Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. f 1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Pnstofficeat Decatur. Indiana 1 as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, MARCH 23.

Carter H. Harrison has been nommated by the democrats of Chicago | as their candidate for mayor. The spring season of advertising is I now at hand, and the merchant who I would early plant his advertising an- ; nouncements is the one who will be ; benefitted thereby. W. B. Westlake of the Marion Leader, has accepted the position of | manager of the Indianapolis Sentinel. Mr. Westlake is a young man. but in * the newspaper business is a success. ; It is said that Walter Ball of Muncie, will seek the republican nomina- j tion for congress in this district, next I rear. However, we predict another | term of Cromer, notwithstanding this fact. __________ Silver Di. k Bland say- the next national issue will be the money ques- I tion with William J. Bryan heading the democratic ticket. He likewise j verv truly savs that the people de- j mand more money and less taxation. I Indianapolis is to have a new fed- ' oral building and now they do not know where to put it. The Commercial Club should settle the question. ■ as they appear to know everything I from official reform to salvation of sins. ; Yes, turn it over to the Commercial dub. At the meeting at Indianapolis last week the county assessors decided to immediately test the constitutionality ■ of the new’ mortgage law. whereby a mortgage debt can exempt 8700 from liis taxation. The law is generally condemned and is thought will lead to complications without number. An exchange graphically describes the Philippines: "This is afinecountrv for a dog to live in and it is not a good place for them for they are all starving to death. It is hotter than the seventh story of hades, and the grass is full of all kinds of reptiles God ever made. The trees are full of beasts of prey, the rivers and swamps full of alienators and the air full of very pestirferous insects that was ever made by God or the devil. Oh. it is a lovely place if you have an enemy you want to get even with, advise him to go to the Philippines." The tramp question is being tried by the city authorities. Some eight or ten were put to work last Thursday and for one whole day they did nobly. The following two or three days it rained, but now they positively refuse to labor.A dietofjbread and water has been prescribed and Mayor Beatty says they must either work or survive on this bill of fare until their fines are paid. The mayor is determined to rid the town of tramps and deserves much commendation for thus making an effort to protect our people and their property against this great evil. Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, isn’t one of those wild republicans who regard the presidential election of next year as already settled. In an interview, Mr. Thurston said. "The presidential battle next y?ar promises to lie lively and exciting. McKinley will probably be renominated and I presume that Bryan will head the democratic ticket. I believe that the republicans will win if we stand together and work hard, but our democratic friends will Undoubtedly put up a stiff fight. We must not indulge ourselves with the delusion that we are going to have a walk-over." Governor Pingree, republican of Michigan, thus reads a lesson to his party: "Notorious the fact has become that capital controls the republican party. Multi-millionaires, corporations and promoters of trusts, are filling the front seats, and ability does not count. Gradually the men of wealth dropped into the republican party. Corporations found their interests well cared for by the men w ho were chosen to the legislative bodies as republicans, but the legislative and executive offices of this nation can not much longer be filled with men whose claims are based solely upon their devotion to corporate interests. Already the enormous business of this nation has passed into the control of gigantic trade and transportation combinations. I need not submit any proof of this. You have only to look around you. Business, as you all know, is at present in the control of a very few men. The growth of corporate power has been rapid. It is now well-neigh complete. But this is a republic and a republic of intelligent men. and they can not be deceived much longer. The ballot is mightier than money, and an aroused public sentiment will make short work of every trust or combination that stands in the way of justice and fair play. It is a good and timely advice to our party to suggest that it send to the rear the leaders who insist that government shall be conducted with an eye solely to commercial interests. The republican party will not hold its following if it is much longer dominated by the narrowness and selfishness which always go hand in hand with money getting.”

NEW YORK TO EGYPT. A Description of the Trip as Seen by Miss Studabaker and Mrs. Allison. THE SCENERY. PEOPLE AND CVSTOtS OF VARIOUS CITIES AND COUNTRIES GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED. Cairo, Egypt. Feb. 27. Dear Readers: It is over six weeks since we sailed from New York. Time has passed rapidly and it has been so full of new sights'and experiences that we have hardly caught our breath yet or had a chance to realize where we are. Our voyage from New Y rk t< ■ Naples occupied eleven days and most of it was enjoyable. We had a very good passage, until we reached Gibralter the sea was very rough. It was often uncomfortable but not at all dangerous. When the steamer stopped at Gibralter half a day to coal we went ashore. It is a most interesting place. We drove about the narrow streets, visited the Ahnenda gardens and the fortifications, but Gibralter is an English town and it was Sunday and I am glad to say the shops were all closed, but just across the "neutral strip", in the Spanish town, the stores and every place else was "wide open." After leaving Gibralter our voyage was delightful. The Mediterranean sea was smooth, the air grew warmer, the sun shown all day and the nights were lighted by the moon. One night a ball was given on board the ship. The deck was enclosed with canvass and that was covered with bunting and flags of all nations and festooned with globes of electric lights. It looked very pretty. We were on a German steamer, the "Travo”, and many of our fellow passengers were Germans. The captain's wife and daughter were among the number. The orchestra played German dance music. Our American girls could not dance the German steps and with the German gentlemen it was vice versa, the result was an amusingconfusion of American and German dances and dancing. On the tenth day at sea we passed within sight of the Island of Sardinia. For three hours we were in sight of its rocky abrupt shores. Only small patches of verdure showed here and there on the bare coast. We passed many villages and the city of Cagliari which has a population of 30.000 people and a university founded in 1500 A. D. Old Moorish towers stood on many points and hilltops along the Sardinian coast. They are round, built of stone and now only ruins in a good state of preservation. They are remains of the Moorish occupation. All this was told me by Archbishop Ireland, a fellow passenger. He has a pleasant, cordial manner toward every one and was very popular on board. We have been watching with much interest the result of his visit to Rome, where he was going at that time, so it was reported and we have since learned from the papers, not from him. Our last night at sea the captain gave a dinner to the passengers. It was elaborate. The decorations were fine and the orchestra played American national airs, which we Americans thought a very pretty compliment and when favors were given after the desert, small American flags were offered with the German. I have a silk American flag about three inches square I brought from home so I chose the German red, white and blue to put wilh it.

Wednesday, January 25. we reached Naples, one day a head of time, | We felt sorry to leave our ship friends. Our party consisted of five ladies. We went ashore, passing through the custom house without incident and went to the hotel Vittoria, on the Quay, near the public garden and commanding a fine view of the Bay of Naples so famous for its beauty. It attracts one not by its lieauty only but because around its shores is a great city, the metropolis of a region. ‘ itself very beautiful, and sites of great historical and mythological interest, rich in memorials of ancient wealth, luxury and art. We visited the Museum. It is a very interesting place. The principal room contains two celebrated pieces of statuary, the ; Farnese Bull and the Farnese Hercules, both taken from the Baths of { Caracalla at Rome. The first is the work of two Greek sculptors. Apollonius and Tariscus, who lived 200 B. C. The most interesting rooms to j many people are those containing the ' great number and variety of collections taken from Pompeii. Herculaneum and Stabiae. The domestic life ! of people who lived 1.800 years ago ■ was laid before us. We saw the implements of trade, the tools of the ’ artisans, the weights and measures of the shopkeepers, the cooking utensils, the surgical instruments, as they fell from the hands of those who were using them, when they fled in fright from their homes. We found the royal palace where the Duke of Naples, the nephew of King Humbert and the heir apparent to the throne, lives, was well worth a visit. We saw the public rooms and several were very fine, particularly the hall of the Ambassador’s. The tapestries, paintings by old masters and rare porcelain were very valuable. In the ball room they were removing the flowers used in great profusion in decoration for a ball the night before. “11 Trovatore” (sung in Italian of course) was the opera we selected to hear in the Royal opera house, the largest theater in the world. The orchestra was very good indeed, much better than the singing. But what we enjoyed the most was to see the people, a very fashionable audience. An Italian audience is very demonstrative, either applauding in approval or hissing in derision, sometimes hisses and cries of “bravo!” contending for supremacy. We took a four days trip from Nap-

Il— —— — — —M THis week || I I I I II We make our first exhibit of NEW SPRING CLOTHING for I MEN InD BOYS Our exhibit for the coming: season is really I I ' Lt interesting we have ever made. The styles of the men's I : garments assess more graceful lines, and the boys and children's I I Mothes a™ more tasteful than any which have been produced for I many years. The fabrics throughout the entire line show the I nrogre'ss which has been made in artistic cloth weaving, both in I America and abroad. While the perfectly matched trimmings I speak volumes for the painstaking, good taste of the manufactur- I ers Taken altogether, this exhibit is well worth the effort it cos I us to gather, and we will be more than repaid for our trouble if it I proves as interesting to you as we anticipate that it will. I The spring shapes in hats and the new things m haberdashery I are also ready for inspection. Our Confirmation Suits have I proven a success. We have made a special effort to procure the I best for the least money. Come in and see them. I Most respectfully, I I I ; ! I, I Schulte,, Falk & Ehinger. n Jta . 1 M

les. visiting the islands of Capri. Sorrento and Pompeii. It was a lovely morning when we went to Capri and we enjoved the three hours ride on the steamer across the Bay and around the island. On one of the high precipices. overlooking the sea. was the ruins of one of the Emperor Tiberius' Castles. From the precipice it is said he threw down slaves, for his amusement. into the sea 300 feet below. Leaving the steamer and entering small row boats we visited the Blue Grotto. It is a cave in the rocky side of the island with a small opening about three feet high and wide enough to admit a boat. Through this the water enters and it also admits all the light there is in the grotto. We laid flat in the boat to keep from striking our heads as we shot through the low passage. Inside we saw a small cave about fort v feet in diameter and fifteen feet high. The water and the walls are a beautiful blue color due to the reflection of light on the water outside the opening. It was a bright, sunshinnv day and the effect on the grotto was dazzling. But the Mediterranean is a blue sea everywhere. We often remarked the difference in shade from the Atlanta. Going out of the grotto was not so easy as coming in. Our boatman approached the opening three or four times before we came at just the right angle to shoot through on the dancing waves. We reached the town of Capri about noon and lunched on the terrace at the Hotel Bristol overlooking the sea. Later we took a drive among the orange and olive orchards, climbing the slopes until we reached the highest parts of the island and all the way had a beautiful panorama unfolding below us the island, the sea. the bay and Naples and her suburbs girdling the shores. An hour's ride on the steamer brought us to Sorrento where we staved from Fridav until Monday. Sorrento lies in a leautiful situation and the hills about the town are crowned with villas. Mr. F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, oc-

i copies a pink villa on a hill top with.in view from our veranda. A stroll through the town and visits to the shops filled Saturday morning. Silk . is made there, and the most beautiful silks can be brought very cheap: also, tortoise shells. Wo saw the most I lovely olive wood with inlaid patterns made into boxes, table tops, mirror backs, chess boxes, etc. We saw so ' many handsome people in Sorrento. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel. ; "Agnes of Sorrento”, was lying on a table in the drawing room at the hotel. ’ She speaks of the beauty of the peoI pie and their grace and symmetry. I And I think they are the handsomest I people I have ever seen. After lunch we took carriages and drove over the road toward Amalfi as far as Positano. We were out about four hours. We first went several miles through the narrow streets of Sorrento, with high stone walls on each side. Then on.

I still between stone walls but with orange groves and villas on each side. All the time we kept ascending, turning, then ascending, then turning and > going on up till Sorrento and the Bay of Naples lay in all their beauty below us. Then we turned and went i around on the other side of the mountain and on to where Positano, the quaint old town, lay nestled in the mountain side high above the Bay of Salerno. The sea was calm as the sky and the blue water of the bay washing against the cliffs below was as blue as in the blue grotto. We were so high above the shore that people below looked like pigmies. The road has been made only three years and is a wonderful piece of workman-

ship. On one side the mountain tow- < ers like the canons in Colorado, on the other a stone wall three feet high i protects you from the precipice below. < We were shown a spot where three i vears ago a Frenchman threw his wife i over the precipice. He returned alone 1 from a drive and told that while she was looking over the wall she fell, < The absurdity of a woman falling i over a wall three feet high threw sus- I picion on him. After his arrest it was 1 learned he carried a large life insur- 1 ance on her life. Coming back the 1 same lovely view unfolded in reverse < order. Everv bit of available ground 1 is carefully cultivated. Olives, oranges, i chestnuts." vegetables, lemons and < grapes grow in the fertile soil. The < oranges and lemon trees were pro- 1 tected by a thatch of straw, showing ’ that cold winds sometimes injure the < fruit. Beggars beseige you every 1 place. Boys run bv the carriage and ; thrust flowers on you begging for i monev. Old men and women stag- ; gered along the road with heavy bur- I dens of straw, or twigs, or branches : of trees on their heads. Along the road at intervals were small houses ; where officials were stationed to take toll of everv bit of produce brought ' into a town. It was a lovely drive and not to be forgotten. The next morning we attended church at the j Cathedral. There was no music. At - 5:30 p. m. attended English services | in a chapel, in the old house where the poet Tasso was born. From the open windows we could hear the sound of the sea below. Just after the prayer for Queen Victoria followed "and for King Humbert of Italy and the President of the United States and all our English and American consuls in this country.” It sounded good to American ears. We stayed in a very pleasant hotel in Sorrento, also called the Hotel Vittoria.

From our bed room window we looked out at Naples across the bay and Vesuvius, glowing like a coal, on the side of the mountain. The night scene is fine and when the sun shines it is also very beautiful. We left Sorrento Monday morning at 8 o'clock by carriage for Pompeii. It was a pleasant day and we had a lovely drivt along the sea. high up on the cliffs, through Castlemore and other towns till 10:30 when we reached Pompeii. We went every place through the ruins. Bulwer's “Last Days of Pompeii” give one a good idea of the place and help one understand the places shown. We had pointed out to us the house of Pansa of Glaucus. the poet, the newhouse, temple of the Egyptian priest, all mentioned by him. But the destruction of the city was not so sudden, nor did so large a proportion of the inhabitants perish as he would have you think. There had been warnings before the terrible erruption of Vesuvius in August, 17, A. D.

When the city was buried under a heap of ashes, cinders, and other pulverized volcanic substances, mixed with boiling water, to a depth of twenty feet. Many escaped and later when it was possible to do so returned and secured valuable belongings. The population numbered between twenty and thirty thousand, and hundreds perished. We saw many things taken from the ruins. Bread, burned black and found in the oven, chickens, eggs, fruit, grain, monev, jewelry, and skeletons. Now when the workmen, while excavating, come upon a hollow place they pour in liquid plaster of pans and thus secure a perfect cast of the object which had been there and decayed. If it con- ■ tained a skeleton the plaster covered the bones and filled out the outlines

of the flesh. We saw men and women who had been overtaken while running and their features and position of their limbs showed the awful agony in which death came to them. One man who had been found asleep in bed was lying peacefully on his side. We saw dogs, and a hen which had died cackling. The houses are just as they were on that fatal day—the temples, the theater, the ampitheater, the baths and the forum, the bakeries, the stables, the shops, the columns, the wheel worn streets. The frescoes on the walls are bright in colors red, blue, green, etc. It is the most curious ruins of antiquity. We walked about on the walls and looked down into the I city, that is the excavated part. The , remainder is a little higher than the walls. We lunched at a hotel and drove on to Naples, thirteen miles. There ; were towns all the way, very dirty and with macaroni hanging in the | streets to dry. The next day I ascended Vesuvius. Tae other members of our party did not care to go , and I went with some Italians from j Bologna, two ladies and a gentleman * and found them very pleasant people, j We had a long carriage drive from i 9:30 to 1:30 through the city and up the slopes of the mountain. All the I way we were beset with beggars. I strolling musicians and acrobats, ven-: ders of ornaments and fruits and a j crazy looking hermit came out of a i hut among the lava beds asking for ■ piastres. We left our carriage and took donkeys. The donkey boy could speak a little English. He kept inquiring, “me good donkey boy, me spek Englask?” and on my assenting I found he considered it sufficient

cause for a present of piastres. We passed over lava and around a place where the smoke comes pouring out' and it is from these fissures that we j see the fire glowing at night, for the crater of the volcano is just across the summit on the other side. The size, general appearance and often times ; position of the crater changes after each eruption. The sulphurous gases ; and hot air came in our faces. Near the meteorlogical observatory, located i 25.000 feet above sea level is a res-| taurant where we took lunch and as ; terward took the railway to the sum-; mit. It is an inclined plane and runs i at an angle of from 45 to (50 degrees. That's pretty steep and I shut my eyes sometimes. But a magnificent prospect lay before us. In striking j contrast to the desolation near us was the view of the surrounding hills, the cities, the bay, Capri. Ischia, the “Great Sea" and forming a picture never to be forgotten. When we left the car at the summit we still had a few hundred feet to walk to reach the crater. But the wind had risen and was blowing the smoke and cinders in our faces, blinding us and making it impossible to go on. All turned and went back. Leaving the car we again mounted the donkeys and continued the descent. Vesuvius is an isolated mountain. It is between three and four thousand feet high and is about eight miles northeast of

Naples. The first great eruption occurred in August, 79 A. D. For , eight days it threw out large quanti- ( ties of hot mud, lava and ashes, form- . ing a deposit varying from 70 to 112 ’ feet and utterly destroying and covering the cities of Herculaneum and ' Pompeii, filling the former with lava * and the latter with ashes. During ! this eruption Pliny the Elder lost his life. The eruption is described by Pliny the Younger. From 79 to 1500 1 A, D. nine eruptions took place. Then • V esuvius was quiet for 131 years and I during that time the mountain was > overgrown with trees and bushes and

was utilized for pasture. terrible eruption >■.a,.n.. j® cemlier 1631 ami o a.d ruarv 1632. Seven streams of laiH and torrents of boiling water ;® down the mountain'- - ■!-. :~iraj five towns and alxnit three musanß lives. Other eruptions took placed® intervals from 1707 to 1767. 1861 and as late as l*7_’ San Sebastiano and Ma-sa werepaM ' tially destroyed by a stream o f [estimated as nearly time thnutanM | feet wide and twenty feet deep. IbM streets of Naples were filleel withM | fine black sand to a depth of twealß ! inches. We went from Naples iB 1 Messina by an Itallian Iwat. "tbM | Gottardo.” Os our week’s stay iM Sicily I cannot write as this letterß I already so long. Messina. Catan® . and Syracuse we found very ing. Particularly Syracuse. civ;:..-® . the mythological and historical ass® jciations of the place. Valletta out® island of Malta is am t!i<-r place whe® the dullest tourist becomes an enthi® siast. The Knights of Malta. Mme® 'ly of St. John, when driven from!® | rusalem in the thirteenth eentur® [went to Rhodes and when expdl® | from there found an asylum in Mai® in 1522. Valletta is named fort J grand chancellor at that time. I® church of St. John and the ehauee® [ lor's palace are full of interesting® things. The hotel we stayed in ba® been a palace of the knights. \ahett® too, deserves a letter to herself but ® cannot give it. Returning to M® sina we sailed in an Italian boat, t® Independente." for Alexandria. , ® had a very pleasant voyage of tM® days and nights. It was lovely as®

left Messina at two o’clock in the® ternoon. We came out of the hart® into the strait of Messina, with nwu® tains on both sides. The C alabr® [on the Italian side, a snow cove® range. Mt. Etna on the Sicilians® with snow covered summit. Hie >® [of Messina opposite the town ® Scilla. the current of Chanbynas® ! the one side, the rock of Scilla on ® other; as Virgil says. I Charibvdas and come not near..-® [ A few miles below Scilla we ]> ■ ] ® ; R begin m where St. Paul land"*® [ his wav to Rome as a prisoner. ■ ® 28:13.) ’ When at Malta we spo»® [ his shipwreck there, then ® Melita, (Acts 28:1.) He was a; .® (•use, (Acts 28:12,) at R-ieg' J® finished his voyage at 1 uteo • ■ ■ 28:13,) now Pozzuoli. a town® miles northwest of Naples-., “ dril dav at noon we reached A? ■ Biit Egvpt must be left for a n 1 letter. If this letter is long . 1 you will bear with it for 1 forced to omit more than • 1 ten. Hattie StedabakW. That Miss Helen Gould is a brave American a warm place in the b . ear ! us tratf ever citizen was again den bv her hospitable and he i at the Windsor hotel fire.

Chauncy M. Depew. lican senator from New J a grai thatwithin the next five yea rs a g trust will Ire in operation ‘ so strong within itself. ■ j dictate to the producer the f tb shall get for his wheat, ana f( consumer the price his flour. This is anoth • a n the power of trusts, who- ‘ al greed know no bounds a , o f tl protected by the zealous j n dee(l partv now in power. 1 sad spectacle to whic' .heniselv should arouse and protec while they can.