Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1894 — Page 5

fche democrat ■ DJKCjKTTJR, IND. y. BLACKBURN, . . . Priaim H You are right about asking the ■l ord to take care of you at night if you are going to sleep in 'a folding ■ An English writer describes Poe ■and Emerson, “the one as the artist Inf the beautiful, and the other as ■that of the true." ■ A Kentucky woman claims she ■was married while she was asleep. ■That’s all right. There is nothing ■like marriage to open one’s eyes. I Visitors to the Mammoth Cave of ■ Kentucky are less than they were ten ■ years ago, although the cave has been ■ explored to a depth of eleven milea I A whilom distinguished and now I extinguished gentleman from KenI tucky is the latest proof that a man I may lose many opportunities by takI Ing a fool advantage of one. I That baseball umpire who comImitted suicide was undoubtedly I driven to his fate by the fear that he I would sooner or later encounter the I Chicago club in the performance of I his offiicial duties. I What a tragedy was that of the I three poor little children who perlished in a wardrobe closet in a box ■ car in a Connecticut depot yard, ■ where they had gone to play. Like ■ Glnevra of the old legend, in her ■trunk, they were suffocated! I Rev. Clement W. Lewis of TenInesseee has retired from the pulpit ■for a vacation of twenty-eight years. ■During this period he will have time Ito refiect upon the futility of trying Ito Jay up treasure in heaven while ■working fraudulent pension schemes ■of a decidly earthy flavor. I Somebody has discovered that the I law in Massachusetts permits girls to ■ marry at the age of 12 years. Striking variance between the law and the ■facts is shown by the census figures, ■which report that something like 1200,000 girls in Massachusetts have ■failed to get married at all. I It has been computed that about ■26,000,000 babies are born into the ■world each year. It will probably ■startle a good many persons to find, lonj the authority of a well-known Istatistican, that, could the infants of la year be ranged in a line in cradles, ■the cradles would extend round the ■globe. I Human bones are much cheaper ■than those of many other animals. ba 7 a n)jely articulated skeleton of a gorilla costs $300; fff ith whale, 1150; of an elephant, 5400; of a Hon, $75; of a horse, S7O; of a cat, sl2, and of a python, $75. The Russian courts have reversed the previously receive! legal assumption that when a husband and wife are drowned in the same disaster,the wife dies first. The Russian doctors have testified unanimously that the man would be the first to die, because the woman is more agile and keeps herself longer above water. In fact* she is the hardest kicker. Twenty-four-carat gold is all gold; twenty-two-carat gold has twenty-two parts of gold, one of silver, and one of copper; eighteen-carat gold has eighteen parts of pure gold and t hree parts of silver and copper In its composition; twelve-carat gold Is half gold, the remainder being made up of three and one-half parts of silver and seven and one-half parts of copper. -1 If you cannot spend SI,OOO a week in adveitising spend SSOO. If you eonnot spend so much spend $100; and if your business will not allow more than $lO to be so invested spend that. Seed will grow just as well when bought In 5-cent packages as when bought in bushels. Remember that novelty is the great charm of advertising. Originality is what the world sighs for. I A woman is to be made crier for the United States Courts at Portland, Ore , thus displacing one more man. it is remarkable that this province of man has not been before invaded by woman. The developement of the feminine voice in the hundreds of years that it has been calling Johnny and Jimmy to “come straight into this house" must have rendered it highly useful in the business of a court, ______________ Buffalo Bill’s romantic story shout the young woman he has been backing in a theatrical venture needs to be accompanied by an affidavit to be of real value for advertising purpose* He says that be found her on

tiiie plains a babe, the sole survivor of a murdered band of emigrants. She says that he found her in London, full grown. With this apparent discrepancy adjusted the young woman will be ready to star. The way in which the criminal law seeks to meet the common enemy of humanity seems to be improving all the time. When a man in New Jersey “stands charged that he is under serious danger of murdering" a man who has > een dead for six weeks, it will be realized that justice gives premise of regaining her eyesight, if from no other cause than wonder. New Jersey law always has been something different._ English paper manufacturers now acknowledge the superiority of American ground wood pulp over that produced in Scandinavia. One prominent manufacturer is quoted by an English exchange as saving that the American article Is better because tbe.wood is ground longitudinally, instead of across the log, as is the case with most Swedish pulps, and because nothing but spruce wood is used in the manufacture. People are growing tiled of the false logic of criminals and the specious pleas of lawyer* It has been considered horrible by many people to hang a lunatic. But Inasmuch as the doctors are persuading us that everybody is more or less crazy, and that all criminals have “hereditary lesions" in the brain impelling them toward drunkenness, arson, r murder, let us overcome our horror of banging crazy people. Let us hang a few of them, in order to see what effect it has on the rest. New York’s constitutional convention has declared against the $5,000 limit of damages which may be collected from a railroad for killing a human being. This declaration does the delegates and the State of New York more credit than any other action which has marked the sessions of the convention. Now let all the other States in whose statutebooks that iniquitous $5,000 limitation has place follow the example of the Empire State, which in this case is worthy of the position she claims at the head of the column of American commonwealths. Madeline Pollard will not go on the stage after all. This latest report is said to have come from her manager, who gives as the reason for (her withdrawal that provincial managers refused to permit her to play in their theaters. If such is the case and the laxity of preparations makes it probable, the provincial managers should receive credit for a great service to the drama. It is the popular idea that managers of country theaters will accept whatever is proffered them, an idea which ~ dSfefessia-jmemed to share The unfortunate Chicago mTn wfio] committed suicide to get rid of the torturj of a carbuncle must have been employing the ancient method for curing that affliction—namely, poulticing and coddling it in order tn keep the scourge alive as long as possible Had he known the scientific method, instead of the grandmother’s —namely, touching it with a tiny drop of carbolic acid—he might have been rid of the pest in a day and survived to render hl's life useful to others, if not tolerable to himself. If Job had only known the properties of carbolic acid he would have made a much more cheerful contribution to the scriptures. William Shinn of Chicago, arrested for the larceny of a new suit of store clothes, claimed that he stole the garments because bls sweetheart made fun of his shabby attire and he wanted to dress better to please her. Mr. Shinn and his story supply convincing evidence of the evolution of man toward the standard fixed by the idealists. Had he lived 6,000 years ago and found himself in a similar predicament he would unquestionably have claimed that the woman stole the clothes and gave them to him. Although he still charges her with responsibility for his crime be does not accuse her of being a gu Ity participant. Truly the world moves and proud man gradually approaches that lofty plane which it was intended by nature he should occupy and adorn. Carried tn a Cane. An inventor has produced an electric cane lamp. The handle of the cane contains an incandescent lamp, the two poles of which are connected with the plates of a battery. Below this is a small chamber to carry the battery fluid. When it is desired to use the lamp the cap is taken off and the cane inclined so that the liquid it contains comes in contact with the electrodes. A current Is thus produced that will, it is asserted, keep the light going for an hour. Those that least fear death are the last to seek iu

REST. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, Wethank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gode there be, . That no life lives forever. That men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere Safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light; Nor sound of waters shaken. Nor any sound of sight; Nor wintry leaves nor vernal, Nor days nor things dismal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night. —[Swinburne. miss piliiart’s Pet. “Well, we’re off, Miss Millard. What shall I bring you—since you won’t have my heart?’’ he added in a lower tone. With the eyes of the whole party upon her, she coull. only laugh and answer: “Bring me a baby tiger, Lieut. Nugent. They say they're as tame and pretty as kittens, and I would like so unique a pet.” “Unique,” growled old Col. Price; “unique! And some day your pretty kitten will make a meal of you, and your friends will have to put the kitten in the coffin to be sure of interring you. Umph!” “First catch your hare, you know,” putin a third flannel-shirted, top-booted individual, looking to the loading of his rifle. “It isn’t as easy as picking gooseberries, capturing a tiger cub. You are most likely to be a gooseberry yourself, or with the berry added later when the mother gets through paying her delicate attentions to your carcass.” “Oh, well if you are afraid, lieutenant,” pouted Miss Millard, turning her head away from the handsome eyes fixed upon her. The hot blood rose to the young man’s cheek and his look of passionate admiration changed to one of pride and brightened to indignation. “You shall have the kitten, Miss Millard,” he said, quietly, “if there is one to be found,” and joined the party setting out for the jungle in search of big game. “How could you be so foolish, Imogene ?” said Mrs. Price, lying back lazily in her hammock, shielded from the glare of the brazen Indian sky by a giant jujube tree, which also extended the shelter of its leaves to Imogene in her wicker chair. “Leonard Nugent is just the boy to risk his life to gratify your caprice.” “0h,.n0, he.isn’t, cousin Harriet; he’s too matter of fact, and thinks too milch of himself to endanger even his comfort for me or any other woman,” answered the girl, carelessly stripping a long blade of grass between her white fingers. “Now, that is where you are mistaken, Imogene. Under Leonard’s quiet, self-contained manner lie courage and devotion that would put to shame those pink and white officers of the Fifteenth and Twenty-second that flutter about you.” 1 “Well, I am too sleepy to argue it outwifhyou, ’’returned Imogene,closing her blue eyes with a. provoking Jroop of her pretty mouth. ones. along the nullah whence she would be to run into the very jaws of death, for the male, missing her, will follow from the lair.” - * “ It’s all nonsense, anyhow, Nugent,” said the Colonel, gruffly, “to risk your life for a woman’s whim, and ten to one Imogene will have forgotten all about the thing before we even get home.” “No matter; lam going to trace the way the tigress took to the drinking place, and secure the’cub if I can. Will you come with me? or, if you prefer going on, Mohammed Din here will be sufficient.” “Os course we are going with you if you persist,” returned Franklin, the third man, and the Colonel, shrugging his shoulders, left the coolies to carry home the tigress which he had just shot, and plunged deeper into the jungle after Nugent and the old tiger hunter, who with Franklin, were beating down the long grass before them. “We must be neat the place, sahib,” whispered Mahommed Din after several hours’ slow march along the banks of the little nullah, now dry, but covered with a wilderness of vegetation that tore at their garments, scratched their skin, and brought many muttered blessings from the Colonel. “I have found it easy to trail her to this point, but here she must have turned.” He bent to examine the bowed bush before him, and as he did so a long body like a flash of yellow light launched itself through the air, only clearing his naked back by a few inches. It was the male, furipus presumably at the absence of its mate and at the crying of its cubs, and, missing the native, flung itself upon Nugent, who, surprised at the suddenness of the attack, was borne backward and to the earth with the tawny shape stretched at full length upon him and feeling with its gaping mouth for his throat. A groan of horror broke from his friends, and the Colonel, throwing down his rifle, ran beside the two forms. But, though his right arm was pinned beneath by his own weight and that of the tiger, Nugent managed to draw his revolver from Ills Belt, and as the animal seized his arm in its mouth, pulled the trigger, : and the shot went ploughing its wsy into the big cat’s brain. Nugent t roße, dizzy and sick, when his friends

had pulled the tiger’s body off him, and It was found that his right arm was broken, while the left was torn by the teeth that had closed upon it just as the animal died. But the young man did not (.orget what had brought him hither, and at his bidding Mohammed Din began to search the ground for some signs of the lair where the cubs were hidden. Freed now from the fears of ‘the parents, the Colonel and Franklin joined in the hunt, while Nugent pursued Xho trail along the nullah to find, if possible, the water ho was beginning to crave. All at on -.e he ran into a mass of ruins where an ancient temple had once stood when this wilderness was once a peopled plain, and, seating himself upon the fallen lintel of a door, rested for a moment and as he did so there came creeping about his feet two pretiy yellow striped kittens, rubbing themselves against his boots, and purring aloud. But no domesticated pussy cat these, knowing nothing of cream, prtd fireside, but real children of the jungle with flame in their veins and eyes. The other hunters came running at Nugent’s call, and Mohammed Din begging one of the cubs, it was given him to sell to the English agent of a menagerie, while the other was tied and placed in a basket to be conferred on the young lady rash enough to covet him. “It is well,” said Mohammed Din, looking about him, “ that we killed the old tigress first, or we would have that on our track than which fire is no worse. But it may be that we have found the cubs of another pair, so let us haste.” “Oh, the darling!” cried Miss Imogene, as Nugent put the cub into her arms, and stroking the yellow body which flashed itself about and seized her hahd in its mouth, but the teeth were yet only white pearls, and the clawS only a cunning pretense of such, and so Miss Millard laughed and hugged her pet. ‘ ‘But you are wounded,” she said, looking at her lover with her soft eyes pitiful with sympathy and her lips quivering as she gently touched the impromtu bandages on his arm. As the Colonel broke out with the story Nugent watched her face flush and pale alternately with admiration and terror for him, his soul was lifted up above the pain that he was suffering and which made the surgeon, Whitelaw, send him early to bed, whence lie went to dream of his sweetheart. “ It shall sleep in my room, where I can feed it during the night if it is hungry,” said Imogene, tucking her “ kitten ” under her arm, and balancing a saucer of milk in the other hand. Mrs, Price followed her with her-eyes faintly uneasy. “Hadn’t you better leave it with the servants, Imogene, for a few nights at least, until it gets accustomed to you ? ” she remonstrated, but the girl shook her wilful head. “No, we are going to be friends from the first, aren’t we, Kitty ?” she answered, speaking to the soft, tawny ball nestling to her, and proceeding to make the little animal comfortable in a box lined with cotton, taking at the same time precaution to secure it by placing a top of slats across the bed. How long the girl slept she did not know, but she opened her eyes just in time to see a large object obscure Alm light which the ..full moon was long bulk,, lighted by a- - orbs that burned like live coals in the semi-gloom, and this shape of dread leaped agilely into the room. Imogene held her breath, with a sickening serfse of physical terror on her, watching with fascinated, diluted eyes the form pacing the apartment with long, restless steps. Once it stopped and snuffed at the box wherein the cub lay, and the little creature wakening, hailed it with welcoming cry. Then began a struggle on the part of the mother and the confined cub for the latter’s liberty, but the box, a stout one, and weighted down by the cover, at which the tigress could only claw frantically, not lift, held firm, and the watcher from the bed shivered as she saw the tigress, growing more and more furious as she was baffled, swing her long tail from side to side, and, turning her glowing eyes upon the captor of her cub, leap towards her. Scarcely conscious of what she was doing, but obeying that instinct of preservation we all know, she flung herself out of the bed between the piece of furniture and the wall, and with inspired strength pushed the heavy article far enough to permit of her body slipping down to the floor. The tigress fell on the spot which she had just vacated with a low growl of fury, and she could hear the terrible claws as they tore the clothing of the bed to shreds, as the animal, finding her gone, still scented her recent presence. The girl tried to scream for help, but there seemed a band of iron around her throat, and she could only whisper out an appeal for her friends sleeping only a few yards from her, but as unconscious of her peril as if a thousand miles away. Fortunately the bed was of English manufacture, and reached within a foot and a half of the floor, just admitting of her lying benfeath it, and as the tigress, finding that her foe had not disappeared into the mattress, gave it up and began to sniff about the room in search of the missing enemy, and approaching the bed again, and discovering the trembling girl beneath, attempted to crawl under. she sou nd that th is wa s not tobe done. Crouching, then, close to the floor, she ran her long arms under the bed in the endeavor to draw the victim opt from her hiding place.

Repeatedly the claws would catch portions of the girl’s dress and the cloth would yield and rend from the sharp touch, and Imogene would clasp her hands tightly about the legs of the bed to keep from being drawn forth. Once she received a terrible scratch from one of the greedy paws on her arm, and was obliged to tear her dress for a bandage with which to bind the artery, which came so near being severed. The smell of this blood seemed to render the tigress furious, and she again and again would fling herself upon the bed, until the girl under it feared that the animal would bring the whole structure down upon her, when she w<»uld die of suffocation. At this point she was seized with an insane desire to laugh, and lay for minutes shaking with a ghastly sort of merriment, which she was only able to control by thinking, “Am I going mad?” and a vision of her friends coming in the morning to find her raving or imbecile, even if in her lunacy she did not rise and venture out into the room. Leonard Nugent awoke from a dream in which a tiger seated, in a priest’s garments, on the steps of a temple engaged in performing the marriage ceremony of himself and Imogene, was mingled with a vision of act ing the walls of the Price bungalow falling down, and lay for a moment or two trying to resume his slumbers when he became conscious that there was something shaking the house. He sat up, wondering if an earthquake could be producing the trembling, but presently the sound of a low, unnatural laugh in a woman’s voice broke qn his ear. Springing from his bed he dressed himrelf hastily, listening as he did so for any further intimation of what was going on, and then as the growl of a tiger like the rumble of faint thur der reached him he caught up his itfle and pistol, and ran out of his room. Whence had come the nois s? From Imogene’s apartment, which was next his own? As he flew to the door behind which his beloved lay in danger he struck his host’* with a loud fist, crying to him to arm himself and to follow. “What? What?” cried the Colonel after him, but there was no reply, for after a cry to Imogene to kno >? how things were with her, undeceiving no reply, Nugent put hit shoulder to the door and broke it id. There was a sudden spring at him, > howl of a captive wild creature, ar j the report of a gun. The tigress fell wounded unto death, but still able to roll towards her foe, snarling and game to the last. With one mighty failing effort she reared upon her hind limbs and would have leaped at his throat, but pistol in hand, Nugent discharged the weapon in her face and she fell backward, when he finished her by a ball through the bas e of her skull. But where is Imogene ? A hasty search failed to reveal her mangled body, as her lover, sick at heart, feared to come upon, but no answer came to his agonized calls for her and the mystery grew profound until Mrs. Price, wise in her knowledge of her sex, suggested from the door: “Look under the bed,” and the next moment Nugent, for all his wounded left arm, which was all he had at his service, the right being still in the sling, had dragged the bed from the wall and caught his unconscious -jCTftfljlJiqart to his breast. When she What is it?Sai'tTny and to utter a shrill shriek as he stumbled over the dead tigress, and there in the dark Imogene gave her lover the answer he wanted, and I’ve heard her say since that he could do a great deal of execution with one arm. The cub was shot the next day, and the Colonel glanced slyly at Imogene and said: “Well, Imogene, you don’t fancy a tiger kitten as much as you did, eh?” But Nugent, pressing her hand, whispered: “Os course, I’m sorry, darling, that you had the fright, but I’ll thank the cub all my life,” and to-day that little animal stuffed, occupies a prominent position in their drflwing-room.,while Mrs. Nugent tells the story with great pride. — [Toledo Blade. Visiting the Dead Sea. t From Jerusalem we had a thoroughly delightful trip of three days to Jericho, the Dead Sea and the Jordan. In the saddle most of the time, and under a blazing Syria sufl, the fatigue was certainly great; but the interest was far greater. It was good to be out among the mountains, stern and naked as they were, and to make the descent of nearly 4,001’ feet to the wilderness in which John the Baptist had preached and in which the Essene communities had wrought out sb many of the peaceful tenets of the gospel. As for the Dead Sea, it will, in contradiction of the name, forever preserve a green and living memory in my mind. No fish can survivb in it, we all know; but for a place for a swim, or above all, for a float, commend me to it beyond all the W&nepesaukees in the world. How it bears you up in its arms! How it annihilates the tiresome ponderosity and dignity of the laws of gravitation I How it introduces you into the inner consciousness of dainty Ariel and thistledown, and all other airy-fairy creatures! The more you weigh the less you weigh; there is the real hydrostatic paradox. An elephant in the Dead Sea would feel himself a gazelle. Then what.* mirror its steely surface was that morning, and how beautiful its reflections of the mountains of Palestine on one hand and of Moab on the other!—[Christian Register.

LAND OF<HE HAMMOCK. Brazilian Travelers Carry Their Own Paraphernalia. Brazil is emphatically the land of the hammock, and a Brazilian never goes anywhere without one, says a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. There is hardly a civilized bed to be found in the whole Amazonian region, for hammocks universally take their place. In all the hotels and private houses you will find stout ring-bolts fastened to the walls, but no beds of any sort. Travelers are expected to bring their sleeping paraphernalia and sling them on the ring-bofts, and in the morning to take up their beds and “walk,” like the man in the scriptures. Steaming along the great cho-colate-colored river day after day, you see hammocks suspended in every wayside hut, hammocks swung from trees on the banks, Indian women weaving hammocks —hammocks everywhere. Your fellow voyagers 101 l all day in their hammocks, swinging, chatting or “dreaming the happy hours away,” and most of them prefer the same airy beds on deck at night ,to retiring to their staterooms —often sleeping two in one hammock. On the lower decks, where the crew and the second-class passengers, black and white, men, women and children, are crowded together, the hammocks hang so thickly that it is impossible to walk between them,and in case of emergency—such, for instance, as going ashore in the night—you will be compelled to scoot under them, along with the dogs, pigs and monkeys that infest those lower regions. The omnipresent hammock seems to have been used in Brazil from earliest times, for Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage speaks of the “hammaces, or nets” in which the Indians slept. Nowadays, besides the more primitive palm fiber hammocks there are others made of flax, hemp or cotton, hand woven into fine, firm cloth, snow white, striped or plaided, often beautifully embroidered, and usually finished at the sides with deep fringe or netted lace. They cost all the way from $5 to S2OO, according to size and the amount of work they represent. If yotr’a/e squandering a fortune you may perhaps put some of it into one of those rare and beautiful hammocks made by the Indians away up the Rio Negro, into which the brilliant feathers of tropical birds are woven, to represent flowers and figures. They rival the celebrated feather cloaks of the Aztec emperors, but are seldom, seen outside of museums. The Eng' lish consul at Manao owns a very handsome one, for which he paid S7OO. Early in my Brazilian careei I was wise enough to invest SSO in one of these portable beds —a large square of white, lace-embroidered linen, warranted to “wear” for a lifetime —-and never have I derived so much satisfaction from the expenditure of an equal amount. It makes the cleanest as well as the coolest of beds,and can bejlaundered as easily as a sheet, its border answers for a mosquito bar, and when not in use it can be carried in ashawl stapalong with the kodac and other essentials. It requires considerable practice to learn to sleep comfortably in a hammock, but after you have acquired the Brazilian trick—of lying obliquely with your head in one corner and your feet diagonally opposite —you discover that hot, pillows are no more needed than feather beds. is one of the most"efpdNrßiwv- , ers in the country, and says that there is not a safe made that he cannot open without tools. He is not infrequently employed to open the refractory safes of the neighborhood. A few days ago he opened one that had a complex double combination, which the owner had lost control of. He worked at it five hours, but he afterward told another convict that ho had the job done in fifteen minutes, and only monkeyed with the safe to pass away the time and enjoy a taste of liberty.—[New Orleans Picayune. Killikinick Extinct. “Some years ago killikinick weed was extensively used mixed with tobacco,” said L. [E. Sanders, at the Burnet, “and tobaccos under that name are popular yet, but as a matter of fact the, plant itself is extinct. Several others are called by the same name, but the genuine original plant cannot now be found in the United States. In fact it is exceedingly doubtful if it ever was a plant, the best opinion seeming to be that the real herb is the inside bark of a young willow tree. It is certain that this gives the genuine flavor, but it is too expensive on account of its scarcity, and is used but little.” —[Cincinnati Enquirer. iThe Pottery Tree of Para. One of the curiosities of Brazil is a tree whose wood and hark contain so much silica that they are used by potters. Both wood and bark are burned and the ashes are pulverized and mixed in equal proportions with clay, producing a very superior ware. The tree grows to a height of 100 feet, but does not exceed a foot in diameter. The fresh bark cuts like sandstone and when dried is brittle • and hard. —[Demorest. WILLING TO DO HIS PART. “And you wish to be treated?” said the dentist. “No, begorrah,” replied Mr. Dolan. “You shtop the hurrut in this toot, an’ Oi’ll trate to anythin’ yez want.” —[Washington Star.