Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1895 — Page 7

©he DEIUTUR, IND. M. BLACKBUBM, . . • lW.wn As to that Indemnity perhaps Japan would be willing to take a part of It out In washing. Prof. Garner’s search for the apo speech may throw some light on tlio monkey’s opinions concerning that famous fight. Heretofore profane history has alone recorded the Impressions of the parrot America has at least two Irrepressible conflicts in sight One Is In process of settlement In Cuba, and the other relates to the fact that Canada is made up of 3,428.265 Englishmen and 1,404,074 Frenchmen. “Are We Losing the West?” is the Utle * a pvalvU ill DUnlvll. • trftuSlT piuyiug V quira to Key West. ■ " ————

ii I Th 1 ■■■— The typewriter has made great Inroads upon the business bt Ink makers, | and they have been obliged to go into i gift enterprises to retain trade. One | of these concerns displays an Imposing ( array of glass Inkstands, which is glv-. en to those who purchase a quart of , Ink, though why one should need ink-1 stands when they do not need Ink is not very clear. The coming man in Turkey is Turchan Pasha, the new Foreign Minister, who has had a remarkable career and is In high favor with the Sultan and the Grand Vizier. He was educated in France, and his wife Is one of Turkey’s rare “new women.” At her hus- \ band’s official receptions she stands by \ to side unveiled, dressed in the latest European style and wearing eyeglasses. Professor Wlggfts, the Canadian weather prophet, says that Niagara Falls will rhn dry at some near period in the future. But this is not a much wilder prediction than that of the scientific and commercial bodies at the east, which express fears that the Chi- ’ cago drainage channel will draw the water away and leave the lower lake harbors dry. Wiggins Is not without rivals as a phenomenal scientific crank. The /‘bicycle face” of anxiety or despair Is never seen on the boys who have learned tq ride the wheel. Little chaps with smiling faces may be seen riding gracefully and easily without a > sign of any disturbance of spirit. Those who acquire a thorough knowledge of the art of wheeling In their early youth possess a great advantage over the people who take their first lessons in It after the muscles have hardened.

When the mother of M. Max Lebaudy sought to throw his fortune into chancery unt’l he had arrived at years of greater discretion, his advocate urged a plea on his behalf that decided the French tribunal in his favor. He contended that the government had no right to interest itself in the preservation of colossal fortunes, and asserted that the racecourse was an Important economic factor in helping to dissipate them for the benefit of the community. r< It is the theory of not a few naturalists that the increase in insect pests | that plague the farmer and horticulturist Is due to the slaughter of birds. In the Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, where birds are undisturbed, sixty-slx varieties have taken up their home, and among the number are many orioles and thrushes. If State legislatures were so constituted as to be of any account, they would give attention to the conservation of birds and other useful o animals. In a certain degree there Is a historic continuity in England’s foreign policy, through all changes of party. There is more of it, fortexample, than there Is in the United States, so far as the United States can be said to have a foreign policy at all Still, even in the matter of foreign policy, a transition from Liberal to Tory Government will Invvolve some divergence. The Tory Is a strong government man in external as well as In internal politics. He has more swag- 4 ger and truculence than the Liberal, hangs on to old conquests more firmly, and seeks new ones more earnestly. He was a jingo long before that term In Its political- aspect waS Invented. Venezuela, Brazil, Nicaragua and the other Latin-American countries in whose neighborhood England owns or claims territory, would do well to keep this change of government in Great Britain in mind. ■A « Il • ll* An Incident occurred In New York the other day which is of some interest as an illustration of the enrichment of the American blood ,by immigration. Giovanni Bianchi, an Italian barber, sent Frank James, an American boy, to get some clothes from the Chi nese laundry of Gee Lee. The boj tendered Gee a 50-cent piece, which the Chinaman pronounced “countefllet,” and kept, along with the clothes. When Bianchi was Informed of this mishap he undertook to chastise the Chnaman. In the course of this proceeding he became Involved in a controversy with Satebro Zebro, a Greek, who kept a coffee stand, and drew a razor on him. Zebro threw a bottle of pepper-sauce at Bianchi, who dodged, and the bottle struck Abraham Leibovitz, a Russian Jew. An Irish policeman named Malloy arrested Zebro, who was taken before Justice Voorhls, a magistrate of Dytob descent) and flood three dollar a, '”*■ J*

—” ~farr me not much com The case thus happily settled Involved PIAIN” seven nationalities, one of which, nB markable as It may seem, was tb| . American. In the next hundred year! me not much complain of life, In age, all these races except the Chinese mag Life Is not faufty. life is well enough, be happily blended, but the thoee who love their daily round type can hardly be exactly the xty-B of doing. kind of American that we have knov| And take thing, ronnded, never in In the past. And while the blendliß the rough, - ■*«•-—° m strained. I nd their old knowledge ever more The newspapers give Indication | many such; through life Brazil threatened to go to waijM they Great Britain rat^ pr 1a “ “. With moderate use of moderate the Island of Trinidad, which £'! heritage been seized by the latter country. T> Island Is little more than a bare ’Fivilsg and spending, saving as they lying In the South Atlantic about lAr spent. miles southeast of Rio de Janlero. . «r be>e are wise men, though never wag taken possession of In the yej counted sage; 1700 by Great Britain, but was regan ey looked for 11-tle, easy men to ed by Portugal as one of her tranzg please; lantlc possessions, and when Braj was separated from Portugal the Islalit I, more deeply drunk of hfes full of Trinidad was ceWi’t o th® CU P» pire. Great BrltalnJJM bacM Feel, as my lips come nearer to the Portugal the island wy* u h pebbles up. I t is ratner wen uoiudhbu ■ I’r’i’f n holiday TBHGEDY. slon. What has given it a temporar M uukiuyi iuiiului.

m P°^ a nc* that it is had been _ well not a station for a nartles t<2p act, y a woman hater, but a firm constructed by ln the idea that man i 8 the Rio de la Plata, Avrea 1 JF rd ot creation, and that woman is Argentine Republk, With Europe. an absolute necessity. For though she has a right to do so ai« * and Uye & yery enjoy _ only importance or value to aln 3 ♦l° r * ate eFl !n<rt>nM>nt I went from my bachelor likely that some arra g .J®>dglngß fco bus j neßß eac h morning, made for the use for wh c ‘ Wjturning in the afternoon and spended that will be satlsfact y the evening at the club or some governments Nations have of amuseihent The idea of the period when they go o & ] ftd y companion in my ramtrlfleS- _____ Bhes never entered my head. “An is the e<'£ ue ‘ land ! adj ’ sodf od oldaouI ‘ ion applied to the ae gr**W 0 * fl) but J hat waß beeaUße [ ha G campaign, by one of thq office® do . fc my and & were dispatched to the front. wag b dmy meang But it was an amusing farce o e ] Bo j dispensed with woman’s and soldiers who were sent on^» d jjopt cleaning, sewing buttons mer’s camping trip at an lighting the fire, etc., were all between $50,000 and sloo,ooo^■ one w jt b m y own h ands —nay, at a country. And perhaps this Is j have even washed a pocket large a price to pay for the a n d kerchief. outing and for the delectationj des j red t 0 stand forth as a livparticular public that dotes example of the original Adam tional newspaper reports of fake^K ld a p roo f o f the superfluity of the , wars. But it was a decidedl^^ odern £ ve j} u t my misguided farce in Its effect upon the dlgMompaniocg refused to profit by my our government Antonio Apac^fc acb j n g S or to follow my example. . educated Indian attache of Columne by one they fell under female in- > Museum In Chicago, w«s sent wfl uence| O ne by one they married, > expedition as a newspaper corrfcd then—l cut them dead. Ah, me ! i dent, and his letters are very Whose free Bohemian days were hapi After stating that the command w ones, as year after year I pursued . encountered a 15-year-old boy cay adopted course in spite of the - ing the Jackson’s Hole mail oveilntlnual falling off of my comrades, r mountains, and that the boy had lien came a time when my circle of -two unarmed Indians within a vihuaintances had decreased so conr he remarks: “The campaign agMerably that I began to feel lonely. 3 Indians, In which five companies o#chelor chums were more difficult Eighth United States Infantry andilind than ever. To loneliness suc-

troops of the Ninth ejeded melancholy, and I grew mised, promises to be the most meiMble. ble of the Indian campaigns in thJPne friend, to whom I laid bare my tory of the country, for as the sepes, said: the reported trouble is neared £?Tou keep to yourself too much, comes more and more evidently™ ought to do is to lodge there are no Indians to be sough nth some family where there are there is not a man in the expe ™or three grown up daughters. " L, x hey would wake you up a bit. who expects to hear a hostile gun i t the hitherto ideal adAt the same time there, earned, of aQ EvelessEden , And t Patch from Governor R of ffcertheadvice had been tendered inlng to V ashington al eg ng er ov(jra j times. I began to think that danger to settlers in the Jacksoni icb & c j ian g e might be beneficial. district, and calling for the nd ac j 1 a course need not‘involve the ,be sent home to their reservatlo (nder j n g U p o f m y tenets; but, as will be noted that the Governo oman s till formed a part of the graphs from a point no nearer the orJd , she at least contribute of danger than Cheyenne. > m y amusement. So, after very seous consideration,l decided te seek The big crops which may nfcesh apartments, with light society quite safely, counted upon west. jU own j n . Mississippi will go far towards my troubles commenced. I ing the pressing embarrassme: ovdd no t make the direct inquiry, many lines of railroad. Word ‘Have you any grown updaughters?” from the Northwest that to tak| o j generally viewed the rooms, lisof the wheat crop of Minneso' ening to the landlady’s verbiage, the Dakotas the roads will be ihe rent, and then casually asked, provide 50,000 cars. They sa ‘Have you any children?” and the more than thaUnumber will be e ply would be, ‘‘Yes, ‘four,’ ‘five,’ ed, but they hope to get along,v y ‘six, ’ ” (as the case might be) f an actual car famine. In this ]‘the eldest is 16 years old and the the West there is not so much oungest 2 months. But they are as but the enormous yield of corn 1 ;ood as gold and never make a bit of gives assurance that the transpe ioise.’ lines will have all they can do. The numberless journeys I made has been a great deal of idle aid the many desultory conversations stock constantly on hand for tl: listened to were all to no purpose, three years, and the business foone appeared to possess grown up roads has suffered to such an laughters—the eldest was always 10. ’ that about one-third of the opt ust when I was about to abandon have been without employment ny search of fortune —or was it The natural result of this hr ate? —led me to Myrtle Villa, Parathat there has been close timet ise Gardens, Upper Dulwich. The ery town having the distinctk lp.or was opened by a vision of lovedivision terminus, and repkir iness, faultlessly dressed, and with have been running on short tin wight blue eyes and golden hair, greatly reduced forces. Comin ‘Newly married,” thought I, “well, ' with the shipment of the net tere at least the eldest won’t be 10!” will be a largely increased < >he invited me in, _ and then disapfor railroad labor. Old bills >eared: a middle aged lady entering paid up, money will begin to c irectly after, we proceeded to diswhere it has been almost unkn< :uss terms. Then came the inevitmonths, and better times will kble inquiry as to children. : both from the good fortune of “I have two grown up daughters, mer and the cost made necesi he younger, of whom opened the getting his products to market, loot for you.’ of the money paid out for grain At last! Need I say that, within the labor of carrying it away i week, I was installed in Myrtle ' consumer will return In the The landlady (a widow) was earnings through the transport i genial, homely woman, and the merchandise which will be a -oungest daughter. Annie, aged 20, ' good demand throughout tirt I have alr ® ad y described, bu . fc ? be region. So there is a good r daughter, Julia, did nob im11 that there will soon be a bettert»ress me favorably. She was neither ■ In railroad circles as well as at<ood looking nor pleasing, and, wit - : other classes, and the cities w:>ut being exactly bad tempered, alia for their share of the benefit *ay« insisted on having her own , . way. Needs Chaagina 1 now seemed to be in a new world. i “This here system,” moaned boots bore a bnlhante luster each , Dawson, “Is all plumb wrong, nornlng without my aid and my apolls Journal I* 0 ® 14 ooly b 6 ha PP y<

1 no longer needed to seek relaxation at the dub after the labors of the day. Julia played the piano well (her only accomplishment), while Annie sang divinely, and thus the evenings passed all too quickly. Male acquaintances they did not seem to possess—yet stay, there was one—a Mr. Malcolm,whose name I frequently heard mentioned, but as his calls were always made in the daytime, I never saw hip . I had rapidly passed into that condition of mind which raised a feeling of jealousy on his account, so one day I questioned my landlady on the subject. “Oh, he’s a very old friend of ours. Once we thought he would have proposed to Julia, but nothing came of it.” Wbat a relief! Only Julia! So time went pleasantly on, and then-—how can I confess it? —my lifelong creed was thrown to the winds, my proud ambition humbled in the duet, and I became a willing slave to the sex I had so long despised and ignored. My only thought now was, how and In what words I should beseech my darling Annie to become One evening Julia announced that a week theuce she had an engagement to play at a concert. Then burst upon me a brilliant inspiration. I purchased two stall tickets for the Lyceum for that same evening, and, making pretense that I had them given to me, I persuaded Annie to promise to accompany me. This time Julia would not be able to intrude, and I should know my fate. In two months time I should be taking my summer holiday, which would fit in just nicely for the honeymoon. On the eventful day I hastened homeward with a queer fluttering in my heart and a flower spray for Annie in my hat. Julia opeped the door, and hardly permitted me to enter before she informed me that Annie had been out in the hot sun, and had been obliged to go to bed with a very bad sick headache. My fluttering heart gave one huge bound and then seemed to stand still. However, to disguise my feelings, I said : “I am sorry; and you have to play at the concert?” “No,” she replied, ‘‘the concert has been postponed.” “Then may I beg the pleasure of your company? I did not ask you before because of the concert engagement.” “Thanks. I shall enjoy it immensely.” What a miserable failure that evening proved to be ! Ido not even know what the play was called. I was thinking all the time of my poor, sick darling, and not of the acting or the woman who sat by my side wearing the flower spray that was meant for Annie. The words were still unspoken when my holidays arrived, and, tearing myself awaj 7 from the two sis- j ters, who stood at the gate and | waved their handkerchiefs as long as I I remained in sight, it was with no feelings of joyful anticipation that I betook myself to Hastings for rest and recreation. Rest! Where could I find it? Not on the parade or pier amidst hundreds of couples promenading, as I had pictured Annie and myself doing; not on the beach where the Ethiopian musicians were eternally play- , ing ‘‘Annie Laurie,” “Sweet Annie ; Rooney” and “Annie, Dear, I'm Called Away.” For a whole week I wandered aimlessl) 7 hither and thither. Then I could stand it no longer. So I wrote a long letter commencing “Darling,” and pouring out. the impassioned, pent up love that; comes but once in a man’s lifetime. I besought and beseeclied her to take pity upon me, or my lifeless body should serge i,n the billows that beat relentlessly on the rocks of Beachy Head. i When I had finished, I happened to catch sight of a photograph which I had purchased the previous day, representing one of the yachts preparing to start on her morning trip, with my own figure in a prominent position in the bows. “Ah,” thought I, “I’ll send that to Julia.” If it were possible I had now less rest than before, night or day, while waiting for the answer. Rising in the morning with haggard looks and burning brow, the other boarders would remark that the sea air did not seem to agree with me, while under the mask Pf supreme indifference there raged within me the fiercest volcano that ever burned in the heart of man. At last the reply came,and, bound- ; ing up to the privacy of my own room, and trembling fingers I tore , open the envelope which hid from me—life or death? ' “Dearest, lam your’s forever. I cannot say your proposal was un-1 expected, for I - ' have felt that you could mean nothing less, ever since that evening when you so openly expressed your preference for me by taking me to the theater” What! Whew! Where! ! 4 I looked at the signature—“ Julia.” €)& Heavens! I saw it all. I had placed them in the wrong envelopes, and sent the letter to Julia and the otograph to Annie! How I raged „ t id fumed and tore my hair, until at last, in sheer exhaustion, I sank into a chair and endeavored to finish reading the letter. “Annie thanks you very much for photo, and she desires me to tell you that yesterday Mr. Malcomb proposed .to her and was accepted. We will have the two weddings on the same day. Won’t that be nice, dear ?” Nice? This was the last straw. Nice, indeed, for me to be married co a woman I did not care for, and at the same time to see the one I loved gives to a&olber-man I I cwoot re-

member what I did for the next hour ’ or two beyond cursing my foolishness and swearing I wouldn’t marry Julia. Then, when I became calmer, I saw an action for breach of promise looming. I thought of all my hard earned savings of years being swept away by a sympathetic jury to heal Julia’s broken heart. There was no escape for me. She had my letter, which simply commenced “Darling,” and as no name was mentioned in it from beginning to end, was it possible that any body of intelligent men could be brought to believe that I intended it for Annie when I addressed the envelope to Julia? No, no. I must go through withit —I would marry Julia. Yes, and I would teach her that man is the lord of creation, and that woman is but a helpmate, and not an equal, and so, in my married life, triumphantly assert those principles which I had held so long. Julia married me at the same time and place as Annie became Mrs. Malcolm. 1 now spend my evenings endeavoring to solve a difficult prob- . i lem, and that is, why do they cal I woman the weaker sex? •rue rnosN ' The Spanish Commander's Troops*" A Waiting Game. Spain did not affect to consider the i Cuban insurrection of no importance. She recognized in it a possible rather than an actual importance, and to i prevent the possible from being actual she sent to Cuba as Captain- ■ General the same soldier who pacified the island eighteen years ago, Marshal Arsenio de Martinez Campos, and with him uni after him she i has sent thousands of soldiers. Campos reached Cuba nearly three months ago. Since his arrival he has ■ spent most of his time in the eastern provinces of the island, those of Santiago de Cuba and Puerto Principe, where the disaffection exists chiefly, though he has been also in every itn- ■ portant seaport. “My principal enemies,” said Marshal Campos, recently, “are Gene-: ralsJuly, August and September.” Until the last of the§e has gone, Campos will maintain a .“masterly inactivity,” and play a waiting game. When he reached the island in April he consulted with the local authorities in every part of his province; since then he has been devoting his time to making his men comfortable, to organizing his armj’ as his experii ence has taught him is best, and is i making plans to be put into execution after General September has I gone. Campos has 65,000 Spanish regular troops now, and 25,00 u more are expected this month. The first detachments of troops were destitute of everything necessary for their welfare, let alone for their existence. Not even the British soldiers in the Crimea were worse off These men j had no tents, no blankets, no shoes. ■ Out of chaos Campos has had to bring i order. At last he has done so. His men are equipped properly now to withstand the climate as well as the insurgents. They are not stationed fin the towns, but on yn/jenios, or plantations, and suburbs of the large j towns. Medical supplies have been purchased. Practically there is no I yellow fever among the Spanish troops . On June 23 there were only i fourteen Spanish cases in the city of ■ Santiago de Cuba* the capital of the i province of the same name, and the ! headquarters of the Spanish troops I' in the Eastern departments. Besides his 90,000 regular soldiers, of which he has at present 65,000, Campos has 40,000 volunteers raised i on the island; and he has called for ! the raising of troops of guerillas, or irregular cavalry. These troops are to be commanded by regular officers; the men will be paid S3O a month, and will receive their equipments land horses from the government, i Gen. Campos relies on these guerillas, very evidently. As they are composed of ,local volunteers, they are expected to operate against the insurgents on more even terms than the regulars; even their lack of regularmilitary training may help them to some extent. Africa as a Mahogany Producer. Mahogany, cut from the forests discovered by Stanley in his expedition for the rescue of Emin Pasha, now reaches this country, says the Woodworker. These forests are said i to be inexhaustible,, and are probably of equal, perhaps of greater, value than the richest gold or dia- ' mond mines of the darkest continent. I Capitalists were interested in Stan- ! ley’s account, and a flourishing trade iin the timber has resulted. Prices j of mahogany products were in a fair : way to rise to excessive figures until the cutting bggan in Africa. This j has only been within the past year, but priceshave already fallen twenty per cent. A carload was" recently delivered at Louisville, at a net cost of SBO a thousand feet, whereas it has been a common thing for mahogany to sell at auction Tn Liverpool, England, for SIOO a thousand . Heretofore the principal sources of supply have been the forests of Central America, Cuba, San Domingo and Brazil. Already 12,00v,000 feet have been cut and exported from Africa, and the trade promises to j yield an immense revenue to the British and French colonists, who have seized the malfogahy territory, This African mahogany has a pinkish tinge in contrast to the reddish yellow”color of the American varieties. The trees are very large, and logs received in the shipment mentioned were two feet to three and a half feet in size. They are squared before being exported. Plantations of pecan treee are reported '1 from States.

A CHINESE CITY. Picturesque Scenes In Quinsan, on the Grand Canal. Qninsan lies at the end of a spur ol the famed Grand Canal, which is, next to (he Great Wall, the noblest work of the Chinese. Pagodas are not common in China. You do not see one in every day of travel, so Ire a member that one is on the lone moun- T tain that dominates the approach tc the city. The outside town, such ae lies by every gate to every city, is o place where a painter could spend i year to better advantage than In | most painters’ resorts in southern Europe. Rows of white walls, heavi- | )y roofed with black tiles, face the ; water. The corners of all the roofs are turned up, and some have double .’a corners. A few roofs, no less pictur- , * esque, are of gray thatch, and a few , walls are black or gray or blue, or I even dark red. Fancy the gorgeous- A ness of the scene, with the people crowding there in new blues and faded blues! Bamboo balconies push | out to the water’s edge, and carry I idle women and men, in pretty | clothes, looking at us. The open •hops disuse workmen maktag I shoos or coffins, or cooking the won-> derful bean curd—foundation of a ’ hundred dishes. As the heart of the place is reached it becomes picturesque beyobd description. High stone walls shut in the water, and on these rise houses of white staff, with cumbrous jet roofs, and the most ornate, the most fanciful windows, paned with glossy inside scales of oyster shells. Stone steps lead down to the water, and each bears a women washing clothes or rinsing lacquered wooden pots. Sunflowers and pumpkin vines in bloom peep over the walls of the houses, and beside the walls of the stream are innumerable boats, carved dragons’ heads, crabs, grotesque faces and pretty carvings of many sorts cut in the granite. At all the doorways are tall and often handsome men in long silk coats and sHken half breeches bound tight around their ankles. At the windows are the round faced, full lipped women . On and <m we float. And presently we discover the long low walls of Quinsan, made ever famous by the valor of General Gordon . Under the interminable low walls of what we call Roman brick are plantations of sunflowers, and then more white and black houses. They face another jumble of boats of every fashion, from the stately cargo and chop boats to the rows of slender express boats, waiting, like omnibuses, for passengers for Soo chow and Shanghai. The dyers’ shops hangout long strips of blue cloth; a bridge is draped with colored stuffs, hung there to dry; an enormous vermillion bannerfloats from a boat that, like hundreds beside, is orange toned beneath its sheen of Ning po varnish. The Flour Dealer’s Scales. “You would be astonished,” re marked a Philadelphia flour and feed dealer, “at the number of people whe come here to get weighed in the course of a week, and at the com merits they 7 make if the number ol pounds is not up to their expectation. One of my customers, a very thin woman, came here yesterday and asked me to weigh her. Four months before she had tipped the scales at 113. and she remarked that she would beat her record this time. I thought so myself, for she insisted on holding - a satchel and an umbrqlla, but to my surprise the balance struck at 10-1. After roundly berating me, the scales and the flour and feed trade in general, she flounced out and I lost a good customer. Sometimes, however, the balance is to the good, as in the case of a stout woman, xho found she had lost three pounds, and was so tickled that she immediately ordered a barrel of flour and said she would call to be weighed again in a week. The scales are all right, but I’ll have to fix them for her benefit, in order to compensate | for the loss of the thin woman’s trade.’ ’ ... » A Big Chestnut Tree. There stands in front of the restdence of Walter Johnson, in Bensalem Township. Pennsylvania, a chestnut tree which is one of the largest and probably the oldest tree of its species in this section of the country. It is known to have flourished at least a century. A portion of the upper ] a.-t qf the tree has sue- 'wj cumbed to age and the weather, and 1 has rotted away. The remainder, I however, is apparently as fresh and 1 vigorous as ever. The tree is now thickly 7 covered with blossoms, auguring a plentiful crop of nuts.—-•-Tha trunk at the base is thirty-three feet in circumference. In its 'long existence it has yielded to the Johnso>n family 1 hundreds of bushels of nute. V

Knew Some Things. * ■< iT " «• vV |fl«f v __, ytfjßfrCholly—How much do you charge for boats an hour? Old Tar—Twenty-five cente an hour fer reg’lar rowin’; if you wan ter upset the boat an’ save th . lady. ■ --- ■ - - - C