Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1898 — Page 6

MANY THINK! when the Creator said to woman, “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children," that a curse was pronounced against the human race, but the joy felt by every Mother when she first presses to her heart her babe, proves the contrary. Danger and suffering lurk in the pathway of the Expectant Mother, and should be avoided, that she may reach the hour when the hope of her heart is to be realized, in full vigor and strength. MOTHER’S FRIEND

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-A LASS AM I.” A lass am I. and I wait my day. To some ’twill be nay, but to one ’twill be yea. When the tirse comes, I shall know what to say. The winter goes, and the warm wind blows, And who shall keep the color from the red, red rose? A lass am I. neither high nor low. My heart is mine now, but I’d have the world know, When the wind’s right, away it will go. The brook sings below, and the birds sing above. And sweeter in between sings the lover to his love. —John Vance Cheney in Century. A DOCTOR'S OFFER. There was cnce a learned doctor who had studied long and hard. 1 ut in Cucuguano, where be had settled, no one had faith in him. Meeting him always with a book in his hand, the Cucugnanese said: “That doctor knows nothing—he is always studying. If he studi. s so much, it means he has need to learn: if he needs to learn, it means he does not know ; if Le does not know, be is an ignoramus. ’’ A doctor without patients is like a lamp without oil. Without other resources, forced therof re to earn a living by book er by crook, up to this time the poor devil had not been able to pay even for the water he drank. He decided there would have to boa change, so one day be managed to spread abroad threugh all Cucuguano the report that his science was so sublime and all powerful that not only could he heal the sick—mire child's play—but raise the dead as well; a miracle of God, surely. And this miracle he promised to perform openly in broad day in the graveyard amid the multitude. Few gave credence to the report, yet even the incredulous said: “We will let him attempt it anyhow. Let's see him at work—the proof of the pudding is the eating. He may succeed—he reads so much, and nowadays such wonderful discoveries arc be ing made. If he ■ succeeds, we will applaud him. if net. i we will hiss him out of the countryside. Let him bring a man to life again and we will say he is the cleverest doctor we have ever bad.” Finally it was settled that on the following Sunday, at the stroke of noon in the c metery of Cucuguano the doctor would raise a man from the dead —nine j or ten, some old women went so far as to say. That Sunday, long before noon, the I graveyard was as jammed as is the church on Holy Easter day. True to his word, on the second stroke of the bell appeared the doctor, all in black. He elbowed his way to the steps of the central cress. There he saluted the crowd, spat on the ground, blew bis nose and began: “My d ar friends. I have promised to bring one of your dead back to life. I intend to keep my word. Be silent and i hearken to me. It will cost ms absolutely no efl rt to raise from the tomb Giascomo or Giovanni, Nannina or Be tta. Amadeo < r Simone. Shall I raise I Simone? Simone—what last name? Simone Capcnuaro, who died of pleurisy a year ago?” “Excuse me, signor dottore,” said I Caterina, poor Simone’s widow. “Certainly he was a fine fellow. He made me very happy, and I will mourn him as long as I have eyes f..r tears. But. pray, do not bring him back; for, you see, toward the end cf the month I’m to put off mourning, and, to please my family, I'm to marry Pasqualone. The I banns are already published, and I’ve accepted the presents.” “You did well to tell me. Caterina. Then I will raise NinaCarota, who died Candlemas day.” “For heaven’s sake, signor dottore!” cried Giacomo Carota. “Nina was my wife; we lived together ten years—ten years of purgatory, as till Cucuguano knows. Li t her stay where she is, for her rest and mine. What a peppery temper, doctor! Obstinate as a mule, lazy and quarrelsome and slovenly and ragged! And that is not all. Wasteful, ami a tongue —a viper's tongue —that would have set St Joseph t-o quarreling with the Madonna. I might add— But

that’s better left unsaid.” “Yet, my dear fellow” — “Excuse me for interrupting, signor dottore. A new broom sweeps clean. Nina left me three brats, who certainly do not take after their father, and as I could not handle them all I have married again; so you see it is useless. “Welland good. I can conceive it would be martyrdom to have two wives in the house. One is more than enough sometimes. Then whom shall I restore to you, my dear people? I must find some one. How about Master Pietro?” “Ah, my poor father!” cried a voice. “May God rest his soul. A good man was he. But don’t bring him back, pray, doctor. He who wished so much to see us a united family would be heartbroken to find our affairs in such a muddle. After a dozen lawsuits the six of us—four sons and two daughters—have finally divided the property into six little strips. Each of us has a swarm of children, each of us has to shift for himself. There is not one of us who has anything to spare.” “So it cannot be?” “No. If yon should bring him back, we would have to make up a little income for him among us all. Only the times are so hard, doctor, you know. The silkworms don’t batch well, nor Spin when they do; the vines are diseased, the grain is thin, the olives are wormy, there is no rain, the taxes are heavy”— "Enough, we will let Master Pietro sleep on. But I have not come here to string Leads and to have the crowd gape at me. Tell me whom to raise.” “Ghita —bring back Ghita, my Gbit:;,” cried a poor eld woman, weeping like. Mary Magdalen. "No. no, doctor, do not wake her,” interrupted a girl. "Oh, no, pretty creature, it's all well she died. Before she left ns she told me nil. We dressed her in white and put a wreath on her hair till sue Jocvred like a bride. Leave her in holy ground. The man she loved deserted her for some one else.” “Poor Ghita. But you must admit you are making it hard for me. To put an end to it all I will bring back Gringaletto, who choked to death eating codfish not a month ago." "You must not, you must not,” cried Lina Paparero, wringing her hands. “He sold me that vineyard of his on the installment plan. For ten long years I’ve been paying in hard coin far more than its value, and now would you have me begin all over again? It’s not fair, signor dottore. ” “What a state of things. But we will let that go. I will now propose one who left to mourn him neither brother nor sister, wife nor parent; one who left only a blessed memory, an example cf all the virtues, and his little savings to the hospital—l mean year good priest, who loved you so well, whom you regretted so deeply, who made, you remember, such a dreadful journey to the other world, seeking, poor pilgrim, his Cuouguanese in every corner, even in yawning hell itself, not missing a single one. Shall I restore him to you?” “No, no," cried various devout members of the flock. “No, no, ” added Lena Russclina, the mother of the congregation. "He was old. poor man, and deaf as a post, so much so that at confession he always absolved us of sins we had never committed. Leave him in glory, especially since we now have a young and hearty curate. He is ns good as a saint, he sings like an organ, he preaches like a seraph, and he swims with the current. ’ ’ “What’s to be done? I’ll try some one else. I see over there a little white wooden cross. The harebells seem trying to hide it; the tall grass is almost on a level with it. Y’ou can read that that narrow grave holds a 10-months-old baby. True, it seems half a pity to bring the tender soul back to this world to bear—what you have all been bearing. Still, if you wish him raised, say but the word and I will display my power. ’ ’ “Signor dottore,” whispered a wrinkled crone, “that little one is ours, ales! lam the grandmother. My daughter had not yet weaned him. He was just getting his teeth, when suddenly he died. But God took him from us. God's will be done! Now there is another babe at the breast. God knows what he is doing. What be takes with one hand he gives back with the other. My daughter couldn’t suckle both, and we are too poor to put him out to nurse. ” At this the doctor burst out: “Enough for today, if not too much, indeed! Since you won’t have the miracle now, I will perform it on another occasion. Only I beg of yon to agree beforehand on the person to bo brought to life.” And he strode away. From that memorable Sunday our doctor has done wonders in Cucuguano. It is true he does not raise the dead, but be saves the lives of the sick. The Cuouguanese, now fully trusting him, say. “If he did not fulfill his promise, to tell the truth, it was not his fault—it was ours, for we wished to leave our dead underground.”—Translated For Argonaut From the Italian. The Queen’s Four Leaved Clover. An amusing story of Queen Hortense, daughter of the Empress Josephine and wife of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, has lately been told. After her exile from Holland the ex-queen sojourned for a time in a modest habitation | near Constance, in Switzerland. As her health was broken down by her troubles her physicians prescribed a visit to the mountains of Appenzell, and the ex-queen, accompanied only by a reader or female companion and twe or three servants, went to a rustio neighborhood in the hills. There she and her companion found nothing better to do than hunt for four leaved clover and became quite excited in the search. “To lend the matter interest,” ths queen wrote in a letter which has been brought to light, “we would assume that each discovery of a four leaved clover had some prophetic significance. The next one, if found so and so, meant

that we should return to France; another meant that I was to receive a letter the next day from my son Louis, and so on. In this innocent pastime we found positively the only excitement that was open to us in the place, "But soon it was noised abroad among the children of the neighborhood that we were continually hunting four leaved clover, and consequently, these children argued, we must want it very much. Then all the children and some of the grown people were out hunting four leaved clover, and soon great bunches of it were brought to us, for which we had to show ourselves very grateful. “In another day our only resource for amusement was gone, for these kind but superserviceable people had stripped the neighborhood for a mile around of all its four leaved clover. ” So Flowers Allowed at a Military Funeral. “Flowers can play no part in a military funeral, the rules of army or naval burjals forbidding them,” explained an army officer to a reporter. “While I was down at Chickamauga recently it was rumored that one of the soldiers in a camp there had died. Indeed it was so printed in a local paper. The result was that on the following day a large quantity of flowers were sent by sympathetic ladies and others with a request that they should be placed on the coffin of the dead soldier. N< w. the fact was that no soldier had died and the officers had the flowers sent to their quarters. If th re were n death in the camp, the flowers could not ba used, for they an not military in any sense. The only thing allowed on the coffin of a soldier or sailor is a flag. That has been decided to be decoration enough, and among military men I have never heard the slightest objection to the custom, which has always prevailed.”—Washington Star. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “Strategy, my boy. strategy, ” was the exclamation of one of Detroit's clubmen and bachelors who is soon to become a benedict. “Seven times she refused me, but I flatter myself that I’m something of a Dewey in my way, and I kept right at her till I won out.” "How in the world did you manage?" eagerly asked an old crony who is also on the list of eligibles. "Strategy, I tell you. Simplest thing in the world when you knowhow.” and the prospective bridegroom swelled up like a toad in a vacuum. "In the outset I made the same mistake that all of us chumps do when we fall in love after we’re turning gray. I was anxious and pleading and cringing and all that sort of thing. They don’t like it and they won't have it. You’vegot to be masterful and strong, or at least pretend you are. Then that clinging disposition in woman asserts itself, don’t you kuow. Y'ou’ve got lots to learn, my boy, lots to learn. "After she had refused me the seventh time I got my senses and took the right tack. First I pretended to be getting letters from an old flame down east. Yes, sir, and used to read her extracts that made her look uneasy. Then I decided to go to war. All a bluff, you know. Declared that I hadn’t much to live for. anyhow. Told her I would go east, say goodby to the sweetheart of my youth and then enlist. Say, she sobbed and wept salt tears and called me cruel. I was more reckless than ever in my determination to fight Spaniards and then we compromised on an engagement. She asks me every time we meet now whether I'm sure I’ll not go to war.”— Detroit Free Press. Change of Orders. Mr. Worldly (toservant) —Mary Jane —ahem ! —you remember when you were engaged I told you to slam the door in the faces of all suspicious characters? Mary Jane—Yessir. Mr. Worldly—Well—ahem!—l desire to countermand that order. Hereafter you will please invite them into the parlor, hand around cigars, and—and the decanter and tell them to make themselves comfortable until I come in. Y’ou see, Mary Jane, they may be—er—persons with whom I may have important business engagements. Mary Jane—Eh, business, did you say, sir? Mr. Worldly—Y’-e-s. The fact is. Mary Jane, I—l have been making patriotic- speeches, showing the treachery of the Spaniards, etc., and am—er —going to run for congress.—New York Weekly.

A Paradox. Billy—Did ye make ’im dry up? Jimmy—Ye bet! I soakt-d 'im! —New York Journak An Ample Excuse. “Ready! Aim!” cried the lieutenant of the firing squad. Then he paused. “Private Muggins,” he said, “before you die tell your comrades why you deserted. ” The prisoner standing before the new made grave faintly smiled. “It was all the fault,” he hoarsely said, “of the eternal canned fruit that those idiotic women up north insisted on sending us. ” The lieutenant briskly turned back tc the firing squad. “Recover arms!” he shouted. Then he quickly added: “Untie th« prisoner and let him go. His excuse i J ample. ’ —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY. Ensign JoseplTw Powell of Admiral Sampson’s flagship New York came out I of the Merrimac incident a good secom . to Lieutenant Hobson, who had charge of and who sunk the collier in Lie a. tiago channel. Ensign Powell, with a ! crew of picked men, in a little launch, followed the Merrimac for the purpose of picking up Hobson and his men after r T ■ I ! : i F' ! v |bk ■ I' 1 I V WH Wk ® : AA | ; Fi // J I /a M EXSIGN JOSEPH VV. POWELL. thev bad sunk the Merrimac. Though the’little launch failed to accomplish its object, the failure was not due to mismanagement or lack of courage on the part of her gallant commander and crew. In beating about the mouth of ! the harbor in pursuit es its errand the | launch ran almost into the mouths of ’ the guns of Morro Castle, and for an , hour and a half her crew stood in face of death, but though shot and shell fell all about them the Spanish gunners were unable to hit the gallant little rescue boat. When he became satisfied I that he could not be of assistance to I Lieutenant Hobson, Ensign Powell headed for the New York, “driving the | launch for all she was worth, ’’as he f said in his report, and reached the flag-; ship without harm, though the bat- i teries of the Spaniards peppered the water all about the launch as long as ■ she was within range. Ensign Joseph W. Powell was appointed to the Naval academy fr> >m New York in May. 1593. Oswego, N. Y.. is his native town. He had been studying naval architecture at Annapolis for a year when he was assigned to duty on board tho New York early in the past spring. He Built the Oregon. Irving M. Scott, the head of the j Union Iron works of San Francisco, has i been invited to visit St. Petersburg as I the guest of the czar. Mr. Scott came to | the notice of the czar threugh the achievement of the United States bat- [ IKi Gt k £ iWw I <<</ IBVIXG M. SCOTT. tieship Oregon. The recent trip of the Oregon, on which she sailed liI.OOC miles without bending a plate or start ing a rivet, attracted the attention of the I naval authorities cf the world. The I Oregon was constructed at the Union | Iren work.', hence the fame that is com-. ing to Mr. Scott. Irving M. Scott was born in Maryland Dec. 25. 1837. Early i in life he showed ability as a drafts man. and when only 17 he held a position with Obed Hussey of mower anc reaper fame. In 1858 he took a position with the Union Iron works cf San Fran cisco and is new a partner in that large concern. He Emtraced Them All. M. Pierre Loti has had some humorous adventures on his way to Madrid, whither he went to offer his services te the Spanish naval authorities. The retired Lieutenant Viaud is lookeel r.por by his Basque friends as the admirei and would be knight errant of the queen regent, and many of them took for granted that he was about to become the Sureouf or Jean Bart of Spain. At Hendaya. Irun and Miranda groups ol would be followers awaited him, some of these being French sailors, formerly under his command. The academiciat embraced them all. adding his regrets that corsairs were out of date. Empress Frederick at Home. Cronberg, with its magnificemt views and exhilarating air, is the favorite home of the good Empress Frederick ol Germany. Here she can lead the simple, unostentatious life she loves bestx Every she may be seen in her favorite yellow phaeton driving slowly into Homburg, where she attends service al -1 the English church. She is much beloved for her unaffee’ed amiability anc for her liberal yet wisely discriminating charity.

Troubles of a Pastor’s Wife This woman was peculiarly afflicted ; physicians could do nothing to reliere her, yet she was cured m a way. She now sends a message to suffering humanity which should be helpful.

Probably no other woman ever suffered just as Mrs. Adams did, the wife of Rev. A R Adams, paster cf the Christian £ Blandinsville, lit Phys.cians were baffled by her ailment, and for years she was compelled to live a life of torture. To-day she is well and the story of her suffering and recovery will touch a responsive cord in the heart of every woman. 44 About six years ago,*’ said Mrs. Adams, “my health began to fail. The first trouble 1 noticed was with my stomach ; food did not agree with me, and my appetite faded until I could scarcely cat. “I would begin to bloat before 1 was through with a meal, and the food felt like a stene in my stomach. " After eating I would have pains m my stomach with a smothered feeling which would finally extend into my throat and chest accompanied by a choking sensation. “I began to bloat all over and my hands and feet commenced swelling until 1 thought I had dropsy. .... “In a short time I had pam and soreness in my left side which extended across my back accompanied by dizziness, and then followed severe paroxysms cf pain extending from the lower part of my stomach into the region of my heart. “ During these spells a hard ridge ar large as my arm would appear in the left side cf my stomach and around the left side. “I had a feeling of heaviness in my head and at times could scarcely hold it up or keep my eyes open, yet when night came I could not sleep.

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