Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1895 — Page 7

the democrat DECATUR, IND. tiAODBUBN. - ■ - PCTMraxa. are too many good people enHgßged in whitewashing the world. jffj&Qjho courageous Kaiser does not seem HK appreciate the risks Incurred in deids soldiers of American beef. IraM&lay Yohe has married Lord George UKraucis Hope ClintoflA’elhain Hope, KK?C utjderstand that there is only one him, however. glOflA fellow is under arrest in New York |Kr swindling the Wall Street brokers of $15,000. Is there, then, no “honeven among thieves'?” KKPaullne Hall's advertising agent an that she will spend her sumVKer vacation on a bicycle. This beats MHavlng her diamonds stolen. There is no delay in Japanese Justice. Inflations much older in civilization ggKlght learn a lesson from the prompt $ '•■unishment of LI Hung Chang’s as■allant. Ij&fl Some live men are worth more than and some less. But the skelof a gorilla is said to cost S3OO, HHvhile that of the average man can be Bought for S4O. m —i |B A Washington paper thinks that IH’Spain really would hke to cede Cuba |Mo the United States.” All she has to Ulo, then, is to fire upon a few more steamers. ■ In Brooklyn the other day, when an BHdectric car crushed and mangled to |Kleath a little girl, both the conductor ■Kind the motorman fainted. The comdidn’t, however. 11l An Arizona man shot a bedfellow who |K*ulled all the bedclothes upon his side K the bed. Served the selfish fellow Bright. He might have at least covered companion with a revolver. ■< A Chicago waiter who was arrested Mthe other day disclosed a peculiar form mania. He was willing to be bookas an author. Os course not all |flwaiters are authors, but most authors Shave had to wait. ■ “A ‘Trilby’ rocker has appeared upon ■ the market, but as yet our butchers Khave shown no disposition to advertise H‘Trilby’ hams.”—St. Paul Globe. Walt. ■ Chicago already has put upon the mara superior brand of "Trilby” pigs’ | feet K A Cleveland man who tried to bring ■ down a chicken thief and shot his own ■ horse dead is now loud in his denunciaK tion of the police “who are never V around when they are wanted.” Well, ■ what does he find to complain about ■ anyway? A Cleveland policeman InJ couldn’t have done better than that. H i - — 1 — ■ of Duluth, Minn., plume H themselves on having the greatest flour ■ mill in the country. Hitherto the great fl Pillsbury mill of Minneapolis has been fl regarded as the champion, with its fl record of 7,200 barrels of flour In twenI ty-four hours; but the Imperial at Du- ■ luth has shot away ahead, making a fl record of 7,905 barrels of flour in twenfl ty-four hours. I Woo Jan, a Chinese laundryman of ■ Ashland, Ky., went into a grocery ■ store of that town the other day and I paid for a bill of groceries for a destl- | tute family. He requested that the | beneficiaries be kept in ignorance of | athe identity of the donor. In New York ■ The collector for charity called at Wat’s | washee house and asked for a contrlbuI tlon for the destitute. Both the proH prletor and his assistant put their I hands in their pockets and each coni' Yrlbuted $6. There is yet hope for the | heathen. I It is interesting to learn that the Keely motor Is complete at last Mr. Keely has" achieved the all-important ■ connection that eluded him so long. He has found the missing link. He has drawn from the atmosphere “a sympathetic force of outreach representing r Jn the full receptive circuit an accumulation of polar sympathy of more than twenty-three tons when under rotation to be distributed to the polar and di- - polar circuits of the machine." This Is a little hazy at first sight, but becomes luminous as you allow your mind dwell upon it. A machine whose . pojar and dlpoJax circuits are rotating under a pressure of polar sympathy amounting to twenty-three tons would run a saw mill. We congratulate Mr. Keely and hope there is no mistake.It Is time to reorganize the Supreme Court. In the first place it is short ■J one member, for reasons which the press is tod polite to talk about Justice Jackson is a hopeless invalid, and does not see fit to accept the opportunity offered him by Congress to retiito.. Justice Field has now the right to retire, but persistently refuses. Justice Harlan Is qualified for retirement, but declines. There seems to be no way of reorganizing the Supreme bench of the United States except by death. Once in the silk it is hard to . Sget back to the wool, and the Supreme Mtench has attractions beyond the power of human nature to resist But it ig a Question whether there ought not to be a means of regulating the Supreme bench, to keep it in line with k popular thought and advanced sentl\ment. When a man gets old beyond v lhls usefulness, he ought to be made to retire. When another man gets sick

never can again be useful in his publfo function, and Is offered the pay and the emoluments of his station the rest of his days, he ought to accept. The Supreme Court needs, perhaps, a tittle attention in the same spirit that some other folks get a little attention now and then. Frederick Weimar, a farmer, committed suicide near Versailles, Ifir. Th< coroner returned a verdict of “suicide, superinduced by a plethora of infelicitous matrimonial experiences." This is a startling verdict, but it seems to hit Mr. Weimar’s case to a dot. Mr. Weimar appears to have been a social anarchist. He leaves four widows, one or two mistresses and a bride of twelve hours behind him. Weimar went to Louisville with a load of tobacco. He made a sale of It for S7OO and also bad S7OO in cash besides. He was afraid he would be robbed if he went to sleep alone and confided in two hackmen. He told them he wished he had a wife to help him guard his money and offered SSO for a bride. The two hackmen volunteered to get him a wife for SSO and did so, one of them surrendering all claims to his sweetheart for that amount The woman was willing and a wedding ceremony was performed. Twelve hours later he committed suicide. The bride claims that immediately after the wedding Weimar revealed to her that he had a wife and three grown daughters living in Ripley, Ohio, a wife in Bracken County, a wife in Versailles and a paramour named Kate Dots, with whom he had been living for two years, besides herself. Whereupon, realizing that she had only a one-fifth interest in her husband’s affections, the bride began her matrimonial career by making her honeymoon so sultry that her muchmarried husband went out and cheated the law by committing suicide. All of which seems to indicate that a mail ought not to marry more than four women at once, even in Kentucky. Weimar probably never had heard of the Chicago uncoupling process. Death of Paul Jones. On July 18, In the afternoon, seeing he was fast falling, Governeur Morris induced him to draw up his will. It is a simple document in which he divides his property between his sisters, and names Robert Morris as his sole executor. He was then able to sit up in an arm chair, and his friends left him to have the will copied into French. They returned at 8 o’clock, and witnessed it, after which Paul Jones returned to his bedroom. Presently came the Queen’s physician. They all went into the room, and there on'the bed, face downward, lay Paul Jones. The great captain was no more: in peace, after so many storms; in honor, after so much obloquy.” Two days later he was burled. The National Assembly resolved in its proces verbal to send a deputation of twelve members to honor “the memory of Paul Jones, admiral of the United States of America,... a man who has served well the cause of liberty.” In the funeral discourse over him it was said: “The fame of the brave outlives him; his portion is immortality." So long as ships shall sail the sea will the name of Paul Jones be respected. His country owes him a great debt; for he truly said: “I have ever looked outfor tho Honor of the American Flag.” And it may be said of him, as of the Conde: “This man was born a captain.”—Century. A Four-Footed Bird. That there are still numerous chances for the indefatigable student and investigator to make new discoveries may be judged from the fact that the only known species of four-footed bird has been discovered quite recently. This curious anamoly, which could very properly be termed an “Avis paradoxalis,” is a native of the Amazon River country, its principal habitat being the islands of Marajo. Is Is only during the period of incubation, at which time the embryo’s extra legs and feet are seen at their best, and early birdhood, that the four-footed feature is at all observable. Like the baby frog, which either “sheds" or absorbs its tall, the fourfooted bird rids itself of Its useless legs in the same manner, chicks six weeks of age usually being perfectly free from any signs of the extra members. The ornithologists profess to believe that this curious creature is a survival of some past geological epoch. Its scientific name is Opisthocomus cristatus. The natives call it the “hoactzln,” which means the “evil-smelling bird.” It is also claimed that there is not a carnivorous animal known that will taste its flesh.—St. Louis Republic. Keep It Dark. “John," she said, thoughtfully, “of course it is well to be proud of our daughter’s success at tjie seminary, but—but —” “But what, my dear?” he asked. “Well, it seems to me that you are a trifle thoughtless at times.’ “I don’t quite understand you,” he said. ' ■ “It’s all right to speak of her standing in her class,” she explained, “and it Is all right to be proud of her social accomplishments. Talk of her taste if you wish to, her cooking and her singing lessons; her vivacity, her knowledge of modern languages and her sunny disposition, but—but —” “Well, what Is It? Where have I made any mistake?" “Why, it’s about time to find a husband for her, and I would suggest, John, that you say nothing about her gymnastic work, or the fact that she played center rush on the seminary foot-ball team. I have noticed that has a tendency to discourage young men." How spiritless is the work of a man

STORY OF THE WAR. JAPAN’S BRILLIANT TACTICS IN SUBDUING CHINA. A Succession of Victories*-An Offensive end Defensive Alliance by Whloh Japan Will General China's Vast Armies Should Either Bo Besieged. The full terms of the treaty of peace between China and Japan are finally avowed, and more than justify the wildest estimate that has yet been made of the ambition of the conquering power. The independence of Corea was assured, but such independence as Corea would enjoy under this treaty is a mere sham. The annexation of Formosa, of the conquered strongholds and of the territory east of the Liao River is the dismemberment of China. The indemnity is $142,000,000. The sixth article provides for “an offensive and defensive alliance between China and Japan.’’ This means Japanese generals in command of Chinese armies, Japanese admirals restoring China’s navy, Japanese control of Chinese finances, legislation, commerce and foreign relations. In a word it gives to forty millions of Japanese the power of handling the resources of the four hundred millions of China. What use Japan would make of this power is sufficiently indicated in the words of Count Okuma,. an ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, who frankly says: “The European powers are already showing symptoms of decay, and the next generation will see their constitutions shattered and their empires in ruins. • * * Who is fit to be their proper successors if not ourselves.” Japan is undoubtedly dreaming of world conquest. The absorption of China is really the chief article of the treaty.

MARSHAL YAMAGATA, ADMIRAL ITO, MARSHAL OYAMA.

Japan, an empire with forty million population, conquered China, an empire with four hundred million population, within a little less than eight months. The war virtually began on the 22d of last June, when 20,000 Japanese troops were landed in Corea. It practically ended February 14 of this year when Admiral Ting, the Chinese commander, surrendered Weihaiwei and then committed suicide. The United States tried to prevent war by offering (July 18) to be a sort of mutual friend in settling the quarrel. China seemed willing to consent to mediation, but Japan as much as told the Americans to mind their own business. Nevertheless, on every favorable occasion during the struggle the United States sought to play the part of peacemaker, and evdntually peace was brought about through the instrumentality of Minister Dun in Tokio and Minister Denby in Pekin. The first overt act of war was the sinking of the British steamship Kowshing off Asan,Corea, in July by the Japanese crusier Naniwa. The Kowshing was transporting troops to reinforce the Chinese on the peninsula. Two days before the Japanese had in effect seized the king’s palace at Seoul under pretense of protecting the helpless Corean monarch.

; . M LI HUNG CHANG.

July 29 Japan called out her reserves and on Aug. 1 she notified representatives of other countries that war was on and politely informed the rest ot the world that things were just what they seemed. • There were numerous engagements of minor consequence while the Japanese were driving the Chinese northward out ot Corea, but the first great battle was at Pingyang, Sept. 15 and 16, when Field Marshal (now Minister of War) Yamagata’s army captured that stronghold. Sept. 17, the sea fight off the mouth of the Yalu River substantially destroyed the Chinese Navy. Field Marshal Oyama sailed from Hiresklma Sept. 28 with the second Japanese army, but was lost to eight uM exactly pne month

later he landed with his forces at Talien on tho Shinking Peninsula of China. Marshal Yamagata meanwhile had been leading his victorious army through Northern Core*. Port Arthur, looked upon as one of tbe best fortified places in the world, fell Nov. 21. The two Japanese armies then marched leisurely on to Peking. There was occasional fighting, but evidently the Japanese did not press the campaign, moving along leisurely and when ready capturing Newcliwang on the Leaotong River. . The battle of Weihaiwei was the next and the final important engage ment of the war. Japan has made a hostile demonstrration about Formosa, but probably in order to lay a foundation for a claim to it in the peace negotiations rather than to seize the island. About the middle of March the talk of peace negotiations, which had been heard for some weeks, crystallized in the definite agreement of China to accept the conditions which Japan proposed. The correspondence was carried on through the United States ministers in order to avoid a repetition of the incident of February, when Japan kicked out two emissaries masquerading as peace ambassadors, but without credentials. After some further delay Li Hung Chang was duly commissioned to repsent the Emperor of China and sailed for Shimonoseki, Japan, where he was received by Japan’s peace commissioners, Count Oto and Viscount Mutsu. The peace conference was only fairly under way when a fanatic shot Li Hung Chang, inflicting a slight wound in the face. The Mikado promptly proclaimed an armistice, intended to last until the Chinese Envoy should recover. Before the armistice expired the peace conference had agreed upon a treaty. The provisions of the treaty of most consequence to outside countries are these: China agrees to no longer impose upon foreigners the odious tax known as liken, levied upon goods and sales. A uniform standard tael is to be adopted by China for her currency. Much confusion is caused in money calculations, because there are the Aaikwan or custom tael (usually meant when government computations are made), worth about 72 cents, and the Shanghai tael, worth about 69 cents. All foreigners are to be permitted to introduce into China factories and machinery, and to lease warehouses in the interior. Japan takes Formosa, the Pescadores Islands and Manchuria from Yingkow, on the Leao river to Anping, on the Yalu including the Leatong peninsula. No other part of China is to be oc cupied by Japan even as a temporary guarantee that China shall abide by the provisions of the peace treaty, except possibly Weihaiwei. The important commercial concessions made by China are to be shared by all nations. Other countries have striven for many years to induce China to abolish the likin impost, but in vain. The term is composed of the Chinese word “li,” the thousandth part of a tael, and “kin,” meaning money. The tax is imposed in addition to customs duties upon goods transported from one point in China to another, and the rates varies at the different barriers or boundaries throughout the country. Foreign owned goods might be exempted from this and other local exactions by means of transit passes issued by the customs authorities on payment of two and one-half per cent, of the value of the goods. Originally the liken was a tax of one cash (a copper coin varying in value from one-tenth to onefourteenth of an American cent.) per tael on the value of all sales, and was imposed by the people of China upon themselves to make up the deficiency in the land tax during the Taiping rebellion. The money thus raised was to be set apart for military measures only and intended to be merely a tempor" ary measure. But it is still levied and has been recognized in treaties by foreign nations trading with China. , Some Queer Nests. A great comfort of the modern dwelling house was long anticipated by the birds, namely, lighting by means of electricity. This bird, called melicourvis Baya, is a tiny creature of India, and constructs a well designed nest, which is suspended from palm trees and roofs of houses. The nest resembles a bottle in shape and is woven together with great art. In it are found great balls of clay, and these are in reality candlesticks in which glow worms are set to serve as candles; these are placed about the entrance of the nest, which is therefore luminous. This lightning is a defense against snakes and other midnight prowlers, who are frightened away by the pale fire of the glow worm. The little birds never think whether their living candles suffer any more than the Roman Emperors who used martyrs as torches. A Mine as a Paris Exhibit. M. Paschal Grousset, deputy of Paris, proposes, as a novelty for tho exhibition of 1900, to dig a mine to the depth of 1,500 meters, in which an exhibition of coal, diamond, gold and other mining could be given. I| would be a paying “side show,” he thipks.

Two Farmers and a Wildcat. “Nate’’ Bowen and W. O. Curtis, farmers, living just over the State line in Pennsylvania, eight miles from Deposit, N. Y., had an exciting adventure with a wildcat. Bowen is a good shot and in the winter does a good deal of hunting. Two wildcats were seen by him one day recently, and he succeeded in killing the female, the male getting away, the dogs running it into Its den, a cave in a ledge of rocks. Bowen set a fox trap and found it smashed the next morning with plenty of yellow hair and blood on it, showing that the beast had had a struggle to get free. With Curtis he next set a bear trap, the jaws of which were strong enough to cut the cat’s legs off almost. Going to the place the next morning early they missed the trap, and investigation showed that the cat had dragged it far back into the darkest corner of its cave. Neither of Bowen’s hounds could be coaxed to go down into the hole. Curtis, armed with a shotgun, said “he’d be blowed” if he was going to give up the fight like that, and he let himself down into the cave. All he could see were two big gleaming eyes in the darkness? With as good an aim as possible he fired at the eyes. He was , greeted by a savage snarl and a rattling of the trap as the animal retreated further back into the den. He climbed out in a hurry. Bowen then said he would “ tackle the varmint,’’ and he went down into the cave armed with a self-acting revolver. He was creeping toward the back part of. the cave when he heard the screech of the cat and the jingling of the trap as the wounded beast flew at him. He fired, and luckily the shot took effect, the cat falling dead at his feet. The animal weighed nearly fifty pounds, and was one of the largest that had been seen in Northern Pennsylvania for years. There is a bounty of $2 on Wild cats, and tbe skin is worth a few dollars. This is the season of the year when they are most hungry and savage, and Bowen ran a great risk in killing the cat as he did. Easter Island. Far away in the Pacific Ocean lies a lonely volcanic island, which is called Easter Island, from tho fact that it was discovered on Easter day, 1722, by a navigator named Roggereen, a Dutch Admiral', Its real name is Rapa-Nui, and its Polynesian inhabitants are fast dying out. Comparatively few explorers have visited it, and, contrary to the joyous spring name it has, is a deserted place. What makes Easter Island of interest are the numbers of curious colossal stone heads and busts, called Moai, which abound there, evidently the work of the natives hundreds of years ago. A few of these are erect, but many have fallen. The legend says that King Tukuihu settled in Rapa-Nui and retired into a cave where he carved and cut all the gigantic heads, which removed themselves to their present position on the island. When he became old, lie did not die, but was turned into a butterfly, which is called in that country by , his name. % Tukuihu used to search for eggs in ! the nests of the sea birds, and when he lost his human form the chief, who wished to succeed him, agreed to search for a certain number of eggs, and tho first to collect them was appointed King. It seems singular that eggs without any especial significance should have been so imoortanton Easter Island. New Way to Make Glass Pipe. A new method of manufacturing glass pipe has been discovered which promises to revolutionize that industry. It has hitherto heen found impossible to mold large glas? tubes of any grest length, because the glass would cool while running into the mold, and the structure of the tube was notf homogeneous. The new method consistsof using a mold with a movable piston. The piston is just enough smaller than the outer shell of the mold to allow for the thickness of the tube to be made. The piston is placed at the bottom of the mold, and as the molten glass is poured in the piston is forced upward by hydraulic pressure. Pipes are made by this process in sections six feet long and are used for sewers and vater pipes. “The Man That Eats Dog." An unusual case came before the courts of Pittsburg the other day when Sherman Zimmerly was arrested on the charge of stealing, killing and eating a 7 months old bull pup, the property of a neighbor. Zimmerly readily admitted that he and his wife had killed and eaten eighteen dogs in the last few months and said that bull pup cutlets breaded made a delicious dish, while large wooly dogs they esteemed far superior to pork. He denied, however, that he had killed the pup in question and offered to prove it by showing the dog meat which he had salted down at home. Zimmerly is known to the whole neighborhood as “the man that eats dog.” " Hoar Frost Glass." A new sort of ornamental glass is now made in Paris by B. M. Bay, which he calls by the name of hoar frost gltiss, "‘terre givre,” from the pattern upon it, which resembles the feathery forms traced by frost on the inside of windows in cold weat her. The of making tho glass is Bipaple, -

Ohio’s Daniel Boone, What Daniel Boone was to Kentucky Isaac Williams was to Ohio—a pioneer, a great Indian fighter, a forerunner of civilization . His fame is not so widespread as Boone's, bat in Ohio, where he is known, his memory is very respectfully regarded. His wife, Rebecca, was a great pioneer, too, and lies buried alongside of her husband under a great oak on a knoil overlooking the Ohio River, near Williamstown. She had a sentiment about where her grave should bo that was akin to R. L. Stevenson’s. She declined the hospitalities of the Williamstown Cemetery, and chose to be buried on tho hillside where she still lies, for she said, "I don’t want to be crowded, and I don’t want to be jostled on the day ol Resurrection." Mr. James Creelman, war correspondent, who has been exploring Ohio in search of material for a historical novel which is engaged in writing, went to sets the graves ot Rebecca and Isaac the other day. He reports that the bones of the pioneers are likely to be moved soon to Marietta, and ryburied near Commodore Whipple and other eighteenth century celebrities. At Marietta the Williamses will get a monument, which, of course, they deserve. All the same, sentimental people will prefer to think of them as still resting on the hill of Rebecca’? choice, and calmly counting on an unjostled resurrection. A Cat-and-Pigeon Fight. It is not often that a cat with Its fighting propensities is worsted in a battle with pigeons, especially as the latter are known for their timidity, but Freddie Gearhart, of Lock Haven, Penn., has a member of the feline tribe that is somewhat sadder and wiser than it was a few days ago. On Friday morning Freddie, as is his daily custom, threw the feed for his pet pigeon in the stable. His pigeon, with a number of other pigeons in the neighborhood, began picking up the feed. Suddenly a pet cat, nearly grown, of the owner of the pigeon, ran into the stable and pounced on his master’s bird, taking it by the back of the neck. Immediately there was a scrimmage. Instead of the other pigeons flying away from the intruder, they attacked the cat, picking at it with their bills and striking it vigorous blows with their wings. Fur and feathers flew for a few seconds, but the cat soon realized that it was overpowered and beat a hasty retreat up the garden walk. When it arrived at the house it made a jump for the window sill, but in its exhausted condition it miscalculated the distance and fell through the open door to the cellar below. The pet pigeon was not seriously injured. Photography in tho Haram The modern Turk has, in a quiet way, grown prodigiously fond of photography, said a lady who acts as the manageress of one of the greatest photographic establishments in London. I was recently in the employmenLof a relation at Constantinople, and I had the honor of photographing some fifty of the wives and daughters of the present Sultan. These ladies are very ordinary ones indeed, for the most part, to what your imagination might picture, and all of them are dressed in the latest Parisian fashions, that is, for photographic purposes. All the same, one or two of the Sultan’s daughters are' very beautiful girls, and have been taught and educated by Miss Mumford and other English governesses. They showed the most childish delight in being photographed. I may say here that photography is acting as a social force in T urkey, for a young man who wishes to take to himself a wife need no longer trust absolutely to the report of his female friends alone, as he once had to do, for the photograph of the lady is now shown to him. And the women, too, can now, without violating the strict,.Turkish law in such matters, send their photographs about in order to create an impression. Beating the Slot Machine. A New York newsboy has succeeded in beating the penny-in-the-slot machine. By mistake he took a Dutch Guiana cent from a customer. He was disgusted; it was worth a great deal less than a cent. As a matter of fact, these Dutch cents run about 400 to our American silver dollar. He tried it in a penny-slot chewing "gum- machine. It worked like a real United States dent. He told all his comrades; and there was a large investment in Dutch cents. 5 One money changer did a rattling business and made a profit. The boys could not afford to buy a dollars’ worthat a time, so he sold the coins at the rate of three for a cent. The astounding number of Dutch cents found in the boxes of the machines most patronized by the newsboys led to a discovery of the traffic in the coins. But there is no help for it. If the machines are willing to trade with the boys and lose three-quarters of a cent on every deal, the proprietor must discharge The machine. He cannot punish the boys. -Cloth of Down of Fowl. - Anew kind of cloth is being made in Lyons from the down of hens, ducksand geese. Seven hundred and fifty grains of feathers make rather more than a square yard of light and very warm water proof cldth. ~7 ■- v • ■ '—...