Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1894 — Page 3

Business Directory. THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. CAPITAI 460.000 SURPLUS, 411.M0. Orirunived Atigunt lA. IHWI. Officer.:- P. W. Smith. Pro*.. l)ani*l Weldy •on, Atw't Cannier. Do a general banking buatnesa. Internet paid on time de|>o<|ta. Buy and Mli DoiivhLu and Foreign Exchange, County and City < trders. The OU Adams County Bank CAPITAL. 4130.000. FETA HUSHED. JK7I Officers:—W. 11. Niblick. In a.. O. stndabaker, Vlce-prea; itul'iia t,. i.iißou, Cashier. C. 8, Niblick, Aaa'i Cashier. Do a general banklntr busmen. Collections made lit all pn-tla of the conn y. County, City «nd TowimOo <.r-b nr bought. Foreign and Domestic E -mni»«bought and •old. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G, Hooper, Attorney at Law Decatur. Indiana. „ A. P. BICATTY. J. F. MANN. • MANN 6c BEATTY, _A.t t orn o y»-a.t -liaxv, And No ariee Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted. Office in Odd Fellows' Buidiltig. 4. T. FRANCK. J T. MERRYM AN. FRANCE A MERRYMAX. Attoi - n.eyß*at-Ijaw, Office:—Nos. 1. £ and 3. over the Adams Countv Bank. Collections a soecialtv. J. rt. 8080, MASTER COMMISSIONER AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Real Estate and Collections. R. K. ERWIN. Attornoy-at-Liaw, Room J and 2 Niblick & Tonnellier Block, Decatur. Indiana. "• *" HOLLOWAY, M. D. Officeand residence one door north of M. E. •hurch. Diseases of women and children a specialty. P. B. THOMAS, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Office over Burns’ harness shop, east side of Second Street. Decatur. Indiana. All calls promptly attended to in city or country night or day. ar. Cf. Krjsr’TUixriz:, DENTINT. Now located over Holtbouse's shoe store, is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold filling a specialty. By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. Work guaranteed. 0-0 TOH. M. ROMBERG For Your IjIVERY. Ths Best and most Reasonable Prices. Iltt MONEY TO LOAN On Farm property on long time. JXTo Commission. Ixjw rate of Interest. Faitlol T’n.yxaaioxx.ts. In anv amounts can be made at any time and stop interest. Call on or address. A. K. CRIBB or J. F. MANN, Office:—Odd Fellow's Building. — MERRYMAN’S FACTORY You can get ail kinds of Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Fiooring, Brackets, Moulding, Odd-sized Sash and Dobrs. In fact all kinds of building material made or furnished on short notice. Look Herel I am here to stay and can sell Obis aid Plains 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. CITFMILLS FLOUR sold at 30 cents small sack; 60 cents large sack, and $2.40 per barrel. Call at mill or at Jacob Yager & Co.’s. (125 ts Pan candies at the Peoples Bakery and Rnstaurant, three doors Sonth of Post Office. 46 ts

THE DEAD A XT QUEEN BHE HAD LIVED FOURTEEN YEARB AND HAD MANY COURTIERS. — ’ A Touching Beene at the House of Sir John Ltibb'xft —What Would Seem Trivial to ti.c Lay Mind riou. Matter to the Naturalist Interest! ig Facta About Anta. The wa to of 1 fe in an ordinary for--1 deary is grot.t Jlultitu(leß are continual ly perishing tieneath tho careless t ea:l of human b Ings and cattle. A man or woman can hardly walk tho garden without d. stroying many lives of busy creatures intent upon errandsof their daily life. Birds pick them up as • a delici.te morse Toads and serpents 1 uro fond cf a m- uu of living ants, and other creatures p- y upon them. Therefore it becomes necessary to recruit tho community day b day, and the number of recruits must exceed the daily waste , if the social power of tho family is not to bo diminished. No wonder, therefore, I that the fertile queen is a person of such consequence end so carefully guarded. ’ But it may be asked, Is she able to meet such demands upon her fecundity? Quito so. Tho number of eggs which an ordinary queen c.m lay in any one season amounts to many thousands, and the , possible capacity of a single queen no doubt reaches sc, ires of thousands of fertile eggs. I was permitt< dto note tho touching interest which 1 >cuses upon the queen of a formicary while Visiting Sir John ■ Lubbock one s .miner morning at his homo in London. Tins distinguished naturalist had succeeded in preserving two ant queens to a marvelous age, one of these having reached the vast antiquity of 14 years. This longevity was duo to tho careful protection extended 1 by Sir John and his attendants, for it is true of emmet herds as well as of domestic animals that they thrive under human protection. As I greeted Sir John on tho morning referred to, in response to an invitation to breakfast with him and some of bis friends, I inquired ■ at once about tho health of lais ancient queen i “Alas, doctor)! ’he cried, “Ihave sad news to tell you. My old queen is dead!” j “Dead!” I exclaimed. “This is sad ■ news indeed. When did she die?” “Only last night,” Was tho response, “and I have not yet told my wife about it, for I dare say she will feel as badly over the loss as, myself. ’ ’ Perhaps this may seem trivial to the ordinary lay mind, but to Sir John Lub- ; bock and tho writer it was a serious matter, for it ended one of the most interesting experiments as to the prolonged life of invertebrate creatures that the world has ever known. ’ “May I seo the queen?” I asked. “Yes: she is just here in the adjoining room. ’ ’ Turning aside from tho waiting com- ! pany of distinguished persons who were’ to sit down with, us at breakfast, w° went to see the dead queen. Shejay in one of the chambers, as I have described them, resting on her back, with her six legs turned upward and bent in the rigor of death. A crowd of courtiers surrounded her. Some were licking her. as though in loving care of her toilet. One would nip an antenna and another 1 a leg, and by various other solicitations ! sought to arouse her. Alas, there was j no respouse! It was curious and touching as well to watch their methods. “They have hot yet accepted the j fact,” said Sir ityhn, “that their queen ,j is really dead. Indeed I doubt if they : are fully persuaded thereof. They havej been surrounding her t hus aud trying to • get some respouse from her ever since ! she died ” ' So we left the royal deathroom. < Whether this interesting creature was taken by its kindly guardian and placed iu a collector’s bottle, or upon an entomological pin, or left for interment at the hands of her devoted courtiers, I ! never learned. But no one who wit- ' nessed that scene could doubt the strong , interest and affection with which the venerable queen ant was regarded by j her subjects. Speaking of interment, it may not be amiss to say that ants have a curious ' habit of carrying tho dead of their own community front the coniines of the formicary, depositing them together in a convenient spot outside the bounds. So far as I have observed, they do not treat the carcass of an alien ant in this way, but appear to show this mark of respect to those of their own community alone, j This is the basis of the popular notion that ants have cemeteries for the burial of their brotherhood. I have verified the fact to tho extent above stated, and the point opens an interesting field for 'larger and more active study by some enterprising lover of emmet life It has been said that the ant egg when dropped by the queen is seized by one of the attendants and carried away to the nurses. These receive it and place it in oue of the chambers along with others of its kind. In a little while the egg becomes a little white worm, or larva, , with a greedy appetite for sweets. It is as helpless as a human baby aud as dependent upon the care of adults. That care is not wanting. One can hardly fail to notice also the common characteristic of maternal fondness hi dealing with these baby ants. The nurses shift the little ones back and forth, from one position to another, aU far at least as a human being ogn judge, without having bettered the matter in the least. Seemingly they have only indulged the fancy of a mother to move about her baby just to gratify her own affections. They even appear to me at times to take the little things up and dandle them, after the | fashion of a young mother aud her first infant. However, all this may be bnt “anthropomorphism, ” a state of miud from which the observer, of social insects can scarcely ever wholly escape.— Rev. H. C. McCook in Northwestern Christian Advocate. If time is money, why can’t a man pay his barber with the time he spends waiting for his turn?

AN ITALIAN CHURCH. A HOUSE OF WORSHIP CALLED “CHURCH OF THE RAGPICKERS.” It In the Qmwsl Place of the Kind in New York aud Probably In the Country— 'there Hoi). and Jlaughten of Italy Combine Religion and UrGHnek*. Not many Now Yorkers have ever heard of the "Church of the Ragpickers.” In the neighborhood of Roosevelt street, where it is located, this is the familiar name of the Roman Catholic church of St. Joachim, of which Father Vincini is the pastor. The members are Italians exclusively, inhabitants of the densely populated district roundabout, and as sometof them are ragpickers aud have rented the lower half of the church for the storage of their goods tho nickname which designates tho church as tho peculiar place of worship of this class came into use. Years ago, when Roosevelt street was not so squalid and as overflowing with human beings as it is today, this church belonged to a Methodist Episcopal congregation. There were merchants, solid men of down town New York, living there, ami the neighborhood was eminently 1 respectable. Now the chilrch stands with a cheap lodging house pn one side and a typical slum grocery store on the other. A nest of tough saloons are near by, up and down the street. Organized in 1888, the Italian population thereabout* grew so rapidly within a radins of amile that the church has now one of the largest congregations in the city. The building is of brink and is dingy and dirty. It is only by standing across the street that you can see a small cross on the roof, the only thing about the edifice that suggests its religious character. Looking in on the first floor, you will witness a curious spectacle. The whole depth and breadth of the floor is filled with rags. Rags loose, rags in piles and rags in bales ready for shipping are all about. Big cranes and chains for hoisting purposes run here and there. Half buried in these piles of rags are men, women and children —the men and worn- ■ en busy assorting rags and the fat, brown youngsters tumbling about in play or sleeping, as the case may be. It is the biggest ragshop in this city. It is wholesale and retail in the sense that here the individual ragpickers} of the town dispose of their wares, which are assorted and baled and sold for manufacturing purposes. The pastor of St. Joachim’s rents this lower floor to the company that conducts this rag business at a good rental, and indeed were it not for that the mission would suffer. Italians are very practical about their religion, when they care for it at ail, and they are very slow at contributing to the support of the church and expect a good deal of religion for a very little money. The church proper is on the. floor over the rajpshpp, and this in itself gives an odd character to the services at times. On weekdays the men are at work in the basement when services are going on up stairs, and one can plainly hear them joining in the responses and chants during the celebration of the mass. While a reporter was there the other day one of .the ragpickers in the basement sang a hymn to the Virgin while the services i were going on. and his voice was of rare sweetness and purity. | At certain hours of the day laborers will come in, set their picks and shovels in a corner, and then join in the devotions. The peanut venders and fruit i stand keepers iu the neighborhood ali ways attend the services for at least a ! few minutes each day. Bootblacks wander in with boxes on their backs and say ; a few brief prayers, and the Italian population generally comes and goes. Six masses are said in St. Joachim's church every Sunday, and from 1,20 b to 1,500 persons attend every mass, so that some 9,000 or more people wor- , ship, in the little church every week, i Father Morilli, who established this mission, and who conducted it for ! years, has been sent to New England |to organize Italian churches there. His place has been taken by a younger priest,, Father Vincini. of parisa priest of St. Joachim's is that of a patriarch. Not only does he marry his parishioners, baptize their children and bury their dead, bvrt is their constant adviser in other matters. He settles their disputes of all sorts, frqm business differences to lovers’ quarrelsA i One trouble the priest has to contend wit h is the manner in which his charges get married. Coming from Italy, where civil nyirriages are the proper thing, the Italians believe that the same laws obtain here. As a result tileltalian quarter is filled with professional marriage brokers and matchmakers. They bring couples together for a fee, then steer them to the city hall, where two men have for years done a steady business securing aldermen to marry couples, in getting certificates for them and arranging all the details of city hall weddings. ''Father Vincini tries to impress upoa his people that he will marry them for nothing at all, but they still flock to the city hall. Some of them buy pictures of the building and send them to Italy so that their friends may see the palace in which they jvere married.— New York World. Villainous Assault. Owosso, Mich., Aug. 18. —Mrs. J-mies M. Curwood, one of the leading women of this city, was repeatedly assaulted at her home yesterday afternoon by a stout, handsome, well dressed stranger. She attempted to shoot the villain but he wrested the gun from her and after remaining iui liour he left her bound and senseless. If the man is caught his life will be in danger. Struck by a Tree Limb. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 18.—Miss Bettie Vickery was killed as several members of the family started to church. A hard wind storm tore a limb from a tree and dashed it against the young lady's head. She died a few minutes later.

■stri.il Mims. Brad.i!reel’s Report of the Probable i ; Effect of the Tariff Law. CHICAGO STRIKE INQUIRY. Mining Trouble* Amicably Settled In fill- • nola uni! Alabamn — Pcinwylvitnkl Cotton | Mill* JncreiiMe Kunning llotir* — Silk 1 and Tinplate Mill* In France and Wiilcn Other Dkpatchr*. New Yobk, Aug. 18. —Bradstreet’s I says today: Special telegraphic and 1 mail advices summarizing interviews / i with mon- than 5,000 leading wholesale j | dealers and manufacturers at 47 cities > throughout the counti’y as to the present effect, if any, of the prospective tariff i I settlement, and the outlook as to the I effect of the senate tariff bill should it p ' become a law, indicate relatively less i ’ enthu iasm at larger eastern centers, exI cept at Now York and Baltimore; al- - most un'forn satisfaction throughout ■ the soul hoi ii states, and similar ad* ices i from the central and northwestern j states, exe< pt where serious crop dam- ! age has taken place. In the far west little interest is manifested. A feature, is found in declarations i I from manufacturers of woolen goods, ‘ glassware, potterv and iron and steel at ! I various cent.-rs of production that wages will promptly Im- reduced. Inipirters of I woolens are -aid to have the market this fall, and clothing manufacturers, it is declared, should do a fair business.' Cotton merchants declare settlement of the tariff comes t<x> late to help them this fall, and lumber dealers speak regretfully of the reduction of duty in their fine. . The region west of Pennsylvania and east of the Mississippi river reports almost uniformly favorable trade conditions, with grains in demand and in industrial activity, exceptions being the Indiana and Illinois pottefy industries and among Indiana clothing manufacturers, who report that they- expect to reduce wages. Country merchants in the two states named have been buying heavily from Chicago jobbers, but that city’s trade from regions west of the Mississippi river has fallen off. I’ILLMAN PREACHER. Rents Should Have Been Reduced With Wages-Not an Anarchist. wardine. paster of the Pullman Methodist church, was the most interesting i witness lief ore the labor commission yesi .terday. His evidence consisted chiefly , ,of a history of the strike, which he declared would never have occurred had the Pullman company reduced rents when it reduced wages. The witness became indignant when asked if he was 1 an flnarchisf, denying it with emphasis. - Other witnesses were Roy M. Goodwin, a director of the A. R. U., who ■ said evils could be corrected by the Belli amy process; Pro'. ss.>r E. W. Bemis of the Chieago university, who urged a , national lx>ar<i oi . rbkration, and a num- ' ber of railroad employes who testified to ’ being now blacklisted by different roads 1 on recount of striking. ' _ A noticeable feature in the investiga--1 t ion is the absence of representatives of i the railroads or employes. The daily i Itudidhce is ju-1 large enough to fill every i seat in the rear of the room, but is com- . posed of labor representatives and their ft f ijeuds. I Silks aud Tinplate Abroad. 1 Lyons, Aug. is.—The silk market is ' tremendously active in view of the pass- - I age of the United States tariff bill. -Big ■ br.lers have been placed at Yokohama i for raw silk to be worked up for the United States. London. Aug. 18-.—Many tinplate works in South Wales, which have been closed for some time, are preparing to ( re.-unie work in of the passage of ( the tariff bill inJfcahington. Mills. Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 18.—Schroeder’s cotton mill, employing over 306. ’ hands, has given notice that it will comn.i nee running on full time Monday. For the.past several months it hastbeeu either closed or running only -f.inr days ■ a week. The Farnum mills, employing 1 over 2,000 hands, will continue running two-yhirds time until tin- end of this mouth and then run full. - Illinois Miners Come to Terms. Danville, Ills., Aug. is.—-The Danville and Grape Crei-k niiners, at- a mass meeting last evening, declared the strike off in the Danville district:. The Consolidated Coal company will pay the prices given before the strike.-. Vacation Rather Than MVike. Fail River, Mass., Aug. 18. —The Fiill River weavers last night voted (7s> to 184) not to strike. The senti- ■ -meat was that it was better to take a vacation iintil the market Should rise and the large amount of cloth on hand could be disposed of. No Longer Idle. Birmingham, Aug. 18.—Work has been resumed at the Pratt mini* and Bloeton, j giving 3,(XM) men employment-after four months' idleness on account of the strike. Copartnership of Outlaws. Muskogee, I. T., Aug, 18. —Reliable information says* the remnant of the Dalton and Cook gangs of outlaws have consolidated and number 12 persons. Caution is taken by railroads and banks to prevent raids. SIXTEEN TO ON E. Voter. Urged to M»ke the Double Standard the Paramount Issue. Washington, Aug. 18.—The American Bimetallic league adjourned after adopting a resolution recounting ills attributed to financial legislation and urging voters to make the double standard of 16 to 1 the isstte paramount to all other considerations iu -the election of state legislatures, congressmen and president. It is recommended that a conve.ntion'be held at some central,point in both the mining and agricultural states to perfect.? an organization to work for this end and that a committee, of five be appointed to carry ont the plan.

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For the Beat Bread, Pies aim Cakes Call at the C. & E. Bakery. j Bly Albert Sc'hvrger Prs>. FIBFAJIEn. There is no medicine that -h.a< given satisfaction equal to,_ t that< of Dr. Marshall's Lung Syrup. This Cough Syrup lulled , with delight fjjpm all parts ( >t? the world. J There can be nothing tlfat-bas sv> thoroughly, established itself in the minds and.hearts of jhe American people, every .daw- we- re- I ceive a hearty greeting a d wot i- ot praise from some one that has been .-used by tins marvelous remedy, If you should need medicine for your cough, all we, ask is a j trial and we ate .satisfied4haf-yt>u will use i no other. It is guaranteed n> cure. Price I ■25, 50 and 51.00.5-.SoId by ail dealtrs. a Boarding a‘ d hriding nt the Peoples Bakery and Restaurant. three doe)s South of Post Office'.’ io it Cure for BScadaehe. As a remedy ’.or all a ruw ot Headache Eectrie Hitters hasyro\td to Lenthe very best. It effects a'permanent cure and the j most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield | to'its influence. We urge all who are afflie , ted to procure a bottle, and give thh rem- | edy a fair trial. In eases ot habitual constipation Electric Bitters mires by giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few eases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it -once. Large bottles only Fifty cents at Blackburn A Miller's, successors to A. R. Pierce. Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the liver and kidneys, will remove pimples, boils, salt rheum and other affections caused by impure blood. Will drive malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all marial fevers. For cure of headache, constipation and indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price 50 and #I.OO per bottle at Blackburn & Miller's drug store, (successors to A. K. Pierce.) Try Whites Famous Home Made Bread at the Peoples Bakery and Restaurant, three doors South of the Post office. 45 ts ■ -p? ■. " •. , - .. ■■ ■

MARTHA WASHINGTON COOK-BOOK F£EE ’ • i 320 | f Ccoff- ILLUSTRATED. ! S ' e best Cw.rk-'-s i-i’:Ai:ed. It eonj W r. < I;.', s for all kinds IT I L --i’ yiedk-iue/hti- ■ ■: I T -it -t revip s. § ” I >- ••'•‘t’ f -r handy reter-OILE-D FREE. In Sxchan re 'for' 20 LAHGE L.IOM HEADS cut from Lien Coffee wrappers and a 2-cent Stains. \Ytor li- t oi; 'it-r Fin-'Pr-niiutns. V> o have i :.-;v vsiu.t '!«’ < Game, ; etc.. t-' ..is.' awn*. ' '.•■ntlfiu Picture Curd is in Three llarve-' Ex • m-im;.- Sept. 11. 2‘> ami Oct. 'J ;u ,pi .mi one i.ee for the round I trip will leave Clo>»r I.e.if Stations ter | various points in. K-an-: .•('ob.ritdo, Wyoui- , ins. Utah. Montan >. Xebt. -km Mi-sonri, I Tex. Arka:isa.',.lmlmii Te.r-tory. Ok ahi - ma, Tennessee. .V’--»ippi. Alabanu • . Louisiana amt portions of i-owa, Dakota ami Minnesota. Tbrotid’. ticket-at principal Clover I.eat stations. . Free .Reclining ChairCarsand Vestibme.l'S eepers. ( all on nearest agent or write, C. C. Jenkins, (1. P. A (»| $2.50 exetm-ion to Toledo and Famous Midway Plaisance. For .5:2$ a. m., 12:15p. m. trains of August .T the Clover Leaf will issue from Decatur only $2 50 excursion tickets to Toledo and return. Chijdretr half tare. August 20 to September 4 the Toledo excursion rate will be one fare for the rttuud trip. The great Fairs and Exposition Co . ajlof the frvorite attsactions of original Chicago Midway Plaisance with other special features added. Prices great ly reduced. See large bills. E. A. Wihxrey, TickefAgent, Decatur. (I. A. R. to Pittsburg. The Clover Leaf will issue one fare excursion tickets from all stations, via choice ot direct routes. Tickets on sale September sth to loth. Usual return limit. Call on nearest agent of address, C. U. Jenkms. G. I’. A., Toledo, Ohio. N. B.—Famous Midway Plaisance, - the original people at Toledo, August 20th to September 4th. dli:F2owhl-3