth Is wrapped in avaleof mist, And through this gauze ofainctlij'st Comes the phube's note, so clear, so sweet. The call of the phebc bird: Phebe! Phebe! Phebe! Th<] sun Is shedding Its rosy glow On tufts of crocusos white as snow That bloom by the old stone wall. And from the woods by the waterfall Wo faintly hoar, so clear, so sweet. The call of the pholm bird: Phobel Phebc! Phebe! The breath of vlolats most rare Is wafted on the gentle air, While from each mead and ferny dell Conics a plaintive note like a gUver boll, No piercing fine, so clear, *o sweet. The cull of tltn phebe bird: Phebe! Phebe! Phobel —Allee B. Waite In New York Snn. a deception; Tito bombardment had como to an end Evetyfort along the lino had been silenced, and in common yvith tho other men-of-war lying in tho harbor wo were sending landing parties ashore. As chief surgeon on board I was busy below with tho poor fellows who lay suffering unspeakable agonies with compressed lips and white, haggard faces. Bending down with my assistants over the prostrate body of a young middy, I did not hear footsteps approaching and started when some one laid his hand on my shoulder. It was Lieutemuit Harold Patterson. “Carter, old mad, ” ho said as I stood up and wiped my hands, “this rough work has uiggcred me a bit. I’ve got a nasty knock lu re, set:?” He lifted up his left arm painfully with his right hand, and I then saw that the dark blue cloth was torn and stained and stiff with congealed blood. “Bit of a small shell,” he continued, with easy carelessness, “I want you to doctor it Up a bit, for I’ve got to go ashore with Teaset. ” Teaser was his gun. It was a light machine gun, a capital weapon for square or retreat work. Pffifil-i-son was a perfect child with his gun. He treated it as if it were one of his greatest friends on earth. I “There’s going to be some sport on the other side of those batteries, 1 can assure you," he said, pointing with his thumb through the portholo toward the land. “Old Teaser’s going to make things hum round there a bit, or she’s going for 'old iron when wo get back. Candidly, Carter, did you ever see a gun like her? Di<l you ever sec a piece of metal pump bullets like she does? Lord, I’d stick against a dead wall and buck up 500 howling niggerS with her single handed. ” t When. I had fixed him up, we went ou deck. Tho hot air.. between the bulkheads made mo feel sick and dizzy, and I wondered at a government like ours taking it into (heir heads to send out woilftm as nurses a Along the wounded Out in the offing I could see tho transport that was’ bringing the soldiers and the women. ■ Tho advent of the women was a confounded nuisance. I told Harold so. “Fie, doctor,” he said. “I should never have thought it of you! Shame ou you for speaking of the ladies iu that disrespectful way. Why, the little, dears, they’ll be the means of bringing round tho fellows a lot more quickly than you and your crew could ever hope to. Three cheers for the ladies, I say. ”. And as he raised his cap and waved it round his curly head I felt that there was a soft place in his heart for women iu general by reason of the fact that one of them far back in England was sighing for her broimed and handsome lover, who was just now so enthusiastically championing their cause. But although I had been in his company for at leadt three weeks he had never once mentioned to me the name of the girl I was now convinced was responsible for this outburst of vehemence. His wound did not prevent his taking his place 4n the pinnace. Teaser was there in the bow, carefully wrapped in yellow tarpaulin. I watched them take her ashore and saw through my glasses how carefully and tenderly he superinteded her manipulation until at length the whole battery disappeared from sight through a breach in the fortifications. A couple of hours later the big transport arrived. She brought out two regiments and half a dozen voluntary nurses. One of them came to our ship. I fear the reception I gave her wasn’t a very cordial one, but I didn’t want her there at all and expressed my annoyance in

my actions. The expression of the face, tanned by exposure during the voyage, was firm and intellectual, and there was a. look of businesslike suavity about her manner that we doctors always admire in any one. But time alone would show her worth. In the cool of the evening I had- the sick brought up on deck. There were few serious casesj and for these I couIH do no more than I had already done. Nurso sat reading by one of them. She had a remarkably clear and well balanced voice, and I could see the poor fol? lows oh either side straining their ears to catch the sweet sounds that had been foreign to them for so long. *’» I leaned oyer the .bulwarks and watched landing parties returning tb their respective ships. I could see a couple of the men of our boat impatiently walking up and down the beach, while the others stood with boathooks keeping the pinnace a few yards out and off the bottom. Then through the breach 2Q yards above them came the remainder of our party. They tvere walking slowly and carrying some of their number. I could not see the gun. When they came alongside, the two womided yjero handed up. One was a seaman. He was taken below. The other came up. .... His face and part of his body was covered with a blood stained cloth, but I saw the legs and the sturdy arms, and a big lump came up in my throat As I tum-

;■ 1 ed to follow them down bolow one of ’ tho men said to me in a hoarse whisper: . “Gun burst, sir. 1 Tor God's sake don’t say he's going!” i They loved him, all these mon did He had lieen liko a brother to them. I knelt by tho side of tho 1 >oy —he was only a boy. He still breathed, though ! slightly, but., cruel sight! ho was blind, ; and his once handsome face was horribly disfigured. Ho raised his hand slowly and felt my arm and carried tho fingers up to my face. I bent down to catch tho words which fell from his moving lips. “Ah, Carter, old fellow, IJta back, you—you r.ce. Low—trick of—Teaser, i wasn’t it? Thought she might have had —a little—more—respect for me, eh, Carter?” His lips moved again, and as I bent I dotvn I heard a light footstep behind me. It was nurse. She camo over and knelt on the opposite side of tho mattress and took his hand iu hers. He gave a little start and then removed the hand which he was holding on my breast and smoothed tho ono that held his. “Hullo, Minnie! You’re—late to- ' night—never do to be late. Naughty—little—girl. I’ve been—wanting you a lot—dear. I ’ ve missed you—dreadfully. Have you—missed me, Minnie?’ ’ Out of pure delicacy I arose quietly and withdrew. When I came back at tho end of a quarter of an hour, ho was smoothing her cheeks. Then the poor hand passed down over the collar of her dress, down to tho bib of her apron. This, I saw, Was wet with his life’s blood. “Been gardening, Minnie?” he murmured as his hand canfe into contact with the moisture. “You’ve got yourself wet You’ll catch cold, deary. Be careful.” Then another short silence, while the hand traveled up to tho bonny head of hair that crowned her form. Slowly and painfully he drewout the hairpins, one by one, and the tresses fell down over her shoulders onto the , blood stained coverlet. “You—haven’t had it—all cut off. You told md you would. But that“—was long—ago. I thought you—didn’t mean it ” She was a brave woman, that nurse. Few could hajp gone through the ort deal as she did. I do not know her nowi I do not even know her name, and I fbave never seen her since she left the ship for she transixirt a few weeks later at the termination of the war. » 1 The heat of the cock-pit, Combined i with the motion oY the vessel, made me feel a bit giddy, and I went up for a breath of fresh air. I tried to look cheerful and to speak a word to the purser as I passed him. But, confound it all, the word wouldn't come, and the dry, tickling sensation in my throat made me cough , until my <tj-es watered. But I never could leave tho dying boy down there without me, so’doyvn I went again. “And—now—you’ll kiss me, Minnie —won't you?” I looked at the eyeless and blackened countenance as he turned his poor head toward her. I looked at the pale, quivering lips of the noble girl who had thus lightened the end of one for whom , site had nothing more than pity. He placed both arms about her neck, and she kissed him.—Pearson’s Weekly. Ilis Rebuke. Mr. Abner Jennings was never known to say a harsh thing to or about any one. His form of speech was invariably mild, and exaggerated statements were viewed by him as almost as reprehensible as lies. Once, in the spring of the year, when the Blueville roads were in a fearful condition of mud and mire, the team of a “traveling merchant” was stalled a short distance from Mr. Jennings’ house. The old man at once brought out his oxen and went to the peddler’s assistance. The faun could npt be instantly released even with the aid of the yoke of oxen, and the peddler, who was a man of high temper and little self control, proceeded to vent his rage in language which first amazed and then disgusted the equable Mr. Jennings. bore it as long as he thought was necessary and proper and then unhitched his oxen and went calmly home. “I went to try to'help him,” he explained to his wife as he walked into the kitchen on his return, “but he talked so poorly that I came off and left him. ” One day he' caught some boys robbing his black cherry tree and surveyed them for some moments in speechless disapprobation. “Boys, ”he said at last, giving the* culprits the sternest glauce of which' he was capable, “boys, I think you’ve been doing very poorly!” JJfter administering that stinging rebuke he turned on his heels and walked slowly away to the barn and never referred to the matter again.—Youth’s Companion. A Laugh on the Girts., A good joke was played on the girls of Marion by the young men of that town. The boys liad been rather, remiss in their attentions to the young ladies and had been “etagging” it to the theater, parties, etc., until the girls got tired of being left in the cold and decided to show their independence. Consequently 15 of,the girls hired a-boxat tho theater and made a veiy charming theater party. The play was “Wanted, a Husband,” and tho girls sat serene through it all, never djjsanling that the wicked boys had taken one of tho largest flaring posters, “Wanted, A Husband, ” and fastened it around the box so that all the audience might read.—lndi;uiapolis Sentinel. ——-t .... Rods Iu Fickle. One of the most useful institutions of Alexandria, Va., is the parental nxl, ' which is always held in pickle at the station house for the use of such parents as desire to escape fines levied for the offenses of their unruly children. They ar® allowed to whip the bad boys at the station house, and in that case the fine is remittM—Philadelphia Ledger. --

— - i—'■■■ ...... INDIA’S SACRED MONKEY TEMPLE. | An E«liflJ&lVh<T«- TaUctl Quiulruped* Liv<> Free From lulvrfertuico. , I Among the thousand or more temples and slirinus with which tho holy Hindoo city of Benares is endowed, visitors gen- i erally find the great lenqile dedicated to ' the worship of the goddess Durga one of the most interesting. It is known to ; Europeans as the monkey temple, be-I cause in and around its precincts many hundreds of sacred monkeys roam about i without interference. Tho temple is sit- i uated in tiie southern extremity of the j city. It was erected during the last cen-1 tury by the Ranee Bhawani of Natre, in | honor of Siva’s wife, the terrific goddess who is supposed to delight in death and slaughter, and of whom the jx>or believers in the various attributes of the deities comprising tho Hindoo pantheon stand in the greatest dread. A correi spondent of the London Graphic writes as follows regarding the place: "The Durga Kund is conspicuous in this city of temples for tho grace and simplicity of its architecture. It adjoins ( a tank which is the finest in Benares I and occupies the central portion of a quadrangle, the walls being stained red : with ocher. The sacred portion of the temple consists of 12 finely carved pillars standing on a marble platform and supporting a heavy roof. The platform is about four feet from the ground and l is ascended by a flight of low steps on each side of the square. The temple is well provided with the necessary instruments for creating the frightful noises which emanate* from these alxxles of idolatry all over India. Drums of huge dimensions, gongs, bells and • tomtoms are i)dl at the service of the priests in performing the rites required of them. But the antics of the monkeys which make this temple their home are, next to its architecture, tho most attractive feature of the place. “The goat’s blood with which th& walls are sprinkled and the sacrifices that are. known to take place here to appease the wrath of Siva and his terrifying spouse are rather revolting to a Christian, but the grotesque play of the monkeys, their importunate begging, the pranks they ! enact on one another and the graceful agility they are constantly displaying supply a perpetual source of amusement which one is apt to think must prove. rather distracting to the devout Hindoos who come here to worship. These sacred inonk'- ys are of the genus Semnopethecus entellus. popularly known as the long tailed Indian monkey. “A few years ago, as no. one dared to molest these animals, they not only increased rapidly in numbers, but, growing to be extraordinarily bold-, developed alarming thieving propensities. The annoyance they caused amounted to a public nuisance, for no house in the place was safe from their depredations. At last the trouble grew so serious that some reduction in tlgt number of these adept thieves became a necessity, although the prejudices of the people were against any such steps being taken. In the end the government was requested to interfere, and waiving aside all other considerations but that of public polity the authorities had many hundreds—report says many thousands—captured" and sent away. Nevertheless there are plenty of them left, and they certainly constitute one of the Sights of a city that is probably in many respects the most interesting in tlfc wofTd.’ To Be Calletl Elijah. Children have been admirably drilled in Bible detail. Tliey know more about it than three-fourths of their Sunday school teachers. They have learned the* story of Moses till they can say it as pat As the multiplication table. But I do not find any living interest in Moses. There is one of the granUßst'life stories in history, and they seem to have no feeling about it. And that need not be so. I remember one of my school teaclmra ih Chicago telling me how troubled she had been because, she was afraid she was not making the stories of the prophets interesting, to her boys. But one day she was comforted, for she heard from the mother of one of them that the lad had comp hoihe the Sunday before, and after sitting silent awhile suddenly burst out at the dinner table: “Well, I do think Elijah was afine fellow, and if I ever have a kid of my own I mean to call him Elijah!’’ Os course it is only a rare teacher who can teach that way.—Brook Hereford in Contemporary Review. Code of Colors In Scaling Wax. Dainty French people' have never displaced sealing wax with the gummed envelope, and in the haute monde of France there is a certain symbolism in -the choice of colors. Blue denotes constancy; yellow, jealousy. Pink is appropriately usM by young girls, and gray is employed when writing to an intimate friend. Red is confined to business, and engaged lovers find ruby symbolical of the intensity of their emotions. Green is for letters from lovers who live in hope, and dull brown warns the impatient lover that his offer is refused. White is chosen for communications relating to weddings and black for obituaries. Violet expresses sympathy. Chocolate marks the invitation to dinner.— Paris Letter. _ —- - Glycerin is one of the most useful and misunderstood of .everyday drugs. It. must not be applied to the skin undiluted, or it will causa it to become red and hard, but if rubbed well into the skin while w,et it has a softening and whitening effect. „It will prevent and cure chapped hands and subtile an irritable cough by moistening tlie dryness of the throat. Applied to shoes, glycerin is a great preservative of the leather and effectually keeps out the water and prevents wet feet,—New York Advertiser. Religion of the Working Classes. The world has to have a religion of some kind, and the’tiope of better food and clothing, more leisure and a greater variety of amusements has become the religion of the working classes.—E. L. Godkin in Forum. ' ■ . • . I " ■ . o ’4. r ' '* '-~S W—

“OUR W ,S,AL M PRICE.” WUIR). We have just received our new spring' stock of Fine Foot Wear in all the latest styles. These goods are simply elegant and will be sold at our usual prices “211 Per Cent. Below Others.” IF YOU ARE NOT PARTICULAR We havejja linejof “left-overs” which we will close out at less than cost £ We aim to keep our stock fresh and clean, and we will not carry any goods over. So if you are not particular about last year’s goods, come and get them at your own price. They are first-class goods—only last year’s stock. They are marked way down below “our usual price.” Spring Weather! The wet season is coming on and to enjoy good health you should keep your feet dry. Our RUBBER GOODS will do it for you. Come in and we, will tell you all about prices which are as usual, 20 per cent, lower than other/ RememberJjOur Usual Price,*’ 20 per cent, below others. A. HOLTHOUSE. W TlMjg TOBLL! OB LOK -PRICES STILL JWM! The finest line of Clothing ever" seen in stock, and at prices to 'suit all. Our line of Shies are neat, stylish and durable, and the prices will make you buy. Our fine line of HATS and CAPS will " everybody ! All are invited to call and examine our goods and prices will convince you that you can buy more with your money than ever before. v D. OBERMAN, Prop. .. .. f ■ E ' (STOCKS OLD ILinDWARE OPPOSITE _('OUPT HOUSE. BUCHANAN S IS FENCE. -- - - „ ■ -G A- * ... -.3b— — BEST AM GBEIIH PENCE IE TIE HEIL Thousands of miles of it built tl.i< vcl < ut the countryFor Farm Rights for Adams County, apply to John Blakesi.ey. Decatur, Ind.