Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1894 — Page 7

■tv Jknwcriit 9 IND ' U'rtPEß are now made of paper. 9 newspapers should bo better 9>theis for the purpose. |H ’ CL'. 9 en thußlastic person Is seldom a Don’t admire anything; 9* l°o k as though you hare bet--9 home. Hter a woman has taken care of 9 man, and remained cheerful in Hos all his vagaries, she Is tit for He Ohio Dairy and Food Commissi announces that much of the Hey sold in Ohio is impure. Fie H to have been analyzing a few H punches. H some of the so-called savage Hries, as soon as a man becomes Hden to himself or others, he is Hut of the way. In those counH a man of forty is compelled to H ver ? straight, or get killed. »■■■■ ■Chinese naval officer about to Hosea to tight for his country and Reign sold his ship’s best gun and Hos the ammunition. He was Hiuch of a patriot to give Japan a Hee to get her hands on those valHs have beard children complain Biking their “crazy bone,” and ■hat it hurt terribly. Children ■ have one crazy bone, but their Hits have lots of them, and people Hlways hitting them, and hurtEheir feelings. ■ n ' ■New York man returned home Hr an absence of twenty-three E and his wife promptly slammed Bloor in his face. He ought to ■ expected it Wives must draw ■me somewhere, and no husband Hid stay out as late as that ■n expedition has just set out to ■ the globe and gather curiosities B the Columbian Museum. As a Bestion, one certain peacock Bier, three-eyed, and one yellow ■et, greased abaft by the notable ■ail of Li Hung Chang, would be Bed with Interest and well worth ■price of admission. ■he work of a thoroughly proIsive farmer, says an exchange, ludes not only agriculture proper, ■ stock raisiug and horticulture. Is fact by itself is enough to show lithe faimer should be a liberally bated man. it requires a good I of knowledge to handle properly the things that come under these dings. ome idea of Japan’s present undering may be inferred from the dement that if the battle of Ping ig could be repeated every day h a loss of 10,000 Chinese soldiers, irould require sixteen years to dise of China’s fighting force of Its, and by that time several lions of pew soldiers would ba dy to take up arms. Cwo gentlemen have brought suit Inst the Kaiser on the ground t the title and .estate that -have some associated with him really ong to them. A third gentleman, o has equal claim with the plains, prefers not to join them as he i a profitable skating rink to suintend. a circumstance that shows least one member of the family to compos metis. Phe absence of fear of death which such a striking characteristic of e Chinese nature has a logical exination. The Chinese are taught at only those who face death fearsly enter’ into happiness in the ler world.' Foreigners who have tnessed executions in China bear these that, as the executioner with reword mows down the kneeling aks, the convicts invariably meet ath with a Jest. The work of persuading the dlffert tribes in the Indian Territory to aept the allotment system proceeds twly and under difficult conditions, a the probability is that compulwill have to be adopted the case. Certainly the time has me when the ownership of large dies of lands in common by the Inins should be discontinued, and bile sentiment will not much longtolerate such a drawback to the terests ofjClvilization. The paradise of tips, writes a visits Carlsbad. It is estimated that t less than a million marks iqust paid during the season in the estionable shape of gratuities to liters and others, which do not apar in any bill. Everybody who es you any service in Carlsbad looks r his or her “trinkgeld" before you part. The waiter gets upon an erage from six to ten florins. The ilden who serves you with water at fiE&Vttl .. • ■ a-.’-.-v'sL it-*.- S .

the firunnen expects and usually re* ceives three the postman gets a florin. Folding beds are evidently not clearly understood across the water. A writer in a London print thinks something remarkable is being described when the story of Patti's “bedrooms without beds” is "No one oversees a bed in any of'the bedrooms at Mme. Patti’s Craig-y-Nos Castle until the evening, and what might be taken to be a bandsome wardrobe with a mirror was really a bedstead. The housemaids, after making the bed in the morning, touch a spring, and the bed sinks down into the frame of the bedstead, and is drawn up so as to give it the appearance of a wardrobe.” Lovers of the mysterious have now before them a hew article, known as “manicology." All they have to do is to dispatch a pair of old gloves—and a few postage stamps—to the manicologist, and this enterprising gentleman will help them to know “where they are.” Your manicologist is a clever fellow. He claims that after gloves have got thoroughly “set” to the shape of the hands, they become documents bear Ing witness to their wearer’s character, disposition, and “prospects in life”—documents written in a sort of universal and yet mysterious language, with which only the manicologist is acquainted. Pity the infelicities of a Philadelphia coupie, once faithful lovers, now torn asunder by a disagreement over what was at one time their pet passion of bidding. The husband wearied of the wheel and decided to roam on the merry bicycle no more; but his wife did not share his sentiments, and one day - she rode so far that she concluded never to go back. Hence a suit for divorce in which a letter from the wife .was introduced as evidence, containing the cutting statement that “she got more comfort'and satisfaction from her wheel, which was young and frisky, then she derived by being tied down to his side.” Surely after that the poor husband ought to have been quite willing to let her go. It will probobly fall to somebody, in due time, to write upon the philosophy of caricature, with estimate of its effects upon modern civilization. Looking at one of these, just now, we are led to Inquire as to the manner in which the persons pilloried in this way “take,their medicine,” and as to its effect upon their moral (and political) health. Os course results general in character are reached in a process of individual ones, and the point is, how far the dread of this kind of personal scarification may make public men careful of their sayings and doings, and so in time give us effects even revolutionary in character. We cannot credit the authors of caricatures with purposes phenomenally far-seeing and beneficent; yet who can tell if the artist in such cases may not. be building a good deal better than he knows? Dr. R. F. Horton, a popular London preacher and author, takes a hopeful view of the religious situation. We find him quoted as strongly endorsing in a recent lecture "the theory that society is shaped by religion, and that the better the religion the more perfect the society. In spite of appearances to the contrary he believed” his audience “would indeed misjudge the society in which they lived if they concluded that it is less religious then it wai fifty years ago. Undoubtedly, a smaller proportion of the population are regular attendants at places of worship, but they had to consider what notions are influencing the men who do not go to church. They bad to observe how the people of this country [England] choose by preference as their leaders in trade disputes and in political movements religious men. He maintained that we are not less influenced, but more than dur fathers were. And the society in which we are living is tending every day to be more impatient of the irreligious religion, and. more impatient for a religion which is truly re. ligious.” • . • A Forged Note. The first recorded Instance of the forgery of a Bank of England note has a singular touch of romance about it. The forger was a linen draper at Stafford, named Vaughan, who, in the year 1758, employed several workmen,to engrave different parts of a £2O note, and when a dozen had been printed off he deposited them with a young lady to whom he was engaged to be married as a proof of his wealth; but the imposition was discovered, and Vaughan was hanged. Hereafter. One American tribe believed that at death the soul had to pass over to the other world on floats made of cobwebs. On this account the spider was held in high veneration, it being accounted a highly dangerous act to kill or injure one.

CURFEW-TIDE. *' The long day closes." The thrushes sing in every tree; The shadows long and longer grew, Broad sunbeams lie athwart the lea; The oxen low; Round roof and tower the swallows slide; And slowly, slowly sinks the sun. At curfew-tide, When day is done. Sweet sleep, the night-time's fairest child O’er all the world her pinions spreads; Each flower, beneath her influence mild, Fresh fragrance sheds; The owls, on silent wings and wide, Steal from the woodlands, one by one, At curfew-tide, When day is done. No more the clanging rookery rings With voice of many a noisy bird; The startled wood dove’s clattering wings No more are heard; With sound like whispers faintly sighed, Soft breezes through the tree tops run, r At curfew-tide. When day is done. So may it be when life is spent, When ne’er another sun can rise, Nor light one other joy present To dying eyes; Then softly may the spirit glide To realms of rest, disturbed by none, At curfew-tide, When day is done. [Chambers’ Journal. B Wen piaiciiee Pali. A sunny morning in June. The platform crowded—cheap-trippers for Southsea, heavy swells and belles for the links at Hayling Island, with bags of golf sticks. The yachting man, strongly in evidence, sunburnt and puffing a cigarette vigorously. If he is a new hand —a Dickey Sam —he wears a cloth-peaked cap with club burgee, a well-cut coat of serge or pilot cloth, bristling with bronze buttons, loose flannel continuations and white shoes. No man was ever so much a seadog as the yachting tyro looks. The other sailiftg jnen, those to the manner born—“ swagger squadron men," who can fly the white ensign, are dressed in long, lean, frock coats, loose trousers, turned up, pointed boots, immaculate collars and glossy hats —the aim of the man who has lived is to look as much like a stockbroker as possible. Os course, down at the Castle or on Ryde pier they will blossom into a seasonable crop of buttons and burgees and display remarkable activity in dodging that tyrant of the deep—the sailing master —if the water looks a bit choppy. Two people attracted a lot of attention by their palpable effort at concealment. He, although the day was so hot, was enveloped in a long cloak, with a collar reaching past his ears, and his cotton-white hair and mustache showed up occasionally in strong contrast to the deep brown of his face as he turned to watch the porters attacking a huge mound of his belongings. Each box and bag was emblazoned with an imperial coronet over a monogram, and they told one another guardedly and under promise of profound secrecy, ‘ ‘that was Prince Paul Demtoff, the owner of the new 100rater now lying off Southampton.” She, the lady, was tall and gracefully girl-like. A neat, natty blue serge Redfern frock; a sunburnt straw hat, with a dark blue ribbon; tiny tanned boots; a white shirt, with a turndown collar, and flowing tie completed her costume, saving a thick gossamer veil that completely hid her face, and but for the whiteness and purity of her neck it would h/ve seemed she suffered from some facial disfigurement. It was evidently a desire not to be recognized that led to th# adoption of the yashmak. u She was Evidently expecting or avoiding some friends. Her head moved with a| bird-like quickness as she scanned each new arrival on the platform, and her slender hand, white and jewelless, twitched nervously round the handle of the morocco monogramed case she carried. Catching her eye from a distance, he walked toward her with the easy, firm self-assurance that women like. She saw he was coming to her and waited calmly—perhaps she breathed more quickly. He raised his soft hat, and with a courtly bow said in perfect English, with the mere scent of an accent: “Pardon me, you are distressed. Have you missed your maid 1 Can I be of any service to you?” Now his hat was off he appeared a prematurely white-haired man of forty-five or fifty, with a firm face and voice—a man evidently used to command. “ Thank you very much,” came in a soft, sibilant voice from beneath the thick gossamer. “I have not quite lost my maid,, but my portmanteau. I am afraid it is under the pil© of luggage, and ” —with a little shrug—- “ I am afraid that pile of luggage is yours.” “ That is mine, madam. I will get your bag at once. May I ask where you are going? To Southampton, and it is of the highest importance you should not miss this train? Pardon, do not trouble; I will see that all is arranged.” A few words to the guard, a rapid passage of backsheesh, and the missing bag with a dainty monogram and small crest, was placed carefully on the rack of the first-class carriage by which the veiled lady was standing. With the coolness that seemed part of his nature, the Russian indicated to a porter a small hamper, and had it placed in the same compartment. There must have been some collusion; and a lavish tip, for, although ths train was crowded, the

guazd, after the imperceptible manner of his kind, kept that carriage empty until the train started and they found themselves alone, securely locked In. A sudden start. ran through her slender frame. She paused, and asked quickly: "Do you know when the next /train leaves Waterloo for Southampton?” ' He was desolated. Os course, she missed her maid, but he was afraid not for some hours. "Madame isglad? Madame is afraid of baing followed?” “Yes, madatne is glad. She does not wish to be taken back and forced into a hateful marriage,” blushing prettily. The old, old story—stern father, elderly lover, titled, rich but horrid. No mother, no sister, no brother. She was flying from bondage to her aunt, Lady Azuregore, in Guernsey. Yes, she was Lady Constance Azuregore. Had he really met her at the Duchess of Arlington’s dance? She thought she knew his face. That was why she trusted him so implicitly on the platform of course. But if she was veiled,, why was he so shrouded in a big cloak? “Come, now,” anxiously, “a lady? An elopement?” No, no, and again no! Nothing so joyous. He was Prince Paul Demtoff, and had fallen between two stools —had incurred the enmity of the Imperial Court through coquetting with the Nihilists. That meant the Alexiefsky Ravelin or the fortress of Peter and Paul fn St. Petersburg, and, on the other hand, finding the “party of progress” going too far, he was threatened with death for deserting the red flag. “You must pardon me, Prince, but we seem in trouble together,” and she laughed merrily. “Do you know, I half thought you were a detective?” By this time he had returned to his hamper and produced deftly a table cloth, plates, knives, forks and serviettes, a small bottle of Chateau Mouton Rothschild and a dainty cold ehicken. Their mutual confessions had lessened embarrassment, and the lady, after making a little moue, said that she was so hungry and so glad to oat, etc. They chatted and laughed as the train sped through the beautiful country, and by the time Southampton was thought of he had kissed her hand. She readjusted her veil, and he assumed his big cloak with a sigh as the whistle of the train signaled the station.

“The Guernsey boat does not leave till midnight. What are you going to do? Where will you put up? ” “I don’t know. I t igill never be taken back alive. And you? You are hunted. What will you do ? ” “Go on board my yacht. She is lying off here, and the gig waits for this train at the landing steps. I must hail them, as none of them know me. My agent has engaged an entirely new crew, skipper included, all English. I want no Nihilists on board.” And he looked moodily out of the window. She made a sudden movement, as if about to speak, but drew back. Again she leaned forward, and the repetition roused him from his thoughts. He looked up and saw her eyes glistening even through the thick veil. She was crying! “ What is the matter? You are frightened. Can I help you ?” “I hardly dare ask you. You may think badly of me, but I will not be forced into this detestable marriage. Canyon —may I ” He divined her thoughts. “Stay on board my yacht and board the boat at midnight ? Yes, your ladyship, yes—in all honor, yes.” And he held out both hands, and with a sob almost hysterical she placed her tiny gloves in them and the train stopped. They left the station by a side door unnoticed, and walking down the broad, graveled road with the soft sward and the old-time cannon, passed the crumbling wallsand found the boat manned by six bronzed,typical yachtsmen, the skipper, a fine looking old man, sitting motionless in the stern sheets holding the yoke lines. * “Do you know a respectable woman who can look after this lady until the mail boat starts?” asked the Prinde, as he handed her carefully on board and passed her portmanteau. She carried the morocco case herself. “Well, surr, I’ve took the liberty of invitun’ my old woman on board to-day. She has been a stewardess, surr.” “Capital, captain, Now, lads, give way!” The boat soon shot alongside a beautiful schooner yacht, Tko crew manned the gangway as the Prince and Lady Constance came on board, and a motherly, sunburned woman courtsied her through an exquisitely furnished saloon cabin into a bijou boudoir with a lace curtained bunk and a host of feminine fripperies. “I may sail to-night. Is all ready? Right. Take the boat and go ashore, bring dff my baggage and anything we may want from the ship’s stores. And Johnson, keep the men afloat, but you just find out if there is any hue and cry about a lady eloping.” Captain Johnson, an qld merchant captain, slowly winked and looked very knowingly. “H’m!” himself, “I half s’spected as much. That’s the sort of owner I likes to sail with; Lots ’o yellow boys kickin’ about this voyage, J lay.” In about an hour he. returned, and doffing his peaked cap said mysteriously: “I spoke to my cousin, the pleeceman an’ he says there’s a lot o’ cockney detectives down a-watch-,in’ the station an’ the Guernsey packet for some young ’ooman. ” Her ladyship had washed all travel

stains away and changed her frock. She looked like a fresh rosebud, but her face grew deathly pale, her eyes dilated, and the nerve lines deepened into marks of agony when he told her the captain’s story. He thought she was going to faint and made as though to catch her. With a supreme effort she regained her self-possession and said in a hoarse whisper: “Oh, save me 1 Take me to Guernsey in your yacht, or I will jump overboard I” He turned on his heel without replying and went up the companionway on deck. “Johnson, your wife doesn’t mind a trip to sea?” “Bless Your Royal 'lness, she’s dying for a sniff of the ocean 1” "Get under weigh at once.” “Aye, aye, sir! All hands on deck 1 Tumble up, my hearties I” Lady Constance’s face flushed deeply when she heard the clank of the chain pump and the flapping of the foresail, and she thanked the Prince with both hands and a sweet smile. Under a good southwesterly breeze the yacht spun almost merrily, throwing the foam in long, beautiful, fea-ther-like curves from her clipper stern. The lady stood dreamily against the side ropes, and the Prince, an experienced sailor evidently, took the tiller and threaded the way carefully through the crowd of craft. For a time neither spoke; then abruptly giving the management to the appreciatively critical skipper, he beckoned her into the cabin. “I will land you at Guernsey tomorrow morning,” he said, “but I have been deceiving you. lam not Prince Paul Demtoff. lam his valet. I* have robbed him of 1,000,000 roubles, and am now going to the Argentine in his yacht,” and he stood up rigidly and faced her. She smiled and said calmly: “Very good I Take me with you. lam not Lady Constance Azuregore. I am her maid,but I’ve got her jewel-case.” —[London Million. CLEANED BY DIVERS. Removing the Barnacles from ■ Warship's Bottom. A United States cruiser in active service requires almost as much burnishing to keep her trim as does a silk hat. It isn’t the brasses and metal work around her decks that cause the chief anxiety. It is her bottom. That fouls particularly in Southern seas, and it is necessary to dock her and clean away the barnacles. But docks are not always at hand. Lieutenant-Commander Sebree, in discussing this question in the United States Naval Institute, describes for the first time the scheme worked by the United States ship Baltimore during the Chilian trouble. She was not docked for eleven months, and during eight months of that time she was in Chiliamand Peruvian waters. The Baltimbre, having been docked at Toulon,, in February, 1891, sailed for\Chili. Within four or five months after arriving in Chili she began to lose speed on account of a foul bottom.

There were in the crew two seamen gunners, who had qualified as divers in the torpedo school at Newport, besides Peter Hanley, the gunner, Who had also taken the course. It was decided to clean the bottom of the Baltimore by sending down divers. An iron ladder was let down from a launch alongside the Baltimore, and for use under the ship a wide Jacob’s ladder 5 was made on board. While cleaning the bottom the diver was always on this ladder, between it and the ship. He would stand, sit, or lie down on the ladder, as happened to be most convenient. The divers used scrapers made of hard wood in the shape of a broad chisel. They were about four inches wide and eight inches long, with the handle end rounded down. The diver chose the man who attended to the life line. Besides this man who attended the line, four other men were in the launch, Two of them worked the pumps, and the other two attended to the bow and stern lines of the launch. The divers were limited to five hours’ work a day, and they got $1 an hour in addition to their regular pay. The time taken to clean the bottom once and to clean one-third of it a second time was two months. The work was done under adverse circumstances in the harbor of Valparaiso, where frequently a sea would stop the work. The barnacles on the bottom of the Baltimore the first time that she was cleaned averaged two and three-quar-ter inches in length. Some of them were more than three inches long. They were often in clusters, so that they extended six inches or more from the ship’s bottom. After the bottom was cleaned, the gunner made an inspection, and reported that tho cleaning was well done. Lieutenant-Commander Sebree says, that in his opinion a vessel can be kept practically clean and suffer no serious loss of speed for at least a year by the use of her divers at a cost of S6OO for labor, and about S6OO for the pump.—[New York Sun. A Remarkable Grindstone. The most remarkable grindstone on earth is owned by J. J. Patterson, of Hawesville, Ky. It has been in use on his farm since 1859. It was made from stone on his farm; {it is used by the entire neighborhood and wears with the times. In good times it sheds its grit liberally, but in hard times it becomes as flint. This year tho sparks from it have put out the eye of a Ijoy who was turning it and set fire to a pile of straw fourteen feet from it.—[Atlanta Constitution %

HARNESSING NIAGARA. Utilizing 7 the Great Cataract's Water- Power. Engineers have estimated that the total water-power of Niagara Falls is seven million horse-power. This estimate, to be sure, is in the main only a guess, but when the area drained into the lakes above Lake Ontario, and passing through the Niagara River be considered, the guess or estimate does not iieern to be too large. The water surface of the Great Lakes above Ontario is 84,000 square miles, and the watershed of these lakes is 240,000 square 1 miles —more than twice the area of Great Britain and Ireland. The total length of shore-line is 5,000 miles, while the volume of water is 6,000 cubic miles, of which Lake Superior contains almost one-half. The rate of outflow at Buffalo is from 217,000 to 275,000 cubic feet per second, while the fall of the cataract is 165 feet. The volume of water in the lakes is such that it has been estimated that even if no rain fell the flow of the river would be continued at its present rate for one hundred years—that is, if the lakes could be gradually drained. These are very large figures, but in the main they are the result of exact measurements. The small water-powers in the world ajre uneven, and are affected by floods and droughts, but this great power at Niagara is as constant as anything in this world can be, not even the ice in the severest and longest winter ever known appreciably changing it. The present plant is intended only to utilize 125,000 horse-power, and the turbines now in place are only for a small part of this. Other turbine wheels will be put in place as the demand for the power grows. The general plan of the company contemplates the ultimate use of 450,000 horse-power on the American side and a like amount in Canada. Such a power would turn all the wheels within a radius of five hundred miles of the Falls. At the present time a considerable part of the power developed is to be taken to Buffalo by electric transmission, aqd it is the confident expectation of the electricians now at work on the problem that the power can be taken as . far east as Albany, three hundred miles away, and delivered there cheaper than power can be generated by burning coal. If this be so, then all the country between Albany and the Falls will be admirably adapted for manufacturing, while the Erie canal will afford cheap and tolerably quick transportation, for there seems to be little difficulty in the way of hauling these boats by electrical power.—[Harper’s Weekly,

May Die by Proxy. The steamship Sikh sailing for the Onent the other day, from Port Townsend, Wash., carried away three Chinese who are in a peculiar predicament. They left China at the beginning of the trouble with Japan, landed at Victoria and made their way across the Continent, attempting an entrance into New York. They were captured and ordered deported, being brought to Port Townsend in charge of three marshals, at a cost of $3,000. The penalty of desertion in China is death, so that when they arrive in Hong Kong they will be sentenced to death. This fact prompted several local humanitarians to . interest themselves in the case with the result of developing the remarkable fact that though sentence of death be passed the culprit need not necessarily die. Fear of death is conspicuously absent among Chinese, and only in the case of the better classes who appreciate the stigma is any attempt made to avert that fate. This is easily accomplished by furnishing a substitute, usually a coolie, who for a small pecuniary payment, and time in which to spend the same, will willingly take the place of the condemned man. . As the three Chinese are all well provided with money it is more than likely they will suffer death by proxy. A Tai* of Horror from Italy. The following authentic news comes from Italy : A short time ago the musician Carinolo, of Catania, cruelly butchered not less than twen-ty-four children to saturate the ground with their blood, thereby to discover hidden treasure. The fiend was hunted down, but became violently insane, and died in a lunatic asylum. The horrible occurrence has just been repeated. During the last few days twenty children had been kidnapped out of the town of Cibali and Santa Sofia, and were later on found dead —the bodies having been cut open—in the woods near by. At the same time the parents of the victims received anonymous letters, asking them not to take the matter to heart, as by means of the blood of the children a vast treasure would be found, out of \Vhich they were to be amply indemnified. So far the perpetrator or perpetrators of the horrible deed remain undiscovered.— [New York Press. Queer Chinese Saying*. When the Chinese wish to describe a person who pretends to be very brave and makes great parade in order to show his courage, they say that “he is cutting off a hen’s head with a battle-axe.” A coward who boasts of hi 3 courage they call a “paper tiger.” They compare a person who pretends to be what he is not, to a fox who tries to look as noble and strong as a tiger. If a person is ignorant of books,they will say, “Turn him upside down, but not a drop of ink will seme out of him.”