Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. *1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. APRIL 13. Bellamy Storer has been appointed minister to Spain. This appointment followed the formal restoration of peace. Former diplomatic relations between these two countries will be restored. Admiral Dewey has signified himself against any move that connects him with the presidency. He is, modest, having won all the fame he cares for and does not want to lose j t, through policies politic. Mr. McKinley lias accepted an invitation to attend the confederate encampment to be held June 7 and 8 at Falls Church. Ya.. under the auspices of the Daughters of Confederacy and promised to deliver an address. Mrs. E. A. K. Hackett, wife of Editor Hackett of the Fort Wayne Sentinel. died last Sunday at Chicago, at which place she was taking treatment. The deceased was a lovely woman, widely known and generally loved. The funeral services were held yesterday. Under the new law it is provided that a trustee shall divide the township into not more than four road dis tricts and appoint supervisors therefor, who will hold their office until the general election of 1900. This legislates all of the old supervisors out of office until reappointed by the i trustee. Since Mayor Jones' re-election in Toledo, his name is being freely flirted with in connection with the nomination of governor of Ohio. Nothing has been said about Carter H. Harrison in this connection, but it is safe to presume that the office of governor would lie entirely too small to fit his robust figure. U.. inTc/Av' e i »■» I hioorrri i c

Harrison s election m Chicago is I generally commended, especially by the democrats all over the country. ( The attempt of the national demo- | cratic committee to assist the renegade. Altgeld, was a flagrant violation of | party practices, and is universally ■ condemned. Harrison has always j been a loyal democrat. The complete restoration of peace be-1, tween this country and Spain was perfected Tuesday by an exchange - , of ratifications of the treaty of peace , which was followed immediately by a 1 proclamation by President McKinley, which announces to the world that : peace is restored. Nevertheless, fighting in the Phillipines goes mer , rily on. The Fort Wayne Journal estimates that the teachers who attended the I meeting of the North Indiana Teach ers’ Associaation last week expended in Fort Wavne a sum representing $20,000. Glutton like, they now want to entertain the association again, of course having in mind another $20,000. The people of Fort Wayne are very , generous, when the other fellow pays for it. Every mother’s son connected with the Democrat printers is swelled up with pride over the editions of our j special conference daily. The mechanical genius and artistic workmanship, combined with our excellent news senice made the issues far superior to the average daily papers. Not I only that, but it showed that Decatur is one of the advancing cities and is peopled with progressive citizens. Whatever .he present embalmed beef commission may divide to report there can now be' no question that the report of the first investigating committee was as rank a piece of whitewashing as was ever done in this country. The committee made practically no effort to get testimony as to the conduct of the war, for if it had it could certainly have found some of the hundreds of witnesses whom Gen. Miles has produced and whose evidence has now been put on record. Sentinel. The trusts still flourish with a high hand. The commerical travelers realizes their force more just now, than perhaps any other body of men. Thousands of them have been thrown out of employment, and universally thev were the loudest shouters for McKinley, protection and sound money in 1896. The formation of trust's reduce and frequently destroy competition, thus rendering the employment of traveling men superfluous. Such is life under an administration of trusts, for the trusts and by the trusts. The real secret of wrath of the administration organs toward Gen. Miles, is found in the fact, that he talked. Had he kept quiet, the complaints about the meat and rations that were furnished the soldiers would have been quietly ignored and no fuss would have been created. But when Gen. Miles condemned the commissary department, the matter could no longer be passed over in silence. An investigation became imperative, and as a result there is a stench that extends from one end of the country to the other.

‘ Statistics show- that while only 329 men have been killed in action : in the • Spanish and Philipino wars 125 have died of wounds, and 5277 have died of disease. This report : is exclusive of March of which month the casualities have not been tabut lated. The naval loss during the same time is 18 killed in action one ■ of heat, and one by accident, and 56 have died of disease. Huntington News-Democrat. Democrats are not the only ones who regard the Philippines as an undesirable possession. Representative Steele of I ndiana, a staunch supporter ' of the administration, who passed through Washington a day or two ago, said of them: "So far as lam concerned. I would like to trade the Philippine Islands for a yellow dog. and then kill the dog. if there were nothing else involved but possession ’! of the islands.’’ "■ Henry Watterson says: If I were 1 1 required to name the great menace to our national life, I should put it in one word money; not hard or soft money, but just money in its relation to the moral life of the people. There can be no doubt about the truth of this. Money in the hands of unscrupulous people is always a menace. But while this is true, it is also true that only a short while ago the great M atterson was firmly planted with both feet on the side of the menace. Miami County Sentinel. Manufacturers of news print paper have given warning of another advance in the price of paper, to take I effect April 15. The reason given is the great demand and the high price ; of spruce logs, which they import from Canada and on which they pay a heavy duty. They pay the tax, of course’ But the ink is not dry on the custom officer’s receipts before charging it to the consumer. This is the way the foreigner pays the tax under j the Dingley law—by charging it to the consumer. Michigan City Dispatch. It is daily becoming plainer to close observers that Mr. McKinley j and his advisers do not regard next i year’s campaign as a republican walk- ' over. They are diligently studying ways and means forcoralling eleetoial votes that they consider doubtful. The trip that Mr. McKinley is now arranging to make this summer to the Pacific coast is one of the ways that

has been decided upon. They do not : expect to be able to carry Delaware, Maryland or Kentucky again, but i hey hope for Kans: s and Nebraska, both of which states are likely to be visited by Mr. McKinley’s western trip. They are also beginning to realI ize that some sort of a bluff against I trusts must be made. Representa- [ tive Landis of Indiana, has gone to Washington especially to urge upon the administration the necessity of [doing something to convince the voters of the middle west that the ad- ' ministration is antagonistic to the trusts. Mr. Landis has done some very plain talking about the danger : to the republican party and it is evident that he has frightened some of ! the administration men. In the election of Samuel Jones to the mayorality of the city of Toledo, Ghio. by an overwhelming majority I over two other candidates, is a matter iof much significance. One ot the candidates having the national administration (Mark Hanna) as his henchman had to succumb to the aroused public sentiment for good ■ government as against plutocracy, and all the evils which followthe abuses of the money power and their grinding methods. The people are beginning to get lheir eyes opened to the alarmi ing accumulation of trusts, the bold and aggressive measures of these eomi bines and the despotic power they exercise over our living interests, controling the production and price of | everything we touch, taste or handle, placing us in an abject and pitiable 1 condition, claiming as we do, the enjoyment of freedom. Free from whom or what? I should like to be i informed. Neither the L’uited States government, nor state government it [ seems, is vested with the power to : protect us from the grip of these coms bines. Nothing has been done at heart, nor accomplished in their removal and we are still left to their tender mercies. But they have no mercy. And yet the despotisms have , defenders, but no man who loves liberty or freedom and equal opportunities for all could conscientiously nor logically set up a defense for them. I and if not soon brought to bay and throttled to death they will eventually destroy us. The aggregation of wealth (and wealth means power) concentrated in the hands of the greedv aggressor who can and will use the same day just as others in other nations have done in the past. Wealth backs up the pride and passions of aggressive men and they won’t recede and history will repeat itself. This country is no exception to the rule, the title won t save it. Other republics have come and gone as well as corrupt monarchies and empires, where the unbridled passion and aggressiveness of unjust men have full play. They can soon bring about the destruction of a government. We are of the caucausian race, same as other i nationalities who have gone liefore us. What we stand in need of most is a big crop of men after the Sam Jones model. This man looms up and beyond any other public man in the country. He has doomed bossismsand [ the bone and sinew of the land will Ibe with him in anything he undertakes, so will all lovers of good government as annunciated by its founders for and by the people,' the whole people, and not for a class. J. N. (Not the "Imortal.”)

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The Sensitive Porgy. The porgy, common as it is, is a beautiful fish when seen in the water in a favorable light, and it is likewise one of the most sensitive of fishes. In captivity it is easily frightened. It will take alarm from something done by a passing visitor, a thoughtless touching of glass, or something of that sort, and go rushing around until it is exhausted Sometimes a porgy in a tank may. when frightened, jump out of the water and bump its nose against the wire I screen over the tank and be seemingly paralyzed by the shock and rendered unable to swim In such a condition it will lie upon its back, motionless, ex- I cept perhaps for a fluttering of its fins, for an hour, and then it may come back all right again and swim about so lively and in such good form that yon can’t tell then which fish of the lot it was that had bumped its head. A peculiarity of the porgy is its lia- j bility to blindness. Blindness is not uncommon among fishes, but there are | perhaps more blind porgies than there are fish of any other kind. There’s a saying among fishermen. “As blind as a porgy ’’ —New York Sun. A Spanish Street Scene. In nothing is the illiterate condition of Spain shown as in the numerous[ writing booths which line the streets . of Barcelona. Spain has preserved much of the picturesque life of past ages, and ■ even at the present day in many of its towns may be seen the watchman, with pike and lantern, going his nightly rounds not far from a tine street bril- [ liantly illuminated by the electric light In the Rambla, the principal street of Barcelona, may be seen several of these writing booths of the public scribes There for a small ccnsideration the illiterate or any one else may have anything indited from the poetry of a love ' epistle to the prosaic application for a situation. The front of each booth is : placarded with the name of the scribe I and the services he is prepared to render to his customers. Some scribes combine the art of painting with that of j writing, and all add to their activities I the business of registry offices for servants. “A Female Stranger.” In St. Paul’s churchyard, in Alexandria. Va., is a marble tombstone bearing this inscription To the memory of a female stranger: Hew loved, how honored once avails thee not. To whom related or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee. Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. This strange inscription raised much conjecture. The facts, as nearly as known, are that in May. 1816. a man and a beautiful girl, accompanied by a valet, arrived at Alexandria in an Eng lish vessel. They shunned every one Five months afterward the girl died The husband staid long enough to erect a monument, left a sum of money tc repair it and then sailed away and was never heard of again. Several novels have been founded upon this sad and romantic incident. Punctilious. “It wor all intended sociable an friendly,” said Mr. Rafferty in explaining his black eye. “The way Oi got the decoration wor this: Oi got a bit angry in the middle av the mix up, an the first t ing Oi knew Casey, the conthractor, who had kindly accepted me challenge ty show who wor the best man in the party, caught me off me guard an landed. It would niver av happened if Oi hadn’t got mad. ” “Have yez seen Casey since?” asked Dolan. ‘No; Oi’ve been kapii away from him till Oi kin get wan question settled—Does Casey owe me an explanation fur blackin me eye or ought Oi ty apologize ty him fur losin me timper ?”

A Wonderful Appetite. The digestive power of the heron is remarkable, as well as its capacity and ability to swallow large fish, says Forest and Stream The neck seems to expand as if made of india rubber —the fish slips down, and the bird is ready for another In eating beef, large bones are swallowed intact On one or two occasions after feeding beef this way, great alarm was felt, as the birds showed signs of great distress, but the uneasiness was soon calmed when the bird threw up a large bone, clean and white, the meat having been thoroughly digested In eating catfish they instinctively pierce it with their strong beaks, until there is no question in their simple minds but that it is harmless. If in their hurry to swallow their food, it goes down the throat covered with sand or trash, they immediately eject it, carry it to the water and. having rinsed it well, swallow it agnin. The Intelligent Jury. Law court stories were especially attractive to Hicks, and he told many of them His great story, which was almost a dramatic sketch, was of the acquittal of a Cornish doctor who was charged with the murder of his mother-in-law by mixing arsenic with a dish of rabbits and onions, which he gave her for supper The setting of the court, the swearing of the jury, the speeches of counsel, and the judge’s charge were all related by Hicks with marvelous humor The climax to the fun was the confabulation of the jury as to the verdict they should give, and their individual reasons for returning a verdict of acquittal—from the juryman who “didn’t hold with old Oman eating rabbits and onions for supper to the juryman who declared that "it wasn't a ha'po’th of odds to him, and twas but an old Oman ” —Cornhill Magazine. Siamese Magic. Siamese magicians profess to be able to destroy your enemy for you They i first bewitch part of a buffalo till it becomes as small as a pea. When your enemy has been induced to swallow it they make it return to its original size, and after suffering great agonies he suffocates Pig’s flesh and fish are also used When these people die. the reason can tie detected, because at their cremation some part of their body refuses to burn, and when it is cut open it contains fish or meat c/some animal A small boy died recently and was cremated A certain part of the child’s chest refused to burn, and they got it examined and found it to be a piece of salt pork! Not Quite Persuaded. “We like the idea of simplified spelling, says the editor of the Perkins Junction Palladium “But we don’t think we could ever become used to writing it ‘He wawkt down the ile, leeving the trax of his laij and mnddee suuez on the tiore The marx ar vizzibl yet- ’ " —Chicago Tribune Way Ip In It. ——— — The fair yonng girl looked at the gilded cluck on the mantel. “I don t want to hurry you, Mr Slowgo. ” she sweetly explained as she met his questioning look, “but the fact is it is almost time for ma to come home from the club And I just want to say this If ma says, ‘I move we adjourn, don’t you attempt to lay it on the table, or to raise a point of order, or anything else that’s foolish, be cause you might as well understand right here and now that ma’s simply a howling Jim dandy when it comes to i the rules of parliamentary procedure, and don t you hesitate to recollect iti’

WASHINGTON LETTER. A Civil Service-Census Bureau War—Dr. Hays on Siam—The Navy Rolls. New Sunday Law. [Special Correspondence.) War has been declared by the civil service commission on the census office, and “we are going to have lots of fun.” said Commissioner Proctor. Every one knows what a fight the reformers made to control the appointments and how congress decided against them. When Commissioner Proctor was asked what the commission bad to do with the matter since congress ruled it out. he said “We have any number of people who come here to find out how to get into office When a lady comes to inquire in the future, I am going to ask her what state she comes from, and then I am going to tell her to find the senators from that state lam going to advise her to be at the senator’s house before breakfast and follow’ him to the capitol and never rest until she has had a talk with him and as many talks as possible I am going to tell her that lots of other people are seeking him and that her best chance of appointment is to be as persistent as possible When I have sent 30 or 40 people after each senator or congressman, I think the latter will be tired of the spoils system “The way to get rid of a bad thing is to make it obnoxious. I am going to make it just as unpleasant as I can. We were anxious to get the census under our control because the last one cost the government $2,000,000 more than it would otherwise have done. In the last census the personnel of the office was changed three times, or as often as senators and representatives went out ” Dr. Hays on Siam. Dr T Edward Hays, the surgeon major of the Siamese army, who has been visiting at his old home in Baltimore, will remain in this country a year before returning to his post in the Land of the White Elephant, where he went as a tnissionary of the Presbyterian chnrch some 15 years ago He has long been a potent influence for good in the Siamese capital and resigned his position as missionary to accept, at the hands of the king, the appointment of director of the Wang Land hospital, the first institution of the kind established at Bangkok Dr. Hays subsequently organized three other hospitals and something more than a year ago founded an insane asylum A work of which he is justly proud is the establishment of a medical college. Instead of paying their tuition in this institution, students who enter it are paid $9 a month and board if they will attend the lectures for three years, at the end of which time positions under the government are promised them, with an increase in their salaries of $25 a month. Like most foreigners resident in Bangkok. Dr. Hays has only the kindest things to say of the king, and he considers it most happy for the future of Siam, which is making such rapid strides in civilization, that she is ruled by so enlightened a monarch. The Navy Rolla. At the commencement of the war with Spain there were 10,327 enlisted men in the navy, including the apprentices on board the training ships On Aug. 15. 1898, the total number cf enlisted men on the rolls was 24,123 which was the maximum strength Os this number 11,810 were regulars, enlisted for three years; 10,297 were volunteers. enlisted for cue year, and 2,016 were apprentices. On March 1 last there were 17,660 men on the rolls, of whom a considerable number will be I discharged within the next few months ! because their term of enlistment ex-1 pires. |

Maddening;. •‘I happen to have a dross coat,” sail a man about town, “that was made by Poole, the famous London tailor, and I’ve preserved it with a good deal of care To tell the truth, I attached less value to the garment itself than I did to the sign manual of the house, emblazoned on a strip of white silk and stitched inside the collar. It was a trifle snobbish, I dare say, but if so I've received my punishment “A few weeks ago I took the coat along with me on a trip to Florida, and while at a small coast resert I noticed the buttons were getting worn. The only tailor in town was a Chinaman, and I gave him the coat with instructions to repair the damages, which be did very neatly I had forgotten all about the incident, and one evening during carnival was at the club chatting with some visitors from Detroit when somehow or other the conversation turned on high art tail -ring. “One of the strangers sang the praises of a chap at bis home and L like a fool, couldn’t resist the temptation of remarking that my suit waa made by Poole. Thereupon the other fellow expressed curiosity as to how the English tailors inserted the shoulder reenforcements of dress coats, and I obligingly slipped mine off to allow him to examine it He looked it over, and when he handed it back I noticed that he wore a peculiar smile It was n> wonder, for, by Jove, in place of the signed silk strip below the collar was a great hideons pink tab bearing the legend. ‘Charley One-Lung, Merchant Tailor. Wayback. Fla.!’ ” —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Force o£ Habit. "Os course you can’t imagine what curious experiences we have with sicr people," confided a trained nurse, have just come from a very interesting case—a dear old lady, lovely in every way. but utterly unmanageable and unreasonable on the subject of early rising The dear woman cannot turn over in her bed or put her hand to her head--she is fatally ill. poor creature— -but she wakes me every morning at 5 o clock to have her face and hands bathed an her cap changed. ‘Oh,' I groan, it > s only 5 o'clock. Mrs. Lorrimer; that is too early for sick people to get awakeLet us have another little nap. " ‘No. no,’ she always answers; father reared me to get up at 5 o cloc I can t disobey my training mus make my toilet I mustn t sleep any longer.' “So I have to get awake, prepare dear old lady for the day—Bo . Tears 0 she is. and weak and sick —just becaa’. she was reared by a father with a no> mal ideas of rising time. ” Difficult Railway BuildingBesides being the greatest gold e . in the world, the Klondike is the coin ing tourist route. To carry the' of travel a railroad is being built fro Skaguay to Bennett City. At present men are working Porcupine cliff, blasting out a narro foothold for the railroad track on ‘ , side of the precipice. The work. " is very difficult and dangerous, v ‘ when finished, have carried a rai o through some of the finest scenery the world. Faith In Old Betz. . A Fort Scott bey with the Kansas regiment writes home: s naldo has sure got the natives eII his list. So much ignorance is du-P' . on the islands that the insurgents you cannot kill them. They say i . shoot at Aguir.aldo he just sha ’ clothes and the bullet falls out clothes. I would like to get a crach him at about 200 yards with nI’ll bet that I would soon end the