Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1895 — Page 9

TO THE- . . I |nROGRESSIVE<3 E' e—FAMRER KL ' . qj, 1895. I . >•• fE wish to say that we have now on hand the New Force Feed, Low Elevator, [Champion - Binder ECCENTRIC GEAR, B' ■Demonstrated in harvest of 1894, to be the I LIGHTEST DRAFT |And having' the advantage over all other Binders in I handling Rye or down grain, and Forfeit Price of Binder Hf we cannot demonstrate to any practical farmer that we have advantages over all other Binders and! Mowers. Comeandiet us show you and be con-; vinced. 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 Cham- j pion, you make The Mistake of Your Life. I BINDER TWINE, PLOWS, HARROWS, And, in fact, the largest stock of I JEL tin the city, together with*the lowest prices. Thanking ■ our customers for past favors, and hoping fora conB tinuance of same, we remain Truly yours, I JOHN S. BOWERS & CO.

L THE NEW SERVANT. — RjThe Redheaded Girl Is Dlucouraged ei Trying to Teach Her Things. K That redheaded girl on Baynes street ■lately undertook to teach the art of doBmestic service to a Polish maiden who | had been plucked green in the wilderI ness of Shumway street. The new girl f was willing, but ignorant even of the J, English language. Instruction had to be imparted by object lessons. The first lesson was in lighting the gas. The kitchen treasure was told by her new mistress that she was to turn the stop--cock and then apply a match to the end ' of the pipe. She seemed to comprehend. The next day the redheaded girl was attracted by a vile smell issuing from the kitchen. On investigation the Polish exile was found standing beside the cold water faucet, patiently lighting matches and holding them under the stream of water, which she had turned on, only to see them immediately extinguished, leaving an odor of charred Wood behind. In the course of a year or two the redheaded girl hopes to be able to impress > tin the Ruthenian mind the fact that all general principles are subject to modification in practice, and particularly that all iron' pipes do hot burst into flame • when approached by a match.—Buffalo Express. , " “Good Night I Good Night!** There is a tender sweetness about’ gome of our common phrases of affectionate greeting, simple and unobtrusive as they are, which falls like dew upon the heart. “Goodnight!” the little one lisps as, gowned in white, with ’ shining face and hands, and prayers said, she toddles off to bed. Sisters and brothers exchange the wish, parents and children, friends and friends. Familiar use h’us robbed it of its significance to some of us; we repeat it automatically, without much thought. But

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consider. We are as voyagers, putting off from time to time upon an unexplored sea. Our barks of life set sail aud go onward into the darkness, and we, asleep on our pilloyvs, take no such care as we do when awake and journey- 1 ing by daylight. Os the perils of the night, whatever they may be, we. take no heed. An unsleeping vigilance of one stronger and wiser than we, who is the eternal good. Good and God spring from the same root, and are the same in meaning. “Goodby” is only “God be with you. ” “Good night” is really “God night,” or “God guard the night ” It would be a churlish house-! hold in which these gentle forms of speech were ignored or-did not exist. Alike, the happy and the sorrowful, day by day, may say “Good night.”--Churchman. The Tborouch Woman. Thoroughness would be a good onward cry fw the advancing women—l say ad- J vancihg with emplzisis, for really the advanced women arenoton hand in any , considerable number. i| hin> a large extent those who are to be of value when they arrive are holding i back for good equipment. They know that men require proper mental habiliment for the war of life, and the first rate women who expect to cope—not fight—with first rate naen in tlic struggle of the world realize that) thfy must be prepared to halt for re- 1 pairs. And thoroughness is a mighty fine butt lea x. Putting on a lit tle veneer and prefending to know ne-ver deceives ourselves, and rarely any one else, save for a very ) short time. Life, like love, is a leveler, | and if we live among folks they soon ! find out just how much we don’t.know, I and the weak spots in our armor become the bullseyes for their shafts. ? I tell you tho trumpet blast of progress isn’t “all cry and no wooll”—Polly Pry in New York Recorder.

:WI’BLIS'IW.®EST Thej Intend to Eleot Tom Watson of • ' Georgia to Congress. ! FRAUDS IN REGISTRATION. 1 Party of Democrat. From Auga.ta Threatened With Violence by Armed* Banda—Populist. Declare That Every Man Who Want, to Vote Shall Have the Opportunity. Atlanta, Oct. I.—There are signs of trouble in the Tenth congressional district of Georgia over the sjiecial election for congress to be held tomorrow. Tom Watson, Populist, and J. C. 0. Black, Democrat, are the candidates. It is said that a party of Democrats, including two expert registry clerks, who went up to Lincoln county to examine into the registration 4xx>ks. returned to Augusta yesterday. They say that as soou as they arrived iu the county runners were sent out into the county marshaling armed bands of Populists, who intimated and threatened violence to the committee at every step. They were not allowed to see the books and were told not to touch them nor to assist the registrars in expediting the work. The errand of the committee was fruitless. Members of the committee say: “Any Populist who felt so disposed took the names of voters in small notebooks, and ; this was called registration. No (yjesI tions were asked.” Tiie registras have ; thrown out a number of voters, but the ■ Populists openly and boldly declare that every man -in Lincoln county that i wishes to shan vote, registry or no registry. i The frauds perpetrated there are an i outrage on law and order, and even uplon decency itself. Populists in the ' county say that had Boykin Wright vis- ; ited there when he had intended a few days since, he would not have returned alive. MR. DUNCAN CLOSES. End of an Eloquent Appeal Defendant’s Attorney. Danville, Ind., Oct. 1. —A crowded t courtroom greeted Mr. Duncan yesterday morning when he resumed his argument for the defense in the Hinshaw murder trial. His manner of presenting the defendant’s case has created a good impression and predictions of acquittal are freely made. Mr. Duncan devoted much time to a discussion of the footprint theory, showing that it was in evidence that snow was falling all during the search, and that at the time of the shooting not enough suow had fallen to cover the ground except on smooth places. The state’s failure to show that they had not gone to bed to sleep, but that Mrs. Hinshaw had thrown herself on the bed in a petulant mood alter ij quarrel, without putting on her night gown, was emphasized, it being proved by many witnesses that she never wore gowns. After a thorough review of all the testimony offered 11 the defense, Mr. Duncan said: “Look at the record of his life. What motive did he have to do it? Was he not prosperous? ff Were not his domestic relations pleasant and happy? 1 Was not his wife a helpmate to him? Did he not have every motive not to commit such a crime?” He closed with an eloquent appeal to the jury not to send the old mother back to her home i with a broken heart. CROWDED FROM THE ROAD. j Wagon Falls Into a Stream and Three People Are Drowned. Bingham City, Utah, Oct. I.—Details' of a terrible accident which occurred near B.ugham City in which three people were drowned and four "Seriously injured have been received. Two ! wagons met on a narrow pass on the side of a mountain and one vehicle i with all its occupants was crowded off ■ and hurled down into the stream below. Mrs. Jephson, Miss Christiana Jephson and Miss fspeu were unable to i extricate themselves from the wagon and were drowned. Wanted to He a Bank Robber. New York, Oct. I.—Edward Hecker, ' an 18-year-old youth, who had just been I brought by detectives from Knoxville, Tenn., was arraigned in the Tombs police court yesterday on a charge of stealing $75 from his former employer. Hecker is said to have stolen the money to get to Knoxville, because he had met i here a Knoxville man named James I Irving, persuaded him to go i through on an understanding that they i l would proceed to Florida to engage in bank robberies. Irving is understood to he on his way to Knoxville. Sunday Opening Question at Atlanta. Atlanta, 0ct.,1. —The question of Sunday opening of the exposition was settled by an overwhelming vote against the proposition at the directors’ meeting yesterday afternpon. H. H. Cabanhiss, manager of the Atlanta Journal, moved that the grounds be opened and the midway closed on Sundays. Captain J. ■ W. English moved that the whole mat- , ter be laid on the table. This was nd ant. ! ed by an overwhelming vote. It is jiot believed that any further attempt will be made to open the grounds on Sunday. . Malione Stricken With Paralysis. Washington, Oct. I.—United States Senator Mahone was stricken with paralysis yesterday at Chamberlain’s hotel, whore he has been stopping for some time past. As he is now advanced in years the attack is regarded as' very serious, though he has rallied somewhat. Ex-Senator Mahone was very low again this morning, and his physicians feared that he might hot survive. His wife and daughter arrived at 11 o’clock last night and were at his bedsidp. Resigned Their Pastorates. Galesburg. Iltss, Oct. I.—Rev. E. E. Day, pastor of the Kuox Congregational church, and Rev. O. W. Vanosdell, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist church, have resigned their pastorates.

Mrs. Anna Gage, wife of ExOeputy U. S. Marshal, I Columbus, Kan., says: “I Was delivered OWk of TWINS in MptKSBjBgSEh less than 20 rninL tfysSSß' utcs and ' vith scarcely any pain (7 . after using only O two bottles of xHW FRIEND” DID NOT SUFFER AFTERWARD. tWSent i.y Express or Mull, On receipt of price, Igl.AO p. r hottie. Book •‘TO MOTHERS’ 1 mailed Ire. BBADFIELi) REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, tfA. SOU) BY ALL DRUGGISTS. DESTMICTIVE FLAMES.

I Hundreds of People In Quebec Made Homeless by Forest Fires. FANNED BY A STRONG GALE. Destruction Checked Somewhat by a Welcome Kain, Although the Fire Is Still Burning—Thirty-Five Miles ol Burning Forest—Settlers Lose Everything Except Their Lives. Abthabaska, Que., Sept. 27.—Many men were still fighting fire last night in ; the woo Is on the Grand Trunk railroad line in ’the direction of Doucet’s Landing on the Three Rivers road. The fire began on Monday morning when the sky was darkened by a dense column of smoke blown by the strongest gale felt for years. The fire originated in the bushwood and was kindled by farmers clearing new land. Monday evening the terror was redoubled here when the heavens were lit up with flames and a rain of cinders and sparks fell. The whole population engaged in prayer, tapers were burned at the altars in the parish churches and the priests joined in the supplications to heaven. Guards were posted all around the village and the statues of saints ■ were placed around the houses to turn back destruction. Today the victims of the calamity are homeless and begging through the country. All trains passing through the desolated region stop and the conductor blows a horn and calls out in Case the people should be in need. The people burned out are utterly penniless. The rain began falling yesterday and the people are overjoyed, as they believe the fire can be stopped. Settlers who have been here 50 years have never seen such a fire. A correspondent visited the desolated district yesterday. No fire could be seen then as a heavy rain was falling. The area visited by the flames was one of 35 miles. The flames traveled from north to south from the inland forest to the St. Lawrence river. The fire is now confined to a spot .13 miles from Doucet’s Lauding, at St. Angle. Vegetation and trees, including all crops, are in ashes along the Grand Trunk line. The villagers are flocking with their wives and children from all parts of Arthabaska and Three Rivers. They have lost all except life itself, i Providentially no fatalities were added to the calamity. Husbands, wives and children all through this region who have been separated in the conflagration are still seeking one another. Much Property In Danger. Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 27.—Extensive forest and swamp fires are raging sotfthwest, west and northwest of this city, A furious gale is blowing from > the southwest and the flames are sweeping through the timber and over the marshes with great rapidity. The fires in the Dorr county peninsula that were ) subdued by Sunday night’s rain have 1 also broken out -again. The city and ; bay are overhung with dense smoke, I On the Oneida reservation the fires I are very extensive. Scores of farm 4 buildings are threatened and fires are I approaching the Chicago, Milwaukee ! and St. Paul shops within the suburbs of this city. . Woodward Ball, the leading furniture dealers of the city, carry a fine line of queensware, glassware, and in fact they are the only dealers in cut glassware Call and see them and the finest display of chinaware ever in the city. glwtf I Mr. J. K. Fowler, secretary and treasurer of trie Corinne Mill, Canal and Stock Co., I of Corinne. Utah, in speaking of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy says. “I consider it ♦he best in the market. 1 have dseii many kinds but find Chamberlain’s the most prompt in giving relief, ami now keep op other in my home.” When troubled with a cough or cold give this remedy a trial and we assure you that you will be ftibre thau pleased,wUli the-.-jesult. 1. i For sale by Blackburn •& Miller, drug-. i gists. ... -o We can now furnish parties with pickles and tomatoes in anv quantities desired, Pickles 25c per hundred, delivered to any part of the city. 22wtf E». JohnsoiL Harness is way up,but we are not on our prices. All hand made, pure oak stock or no sale. 19-4 Ellsworth, M ykrs &Co. While it is very unpleasant to havefo topart with our friends, yet it is the case in life. But it is a real pleasure to have gentlemanly undertakers to assist you in the performance of this sad duty. You will find "Woodward & Ball very pleasant gentlemen. 21wtf Dr. Price-’s Cream Baking Powder 1 Ort* a*

CUBAN MASS MEETING. Chicago People Apparently Unanimous In Favor of the Insurgents. MAYOR SWIFT PRESIDES. Central Mn.lo Hall Wax Ho Crowded That an Overflow Meeting Wa» Held. Mach Enthusiasm Shown — Many Encouraging Telegrams Received — Altgeld’s Message Cheered to the Echo. Chicago, Oct. I.—As much of the population of Chicago as could find entrance to’ the auditorium of Central Music hall and the Young Men’s Christiou Association building last night shouted itself horse in approbation of a 'series of resolutions in which the United States government is asked to recognize the Cubans as belligerents. Such genuine enthusiasm has seldom been witnessed in this city and on no occasion Were words spoken by men more full of the heart and soul than the speakers. Mayor George B. Swift presided at ! the main meeting iu Central Music hall, while Judge William A. Vincent was chairman of tho overflow meeting in the association building. The 75 vice , presicients who occupied seats on the i platforms were chosen from among the leading business men of the city ami i each one of them had previously ex--1 pressed himself in full accord with the object of the meetings. ; Before the speaking began, copies of telegrams from a' numberofgentlemcn who could not be present were read. ; The first of these was one from Governor Altgeld, audits ringing words called : forth choer after cheer. Other telegrams. ! were from Congressman • George E. > Adams, Senator Wilkinson of Florida and Ge<>ge R. Peck. V The representatives of the various organizations which had seieefed committees to co-operate ih making the meetings a success were distributed between the two. Among the organizations represented were the Loyal Legion, Confederate association, G. A. R., Naval veterans, society of the Sons of the Revolution, Illinois State Federation of Labor, 25 local laboring organizations, j Standard club, Marquette club, Kenwood club, Bankers’ club, Oakland club, Illinois club, Menoken club and many others. i The resolutions were couched in conI setvative language and disclaimed any ' intention of bitterness to Spain, but j wi re devoted to placing the reasons for 1 Cuban recognition before the public upon the plea of humanity and the right of a people suffering so long from misrule to the luxury of self government. J Will Confiscate the Arm*., ’ London, Oct. 1. —A dispatch from Madrid says that Senor Dupuy de Lome, ; Spanish mipister to the United States, i telegraphs that the United States government, at the request of the secretary of state, has decreed that all arms and munitions intended for the Cuban rebels shall be seized by the American authorities and not be returned to their owners. RAILWAY ORGANIZATIONS. Federalization Scheme to Be Tried by a tho Different Brotherhoods Denver, Oct. 1. —One of the most important meetings of railroad ever held I in the i west will occur here Oct. 19, i when over 200 delegates, representing 1 7,000 members in Colorado and adjoining territory of five of the best labor organizations in the country will assemble, and the “federalization of railway organizations” will be perfected. The ■ outcome of the meeting is not dreaded i by railroad magnates, as the superm- j tekidents, managers and receivers of I every great western system has indorsed ' the plan of the men. The organizations * ' which will take part in the conference : ' are: Brotherhood of Locomotive EnI gineers. Birotherhood of Raihpad Tram- i men, Order of Railway Conductors, , . Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ■ i and Orders iff Railway Telegraphers. ‘ i WHIPPING AT WASHINGTON. I Gran>i Jury Reconamends the Establish- ‘ | ment of That <\d Time Favorite. i Washington, Ock I.—lmmediately j ■ preceding the discharge of the grand ; jury here yesterday by\luilgo ..Bradley, ■ a written recommendation was submitted to the court favoring the establishment of the whipping jmst in the District of Columbia for the punishment of -Wife beaters and othpr petty criminals. It was signed by the foreman and J 5 ■ jurymen. Judge Bradley commented.) briefly on the recommendation, and said that.he thought such a method of pun- I ishment would be productive of good results. / —trlsh Compact With Balfour. Montreal, Oct. I.—Dr. O’Sullivan of Limerick, Ireland, one of the delegates ■ ' to the Irish convention held in Chicago, last week, is in the city. He .made a statement yesterday to the effect that a eonipaet had been made between Justin McCarthy and Right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour by which the former prom? j ises the gover'hment the support of his I followers in return fijr Irish lioine rme. j Dr. O’Sullivan savs he- had the n>'w< from -McCarthy's- own lips, and is-only , afraid the resolutions passed at the con- ’ vention may interfere with the plan. Corbett In Gbod Form. New, York, Oct. I.—James J. Corbett ) gave an exhibition of his trafaiing methods in Madison Square garden yesterday afternoon and evening, aud so far as the spectators could judge he is in excellent condition. -He boxed, wrestled, exercised with weights and punched bag. In the boxing bouts with Stoye O’Donnell the experts said Corbett shjowed his old time form. Jeffersonville Bridge Bonds. NewiYork, Oct. I.—-Messrs. A. H. BoisseVain & Co., have sold abroad at 94 and: interest the entire issue of s3>-„ 000,000 of 50-year 4 per cent gold bonds of tho Louisville aud Jeffersonville? 1 Bridge company, guaranteed by the I Chesapeake and Ohio and Big Four railroad companies. , »

THE MERCHANT WHO CORRECTS ONLY ONE KIND OF MISTAKE. A Severe CritlclHm of the Way. of Shopkeeper. and Cashier.—The Steamboat Clerk Who Sahl, “We Never Rectify MUtake. Here.” No one perceives the wisdom, and indeed the necessity, of accurate bookkeeping more fully than your humble Servant, who can’t keep books to save her life and who finds herself approaching dementia every time she endeavors to balance a cash account. But why in all bookkeeping systems, from banks to tho smallest retail shop, is it invariably the customer who gets cheated if anybody? Toll me, ye winged winds, which o’er my pathway roll! It is useless to contradict and say that it isn’t. The one exception jn a thousand years does not count against the millions of opposing instances. I have lately .read the pathetic account by some recluse, who never goes shopping, of the bloodthirsty monsters who take more change ..than is due them and stalk out, leaving no address behind them, little recking the sufferings of the poorly paid employee i who has to make good the deficit out of his or her own pocket. Fudge! No such .mistakes occur, or, if they do, they are ; rarer than fresh vegetables on a country table. In all large establishments there is a hawk headed Horus, at the “desk” waiting to pounce on a mistake in the customer’s favor of 1 cent, and many’s i the'time every one of us can testify the littlq slips have been returned to be corrected of mistakes to our credit, while we fumed. Thank goodness, there are instances in which the sharpshooters have wounded themselves. Once I was on a “ sound’ ’ boat going frofii New Yorkto Fall River, and the man at the desk gave me a $5 bill too much in change when paying after supper. There was something of a 1 crowd, but that mistake would have ; made itself evident to me in a mob. I dashed back and said, “You’ve made a mistake in my change.” “Can’t help that,’’said the lordly clerk. “We never rectify mistakes here. ’’ “Oh, you don’t?” retorted the head of the party. “Well, it will cost you something this time, for you have given us $5 too much. But if you never rectify mistakes you are the loser for once. ” It is foolish to dwell on the sequel, and I have forgotten it. I only remember that the young man, pale and agitated, danced in supplication around the unmoved figure of the stem admonisher for some minutes. I suppose he got his • money, and I dare say there was no law | upholding one in keeping it, but I hope, at this distance of time, be didn’t. One day, not long ago, I was at a furnishing shop in State street- Chicago, buying a . i tie. The price wasrsl.so, and I presented the man with as 2 bilk He swung over the little birtlcage on a telegraph line and it came swiftly backxvith a 50 cent piece. Seeing another tie for that • price, I handed back the change and was about to leave, when a voice came from the elevated deskat the other end: “Hi! This half dollar is counterfeit!” Although it was a public place and I am a retiring lady, I burst wildly forth into a clarion shout of joy. It is so seldom a modest customer has the chance of beholding a natural enemy caught with his own quicklime. The mortification of the salesman serving me was something to see. It did me good for a whole day. Sending a counterfeit half dollar cheerfully and with promptitude in change and repudiating it omit* return the next minute ! It was a sharp game and a little too sharp. Everybody who shops , much knows. that it is next to impossible to get a ■ ‘‘returned” article credited, or, indeed, ; called for. If you take two rugs cn ap- !. proval-—I mention rugs because you i can't very well return them by hand; — 1 and state clearly and plainly and over ami oyer tho price of the one you have i kept ami the one you wish returned, ! you are more likely than not to' find I both on your bill the next month, and ; you-are likely, to find the rug day after I day littering your hall unless yon telephone twice a day and end by flouncing down yourself in a rage and-demanding its instant-removal. Os course if it is kept long you are charged with it, anyi way. The other night, when it was very I hot, some friends of a lady in moderate ■' circumstances dining With her suggested a drive in the park. One of the men telephoned for a landau, and nt the end of the drive paid for it. The next week the bill came in—.to the lady. Now of course this was an accident.. “But why ' doesn't the ever happen? I Why should thousands of bills come in to bo pjiiii twice, while by no oversight ‘ or bad management does a bill ever get ; forgotten or overlooked? Money getting, I grasping, greedy generation of shopkeepers! Business is business, if you I like, but business need not be a \iut- : throat, bloodthirsty system of deimuidi ing what is noy due, need it? Must it be in this way that men grow.rich? It is because only one kind of mistakes occur that one is justified in thinking that only one kitid' is guarded against.. The has to look out ) for himself ami the shopkeeper too.~TTie' shopkeeper only looks out tor himself. UAs * for tlierTneiikifig’ of promises,7 the j: ealm delays arid > the superb independ-. ' of “purveyors,” words fail me I wWii I attem.pt to depict their aggrava- ■ tions. Success breeds contempt, it seems, ami th» only'W 1 to get a tljing done promptly is t o patronize a little up town place where they can't do.it. —Mme. Lorcnette in Chicago Post. , For bargains in men’s and boVs’-Tan shoes go to Henry 9tf Barney Kalvariska pays cash for old . iron and rubber- 25tf The Indiana Duroc*Jersey 0 Breeding Company; breeders and shippers of Dnfoc\j» li se.v swine, prices reasonable. Inspection and correspondence solicited. J. C Johnson, Sec’y-26-4'- Bloomingsport, Ind.