Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1897 — Page 6

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AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. Gray heavens, gray earth, gray sea, gray sky Yet rifted with strange gleams of gold; Downward all’s dark, but up on high Walk our white angels, dear of old. Strong faith in God and trust in man. In patience we possess our souls. Eastward gray ghosts may linger wan, But westward back the shadow rolls. Life’s broken urns with moss are clad. And grass springs greenest over graves. The shipwrecked sailor reckons glad Not what he lost, but what he saves. Our sun has set, but in his raj’ The hilltops shine like saints newborn. His afterglow of night makes day, And when we wake it will be morn. —By the Author of “John Halifax, Gentle man.” JOHNSON'S ROMANCE. Dear old Johnson! Whenever I think of him I realize that he was one of the true, good hearted fellows we only meet with here and there in the world, and not too often. His name, by the way, was not Johnson, but it will answer all the purposes of my story to call him so. It was a name handed down through many a generation of noble ancestors that he carried across the channel when he was nearing 50 years of age, together with the very small remnant of fortune which remained after one of his friends had swindled him. Johnson was exactly the person to be swindled. His trustful, generous heart made him an easy prey. “I don’t like leaving my native land,” he said to me a day or so before his departure, ‘‘but the fact is lean no longer afford to live in England, so I must avail myself of the inexpensive continental style cf existence. I am bound for Paris, which, after all, will not be going very far away. ” Johnson had been living abroad for more than a year when I decided that it was about time I was looking him up. He was not good at correspondence, neither was I. We exchanged occasional letters which seemed to be full of nothing, so I wanted to see with my own eyes how he was bearing his changed fortunes. It was in the small ‘‘entresol” of one of the tall houses of the old Latin quarter of the capital that I found my friend established. He declared that he was very jolly, but I did not believe him. It was only a sort of dogged determination to look on the sunny side of things in general that made him say so. How could a man no longer in his first youth be "jolly” in a stuffy little lodging where his head almost touched the ceiling and where his frugal meals were sent in by a “traiteur?” Johnson was just the fellow who ought to be the head of an affluent British household, with sons and daughters growing up around him. Or he should have been a wealthy bachelor uncle, absolutely adored by a large contingent of nephews and nieces. Solitude did not; seem the proper setting for him.

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However, he took for his motto, ‘‘Whatever is, is best, ” trotted me about Paris with an air of part ownership which was infinitely comic—in fact, did his level best to make my fortnight's stay a pleasant one. He would have insisted on giving me up iiis bed and migrating to an unlet attic on the fifth floor, but I would not hear of it. I was obliged to pretend that I should certainly suffocate in the small closet he dignified by the title of “chainfare a coucher,” and that I had engaged quarters at one of the nearest hotels on my way from the railway station and before 1 found him out. Though we had known each other during a good many years, it was only when my stay in Paris drew very near j its close that Johnson one evening be- ! came confidential. I am not very likely to fo'-get that i evening, either, for I had come out raI ther sick and decidedly shuddering from visiting the morgue. Declaring it to be one of the sights of the city, which a strong nerved m in I ought to see once in his life, I had prevailed on Johnson to accompany me. A group of excited women and a man I or two were standing by the entrance. They told us that the body of a girl—a ; young and pretty girl—had been carried | in not long before. She had been found i floating in the Seine—a case of suicide, no donbt. ‘‘l—think—l’ll take your arm—my dear fellow,” stammered Johnson as w<> j came out from this ghastly spectacle. Then I felt sorry I had urged him against his will, for his face was as white as chalk and his manner was that of a man walking in a dream. "It reminded me,” he said, after we had walked some little way, and he seemed better, ‘‘of a girl who was drowned a good many years ago. Perhaps I’ll tell you about it by and by.” I did not question him. The little ro mance of hie life came out quite naturally as we sat together in the stuffy "entresol,” waiting for dinner. "I am such a thorough fogy now,” remarked Johnson from the depths of the big Voltaire chair into which I had forced him, "that I dare say, Frank, you could hardly imagine me young i and fairly good looking. ’ ’ ‘‘You forget,” I answered, ‘‘that we were both tolerably young when we first made acquaintance. And, in my opinion, you are good looking now. ’ ’ “Oh, yes, to you, perhaps. But could you imagine me a man with whom a girl—pretty and much sought after—would fall in love? Yet so it was, and I think I shall feel better if I tell you about it this evening.” “Tell me by all means,” 1 said. “I never knew before you were a man with a story.” Me smiled rather sadly "Who has not a story? Only we do not happen to know it. I don’t suppose that we who have failed in life as regards happiness are In the minority. Well, I, too, bad my dreams of a wife and a home. At first they were vague and shadiKvlike. They only began to take form when I knew Alice Temple. I have called her pretty, but I think it was the intelligence expressed in her eyes that one noticed most, or perhaps the swift smile that came to her lips w hen she spoke. ” I waited silently. Presently Johnson went on with his story: “We were engaged. There was nothing to wait for. I could afford to marry and Alice bad a little money, not much, and I was glad of it. I should • not have wished to be one of those at - whom the world points as a man who, by marrying, has done well for himself. ” “My dear friend,” I exclaimed, ‘‘no one could ever imagine you hunting after money. lam afraid you have undervalued it all your life and will keep - up the habit to the end.” Johnson smiled. “Perhaps there is something in what you say, perhaps I have been an incautious, oversanguine fellow, but then I have always realized that if money opens all doors in this world it certainly won’t open us the door of heaven. However, I am drifting away "from what I meant to tell you—what that dead face of a girl seems to force me to speak of tonight. Alice and I were, as I have said, engaged, the wedding day fixed. We were visiting at the country house of one of her relatives that glorious month of August. One day I went up to London, returning late in the evening. In all the years that have passed I have never forgotten that evening. I can see now in memory the moonlight falling on the trees, its glare

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—for at the full of the moon it is a cold, hard glare which falls on everything, or so it seems to me—on the white gravel of the avenue leading to the house. Even as the old butler opened the door I saw there was something the matter —a little crowd of panic stricken faces, and then some one caught my arm and tried to pull me away—tried, but failed, for I fought and struggled to shake off the grasp. I knew at once something had happened to Alice Temple. ” He paused so long that at last I asked what came next. He started at the sound of my voice. “I forgot I was telling you about it,” he said. ‘ ‘lt seemed as though I were going over it all by myself. I often do, though it happened so long ago. What was it? Oh, ‘one of those boating accidents,’ as people say when they lay down a daily paper, complaining of the scarcity of news. Alice had been boating. There was an upset; no one hurt of all the party except—well, they had just brought her in, and as I fought myself free of my well meaning friend it was on the white, still face and long, drenched hair of my dead love that my eyes rested. I have never forgotten that sight, never forgotten her in all the years of days and nights which have gone bv since then. Strange I have never talked of it? But, then, we never do talk of what we feel most deeply. Yet tonight that poor girl—l dare say she was not a very good girl, but heaven is more merciful than man and takes account of all the despair and misery which go before self destruction —reminded me of Alice, who was to have been my wife, of the happiness I wanted, yet was refused, and it has unmanned me for a bit By and by I shall feel better. Perhaps, who knows, in some future existence our disappointments will all be made up to us. At any rate that is one of my pet beliefs. ” “ Yon think that in some future you and Alice Temple will be together?” I asked rather skeptically. "I don’t put things into form and shape. I simply believe that I, and all who have failed in this world, shall have happiness. Now let us talk no more of it, for here comes dinner.” As dear old Johnson bowed his head to say grace, for he reverently observed the practices taught him in his childhood, his voice trembled, and when he looked up again and raised the cover of the little soup tureen for the preliminary duties of hospitality I saw, and pretended not to see, that there were tears shining in his eyes.—Exchange.

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Mysterious Defects in Engine*. Defects often develop in steam engines and other machines that are very mysterious in their origin and call for ’ great ingenuity in detecting the cause. Unless a man in charge of an engine i develops habits of close observation he is likely to be easily beaten when auything unusual takes place. We read lately of a tendency to run away of a Corliss engine, which was a great mystery for a time. The engine would speed up for a few moments ■ without any apparent cause and drop back to its normal speed without any- | thing being done. The engine was taken apart and examined carefully, and particular attention was devoted to the i governor, but nothing wrong could be | found. One day, while the engineer was looking at the engine, it suddenly speeded up about 50 revolutions above the normal, and before the steam could I be shut off it dropped back to the regular speed. The engine was stopped, the governor again taken apart, the valve mechanism examined and a minute inspection made over the whole machine, and nothing could be found the matter. Some of the people about were beginning to think this erratic engine was acting outside of natural laws and that a real mystery surrounded the tendency to run away. By accident the engineer grasped the governor belt and was surprised to find that the pulley turned on the shaft. The pulley was of the common kind, made in two pieces and bolted together, being held to the shaft by the friction of the parts. The bolts had worked loose and permitted the pulley to turn on the shaft at short intervals. When hearing about this mystery, the surprise we experienced was that the engineer did not thoroughly examine that pulley after he had looked at the governor.—Locomotive Engineering. Paris policemen have ‘been supplied with electric dark lanterns by means of which they can see 150 feet away. They were employed successfully in a recent raid in the Bois de Boulogne on the homeless persons who sleep there at night. The 350,000 immigrants landed in the United States during 1896, added to the number landed since 1820, foot up a grand total of something over 18,000,000. The annual consumption of alcohol in this country amounts to $1,200,000,000; of cigars and tobacco and other forms, $600,000,000, a total of $1,800,000,000.

A restaurant in New York displays the sign "Oysters cooked 100 ways,” and a German in Berlin has written a book in which he describes 810 ways to cook potatoes. John Simmons, a native of Berkshire, born without arms or hands, could write with his mouth, thread a needle, tie a knot and shuffle, cut and deal a pack of cards.

The Forth bridge is constantly being repainted. So vast is the structure that it takes 50 tons of paint to give it one coat, and the area dealt with is something like 120 acres. The principal fortresses of AustriaHungary are Cracow, Phzemyel, Karlsburg, Arad, Temesvar, Komorn, Peterwardein, Budapest, Pola and Triest, the last two naval harbors as well. Mulhall finds that our middle states are much more closely populated than the European continent, the average be- j ing 140 persons to the square mile, or only a little less than that of France. Daniel Lambert, the famous fat man, j the most noted example of obesity re- | corded in medical annals, was born in 1770 and died at the age of 40 of excessive fat. His weight was 739 pounds. Muskrats are only protected within the limits of the waters of Lake Erie. Detroit river, River St. Clair, Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and can be caught anywhere else in Michigan. The Chinese dictionary authorized by the imperial government contains 214 classes of words, of which 150 include the more important. This famous dictionary, the most ancient of any recorded in literary history, was arranged by Pa-out-she, who lived about 1,100 years before Christ. During about 700 years the Latin language was the language of court, camp and polite society from the River Tweed, in Scotland, to the Euphrates, in Asia, and from the Crimea or Chersonese, in the Black sea. to the Pillars of Hercules, at the western extremity of the Mediterranean. In Persia, among the aristocracy, a visitor sends notice an hour or two before calling and gives a day’s notice if the visit is one of great importance. He is met by servants before he reaches the ; house, and other considerations are ! shown him, according to relative rank. The left and not the right is considered the position of honor. Pot of Gold. Schooner, Ind., Aug. 7.— John | Hatchet, a farmer near here, while plowing in a field unearthed a pot containing almost SI,OOO in gold coin. It is thought to have been buried by his, father, who was known to keep large sums of money years ago. Seventh lh*y Adventist*. Logansport, Ind., Aug. 7.—The Seventh Day Adventists will hold their ■ state encampment in this city Aug. 24. The Rev. Mr. Roberts of Marion and Rev. Mr. Stewart of Brookston are in the city at present engaged in making chairs and tables tar the meeting. What Hurt Him. “Is your beer here good?” “So good, mister, that it do hurt me to the heart to have for to sell it ” i Judy.

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The G. R. & I. (Effect June 20.1897.) TRAINS NORTH. •No. 3. *No. 5. ‘No. 1. Richmond 11:06 am 9.05 pm 5:00 pm Parry 11:12 “ 5:05 “ Chester 5:10 Fountain City. 11:27 “ 5:20 *• Johnson 11:37 “ 5:30 “ Lynn 11:12 “ 5:35 “ Snow Hill li:4B •' 5:41 “ Woods 11:.50 “ 5:43 " Winchester.... 12:00 “ 9:43 pm 5:53 “ Stone 12:10 pm 6:03 “ Ridgeville 12:19 “ 9'58 p m 6:12 “ Collet 12:32 “ 6:26 “ Portland 12:42 “ 10;16pm 6:36 “ Jay “ (i:46 “ Briant 12:59 “ 6:52 “ Geneva 1:07 “ 7:01 “ Ceylon 7:03 “ Berne 1:18 “ 7:11 “ Monroe 1:32 “ 7:23 “ DECATUR 1:45 “ 11:01pm 7:34 “ Monmouth 1:52 •• 7:40 “ Williams 2:01 “ 7:50 " Hoagland 2:06 “ 7:56 “ Adams 8:12 '• Fort Wayne.... 2:35 “ 11:40 pm 8:25 “ •Dally, except Sunday. +Daily. TRAINS SOUTH •No. 2. *No. 4. tN0.42. Fort Wayne.... 12:35 p m 2:soam 5:45 am Adams 5:58 Hoagland 1:00 “ 6:13 Williams 1:05 “ 6:18 Monmouth 1:18 “ 6:24 “ DECATUR 1:19 “ 3:27 “ 6:30 “ Monroe 1:3» “ 6:42 “ Berne 1:44 “ 6;54 “ Ceylon 7:01 “ Geneva 1:53 “ 7:03 “ Briant 2:00 “ 7:12 “ Jay 7:18 “ Portland 2:14 “ 4:09 “ 7:27 “ Collett 2:23 “ 7:37 “ Ridgeville . . 2:35 “ 4:27 “ 7:50 ‘ Stone 7:59 “ Winchester.... 2:50 “ 4:44 “ 8:09 “ Woods 8:22 “ Snow Hill 8:25 ‘ Lynn 3:06 “ 8:32 ‘ Johnson 3:11 •• 8:38 “ Fountain City. 3:20 “ 8:49 “ Chester 9:01 “ Parry 9:08 “ Richmond 3:40 “ 5:35 *• 9:15 “ Daily. tDaily ex. Sunday. *Daily exept from Mackinac City. Jarr Bryson, Agent C.L Lockwood. Gen. Pas Agent.

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