Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1895 — Page 3

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For the Best and Nicest,... HEADREST, He most Beaantal and Nicest Hairpin, x Finest Doyles anp Tidies of all description, with a fine line of PAPER FLOWERS, Four Set. See the FINE BALLET GIRL. - Don’t miss'seeing the <^F i, ) e s t $l?ow U/iQdouu In the city. MARY OIOSS, The Milliner. Grand Ranids & Indiana Railroad. Took effect January 20. 180. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 6 No. 7 Cincinnati.. Ive 8 05am 8 30pm Richmond 3 30pm 11 00 .. 1125 Winchester.... 434.. 12 00.. 1220 am Portland ........ 5 17.. 12 42pm 12 54 .. Decatur, 612 .'. 145 .. 144 Ft.Wayne...arr (155.. 2 35.. 220 •* •* ...ire 2 55pm 230.. 815 am Kendallville 4 05.. 3 32.. 0 24.. Rome City 4 22.. 3 48., 9 39.. Wolcottville 428 .. 8 54.. 945 .. Valentine 4 40.. 9 57.. LaGrange 450 .. 412 .. 1007 .. Lima.iT .. ..... 5(8 1021 .. Sturgis 5 20.. 4 36.. 10 40 .. Vicksburg 612.. 5 22.. 1126.. Kalamazoo, arr 640 ~ 545 .. 1150 . a “ ..Ive 722 am 7 20.. 5 50.. 100 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 9 20.. 9 15.. 720 am 2 50.. •• r ‘ ..ive 740.. 5 25.. D., G.H. 4 M.cr 755 .. 5 40.. Howard City 9C0.. 645. Blgßapids .... »45 .. 730 .. Reed City. 10 20.. 8 10.. Cadillac arr 1125.. 915.. •• ....Ive 8 00am 11 30 .. 925 .. Traverse City 9 45-:. 120 pm Kalkaska 105.. 10 48... Petoskej , 315.. 12 40 .. Mackinac City 4 40.. 200am » GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City. 9 00pm 740 am ..... Petoskey 10 20 .. 915 Kalkaska 1210 am 1120 Traverse City 1105 6 00am Cadillac ....arr 130.. 105 pm 7 35.. •• ....Ive 145 .. 125 740 .. Reed City .... 235 850.. Blgßapids.. 8 05 9 20 Howard City 355 10 10 .. D..G.H.*M.cr 5 00 1120.. Gr. Rapids .arr 645 .. 5 15.. 1135.. “ ..Ive 725 am 540.. 1140 pm 215 pm Kalamazoo.arr 9 20.. 735 .. 185 am 400. “ ..Ive 9 25.. 745 .. 4 05.. Vicksburg 949.. 815 430 . Sturgis 1040 .. 910 520 .. Lima 1054.. 928 534., LaGrange.... 1107 .. 9 36.. 5 44.. Valentine 1J 18 .. 944 5 53.. Wolcottville... 1180.. 954 008.. Rome City 1186.. 959 6 08.. Kendallville... 1150 .. 1016.. 628.. Ft. Wayne..arr 12 55.. -1125 730 .. “ ..ive 115 pm 11 45.. 545 am Decatur 159.. 1237.. 680.. ........ Portland 3 00.. 141 am 730.. Winchester.... 8 44.. 2 25.. 8 09.. .. Richmond 4 45.. 3 20.. 915 pm Cincinnati 7 30.. 7 80,. 1201 Trains 2 and 4 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON Agent. Decatur Ind IkcAV LAI 3 JRAU t MARKsJr CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT » For a prompt answer and an honest opinion, write to MUNN & CO., who have bad nearlyflhy years’ experience In the patent business. Communications strictly confidential. A Handbook of In. formation concerning Patents and how to ob. tain them sent free. Also a catalogue of mechan. iealland scientific books sent free. Ijtents taken throngh Munn A Co. receive •petal notice In the riclentiflc American, and thv are brought widely before the public with, “cutt lost to the Inventor. This splendid paper, Issa: (1 weekly, elegantly illustrated, has by far the larr ’ st circulation of any scientific work In the wP e . 83 a year. Sample cotiieSSent free. i'll Idlng Edition, monthly, 42.60 a year. Single <*.H i, 35 cents. Every number contains beautr 11 plates, In oolors, and photographs of new

Madison Street Gallery. MISS JULIA BRADLEY &BRO., Props. (Successors to 11. B. Knott.) Cabinets, Tintypes, Photos, Groups Done In the latest style of art. All work guaranteed and price the lowest. Gallery on Madison street, north of court house. 38-31tf A few choice lots yet tor sale at an extremely low price in the new addition to the citv of Decatur. For price and terms call on Grant Railing. 43-ri- - tERiE Lines. Schedule In effect Nov. 25,1894. ave Decatur as Follows. TRAINS WEST. No. 5, Vestibule Limited, daily for I «.,■> p M Chicago f i.wr.B No. 3. Pacific Express, daily for 1 . A M Chicago f No. 1. Express, daily except Sun-1 10:45 A. M day for Chicago I No. 81. Local, dally, except Sun-1 10 -45 a M day 1 TRAINS EAST., No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for I B .n« p M New York and Boston ~. ( e,IK r ’ M No. 2, Express, daily except Sun-1 p M day for New York f i.oo r. m Express, dally for New No. 30. Local, dally except Sun- > dav } 10:45 A.M. Through coaches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston. Trains 1 and 2 stop at all stations on the C. & E. division. Trajn No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus, Circlevill, Chillicathe Waverly, Portsmouth, Irontor, and Kenova, via Columbus Hocking Valley & Toledo add Norfolk* Western Lines. J. W. DeLong. Agent. W. G. Mac Edwards T P.A. Huntington. Cheaper Than Ever At Hughes’Granite & Marble Works. Fifteen per cent, of a discount for the year 1995. All work warranted to be new and first-clrss. Lettering done in German and English. You are invited to stop and get prices. L. C. & Wm. Hughes. 47tf (Successors to W. S. Hughss.) Smith a hell arelpaymg the highest caah prices for Clear White Ash logs, cut 12 feet long, 12 inches and over at the top end, must be clear and staight. 48tf First Class Night and pay Service between Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE dHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED"SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. Rtf-NEALS SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour 1 DA' CR NIGHT, at modtratt coit. Ask ior tickets via Toledo, St. Louis A Ksngas City R. R CloverJLmf Route. For further particulars, call on nearest Mient of the Company, or address O. O. JENKINS. towil r u i..|Hr A(ML TOLEDO OH«O v

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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL WIDOWS IN THE FEDERAL SERVICE A8 CL-RKS. They Are Dtaplarlng Oirla a* Employ*** es Uncle Hani -Tile “Widow's Metlon” -Many Hehll.r,’ Wlilvw* - Pretty Treas■ry Employ*** ete. Special WaKhlugton Letter. When the late lamented Weller, senior, formulated the memorable advice to his son concerning widows, .he enunciated a theory rather than a condition. A creaiion of this age,* he would have been made to say, “Samlvel. my son. bevare of Vashington.” The national capitoi is pre-emihent-ly a city of widows. Rome 3.000 women in weeds bury their grief amid the

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dusty files and public documents of the governmental departments and outlying branches, at stipends varying from twenty cents an hour to SI,BOO per annum. Washington ftself swarms with the widows of distinguished judges and generals and statesmen and officers of the army and navy; Their retaiive social standing is greater there than it would be in cities where mere money and unofficial prominence rules, ami they hunt the scenes of their earlier social triumphs. But it is of the departmental widow this is particularly written. The rise of the widow and the gradual decline of the “girl” in governmental affairs has been marked of recent years, and if this keeps on in the same proportion the “girl” will not only soon be out of the running, but the opposite sex will be compelled io "take to the woods.” In the late Treasurer Spinner’s time it was almost as difficult to find a widow in the Treasury as it was to decipher his signature on our paper currency. If she got in among the maiden beauties of the Spinner branch of the government she must have been both young and charming, for it was Mr. Spinner who discovered that a pretty woman was not only more pleasing tc have around than a great, big. awkward hulk of a man, but that in many respects Ahe was superior as a clerk. Then somebody appointed seven women to places in the General Post Office. All this was but thirty-two years ago. Following up these small beginnings the dear sex managed to squeeze in here and there and everywhere, until now women actually dominate certain branches of governmental work. The last Blue Book gives the grand total of women so employed as 7.296. and this does not Include postmistress or their clerks. Out of this immense number some. 3,000 —to be exact, just 2.9oo—are women who have known marriage and know It now no longer. Not a few, perhaps, will come under the head of “grass,” but these give a pleasing variety to the whole. The great majority are the relicts of departed bread winners. and many are supporting families and educating minor children. And very many of them, it should be remembered. are of gentle birth and the best social breeding. They are human wreckage, telling the story of family ships gone down, ot tori tines swept away by the tempestuous seas, of hopes marooned, of war and sudden death, of life's disasters sealed by the scalding seal of human grief. There are 400 widows employed in the Government Printing Office out of a working force of 2,276, 1.070 of which "force are women. This great public printing establishment is a vast hive swarming with petticoats. Most of the women are upon simple work, such as feeding folding machines, and earn small wages. From twenty-one to twenty-five cents an hour is paid for time work, though hundreds of them work by the piece and have to be very expert to average $2 a day. Public Printer Benedict has in his remarkable collection of widows 108 who mourn soldiers lost in the late war. A® no civil service examination is necessary In these appointments it Is about the only office t hat can be truthfully said to be open to the soldier, -

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hlsj»naßrw tai his orph_’ , ed rh’Hren. Tliefee a. e ’i2 ex-soldiers,-US widows and’334 sons and daughters of soldiers in the than one-quarter of the whole force. Yet the Public Printer is, I believe, the only government official who has been chanted on the floor of the Senate with discrimination against soldiers! While the widows in the Govet» ment Printing Office ere not separate from the other wohten, there are so many employed in one section that it is known about the place'" as “the widows’ section/’ It is a picturesque sight to see theee women at work in the folding room. Some of them are qiiite old. most of them being along in middle life. Here and there, however, is a young woman in black figure and smart attire and roguish ■ ,41. t

tronial market. Women of fifty, id j' *it aprons, with hair In crimpD, and v naring jaunty paper caps; wotnw of sixty, white haired mothers rid grhudroothers; women fat, fair and forty; tall and bony women of uncertain age; freckled and pert and impudent women, and shrewish and loudvoiced women—every »*rt of widowed material ever seen, guessed at or Imagined. The male visitor who passes through the big rooms where these widows are employed will require all his courage, for they have sharp tongues and critical tastes where man is concerned. The pretty young miss may bend modeetly over her work under the eyes of the male visitor, but the widows, heaven bless them! are not to be easily stared cut of countenance. They know out of personal experience what a humbug a man really is. There are nice old ladies in the Post Office Department who have from twenty to thirty years submerged their widowhood in public papers at a compensation. Some of them get $1,200 to take charge of an important division while there are sections the salaries in which are $1,400 to $1,600 and even SI,BOO a year. There are no common drudgery and no cheap female drudges here. There are only women of brains and of broad culture. Some of them are linguists cf a high order; others statisticians, accountants, stenographers. chiefs of sections and divisions—all expert in various brancnes of postal work. In the Interior Depar'inent there are some 360 women clerks who write “Mrs.” before their mimes, cod about 350 of these are widows. The bars put up against married women holdjfng clerical places in the departmeent have not been closely recognized. There is no record, kept of the soldiers, or of the orphans of soldiers, but the appointment clerk tells me a count made last September shewed 736 exsoldiers <i.i the rolls. 114 of whom were appointed subsequent to March 6, 1893. There are two women drawing SI,BOO a year, and of those getting $1,600 three are second assistant examiners in the Patent Office, one is translator in the Office of Education, one a stenographer in the Office of Indian Affairs, and the other seven clerks in

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the various bureaus. A large number ge: $1,400 a year, while women at sl,200 are plentiful. There are in the Pension Office alone about 150 widows, most of whom are drawing $1,200 and $1,400 a year, and performing the duties men perform for the same money. In the Treasury, where the first experimental women were appointed, and where, it may be said, the experiment h.ijS been carried to a satisfactory solution, there are Tess than 400 widows at work to-day. Os these fifty-seven are the widows of ex- oldiers of the -late war. There are about 700 women in the Bureau c-f Engraving and 'Printing alone, bur ful’fy 90 per cent, of these are young girls. And a mighty pretty lot they are to look upon, 100. The printing bureau is known as the home of the misses. They get from $1.25 a day to $626 a year, with a few exceptions in higher places. When Mary- Harrie shot her betrayer on the Treasury steps thirty years ago a cry was raised both inside and outside the department that, women, and especially unprotected young women, should not be employed in public offices indiscriminately with men. In those days the woman clerk was yet a novelty. even in private establishments. Since then a great revolution has taken place, and women, both old and young, have driven men a close race for all indoor work. In the important branches of the Treasury women pretty. evenly balance the men in number and efficiency. They have long ago advanced "beyond the duties of mere copyists and counters, and hold their own as clerks, accountants, cashiers, etc. They draw the same salaries as the men for the same class of work, a thing made possible only by the abolition of the political backer and the institution of civil service promotion for merit. The widows employed in the Wat Department are the widows of ex-offl-</ers of the regular army, chiefly: in the Naval Office they are the widows of ex-naval officers. The common sailor and soldier are not represented from the fact that their widows lack the necessary education, not through favoritism. The casual scanning of the payrolls of either of these departments of the goverhnient will disclose the names of families identified with the military ano naval history of the Republic. The unfortunate momen who are thus compelled to earn a living for themselves and their children naturally look to that branch of the service with which their husbands were identified during life. The choice left between the eligibles on the Civil Service lists enables the ‘department to extend the preference recognized by statut®. The Agricultural Bureau used to bo a favorite place for the pestered Congressman to shelve agreeable or disagreeable feminine constituents, but the raising of the rank of that establishment to the, dignity of a Cabinet partfolio and the placing of its employes within the classified service have contributed to the purification of the office and to the elevation of the tone of its employe’s.' ■'There are some seventy-five widows at work there now and the pert young miss of the olden time no longer rules the bucolic PoosU —'V, C. T. MUI BAY. Onu of Life's IriflUtiU e«. It Is very hard to admit that a man younger than yourself has more sens* —Atchison Globo, ... r £ ? - ;

PROGRESSIVE <3/ FARMER — - o®« 1893. VE wish to say that we have now On hand the New Force Feed, Low Elevator, Champion - Binder ECCENTRIC GEAR, Demonstrated in harvest of 1894,t0 be the LIGHTEST DRAFT And having the advantage over all other Binders in handling Rye or down grain, and will Forfeit Price of Binder » If we cannot demonstrate to any practical farmer that we have advantages over all other Binders and Mowers. Come and let us show you and be. convinced. We are here for the purpose of showing you these facts, and if you fail to see and buy a Binder or Mower of any other make than the Champion. you make The Mistake of Your Life. BINDER TWINE, PLOWS, HARROWS, And, in fact, the largest stock of * HA H. ID W A Ft E In the city, together with’the lowest prices. Thanking our customers for past favors, and hoping for a continuance of same, we remain Truly yours, JOHN S. BOWERS & CO.

EVENTS IN INDI.INA. Minister Who Appeals to the Court to Collect His Salary, TWELVE SERMONS FOR $l5O. Pertie Berry of Connersville Files Snit Agfa in st a Railroad Company For SIO,000 For the Loss of a Limb.— Jury Disagrees In the Holmes Murder Case. Other State News. Wabash, Ind.. May 4.—Orson W. Oviatt, a minister of the Christian church Markle, has begun suit against the congregation for $l5O for unpaid salary. The Rev. Mr. Oviatt claims that a year ago iie entered into a contract with the church to preach two sermons a month, for 13 months, tor $l5O. The sermons were delivered, the people canie to hear, but when he mentioned the matter of compensation the trustees fought shy of him, and he has been unable to obtain a penny. r SINGULAR record. The Seventh Son Birth Phenomenon Doubled With Females Kokomo, Ind., May 4.—This city furnishes a family record probably unsurpassed in the country. The birth of a child to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Burt marked the 14th daughter of the 14th daughter of the 14th daughter. The distinguished arrival was the 14th child born to Mrs. Burt, who herself was 'the 14th child born to her mother, the latter being the 14th birth in the family of her parents. Mrs. Burt is 50 years old. Her eldest child is 31 years old. Eleven of the 14 children are living. All of the children of the several generations were single births, there being no twins nor triplets in either of the three families. Alleged Safe Blower on Trial. " > Fort Wayne, May 4. — “Reddy” Lane, an alleged crook, is on trial here for safe-blowing. John Dolin, an old pal, now serving a term pf four years, testified that Lane and lie forced the safe owned by the Standard Oil company here last February. Lane created a scene by springing to his feet and oxclaiming: "Dolin, you’re crazy. I never saw you before. You’re a fool; you’re mistaken in your man.” John Guy, another alleged crook, testified/ that he saw Lane drill the safe. ( Tried to Blow Off Hin Head. Farmland. Ind., May 4.— Isaac Addington, 60 years old, a farmer, residing four miles southwest of*here, is lying at his home with, a very dangerdus scalp wound, the result of on attempt to take his own life. He procured an old army musket and placed it wit It the muzzle resting on the limb of a tree, and used the ramrod to pull the trigger. The hair was all torn off the top of his head.

STRIKERS RESTRAINED. Mast Not Interfere With the Mails or Interstate Commerce. Charleston, W. Va., May 4.—Judge J. J. Jackson of the federal court, now sitting here,/ granted an injunction yes- | terday restraining strikers in Flat Top coal region along the line 7 Os the Nor- ; folk and "Western railroad from inter- ' i feting with the transportation of mails ; or interstate traffic. The railroad com--1 pany fears the destruction of its propI erty by strikers as the feeling against j the company is. very strong, the miners I thinking it is responsible for the strike. I Governor MacCorkle has no information i from the trouble that is alarming. The United States marshal will put a force of deputies in that region to protect mails and interstate commerce. Counterfeited Tools Secured. . Clf.vei and, May 4. —United States Deputy Marshal Haskell, who went to Canton Thursday, to search Attorney Michiner’s premises for counterfeit money and tools, returned to Cleveland yesterday. He said that the arrest,of the counterfeiters and the finding of their outfit would undoubtedly prove to be the biggest thing of the kind ever unearthed in the state. A large quantity of bogus coin, together with all the tools found in> Michiner’s safe, is now on the way from Canton to this city. Judge Ricks iias increased Michiner’s bail to $5,000, and the latter is still in jail. Dead Outlaws Identified. Guthrie, O. T., May 4.—George Newcomb, alias “BitWr Creek,” alias “Slaughter Kid,” and Charles Pierce, the dead outlaws have been identified as two of the Rock Island train robbers, and Newcomb as a member of the gang that had robbed several Santa k'e trains. The deputies who affected the capture of the men will receive large rewards. Samuel Shaffer, the man wno led the posse that trailed and killed the outlaws, was a Texan. Thousands of people viewed the bodies during the day. Church Treasurer Goes Wrong. Chicago, May 4. —Henry Washausen, treasurer of St. Jacobus Lutheran church, is short in his accounts somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000. He has madeja full confession of his shortage to the officers of the church and has madetover his house and lot in part payment of the shortage. There will be no prosecution in the case. Most of the money was lost in bueketshop speculation. He Was at one time a wealthy dealer ui crockery. / Little Canal Business. I Buffalo, May 4.—Yesterday was the /opening day of the Erie canal iuid boatmen say there has never been so little doing in an opening day in the last 40 years. This stagnation is said to be due to low rates charged by the railroad* for carrying grain. Murder Case Jury Disagrees. Seymour. Ind.. May 4.—The trial of Edgar Holmes of this city, charged with the murder of his. sister, Florence Anderson, some vwo months ago, has ended in a disagreement of the jury. Five were for acquittal and seven voted him