Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1894 — Page 8

©he democrat j DECATUR, IND. < M, blacks urn. - • - W”* How very seldom it Is you see a ' flat unhappy person. If you want to enjoy yourself, get 11 one doctor to tell how ignorant an- s other doctor is. The statement that the Vanderbilts have just purchased a 81,000 cat does not affect Editor Dana's composure in the least. <». stresses and an ■ overindulgence in strong drink have caused the suicide of an otherwise might Hew Yorker. Another victim of the stars and bars. As people grow older, the worse they look when they are asleep. In fact, no one past the tender age of three years, looks respectable when asleep _____ It is said that the city of St Paul was originally known as Pig’s Eye No doubt the citizens of Minneapolis believe this should have been changed to Whole Hog after its growth. George Gould has explained the financial depression again. As usual he ascribes it to the reluctance of the people to allow corporations to possess the earth. Mr. Gould’s consistency cannot be questioned, but his logic walks with a limp The declaration of the Department of Agriculture that the peach crop is a faillire Is monotonous and doesn’t amount to much anyway. The Government at Washington will hum along all right so long as the supply of prunes is equal to the requirements. Admiral Da Gama is reported to be incensed at the likelihood of being surrendered to the Brazilian Government. The Admiral is a man of judgment, and knows that the fame of being shot as a traitor is paintul in the acquiring, and only fleeting then. A Russian fights for empire, a Turk for faith, a Dutchman for pay, a Spaniard for jealousy, an Italian for revenge, a German for home, a Swiss for liberty, a Frenchman for glory, a Scotchman tor kin, an Englishman for trader an Irishman for fun, a Yankee for peace, and a fool tor nothing; An English scientist, after careful experiments, finds that when potatoes are cooked without removing the skins they lose only 3 per cent, of nutritive quality through extraction of-the juice. When the skins are removed before boiling the loss was 14 per tent, which makes the process of cooking the potatoes without their jacketsan exceedingly wasteful one. Twenty-six vagrants at Pomona, Cal., captured a train, and upon the engineer’s threat to turn the hose on them declared that if he did so they would kill him. The tramp does not object,particularly to kicks, and a whack more or less with a coupling pin does not distress him. But he knows his constitutional Tights and objects to the cruel and unusual punishment of water. A San Francisco inventor has perfected a machine which he calls the phonautograph, literally, “sound self-written.” It is expected to do away with the stenographer and typewri ter, but since it can spell only by sound it is not apparent why it should be a competitor with the large and industrious cl ass of stenographers and typewriters who are so accomplished in that now. What is needed is a machine that will enable the stenographer unconsciously to change phonetic spelling into that miracle of illiteracy, English orthography. A man Is a greater inventive genius than a woman, and putting him into the kitchen while his wife goes out to vote will have the effect of flooding the market with machines that will make work easy. In the years to come, it will be possible for a man to press an electric button that will set tbe cradle to rocking, the coffee mill to grinding, the fire to burning, etc. Man is no slouch at cooking when, he becomes reconciled to the fact that he has to do it. The kitchen needs an inventive genius to preside over it, and Mr. Man is that kina of a huckleberry. 1 . _ Mr. Turpin, the Inventor of the n w many-tubed mitrailleuse, assures the Paris papers that he could place it on tbe roof of the Grand Opera and wipe out Paris ip an hour. He asserts that be could obliterate an army In fifteen minutes, working his gun on a pitot and sweeping everv square foot [of the space in front. How asupplj of explosives is to be provided for thU "sap of fire" Is not

stated. The inventor admits that he requires a steamer or train to carry his ammunition. The practicability of the scheme is doubted by conservatl ve army men. Henry Vaughan of Chicago, who shot his former employer, Frederick F. Swain, made a serious mistake. He did the shooting because Swain had discharged him from his position as engineer on account of his neglect and Incompetency. Shooting Swain will not reinstate Vaughan. On the contrary, it is very likely to hang him. The precedent is a bad one anyway. If every man who lost a situation were to go gunning for the man who discharged him every town would soon have the appearance of a Fourth of July celebration or a .coal miners’ riot. This is not desirable, and the example set by Mr. Vaughan should not be followed. It is easier and better to hunt another job than to go around shooting people. Dead men can’t give out situations. See what women will lose if the word “male” is stricken from the State Constitution. They can bring no breach of promise suits, all husbands may abandon their wives and no support will be awarded by the courts; ali right of dower will fade away; there will be no difference in the causes of divorce of women and men, as now provided in the Code of Civil Procedure, and no civil or criminal consequences shall accrue. Thistle the program of a leading member of the Constitutional Convention. It is a sequence of woman suffrage, office holding . and participation in polititics. She m' ic ' c. iy.no exemption nor privilege not held |by man. In the new century, if she votes, she will be com: lied to iperform the same public de >as man. Thus It Is that female s rage’ places woman between the det and the (jeep sea if the propositloi oes through the convention to allow female voting with the penalties . ai hed. The most formidable competitor of American cotton manufacturers Is to be found in Japan. With wages 16 cents per day for men and eight cents a day for women the profits of cotton manufacturing in that country are enormous. Tbe New York Commercial Bulletin publishes some statistics showing tbe rapid growth of Japanese cotton manufacturing. In 1880 there were only four spinning . mills. By 1886 eleven more had been added, and in 1893 there were , twenty-three. Last year there were 360,000 spindles in Japan. By the end of this year these will have in creased to 750,000. The chief sac 1 tories are at Osaka. They art ■ equipped with electric lights, jand rut ) day and night, making two shifts o’ ! eleven hours each. Japanese im f i ports of raw cotton have increase! f - from 4,000,000 pounds eight year,! I ago to 140,900,000 pounds now l t Japan began exporting yarn-to Chins r two years ago, and will undoubted!:* supersede English cotton tures in the markets both of Indi: i and China. i 3 ~ J 3 The death of William Hart at bin , home in Mount Vernon, N. Y., rtf j moves one of the best known lane * scape painters from the field c* > American art. Mr. Hart was o’ * T' Scotch descent and began his caret . 1 as a carriage painter. It was, indeet ] j his bits of scenery painted on tt j panels of the Broadway stages thrfirst attracted public attention to hi 1 ' s talents. He rose rapidly in publi* s esteem and soon became the raj j 1 among buyers. His pictures we 0 o mostly small, and pretty landscape i- with cattle were his favorite su sb y jects, which he painted with remar 111 t able smoothness, tine color, and scr 1 ® e pulous nicety of detail. At one tin s they were found in every exhibit!! a - and were invariably the center in 1 popular attraction. He even eclips n< e bls brother, James Hart, who wsj s much the better artist of the tw ' 9 HlB art, however, was of a . whuch has well-nigh disappeared , these days of broad and bold han » s ling but in his time there were fun J American artists who achieved me r. t notable success. M _ ,dc t Amiable Humorists. ~ s The members of tbe so-called Th ? •, i teen clubs who show by act and we e , j their disregard or superstition, c ~ obtain some cheerful ideas from th 'jj 5 English cousins. In London > guests of the Thirteen Club decont ( ? their buttonholes with toy skelettj 3 and their shirt-fronts with green tl > A waiter breaks a dish as the sigr n } for dinner to be served, and gue pass under a ladder to the dinli r 6 room. Each guest finds -a cofl shaped salt-cellar and a skull at plate, together with a small mirrl 1 . 3 which he smashes to show that “ 3 has no fear of undergoing seven yet ’“J 3 bad luck In consequence. The m« a8( , is adorned with pictures of witefl1 bats, and black.cats, and the chj 1 J ’ man begins by spilling salt and i viiing the other diners to do ill 1 " 3 wise. Each toast is proposed bl it words, and each respons e o ' supposed to take up thirteen minui ai s Common sense is really unconuUj; tj sense. i /

OF KISSES. pt p a-singln’ in the taorngray, W lines in the furrow, an’ ibs into day; A: it the partin’—she’s the ing in life — T<l i my sweetheart, ’fore my was my wife. It dby kissin’—though it’s ity soon 1 A nake it last me ’till the tint to noon." A is sing: “He kissed her!” ds sing: “ So did we 1” VI rose comes a-climbin’ ds her kiss from me I 11 stands in the furrow, unin' eyes I shield A last I left her, as I ring laid; “ s a-ianghin’ at me; here’s -singin’ this: • kissed her, kissed her—e has stole the kins.” lie birds a-singln’ an’ ae so sweet, ]ll the grasses roun’ the ) at my feet, joks round’ a-wonderin’, ost seems to say: 'j a crop o’ kisses or ano’ hay?” v how to answer, for I’m 1’ I seem a-wakin’ from the midearn. o’ harness, with his mane ree, st stole her kisses—well, it and me! —[Southern Magazine. IsIIEOIIIES. et; must have good referA. D. Goodman, King’s ie advertisement which leveral London dailies. the same morning, a set man, with an exnose, showing that he ?h-liver in the servants’ 1 at the door of the »’s Road. A neatly atgirl, with a muslin cap er pretty features apthreshold. odman in?” asked the isponded the girl, with il glances at the man, 'ore her. ike to see him on busir was ushered into a room. tie shall I say?” r.” i sappeared. Then the » examine the apartment manner. Several handgs and quite a collection -brae bore ample testiartistic propensities of t the house. rell, evidently,” muran with the red face, appeared. rants to know what’s n reference to an advera valet.” e tossed her head and ad. About five minutes ;hen the girl entered the wait here,” she said, t up yet.” linutes the visitor was lections. some blooming sport,” bed. Then the door a tall, pale gentleman ■oom in a languid fashup the morning paper y scanned the contents, livious to the presence He read the telegraphic en the local. The serin a tray upon which Hast bacon, eggs, a cup rolls. The gentleman >se and said: ce away these dishes, •flee.” t obeyed. )ttte isn’t good to-day,” he) caller. The gentlehe coffee with apparent igain the cable article id finally lighted a cigar, e the visitor remained pectfully. At last he cough, and the gentle- ; to him, remarked : called about the advere your references ? ” ” and he took from his <y package. m’t care to see them.” ast the Duke of ” deuce do I care whom Will you accept a guinea xpenses?” ; we leave to-night for at everything is ready.” the gentleman took up ane, and strolled out of a leisurely, half-bored im un,” commented the later the gentleman servants were n Paris. The forced a magnificently fur--0 in a fashionable part Try as he would, Smiler little of his new master. 1 went. He usually ar2 in the morning, and miler had to put him to t up anywhere between nd noon. Sometimes he heartily; At other times J V* — Mlj-l C3»VI <1 ZkW

was comrrtissloned to buy tickets for every fashionable event from the opera to the races, and he always came and departed in a private carriage, quite an elegant equipage. About this time the Parisian newspapers were agitating the remarkable tests in spiritualism given before eminent gentlemen by a peasant woman in Milan. The psychological society was In session in the French capital and the comments on the feats performed in Italy were made more interesting by the presence of a renowned English mind reader. This gentleman great aptitude in ferreting out criminals, and his accuracy in this respect made him feared by the wrong doers. Mr. Smiler read of these wonders, but being of a skeptical disposition pooh-pooned them. One morning when the gentleman was sipping his coffee, he looked up from his paper and said to Smiler: “Markham, the mind reader, has run down another criminal, Smiler. What do you think of that?” “If I might venture an opinion, sir, I should say it was all bosh.” “All bosh, eh? May I ask why?” “Well, sir, it stands to reason, sfr, that no man can read what is going on in another man’s mind, It is against nature, and what’s against nature can’t be done, sir. My idea is, sir, that this man, this fraud, I will call him, sir, is in collusion with these fellows and pays ’em. That’s my impression, sir. Easiest thing to humbug these French savants, sir. A criminal, sir, can’t be detected except by detectives, and they make an awful botch of it, sir.” “So you don’t believe in it?’, The gentleman was now drinking his second cup of coffee. “That I don’t sir.” “Well, now, suppose that I give you a little practical demonstration.” Smiler started. “You, sir?” “Y'es; I've studied a little in that line as an amateur. Suppose, for example, I were to read your mind, Smiler.” “You couldn’t do it, sir.” “I should say you were a faithful, honest fellow, who always served his master’s interests.”

Smiler gave a deprecating gesture. “It wouldn’t take no mind reader to tell that, sir.” “But wouldn’t it take a mind reader to tell, Smiler, what you’ve got in your pocketbook?” Smiler turned pale. “As an amateur, Smiler, mind I don’t pretend to be accurate; I don’t say that if any one should look in that pocketbook he would find my ruby scarf-pin and my emerald and diamond ring.” Smiler nearly went into a fit. “Os course I have so many rings and pins that unless I was a mindreader I would never have missed these. And, let me see, Smiler, in your trunk you have three pairs of my trousers. Those would not be easily missed, either. Also about fifty neckties and collars and cuffs innumerable.” By this time Smiler was as pale as a ghost. “If I was to read your mind a little further as an amateur I' would tell you that on the 20th of September you went to a pawnshop on the Rue di Rivoli and there disposed of two seal rings and a watch, for which you received 500 francs. They cheated you, Smiler. You should have got double that amount. From there you went to a bank, like the thrifty, honest, frugal fellow that you are, and opened up an account. On the 2d of September with commendable industry you added to your little horde by disposing of my goldmounted stick, the one presented me by the Baron Rothschild. You carefully obliterated the names. I commend your caution. Four days afterward you sold, or rather pawned, sundry articles in four different places which I won’t take the time to enumerate. In all you have 1,500 francs in the bank and 20 francs in your pocket-book, together with other articles of mine which you were about to get rid of this morning. You have been quite thrifty, and inside of a month it was your intention to draw out your money and emigrate to America, where you are desirous of setting up in trade. This has been your dream, Smiler, the life of a prosperous and honest tradesman. Am I right, Smiler I If I have .made any mistakes attribute it to the fact that I am but an amateur.” But Smiler was speechless. “To continue, or rather to go back into the past, I read that you robbed all your masters before me, only they were not mind readers in an amateur way and attributed the loss of different things to natural shrinkage. When you first entered my apartments in King's Road your thoughts were regarding my worldly possessions. You saw much that made you sure I was a man of means. After I entered the room I was seemingly busy reading the newspaper. Really, Smiler, I was reading you. I did not want to see your references. They were superfluous. The man himself stood before me. There was the reference. I determined to make a little study of you. You interested me at once, for I recognized in you a thief of many years’ training, a thief who had pilfered for all his life and never been detected. Here, I thought, is a subject worthy of my attention; here is a case which will edify and amuse me. So I took you to my bosom, Smiler, and employed you oh the spot. As you stood there waiting for me to address you the thoughts that flashed through your mind were: ‘I can easily get away withone of those Dresden-wareyases. He has so many of them that he will never miss it. Then he must be a

I spendthrifts. He will come home Inebriated every night.' If a pin, a ring, a watch or some other article disappears he will think he lost it somewhere the night before. Here’s a swell that pays no attention to his personal effects. Ali he thinks of is having a jolly good time.’ Am I right,' Smiler?” But Smiler never relapsed from his collapsed condition. “You began to pilfer when you purchased the tickets to France. You made ten shillings on the tickets. You put aside for yourself five shillings from the purchases from the trunk maker. Do not deny it, for It is written indelibly on your mind. I took to you right away. ‘Here is a precious rascal,’ I thought. ‘Here’s a servant worth having.’ You will remember that I commended you for your faithfulness. And now, Smiler, do you believe in mind-reading? By the way, where are those pawn tickets, and kindly hand me your bankbook.” Smiler obeyed without a word. “And now it wouldn’t take a mindreader to tell what is going to happen.” The languid gentleman went to the door and ushered in two officers. Smiler fell upon his knees. “Mercy, mercy,” he said. “You corroborate all I have said,” remarked the gentleman, with mild interest. “Yes, yes, I confess. Don’t put me in jail.” “I am sorry,* Smiler, but I have finished with my subject. I now turn him over to the law. Officers, do your duty.” Very well, Mr. Markham,” replied one of the officers. “Markham,” groaned Sipiler. “The same,” replied the gentleman. “The great English mind-reader?” “I am he. I advertised not fora valet, but for a subject. I wanted to prove some of my theories to the society of savants here. You have proved a very good subject. I shall write out the results of my investigations to-night, and then if you care to have the law deal leniently with you, you will sign it. I will then read the paper before the society. My enemies will have to concede that my work is Incomparable. By the way, Smiler, have I converted you to a belief in mindreading?” “You have, sir,” groaned Smiler. “And now, officers, take him away, as I have a little work to do.” With that the languid gentleman turned and entered his study. Smiler straightened himself up dismally. “Well, I’m blowed,’/ he said.— Detroit Free Press.

GOOD PLOT FOR A NOVEL. Romantic Story of A Western Bank Deficiency. “The ‘author who proposes to write the real and only American novel may find a very fair plot in the story I am about to relate,” said Frank N. Harris of Chicago, at Willard’s. “Several years ago the people of a small western city began to wonder how the cashier of the leading bank could afford to live as well as he appeared to be doing. His salary, it is was very liberal, but his expenditures far exceeded it. He built himself a splendid residence, had his horses and carriages, and altogether conducted himself like a man who owned rather than worked for a bank. He had the confidence of the bank directors, however, and the rumors and gossip that reached their ears apparently had no effect upon them. The cashier was suddenly taken sick with a lingering malady, and lay in a barely conscious condition for twd or three months, when death finally claimed him. An examination of his books which followed his death showed an apparent deficiency in his accounts of over $85,000. His real friends were thunderstruck and would not believe the dead man had beert dishonest. His bondsmen, too, could not be convinced that he had iHade way with the funds of the bank but the books showed the shortage. While they were arranging to make the sum good the cashier’s widow came forward and presented the bank president with a check for the entire amount, telling him that she knew her husband had never taken a cent of the money, and that while she couldn’t understand the apparent proof of his dishonesty, she was sublimely confident that he died a good, upright man. No one knew either, where the widow had gotten such a very large sum of ready money. She continued to occupy the family home, and there was no change whatever in her mode of life, and the town was therefore confronted with a second mystery, as inexplicable 1 as the first. Four years after the death of the cashier the man who had been assistant cashier, and who had succeeded to the position when it was made vacant, also died. Before his death he that when his predecessor was os|en ill and had relapsed into a compose condition, whence the doctors said he could never recover, he himself had manipulated the books of the bank so as to show that the dead cashier was a defaulter, and had taken the money for his own uses. He left his property to the widow of the man whose memory he had so dishonored, and it then turned out that the former cashier had early in his career invested in western mining stock, and that the money he was spending so lavishly during his life, and from which his widow made good his apparent shortage after hie death, was the result of his wise foresight when hq was a mere bank clerk, Now, I th&k that’s a pretty good plot for a novel.7’.—| Washington

THE PRECIOUS STONES. Their Beauty and Rarity Is Duo to Their Crystallisation. The recent discovery of M. Molssan, In regard to the manufactifte of diamonds, and the studies of that kind to which a number of chemists have devoted themselves, have attracted general attention to precious stones. As M. D. Tassilly has stated, all of the precious stones, with their brilliant colors and fascinating sparkle, have as a basis one of the three following substances: Carbon, aluminum, silica. Whether it is a ruby, whose brilliant color dazzles the eye; a sapphire, more sombre, varying from pale to dark blue, and appearing almost black in the light; an emerald, of incomparable tenderness; and finally, whether it is the garnet, topaz, opal, or the diamond itself, we always find, as the fundamental substance, one of these three elements. In carbon, which we see .everywhere under the form of coal, coke, or charcoal; silica, with which the, streets are paved; and aluminum, which constitutes almost the entire part of that common substance, clay, behcJd the three tools with which Nature has created the precious stones. The only difference between these last and the three substances of which they are composed Is in their structure. The precious stones are crystallized. This is the reason of their beauty, their high price and their rarity. For this crystallization is not an easy thing. It demands the aid of many circumstances and among others that of time, time, time. The learned chemists have, indeed, succeeded in manufacturing crystals, and even the diamond; but M. Moissan has declared, it appears very doubtful whether any one will ever succeed in manufacturing diamonds the diameter of which will exceed four-tenths of a millimeter. Diamonds are generally colorless or tinted with yellow. They are found occasionally, however, In dark yellow, brown, green, rose, blue, etc. The diamond crystallizes in cubes, or forms derived from cubes, particularly the octahedron. Next to the diamond comes the corind, which is composed almost exclusively of aluminum. It cuts everything except the diamond, and is found in almost all colors. There are three varieties of the sapphire, the oriental, the indigo and the ordinary blue sapphire. The oriental ruby is very rare and more expensive than the diamond; for the mines in which it Was found have long since been lost. The yellow, green and violet corundum stones are commonly known under the names of topaz, emerald and amethyst, which are qualified as oriental. . The stones containing silica, which are called quartz or rock crystal, possess certain varieties which are considered very fine, as the amethyst, the Bohemian ruby, tbe occidental topaz, the cat’s-eye, etc. Finally, the stones having quartz as a basis are very numerous and very fine. Among these are the agate, the onyx and the chalcedony.—[Public Opinion. Birth of the American Flag. At No. 289 Arch street, Philadelphia, there stands a quaint old house, the ground floor of which is given over to the uses of a cigar store. This spot is especially interesting at this moment, for here was designed and made the first American flag—the emblem that to-day is saluted the world over as the standard of the United States. Before the Stars and Stripes all sorts of emblems were used. The idea of “Old Glory” was suggested by the coat of arms of George Washington, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ross was the fortunate lady from whose deft fingers came the first real American flag. The design was sketch 3d from a rough drawing made by Gen. Washington himself. The legally established emblem was adopted by Congress, June 14, 1777, and on January 18, 1794, the flag was changed by an act of Congress, which on account of the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union, provided for an emblem with fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, the original flag having of course, but thirteen stars and an equal number of stripes. Polson Oak and Poison ivy. The poison oak is properly the low form of the poison ivy, and both grow abundantly in the northern suburbs of New York. The one Is a high climber, while the other contents itself near the grounds. The two are difficult to distinguish, and are often perversely confused with 'the harmless and beautiful Virginia creeper. The two poisonous plants have their leaves In groups of three, while the leaf of the Virginia creeper is divided into five and sometimes more leaflets. The berry of the poison is white and waxy, and the autumn coloring of the leaf is very beautiful. Many persons handle the poisonous plants without ill effects. William Hamilton Gibson has written some rhymes to help his readers to distinguish between the harmless Virginia creeper and the other two. A simple way to remember the difference between the Virginia creeper and the poison ivy is. this: If the vine •has five leaves, corresponding to the five fingers of your hand, you may handle it; if it has only three leaves, you may not handle it.—[New York Sun. Thomas Paggott, who resides near Oddville, Harrison County, Ky., has I a mare that recently gave birth to twins—a mule and a horse colt.