Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1895 — Page 3

TO TEC2E3PROGRESSIVE O H IFAMRER * O2p» 1895.” . \ ZE wish to say that we have now on hand the New jw Force Feed, Low Elevator, Champion - Binder ECCENTBIC GEAR, Demonstrated in harvest of 1894, to be theLIGHTEST DRAFT And having the * advantage over all other Binders in handling Rye or down grain, and wnl Forfeit Price of Binder If we cannot demonstrate to any 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 HARDWARE In the city, together lowest prices. Thanking our customers for past favors, and hoping for a continuance of same, we remain Truly yours, JOHN S. BOWERS & CO.

MUST KNOW THE STREAM. * The Information a Western River Pilot Must Carry In His Head. ' At the season of the year when the river excursion business is at its height and hundreds of boats are carrying thousands of people to and fro along the entire length of the Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo many persons who ordinarily never give the subject a thought are impressed with the wonderful way in which navigation on our beautiful stream is carried on. The first thing noticed generally is the accuracy with which the pilot handles the boat, avoiding the bars, which are near the surface of the water in the summer, going from one side of the river to the other, and finally, without a jar, landing them all safely at their destination. When the excursion business is over, these same men assume similar positions on packets and towboats, carrying hundreds of tons of freight and thousands of bushels of coal on every trip with the same accuracy with which they handled the excursion steamers during the summer. A large number of the pilots running out of Cincinnati know the river from here to New Orleans, others from here to Memphis, and others still to points up the river as far as Pittsburg. “Know the river.” This phrase means much. For instance, a man running from here to New Orleans must be able to take charge of the wheel of his boat at npy hour of the day or night at any point on the river and on any stage of water. He must be able to tell at a glance e*actly where the boat is at any point on this long stretch of 1,513 miles. Ho must know every bend and chute, and by day the different points by which to steer, such as houses, barns, trees, fences and even haystacks; by night every light placed by the government in conspicuous places as well as the hills and their shape. He must know exaotlv how

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long to hold the boat to one light or object before changing to another. When th? Mississippi river is reached, a new feature presents itself in the shape of the constantly changing channel T<J work here requires more skill and greater judgment probably than all the rest of the difficulties combined. Going down a boat may go on one side of the river. Coming back it doesn’t go within two miles of that place. When these things are appreciated—and they are only a few of the things a pilot must know—then it is that the pilot gets credit for what he does.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Trying It On. Tom (disappointed in love) —Well, this settles it For the remainder of my days I shall live the life of a hermit Jack—>Don’t say that, old man. Why not on moving oyer to Brooklyn?—New York Herald. Coloring Soap. According to the Scientific American, a very radical change has taken place lately In the coloring of soap—that Is, until a comparatively recent time mineral colors were exclusively employed, but the advance in the tar color Industry* has brought about the change. A very prominent advantage noted in respect to mineral colors is their stability, not being altered or In any way effected by exposure to light, an advantage, however, which Is offset In many cases by the remarkably beautiful effect of numerous aniline colors, and by the more difficult method of application In the case of the former; the specific gravity of mineral colors being rather high in most cases, they naturally tend to settle toward the bottom, necessitating crutchlng of the soap until It is too thick to drop the color; but for mottled soap, cinnabar, or vermilion and ultramarine are still largely employed.

WILL RE WEE cm: Insurgents Will Be Granted Belligerent Rights by Mexico, CONCESSIONS ARE PROMISED Honor Qnesada, Genoral Secretary of the Coban Revolutionary Party In America, Conducting Negotiation* With President Diaz and HU Government—llotlogfttUop M <y Be Granted Boon. A New York, Sept. 17.—Cuban sympathizers in this city said last night that Mexico would recognize the insurgents as belligerents within a few days. They based their assertion on private dispatches received from the City of Mexico. Senor Gonzalo de Quesada,, general secretary of the Cuban revolutionary party in America, these dispatches said, arrived at the Mexican capital last Saturday night. He went straight from the depot to the home of the Mexican minister of foreign affairs and was with him until after midnight. In the course of the conference it was said Senor de Quesada officially promised bo many advantageous concession to the western republic from the insurgents upon the success of their cause that the minister, already strongly in favor of the Cubans, practically consented to use his influence to obtain Mexican recognition of the insurgents as belligerents. Later advices said that on Sunday Senor de Quesada saw the minister of foreign affairs again aud succeeded after several hours of further arguiueut in obtaining an unconditioned promise that the Mexican government would concede the longed for belligerent rights as soon as possible. This second dispatch said that it was the general opinion in Mexican official circles that the formal recognition would be made within a fortnight at most. In conclusion the dispatch stated that the expected Mexican recognition of insurgents as billigerents would be of the greatest importance and advantage to the Cuban cause. It would mean that the Cuban revolutionary party in America could recruit as many men as it pleased in every part of Mexico, and could send as many expeditious as it desired from Mexican ports straight across the gulf to Cuba without much fear of interference from Spanish gunboats. Most of the other Spanish-American countries would follow Mexico’s lead. TESTIMONY AGAINST DURRANT. Damaging Evidence Brought Out by the Attorney* For the Prosecution. San Francisco, Sept. it.—Yesterday began the ninth week of the Durrant trial. The prosecution estimates that it will require 15 days of actual court session for its direct testimony. Miss Lanigan, a fellow pupil of Blanche Lamont at the Normal school, testified yesterday that on April 3, when school was dismissed, she noticed Miss Lamont in company with a man whom she identified as Durrant. Mrs. Vogel, a new witness, told how she from her parlor window on the afternoon of April 3 noticed a man who loitered about 45 minutes outside the Normal school. When ashed who the man was, she pointed her finger toward Durrant, and dramatically exclaimed: “There he is!” Fearing he was a burglar, she watched him with a pair of opera glasses. When school was dismissed she saw two girls emerge from, the building. Accompanied by Durrant they boarded a Powell street car. One went inside and the other sat with Durrant in the dummy. The defense was evidently much worried over Mrs. Vogel’s testimony. She was very positive in her identification of Durrant and stood cross examination remarkably well. Mrs. James Crossett also testified to seeing Durrant on a streetcar iu company with a young lady. Blanche Lamont’s clothes were shown her, and were identified as being similar to those worn by the young lady in Durrant’s company. a MUST PAY THE WIDOW. Judgment Against a Life Insurance Company at St. Louis For *15,000. St. Louis, Sept. 17. —Judge Thayer in the United States circuit court of appeals yesterday affirmed the judgment of the trial court in favor of Nancy K. Florida against the Aetna Life Insurance company on two policies on her husband’s life, aggregating 115,000. Alonzo K. Florida took poison April 27, 1893, and tht Aetna company refused to pay the policies on the ground that Florida contemplated suicide at the. time he took out the insurance. Fox River Factories Resume. Appleton, Wis., Sept. 17. —By reason of yesterday’s government order allowing the use of water for power, every mill in the Fox river valley started up today. Two thousand idle men went to work. The water famine here has lasted four months, and during that time the loss to owners in product has been $2,500,000 and to employes $400,000 in wages. There is great rejoicing in all the Fox river towns at the resumption of work. , Stokes* Followers Shot by Belgians. London, Sept. 17.—A telegram from Ugandi dated Sept. 5 states that 100 of Stakes’ followers were shot by Belgian troops after Stokes had been executed. Stokes, it will be remembered, is the Englishman who was huug by Belgians for alleged participation in the slave trade, and whose execution has since formed the subject of negotiations between the British government and Belgium. steerpge Rates Advanced. New York, Sept. 17.— With the exception of the Thingvalia line all the continental steamship companies made advances yesterday in the rates for outgoing steerage passages. The steerage rates are now as high as they were before the war was started two years ago. The rates to Hamburg and Bremen by express steamers is how $33, and to Antwerp $25.

ADDRESS OF HENRY WATTERSON To The Veteran* of The 0. A. R at Louisville. That promissory note, drawn by the oity of Louisville, indorsed by me and discounted by you in the city of Pittsburg a year ago has matured and I am come to pay it! You who are so prompt and so generous about it will not be displeased to learn that it puts us to no Inconvenience to pay it. On the contrary. it having been one of those obligations on which the interest compounding day by day, was designed to eat up the principal, its discharge leaves us poor only in the regret that we may not repeat the transaction every twelve months and convert this Into a permanent encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Except that historic distinctions have long been obliterated here it might be mentioned that I appear before you as the representative alike of those who wore the blue and of those who wore the gray in that sectional combat, which, whatever else did or did not. left no shadow upon American soldiership, no stain upon American manhood. But to Kentucky the war ended thirty years ago Familiar intercommunication between those who fought in it upon opposing sides; marriage and giving in marriage; the rearing of a common progeny; the ministrations of private friendship;.the all subduing influnence of home and church and school, of wife and child, have culminated in such a closely knit web of ininterests and affections that none of us cares to disentangle the threads that compose it and few of us could do so if we would. Here at last the lesson has been taught and learned that “You cannot chain the eagle, And you dare not harm the dove; But every gate Hath bars to hate. Will open wide to love!” ' GOD BLESS THE FLAG. And the flag God bless the flag' As the heart of McCullum More warmed to the tartan do all hearts warm to the flag! Have you upon your round of sight-seeing missed thereabout? Does it make itself on any hand conspicuous by its absence? Can you doubt the loyal sincerity of those who from housetop and rooftree have thrown it to the breeze? Let some sacrilegious band be raised to haul it down and see! No, no, comrades; the people en mass do not deal in subterfuges; they do not stoop to conquer; they may be wrong; they may be perverse; but they never dissemble. These are honest flags, with honest hearts behind them. They are the syub >ls of a nationality as precious to us as to you. They fly at last as Webster would have had them fly, bearing no such mottoes as is all this worth” or ’‘Liberty first and union afterward,” but blazing in letters of living light upon their ample folds, as thev float over the sea and over the land, those words dear to every American heart, “Union and liberty, now and forever, one and inseparble ” And why not? What is left for you and me to caval about, far less to fight? When Hamilton and Madison agreed in supporting a constitution wholly acceptable to neither of them, they compromised somg differences and they left some other differences open to double construction; and. among these latter, was the exact relation of the state to the general government/ The institution of African slavery, with its irreconcilable conditions, got between the north and the south, and—. But I am not here to recite the history ot the United States. You know what happened as well as I do. and we all know that there does not remain a shred of those old issues to divide us. There is not a southern man today who would recall slavery if he could. Thereis not a southern man wh<H brook the effort of a state to withdraw from the union. Slavery is gone. Secession is dead. The union, with its system of statehood still intact, survives; and with a power and glory among men passing the dreams of the republic. You and I may fold our arms and go to sleep, leaving to youpger men to hold and defend a property ten-fold greater than that received by us, its ownership unclouded and its title deeds recorded in heaven! I’ASSIGN OF WAR A’LL GONE. It is, therefore, with a kind of exhultation that I fling open the gates of this gateway to the south! I bid you welcome in the name of the people, whose voice is the voice of God. You came and we resisted you; you come and we greet you; for times change and men change with them. You will find here scarcely a sign of the battle; not a reminiscence of its passions. Grimyisage war has smoothed his wrinkled frown, and whichever way you turn on either deeping as you advance—across the Chaplin hiss, where Jackson fell, to Stone’s river, where Rossa fought—and. on to Chattanooga and Chickamauga and over Missionary ridge, and down by Resaca and Kennesaw, Allatoon, where Corse “Held the fort,” as a second time you march to the sea—pausing awhile about Atlanta to look with wonder on a scene risen as by the hand of enchantment—thence returning by the way of Franklin and

Nashville—you shall encounter, as you pass those moldering heaps, which remind you of your valor and travail, only the magnanimous spirit of dead heroes, with Grant and Sherman and Thomas and McPherson and Logan looking down from the happy stars a» if repeating the words of the Master—- “ Charity for all—malice toward none,” We, too, have our graves: we, too, had our heroes! All, all are comrades now upon the other side, where you and I must shortly join them; blessed, thrice blessed we who have lived to see fulfilled the psalmist’s prophecy of peace: ’‘Peace in the quiet dales, Made rank!/ fertile by the blood of men; Peace in the woodland and the lonely glen, Peace in the peopled vales. Peace in the crowded town; Peace in the thousand fields of waving grain; Peace in the highway and flow’ry lane. Peace o’er the wind-swept down. “Peace on the whirring marts; Peace where the scholar thinks, the hunter roams, Peace, God of peace, peace in all our homes. And all our hearts.” AT REST. Benjamin James Rice, was born Nov. 17, 1817, in Culpeper county, Virginia, where he lived with his parents until he was about eight years old, when his parents moved to Carroll county, Ohio, where the family lived until 1836. But in 1835 he, in company with' his brother, William P. Rice, came to Adams county, their father having been here previously and entered the northwest quarter of section,. 13, in Root township, where the boys put up a cabin and commenced a clearing. He was married Sept. 6, 1838, to Elizabeth Pillars, to them were born four children, William P , Mary Davy Elizabeth Waggoner and Rachel Blossom, when death claimed her. Again in April 1846, he was married to Mary Pillars, to them were born six children, Benjamin P , John 8., N ancy A., now married to Jonas Cline, James M.. Williard F , and David M., all survive him. For sometime past he has made his home with his youngest son whe.re his death occurred Sept 9, 1895, aged 77 years, 10 months and 22 days. Il is interment was in the Alpha graveyard, near his home. When sixteen years of age he joined the Methodist church of which he remained a faithful and' consistent member until called away. He helped to build the first church called the Alpha, and then the one in which his funeral was preached, and for near sixty years he worshiped at the same place. He held all the different offices of the church, and at the time of his death was president of the board of 5 trustees. In his death the church looses a valuable member, the community a good citizen and the children a devoted father, the widow a loving and affectionate husband. The funeral was conducted by Rev Tinkham. of Hoagland, assisted by Rev. Gregg, of Decatur. “Peace be to his ashes.” * HEAD. Joseph E. Head, was born AjjHl. 10. 1850, and departed this life, Sept. 11. 1895, aged 45 years, 5 mopths and 1 day. He had been a member of the Friends church for 20 years. His father, mother and sister preceded him to the spirit land. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn their loss He was well respect d by all who knew him. He was born in Adams county where he lived for 43 years, then moved to Portland, Jay county, Ind., where he lived until bis death. He has a sis ter in Tulsa. Indian Territory. He had been a sufferer for several months which was very severe, but he bore it with Christian fortitude and faith, and gave full evidence that he was fully trusting in his Savior to whom he has gone. Funeral services were conducted by Mrs. Susie M. Magner, interment iu the Chapel grave yard south of Monroe, Ind. The bereaved family wish to remember with thanks the kindness and assistance of neighbors and friends in their time of trial.

OBITUARY. The subject of this sketch, John Godfrey Thieme of Union township, was born in Men den. Frankenheiuf Gtdhein, kingdom of Saxon. He was married .lune 18, 1856. to Miss Famalia Huseher of Fort Wayne. There was born to them eight children, three of them and the mother passed away before him: four daughters aud one,son with eighteen grandchildren are left to mourn hrs departure. The decedent was a tailor by trade aud in his early days worked at the trade in Fort Wayne. Twenty-eight years ago he : moyed .to Union township and bought the farm on which he died.’He" was a member of the Lutheran church of which he was a faithful member until his death which occurred Sept. 13. 1895. aged seventy years, seven mouths and sixteen days. The funeral will be held Sunday morn ing at the Blakey church conducted |>y Rev. Smith. Thue another pioneer is gone and again are we reminded that all must die. In his death the community in which lie lived has lost an honored citizen. String beans “cut on e the bias” have a much finer flavor than those which are cut directly across. Fried hominy is held by epicures in general to be the proper accompaniment for canvasback duck. Pillow slips should be ironed lengthwise instead of crosswise if one wishes to iron wrinkles out instead of in. Keep the .lamps filled, trimmed, and clean in every part to obtain the best results.

DON ffl BRADSTREET Estimate on Trade Conditions by Two Eminent Authorities. CORN AND WHEAT LOWER. Output of Pigiron For the Week Reachefl Nearly Two Hundred Thousand Toni. Boom In Trade In the South and Southwest —Cotton Goods Are Firm—Failures For the Week. New York, Sept. 14.—R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade today, say: A slight setback, which may mean much or nothing, according to the final outcome of the crops, is not unexpected at this season. If the government crop reports were correct, the situation would not be encouraging. But not much confidence is placed in the reduced estimate of corn and none at all in the estimate of wheat. Prices have settled back a little during the past week, notwithstanding the gloomy crop report. The wheat crop is evidently larger than the department has estimated, though nobody knows how much larger, and is coming forward with more encouraging rapidity. The price declined sharply aliout 2 cents per bushel, with little indication of recovery. The price of corn has also yielded, , with strong prospects of the largest crop ever grown, and at 38 cents at New York a large proportion of the crop will be of little profit to farmers. If we are tn have a large crop of grain and a small crop of cotton it is natural to infer manufacturers may find large trausac- ” tions at the west, but not at the south. The largest output of pigiron ever known, 194,029 tons, is apparently supported by a reduction of 64,000 tons in stocks of pigiron unsold. The market for finished products is a little weaker, although prices are on the whole fairly piaiptanied. There is great pressure for delivery of structural products and plants. Failures for the week were 187 in the United States against 219 last year, and 34 in Canada against 44 last year. South and Southwest All Right. New .York, Sept. 14.—Bradstreet’s says today: The week is characterized in trade circles by the unexpected but no less pronounced improvement south and southwest. This is reflected at markets from Which supplies are distributed to these regions. The most bullish report comes from St. Louis, where there are many country buyers, and all lines of staple merchandise are active, with the railroads making freer purchases and the manufacturing industries pressed to keep up with requirements. Aside from the firmness of cotton goods prices, which is a feature in trade circles north and east, the most conspicuous movement is the continued activity in iron and steel, the highest quotations yet reached having no effect in restricting demand. Lake cities report improved demand for general merchandise, stronger lake freights and requests for tonnage active. At Chicago relatively more orders are received from the south and southwest than ever before. Exports of wheat from both coasts of the United States and Canada (flour included as wheat) amount to only 1,810.000 bushels this week, compared with 2,260,000 bushels last week and 2,789,000 bushels iu the corresponding week a year ago. TIDAL WAVE. Water Toises Four Feet In Lake Superior and Does Some Damage. Ashland, Wis., Sept 14.—A tidal wave on Lake Superior and Chequamegon bay yesterday flooded enginerooms in elevators at Washburn and covered a wagonroad with logs from a sawmill. .Tlm v'j»ter-rose four feet '> ARRESTED FOR FORGERY. W. R. Stebbins, a Well Known Financier. I'u Custody at Cheyenne. Cheyenne, Wyo.. Sept 14. —W. R. " Stebbins of Kansas City, Kan., one of the best known men in banking and business circles throughout the west, was arrested here yesterday by •Sheriff Armstrong of Cook county on a charge of forgery. He was taken to Sun Dance, where he will be given a hearing next week. Mr." Stebbins was connected with several banks which failed, but without loss, it is said to him. It is charged that Stebbins owned certain stock in the First National bank of Sun Dance from its organization and to conceal the fact transferred it to one Mills of Kansas City. It is alleged that to secure the dividend on the stock transferred to Mills, Stebbins made out a power of attorney to. T. A. Dunn of Sun Dance, signed Mills’ name to it and sent the document to Dunn. It authorized him to vote the stock receipt for and collect the dividends, Mills being in ignorance of this transaction. Later the bank failed and went into the hands of a receiver, who levied an assessment on all.- stockhplders for the benefit of the creditors. ’ Both Mills and Stebbins denied owning the stock referred to, and the investigation that ‘ followed resulted in the discovery of the forgery. Stebbins is also connected with the banking firm of Christie & Janny of New York. Suits against him have been commenced in New York, Wyoming and- Kansas City by representatives of the broken banks with which he has been connected. Mr. Stebbins is regarded as being very wealthy. “Frog” Davis Is No More. Tahlequah, I. T., -Sept. 14.—“ Frog” Davis, who killed Sheriff James Musgrove of the Cowee district last summer, was executed in the national prisonyard at this place yesterday. Only a few minutes before climbing the scaffold Davis confessed the crime. On the gallows he made a long talk, saying that he was the bravest man that ever died on the scaffold. Not a tremor passed his tins.