Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1899 — Page 6

I CONSUMPTION ■ V never stops because the weather A is warm. j| Then why stop taking A ¥ SCOTTS EMULSION { •J simply because it’s summer? & f Keep taking it It will heal your t T lungs, and make them strong for *J another winter. j| 50c. and Jx.oc; all druggists. jS CHAMPION NO MORE Bob Fitzsimmons Is Knocked Out In His Fight With Jeffries. New York, June 10.—James J. Jeffries, another sturdy young giant, has come out of the west to whip champion pugilists. At the arena of the Coney Island Athletic club last night he defeated Robert Fitzsimmons, world’s champion in two classes —middleweight and heavyweight—in 11 rounds of whirlwind fighting. He came to the ring a rank outsider and left it the acknowledged master of the man he defeated. He was never at any time in serious danger and after the size-up in the early rounds of the contest took the lead. He had the Australian whipped from the ninth round. It was acknowledged that Jeffries would have an immense advantage in weight, bight and age, but the thousands who tipped and backed his opponent to win were sure that he was slow and that he would in that respect be absolutely at the mercy of the pastmaster at the science of fighting that he was to meet. He proved, on the contrary, that he was just as fast as the man he met, and beat him down to unconscious defeat in a fair fight. He is a veritable giant in stature and marvelously speedy for his immense size. Less than a year ago he appeared in New York a great awkward, ungainly boy. Today he is the lithe, active, alert, trained athlete. The men who prepared him for his fight worked wonders with him. They taught him a nearly perfect defense, improved his foot movemeut and instructed him in the methods of inflicting punishment. The transition since he appeared last has been little short of miraculous. At 24 he has defeated Robert Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey arid Peter Jackson and, if he cares for himself, he will probably be able to successfully defend the title for many years. The defeated man was just as good as when on the crispy morning on the plains of far away Nevada, he lowered the colors of the then peerless Corbett. He was just as active, just as clever, just as tricky and just os fearless of

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punishment. He went unfalteringly to his defeat. He was the aggressor even at moments when he was bleeding and unsteady and when stunned by the blows he received he reeled instinctively toward his opponent. He was fighting all the time and punished his opponent, but found him a different opponent than any he had met and a difficult man to fight. Jeffries fought from a crouching attitude that was hard to get at. He held his head low, his back was bent down and his left arm was extended. He kept jabbing away’ with his left and found no trouble in lauding it. It was there that his superior reach told. That giant arm served as a sort of human fender to ward off danger. He showed an excellent defense and the ability to use both hands with skill. He is game, too; for he never shrank from his punishment. It was a great fight to watch, and commenced and ended amid scenes of intense excitement. It was all very dramatic. The men fought before a crowd of 9,000 persons, and stood up in a great beam of blinding white light. It was like 1,000 calciums and it showed their great white bodies in strange relief. When the blood came it was of a more intense red than usual. There was not a suggestion of interference from the police. Chief Devery occupied a seat by the ringside, but never entered the ring. When it was all over he sen' Cantain Kenny in to clear the ring. ROLLINGMILL COMBINE Vunderstood Marion (Ind.) Plant Is to Be Abandoned. Toledo, June 12. — The rollingmill trust has commenced a series of improvements here by the purchase of a tract of land near the mill. The price paid was £25,000. The plant will probably be increased. The superintendent has returned from Marion, Ind., and it is understood that the plant at that place is to be abandoned soon. ADMIRAL DEWEY Has Arrived at Singapore Improved In Health. Singapore, June 12. — The United States cruiser Olympia with Admiral Dewey on board arrived here yesterday from Hong-Kong. Admiral Dewey’s health continues to improve. The Olympia will probably leave Singapore on June 16. Wilmington Has a Broken Shaft. Washington, June 13. —Advices to the navy department announce the Wilmington has put into port at Rio to undergo repairs to a shaft. Authority has been cabled to remain in port 15 days. Officials here do not regard the accident as serious. The British income tax was first imposed by Sir Robert Peel in 1841, when it was fixed at fivepence in the pound. Four thousand pounds of dates have been gathered frem a single palm.

THE BETHEL FLAG. How “Bully” Hayes V«ed It as an Emblem of Piracy. Two sets of missionary initials divide the Pacific ocean north and south. Along about the line, in the Gilbert and the Marshall islands and in the Carolines before the Spaniards took charge, everything belongs to the A. B. C. F. M., "which is American, and maintains the Morning Star as the mission vessel. South of the line the initials are L. M. S., and the fast steamer yacht John Williams is the moral commerce destroyer of the London Missionary society, which has entered into a friendly division of heathen territory with the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. This is a true story of the Bethel flag of the London missions, one of the best known ensigns in the south seas, and always trusted by even the wildest natives, who have learned to recognize the blue flag with the white palm leaves and initials. The present John Williams, the steamer, is the third vessel to bear the name of the martyred pioneer of the gospel in those waters. The first John Williams was a brig which ended a long career of usefulness by being wrecked on a reef at Niue, the Savage island of the charts. After her crew had landed all her cargo and stores among the friendly natives the vessel was put up at underwriters’ sale by the British consul at Apia, with the stipulation that the name John Williams should not be used if the wreck were salved. For a small sum the wreck became the property of William G. Hayes, an American, who added a decided spice to south sea life in the seventies, and who has not escaped fame under his common and well earned designation of “Bully Hayes the Pirate. ” Being one of the most accomplished of seamen, he found no great difficulty in hauling the wreck to the reef and patching the holes in her bottom. Changing her name to Lenore, he sailed her into Apia. The mission authorities were shocked to see flying at the fore their familiar flag. “Bully” Hayes refused to surrender it. He claimed it as part of his property, since he had bought the wreck as she stood, and this flag had been found aboard. When the limited legal machinery of the time and place was set in operation against him, he nailed the mission flag to the mast and swore that it should never be hauled down. It never was. His first use of the emblem of peace was to rnn up to one of the islands to the northward. There the people flocked aboard as soon as they saw the familiar vessel with the well known flag. They staid aboard permanently, under grated hatches, for “Bully” Hayes said he was not responsible if they conld not rfad the brig’s name. That was only the first cargo of slaves which found its way to the plantations, where few questions were then asked which might interfere with the labor trade.

The missionary people were frantic at this desecration of their flag. But before tbe wind had worn it to rags the Lenore had made a piratical repntation sadly out of keeping with the pious profession displayed at its fore.—New York Tribune. A Fugitive With a Fortune. W. H. Bridgens, who died the other day, was in 1864 a messenger for the Holiday Express, running from Leavenworth to Santa Fe. On one of his trips he had £IOO.OOO in greenbacks strapped about his person and secreted in his clothes. There was no one but him and the driver in charge of tbe coach, and for days they proceeded along their lonesome journey without seeing a human face. When yet many miles from Santa Fe they were overtaken by a howling band of Indians and a fierce battle was fought. Bridgens and bis companion exhausted their ammunition and continued the fight with their knives. Finally they succeeded in unloosening their horses from the stage, and. quickly mounting them, fled through the timber. The savages gave chase and succeeded in separating the two men. but did not capture either of them. Mr. Bridgens still retained his treasure, but he lust his way among the crags and canyons, and it was more than two weeks before he found his way to the house of a white man. During all this time be subsisted entirely upon berries and herbs. His long absence caused his employers to believe that he had been robbed and killed by the Indians, and before Lis return they had made good the money they bad given up as lost. When Mr. Bridgens returned with his precious burden still intact they were amazed, and so grateful were they that they presented their young agent with a handsome token of their appreciation. —Kansas City Journal Then and Now. “Twenty-five years ago,” said the Kansas City Journal, “a Russian lad of 16 years arrived in Hays City, Kan., direct from the river Volga. He was dressed in a sheepskin coat, and his first act on stepping from the train was to light his pipe with flint and steeL Last week Hays City inaugurated a fine electric light system, of which this Russian lad is the sole proprietor.” An Added Barden. “So!” exclaimed the Ohio judge scornfully. “You are the kind of man who would try to get a divorce from your wife simply because she had an artificial optic!” “It wasn’t simply that, your honor,” said the man defiantly. “She made life a burden to me asking me if her eye was in straight. ” —Washington Star. Extreme Cantion. “This isn’t very good, ” remarked the naval officer, as he ruefully gazed at the restaurant table.

“Why don’t yon complain?” “I don’t dare say a word against it. It’s a German pancake.’’—Washington Star.

Wot Raised In Florida. Among the interior decorations of a i restaurant not many squares from city hall are a number of artificial palms. The palms are as natural in appearance as if they had been grown instead of manufactured and probably not one person in a dozen among the restaurant’s patrons is aware of their artificial character. An afternoon or two ago an elderly couple, evidently from the rural districts, came into the restaurant and took a seat. They gave their order and then began to look around. (> “That’s a handsome palm, Henry! exclaimed the woman, pointing to the : largest specimen. “I wonder if it grew 1 that big in here?” “Os course it didn’t,” replied the man, with a look of superior wisdom. “It was raised down in Floridy. That's where they all gow, and then they are shipped up here.” Just then one of the restaurant’s attaches approached the palm with a dampcloth in his hand. Taking hold of one of the leaves he yanked it from the stem and began to rub it vigorously with the cloth. When he had cleaned the leaf to his satisfaction, he replaced it and pulled another. By this time “Henry’s” face was a study, as was also that of his companion. “I guess that plant didn’t grow in Floridy, after all,” the woman managed to whisper. “What do you guess. Henry ?” And “Henry” allowed that he guessed the same thing.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Joke on the Major. The major, just returned from Boston, tells in strict confidence this story: “I had engaged my berth and was standing on the rear platform five minutes before the train pulled out of the Park square depot, when a middle aged woman and a handsome girl, both ladies, passed me and entered the car, accompanied by a gentlemanly looking chap who carried their baggage. A moment later this fellow rushed up to me and said he was in a most embarrassing position, had his sister and mother aboard and had lost his mileage book. He would introduce me to them and give me any security for £25. I said I needed neither introduction nor security, but would give him £10 —all I had to spare. He insisted on giving me his diamond scarfpin, and then rushed into the station to see if he could get more cash. As the train pulled out without him he came running wildly after it, but had to give it up. “Then the porter approached me tentatively. ‘Was that man annoying you?’ he said. I told him no. ‘He insisted on carrying the baggage of two ladies inside, sab. an —an—did he get any money out of you ?’ “ ‘Of course he didn’t,’ said I, but I took the first opportunity of examining that pin. It was worth about five cents. ” —Buffalo News. Too Honest to Ever Grow Rich. Emerson keeps a grocery store on Grand avenue, opposite the limekilns, west of Western avenue. As all his customers are either Greeks or Italians, he keeps a stock on hand somewhat different from other grocers. One day a drummer strayed into the store. Emerson was waiting on an Italian woman, while her 4-year-old son was stealing sugar out of a barrel. Eggs were 18 cents a dozen. The woman wanted only one egg. The solitary prospective chicken was wrapped up. “Two cents, please,” said Emerson. She paid and received a small slip of yellow paper. “W’hat was that slip you gave her?” asked the drummer, after she left. “H’m, you see, eggs are 18 cents a dozen. That makes 1 cents for each egg. The woman would not pay a half cent too much, and. as I did not want to sell the egg for 1 cent, she paid 2 cents and I gave her the slip good for one-half cent. Thus sire will get the next egg for 1 cent if she brings tbe slip. ” —Chicago Journal. Has Any One Seen Iler? Supposing your wife should run off with a handsomer man and you were called upon to give her description to the police—do you think you could do it any better than was done by a Coffeyville man who communicated as follows with the officers at Wichita: My wife left here last night at 10:30 on the Missouri Pacific railroad, and she wore a white straw bat and a black dress, but she has got a lot of other dresses with her. They are green, plush, striped and two silk waists, one is red and the other is pink. She is with a fellow named A. M. W., a traveling man for some binder company, and if you find them I wish you would hold them and put them both un der arrest and wire me at once and Iwill come on first train. Do all you can and you will be paid for it. lam yours, E. S. P. S.—Excuse poor writing. She is a small like woman, weighing about 120 pounds and r fair looker. — Kansas City Journal. Helping a Tartar. A singular custom prevails among the Tartars or Kurds. If a man gets in t< difficulties—i. e., loses his cattle or other movable property—he pours e little brown sugar into a piece of colored cloth, ties it up and carries one such parcel to each of his friends and acquaintances. In return be is presented. according to circumstances, with a cow, or sheep, or a sum of mon ey. He is thus at once set on his legs again.

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