Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1899 — Page 6

IjoshTj | Cough \ m Not worth paving attention m to, you say. Perhaps you W B have had it for weeks. B W It's annoying because you W I have a constant desire to ■ I cough. It annoys you also m ■ because you remember that ■ B weak lungs is a family failing. B ■ At first it is a slight cough. B r At last it is a hemorrhage. B At first it is easy to cure. ” At last, extremely difficult. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral quickly conquers your little hacking cough. j There is no doubt about ** the cure now. Doubt comes k from neglect. . For over half a century B Aver s Cherry Pectoral has S B been curing colds and coughs V ■ and preventing consumption. H ■ It cures Consumption also B ■ if taken in time. f B Http OBt 01 OP. Aptr’S CMPP9 & m Pectoral Plasters ever pour B m isogs II pe cough. m shall we &end you a WF book on this subject, free? m Our Medical Department . M If you have any complaint whatever and desire the best medical mr advice you can possibly obtain, write the tier .or freely. You will receive a prompt reply, without cost. j| Auuress, DK. J. r. AVER. Lowell, Mass.

* . IWH' CtAifence Hraessr rew# [Cojryr ght, 1897, by J B. L pp ncotl Co.] CHAPTER Vn. Xr\• uioriArg the result of Padre Sebastiano's discussion with the two mates was apparent, for Diaz came to the captain and broached the subject of heading for Santa Rosa. Halstead demurred a little at first—said the change of course would make him late, as' it was. etc. —but finally admitted that it would take only a few hours more, and said' that he had. no objections. This was Thursdny. r spent the afternoon and most of Friday with Senorita Oracia. liking her better the more T saw of her. 1 was pretty sure that Halstead had a little the advantage of me in her regard, but she never showed it while we were together. Tn fact, as the time drew near ■when I was to leave the steamer, she seemed disposed. by unmistakable evidences of liking for me. to produce an impression that neither years nor absence could efface; and she certainly succeeded. When I said good night at the door of her stateroom. Friday evening. T wondered a little what the result would be should 1 throw up the enterprise and remain on board. Rut the captain was poring over the chart again when T reached our quarters, and one glance at his face was sufficient to banish all indecision. On my part, the affair had been, so far. merely speculative: had. been no opportunity for action. Halstead,on the other hand, was now fully committed. He and. McPherson had taken a definite step which there was no retracing—which might cost them their positions whether we were successful or not —and. while he had certainly gene into the affair w ith the hope of bet tering his condition. I knew that but for my persistence he wouldn't have attempted it. ne looked up as I came in. and motioned me to close Ihe door. Pix bells bad just struck, and all the passengers were below, so we were not likely to be disturbed. He asked me where I had seen the padire last. ‘‘ln the saloon, drinking rum and water. Why ?” “1 on haven’t noticed him around the after deck this evening, have you?” "No. not once.” “Eve had a patent log tow ing astern since eight bells, and I'm in hopes that no one has seen it. Here's where we were at noon” (pointing to a penciled cross on the chart), ‘‘and we've been running twelve knots eversinee. Xow. Findlay fixes the Santa Rosa at about twelve-thirty no'th. by a hundred and forty-four, fifteen eas'. And it is laid down here a mile or two each side of that. The wind has been so light lhat we won’t have to figure much on leeway, and we’ve held her right on the point of eas'. quarter no'th. ail day; so that she ought to make the shoal some time in ihe morning watch, say. six bells, or before. Diaz figured, this afternoon, that his watch would be on deck before we struck the position, and told' the padre it would be around breakfast time. If no one sees that log. he isn’t likely to change his mind. Xow. if by any lucky chance we do find bottom there. I'll want your assistance: and you’ll have to keep your wits •bout you. Watch my actions closely.

When I order the quartet-master to steer for Guajan. go below as quickly as you can and make your way aft, on the lower deck, to cable lockers at the stern. Take the new log. in this bos here, and pay it out through the bitt port, snv about 30 fathom, being mighty careful you don t fonl the screw with it. You'll find a crossbrace of angle iron, down there, that Mac fixed athwart the port to fasten the registeron. It's a taffraillog—not like the one I've got astern now; you've got to haul that one in to read it. Tnin't likely that anyone'll notice the line, but you'll have to haul it in when v-r get abreast of Cocos reef, so’s the miii won't notice it when they go below to clear away the cable at Apra.” Before turning in. he took The log from its box and 1 showed me exactly how it worked, making me repeat the instructions until he felt sure 1 wouldn’t botch the experiment. In fact, mv mind was so full of it all that I slept badly, and dressed before sunrise. Halstead was as anxious as myself. but he had his nerves under perfect control and reserved his energies until they were needed. Diaz, though confident we would not reach ll;e reef before breakfast, had turned out at five bells and was searching the horizon with his glass, on the bridge. S i £gi 11/MJLa VV" he waved his hand for half speed. Moreno taking an occasional squint also. At about half-past six the caplain sang out to him: “Guess yotffd be.tter let one of the quartermasters get the lead ready, Moreno." “Si, senor. Do you think we are near the posicion?” “Very close to it, now. Mr. McPherson says we've been making 12 knots through the night. Just figure it up, will you, Diaz, and see what you make it.” “Si, senor.” Diaz disappeared in the wheelhouse. but came out aga-in presently. exclaiming: "Por Dios, capitano, we are within three miles at this moment!” "That's what I thought. Get your leadsman out there right away. Moreno. You'd better try a ‘dipsey’ line at first, and see if you can strike anything at a hundred fathom. Be all ready when 1 give the word.” In less than five minutes the leadsman was on his grating, outside the starboard rail, with a 75-pound lead and 300 fathoms of line. Halstead 1 stood.by the engine-room telephone, watch in hand, and Diaz was perched in the fore rigging, where he could watch the I sounding, in about ten minutes the captain shoved the lever over to the signals. “Stop"—Half speed astern"— “Stop." And when the foam from the screw was abreast of us, he sang out: "Let her go.” There was a big splash, and the lead disappeared, whipping coil after coil of the line after it from the reel on the taffrail. Fifty fathoms. 100. 200. 300. and no bottom. Slowly the two men at the reel hauled in the line, andi the captain signaled: “Half speed ahead.” About a mile further he stopped and tried it again, but w ith the same result. Then he steered, successively, due south for three miles, and north, six. taking soundings at each limit. At eight bells Padre Sebastian© came on deck and became so absorbed in the proceedings that he actually forgot his breakfast. Bach time the lead was hauled up he would examine the tallow at the lower end to make sure that no sand or coral fragments were embedded in it. and as sounding after sounding proved unsuccessful at the full 300-fathom depth, he couldn't keep the disappointment from showing in his; face. Finally the captain told him that further search was useless, and when the steamer was headed for Guajan he went below . Halstead treated the matter as if it possessed' but little interest for him, yet when he glanced at me I could see that he was thoroughly discouraged. The engines had just started at' full speed ahead, and we were preparing to go below for breakfast, when I noticed a little bunch of cumulus cloud a few miles to the southeastward, and called his attention to them. “Well, what about, them?” he said. “They’re just ordinary clouds, aren't they?" "That's all, but I was thinking of what Maury says about atmospheric condensation in the neighborhood of all these, coral islands, even the lowest atoll having a tendency to collect vapor over it at times. Now. whether a few fathoms of w ater over a reef w ould absolutely prevent such condensation or not. 1 don't know. I should say the chances were that it would: but—well, the atmosphere does queer things 1 sometimes. What do you think?” Halstead watched the bunch of cloud for a second or two. noticed that there was nothing else of the kind in that direction, and then' ordered' the man at the wheel to head southeast. I saw that he considered the search hopeless, but lie was determined to leave noehance untried. Diaz had gone 1 down into the fore-hold with some of his men, to overhaul the last cases for

1 Agar.a and Moreno was below at breakfast; so that no one but the helmsman noticed our again heading about, and he was dreaming of Yisaya girls in Manila too deeply to do more than obey orders in a purely mechanical way. It.took less than halfan hourto reach the position. Then Halstead himself climbed out upon the sounding perch with a hand lead and 30 fat homs of line. He had stationed me at the telephones on the bridge, hastily arranging a series of signals, and. after watching the water's surface closely for awhile, waved his hand for "half speed.” In about two minutes I saw him swing the lead forward, paving out the line rapidly as it tautened under his feet. Five times more he cast it. hauling in the entire length after each one, then 1 signaled: "Full speed, ahead.” After which, mounting the bridge, he ordered the helmsman to put her about and steer north by east, quarter cast. I noticed great beads of perspiration upon his forehead, and was wondering if heaving a lead were really violent exercise, when, beckoning me to the end of the bridge as if to point out the position of Guajan. he whispered: "Get below, quick, and pay out that patent log: 1 took the box down myself at four bells. Then eat your breakfast as if nothing had happened and chat with the senorita for awhile, but be back here by six bells at the latest; we're got a heap to talk about.” The change in feeling from despondency to well grounded hope almost made me lose my head, especially as 1 saw that we now had the game largely in our own hands. I watched my opportunity. and was paying out the log line astern, through the bitt port, in about ten minutes. Then I spent a good half hour over my meal, discussing with the padre, who remained to keep me company, the probability of Santa Rosa reef having sunk to the bottom, but advising him not to state this as a fact ,n his forthcoming book until he had persuaded the government to make a more exhaustive search with one of the cruisers. Then, after a delightful tete-a-tete with the senorita. 1 returned to Halstead, whom I found removing the fastenings from a large bundle which one of the men had just brought up from the lazareet. There was also a sea chest, marked with my name, upon one of the transoms. He nodded toward this and said: “I suppose you don't remember bringing that on board, do you?” “Well, to tell the truth. I don't. And I think I was pretty sober, too. Where did I get it? What's inside?” "Nothing at present. This diving suit is going in if I can make it. Now draw the curtains and strip to your shirt and drawers.” “What for?” "To try the thing on. of course. Hustle, now: we'll be in by two o'clock. I’ve read the directions over until 1 know them by heart, but I want you to be boxed up in it once while I'm by to help you. It's pretty risky business. no matter how often a man does it, and 1 don’t want your death on my hands. You see, it will be simply out of the question to depend upon a pumper above water —you can’t trust anyone —and it’s going to take all the nerve you’ve got to go down without.” [TO BU CONTINUED.] “I have reason to think,” said Brooks, speaking to the clerk at the j money order window, “that a man will come here this afternoon to cash a postoffice order for |25 drawn in my favor. If he does, I want him nabbed.” “What is your name?” asked the clerk. “My name,” answered Brooks, “is Rivers. The man who took the order from my pocket took also a lot of letters addressed to me. He will doubtless try to prove his identity by displaying those letters. If he comes here, don’t let him get away.” “All right,” rejoined the clerk, making a memorandum. “We’ll stop him.” This will explain why when Rivers turned up at that window about 3 p. m. with a postal order for $25 he was promptly seized by two athletic policemen and kept in captivity until he had succeeded in establishing his identity by nearly <lO unimpeachable witnesses, a proceeding that required all the rest of the as ternoon. At the hour of going to press Brooks was still keeping ont of Rivers’ way, but the two athletic policemen are believed to be after him likewise.—Chicago Tribune. Georgia Philosophy. There’s not much philosophy in looking back. The world only turns round once in a day. There’s enough gold in the ground to flood the country with money The trouble is you’ve got to jerk your coat and roll up yenr sleeves to get it. Heaven looks so high to some people that they wouldn’t go there in an elevator for fear it would make their heads swim. There's too much rain in one season of the year and too much sunshine in another. What we want in this country is a son of “middling” state of happiness.—Atlanta Constitution. Hooiey ana tne Peers. London hasn’t had such another sensation in years as that produced by the examination of Ernest T. Hooiey in bankruptcy proceedings. In the downfall of this man. who two years ago was called a “Napoleon of Finance,” the honesty of many gentlemen wearing titles and bearing distinguished names has been called into question, to draw it mildly. Lord This. Sir That and the Marquis of the Other have been named by Hooiey as the recipients of bribes ranging from £lO to £IO,OOO, paid by him for introductions, the privilege of using their names in the directI ories of bis companies and other influences. Hooiey also charges that he has been blackmailed by several of the i best known journals of London.

WASHINGTON LETTER. Japanese Minister on Triple Alliance. judge De Armond‘6 Delivery. Freedman's Dividends. [Special Correspondence.] Talking of the JapaneseAmerican alliance said to be favored by Senator Davis, tbo new Japanese min lister Mr. Jutaro Kommar, said: I "The interests of England, the lni • 1 cd States and Japan are almost identi--1 cal. All three countries are progressive ! nations, Japan being commonly regarded as the most progressive nation of the "An understanding between these three countries, I think, might prove of great benefit to all. The principal advantage to be derived would be protection and advancement of their commer- ; cial interests. "All alliances are of vast advantage ! to countries, the nations involved being able to further their trade and commercial interests under agreements of this kind. . "I have no doubt that sooner or later there will be alliances between the various countries in some form or other and each will be much benefited by them.” Judge De Armond's Delivery. The auditors on the floor and in the gallery of the bouse who are charmed with the incisive and well chosen language of Judge De Armondof Missouri, who seems to talk in a conversational toD6 of voice and yet is heard in every part of the ball, would hardly believe that he is ODe of the hardest men for the official stenographers to follow. His words are clear cut and are heard with the same ease as they are apparently spoken: nevertheless Judge De Armond is a rapid talker, and the official stenographers dread a "take” that includes one of his speeches. Representative Johnson of Indiana is “the terror of the house” from the standpoint of reproducing speeches in hooks and curves, but when Judge De Armond is “purring along, ” as one put it the other day, speaking professionally, he was delivering himself of 200 words a minute. Freedman's Dividends. Captain Lamb of Virginia is rejoicing over the passage by the house of the measure to allow the commissioner of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust company to pay certain dividends. The legislation is wholly in the interest of colored people, scattered all over the south, but Captain Lamb has worked diligently for it several months. It is proposed to pay to those depositors who have received less than five dividends the difference between the amount they have received and the (12 per cent which ! has been paid. The balance on hand is believed to be amply sufficient to pay all claims that can properly be presented under the act. The measure, which now gees to the senate, will benefit un- J fortunate depositors who, through igno- j ranee or otherwise, failed to call for 1 tbeir dividends within the time prescribed by law. The estimated value of available assets is $35,794.24. The Washinfrton Atmosphere. The young son of a politician, who is in Washington ]ust now, is an enthusiastic apprentice to his father’s trade, though he is only 5 years old or ( thereabout. What he doesn’t know ’ about politics and political methods ] isn’t worth bothering about. He sat on bis mother’s knee on a recent Sunday 1 afternoon, and, as is her Sabbath custom, she told him Bible stories. David was the hero of the afternoon, and to I the narrative of his slaying of Goliath the little boy listened eagerly. “Didn’t you like that story?” asked the mother when the tale was ended. “Oh, it was bully!” said the little boy. “And, ma, what was it David j was running for?” The instinct of tbo hereditary politi- I cian had scented the campaign story | even in the Bible tale. Senator Hale's Lobster. Eugene Hale, who represents in part j the state of Maine in the senate, is a most exclusive and fastidious man. He usually rides to and from the senate in his private carriage, and once inside the j senate he is as safe from attack as in bis study. Each day shortly after noon the negro who attends to Senator Hale’s wants in the committee on naval affairs ! comes down to the senate restaurant I and orders luncheon for the senator. “One broiled lobster for Senator Hale,” j says the messenger. “One broiled lobster for Senator Hale,” is yelled down the shoot to the order man in the kitchen, and when it comes up the messen- j ger trots off to the top floor, and Senator Hale is presently alone with the lobster. Made Uee of His French. Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, the new chairman of the house 1 committee on rivers aDd harbors, is a very capable French scholar. Two years ago be did something that very few men in congress are able to do and something that fewer still would do if they oould. In order to show that our appropriations for river and harbor work are not extravagant he translated from the French a technical report on similar work done in France. The task required an Intimate knowledge of the French language and, as well, technical and mathematical knowledge. Merely for the sake of enforcing that one point an imjwrtant one, to be sure—he did as much if not mere work than it would require to make a good translation of a French novel. Senator Allen's Btogies. Senator Allen of Nebraska is an inveterate smoker of stogies. He never lights a cigar, but always has a waistcoat pocket full of long, slender stogies, the kind yon buy four or five for 5 cents, and dispenses them to his smoking clientele. The senator is very generous with his tobacco. Senator Mason facetiously calls it prodigal generosity without extravagance. The senator’s committee room in theMaltby is always open to his friends, and two or threi boxes of stogies are on tap. Carl Schofield.

,1 .1- iinnse the London re*i 1 Hyde Park H Naylor-Leyl^. lkßce J the most beautiful, if not the 1S 006 Koantiful mansions in London, “d lootog as’it does upon Hyde park ft enjSs one of the finest prospects in the metropolis- tbe woolen trade of-S nS located at Worsted Ln?if, miles from Norwich, and it “tbi. place that the manufacture M the twined double thread of woolen afterward called worsted, was firs. made, if not invented. The hantumul fee in the Philippines i *.) 5 and the death fee is S6O far an n f #"5 for each man and slo for : JoL... i. bnildsa house he must pay |!0 for bav I jug the chimney blessed. According to Sir Howard Douglas authoritative book. “Naval Gunnery, published first about 60 years ago, a 0 pounder with an elevation of one-quart ter of a degree had an effective range of ion vards. A 12 poundei with no elevation bad an effective range of 498 yards. The demand for sardines has run so far short of the supply that the French factories are closing their doors, and the government has been asked to come to the relief of this important national industry by making a ration of five or ten sardines daily part of the regular fare of the French soldier. Red Scotch granite from Peterhead i 6 to be employed for the national monument which the Tiausvaal is to erect at Pretoria to commemorate the repulse of Jameson s raid, and an Aberdeen firm has been found ready to provide the granite and execute the work. The Boer’s sense of humor seems stronger than the Scotchman’s. The government lands in California —the best settled of the far western eta tes—constitute 58 per cent of the total area of that commonwealth. In Arizona they are Hi per cent, in Montana 78 per cent, in Utah 82 per cent, in Wyoming 86 jercent, in Idaho 89 per cent and in Nevada 95 per cent Uncle Sam is still the largest landholder in the west.

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