Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1895 — Page 8

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. M. BLACKBURN, - • • Pxnw.ru**. John Bull will kindly keep his blue pencil off Mr. Monroe’s justly celebrated doctrine. * It Is well to remember that the man who is able to fight his own battles In the world is not always able to stand a victory. A review of the things thus far actually achieved by the Washington Baseball Club will explain at once why the Washington players are called "Senators.” Pianist Zeldenrust, of Holland, is voted by Paris to be almost the equal of Paderewski. We shall doubt it until we learn just how long his hair really is. An old “blue” law in Pittsburg fixes the cost of a swear word at 67 cents, but when the home team is walloped a good many expletives are slipped in at cut rates. Mrs. Oscar Wilde denies that she has applied for a divorce and declares that she has no intention of doing so. Women are not only faithful unto death, but unto several stations the other side. Men of high or mean birth may be possessed of good qualities; but, if they fall into bad company, they become vicious. Rivers flow with sweet waters; but having joined the ocean, they become undrinkable. Connecticut has made the astounding discovery that she has no flag. She desires to say, however, that, though a trifle shy on bunting, she is still turning out a good brand of wooden nutmegs and her shoepegs are easily mistaken for oats. The West has not yet reduced the egg business to the science attained in the East. Distances out West are too magnificent to permit of a great deal of gathering being done by wagons. A few attempts have been made to do this, but it did not pay. ————— Nothing more powerfully argues a life beyond this than the failure of ideals here. Earth gives only fragments of humanity, fragments of heart, fragments of mind, fragments of charity, love and virtue, and, instead of being a world, is only a handful of seeds out of which a full-blown world might grow, but has not yet grown. The Chicago Aiderman who demands t that the bloomer girl be suppressed by the strong arm of the law, because “her ‘toot assemble’ looks like a ntan,” is the same profound statesman wlm waited the Art Institute removed from the lake front because “them flgggrs is too nakedly nood.” He should be sentenced to the Chicago University for at least eight years. The Chinese Emperor has issued a proclamation announcing the conclusion of peace with Japan. He says that he was minded to go on with the war, but he could not, “because the sea overflowed the coast and submerged the camps.” So, this was the reason. The Western world, in its crass ignorance of Celesfial matters, has supposed that it was the Japanese overflow on the coasts. But it was only salt water. The Celestials were drowned out—not whipped. =— A curious story comes from Washington about an attache—military—of the French legation, who applied to Secretary Herbert for plans of the proposed new sub-marine torpedo boat, and who felt much disgruntled at what he called ungenerous treatment when he was informed that the Secretary would give him all information of the kind in exchange for similar information about French marine devices. If there’ has been an exhibition of more superb “cheek” in diplomatic circles for half a century, we do not now recall it A. young woman named Yaw recently sang at a concert in Cleveland and the Plain Dealer sent one of its bright young men to report the event and serve as musical critic in the absence of the regular music man of the staff. Here is the report he turned in “Miss Yaw is a beautiful songstress. She has an unusual development of the larynx, which enables her to throw into vibration and with different degrees of rapidity the entire length of the vocal chords or only a part thereof. But of greatest interest is her remarkable control over the muscles which regulate the division and modification of the resonant, cavities, the laryngeal, pharyngeal, oral and nasal, and upon this depends the quality of her voice. The uvula is bifurcated and the two divisions sometimes act independently. The epiglottis, during the production of the highest notes, rises upward and backward against the posterior pharyngeal wall in such away as almost entirely to separate the laryngeal and pharyngeal cavities at the same time that it gives an unusual conformation to these resonant chambers." Metropolitan journalism is yearning for that young man. Would it not be a good idea to change the accepted plans of jail construction so that in place of a structure designed solely to keep prisoners in one would be built to keep lynchers out? The affair at Danville, 111., was followed by an attempted lynching in Indiana, where the efforts of a mob were foiled by the Sheriff taking his prisoner to an adjoining county. Hardly a week Oassss in which the nubile is aottfgat-

ed to an acm-unt of the attack on a jail by a mob of citizens who, unwilling to await the processes of law In the punishment of crime, assault the Jail and hang the object of their hatred. Jails may have to be built like forts; at least It begins to be evident that present models will have to be improved upon, so that the Sheriff with his assistants may protect prisoners charged with crime from the assaults of supposedly law-abiding citizens, who are Intent on violating the law. As at present constructed the country jail seems to be easy to get Into when attacked by a mob of angry men. But if surrounded by a stone wall and the entrance commanded by an effective piece of artillery the few prisoners inside might be protected from the larger mobs of lawbreakers outside and the country saved the disgrace of the lynching bees which bring the nation into disrepute the world over. No person has a stronger claim on the State for protection than the unconvicted prisoner. It Is a claim that all men ought to feel an equal interest In defending, for no man knows when the finger of suspicion may be pointed at him wrongfully yet under circumstances more or less convincing of his guilt To a certain extent a man awaiting trial Is a ward of the county and should be protected at all hazards. If people understood how much of the physical suffering Incident to protracted seasons of hot weather Is due to the food they eat there would be more common sense used In the selection of diet It is not at all uncommon to see in any city restaurant men plying fans industriously with one hand,, while with the other they convey to their mouths roast beef with a greasy, rich gravy, potatoes heavily buttered, or pork and beans. Having filled their stomachs with a heavy charge, they go out Into the heated air, and wonder why they suffer so Intolerably from the heat If they loaded the furnaces in their houses with fuel and applied fire to It they would not wonder why the house was uncomfortably warm. Yet they will do a similar thing to their bodies and then wonder and suffer and groan. In hot weather two things ought to be avoided to insure comfort and health—food and drink that are stimulating or are rich in carbon or nitrogen. Any person can subsist on about one-half the food in the summer that Is required in the winter, and the summer diet should consist chiefly of vegetables, fruits, milk and the farinaceous foods. Fish should take the place of beef. Pork should be wholly discarded. Milk can be used In place of veal. Spring lamb is always wholesome. Macaroni, the various preparations of wheat, farina, toast, asparagus, custards, fruits and the scores of similar delicacies, with some light meat, like lamb, tongue, chicken or fish, once a day should constitute the daily food. A little common sense Ilea at the bottom of all physical comfort in these torrid days, and comfort is a more important factor in good health than is generally understood. However little of real honor theije may be in a title, the action of Queen Victoria in conferring knighthood upon Henry Irving will have a great deal of influence in securing influence for the actor’s employment as an art The distinction accordeiFlrving is more notable, therefore, than the like honors conferred upon LeWs Morris,- Walter Besantand Dr. William How’ard Russell. Dr. Russell earned his high reputation as a war correspondent. Mr. Besant has won deserved honors for his literary work, and even more for his efforts on behalf of the literary profession. Morris, the poet, has now a title in lieu of the laureateship for which he pined. And probably the substitution will console him. But in Mr. Irving’s case the title was conferred, against the traditions and prejudices of knighthood, in recognition of a life devoted to placing the stage upon the level of the other arts. It was not so many years ago that English law classed actors in the same category with “strolling vagabonds.” While the term of reproach in no way reflected any real public sentiment there was, in England particularly, a deep-seated prejudice against according to actors the highest social distinctions freely given to men of talent in other professions. By knighting Irving Queen Victoria has at one stroke cut down the last of this unjust tradition. The recognition of Irving is also the recognition of the dramatic profession in its higher manifestations. To Irving belongs henceforth double honor as the actor who has risen to the highest possible plane and as the man who by his persistent following of high Ideals and his own fine personal character secured for the drama the recognition which in a land of titles has long been accorded to companion arts. *' Under Restraint. Mrs. Qulckleigh—The first man who ever proposed to me said that if I would not marry him he would blow his braintffout Miss Wonder—Good gracious! He must have been crazy. Why didn’t you have him put under restraint? Mrs. Qulckleigh—l did. I married him.—Tit-Bits. The Difference. Tommy—“ Pop, what’s the difference beween a bonmot and a joke?” Tommy’s Pop—“A bonmot is something you tell a friend and a joke is something a friend tells you.”—Philadelphia Record. His Sympathy. Beggar—“Ach, my dear sir, I have loist my leg;” > Gentleman—“ Very sorry. I haven’t seen it anywhere about”—Winer Lust Religion and Liver Complaint. There is a good deal of religion In this world which has its origin in liver complaint. -New York Serald. ;

ANEMONE. What have I done for thee, Thou dear anemone, That thou shouldat yield to m« Thy whole year’s dower? What cloudy days and blue, Whatnighte of star and dew. We both have traveled through To greet this hourl After thy winter's sleep I know how thou didst creep Up stairways dark and steep To meet the spring. I know how thou didst go Through sodden leaves and snow Away thou didst not know Unquestioning. I too have climbed and crept. Up rugged paths have atept, And on stone pillows slept— Many a night; Like thee, fl£m clod to clod Blindfolded, I have trod. Often alone, save God— Seeking the light. / Brief too, like thine, my hour, Poor amethystine flower! For see! thy petals shower * The sunset air. I too shall fade, and then My soul shall bloom again; l. But, flower, I know not when— I know not where. —May Riley Smith, in Independent. j Test of Love. “ I assure you, mother, that I do not want to marry yet/’ said Antoinette to Mme. Odiot. “I am so happy with yourself; but should 1 enjoy the same happiness, the same peace and the same contentment when I change your fireside for another? I doubt it! No, no, I have plenty of time yet; lam only 18 years of age. While lam much honored by the attentions of M. le Baron de Merillac, I repeat that I must refuse him!” ”My dear child,” replied Mme. Odiot, ‘‘you should reflect that one of these days you will lose me. I have been suffering for a long time, and very little would suffice to carry me off. You will then find yourself without support, since your dear father is gone, and a husband is the natural support of a young girl when she has lost her parents. Baron Merillac is a very estimable young man. You will probably never get such another offer. He is enormously rich, and he has a title and is the only son of parents who will adore and worship you as if you were their own child. It would surely be madness to persist in a refusal that has no basis. The Baron is a handsome cavalier, and his manners are of the best. What more can you wish?” "Then you know him?” asked Antoinette, with surprise. "Without doubt.” "Yeti have never seen him here,” persisted the girl. "No, he has never been here, but I have met him several times at the house of Mme. de Saverny, where you would never accompany me, under the pretext that she displeased you, and it was Mme. de Saverny who spoke to me of the Baron as a man who would be suitable for you, from every point of view.’’ "I shall like Mme. de Saverny still less now,” exclaimed the girl. “What business is it of hers? If she is so anxious to get M. de Merillac married let her take him herself. She is a widow.” "You are foolish, ma bonne cherle. M. de Merillac is 25 years old and Mme. de Saverny is 50. She might be his mother. But you should not get angry. One would almost think that you had some other reason than the one you give so vehemently for refusing M. de Merillac.” "Some other ’•'•"son,” stammered Antoinette, lowering her eyes, while a pretty little flush came Into her cheeks. Mme. Odiot watched her smilingly, and several minutes passed in silence. Antoinette took up her sewing again, and being aware no doubt that her mother’s eyes were fixed upon her, presently rose and went over to the piano. Mme. Odiot stopped her as she went. “We will Settle the matter once for all,” she said, "never to return to it. The reason you refuse M. de Merillac is because you don’t want to marry, is it not?” "Mais oui, maman,” said Antoinette, in a voice that nevertheless lacked the ring oT sincerity. “bo that, no mitter who else may comedo me to ask your hand I may teLLtifm no, and send hlm about his business?” “Oh! I didn’t say that —perhaps later —when I am older—if the—if I liked him,” stammered the young girl, much embarrassed. "So be it | We will talk of some.thing else. For instance, my nephew Gaston has now been with us for three weeks, and has nearly finished his picture. He has been very busy making some sketches in the woods for another one he has in view. I think he is with your uncle at this moment’, Let us go across and see him —I mean my brother—he has not been very well of late.” “Oh, no, mother! my uncle is quite well again,” said Antoinette quickly. “Ahl you have some news about him?” Antoinette bit her lips. - Her answer had slipped out too quickly. “The gardener told me,” she added naively. Mme. Odiot pretended not to notice her daughter’s embarrassment. ‘ Will you come with nMI lam ■ "

dlan I ought to let him know at once of your decision with regard to M. de Merillac, for he knew all about him?” "Oh! my uncle knew?” " Yes.” “ And he approved?” “Yes.” " Then Gaston knew that it was proposed I should marry this Baron?” " Perhaps.” " But he said nothing to me about it!” ■*> “ I thought you had not seen him!” "Oh! yes,—that is—oh! no, I, have not,” replied the girl, turning her face away in her confusion over her little fibs with which she was inexperienced. " Let us go. Are you coming?” Mme. Odiot turned away to hide a smile. " Is my presence very necessary!” the young girl asked. Then she added : "I think that my uncle and yourself will be able to talk more at your ease if I go away; beside my uncle will question me and I shan’t know how to answer him. ” "That is quite simple. You will answer him just as you answered me!” “ You are making fun of me,mother/' replied Antoinette, peevishly. “Not the least in the world I It is not quite natural that you should refuse a match so agreeable to your mother and your tutor for so plausible a reason; you do not want to get married. But here we are talking again on this subject, which we had agreed to leave alone. It was you that started it again, you must notice 1” “Oh, now, mother, you make me cry!” And Antoinette burst into tears and threw herself upon her mother's neck. "Why do you cry, ma mignonne? There is surely no cause for tears in our conversation.” At this moment a servant girl entered the room and announced that the Baron de Merillac and his son were waiting outside. "Monsieur le Baron de Merillac and his son,” she said. Then she withdrew. Antoinette hurriedly made up her mind to conceal herself, when there appeared upon the threshold of the room her uncle and Gaston. She stood gaping at them without moving and examined them. “What does this mean?” she stammered, turning toward her mother. “Ask your uncle and Gaston himself,” replied Mme. Odiot. "It means,” said M. Lambert very seriously, "that I come as your guardian to ask for you in marriage to the Baron de Merillac.” “But—the announcement just made by Justine?” interrupted Antoinette, who could not understand why the Baron and his father did not make their appearance, and why her uncle made this request, when they were evidently both waiting in the next room. Her interrogating glances passed from her mother to M. Lambert and Gaston, the latter of whom appeared a little disturbed and nervous, in spite of his smiling face. Antoinette had dried her tears, but her eyes were still red and swollen from crying. Gaston noticed this. "You have been crying, Antoinette?” he asked her, while M. Lambert and Mme. Odiot stood apart and conversed in low tones. "Yes,” she replied to her cousin’s question. "Why?” “I cannot tell you.” "Oh!” was all he said. „ “Well, Antoinette,” Interrupted M. Lambert, "you have given me no answer!” * * Mother has already spoken to me about this gentleman, uncle, and—and—” "And?” questioned Gaston’s father. "And—” continued Antoinette, playing nervously with a skein of wool she held in her hands. “Well?”insisted M. Lambert, “is it difficult to say?” Gaston made a step in the direction of the young girl as though to encourage her. "Tell them, mother, what I answered you,” murmured the poor girl. Gaston’s attitude was a torture to her. "Weill” began Mme. Odiot, exchanging a glance with her brother, "my daughter does not wish to get marriedl” Gaston made another step toward Antoinette and seized her hand; “Not even with me ?” he asked with a trembling voice. “With you ?” cried the younggirl, blushing and growing pale by turns. "Yes, with me, for I love you! Do you not know it ?” "I was sure of it,” replied M. Lambert, with a wink“For goodness sake, explain yourselves I” exclaimed Antoinette, looking at all of them in turn. “It is easy to explain,” said Gaston. "I thought I had guessed your love for me, and I told my father, confessing my love for you at the same time. He and your mother talked it over and laid this trap to see if your love was strong enough to resist a rich and titled lover.” "Oh, Gaston! and you have fallen into the trap 7” “Yes, petite cousins, for I too wanted to feel quite sure that I was being loved for myself alone. Now I know and can no longer doubt, can I ? You will be my wife, won’t you ?” “Butshehas not said so,” interrupted Mme. Odiot, mischievously, without giving her daughter tirhe to reply, and having hard work her-

"Ah! Antoinette I Antoinette ! Thank you. my darling little cousin,” exclaimed Gaston, mad with joy. The young girl had flung herself upon her mother’s neck and embraced her with all her heart. "Naughty mother !” she murmured in her ear as she kissed her. "You are crying still?” asked Mme. Odiot, happily. “Oh, no, chore petite mere. lam laughing now.” And, turning her radiant face toward her uncle and cousin, she placed her hand in that of Gaston, and allowed him to draw her to his warm embrace. CANDLE FISH. Rare Preduot of the Pacific Coast W"t«ra. Frazer River people, as well as the natives of Alaska, expect to be well supplied with artifical light for some time to come. This has come about through a remarkable run of fish which has occurred along the coast of British Columbia and of Alaska recently. They were not ordinary fish, but natural candles, which have been found swimming in the Pacific Ocean in immense shoals. A dispatch from Vancouver says that while the fish* ing lasted it was more profitable than gold mining. One catch that was made beat all previous records. A gentleman named Finnie captured seventy buckets of the living candles, which are called by the natives eulachons, and he sold them for $17.50 at the market price of 25 cents a bucket. — The eulachons or candje-fish, which belong to the smelt family, are largely composed of fat. When dried they are stored away and used as candles during the long winter. After the Alaskan has had his dinner he takes out a dried fish, sticks the tall in a crack of the table and touches a match to the nose. Then the fish burns with a bright and steady glimmer. The Alaskans also use these fish at their rude religious ceremonies. Rows of candle-fish are stuck in a board with their heads upwa d. Before the ceremony an old man lights the fish. They burn like a row bf candles and throw a weird light over the congregation at their devotions. These fish are so common in the waters of Alaska that the natives scoop them up with a board. A large plank like a paddle is studaed with nails and an Indian standing on the shore or in a boat sweeps it through the water gathering in great numbers of these natural candles when the shoal is thick. At New Westminster las| week the catch of candle-fish was so large that they are now being frozen by the ton. This will jeopardize the oil monopoly all along the Pacific coast. Another advantage about these creatures is that if they are not available as candles, they may be eaten, and they also make an excellent substitute for codliver oil. They are so full of fat as to be almost transparent. They resemble the smelt in form, but with weaker dentition and smaller scales, and they are of dusky coloration, growing to nearly a fool in length. In the springtime immense shoals of these fish are to be met with along the whole northwest coast of America, and they ascend all the rivers north of the Columbia to spawn. The natives of British Columbia call the eulachon the pen' fish, and use it as a candle by inserting in it the pith of a rush or a strip of bark as wick. Another species is the anaplOpoma fimbria, which resembles the pollock and attains a length of twenty inches and a weight of five pounds. Such a candle would burn for several nights. This large species is also called the black candle-fish, the horse mackerel and the beshow. It would only need a shoal of natural matches now to complete the happiness of the Alaskan Indians and the destruction of the oil monopoly in our Arctic province. The supply of ocean candles gathered this spring will, it is said, last the Indians for several years unless they take to eating them. Bunding Stone Industry. The annual statistical report on the building stone'lndustry of the United States has just been submitted to the government by Professor William C. Day, of Swathmore College, Penn. This report gives the values of the granite, marble, slate, sandstone, limestone and bluestone produced in the United States during 1894. The total product of each of the kinds of stone during 1894 was $87,815,816, a gain over 1898 of SB,429,758 in the value of total stone output. Owing to the financial depression which has been generally felt in all industries during the past two years, the totals for both years fall below those of 1891 and 1892. While the production of granite, matble, slate and limestone has increased somewhat in 1894, the values of sandstone and bluestone have fallen off. The total value of the output of marble during 1894 shows a gain over 1898 of $788,498. The marble industry In Georgia has made strides during the post year which, considering the financial stringency, must be regarded as very remarkable. The sandstone industry shows a decided falling off. Os all kinds of stone produce, limestone has the widest application, being used for building and burning into lime for blast furnace flux and for road making. The total value of the bluestone output is estimated at SIOO,OOO less in 1894 than in 1808. — i /I Im I^—4. lkl rt 1 _• • , AO x 1

Remarkable Prahlatorlo RellSS. H But in no part of this countrf ■ perhaps, have so many valMbl B| "finds” been made as in the territol of New Mexico. All thia regid M seems to have been thickly people Bi ages ago by a highly civilized racd ®K On the highest point of the grel Igg Potrero de las Vacas of New are the most remarkable prehlstorl relics that have been discovered, bl H| ing no less than the gods sculpture H| In stone that were worshiped by ancients. These are the mountain lions carved from canic rock. The Images are indosei ||g in a rude and almost circular stoni H| wall, in a space of fifty feet in eld ■ cumfarence, three feet in height, wltl ®| an entrance projecting eighteen fed ||| toward the southeast three feet widd K The lions face directly toward thIH east, are two in number, separate! ■ by a space of twelve inches, and an ®| each six feet in length, and each red ■ resents a puma, or mountain lion, iIK the act of crouching for a spring H The heads of these statues are almost ■ entirely destroyed, showing plalnllH the marks of the pious hammer thajK sought their overthrow. The legslfi bodies and tails of the animal ar<B better preserved, and constitute thin remains of the most reinarkabllH stone images set up for pagan worlg ship in the territory of the Unltemß States. To these gods the Cochitaß Indians of the present day pay homlß age. ' _____ Blackbirds Win the Day. I In|Capitol Parkthe other day a flocll® of blackbirds attacked and put to|® flight a well kept greyhound that waJB taking a quiet trot up the walk . ThelH feathered army, apparently at a sig-l® nal given by one of their number, lß swooped down on the unsuspecting!® dog and struck him with their sharpM bills and claws on all sides, at the!® same time giving forth sharp, shrillM and angry cries. ’■ But his dogship was not easily!! bluffed and started on his course I through the park. This was provo- I cation for another onslaught by the I feathered army and for nearly a I minute it was hard to distinguish be- I tween dog and birds, the air and the I walk were so thick with hair and I feathers, but the greyhound finally I wavered, turned and fled, followed to ■ the Tenth and N street entrance by I the victors. 1 Perched on fence, shrub and tree, I the dog going down the street with I an occasional scared look behind him, ■ the birds seemed to say: "You want ® to read the signs, and when they say 9 ’no dogs allowed in these grounds, 9 that's just what it means, and we will fl see that the law is enforced, if it ■ takes the last feather out of our 9 tails.” Tramp Restaurants Abroad. I Edinburgh can be reckoned one of I the best mooching towns m Great I Britain, and if I were a beggar, cast- Il ing about for a life residence, I think I I should select this beautiful city, 11 and that from my own personal ex- I! perience. There is something dell- I ciously credulous in the true citizen, I and the university makes it a I specially good place for clothes. Our |1 first meal in the town we found at a y “refuge” in High street. We paid a I penny apiece for a quart of good thick soup and half a loaf of bread. It was the largest quantity of soup I ever had for so little money; but it < should be remembered that it was a charity. Cheap restaurant living. In both Scotland and England, is more of a theory than a reality. For twopence I have had a dinner at a Herbage in Germany that I could not get in Great Britain for five; and for 10 cents I have had the table d'hote with fonr courses in Chicago that I could not get in London for a shil- ’ ling. Wouldn't Eat Thom Raw. A story comes from the dispensary ” of one of the Chicago hospitals. The physician in attendance after listening to a woman’s tale regarding her husband’s ailment, prescribed some medicine and also told her to apply some leeches on the sick man. When the woman returned next day the doctor asked her if her husband was better. "No,” she said; "ho is rather . worse, if anything.” ’ " Did you follow out my instruc* tions with regard to the leeches ?” "Well, no—not exactly. John wouldn’t eat them raw, so I fried them for him.” f Bug Destroyers for Hawaii. The Hawaiian Consul has received an order from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry of Hawaii for 500 horned toads, to be used in the island to destroy a bug that is eating everything in sight. The Commissioner wrote that a lot of toads had been imported, but that they required water, which was not always handy, while the horned toads need no water and are equally expert as bug catchers. Consul Wood, fore, advertised for horned toads, offering to pay $1 per dozen for them. Coffee Crop Short. The coffee crop of South and Central America this year will be about 10 per cent, short of the crop of last year, according to statistics received* The Brazilian crop last season was 7,100,000 bags, and the new crop is estimated at considerably less. The Mexican and Central American crops are increasing yearly. The world's consumption of coffee last year was bags, of which the United '