Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1894 — Page 3

I Business Directory. ■ THE DECATUR JATIOHL BMK. ■H CAPITA! WO'fl. fCRPI I’S. lII.MO. Ml organized August 16. IHKi. U Officers:—?. W. Smith. Pres.. Dnr>l "Wy HHL ” Vlce-pres., RH. Peterson, riishler.J. 8.1 otei ■ son, Asi’t Cashier. Do a general banking business. Interest nni<l on time deposits. Buy end sell Domestic end foreign flExchange. County and City < >rddrs. H Adams County Bank CAPITAL. 176.000. SURPLUS. 176,000. ■1 Organized In 1871. ■I Officers:—D. Btudabaker. Pres.. Kob't IL |K;- - Allison. Vice-pros; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. B 2 Do a general banking business. Collectffins H made in all pints of t.ho country. County. City and Township orders bought. MM Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and MB sold. Interest paid on time deposits. H Paul G. Hooper, ■I ZK ttorncv jat Law ■I Decatur. Indiana. Bfl ▲« P. BEATTY. J* F. MANN. Bl MANN A BF.ATTY, Bl A.ttornoy»«at-Ijax7V, ■1 xi tarles Public. Pension Claims Prosoilice in Odd Fellows’ Building. I|.’ J. T. FRANCK. \ J.T.MKKRVMAN. II FRANCK A MERRYMAN. I] Attornoys-at-laaw. N Office:—Nos. 1. 2 and 3. over the Adams U County Bank. Collections a specialty. N J. n. 8080, » MASTER COMMISSIONER AND H > attorney-at-laav. H Real Estate and Collections. ______ U R. K. ERWIN, |l i ji.ttornoy*at«Xjnw, 11 Room I and 2 Niblick & ronnellier || Block. Decatur. Indiana. _L___ H M BS ’ ! ’ l, L HOIL ' M> ' VAV ’ in * w ’ M Office and residence one door nort h of M. E. II Church. Diseases of women and children a specialty. ( ' » . P. R. THOMAS, M. D. i Physician and Surgeon. F Office over Burns’ harness shop, east side of k Second Street, Decatur. Indiana. All calls , promptly attended to in city or country night PpA or day. ’ — ■ j. q?. isrjEix’TUixrsn, • ■ DENTIST. Now located over Holthouse's shoe store, is prepared to do all work pertaining to the deutai twofession. Gold lining a specialty Av the tide of Mavo’s Vapor he is enabled to , extract teeth without pain. Work guaranteed. \ 0 G-O TO — H. M. ROMBERG For 'SToxxr Xsl'l/ 1 X.IA.Y. The Best Rigs and most Reasonable Prices. 11» MONEY TO LOAN On Farm property on long time. JSTo Commission. Low rate of I merest. Partial Payments. Tn anv amounts eon be made at any time and stop interest. Call on or address. A. K. GRUBB or J. F. MANN, Office:—Odd Fellows' Building. Look Here! I am here to stay and can sell Organs an! Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford to sell them. I sell different makes. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable. See me first and save money. J. T. COOTS, Decatur, Ind. —-A.T — MERRYMAN’S s % FACTORY . You can get all kinds of Hard Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, z . Brackets, Moulding, Odd-sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kinds of building material made or furnished- on short notice. DRESSMAKING. ' I have opened up Dressmaking Palors, in the rooms formerly occupied by the W. C. 0., above Ehlnger * Meyers’ clothing ■tore, and would be pleased to see my old customers and many new ones. Dome and have your dressagu«j®without dartfi, or ■earns. Perfect fSKpfetion guaranteed. Ella Kbllison.

CHINESE LANGUAGE. SOME OF THE CURIOSITIES OF THE ••EAR SPLITTING JARGON." Mnsicluns Hay It Has an Affinity With the Notes of Birds- No Alphabet and No Farts of Speech- Seine Amusing Examples of Chinese Talk. The superficial <'bserver often refers to the Chinese spoken speech as an “ear splitting jargon’’ and to the written ■peech as "hieroglyphics.” Frequent visitors to any “Chinese quarter,” notably a large “Chinatown” like that of Los Angeles, will soon become so familiar with this so called jargon as to note that it is far more musical than the English speech. Musicians are authority for the statement that the Chinese language has more affinity (when spoken) with the notes of birds than with the tones of any other language. This is perhaps because the Chinese, having no alphabet, must have many tone combinations to give the various expressions and meanings to the thousands of characters; Having no alphabet, the Chinese language has more symbols than all of the alphabets in the universe combined, and there are more tone combinations for the expression of those symbols than in all other tongues. Each tone is attached to a character, and one character is mad. to mean several different things, according to the tone used. In Chinese the tone gives the meaning. A word spoken with a falling inflection means ene thing, and quite another when spoken with a rising inflection. We often hear a Chinaman, as lie walks along the street talking with his companion, utter a word in a falling inflection which sounds like n-go. This means “I.” He is talking of himself—perhaps saying how great he thinks himself to be. But if he drawls out the sound long and even he is calling some hoodlum a “goose." He gixai the falling inflection to the first syllable, and the rising inflection to the last, aud in a rather musical voice. This would be a difficult feat for an American. No matter in what mood he may be. he may not and perhaps cannot change the accent. The voice may be louder .r w a minor key, but the tones are as iniUur ble as written words and must be so used, or the exact meaning is lost. All the expressions of human passions—laughter or sorrow—must be expressed by the same inflexible words and precise sclents. There are only five tones in the Chinese voice, but as every word ha« all of its syllables accented there are 35 permutations. and these are almost al ways in constant use. even in ordinary conversation. A question may be asked w«Mi or without a rising inflection, accords® to the word used.

Chinese adjectives are nouns. For i “many thank*’’ it is “thank thank." A ' “great man" is “greatness man.” Soina- | times a noun is formed of a iloun and a 1 verb,as “barber,” whom they call*‘shave- j head teacher.” The verbs have neither moods nwr tenses, and when your launcbryinan wishes to tell you that “1 have washed” he says, “I pass over wash.” Their adverbs are mostly formed by join ing together nouns and verbs, as “finish day” for “yesterday.” To cook is to "eat Tice.” EveiVTt«nn< is -plural and includes all there is of that article, unless it is limited by the expression “one piece,” as “one piece house.” Instead of “wife and children” they express “family and wife.” The word woman meads “father man.” If repeated, it signifies ‘’scolding. The noun always remains in the pame shape, and the verb has but one form instead of the many known to the English language. he Chinese language has no declensions, subjugations, moods, tenses, prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, tivM, second and third persons, no singular and plural, and no gender except by the addition of a few participles in rare instances. It is evidently simple and easi to learn, one of the simplest and most curious things about it being, as above stated, that every noun, unless qualified otherwise, is plural. There are about 60,000 characters used in the Chinese language proper, but the average Chinaman no more learns all of those characters., than the everyday American learns the 100,000 words in the English language. The Chinaman, however, learns on the average more than does an American in a similar position in life. A Chinaman who can neither read nor write is a rarity. Chinese is not a monosyllabic language, as many suppose, and it is impossible to utter in Chinese any but the shortest sentences in monosyllables. In writing the Chinaman makes one complicated but integral character for each word, but that word may be properly spoken in two, three or four syllables. His syllables are divided by no longer intervals than are his words, and that is what makes his language sound to a foreigner like a singsong jargon. We do not know whether he is telling a story or attempting a song. The Chinese perhaps think the same thing of an American, who bites off his words and swallows them or telescopes one into another. Business men in this city thrown in contact with Chinese merchants who speak pure Chinese say that it is not difficult to learn. Instead of 26 letters, not including the useless &, the Chinese have 600 or 600 syllables, and these are combined into various forms to make the 60,000 words in their “dictionary.” These syllables vary in meaning according, to the tone in which they are spoken or the strokes used In writing them.—Los Angeles Cor. NeW York Post. Starvation Among the Kloh. Death by starvation is a thing not restricted to periods of business depression nor to the poor. Perhaps there are n ore ill nourished people in proportion among the rich than among the poor. The number of persons that seek relief from threatened starvation in the exclusive milk diet is constantly on the increase, but it is a remedy almost of necessity confined to those who have sufficient control over their own doings to take a meal every hour and a haft, • thing hardly consistent with earning a living H manual labov.—Phllsdelphi* Press.

llEl'Uffl W POLICE. i Coxey Escorted From the Steps of the J Capitol by Officers, BROWNE AND JONES IN JAIL Peaceable Mnrrender of the Commonweal Leader, Who Will No« Again Attempt Speechinaking From the Nation’* Building— Curious Crowds Create All the Disturbance—Story of the Day’s Exciting Incidents. i Washington, May 2.—Coxey’s march, begun on Easter Bunday from Massillon, 0., yesterday met the promised official interruption at the nation’s capitol. The general, surrounded by 10,000 yelling men and women, was removed by ptdice officers to his carriage after having worked his way to the capitol steps; Carl Browne and Christopher Columbus Jones were arrested and hurried to the nearest police station; a half dozen particularly belligerent men were taken in by the police; the army of 500 members, which had waited outside the grounds, faced about and marched to its new camp, and within an hour after arrival the grounds had assumed their normal quiet. Whatever of disturbance was created was caused by curiosity seekers, who with a mad rush followed the commonweal leaders. Coxey and Browne, when B A V -iw OTKFTMT, roTEV; r-iey leaped the fence and started tnrougn the shrubbery for the goal, the procession having been beaded off by a solid phalanx of mounted police. When the ruse was discovered these officers followed, forcing their horses through costly shrubbery into the midst of the mob. several of them cracking their clubs over the heads of the nearest persons. Women shrieked in terror and men yelled fiercely, and the wonder is that no one was seriously hurt. Coxey hits accepted the situation philosophically. His first act after having the new camp prepared for occupancy was a call on the district commissioners, to whom he applied for a gratuitous license to charge an admission. The , commissioners, asked time to consider, j and upon their suggestion lib naw-jaaid $5 j forsuch license for one day only. “1 have no complaint," Coxey said, “to ' make as far as the police are concerned. They treated me with great consideration, but they had to carry out the law, even if was an unjust one. My speechmaking, however, at thecapitpl isover ! and I shall not again attempt it. It ■ would be no user The American eagle ■ did a good deal of squealing, but that was to be expected. The authorities pinched him rather hard. He’ll have his ' say. however, sooner or later.’’ The most serious chapter of the affair | for Washington, the problem of what is ; to be done with the army, remains unsolved. * ON CAPItOL GROUNDS. Stirring Events Incident to Coxey’s Attempt to Speak. Washington, May 2. —There was little of real interest in the Coxey march down Pennsylvania avenue until the capitol grounds were reached. Here the J procession was deflected and moved up B street to the top of the hill, where a ' broad expanse of avenue sweeps toward I the east front of the capitol. This was i Coxey’s goal and there was every preparation to turn into the avenue. But as the opening was reached a solid front of mounted policemen was seen. There was nothing to do but mow down the officers and go ahead. The squad of police in front of Coxey’s carriage went straight ahead. It was a ruse to carry the procession past the capitol. Coxey and his people showed their chagrin, but followed out B street. Hurried signals were passed from Coxey to Browne. It was clear they would not be led willingly away. Half a block up B street Browne halted his column and dismounted. He turned over his horse to an attendant. Then he went to Coxey’s carriage and ■poke to the general. Coxey turned to get out, but nis wife tried to restrain nim. He paused and kissed her. Then he sprang from his carriage and made his way back toward the entrance to the, capitol. A howling mob was on his heels as the flank movement was appreciated. Browne followed, bearing his banner. The rank and file of the army stood in the street A squad of police suddenly discovered that Coxey had turned back. Quickly the officers spurred through the crowd after he and Browne. Th* two had found' B street impassable. Coxey Leaps the Stone Wall. Coxey sprang to the heavy stone paling which surrounds the foliage of the east front of the capitol grounds, and with a bound was inside the fence and lo«t amid the tangled shrubbery. Browne followed. The mob shouted at their disappearance. The police were not to be daunted by this escape to the shrubbery. Thb first officer, mounted on a fine bay, reined his horse to the stone fence, and then horse aud rider cleared the fence and dashed into the shrubbery. The other mounted officers followed. Small trees, bushes aud flowerbeds went down before the sweep •f horsemen and the yelling crowd vhhli followed. Coxey and Browne dodged through the bushes to the open at lha «Mt front. Hara a blue-

custed mass rwaitert Jbe oncomers. There was a crawl) ns thw fugitives, officers and the mob from the street met the wall of officers and people in the opCM. The onslaught wtw- so sudden that tlie officers broke for a moment. People surged and shouted. Coxey and Brownewere lost for the moment. The policemen stemmed' the rush after a minute, during which one officer used his baton freely. On the Capltinl In the intense excitement of the rush Coxey l>ad slipped unobserved through the struggling mass, and before anyone knew it was bounding up the aairt front entrance to tlie oapitol. He was up to the 10th step before he was recognized. Then the officers closed in above him and his further iwissage was baried. The great crowd now recognized him, and a shout went up from every corner of the vast assemblage. Coxey turned to the crowd and raised his hat. He was deathly pale. Captain Garden of the capitol police stepped to one side of him and Lieutenant Kelly of tho-city police was at the other arm. The officers formed solidly al>ont him. The crowd below was kept back by menacing clubs. “What do you want to do here'?’ asked Captain Garden. “I wish to make an address,” responded General Coxey, his voice showing intenseemotion. “But you cannot do that,”said Captain Garden, quietly but firmly. “Then can I read a protest?" Coxey. I’unlied Off the Groua«l«. There was>a moment’s hesitation. He drew from his pocket a typewritten manuscript and began to unfold it. There was a movement among the officers. Captain Garden quietly took Coxey by the left arm and Lieutenant Kelly took him by the right. They moved down the steps, the solid rank of officers following. Coxey was thus impelled downward and forward. He was not pulled or put under arrest, but firmly pushed away. At the foot of the steps the great crowd greeted Coxey and the officers with a storm of shouts. Again the mounted officers charged, the crowd surged, and for a time it looked as though there would be trouble. But the little knot of officers pressed forward with Coxey in their center. They were flanked by mounted officers. Thus Coxey made his exit from the capitol entrance and tfe east front. As he moved away he tossed the typewritten protest to the group of newspaper men and said: “That is for the press.” It was a Populistic document. There was no formal arrest of Coxey. Browne and Jones Locked Up. Browne meantime received attention and the staff of his flag ot peace was broken by officers, but his experience did not differ materially from that of Coxey. He declared that he stood on his “constitutional rights,” but these did not give him the right to stand long in one place, and he was soon hun’jed to tfie sidewalk several hundred feet distant. He and Christopher Columbus Jones were formally arrested and locked up in adjacent cells at the police station, both charged with disorderly conduct. Browne was cast down, when a reporter saw him afterward. “1 don’t wish to say anything until I hear from the American people.” The men will be arraigned today. Their attorney says the matter will be carried to the highest court and hints that some one will have to make ample reparation. RETREAT OF THE ARMY. - Peaceably .Withdrawal From the Scene of Commotion —Talk With Coxey. Washington, May 2. — The crowd cheered Coxey when he was escorted back to his carriage by officers. The army had been waiting on B street out breaking ranks and the humble bass drummer soon brought order out of chaos. His thuds upon the drum were the signal for moving. , - . - Jesse Coxey led the army to its new camp, his white clad sister, tlie Goddess of Peace, retaining her courage admirably. A squad of 28 police meantime had marched over to tlie army and lined up to preserve order as it departed, A grayhaired man with a G, A. R. button on his coat climbed up the steps of an adjacent house and began a harangue upon the rights’of American citizens which drew a fraction of the crowd about. The army as it marched down Second street was followed by hundreds of poorly dressed men and women, who cheered it all the w;iy. General Coxey talked to a reporter when he reached the new camp. “I was careful to walk on the sidewalk and trespass upon no local regulations when I went up to the steps,” he said. “This is the beginning of the movement—that is all. The people are with us—the common people. Look at the thousands who cheered our cause. We will remain right here; other bands of unemployed will join us. Congress will see the will of the people and will pass our bills.”

CONDUCT OiF THE POLICE. They For the Most Part Showed Admirable Temper and Self-Control. , Washington, May 2.—The police in and about the capitol grounds showed admirable temper and self-control for the most part throughout the day. The eritical period was when Coxey made his way to the capitol steps. He would have been roughly handled and jostled by the crowd had it not been for the care of the police. A mounted policeman was on each side aud made way for him through the surging crowd which, had recognized him by his grey suit, bronzed features and large eyeglasses. During his colloquy with Lieutenant Kelly and Captain Garden the police had to resort to pretty active measures to keep the crowd back. Coxey offered not the "siighest-physieal-resistance as he was .escorted off the grounds, aud apparently was not perturbed in the slightest As Coxey came back to.the waiting army aud got into his buggy the excited crowd closed around the white stallion on which his daughter rode and thrust up their hands for her to shake. She smilingly accepted the civility, with uo apparent fear of harm. There were probably 10,00« people in the crowd that was wedged about the army, and when the procession started again it scattered the srowd with a wild rush. In a half hour or so the masses had melted away. Crisp to Coxey. Fashington, May 2.—The details of Coxey’s interview with Speaker Crisp d.t.loy that the latter gave a very po»i-

Excursions South. TMffToletfr), Ht. Loui® and Kansas City Mi R., Clbver Leaf Route, will ! isHue enefare axcuntion tirtets to all l points South on special Oates during February, March, Aprial, May and June. Liberal return limit* Call on nearest>gents Clbver Leaf Route, or address, €IC. Gen’l PassAgt. Toledo, Ohio. N. B.—l <wv rate-excursion tieketo to California points aedito Hot Springs Ark., Ix»w Rate»-to CwMftemia, AJoo to tlie Exlreme Xorlliwent. JX>w.rate round trip tickets and one way tickets w JI be issued daily from all T. St. L. <!t K. C. R. R’. “Clover ILeai ” stations. Choice of routes beyond Sf.. Louis. Round trip tickets (9 monti s limit) good going one route, returning another. Stop over at all points. The privileges and ratss were never more favorable. Call on nearest agent, Clover Leaf Route, or address, C. C. Jenkins, Qen’l. Phss. Agent, i N. B. • Free Reclining Buffet ChairJ Cars and Vestibule Sleeping cars efi latest design’ California Excursions* Special Sleeping Cars via Iron Rnountam< Route. Special through sleepers leave St. Lottis Union Depot daily via Iron Mountain Route, via Texarkana, Ft.! Worth, El jhence Southern Pa-* ci&c to various California points. A choice of BUFFET Palace Pullman' or TO!RUST Sleeping cars. For. tickets and berths catt on nearest agent Toledo St. Louis and Kansas City R. R.. Clover Leaf Rout, oraadress, C. C. Jenkins, Gen’l Pass Agt. Toledo. Ohio, j N. B.— One fare excursion to Texas. Arkansas, Tenessee. Alabama. Missis-: sippi, etc., via Clover Leaf Route. COLORADO TOURIST RATES. L*>w rate excursion tiekets on sale at principal T.. St. L. &K. C. Stations. Tbe Clover Leaf Route offers through tickets, -ia al] routes beyord St Louis Liberal privileges, in limit and stop overs. Buffet Vestibuled Sleeping Cars,' Buffet Reclining Chan’s, seats tree. Call on nearest agent or address. C C. JENKINS, Gen’l Pass Ag’t. Toledo, Ohio.

OUR GREAT Jv A? <5- -j? j :;i REDUCTION SALE! Still continues. Bear in mind that these Goods- can not be Uuglit at • .these prices any is here else. o * Clothing! Clothing! Men’s all wool Cashmere -Suits from $2.50 and up. Boys Suits from $1.75 and up.. Children’s Suits from 75 cents and up. Our stock is all "new and stylish. We have also a big line tn Gents Furnishing Goods. Also a big line in Boots and At prices lower than ever NEW YORK STORE Stoned old Hardware stand, Decatur, Ind. BUCHANAN’S PATENTHE Elf l - OPw I If IfrL 1 .Mr" fu : 'i : '' 4 ■ k'-.w *BEST AND CHEAPEST FENCE IN THE ffOBLD. Thousands of miles of it built throughout the countryFor Farm Rights for Adams County, apply to John Blakesley, Decatur, Ind.

Boarding and’lbdgingat the Peortew Bakery ams Restaurant, three doo* J Soptb of Post (RSce’ 45 ts When in the city stop at the C. it £. . Bakery and Restaurant, for the be»t mealsand lunch. Aiujekt Schurger 8 ly Proprietor. Fancy cakes of alt kind at the Peoples Bakery and Restaurant, three doors South of the Post Oftlke. 45 ts Buy olives in .the bulk at the Peoples , Bakery and Restaurant, three doors South of the Post Office. 45 ts J, AE Al ERN Painter and PaperHanger. All work warren ted. Prices reasonable. 52 ts Leave your orders for fancy cakes at ! the new bakery; three doors south of I Jtostefifice. .I■ ‘ ’ For Sale:—House ancj lot Enquire of Daniel Schlegel. 32tf. * The Democrat does tbe neatest job work to be found auy-where. Will Christen, arihitect. Office over Pete Hoithoiise clothing store. gtf BOTTLED GODDW.. The justly celebrated Milwaukee and ; Fort Wayne Beers are exclusively botj tied m this city by John W. Kleinbenz. ! To secure either of these brands of the | famous foaming drought exterminator, you have only to send us a postal card or leave an order in person and it will be promptly delivered to you in either bottled or kegged packages 9-1 y John W. Klejnhenz. hanNH Exinrsions. April 22nd ni»d May 29th. The T.. St L. & K C. R. IV. [Clover I Leaf Route) will issue one fare excuri sion tickets—return limit 30days—April . 22nd aud May 29th. The excursion territory covers nearly a Kansas and a ; portion of Missouri. 5 A rareebanee for low rate tickets to Kansas City. St. Joe. Leavenworth, Topeka. Ft. Scott, Parsons, Cherryvale, j Etc. Call on nearest agent for full information. or address C. C. Jenkins, Gene- . ral Passenger Agent, Toledo. Ohio. N. B —Free reclining chair cars and \”estibuled sleepers via Clover Leaf Route. Finest line of confectionery in the city at tbe new bakery and restaurant three doors south of Postoflice. ; Smith .t Bell are paying tbe highest cash prices for Clear White Ash logs, cut 12 feet long. 12 inches and over at ; the top end, must be clear and staight. ts