Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1895 — Page 3

TO THETT) REGRESSIVE <3 H FARMER OB’ 1093. . \ ZE wish to say that we have now on hand the New ’ W Force Feed, Low Elevator, Champion - Binder ECCENTRIC GEAR, Demonstrated in harvest of 1894, to 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 H A n ID W -A. FB. 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. .;■,■’ ' ' ■ • I Daniel Schlegel, DEALER IN LIGHTMW RODS, SPOUTING, ROOFING, AND Tinware of all Kinds. SloiffiOWi and Mending done to order. Front St., near Jefferson Street. Decatur, - - - Indiana. Are You Ready. .... . q xJ* xJP o For the Harvest ? — ThPre’s only one way to get ready so that yon can be sure that you are ready —and I am ready to get’you ready with the World-Beating, | LIGHT-RUNNING ♦ jut McCORMICK ' STEEL i BINDERS and MOWERS. BEST IN THE .. . Ml ■ - .... world’Rt ..... Sees US« Jj J Most Durably Built, £vl._— • 7« V'*k ■ - Lightest in Draft, i ~- Greatest in Capacity, j v Simplest in Construction. I IrslssiF/TflVi X « fft .1— All Competition Staid Away froni i! ■ the McCormick in the , J •1. Worlds Fair Tests ! ' .. - "If-might to day be s.-dlln;-; of sivcdlotl •‘••heap" machines at a price which would r.tili I n high, but pr.••f.:r t >’udl/t,hc hiyii-value McCormick I lit a price which experkmco will meat assutodiy- provqjs /we. Glad to allow ~ * my friends these r.iachtTTGTat p,»y time. Como in find see them. tSTI have a fine line of buggies very cheap. V. SL REED.

HOT TH IM* Intense Exciteihent Over an Attempt to Collect a Railroad Tax. VOTED MANY YEARS AGO. Reildent. of Carter County, Ky., Preparing to lieelet the Payment of a Itallroa<l Tax Voted 40 Year. Since, the Hoad Not Having Been Built—Deputy Collector Narrowly E«c.»pe» Lynching. Ashland, Ky., .Inly 2.—lu Carter county there is intense excitement because of the appearance of strangers i who acknowledge their mission to be to ■ collect the famous railroad tax that has , been in dispute for 40 years. This tax > grows out of the bond issue of $75,000 to tho Elizabethtown and Lexington and Big Sandy railroad from Lexington to Catlettsburg. The company after se- : curing the bonds abandoned the project, selling the bonds tit a liberal discount to DaVid Sinton, a millionaire of Cincinnati. Through a mistake the county attorney in drawing up the contract the road escaped the liability for construction, and their refusal to meet -their agreement gave rise to the contest that has ever since been successfully maintained. Organized tn Resist Payment. Ail who voted the bonds, sate a single resident of Carter county, are dead and 2,50) of the new generation have organized to resist the collection. Numerous attempts have failed and it is now regarded as worth your life to attempt the collection. Two months ago a deputy collector after making a levy upon the farmers’ property escaped being lynched by 500 people only by slipping off in the night. The men are determined that no collection shall be made and openly announce it. If Peck and his deputies resort to imperative measures there will be bloody scenes. All that holds the matter from a crisis now is a doubt of the sincerity of tho collector and his allies. BOUND TO WEAR BLOOMERS. Female Bicyclist, al Cadillac, Mich., Ask the Police to Protect Them. Cadillac, Mich., July 2.—A few weeks ago four or five ladies appeared upon the streets in bloomer costumes, and such a storm of ridicule arose that they never afterward repeated the experiment. Lately a meeting of the fair devotees of the wheel was held, when it was unanimously decided to adopt bloomers, in spite of Aline. Grundy’s protest, and'to appear so attired in*the bicycle parade July 4. It was further determined to ask Doliee protection against the hoodlums who, on the occasion of thoir first appearance, kept up a constant howl of derision, and in several instances resorted to personal attacks. There is every reason to believe theie will be a good sized riot if the reformers are interfered with on their next appearance. BICYCLES ARE VEHICLES. Court Ruling Again.* Their Storage In Ofllce Buildings. Chicago, July 2.—A decision of much importance to cyclists was rendered by Judge Payne yesterday when he denied the petition of John H. Breckenridge to compel the Fort Dearborn building proprietors to allow bicycles stored there by tenants. Breckenridge, who is an attorney with offices in the Fort Dearborn skyscraper, had attempted to leave his wheel in the basement, during office hours, and upon permission being refused carried the matter to the courts. Judge Payne declared that bicycles are mere vehicles and as much out of place inside a business block as ai horse and buggy. McKinley In Tllinoig. Freeport, Ills., July 2.—Governor McKinley and wife of Ohio arrived here yesterday and are the guests of relatives, Yesterday afternoon a delegation of several thousand citizens, led by a band, called to pay their respects. The governor made a brief speech with no reference to politics. Last evening Governor and Mrs. McKinley were tendered a reception at the Freeport Hop club. They went to Chicago today to remain until after the fourth. Got Six Cents Damage. Trenton, N. J., July 2.—Judge Green in the United States court lias filed a decision in the patent case of the Morgenthaler Lineotype company against the Rogers Typegraph company in which he held to be valid certain patents claimed by the Mergenthaler company and decided that the Rogers company was infringing on the same. The damages were placed at 6 cents, as the Rogers company had made very little use of the patent in dispute. At Sea In an Open Boat. • New London, Conn., July 2;<—John and Bernard, sons of Superintendent Kellns of the Stonington velvet works, are believed to have been drowned or carried out to sea in an open boat; The boys, one 10 and the other 11 years old, left in a rowboat at 7 o’clock Saturday morning to visit tho wreck of tho steamship Olinda at Fisher’s island, and ; failed to return. Ca.es Against Strikers Dropped. San Francisco, July 2.—The oases against all the strikers who were indicted by the federal grand jury last September for obstructing the United States mails and interfering with intercalate commerce, were dismissed in the United States district court yesterday on motion of United States District Attorney Foote. In all 112 cases were dropped. Gift to a. College. Chicago, July 2.—D. K. Pearsons, the great patron of colleges and institutions, is to give $50,000 to the Whitman college, Walla Walla, Wash. Friends of the institution are now collecting the $150,000 for tho college necessary, to secure the $50,000 gift, Mr. Pearsons has With this given away $500,000 to various institutions. . .->■ . , -

*' HVi-i-iuimA/’EU NAMES Seme Are Grntilun, Simply Stand l-'ur SnoblH-ry How to Hyphenated lunnc.i in Europe may be divided into two Ciitegorles—namely, thosewherein the hyphen piece of snobbery and affectation, mid those wherein it is consequent upon a legal obligation. The latter are in the minority and are borne aJiuost invariably by legatees and their descendants, who have inherited property, usually real estate, contingent upon their tucking the name of the testator on to their own, or else they are men who have married heiresses and liecn accepted as husbands for the latter on the condition that they should append the family name of their wives to their own patronymic. People in the other category, who use the hyphen merely with tho object of creating tfte impression that they are of more ancient lineage than is really tho case, invariably prefix, instead of appending, the additional name, and it is this that enables one to distinguish the “bona fide double barrel,’’ tfc Lord Randolph Churchill used to call them, from those who arc not, for you have only to ’ ask Mr. Ponson by-Jones for the name of | his paternal gnindfather inorder to find | out that the i,ld gentleman was a simple i Jones, de void of the aristocratic Pcnsonby, whereas in the case of surnames adopted indifference to testamentary dispositions one will invariably find on inquiry that the‘paternal grandfather and ancestors bore tho first of the two patronymics. ‘ The persons who moke use of hyphenated names Without being compelled to do so,- uro usually the owners of patrouyml'cs,. excruciatingly •plebeian, who hope, vainly, it is true, to redeem the commonplace character of their name by prefixing thereto one calculated, tbev trust, to create the pnpression that they arc connected with some of the great houses of the nobility. Thus it is quite common to find Moutmorency-Smiths, Plantagenet-Robinsons and Vere do Vere-Browns. —Chicago Tribune. RUMSEY'S STEAMBOAT. Record. Which Shot That It Antedated Fulton’. Product by Twenty-two Year*. The records of Jefferson county, W. Va., prove what is not generally known —that Robert Fulton was not the first man to build a steamboat in this country. He was anticipated over 22 years by James Rumsey of Charleston, Va., now West Virginia. Rumsey’s steamboat was partly constructed in Frederick county, Md., in 1785. It was fitted up with machinery partly manufactured at. a furnace tailed “The Cococtin Furnace,’’owned by Johnson Brothers, and located near the town of Frederick. The two'cylinders, the boiler, pumps, pipes, etc., were built in Baltimore. P;y.'t of the work was done at the old Antietam Iron works. Rumsey’s boat pelled by an engine which worked a vertical pump placed in the center of tho vessel The water was drawn in at the bow and forced out at the stern through a horizontal pipe. The entire weight of the machinery was 6G5 pounds, and the tonnage of the vessel was three tons. The entire machinery, including the boiler, etc., took up a space of very little over 4 feet square. The first, public experiment took place on the Potomac river ou March 14, 1786, when the boat, showed a speed of four miles an hour up stream. The records of Jefferson coniity also show that George Washington and Governor Thomas Johnson of Maryland were among the patrons of Rumsey, and that the experiment was made in the interest of the then proposed Chesapeake and Ohio canal.— New York World. He Could Be Indifferent. It isn’t every man that owns a silk hat, but it is the dream of every very young man’s life to possess one. A young man in our end of town went to the matinee with the only girl he ever really loved, and he wore a silk hat. Ho put it under the seat carefully, and the next person who came in gave it a kick that practically ruined it; Most young fellows would have had a fit. right there, but this one said nothing at all. He was so philosophical that the gir] was charmed. As they came out of the theater they met another young man, tnd the three went, to get some soda water. The girl told about the young man’k hat, and how philosophical ho was: “Why, do you know, Jack,’’ she said,. “Charley didn’t even look annoyed. • It was lovely. ” “Umph, ’’ said Jack, with fire inffiis eye, “it’sall right for him to be lovely, but it’s mjs hat!’’ It is just such little things as this that wreck the friendship of a lifetime.— Washington Post. Realism. Author —Well, professor, how do you like my new play? Critic —Splendid! Wonderful! So realistic, especially the burglars in it! Even their dialogue is stolen. —Musical Record. Wh.en Life's Wort* Living-.' What, man shall say, sweet friend, that life Hath n<> rich rainbows in the strife? » • • Here is thy child, and here thy wife I Here is the love of one who stood .. That day in rosiest womanhood And said, “With thee, for ill or good.” Who saw no winter in life's May— Thy hand in hers, thy way hex way, And all things else but yesterday. Who faced the future, and who said, ‘■lf thorns or roses be thy bed. There by thy side I lay my head. ” And here when storms are blowing wild, Close to those earlier lips that smiled. There oomee the clinging of a child. Arms, like a necklace, may adorn Thy neck. • • * At night tho stars are bom And splendor heralds every morn, O storm and strife and poverty, What kindly ministers are ye While love still spreads a couch for me I Chat love which still endureth Ipng Content to suff r and be strong, "■* That makes all life one song, cne song! —Frank L. Stanton in A’tl.uita, Constitution. -J ' ■ ’■

HiiiiiGirrmiuiiiniif William n. Jiilinsiin, an Aljeged Embezzler, Arrives In San Francisco. WAS A COUNTY TREASURER. In Which Poaitimi In Mnwcntinc County, la.. He IA Accueefl of Kinbvzzling SBO,000 — JohnMoii’M Carter In Honolulu, Where Ho Wan an Important Figure In Church and Political Circle*. San Francisco, July 2.—William Henry Johnson, the former treasurer of Muscatine coanty, la., who, it is alleged, embezzled SBO,OOO ’of municipal funds and then fled, was brßnght from Honolulu on the Australia yesterday by H. i’. Wylie, sheriff of Muscatine gpunty. To the Hawaiian officials, Johnson, when i arrested, admitted hLs identity. He de- | tolares that his shortage does not amount j I to more than $3,000, which, he says, : , was made by his bondsmen. He j ! claims thatjhis arrest is the result of the • I efforts of some political enemies. The charge against him, upon which i ’. the requisition papers were obtained, is | ; forgery, lie having, as it is charged, ’ \ forged the names of county officials and ! j others to obtain tho money embezzled. I which is said to have been lost in land . • speculation. After his flight from home : j Johnson went first to Kansas and thence ‘ tto California. When he arrived in San , Francisco4ie says he had but 50 .cents. ' Meanwhile his wife, through the sale of i a house and other private property, realised $750, of which she forwarded him S2OO and he quietly departed for Honolulu. Johnson’s Career In Honolulu. Arriving there about a year ago he went to work as a solicitor on a newspaper and was'promoted to bookkeeper. While thus employed he secured a half interest with a blind man in a stationary business and afterward bought out his partner’s interest and branched out as a confectioner. Then he began to figure prominently in political and church affairs in Honolulu, rendering valuable aid to the government during the recent uprising. His wife arrived ' on tho scene about three months ago and was alsq admitted to the church as well as to rhti, society circles of Hono- . lulu. When Johnson arrived at Honolulu ' he dropped the ‘-William” from his 1 name but one day a friend, so he says, recognized him and notifying the lowa i officials of his whereabouts, with the result that Sheriff Wylie went down on the Australia armed with the necessaryrequisition papers for his arrest, which . caused quite a sensation in Honolulu. FINALLY launched. New Yacht Defender Released From the Ways After Forty-eight Hours. ' Bristol. R. 1., July 2.—The new yacht Defender, upon which the hopes ■ of America depends for victory over the . English boat with,which she is to compete next fall, now rests gracefully in ( the water of Bristol bay at the dock of the Hereshoff works, having been released la«t evening from the position into which she became fastened during an attempt to launch her on Saturday A thorough examination of the hull by ■ divers has been made and it is pro- ' nounced uninjured bv its 48 hours’ sus- : pension near the end of the ways. Reorganization of Whisky Trust. Springfield, 111., July 2.—The secre- ' tary of state yesterday granted a license for the incorporation of the old whiskytrust under the name of the American Spirits Manufacturing company, principal office in Chicago; capital stock, $35,000,000, $7,000,000 of which is preferred and the balance common stock. The incorporators are Charles R. Holden, Alfred S. Austrian and M. Henry Guerin. Twice Convicted. Atlanta, July 2.—Willie Myers, aged 19 years, who lured Forest Crowley, country merchant, to a lonely spot in the suburbs of this city one day last September and murdered him .for his money, for the second time has been IMPORTANT COURT RULING. City CoaucH’s Levy of a Streetcar Tax Held to Be Denver, July 2. —The state supreme court Ims handed down an opinion that holds that the levying of a license by • the Denver city council on all occasions is entirely legal. In 1886 tlie council passed au Ordinance placing, a $lO tax on all streetcars. Tins amount was afterward increased to $25. The Denver City Cable Railway company was the first corporation to refuse to comply with the terms of the ordinance. Its representatives were arrested ana fined and were ordered to pay the tax of $25 on each car owned by them. Thft. defense’s attorneys appealed. Although the supreme court’s decision does not specify directly what articles or occupations the city council may tax or license it is plainly inferred that it has limitless power and may pass ordinances compelling every line of business, trade or occupation to pay an annual license fee. ' '/.l' sentenced to hang, his second trial having resulted like the first in a verdict of guilty. Aug. 2is the date fixed for the execution. Alleged Army Pnaltlon Broker. Chicago, July 2.—J. H. Manley has been arrested charged with selling United States army positions. Mauley is accused of representing himself as a lieutenant in the regular army and disposing of “jobs” ranging from private to lieutenant at fees of from $lO to S3OO. The prisoner wears a United States army uniform and is said to be an exofficer. Twenty Per Cent Increase. Ashland, Ky.; July 2.—From date an increase of 10 per cent £n wages will go into effect at the nailmills of the Norton iron works. A like increase is to be effected in 60 days. Both are voluntary with the company. The present trade with the plant is the best they have had in 10 .years past. V- ■

ONE HEAD USHER. Tlte Ways Whrrcln He Differed From Other* of Hi* Calling. It is as ohl as the Proverbs that the cobbler’s children are always poorly shod. The restaurant man goes home for dinner, and the bartender is a total abstainer. The druggist may patronize the faith cure and the railway mim knows of nogreater luxury than a ride in a buggy. The street ear conductor is glad to get a day off, so he can take a long walk. A more remarkable case than any of these is that of the head usher at the • theater, and one theater in particular. Probably every playgoer iu Chicago knows him. The title of “head usher” does him an injustice. He is mote like a host or tho chief of a reception committee. There ai-- head ushers who pouuce upon you, grab the coupons, thrust them buck into your fntublcd'hands and shout, “Fci.-.t a;.- to the right!” There are other head ushers who tell you to hurty up or stop lively. They give loud warning that all cuupous must be ready. They shout, “Hey, there!” and are constantly distracted because of tho immense re.-p visibility which they imagine is resting upon them. As soon as a snippy young man gets into a box office or is engaged as an usher, he beams to imagine that ho owns the house, the company and a good part of the frontage in’the block. But the exceptional head usher is oalm; polite, attentive and solicitous. No matter how rapidly the crowd may pour in, it seems that every one who comes receives some courtesy at Ins hands. He doesn’t shout or grab and tho small children are not afraid of him. \The most remarkable thing about this motte! master of eerbmonies, however, is that he knows very little about actors or plays. The other evening, when the house was crowded and the performance was being received with noisy approval, a man who ca ,, ie into the foyer between I acts remarked to him, “Well, it’s a funny show. ” \ “I dare say,” he replied; “the house seems to like it. ” “Didn’t you see it?” 1 “No; I was out here all the time. ” “Is that so? Don't you Step inside to see the yferformances?” “Oh, no. My duties keep me here, hi the 15 years._that 1 have been iu this position I have never seen a performance. ” At first tho man wouldn’t believe it, but it was a fact just the same. —Chicago Record. -■ ■ ■ : r TRICKING A CRAB. African Natives Take Advantage of His Industry Iu a Heartless Manner. Tn Africa there exists a certain member of the crab genus commonly known as the great tree crab. This peculiar shellfish has an offensive trick of crawling up the cocoanut trees, biting off the cocoanut's and then creeping down again backward. The theory is that the nuts are shattered by the fall, and the great tree crab is thus enabled to enjoy a hearty meal. Now, the natives who inhabit regions infested by this ill conditioned crab are well aware that the lower portion of the crab's anatomy is soft and sensitive, and they believe that the “bivalve” was thus constructed in order that he might know when he had reached the ground, ;md when, consequently, he might with safety release his grasp of the trunk. go what thuy <io in order to stop his depredations, which often ruin the co" coanut crops, is this: While the crab is engaged in nipping off the cocoanuts they climb half way up the trees and there drive a row of long nails right around the tree, allowing an inch or so of the nails to project. The crab has no knowledge of disaster, nor yet the fitness of things. As he descends the sensitive part of his body suddenly touches the nails. Thinking ho has reached the ground, he naturally lets go. Instantly he falls backward and ! cracks his own shell on the ground.— I Pittsburg Dispatch. “E Pluribus I num.” ! The circumstanges attending the adoption of the legend “E Pluribus Unum” as she motto of the United States have never been fully explained ! by t-lie historians. It was probably used : on coins—and sdnie say upon early colohial flags—long befia-e it was regularly nxiognjzed by .the leading officials of the new republic. Tlie oldest com bearing the motto in full is a colonial < cent coined by New Jersey in the year 1786. The same year it appeared on a , small medal recognized among the tolled tors of coins as “the coiifederatio. ” I This medal was a national token, I belieVe. and was coined by ijptliority of the general government. It bore on one side. 13 stars and a blazing sun. the latter surrounded by, the word “Confederatio, ” which gives it the name by which it is known to the numismatists. The words in the headline are undoubtedly from Virgil’s “Moretus, ” a poem devoted to a description of a certain salad! In tlie rhyming recipe he gives instructions for mixing the pfoper herbs and pounding the same in a mortar until the various colors blend as one. Some one has very appropriately said that “the colonies were mixed in the mortar of the Revolution and came out as one homogeneous nation. ” — St. Louis Republic. Uncouxenlal. A washerwoman applied for help to a gentleman, who gave her a note to the manager of a certain club. It read as follows: “Dear Mr. X.—This woman wants washing. ” Very shortly the answer came back: “Dear Sir—l dare say she does, but I don’t fancy the job. ■ London Tit-Bits However rich or elevated we may be, a nameless something is always wantil&’te opr imperfect fortrthfe.

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