Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1894 — Page 7

©he DKOATUII, IND. N. lUcnuiM, . . . PCTUtm. X ”** What Chicago really needs Is fewer suspended fines and more suspended Rhode Island's penitentiary Is run at a loss of <2O, ooa Why don't they order a lockout and shut down? “Should Christians go to the theater?" Is a screaming headline in a New York paper. Yes, sometimes. If they will refrain from wearing unchristian bonnets. Try the effect of good will and hope upon the man who has wrapt himself in the covering of a reckless and sullen despair, and you will see ▼erifled the old apologue of the sun, the wind and the traveler. Independent Is he who has no wants which he cannot gratify without the least risk of being overtaken by debt or tempted to dishonor, a man ten times richer, but with twenty times more wants, is In reality twice as poor. Thb woman suffrage petitions in New York captured the men by wholesale. It remains to be seen, however, whether the signers wll vote as they petition. Many a bearded voter will affix his name to a paper when presented by a charming woman and then, when he finds himself in tne privacy of an Australian booth, will “vote herdown.” About 300 Hungarians and fifty Italians have left Braddock, Pa., for their native land. They carried all aorta of traps in their bundles, and the steamship agent says that they had from 1800 to >I,OOO each in their pockets. The coal strike had driven them away, and as they will be wealthy at home, we shall not worry if they conclude to stay there and enjoy their otium cum dig. Thb boon in South Africa are about to institute an order of knighthood to be called De Orde Van Verdienste. They are probably moved to It by jealousy of the numerous members of the titled arstocracy of Groat Britain, who, having left ••’one" for their country's good, are now seeking fortunes in the virgin fields of the Cape Colony, Matabeleland, and Masbonaland. It is said that engravers in Germany harden their tools In sealing wax The tool Is heated to whiteness and plunged Into the wax, withdrawn after an instant, and plunged In again, the process being repeated until the steel is too cold to enter the wax The steel is said to become after this process almost as bard as the diamond, and when touched with a little oil of turpentine the tools are excellent for engraving and also for piercing the hardest metal. Obbtazn progressive ladies of England have discovered that they have the same right to organise themselves into military companies that the men enjoy and have forthwith proceeded to enlist a battalion of fair volunteers. The actual service of the amasonlan regiment will doubtless be confined to dress parade, and though its members may never be called upon to face powder it is assured in advance that not a soldier will ever flinch when confronted with a necessity to powder the face. The attempt of the Hungarian Ministry to force the passage of the Civil Marriage bill has been defeated. The bill was a flagrant attack upon ecclesiastical marriages. Under its operation no marriage performed by priest or clergyman, of any denomination, could be recognized as lawful, unless IV was supplemented by a civil ’ service. The measure was so strongly urged by the Government that its passage was regarded as reasonably , sure when it was first presented. It was defeated in the Upper House by a small majority. Thb east is really waking up The . railroad from Jerusalem to Jaffa is to bo extended to Nablus and Gaza, and there is a project on foot for the establishment of a line of steamers on the Dead Sex The intention is to bring the rich produce of Moab across the sea in a few hours instead of carrying it, as now, around the North and South end of the sea. by caravan, a trip of four or five days duration The next we hear will probably be news of an uprising on

the part of the camel driven against the Innovation, which is to taxe the bread and dates out of their mouths. ; Am Italian deputy, who is not enamoured of Europe's system of armed peace, recently gave in a speech some striking statistics about the blood tax in each country. He shows that, while it does not appear tniAblnff whan mi* bund

. per annum, It really Is so, because * such a large proportion of it falls upon the very poor, and upon those who are hinders** by the exigencies of , military and naval service from producing wealth. An Italian family, ’ for instancy the head of which perhaps earns barely 20 cents per day, and that not all the year round, is ground to the very dust by the annual war tax of 12 for each of Its 1 members. How long Europe can or ’ will stand this imposition is a mystery. But It looks as if the end were ( not far off. 1 Thb idea that a disease artificially communicated while the patient was in good health loot much of its virulence was not a new one. Inoculation with genuine smallpox matter was quite common among the better ' classes in England before Jenner's ( time, the matter being obtained 1 originally from mild cases, and afterward from those inoculated. The originality of Jenner’s Idea consisted , in the proposition that cowpox was really smallpox in the cow, and that, when communicated to the human system, it acted as a preventive of ’ the more serious disease. Although Jenner experienced a great deal of opposition, bis theory really made its way with great rapidity. He was , first able to make the experiment of vaccination in 1796, and compulsory vaccination was enacted in some European countries as early as 1813. A woman in one of the Inland cities of New York State, who has been sued by a lawyer for >lO for professional services in recovering a sealskin coat, put in a counter claim for advice and assistance in enabling the lawyer to find a suitable spouse. If this claim can be sustained, the energetic dame has met the disciple of Blackstone on his own heath, and gives him a Roland for his Oliver. No one better than he should be able to appreciate the value of good counsel. That the counsel was effective in this case} would appear to be proven by the fact that the lawyer is a recent recruit to the army of Benedicts. The woman declares that inaemucbsas she ‘devoted much time and attention to the subject,” she believes her tervices “reasonably worth >60.” On the score that he or she “who flndeth a good wife findeth a good thing,” there can be no doubt of this if all that she alleges be true. It might even be conceded that her rates are ridiculously low. New York Press: If the reports which come from the Wyoming region of Pennsylvania be true the Wyoming massacre of history has a rival in recent times hardly less atrocious and alarming in many features. The statement is made that during the last year over 200 assassinations have occurred in that section, while only seven of the murderers have been arrested. Within the last three months thirty-five mysterious murders have been reported. Not only has there been a wholesale taking of human life, but property to the value of millions of dollars has been destroyed. It the reports are correct such a condition of affairs is astounding. These crimes are said have been committed by members of an oath-bound organization made up of ignorant and lawless men, who fly to terrorism and bloodshed to wreak vengeance for fancied wrongs. The State of Pennsylvania owes it to her fair fame to bring the lawbreakers to justice and to crush this latest outbreak of Molly Magulreism. It is said that a process has been invented for extracting nitrogen from the atmosphere so economically that sulphate of ammonia can be sold at >22 per ton for fertilizing purposes, which is only about one-quarter of its present price. The cheapening is rendered possible by the fact that a good quality of illumin ,ting gas is given off as a by product of the process. The gases and vapors of a hydro carbon, as coal or petroleum, are introduced into a retort having a. temperature of 2,200 degrees. In this the carbon and the hydrogen separate. Air is introduced, and lime is sifted through the retort. The hydiogen passes off, and is collected and carbureted tor illumination The carbon, nitrogen, and alkali form a cyanide, which may be decomposed by steam, and sulphate of ammonia is obtained. If his material can be .offered as cheaply as statedjitshould be in enormous demand, and may result in a great increase in what is known as ntensive farming in the neighborhoods of the cities.

When a man takes a cigar out of another man's pocket, and the man who loses the cigar is not mad, it is a sign that it is a five center. No toNE seems to have as hard a time Earning money as the womam who marries for It. . ' —

> SONG OF THE TRAMP. ’ John Fowler, in Home and Country. A rover am I of » well-known stamp, In fact I am simply a typical tramp; My home is wherever I happen to camp— Yet none la more merry than I. My life is a drama of varying scenes, To phases both comic and tragic it leans, ' As a rule it is governed according to 1 means— Yet none is more merry than L At night when the householder, sleek and * well fed, Retires for his rest to his soft, snowy bed, The ground is my couch; with a stone for r my head—l Still none is more merry than I. I With first streak of dawn lam up with * the lark. r My spirits at once reach the high-water f mark. My moruing’s salute is the watchful dog’s bark— Yet none is more merry than I. If, at times, the officious and boorish police, Deem it prudent my freedom to somewhat decrease, 1 I patiently wait for the tardy release— And none is more merry than I. 1 When the scenes of my much-changing f life reach a close, i And I quietly drop for “my final repose, f In a ditch I shall lie, with my dirge sung l by crows—i Yet none is more merry than I. ! ' Lltlli (|l OOltM. I BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. “I dunno’s I’ve any objection to let you hev the old place,” said Simeon * Lilton, as he stood leaning on his i hoe. “Me and Elvira were cal- ; culatin’ to go to Hebron and live with our married daughter. When | folks gets to be old like us, a fortyacre farm’s too big to handle. 1 But I don’t deny that I hate to leave it wuss than the toothache.” Down under the hill the young i leaves of the maples were breaking , out into a cloud of green mist, the aspens shook their woolly tassels, and a little brook, half hidden by ' tangled briers, made a merry gurgle ' on its way to Linden Lake. “Hebron’s a nice place,” meditatively remarked Simeon, as he flung a clod at a marauding crow perched on the nearest tree, “but ’tain’t like . the open country as me and Elvira has always been used to.” “Then I may become your ten--1 ant?” said Philip Pindar, taking out i his note-book. “At fifteen dollars a , month, for a year certain, with the refusal for a longer term in case you do not yourself wish to return.” “Them’s my terms,” succinctly spoke the old farmer, wiping his leathery forehead with a spotted cotton handkerchief. “I looked at the house yesterday,” added Pinder, “and with a few alterations —” “I don’t calculate to pay for no alterations,” shrewdly spoke up old Simeon. “At my expense, of course,” said Pindar. “Dunno’s I’ve any objection to that.” “With a few trifling alterations,”, went on Pinder, “it can be adapted to my needs. It’s a pretty place—a very pretty placet” “I s’pose you’ll be pullin’ down the old well-sweep and cuttin’ away the apple trees ? ” said Lilton, uneasily. “Folks is so finicky.” “By no means. The well-sweep is worth ten dollars a year to me in picturesqueness. No money would induce me to pull it down. But I shall certainly lay water pipes and drain tiles through the orchard, and make whatever improvements are necessary. Here’s the rent for the first month to bind the bargain, and the paper will be ready for your signature as soon as I take possession.” “I don’t want no papers,” said Lilton. ” I’m one of them as their word is as good as their bond any day in the week!” “Business is business!” good-hu-moredly spoke Mr. Pindar, as he repocketed his leather wallet and strolled away toward the railway station, while old Simeon renewed his labors with the hoe and rake. “There shan’t no city feller have it to say as Sim Lilton left the farm in bad condition,” said he. Consequently, he was very tired when, after liberal ablutions in the wood-shed and a severe toweling of his old gray head, he came in to an.swer the noonday summons of the dinner hour. “Well, Elviry,” said he, beginning on the corned beef and cabbage, “I’ve done a good stroke o’ business this mornin’.” Mrs. Lilton looked into the teapot, clapped the lid down and set it on the tray ready to pour the refreshing beverage. “Well,” said she, in a brisk, birdlike way that she had, “es you’ve beat me in that line, you've done pretty Wbll, that’s all I’ve got to say!” “Hain’t sold the old chlst o’ draws, hev ye?” queried Lilton, with his knife, well laden with greasy cabbage, on the way to his mouth. “Better’n that!” said Mrs. Lilton, exultantly. “I’ve let the place I” “What!” «‘l’ve—let—the—place I ’ 'reiterated the old woman, with great distinctness and some asperity. “To a very nice young lady with two little Bisters, as is thinking of growing roses and carnations for a New York florist, And here’s the fivst month’s : rent, so there shan’t be no backin’ out of the bargain on either side,”

and a gold half-eagle on the table beside her. i Simeon Lilton jumped from his ■ chair and cast down his knife and fork in a sort of desperation. “Well, I am beat!” shouted he. . “I’ve let the place, too, to a young feller from New York. And here’s my first month’s rent—fifteen dollars I” “What’s his name?” said Elvira. ’ “I’m blessed if I know! What’s hers?” “It’s a Miss—or a Mrs. Dailey—or I Bailey—or some sich—l can’t jes’ recolleck which.” “Elviry,” gasped the old man, > “you are the biggest fool out!” “No wuss’n yourself,” retorted his wife. “Thar never was no business goin’,” said Lilton, with slow emphasis, “but what a woman would be sartin to get her finger into.” “Simeon,” said his wife, “ain’t 1 you and me been tryin’ our level best to get this ’ere farm let, so we can get to Hebron?” , Lilton gloomily nodded. ; “Who says we hain’t?” “And I’ve let it.” “So’ve I!” “What time did your feller give you the month’s rent?” “The clock in the glove factory was jest a-strikin’ ’leven.” “An’ 'twas ’leven to a second by the hall clock here when Miss—Miss —what’s her name? — signed this paper!” groaned Mrs. Lilton. “Simeon, what be we to do ? They can’t hang nor fine us, nor nothin,’ can they, for lettin’ the farm to two people at once ? ” “N—no ,1 don’t believe they can do that,” hesitated Simeon. “But it’s blamed awkward, that’s what it is.” “Couldn’t we write to him there’s been a mistake ?” wistfully questioned Mrs. Lilton. “Where be we towrite to ?” “It’s just like a man,” satirically observed the old woman, “to manage things after that looseended fashion!” “I don’t know as you’ve done much better,” growled Simeon. “Well, well, Elviry, don’t fret. Let them folks as has hired the place do the frettin’ now. P’raps they’ll find some way outen the tangle. It don’t make no difference to me. Whichever of ’em backs out. I’ll refund the money. Ther’ shan’t no one say that Simeon Lilton ain’t done the square thing by ’em. “But day arter to-morrow’s the first o’ May!” screamed the old woman. ••well, what then? I can’t set the almanac back, ken I? There’ll be jest time to pack our trunks, so fur’s I see, My man, he hired the pony, an’ Old Crum pie-horn, too.” “So did Miss—Miss Ralley, or Whalley, or whatever it was 1” Simeon chuckled. “It’s kind o’ queer, ain’t it?” said he. “I only hope,” croaked his wife, “that we ain’t rendered ourselves amenable to the law.” “Get out !” said Simeon. “Women don’t know nothin’ about law.” The first of May was an ideal spring day, and before the sun had mounted above the eastern crest of old Blue Mountain, the furniture van stood before the Lilton farmhouse, and two little girls danced merrily around, picking golden dandelions out of the green grass of the door yard and listening to the whistle of the bluebirds, while a pretty young girl in black superintended the unloading of chairs and bird eages, boxes of books and carefully strapped trunks. At the stile that guarded the entrance to the woods, the children met a tall young man carrying a valise and a package of umbrellas. “Why, Kitty Dallas!” cried he; “what are you and Flo doing here?’ “We’ve come to live in the country,” said Kitty, triumphantly. “Sister Alice is tired of living in a flat where the people down stairs grumbled every time we ran across the floor. And this is such a lovely place, with a brook and a lot of apple trees. But, Mr. Pindar, how came you here?” “So we are to be neighbors I” said Mr. Philip Pindar, with an aspect of great satisfaction. “I have rented a house close by, where I can work at my occupation in peace and quiet from old Madam Mesally’s piano and Pierre Hall’s cornet playing. Why, hello, she’s here!” He walked into the farmhouse porch with the little girls trotting at his heels. “Alice, Alice,” they cried, jdyfully, “here’s Mr. Pindar!” The pretty girl in black came to the door. Mrs. Simeon Lilton flattened herself behind the fanlights, eyeing Simeon, who pretended to be busy nailing up his last chest of old blue-edged crockery. “So pleased to see you, Mr. Pindar 1” said Alice, in the pretty, gracious way of a born chatelaine. “Welcome to Glen Farm, our new home!” “Why,” exclaimed Mr. Philip Pindar, ‘ ‘l’ve rented this house for a year! Haven’t I, Mr. Lilton?” “There must be some mistake,” said Alice, suddenly growing grave. “This good woman here—” “Settle it between yourselves,” said Lilton, hammering noisily away. “I dunno’s I’ve any particular choice between you.” “But,” gasped Alice, “there’s all our worldly goods at the door I And —and we’ve nowhere else to go. And I did hire the house, last week, and I’ve paid down a month’s rent in advance.” “Precisely what I did,” said Mr. Pindar. Little Flo crowded into the front rank here, with her dimpled face all interest. “But,” stammered she, “it’s a big house—that is, there’s a lot of dear,

» eupboardy little rooms In it. And there’s only three of us and one of ) Mr. Pindar. Why couldn’t we all I live together?” For an instant silence prevailed. Then Alice turned away, her face ; all a glow of scarlet blushes, mufrmuri ing some incomprehensible sentence. ■ But Mr. Pindar appreciated his advantage and seized the opportunity with instantaneous quickness. i “Well, why not?” said he, catching hold of Alice’s hand before she • could withdraw it. “I’m willing, if you are, Alice—only, of course, there’ll have to be a wedding first.” “A wedding! a wedding!” Flo and Kitty whirled ecstatically i around the grass plot at the very sound of the word. “You know riove you, Alice! You ■ have known it this long time. Only i for this little darling's lucky speech, I might have lacked courage to plead ; my cause so promptly. Our tastes are similar, or we never should have i coincided in selecting this lovely little bit of Elysium to dwell in. Say yes, Alice 1 Or I’ll be contented even if you don’t say no!” “It's so—very —strange!” hesitated Miss Dallas. Pindar turned smilingly around to the little ones. “It’s all right, children,” said he. “She hasn’t said no! My good friend,” to Simeon Lilton, who had stopped hammering at last, “will you be so good as to furnish me with the address of the nearest clergyman?” -r*-:-“I didn’t fairly know,” said Simeon, afterward, “but that them folks was goin’ to pay the rent double. But they didn’t!” “It’s the romantickest thing I ever heerd on!” said Mrs. Lilton, wiping her eyes. “If I knowed anybody that wrifr for the papers, I’d tell them the hull story.?’ “Don’t be a fool, old woman!” said Simeon. But he, too, was whistling “Love’s Young Dream,” under his breath. The little children frolicked around, picking buttercups and making friends with the cat and the dog. But Mr. and Mrs. Pindar were very quiet in the purple twilight of the May day. Their hearts were too full for words. —[Saturday Night. HOW TO TREAT SPRAINS. A “Strang Man" Gives Some Valuable Information. Athletes in all branches of sport are more or less liable in competitions or in training to suffer from over exertion, producing severe sprains of the cords and sinews. Unless properly attended to at once, these injuries often cause weeks and months of pain and suffering, and sometimes result in permanent injury. People generally do not know that the simplest treatment in these cases is the best. I recently talked with Professor Attila, the strong man, now located in this city, and he told me of his personal experience with sprains during his professional career, extending over a period of twenty years. Without doubt the professor is one of the real bona fide strong men of the world. He is a veritable Hercules in strength, and has a record of public performances second to none. He it was who brought out Sandow, and to the latter was due an accident which gave Attila the knowledge of the proper treatment of strains of the fibres of the biceps. The accident in question happened in Europe, while Attila and Sandow were performing together. It resulted in the breaking of a number of cords of the biceps and the severe straining of others, causing the entire arm to turn black, and producing great pain. There was no outward wound, and the eminent physicians and surgeons of the Continent were puzzled over the proper course of treatment to pursue. Finally Attila left the professors in despair, and, at his own suggestion, the injured part was wound about with a firm, soft cloth. The first day after the cloth was put on he was able to lift with the injured arm a two-pound dumbell. The second day he raised a three pound weight. He kept increasing the weight daily until he could raise the fifty pound bell. Then he knew he had mastered the injury. In a comparatively short time the wound had healed, and Attila, strange to say, was stronger than ever in this arm. In cases of strains of cords in the wrist Attila says the injured part should be tightly bandaged and twice a day held under a faucet, allowing cold water to fall on it from a height of two or three feet. This produces a natural steaming, very beneficial. In a short time an improvement is noticed under this course of treatment. Where the tissues of the muscles of the leg are strained the only treatment necessary is very simple. Bandage the injured part tightly and exercise it daily, a little at first. if allowed to remain inactive the injury grows worse in all cases, The straining of the muscles of the back is best treated by applications, of liniment and judicious use of electric treatment. —[New York Herald. Rapid Growth of Redwood Trees. We have evidence ip California that Bedwood trees cut down sixty years ago have made sprouts which are new trees from three to five feet in diameter, and from one. hundred to one hundred and fifty feet high. It is the rapid growth of some of these trees which leads people to doubt their great age, but there seems to be no reason for doubting that the method of calculating by annual rings of wood is sound, and that the great age imputed to some of these trees has solid ground work to build on.—[Meehan’s Monthly.

—ramoraMSWT J .. II > TREE-CLIMBING CRAM. 1 Four Foot in Dlamotor and Creek ■ Cocoa nuts with Their Clews. When the naturalists of California have completed their collection of ’ sharks and sea-serpents, British Co- | lumbia has a curiosity to present for | inspection which they will find fully ♦ as worthy of their scentlfic attention. The specimen or specimens, for there.' 1 are two of them, is still alive, and although not yet inured to the chill of northern latitudes, enjoying a fair measure of good health. “It” is a giant member of the crab family, dark green in color, and measuring, upward of four feet in diameter, the! largest crab that ever crossed a torridr sand or climbed a cocoanut tree, and I rejoicing in a number of names, of | which the “robber crab” is the most* familiar and lirgos latro the scientific. Strange to say, neither the secured nor any or their kind ever been known to enter the water. They belong to the purely land or tree-climbing family, nd worthy representative of which has yet found its way into the British Museum, and which are so rare that that institug tion has entered a heavy bid for on< or both of those captured. The mu seum authorities will send a man all the way from London to take posj session if the present owners decide to sell. The crabs were brought here b the schooner Norma, cocoanut lade from Fanning and Washingto islands, which is now discharging h» cargo. They were secured on Pa myra Islands, in the South Pacifi and as yet have developed no da gerous propensities, though quitwilling to give exhibitions of thei strength, breaking broom-handle and such toys as if they wereplp« stems. It would be the simples thing in the world for them to crus a man’s leg or arm in a similar wa*. but, fortunately, they are slow t anger or to action, and take life 6 . lazily that any one can get out ( r harm’s way on seeing danger ahea< One cocoanut a day serves as a mea the nut being cracked as if it werer egg, and the kernel slowly devour? In appearance the crabs remind c of nothing so much as overgrown t exaggerated spiders with abnorma developed bodies and a wonder wealth of legs. Captain F. D. Wai. and his sons are very proud of thi captives, which they assert are rare birds of paradise. Five years ago, he Captain Walk with his wife and family and sei or eight others, were shipwreckedf a small sand island belonging to,( Midway group, where they subsist for fourteen months on sea bi? eggs, and fish. They had started! from Honolulu on the bark Wan< ing Minstrel on a shark hunting* pedition, and, after passing thr® the various islands to the soutl the Hawaiian group, sought prei tion from a typhoon near Midi Island. Their ship dragged I anchor and ran on the reef. The ct numbering twenty-nine all toldf caped in the boats to the lanfl miles distant. The bark was brw up so badly that nothing was sr from her, and as the island waqj inhabited and away out of the Aj of shipping, their position wajF reverse of enviable. Six of the pi after being several months in thi left in a small boat to seek help have never since been heard of. of those remaining succumbe< fore chance brought the N along to rescue the survivors. $ passage to Yokohama with the wrecked party the skipper 01, Norma died, and when port reached Captain Walker purci the vessel. The record of the adventures i Walker family on their desert ■ would read as a second edits “Robinson Crusoe.” The tota of their domain was not more ■ thousand acres; it contained m no eatable fruit or vegetable—* ing but a spring of water,yi stunted bushes, and sand, j was at the highest point a rufl which United States surveyor, at one time erected, aud, whie paired with ropes and wre< formed the homestead. The: and, in fact, only reliable art; diet was seabird—the “goopi sea fowl of the Pacific. Thi served in every style known t< monico and a few more. Or twice turtles sought the sjiore, may safely be said they we; come visitors. Twice did tht wrecked ones attempt to build selves frail vessels of driftwoo< which they hoped to return to zation, but just as they wer pleted sudden storms made wi the weary labor of months. Francisco Examiner. He Didn't Mind It. J. & A New York policeman ■ two ago, as he was patrol beat, saw a couple of men em a fight. He drew near to,;j them as fast as comported a official dignity, and before » them, was horrified to seeong gouge out the other’s es| rolled into the gutter. Th* man forgot his dignity 1 shouting toward them, whi took the alarm and stajrtedj away. He managed to catch x * a who had dug out the other’s leading him around the coa| upon the other, who was eK replacing his lost optic. S demanded an injured party said that it ▼ eye, and that the loss of i. hurt him at all. The disy* cer let them both go about t' I ness.—[New Orleans Plcayu j I