Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1897 — Page 3

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HII.CELLANEOI » " IVrl KF * 111 Kind* of News Condensed and Boiled Over for Our Many Headers. The following lines, says the Atanta Constitution, have been carved (D the tombstone of a North Caroltia moonshiner: “Killed by the ,overnment for making whisky out if corn from seed furnished by a icngrps-iman. The general advance in all the lecessiries of life is exercising connmerß a little. The politicians r ill have to change their cry from he “poor farmers” to the “poor onsumers” if this thing keep on nacb longer. The Angola girl who expressed io much sympathy for the farmer lecause of his cold job of harvestD g his winter wheat, is equal in gricultnral knowledge to the one that expressed a desire to see a field if tobacco when it was just plugting out. At Joplin, Mo., a drunken man ell down a mine shaft seventy feet in a Saturday and lay there twentyfour houjs before he was discovered. Beyond a tew slight bruises he was not hurt. On the following Monday another miner, sober, tell several feet down a shaft at the same place and died in half an hour. A man once swallowed a five dollar gold piece. When a friend asked him which physician should be called, be replied: “Oh, never mind a physician. Send for my wife; she will answer the purpose.”

When asked for an explanation, he said: “If she doesn’t succeed it will be the first time she ever failed to get money out of me.” A young lady not a thousand miles from Poseyville lately received a letter from a cousin conveying the following interesting news; “We are all well; mother is got the terrix; brother Tom is got the hupen kaugh; and sister Ann is got a boy; hopin’ to find you the same and rite sune. Your apbesshunit cousin.”—Mt. Vernon Democrat. •A--A number of ladies, members of Decatur Rebeckah lodge, came over to this place last Friday evening and witnessed four initiations into Columbia Rebeekah lodge No. 399 of this place. The party returned to their homes the same evening after lodge bad adjourned, all expressing themselves as having been royally entertained and their intention of making another visit in the near future.—Monroeville Breeeze. Here is something told of a minister that is somewhat out of the ordinary. He had heard of a sensational method and wanted to give his congregation a surprise. A negro boy was taken into his confidence as a confederate and s'ationed on the roof just above the pulpit. In the lad’s keeping was entrusted a pigeon, which was to be let loose in the church through an opening at the proper moment. The church was packed, and the preacher, having stormed his denoument raised his voice and cried, “And the Holy Ghost descended in the form of a dove,” but no dove appeared. He repeated the sentence. Still no dove. At the third outcry

a black face appeared at the hole in the roof and the query came: pPahson, a cat done gone eat de Holy Ghost, but I got de cat. Shall I frow her down?” The time to visit Indianapolis will be during State Fair week, Sept. 13 to 18, when the railroads will giye low rates and the city will be in galla attire. This meeting of the State Fair will be more than interesting, the races especially promising to be more hotly contested than ever before, the entries already made showing a big and varied field of horses. All indications point to a big show of all kinds of stock, and the other de partments will certainly be interesting. “You cannot organize too many bimetallic leagues nor spread the gospel too far. I wish you all godspeed. There is great and immediate necessity for organization. Do not be discouraged by condemnation of agitation. Sometimes I hear high tariff republicans argue against agitation of the silver movement, and yet I remember that the Home Market League has never ceased to agitate for a high tariff. The same is true of the low tariff democrats. We should never cease to agitate and organize until we get the money of ihe constitution.”-—William Jennings Bryan. 1 was talking the other day with a Decatur man about the financial condition of that little city. He said it was sailing under a debt of $105,000, but with all this they had a pushing, lively business town. The debt was not made with good results. They have an excellent system of waterworks, their electric light plant is something they feel very proud of, and they can show their visitors some of the prettiest brick streets to be found in any city. Decatur has lots of push, and is not afraid of a few thousand of dollars indebtness. They can pay the interest and let the future generation pay the principal. Whoever saw an up-to-date town or city out of debt? —Gyp in Portland Sun. The problem of finding employment for about 600 convicts of the Northern penitentiary is facing the executive depa r tment. The new law forbids their being hired out in competion with free labor, but provides that they could be worked on articles used by the state. The act made no appropriation for the purchase of machinery or materials to ; manufacture supplies for other state institutions. Tbe law requires state institutions to notify the auditor of state three months in advance of their need of “such products as may be manufactured” in the prisons. None of the institutions have given such notice, because none of their managers know what products are to be manufactured. The law is very general in its terms in everything except prescribing a heavy fine and imprisonment for hiring out convicts. It leaves the prison managers to devise a system of industries and accounts, but no steps have yet been taken toward devising snch a system. While in Lima the other day an advocate of the single gold standard asked us to explain the rise in the price of wheat and the decline in the price of silver from the democratic point of view. There is but one explanation and that is so easy that any one with intelligence enough to get under shelter when it rains ought to see it. Wheat has advanced because of greater demand. The famine in India and the short crops in other great wheat producing countries has created this demand for American wheat. Silver has fallen because of a less demand. This lessening demand is because the scheme to put the world on a gold basis is making silver wanted principally for the arts. Its demand for use as money is cut oft' by such action on the part of other nations as was foolishly taken by our own. Since November, 1893, our government has not bought an ounce of silver. The tendency is to turn the world from gold and silver as money metals to gold only. —Lagrange Democrat. As the result of tbe development of our public school system and the cheapening of books, there has grown up a large class of men and women who seek broader education, or desire to extend their knowledge along special lines. Their duties in life, or lack of means, exclude them from the universities. The Cosmopolitan Magazine has undertaken the task of bringing liberal education, in its broadest sense, within the reach of those who have the aspiration, but are deprived of the opportunity. Dr. Andrews, late of Brown University, has undertaken the presidency of The

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