Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1898 — Page 6

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’ PEOPLE OF THE DAY. Pne of the busiest men in the navy—and most of the naval officers are busy ‘ nowadays—is Commodore Philip Hich- j born, chief constructor. He is the man : who has been directing the hurried work that has transformed the navy : yards. Commodore Rich born came into the navy not byway of academy at | Annapolis, but byway of the shipyard - and bench. He served his time as ship- 1 wrigbt’s apprentice, and rose to a com- j mission by his energy and mental abili- I ties. He was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1889, came ot good Revolu f"' J ! ft hmKPi COMMODORE PHILIP HICHBORN. tionary stock and was graduated from the Boston High school. He received a five years’ tuition as shipwright’s apprentice at the Boston navy yard, and afterward, by direction of the navy department, a course of special instruction in ship construction, calculation and design. At 21 he sailed from Boston for California Nine years’ service at the navy yard at Mare island carried him from a humble position in the construction department of that station to master shipwright, in which capacity he was often called upon to assume control of the department in the absence of the naval constructor. Then, at the age of 30, be entered the navy as an assistant naval constructor, and six years later, after a severe examination, he became a full constructor. Commander of the Kathadin. The man who has recently been put in charge of the freak boat of the navy, the whaleback ram Katahdin, is Commander George F. F. Wilde, a young and ambitious officer. Commander Wilde has had a shore detail for some time, having been acting as secretary to the lighthouse board, but at the first prospect of actual fighting he applied COMMANDER GEORGE F. F. WILDE. to the navy department for sea duty and indicated that he would like to be put on the Katahdin. He believes that with proper handling the ram would do good work in a naval encounter, and he began at once to make experiments in the handling of his queer craft. The Katahdin's principal weapon of offense is her long, sharp steel prow, and Commander Wilde wants to learn how to use it with the best effect. Some sheep were frightened by dogs at Grenoble, France, and 242 blindly “followed their leader” over a precipice 150 feet high.

WASHINGTON LETTER. A Senator’s Handsome Wife—Lost Government Bonds Simpson Is a Scorcher. [Special Correspondence.] One of the handsomest women in Washington is Mrs. Money, wife of the senator from Mississippi, whose first meeting with the man who afterward became her husband was somewhat romantic. It was shortly after Lee's surrender, and young Money, who had ! been fighting on the Confederate side, j was taking part in a sham fight at his : Mississippi home. Previous to going to I the front he had regarded himself as about the homeliest youth in all his native state. Several years of active life I had toned down this opinion somewhat, but even at the time of the sham battle | young Money still believed that no girl I could ever care enough for him to marry him. Mrs. Money as a girl was cele- ; brated for three things—her beautiful ! face, her fine voice and her ability to manage the most fiery horse. She was a spectator at the sham battle, mounted on a splendid thoroughbred. As the battle progressed the horse, becoming frightened, dashed through the confronting columns and proceeded to run away with her. Money was the rescuer of course, and he forthwith fell in love with the charming girl, who is now his wife and the mother of his five children. She is a very handsome woman, with dark hair and blue eyes, and the object of the most ardent devotion from both husband and children- She is a great lover of flowers and has at her plantation in Mississippi an extensive rosery of 200 bughgs. which yields her annually many thousands of roses. Lost Government Bonds. The losers of government bonds are peculiarly much in evidence at present The Post told the other day about a government bond that was swallowed up in the great deluge as Johnstown, Pff,, fc* which the heirs of the former owner arc seeking a duplicate. That bond was for SSOO. But there is another Pennsylvania who is asking congress to issue him a duplicate bond. F. R. Lanson, “a substantial and leading business man at Tionesta, Pa., of undoubted veracity and integrity,” according to the report of Representative Yost to the house, used to keep bond No. 100,044 in safe, but in IBR9 some one in taking books from d-e safe Seems to have accidentally pulled out with the books an envelope containing this bond. It was dropped into the wastebasket and burned with the contents of the basket. It has been recommended that the house authorize the giving of another bond to Mr. Lanson. In the same connection it can be said that Senator Platt has proposed an amendment to the general deficiency bill to allow the payment to J. & W. Seligman &Co. of $1,794.56 in full for certain described coupons detached from United States bonds, the coupons having been lost on the Cunard steamship Oregon, sunk at sea March 14, 1886. Simpson Is a Scorcher. Representative Jerry Simpson of Kansas has a record as a bicyclist. In doing his department errands Mr. Simpson saves time by going on his wheel, and of course it saves him carfare in riding between his residence and the capitol. The other morning Mr. Simpson went up to the navy department, where he has offered his services to the secretary of the navy for the war with Spain. Having transacted his business, Mr. Simpson started for the big structure on the hill, carefully noting his watch as he came down the granite steps. M ith coattails sticking far out behind, Mr. Simpson went down the avenue at great speed. By no means exhausted with the swift pedaling for over a mile, he settled down to “take” Capitol hill. Like a man with giant’s strength, Mr. Simpson rolled up the long incline, and four minutes after he touched the pedals at the navy department he alighted at the entrance to the senate wing. Mr. Simpson’s colleagues have suggested to him a race with Fred Schade, the District champion, and have promised to back him handsomely if he will contest. Ta Reimburse Mr. Morgan. The case of Thomas Martin, an old and trusted laborer of the treasury department, who was detected some months ago purloining silver coins from the bags and substituting therefor pieces of lead, was recalled in the house the other day. Thomas, it will be remembered, was employed by the treasurer’s office to assist in handling the coin during several transfers of the office. When the transfer was made from the late treasurer, D. N. Morgan, to the present treasurer, Ellis H. Roberts, a shortage of $856 was found. It is supposed that the whole of this amount had been stolen, and Mr. Morgan, now a resident of Bridgeport, Conn., has asked congjess to reimburse him for this sum. He made the amount good before he closed his accounts with the government, although the loss was not due in any way to his negligence or failure to exercise proper care in keeping the moneys in the silver vault. The committee on claims has agreed that Mr. Morgan ought to be reimbursed. The Speaker Wouldn't Talk. In warm weather Speaker Reed rides in a street car to and from the capitol. He usually walks, partly because his action is particularly graceful, partly to exercise his muscles and keep down flesh, partly to escape the staring he suffers in a car, which is so annoying to a man of his modesty. When he boarded a car the other morning to go to the capitol, an unbaked citizen was seated beside him. “Well, Mr. Speaker,” exclaimed the man in a loud tone, “when do you think the war will be over?” “Why, is there a war?” drawled Reed in a tone of alarm. "Who’s been killed?” “Oh, come now, really, I want your opinion. When do you think it will be over?” “Over where?" said Reed, and that ended the colloquy. Carl Schofield.

THE HOUSEHOLD. Salads That Are Toothsome Though Inexpensive—About Chandeliers. Japanese Embroidery. "Now, in very truth no table subject is easier of management than that of salads, and the average house the year round is rarely without material for that enjoyable dinner or luncheon course, if the housekeeper did but realize it,” writes Ella Morris Kretschmar in The Woman’s Home Companion. “One may object, T have no oil,’ or 'I do not like oil. ’ No matter. A delightful salad may still be enjoyed. People in large or small cities who follow the habits of the world at large or who have been born to an appreciation of good living use salads as freely as soups or desserts, but people who live plainly, with rigid economy or on the ‘hit or miss' plan of housekeeping for the most part leave the salad question severely alone. Take from the list of summer vegetables corn, eggplant, okra, radishes and squash, and all remaining are available for salads. The fact that some require preliminary cooking points to the economical using of vegetables left over from the day before. Suppose one finds a cupful of beans in the icebox and another of young carrots. Deftly mix the two, place spoonfuls on lettuce leaves and arrange on a platter. Make some mayonnaise or a dressing not requiring oil and you have a pretty and very enjoyable salad course. Now, there are two very different salads, both excellent, made from the left over vegetables named and quite entitled to the high sounding designation, ’Salade Macedoine. ' See what you have on hand left over, add more things if you wish, but get away from the idea that you must have certain things. Two proper ingredients will make the dish. A dozen will aisu make it, and both will be good. “Always have a care that the vegetables are cold and perfectly tender if cooked; fresh, cold and crisp it uncooked. The latter must be washed and thoroughly dried. If not, the water will collect in tUV bottom of the dish and ruin any dressing used. Drying is most easily accomplished by putting in a large napkin, gathering the together and whirling rapidly back and forth. No variety of dressing should be added to a tender vegetable salad until just before serving, as it will inevitably wilt it.” Chandeliers Out of It. Artistic folk have declared against chandeliers which are thickly set with imitation candles. They do not like the broad, glaring jet of gas which shoots out of the hollow tops. Instead they prefer the soft light of burning wax. The candle laden chandelier is considered inelegant, as it is far from deceiving the most blind eyed. The experienced hostess knows that the lights are one of the most important items of a room's decorative scheme, and many chatelaines, even those who rent their homes, prefer to own their chandeliers as well as their lamps and candlesticks. While wrought iron is very popular and often most effective it is sometimes not so assimilated by the other furnishings of the rooms as unburnished brass. A central chandelier for wax candles of cut glass, with long pendent chains of reflecting prisms, is a tastefully gorgeous accessory to a drawing room that needs some bright feature. There are others that are richly beautiful found in warm blue china trimmed with dull metal and also antique affairs of pewter that help wonderfully in the arrangement of a quaint apartment. Japanese Embroidery. For any ene with artistic instincts and a fair knowledge of drawing Japanese embroidery is a most fascinating employment. The secret of the wonderful effects produced by this kind of handiwork is that the Japanese hesitate at nothing ••■lnch promises to produce the effect thev aim at. If they desire to imitate an evening sunset even, in textiles, they attempt it, and the result, although it may be a weird combination that requires an explanation to be understood, is likely at all events to be a rich commingling of tints that is agreeable to the eye. Take, for instance, the accompanying sketch, which is taken from a state saddlecloth that belonged to the riding outfit of a Japanese noble. The groundwork is of light blue cloth, representing sky; the birds are cut out of thick, soft, white flannel. These are DETAIL OF JAPANESE EMBROIDERY, applied with a chain stitch of white embroidery silk which covers the edges The eyes are put in with black beads, and curved stitches of white silk are used as the markings of feathers, which, sinking deep into the flannel, give a rounded effect to the birds that are supposed to be fluttering over waves dashing up against rocks. The latter are cut boldly out of black satin and chain stitched on with gold thread, and the former marked out on the lines in dicated with a chain stitch in heavy white silk. The whole thing is most simple, but really decorative, and any one would know at once what was the motif.—New York Tribune. Recipe For Pulled Bread. After the loaf of bread has been baked, if you want pulled bread, whittle off the crust and pull the crumb into long, thin strips. Place these strips in a pan lined with soft paper, bake in a slow oven until golden brown and crisp to the very center. —Ladies’ Home Journal.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY. Edward Marshall, the daring newspaper correspondent who was shot down bv the Spaniards while taking part in a dash of the rough riders at La Quasina, near Santiago, was born in Enfield Center, N. Y., in 1867. Mr Marshall’s first newspaper work was done iu Rochester, but when barely out of his teens he went to New \ ork Nk '■ 'V® X \ t. 1 X 1 1 ' * i < EDWARD MARSHALL. city and took a position on the staff of : I the American Press Association. After i ’ several years of creditable work there j | he became editor of the Sunday edition . i of the New York Press. He has also j ( been editor of The Sunday World and The Sunday Journal and for awhile • was London correspondent of the New York World. He attracted considerable attention about three years ago as secretary of the New York tenement house commission by bis labors in that position and also through bis contributions to the magazines on the subject of New York’s tenements. The Same Old Fighter. Major General Joseph Wheeler, who commanded our little band of brayt I boys at the fierce La Quasina fight, is just as full of pluck as he was back iu the sixties. General Wheeler is chief of the cavalry division operating under i I W., v ’ * w « i -9 i V Ft • ' ' i MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER. General Shafter. He was one of the first ; to enter the military service after the 1 real trouble with Spain began. General ■ Wheeler was one of the ablest cavalry , leaders on the Confederate side in the civil war. He was serving his seventh term in the lower house of congress when he offered his services to President McKinley. So far a vacancy has not been declared because of the general’s absence from bis seat in congress. How Pierre Loti Met Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt said to a persistent reporter lately: “I have told you everything. There is nothing that remains for me to say. You are as bad as Pierre Loti!” “What on earth has Pierre Loti done to you?” "Oh, simply that once upon a time he made up his mind that he was going to make my acquaintance. First he wrote me a letter expressing his admiration for me. Oh, his letter was most proper, and he did me the honor of dedicating a book to me! I thanked him, but I did not invite him to call on me. “Then he played me a trick, so determined was he to see me at short range. It was exposition year. My I Marie came to me one day and told me j a Japanese gentleman wished to see me. j You know I am fond of curiosities, so 1 told the girl to admit the visitor. Pa: bleu! It was Pierre Loti. I sent him about his business. Another time it was two Arabs who came. One of them, . ; huge fellow, was carrying in his arms an Arab manikin. Os course the manikin was again Pierre Loti. There was nothing left for me to do tat to ask him to call, dressed as a Frenchman of the nineteenth century.” An Eminent Authority. Senator Stewart was addressing his fellow members the other day on the subject of finances and quoted copiously from what he had called “eminent authorities." At the close of a lengthy I extract Senator Hoar inquired from ! what book the western man had been reading. "Itis’An Analysis of the Functions of Money, ’ by William M. Stewart, United States senator,” was the cool reply. _ Captain Bob Is Emphatic. Captain Bob Evans of the lowa occasionally indulges in a seafaring expleI tive more expressive than elegant After the second bombardment of Santiago, in which the New Orleans distinguished itself, Evans sent this message by megaphone to the captain of the I New Orleans, “Say, Folger, that ship | oh yours is ahellofagoodfighter. ” The Adriondack mountains comprise an area of 3.588,800 acres. There are over 1,300 Jakes and lakelets, with 20 rivers and about 100 rivulets.

A STARTLED MOTHEiI Strange Happening to Her Feur-year Old Dawki, ’ft net Realize the Danger Until too tats, s|fci E From the Bulletin. Freeport. 111.

rrom inc ouiiei While busy nt work in her home. Mrs. William Shay, corner of Taylor and Hancock Avenues, Freeport, 111., was startled by hearing a noise just behind her. Turning quickly she saw creeping toward her, her four- year-old daughter, Beatrice. The child moved over the floor with an effort, but seemed tilled with joy at finding her mother. / y'-■** A Beatrice Shay. The re«t of the happening it best told in the mother’s own words. She said : “On the 28th of Sept. 1896, while in the bloom of health Beatrice was suddenly and severely afflicted with spinal meningitis. Strong and vigorous before, in fire weeks she became feeble and suffered from a paralytic stroke which twisted her head back to the side and made it impossible for her to move a limb. Her speech however was not affected. We called in our family doctor one of the most experienced and successful practitioners in thecity. He considered the case a very grave este. M Tht child’s body was bandaged to keep her in position. Soon it wm wtn that other n»ui mult be adopted. Little Beatrice, much against her will, was housed up in a plaster pari, jacket which the wore for several months. “In the hope of receiving some help lor the child we consulted in turn nine of the I

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