Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1899 — Page 6

Help... Nature I Babies and children need ] I proper food, rarely ever medi- | | cine. If they do not thrive j • on their food something is j j wrong. They need a little | | help to get their digestive j j machinery working properly, j COD LIVER OIL i WITH HYPOPHOSPH/TESof LIMESSODA 1v "I generally correct this * I circuity. I j If yc.i w;il put from one- j j fourth to half a teaspcor.ful j 1 in baby’s hottie three or four i I times a day you will soon see I j a marked improvement. For | j larger children, from half to j 1 a teaspoonful, according to j I age, dissolved in their milk, 1 j if you so desire, will very | j soon show its great nourish-1 • ing power. If the mother s • I milk does not nourish the 1 I baby, she needs the cmul- | | sion. It will show an effect | j at cn.ce both upon mother j 1 and child. s : and $T 00. all druggists. | X TT -Ik BOWSE, Chen _ts. New \crk. • L,, H——H H H H «=-

f ~ Quaint o’4 Colonial Document. New Amsterdam had been in British hands four years when this quaint and curious customs ord ?r. the oldest in existence and but recently unearthed from a mass of colonial records, was penned “Instructions for Mr. Cornelius \ an Ruyven. Collect.- r if the Customes in ye City of New York by Order of Colonell Francis Lovelace. Governour. May 24. 1668. “You or y'r clerk are to be dayly at ye Custome House from nine in ye morning untill twelve at noone. There to receive ye Customes both in and out, i as the Merchants shall come & enter, ye merchant is to makefonre Bills and signe them with his hand, writing his name to them. & ye same time, when you have sign 1 ye Warrant, or one of ye Bills, you ire to demand yeCnstome. either in kinde at 10 P Cent inwards or double ye valine of its first Cost in Holland, in Beaver And likewise outwards for Peltry you are to receive 10% , PCent according to ye vallue in Beaver, for Tobacco one half penny Pr. pound I Ster’g: which is noe more than all Englishmen doe pay. * * * You to tell ya | Merchant you are not to give credit • • • If they doe not like your proposi- , tions. you are not to pass their Bills. * ‘ • “And Lastly pray lett ye Books he kept all in English and all Factoryes and Papers, that when I have occasion to satisfy myself I may better under- j stand them. ” — A Joke on the Jap. The Japanese students at our colleges find the American sense of humor as it is expressed by the other students about them a somewhat peculiar thing, but not at all hard to understand. In fact, it is quite simple and elementary. A Japanese gentleman who was a student at Harvard not long ago relates that he was asked by some of his American fellow students to “teach them some Japanese words." He began by giving them “Good morning" in Japanese This phrase is represented in Japanese by a word which in English equivalents cannot be more closely represented than by the word “Ohio. The boys were interested and promised to remember it Next morning, when the Japanese student came to the lecture room, he found a group of the boys gathered to give him the morning salutation in Japanese. “Pennsylvania!' shouted one of them “Kentucky!" yelled another “Virginia!" “New Hampshire!' “Rhode Island!” still others called. But not one of them said “Ohio!" It was the American idea of a great joke The young Japanese was much edified and made a note of it. —Boston Transcript. Looked Like a Lunatic. Brains come in all shapes of heads. There is intelligence in all kinds of eyes. Manners often hide wisdom. I recollect that once upon a time Mr. Choate and a friend were dining in the Revere House, Boston, sitting at the table with a short, thickset gentleman who had a very small head in which were two squirrel eyes, positively expressionless Choate’s friend could not keep his gaze off the man, who he imagined was an escaped lunatic. Finally, when the creature began to devour enormous quantities of food, he leaned over and whispered to Choate, “Who do you suppose that poor fellow can bet” “Why,” said Choate, “that is the celebrated Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts. ”

I SPAIN HAS BEEN PAID M. CAMBON RECEIPTS FOR $20,000,000 TO UNCLE SAM. ■ Congressman Dolliver Says Western Men Must Unite or Sherman of New York Will Be the Nest Speaker. Other Washington Information. Washington, May 2-—The last move J in the negotiations to terminating the war with Spain occurred yesterday when Secretary Hay paid to the French ambassador, M. Gambon, the $20,000,000 provided by the treaty of peace for the cession of the Philippines. The pavment was made in four treasury ! warrants of $5,000,000 each and was rej ceipted for by M. Cambon. The ambassador deposited the $20,000,000 in the I Riggs National bank of this city, and I the cashing of the warrants is expected : to be made later through the City Na- | tional bank of New York. The Spanish • government was notified by cable of the payment, but nothing will be done as to forwarding the funds to Europe until Spain directs the exact course to be pursued. The form of receipts signed by the ambassador, was as follows: Received from the secretary of state of the United State- the sum of $20,000,000 in four drafts upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York. No. 4,509, 4,510, 4511 ->nd 4512 of date April 20, 1599, each draft being for $5,090,009. The same being in full payment ot the obligation of the government of the I nited States to the government of Spain asset forth in Article 3 ot the treaty of peace i between the United States and Spa n. ' signed at Paris, France, on Dec. 10, 1808, the ratifications of which were exchanged in the city of Washington on April 11, 1809. The payment being provided by the act of congress approved March 2. 1899, entitled an act. making an appropriation to carry out the obligation of the treaty between the United States ami o lain, concluded Dec. 1). 1898. JI’LES Cambok. Department of State, May 1, 1899. ANOTHER ORDER. Recruiting Officers Are Again Warned Against Enlisting Married Men. Washington, May 2.—Official objections to married men in the enlisted force of the army have been renewed by the war department in an order sent out to recruiting officers and regimental

and other commanding officers. There has always been a natural objection to this, for the reason that the accommodations at military posts do not admit of many families. Another reason is found in the fact that men make better fighters and can be ordered here and there easier when they are free of family responsibilities. There are now better reasons than ever before to limit th,, enlistments to unmarried men with the constant changes being made in stations of troops and the hard work in the field, which many of the commands will be called on to perform. The new regulation on this subject says: “The enlistment or re-enlistment of married men for the army is to be discouraged, and will be permitted only for some good reason in the public interest, the efficiency of the service to be the first consideration. Applications for such enlistments or re-enlistments will be finally determined by the regimental com-

i mander, or other proper commanding officer if there be no regimental comI mander.” SPEAKEKSHIP. Congressman Dolliver Will Try to Unite Western Men. Washington, May 2. —Representative ■ Dolliver of lowa, who is pushing Geni eral Henderson for speaker of the house i of representatives to succeed Mr. Reed, yesterday, in an interview, said that Mr. Sherman of New York would win I unless the western congressmen united I on a candidate, and that, consequently, when he reached Chicago shortly he would suggest to Representative Hopkins of Illinois and other western caudii dates that the western men enter intv au agreement to vote for the western I speakership candidate receiving the highest number of votes on the first j ballot. Favor Hopkins. Chicago, May 2.—Ten of the 14 Re- ; publican members of congress from Illinois met in caucus here yesterday and unanimously decided to support Congressman Albert J. Hopkins of Aurora I I for speaker of the national house of rep--1 resentatives. * Civil and Spanish War Losses. Washington, May 2.—A memoran- , \ dum has been prepared at the war de- ,! partment comparing the losses in the , Spanish war with the first year of the : civil war. The aggregate strength of troops employed during the war with > Spain was approximately 275,000 covering the period from May, 1898, to April, 1899 inclusive, during this time deaths were 6,190 or 214 per cent. The mean strength of the first year of the civil . war was 276,371, with an aggregate loss by deaths es 19,159, being a per I centage of 6.8. Circulation Statement. Washington, May 2. —The monthly circulation statement of the controller of the currency shows the total national banknote circulation on April 29, 1899, to have been $242,714,333, an increase t for the year of $15,101,488, and a de--1 crease for the month of $337,984. The 3 circulation based on United States bonds ’ was $207,966,287, an increase for the year of $11,810,352, and a decrease for 1 the month of $1,959,702. 3 , —— To Give Information of Trusts. b Columbus, 0., May 2.—Attorney Geni eral Monett has received a subpoenae e before the Industrial commission at 3 Washington to give information regardj ing trusts. 1 W. S. Arbuckle Dead. Memphis, May 2.—W. S. Arbuckle, e who was shot in an altercation with e Walter Farrabee in this city several ’ I weeks ago, is dead.

YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT. Tho Only WhiU Buffalo-A Curious but Jolly Sport-Obeying His Master. During the summer of 1875 bands of Indians returning from a hunt far ' tit on the plains brought in stories of having seen at different times and in different places, and always in the centei < f a large herd, a white buffalo. They had used their best horses in the effort to overtake it. but to no purpose, never being able to get anywhere near the animal At first we did not pay much attention to these stories, but slid <t kept cropping up from different and at last, in the fall of 1875, I niys ut had a chance to verify the truth of the report. I had been sent on duty north along the Red Deer river and was camped near a large band of Blackfeet, who were hunting south of that river. The buffaloes had moved north in vast numbers. and rhe prairie was black with them. I had gone out one morning with a party of Blackfeet to see one of their hunts and also to try to kill for myself My horse was a good one and much faster than any belonging to the Indian hunters. I had got detached from the party, becoming tired of the slaughter, and must have been at least 20 miles ; from camp, when I made for a small clump of timber not far off. intending - to build a fire and roast a portion of ■ some bffffalo meat I had on the saddle , with me. As I approached the wood a band of about 100 animals burst out of i the brush and made off to the south, j and, yes, most certainly, in the middle : of them was a white buffalo. Although j they were a quarter of a mile away, I there could be no mistake about it. He I was there as large as life and quite white and running like a deer. There | was no time to much more than take I in the scene, but I gathered up the ! reins and was after him. determined to | bag that buffalo or kill my horse. Ob. what a race it was, mile after mile' And. although all the band, with the exception of about a dozen, had split off and gone in different directions, the white animal, with his bodyguard of about a dozen, kept at about the same distance ahead. I could catch a glimpse of him now and then, and there I was no doubt he was snow white. Get ’ within shot I could not for many miles I At last they began to tire, and, although my horse was tired also, I bad j good hopes of coming up and getting a shot. Alas, for such a chance! Os a sudden my horse lurched forward on I his nose, sending me over his head on • to the prairie and turning a somersault ■ himself, missing me by only a few feet 1 He had put his foot into a badger bole I and brought my hopes of a white robe ! to a sudden end.—Forest and Stream. A Curious Sport. The word ••tobogganing” in most minds is indissolubly associated with ; blanket costumes and frosty weather. ' but in Perak, a state in the Straits Set- . dements, where blanket costumes are ; unknown and where the weather cer- i tainly isn’t frosty, there exists a sort of i distant relation of this sport which is | probably not enjoyed in any other part i of the world. There is a huge granite slope in the j course of a mountain river, down which the water trickles about two inches deep, the main stream having carved out a bed by the side of the bowlder This rock, the face of which has been j rendered as smooth as glass by the con- | stant flow of the water during hundreds , of years, the Malays—m< n, women and I children —have turned into a toboggan slide. Climbing to the top of the rock, they sit in the shallow water, with their feet straight out and a hand on each side for steering and then slide down the 60 feet into a pool of water. This is a favorite sport on sunny mornings, as many as 200 folk being so engaged at a , time.

Obeying His Master. A milkman, who obtained his supply of milk from a number of farms in the I neighborhood, employed a boy to drive ; round from one to the other, collecting | it just before delivering it to the cus-; tomers. On his round he had to go over ! a dangerous railroad crossing, so his i master said to him, “Wait until the train passes, if there is one coming.’ Somebody soon after asked his master why his boy stood with the cart nearly | 3 ) minutes every morning at the crossing The man was puzzled to account : for it. so be asked the boy. “Well,’ said he. “I am forced to wait, because , there is a bend on the line, and as 1 cannot see whether a train is coming ot not. I simply wait until one goes past, and then I hurry over as quickly as possible. ” Hia Mother'll Son. “My niece Mary was always a well meaning girt but she would say the wrong thing almost every time, ” said one old gentleman to another, “and she's got a boy that's going to be her very counterpart. ” The old gentleman’s eyes twinkled, and his ugly, good natured face was puckered with enjoyment as he drew from his pocketbook a small sheet of note paper. “I sent Hal a toy monkey that plays all kinds of pranks when it’s wound up,” said he. chuckling. "Now you listen to this letter of thanks I got from him. He’s just 8 years old: “Deer Uncle Ned—l am delited with the munkey, thank you. He makes me think ol you very offen. And whenever mamma winds him up, and he begins to jump, mamma and 1 feel as if we were back at your house where all those toys are, and mamma will look at the munkey and say, ‘That’s your Uncle Ned all over.' Goodbye from your greatfull •‘Hal.’ More Productive Than Clover. In the localities where it succeeds, which are mainly in the arid regions of the west, alfalfa is much more product ive than clover It has also the advan tage that once the ground isseeded with it the plant will live for years The chief drawback is that it takes longer

A Queer Kind of Snvnare. When Albert Henry Savage Landor reached St. Petersburg on his way from the Forbidden Land, the fact was dn.y chronicled: and the London press associations sent cable messages to Au tr..lia telling of the hairbreadth escapes and manifold sufferings. The Melbourne , Tinies received but a short note, which was this . . c , “A- Savage Landor arrived tn • t Petersburg today from Tibet after ■ suffering greatly at the hands of the This was meager enough, but the news editor was equal to the occasion. T h o following morning, among the .■» r matters of news, the readers of The Times found this startling information „ „ ■*A savage landor got into St. Petersburg yester lay. and the people of the citv were terrified After ccnsideraMi difficulty the beast, which came fro.Til *t. was captured, taken to a n mote place and there dispatched. It i said that this is the first animal cf the , sort ever seen in Russia How he reach- ; ed the city after his fights with the na- • lives of Tibet. which is a comparatively unknown country, is a mystery. Polish Jehus. To drive slowly over cobblestones is not a joy. but to drive four Russian horses at a gallop over cobblestones was < something to make you bite your tongue | and to break your teeth and to shake vour verv soul from its socket I most I solemnly assure you it was anything | but a simple drive to one fresh from the | asphalt of Paris, for. like .Jehu, they drove furiously. Their horses are all i wild, runaway beasts, and they drive them ut an uneven gallop resembling j the gait of our fire engine horses at j home, except that ours go more slowly Sometimes the horses fall down as they drive across country, or stop only for stope walls or moats. The carriages must be built of iron, for the front wheels drop> a few feet into a burrow every now and then, and at such times an unwary American is liable to be pitched over the coachman’s head ••Held on with both hands, shut your eyes, tnd keep your tongue from between yourteetb," would be my instructions to one about to “take a drive” in ; Poland. —Lilian Bell in Woman’s Home Companion. \ot Quite Satisfactory. A dog belonging to a west side family j has the sociable habit of visiting | throughout the neighborhood. During ■ a recent wet spell the dog went over to ; a next door house and “tracked” mud | all ov.’r the front porch The woman of > the I ouse was indignant She sent I word hat the dog was a nuisance. The ! woman who owned the dog was offend- i ed. She resolved to make the complaining neighbor ashamed of herself. “M iry, you take a bucket of warm | water and a brush and go over and | scrub Mrs. Browns front porch.” she • said so the servant girl. “Make it cleaner than it has been in a year. The girl did as she was ordered. Mrs Brown stood in the front door and ■ watched her. not at all abashed. “That’s very nice, ” she said when Mary had finished. “Now come around and begin on the back steps. ” She kept the girl at work for two : hours, and now there is a deadly feud. . —Chicago Record. For a Cnilnary Beason. “Pa. ” said little Willie, “why is a bad actor called a 'ham 1' ' “Perhaps, bis father replied, “because he’s so often served with eggs. ’ I —Catholic Standard and Times.

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