Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1895 — Page 6

RUB-mnssuT. Hons-' Peebles the Contest In Favor of the Republican. AGE OF CONSENT RAISED. J’roo.rdlng* of the Indian* L.gl»latnre Devoid of Special Interval Tealerday. Senator Haggard Introduce* a Ship Canal Bill—Brief Mention of the Other Bill* Introduced—State New*. Indianapolis, Feb. 12.—Yestordays’s session of the legislature was productive of just one important event, the seating of Miller, the Republican" contestant from the Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland district. The house spent the whole morning on bills on second reading and putting in minor amendments. No important discussion arose until the bill regulating the age of consent came up. After much discussion the bill was amended so as to place the figure at 18 years. It has heretofore been 14 years. It is now on the calendar for third reading. Miller Seated* In the afternoon the Miller-Bowers election contest came up on two reports j from the elections committee. The majority report declared Bowel's (Dem.), elected by one vote. The minority re- j port, signed by Messrs. Reynolds, Hunt j and Binckley, declared Miller (Rep. i elected by two votes. The minority re-1 port favored counting three ballots and ' throwing out a number of votes of poor- I house inmates. In this latter opinion they are backed by two rulings of the i United States court, which has twice ‘ decided that the inmate of a poorhouse 1 could not, by that fact, gain a residence in the precinct in which the poorhouse is located. Mr. Crozier, chairman of the committee, read a written speech of . some length in favor of the majority re- | port, and Mr. Reynolds spoke briefly j for the minority. No leSs than a dozen j other members spoke at length and the < matter occupied nearly all afternoon. ' The minority report, seating Miller, the I Republican contestor, was adopted by a vote of 45 to 43. Miller was sworn in at once. j Senate Proceedings. The senate's morning session was devoted to second readings and the intro- , Auction of new bills. Among these the j most important was a ship canal bill by j Senator Haggard, giving definite shape to and consolidating.liie movements for . a ship canal and the draining of the Kankhkee swamps, The idea is to build a canal from the Wabash river to lake , Michigan, which shall intercept the Kankakee river. The bill creates a commission of three members to look into the project and peportno the governor • not later than September 1896 and ap- 1 propriates $2,500. The commissioners are authorized to employ a competent : civil engineer and make an inspection. I Other bills were ir.tifxluced as follows; To prohibit the sale of pernicious liter- 1 ature; to protect persons who have Wn , injured and have recovered damages, therefor: to provide a uniform mode of transacting township business; to tfcgu- . late foreign insurance companies; to amend the charter of Vernon; to regulate fees of county officers; to regulate foreign insurance companies. This fee I bill was introduced by Senator Crauor . and puts all county officer's on fees, giv- j ingno salary. It seeks to avoid con-j structiou fees by specifically naming all I the duties to be performed and naming | specific fees thgpefor. The county offi- • cers will strength to the support of tnis bill if they see any prospect for its success. To Regulate Insurance Companies. Senator Wishard’s bill regulating foreign insurance companies requires that j any company doing business in the state ■ must have a paidup capital of at least . $200,000 invested in state’ or United j States bonds and enlarges the powers of I the auditor in examining the affairs of companies. In the afternoon the session was brief and was devoted entirely to second readings. The only argument that came up was upon an effort to knock butter out from under the provisions of ; the pure food bill. This was argued at some, length and the bid was finally referred back to committee. McGeath’s house bill authorizing county commissioners to issue bonds to complete public buddings was passed by the senate. Republican Legislative Caucus. The caucus last night was brief and reached just two conclusions. The first was that on Wednesday night the final caucus should be held, and the second that the bill repealing the present legislative apportionment should be adopted. The majority of the spacial committee in charge of the matter reported in favor of the Wishard legislislative apportionment bill and it will probably go through, though a minority report will be made to the caucus. The special committee on the management of the state institutions will bring in two reports, the majority favoring bipartisan boards of four, appointed by the 1 , governor, and the minority favoring “nonpartisan” boards of three appointed by the governor, secretary and auditor. The questions of fees and salaries and congressional apportionment were not taken up. RECOVERED HER SPEECH," Somewhat Singular Story at a Cure Affected by Faith. Martinsville, Ind., Feb. 12.—A rather strange story is told of Mrs. Lafayette Grounds, near here, who lost her speech last August. Physicians could afford no relief, and as a last resort a faith doctor named Eli Thomas was called in sometime in December. After a few questions he told her she would recover her speech on New Years’ day. This proved true, being able to answer the first question put to her on that day, speaking in clear and distinct tones. Mr. Thomas is the seventh son of the.seventh son and received the peculiar gift of curing by faith from his father, who was the seventh son of the seventh son. This is only one of numer-

...jm, ' ■ ous singular cures that are credited to Mr. Thomas’ peculiar gift. Numerous i people visit him, but outside of a few questions as to the general history of the famllv and how long the person has been nftiiotqd, no one knows what he r does or how ho effects a cure. DESTROYING HAMKB. Two Indlnnnpoll* Firm* Suffer Lo**e* Aggregating SI 50,000. Indianapolis, Feb. 14.—An epidemic of fires prevailing here for the past two > weeks reached the wholesale district yesterday, breaking out in George W. , Stout’s wholesale grocery house. The building, with its contents, was completely destroyed. The building was a 4-story structure aud well filled with goods. The fire originated among some i of the more inflamable articles and ' . spread rapidly, gaining good headway j before the fire department got to work i on it. The loss on building will be about $25,000, and on stock something near $85,000. Kiefer’s wholesale drug . house, occupying the building ad’ iing, suffers a heavy loss from v er, probably $40,000. MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Alleged Kidnaped Bridegroom From Hl* Vow*. -Rising StS), Ind., Fob. 12.—A decree has been entered Un the circuit court of j Ohio county annulling-the marriage of i Frank E. Steele and Miss Eva Rice. 1 which was solemnized at Lawrenceburg i ; SQine months ago. Mr. Steele is the son ‘ of the county treasurer. At the time of I the marriage it was alleged that the ' young man was kidnaped by Duke Rice I and others of Boone county, Ky., and I was compelled to marry Miss Rice under ' pain of death in case of refusal. The bride is a daughter of Solon D. Rice, a prosperous farmer near Grant, Boone county, Ky. Mystery to Be Cleared Up. j Elwood, Ind.. Feb. 12.—A mystery which has excited considerable interest in this locality seems to be about cleared up. Last fall a barn north of this city , was burned, and a stallion owned by I Johnson Stover, valued at $5,000, was i supposed to have been cremated. It I now transpires that the stallion was removed and an old horse was substiI tuted, after which the barn was set on fire to conceal the theft. The stallion disappeared, but a detective has been following a trail which is now claimed ! will locate the animal. The horse was heavily insured, but the insurance company refused to pay the policy. I _ —— To Pay a Church Debt. ■ Sheridan, Ind., Feb. 12.—The lady members of the M. E. church here, having assumed $-100 of the indebtedness ' hanging over the church, have emulated the example of Miss Edna Brown of Kanevilte, Ills., by the letterchain method. Mrs. Minnie F.. Scott will look after the correspondence. The ladies figure out that if the full 15 series are carried out it will bring much aid to the church I- and great notoriety to Sheridan. Brutally Beaten In a St loon. | Holton, Ind., Feb. 12.— skuJtKd Job Muntz quarreled in a saloon ' at Batesville when Muntz, who weighs ' over 200 pounds, began to beat Gelan--1 ska o>e,r the head with a club. Galenska tried to ward off the blows with his I arms and both of them were broken, while his face and head were badly bruised. Tile injured man is a cripple. HOOSIER PARAGRAPHS. An epidemic of grip is prevailing at I Bloomington. The Spiritualists of Muncie have dedi- ; cated a new temple. Mrs. Cassie Paulsel, aged 85, was frozen to death at her home near Noblesville. An Indianapolis motorcar struck a milk wagon and seriously injured its occupant. Frederick Nipple, near Delphi, was accidentally killed by his 13 year-old son while i hunting rabbits. The residence of Hamilton Watson at ' Morristown burned, the family barely esi taping. Loss $2,800. An epidemic of glanders is feared at Ft. Wayne. Every effort is being made to prevent a spread of the disease. Frank Moon of Noblesville, charged with an attempt to kill Constable Malt Leynum, has been sentenced to two years in prison. An explosion m the engineroom of the Elwood planingmill cawed a fire which destroyed the entire building. Loss $20,000. An adjoining lumberyard was damaged to the amount of $5,000. A South Bend man took an old violin in payment for work done. He thought it was of little value, but a joking claim that it cost bint SSOO led to an examination by experts, and he has been offered $1,500 for the instrument. It proved to be over 400 years old. 4 MARKET QUOTATIONS. Prevailing Price* For Grain and Cattle on Feb. 11. Indianapolis.' Wheat — Corn — 39@41c. Oats—29fr«32J<c.' Cattle—Receipts light; shipments light. Market unchanged. Good to choice shipping and export, steers, [email protected]; medium to good shipping ■ steers, $3.75(<?4.50: common to fair steers, [email protected]; choice feeding steers, $3 0 @ 3.85: good to choice heifers, [email protected]; fair to medium heifers, $2.75(3)3.00; com-, mon light heifers, $2.25(3'2.50; good to choice cows, $2.75(33.50; fair to medium ■ cows, $2.00(32.50. Hogs—Receipts 2,000 head; shipments 500 head. Market quiet. Good to choice medium and heavy. $4.10 mixed and heavy- packing, $3.90@ 4115; good to choice, lightweights, $4.05@ 4.15; common lightweights, $3 95(3)4.05; pigs, roughs, $2.75@3;8a. Sheep—Receipts light; shipments none. . Market easy. Choice to extra lambs, [email protected]: com- ’ mon to good lambs, $2.75(34.75; prime ex- ! port sheep, $4.00(34.25; good to choice sheep, • [email protected]; fair to medium sheep, $3.00(3 8.50; common sheep, [email protected]; bucks, pel j head, $2.00(35,00. ’ Chicago Grain and Provision*. e ' Wheat—May opened 53%c; closed 53%0. > July opened 51%c, closed 54% %c. Coils—May opened 44%c closed 44%c. 3 July opened 44%c, closed 44%-%c. 1 Oats—May opened 29c, closed 28%c. t July opened 27%, closed 27%. 3 Pork —May opened $9.85, closed $10.15. Lard—May opened $6.50; closed $6 62. '■ Ribs—May opened $5.15, closed $5.27. 8 Closing cash markets: Wheat 50%c. I e corn 42c, oats 27%c, pork $9.90, lard I - $6.47, ribs $5.07. >

NO CASH ••TIPS’" FOR WOMEN. They Get Only Smile* and Smirk* From Men at Reataumta. In restaurants where wqrucn are employed as waiters the average man soemi ■ to be of th<£ opinion that smiles or smirks aro tantamount to ••tips,” al i though they cost the giver nothing and have no cash value anywhere, except j perhaps as olemen'ts to be considered in . estimating damage in breach of promise suite Why a man should consider it more or less obligatory on him to give a gratuity to the man who waits upon him, be he white or colored, while bis conscience r lievcs him of all such obligations when a woman performs a similar service for him, is one of those mysI teries which the feminine mind is in i capable of solving I have conversed i with several ‘‘waitresses” on the sub 1 ject, and they have always told me that they would infinitely prefer dimes t > smiles, more especially as their par >' so small that the problem of nmkito, both ends meet is for them a particular ly hard one I It may bo said in defense of masenj lino custom in this matter that the con j duct of the recipients of, these amatory demonstrations would justify the opinion that they prefer them to small pei cuniary emoluments, but the cruel fact is that the girl employed in a restau ; rant Who doesn't act more or less us a - flirt stands no chance of retaining her i position. A complaint of a customer’s ! familiarity instead of causing him to be rebuked would more likely result in her own dismissal It isn’t alone for waiting that she is paid. She is expected to make herself ‘ "attractive.'" There are many men of an economical turn of mind whoso patronage of restau rants where women are employed is largely due to the fact that at such places they can refrain from •‘tipping’' without being suspected of meanness. And a dime saved is 20 cents earned But all the same a woman who waits on a table in a restaurant is just as much entitled to a “tip” as a man, and the fart that she doesu ’t get it is only an other link in the chain of evidence which shows that the average man will always take advantage of a woman in pecuniary matters if he gets a chance—that is to say, for doing the same thing ho will always pay a woman less than he will a man.—New York Herald. Napoleon and III* Pipe. Napoleon was a snuff taker in u mild way,- -smelliug of tho tobacco rather than snuffin ’ it, but never learned to smoke. Onco only, according to his valet, Constant, ho tried a pipa. The attempt of which Constant gives a humorous account, was on this wise: An eastovu embassador, Persian or„ Turkish, bad presented the emperoi with a haqdsomo oriental pipa, aud one day the fancy took him to use it Constant, at his master’s request; got every thing in readiness aud applied tho fire.. It remained, of course, for the emperor to set the tobacco alight by drawing in his breath. So his valet told him ‘‘But, ” adds Constant, “at the rate his majesty went to work the thing would never be done. He ccmtented himself with opening and shutting his lije without breathing the least in the world.” Finally he put tbo pipe it: ' o the valet’s hands and commanded him to light (t, which the valot did and returned the pipe to his majesty. Napoleon took one good puff aud was as awkward this time as before. Tho smoke got into his windpipe, and instead of being expelled tnrougn tno mourn it came -out or tnc nostrils and eyes. So Constant says at all events. The emperor was nearly strangled, and as soon as he recovered breath he cried: ‘‘Take it away. The horrible thing! It makes me sick. ” It was more than an hoar before h* recovered bis equanimity, und that was the end of his career as a smoker. — Youth’s Companion. > Where He Got It. The little son of a well known physician was entertaining a playmate at his father’s house. As children will, they ransacked every nook and corner of the Entitling. Their curiosity led them to explore tho recesses of a closet, in which the doctor keeps bis instruments and other personal effects, among which is a complete skeleton. The strange boy was frightened when he first beheld the grinning remnant of what once had been a human being and started to run away. The doctor’s son, however, had seen the skeleton so often that ho entertained for it only that feeling of contempt begotten by familiarity, and in a little while succeeded in so allaying the fears of bis companion that the youngster began to handle the thing and rattle its dry bones. “Where did your father get it?” be finally asked. “I don’t know, ” was the reply, “but 1 guess it was his first patient, for he’s had it an awful long time. ” —Butte Miner. The Middle Temple’* Secret. While making sorno alterations in Middle Temple hall for tho installation of the electric light into that stately edifice the workmen found a box conI cealed in a recess of the wall near the | roof. It was opened, and in it they enw a skeleton in a perfect state of preservation. From the appearance of the bones it must have lain hidden there for a considerable time—perhaps a couple of centuries or more. Whether the skeleton be that of a lawyer or a client cannot now be ascertained, or it may even be an osseous framework which has been used in an atomical demonstration toillustrate how much the law can take out of a man. What the skeleton was in life and bow it got into the box in Middle Temple hall are mysteries.—London Telegraph. In 1790 a handkerchief cost 66 cents in Massachusetts, while a pair of stockings cost */5 cents, and potatoes were 80 oents a bushel. i Lehigh is a corruption of the Indian word lechau, "a fork.” *

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A BULL ON A FLY ROB. UVELY EPISQDE Cr A DAY’S FISHING liTCALIFORNIA. The Eed Shawl of Ono of the Ladles In the Party Started tho I'nn, and the Skillful Angler Caro sn Exhibition Nat Common on a Trouting Trip. “Traveling overland from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo,’’said a tourist . recently returned from southern California, “our journey as far as Los Olivos was Ly stage. Os the beautiful land and water scenery along the route of our stage ride two features particularly impressed me. One was the b-.ckward view from the summit of the coast mountains, with Santa Barbara, 12 miles back, clustered on the left and right of its white Maili street, the islands beyond and the blue Pacific. “The second was the river that we forded shortly before arriving at Los Olivos, ft vftis a type of water course common in California, with a wide, deep bed, perfectly dry, except where a clear little stream rippled its way along a narrow channel through sand and gravel, windingand eddying round bars and bowlders. A man might leap across it in many places, and tho water did not come nearly to the wheel hubs as the. stage rolled through it. “At Los Olivos, which we reached at 5 o’clock p. m., ono of tho dishes served at our excellent supper was trout, caught, as wo learned, in tho pretty, clear stream we had crossed. That determined us to stay over a day at the station to try the fishing. We got out our tackle and had a day of great sport. To reach the water we bad to get down the steep riverbanksand follow the dry bed through which the little stream seemed to pick its way. The trout we oaugl ■ were of the black spotted mountain variety, ranging from 6 to 14 inches in length and averaging about three to the pound. Smaller ones we put back in the water. “But there was an experience more exciting than fishing to come before the day was ended. At noon the ladies of our party came by wagon to join us at luncheon, and they accompanied us in the afternoon’s fishing. Toward night, when we had worked Well up toward the mountains, some cattle came down to the stream to drink, and without apparent provocation a lively young bull began to paw tho ground and bellow unpleasantly end followed these demonstrations up by charging upon our party. Looking up from my fishing at this juncture, I saw that' it was the red plaid shawl of one of the ladies that had excited the animal’s hostility. Calling to her to throw down the shawl and for them all to run, I threw stones nt the bqll to divert his While the other gentlemen, of the party helped them up the steep bank, where the bull could not follow. The bull stopped ft the shawl, tossed it about in an ugly manner, and then, turning his attention to me, gave me a sharp run across the sands to the bank. I got there all righq carrying my rod, with the line and -leader flying behind, but just as I struck the top of the bank I felt a sudden jerk of the rod’s tip, and turning saw that , one of my fly hooks had caught the bull in the nostril. -1... “It was one of thaqueerest catches I 1 imagine that ever a fisherman made, and I literally played that bull With a fly rod for a quarter of an hefur. l owed i him no good will, and besides I wanted to save my tackle. The nostril of a bull, i as you probably know, is exquisitely sensitive to pain, and with my strong, flexible split bamboo rod, duplicating t reel and stout gut leader at the end of a hundred feet of braided silk I managed

to bold the big creature under control. Ho couldn’* - seem to make out what had got him by the nose, but be knew that it hurt him worse whenever he tried to break away, and to increase the mystery there was all the time dangling and switching before his eyes a big. bright red bass fly that I had left on my leader as an experiment in trout fishing. He would strike at it with hisi horns, and his rage at finding he couldn’t hit it, and that it came J?ack at him every time, was comical to witness—from a place of safety, of course. “From time to time the bull would charge upon-the shawl and toss that about, and then I had to work the reel and tip for all they were worth to save all my tackle from going by the board. At last, in ooe”af these furious charges, as he lifted the shawl ch his horns I felt something give away, and ut the same moment th** shawl went up into the air. The. hook bad torn loos-e from his nostril, and two of the hooks on the leader were fast in the shawl. I dropped the rod and pulled lino and shawl in, hand overhand, like a Capo Cod fisherman hauling pollock. The bull didn’t tumble to the sitration until I had got tho shawl nearly to tho bank, and then he came for it. but it was too late. I whipped the shawl up to where we were standing just as his head butted the perpendicular bank with a thud that * brought down a shower of earth. shawl carried a good deal of sand and had some holes in it, but there was no disposition to complain on tho part of its owner. Wo thought wo had I enough fishing tor one day, and Jeavin : our enemy down in the river bed pawin; sand and bellowing his anger we tbok our wagon thankfully for tho hotel.”— New York Suu. The Crimson Cliffs. One of the most conspicuous landmarks, or, rather, snowmarks, ih the whole of tl ■* arctic regions is the red snowbanks discovered near Cape York, Greenland, by Captain John Ross in the year 1818. For miles and miles the hills are covered with snow that is as red as though it had been saturated with blood. Lieutenant Greely, who visited that region while on his exped. tion, microscopically examined these blood stained cliffs and reports the color due to a minute organism which he calls Protococcus nivalis.—St. Louis Republic. DON’T GORGE YOUR3ELF. Some Sound. Advice on the Subject of Foods and Feeding. The vast majority of people are absolutely wrong on tho subject of feeling. They think that rich and luxurious peo- ( pie, fending on tho richest and most ' luxurious foods, are tho most fortunate and healthy people. I assure you it is ' just tho reverse. lam the director of an insurance company and am obliged often to form an estimate of the commercial value of life. If, then, two persons of the same age Mid constitutional build come for calculation as to the monetary value of their future lives, and if one ' be rich and luxurious and the other bo , competent and frugal, frugal even toab- . stemiousness, I would value the life of • the frugal person as 20 per cent at least ; better than that of the rich* and luxurious person. Dives dies in plenty, Lazarus in poverty. Do not die like Lazarus if you can help it, and do not die like Dives if you ( have the opportunity, but find the happy condition, easy enough to find if you [ determine to learn how on least food you can do the most and best work. , Never eat until you are satiated, never eat in the day one heavy meal, but di- , vide your food into three light meals, ’ equally distributed as to time and quan- [ tity. Eftt Slowly, take small mgpthfuls,

masticate, or chew, your food well,! I touch your food with your fingers as lit J : tie as possible, do not cry out for animal * food more than twice a day at most! ’ have all animal food well cooked and! I do not forget fruit as food. I ‘ In Queen Elizabeth’stime tho orange! ' the golden fruit of the Hesperides, mighfl 1 find its way to the queen’s table, bul I such fruit was indeed scarce. Joints c® meat were cut up with the frill of pal per round the end of the joint to hoi® by, forks being unknown, and her loyal subjects, r. short lived race, knowing lifl tie how to make the most of life in th® matter of feeding and drinking, stiff er efl from diseases which were of the moffl avoidable as well as objectionable charfl acter. We, fortunately, live in a diffafl ent reign. We have fruit galore an® have'clean forks, instead of dirty fi™ gers, to raise our food with, two advajfl tages equally -sweet and wliolesomfl though so different in kind.—Sir B. Wfl Richardson in Longman’s Magazine. fl DEER HORNS AS MEDICINES > ■ This Queer Remedy Is In Csn In the Flonfl ; cry Kingdom. fl Deer horns are used by the Chinese ft® medical purposes, and consequently thl value tp a Chinaman of a pair of hori® depends upon the quantity of themedifl inal property contained in them. Thfl property, which may almost be callefl the “virtue,” is said to be greater i® tho young horns, and to get rarer as ttj horns grow older. Tho deer from the horns are obtained arc a true speciß of deer, the females having no hornfl and this, as Darwin has pointed out B “The Descent ot Man,” is the case wiß all kinds of deer proper, the reindeß only excepted. In substance the horß are not horny like the horns of a cowjj an antelope, but are, when young, corß posed of a very delicate venous suß stance, covered with a velvety coating and when old are osseous rather thß callus. B ' For some months after they begß growing they are very tender, and tfl doer, not liking to touch them againß branches of trees or bushes, a thing thß are almost sure to do in the forest, wB remain in the open, deserting cover, a® so many times exposing theinselves~B greater dangers than the ones they flB from. After a time/ as tho horns grcß older, tho velvet covering begins to pcß off, and while doing so causes an irritiß ing, itching feeling, that makes the deß rub them against twigs, mossy bark B any other yielding substance not haß 1 enough to hurt. This rubbing assists tB velvet to peel off, and the horns enter the second or intermediate They are no longer tender, nor are thß| so hard as they eventually become, iB axe still going through a process of 1 i velopmeut. fl Eventually their growth is j they stand for a time, are shed, to be fl| placed by new ones, and become tjfl , property of the first forester or hunlß who has the good fortune to find thefl| ' These shed horns, together with' horns taken from deer when they wfl| approaching the time of shedding, hfll 1 reached tho third or final stage and 'jM the least valuable.—Chinese Impenfl| Customs. fl® Where Cupid Blundered. It is whiipcrcd that a thoroughly risian divorce, which has been for scfll time in question, is imminent 'flg parties are the granddaughter of a giflg poet, deceased, and a literary man, I , of a famous author. The young wifeß| is stated, hrs returned with her babjßß ■ her mother. A curious thing is that,B' compatibility of temper being the *B|| cause of the rupture, it is not yet whether a divorce can -be obtaineßfl Paris Herald. flfl . ■ -A ■ ■- K .•* . '--ini: