Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1899 — Page 6

BISHOP J.M.THOBVRN MISSIONARY FROM INDIA TALKS OF PHILIPPINES. No Doubt Filipinos Intended to Massacre Foreigners In Manila —Says United States Is Bound by Logic of Events to Assert Her Authority. Cincinnati, July 14.—Bishop J. M. Thoburu of the Methodist Episcopal church, who has spent 40 years as a missionary, mostly in India, is here with his family, some of whom are in ill health. The bishop spent some time in Manila in March last. He says there is no doubt that the outbreak between the Americans and Filipinos was intended by Filipino leaders to include a general massacre in the city of Manila. He cited in proof of this the testimony of two Filipino servants who were summoned to service in the army by Aguinaldo and who dared not disobey, but who warned their American employers to keep within doors that night, as orders had been given to kill all Europeans found on the streets. Another evidence was the finding of 5,000 new knives stored in a Catholic church. Only the splendid discipline of the American troops prevented the massacre in Manila. The bishop was in London when the thrilling news of Dewey’s victory came. It was universally understood there, he said, that it meant the permanent posession of the Philippines by rhe United States. To questions put to him why Dewey did not leave Manila after the victory, he said the short sightedness of the United States goverment made it impossible. Dewey had not coal enough to carry him to the nearest American coaling station, and he was bound to take Manila in selfdefeuse. The whole history of the present Philippine situation showed such a natural and logical and even inevitable course of events that the United States is bound to assert its authority there. Anarchy and assassination, he declares, would follow the withdrawal of the United States forces. Viewing the situation in the far east from the standpoint of a missionary of 40 years in that part of the world, the bishop was impressed wth the fact that it was the duty of the United States, forced upon it by the circumstances of the Spanish war, to hold the Phillippiues and to preserve order and extend civilized government in that vast region. Moreover, in the interest of morality and Christianity, he hoped for the dissolution of the Chinese empire, which he characterized as the most helpless government on the earth. In that event Russia should have a portion, giving it an available Pacific port. England, though favoring the integrity of the Chinese empire, already has in mind the valley of tlie Yank Tse Kiang as its share. The United States should have | its portion of the coast opposite the Philippines. S”oh a division of China would bring ! untold blessings to the people of that i empire and would advance the civilization of the whole world. If China falls to pieces, as nearly all I well informed people believe she will, it would be unwise, if not morally wrong, to concede that the European nations have a right to settle the destiny of that great empire without any reference to America. The United States must inevitably become the dominating naval power of the Pacific ocean, and if such a future is in store for her she certainly ought to hold an important section of the coast line of eastern Asia.

CAUSED DEATH Young Woman Dies From tbc Sting ot the Kissing Bug. Waterloo, la.. July 15.—Miss Mary Vaughn, a young woman of Cedar Fails, is dead from the effects of a bite on her lip from a bug of some kind. The bite ' is supposed to be from a kissing bug. the young woman having been bitten a week ago. Her tace and head swelled so a- to be unrecognizable. The swelling also affected the upper j>art of her body. Shot Himself Through the Heart. Minneapolis, July 17.—The identity ot the young man who shot himself through the heart at Lake Harriet Saturday was disclosed yesterday by Mrs. E. L. Hanna, who recognized the body as that of B. C. Hinnant, one of her boarders, and cashier of the construction department of the Northwestern Telephone company. Hinnant cauie from Texas two years ago. About six years ago he married a Miss Clark of Hillsboro. Tex., and it is said that family troubles drove him to suicide. The telephone company believes his accounts are all straight, but will make an investigation. Oilship Burned. Halifax, N. 8., July 18. —The Standard Oil company's tank steamer Maverick, from New York, with a cargo of oil, is sunk in the harbor. While pumping the oil to the tank on shore the pumping pipe burst and the oil ran into the engineroom setting fire to the vessel. She is a total wreck. The vessel was valued at $200,009 and was uninsured. Her cargo of oil was worth $30,000. General Warner’s Opinion. Milwaukee, Julv 18.—General A. J. W arner, president of the bimetallic league, who arrived in this city yesterday does not believe that the silver question will be the leading one in 1900. He says if the Philippine war is not ended by that time that the strife on the islands will be one of the leading issues of the campaign. Colonel A. B. Jones Dead. Anniston, Ala., July 15.—Colonel A. B. Jones of this city, L T uited States consul to Taxpan. Mexico, died at Taxpan yesterday. The nature of his illness is not known. The remains cannot be •hipped nome.

Economic Chn-rity. I had just seated myself at the table in the tearoom of a down town dry golds store the other day when a well dressed man came in with three little children, two girls and a boy. Noticing carelessly that the children were not dressed quite so well as the man who had charge of them, I wondered a little. I observed they took places near the table where I was seated. “Now be sure you all behave properly and eatenough,” the man said, “and don't talk.” Then he ordered all sorts of things for them, and very hungry they seemed, too, eating a most elaborate luncheon. while the man tasted nothing. Along about ice cream time I heard him say, “Sit qniet a minute, and I will comeback.” Then he slipped out in the crowd near the railing and went down the elevator. In a short time the head waiter came up to the table and asked anxiously of the happy trio: “When is your papa coming back?" “Oh. he isn’t our papa.” chorused the joyous three. “We don't know who he is. He just asked us when we were looking in the windows if we wanted a good dinner, and we said yes, and he said, ‘Come along, then.’ and brought us up here. " Then the children went down the elevator and the house charged something to the off side of the accounts.—Chicago Times-Herald. Her Great Need. “Tell him to wait. ” Mrs. Golddecker waved aside the maid, and, rising anxiously, looked out on upper Fifth avenue from the window of her just completed nineteenth century palace. She was wondering whether his man. for whom she had sent, possessed at last the one secret that could make her happy. She paused for a moment, nerving herself inwardly to encounter disappointment in case it should come, and then, in full control of herself, she prepared to descend. Leaving her boudoir, with its SIOO,OOO bedstead, she passed the diamond and sapphire inlaid bathroom, with its gold faucets glittering in the electric light, and, stepping into the cut glass elevator. was whirled rapidly downward tc the first floor. Stepping lightly over the $1,000,000 rug in the reception hall and brushing abstractedly against the $2,000,000 tapestries in the drawing room, she passed through a long passage into the waiting room in fte rear of ths house, where a tall, dignified foreigner stood up and bowed respectfully as she entered. “Can you make good bread?” she asked. —Criterion. Dig t'p the Dust. A Mississippi editor makes this appeal to delinquent subscribers: “Fish down into your pocket and dig up dust. The editcr is hungry and the paper ’bout to bust. We’ve trusted you for several months and done it with a smile, so just return the compliment and trust us for awhile. Our wife she needs some stockings, and baby needs a dress, Jimmy needs some breeches and so do Kate and Bess. Pud is on the hog train and Peggy sick with grief, and, good gcsh almighty, can't you give a man relief? Shell out those nickels and turn loose the dimes, turn ’em loose and whistle, and we’ll have better times. There will be fewer patches on the bosom of our pants, and we'll make the paper better if we have half a chance. Don’t give us that old story, long gene to seed, ’bout

taking more family papers than the family want to read, but help to feed the printer, and he'll help our town tc grow, and thns escape the sulphur in the regions down below. ” Tlte IriNh It sounds profane to ask whether our ancient tongue is worth preserving. Yes, it is, even as a spoken language, and so well worth preserving that if the effort be not made, and. with God’s blessing, made successfully, we should be held accountable for casting frem ns what is, in the natural order, apart from the national spirit, the noblest inheritance of our race. It is the misfortune of many good Irishmen to know nothing of the Irish language, however anxious about it, and, through an untoward history, it! is the way with many others to care I but little for its fate, because the invader has branded it as an inferior tongue. But it never happened that i any one competent to form an opinion who knew Irish did not esteem it as a I noble vehicle of human thought and; feeling.—Gael. A Little Misty. “The boy is taking quite an interest in music.” remarked the young man’s mother. “He has joined a musical society in his college." “What does he do?” “I can't quite make oot exactly. By some reports I should judge that he is I singing second tenor and by others that I he is playing third base.”—Washington Star. Another Sort. “Were there no extenuating circumstances connected with the case?” “No: ncthing but attenuated circumstances. ” “What do you mean by that?” “The defendant’s circumstances were ■ so reduced that he could not afford to engage a competent attorney. ”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. A Neighborhood Tragedy. “We bought a lawn mower at the Montague auction. ” “Well, that was all right, wasn’t I it?” “All right? Maria says it is our old one which they borrowed and never re- I turned."—Detroit Free Press. —— - I Cuwiuire Cueese owes its excellence pertly to geological causes, the red I sandstone and bowlder clay, with its immense salt deposits, of which the country is formed, producing a herbage peculiarly suited for cheese production

He Got the Name. As the manager of a large insurance company eat at his desk the representative of another company walked in. The caller was a man to be cultivated, but Mr. H. could not for the life of him think of his name, although he had met I him before. But the Chicago man was one of many resources. “I beg your pardon,” he said to his caller, after the first hasty greeting, “but if yon will excuse me for an instant I will send a message I have just started. It is on a matter of much importance.” “Certainly,” said the caller. “It’ll take just an instant, ” said Mr. H. as he turned to his desk and wrote hastily on a sheet of paper: “What is the name of the man I’m talking to '■ If you don’t know name, find out and answer at once by boy. H. ’ The business man addressed the message to bis chief clerk in the outer office and handed it to his office boy, saying: “Hurry and deliver this note. Archie; it is most important. ” Mr. H. busied himself with his papers, and in a few moments the boy returned with an answer. Hastily tearing open the envelope. Mr. H. read, “Jenkins. of the Insurance company.” Throwing aside the note, the Chicago man turned blandly to his caller. “Ah, that bit of business is off my mind now! In what way can I be of service to you, Mr. Jenkins'? It is a long time since we have been honored with a call from the Journal. How He Worked the Artist. This account of how an intimate; friend of the great artist Kyosai obtained one of the painter’s drawings is from Mrs. Hugh Frazer’s “Letters from Japan Kyosai always refused if asked out-1 right for a sketch. So his friend began ; the negotiation by offering the artist an excellent dinner. When Kyosai had drunk deeply and seemed in a mellow humor, his cost would call for drawing materials, saying that he felt an artistic fancy taking possession of him. No one was surprised, as Japanese gentlemen often amuse themselves in this way after a feast. The servant then brought an enormous sheet of white paper and spread it on the floor with the brushes and Indian ink beside it. The crafty host, without looking at; his guest, sank on his knees and began I to draw, apparently absorbed in his oc-1 cupation. but intentionally producing) few weak and incoherent lines. Kyosai watched the feeble effort in silence and growing irritation, and at last jumped up, dashed the tyro aside and tore the brush out of his hand, exclaiming; “Out of the way. you wretched bungler! I will teach you howtodraw!” And the result was a priceless sketch, which remained in the possession of the wiiy entertainer. — A Card Table Romance. Speaking of the mania of some society women for gambling, a story is told of an interesting card playing romance which was recently enacted in London: A very rich man sat playing ecarte with a pretty girl whom be intensely admired. She went on recklessly staking her money till ruin stared her in the face.

“Doubles or quits, ” said the tempter. She assented, knowing that she could never pay. She lost. "Yourself or quits,” said her opponent. Again the girl summoned all het wits and looked him straight in the face. “Are you proposing to marry me?” she asked. He nodded. He won the game, ?nd the pair made one of the happiest unions known in England at the present day.—Paris Herald. A Peculiar Plant. There is a strange wild plant in Guadeloupe called the “life plant.” If a leaf be broken off and pinned by the stem to the wall of a warm room, each of the angles between the curves of the leaf margin soon throws ont a number of very white tentacles, or roots, and soon a tiny new plant begins to sprout, and in the course of a week cr two attains a height of two or three inches. i When the old leaf shrivels, the new : plant is ent off and planted. When I carefully cultivated, the life plant pro ' duces curious red and yellow blossoms. While the plant is native only in a warm country, there is no doubt that I it could be successfully grown in any I greenhouse, and as a plant freak it certainly is as interesting as the everlasting plant of Mexico.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Papers That Should Be Encouraged. When you are convinced that a paper ■ is dishonest and deceitful, stop it. When convinced that it is unclean, stop it. When it lacks enterprise and fails ■ to give you the news, stop it. But don’t stop a paper that you believe to be honest. courageous, enterprising and clean, simply because its editor has written his own sincere views, instead of yours i or somebody else’s, for if you do you are putting a premium on insincere journalism and serving notice on an editor that the way to success is to write what be thinks will best please his readers, instead of what be honestly believes to be the truth.—Connersville (Ind.) Times. For Company. “You are so preoccupied sometimes,” said Mrs. Fourthly, “that I don’t feel safe in letting you go ont alone.” “That is to say. my dear,” replied the Rev. Dr. Fourthly, with his benevolent smile. “when my mind wanders, as it does occasionally, somebody ought to go along with it.” —Chicago Trib- ; une. A Contrary Person. "Cld Bill Gudgett. be was that contrary,” said the oldest inhabitant, | “that when spring come he pertended Ibe felt like workin!”—lndianapolis 1 Journal

Carpenter Shop Persiflage. The Carpenter had put down his tools and gone for his luncheon. , ••Life with me is a perfect bore.’ said the Auger. “I'm a little board myself,” said the Small Plank. t> “There’s no art in this country, observed the Screwdriver. “Everytbings’ screwed in ray eyes.' “You don't stick at anything long enough to know what you re driving at,” interjected the Glue. “That’s just it.’” said the Screw. “He never goes beneath the surface the way the Jack Plane and I do.” “Tut!” cried the Saw. “I go through things just as much as you do. Life s stuffed with sawdust.” “Regular grind,” said the Grindstone. “I agree with you.” observed the Bench. “It doesn't make any difference bow well I do my work, I’m always sat on. ” “Let’s strike,” said the Hammer. “That’s it!” cried the Auger. "You hit the nail on the head that time. ” “I'll hit it again, "retorted the Hammer. and he kept his word, but he hit the wrong nail. That is why the Carpenter now wears bis thumb in a bandage. It was bis thumb nail the Hammer struck. —Harper’s Bazar. The Doctor’s Servant. Calino. the French “Mrs. Partington.” does not amuse so much by the confusion of his words as by the quaintness and unintended plainness of his remarks. He entered the service of a well known doctor, who. after Calinc bad been buying hay for his horses for awhile, made up his mind that the hay was worthless. “That is very poor hay that you’ve been buying,” the doctor complained. “But the horses eat it. sir.” said Calino. “No matter. It’s bad hay.” “Y'es, sir.” said Calino respectfully. “I'll change it. I know you are a much better judge of hay than the horses are!” One day the bell rang, and Calinc came in.

“A patient has arrived, sir.” he reported. “An old patient or a new cue?" I asked the doctor. “New one. of course, sir," said Calino. “The old ones never come back!” Calino admired very much the beautiful teeth of a lady among his master's patients. “Ab!” he exclaimed. “Her teeth are as fresh and sound and white as a new born baby's!” Parson and Pheasant. There was a sort of Jack Russell parsen who was called in from bis shooting : one day to a christening, and with h.m came his factotum, who was both parish clerk and keeper. He put gun and bag down in the porch and commenced the service, but it was interrupted by a wild fluttering outside the open door, and one of the pheasants, which was not as dead as it ought to have been, rose np and flew hither and thither through the church with the noise and commotion of which only pheasants, and frightened pheasants, are capable. "Mark that cock, John.” said the parson in his usual sonorous voice, and then resumed the service. And here again I do not think one of the little party around the font saw the humor of the thing, and certainly John, who replied “Yes. sir,” with as much propriety and dignity as he had just been responding "Amen. ” saw nothing incongruous or unbefitting in the scene. —Longman's. Couldn't Be Divided. In Felix Moscheles’ “Fragments of an Autobiography” occurs the following: Mme. Schumann was wanted to play at a little musical reunion, but she did not respond. Mr. Moscheles was deputed to approach her. “Was she inclined to play?" "Particularly disinclined,” was the discouraging response. The envoy mentioned her husband's “Carnaval. ” “One part I particularly love, the ‘March of the Davidsbundler.’ If I coull only hear you play jnst that page cr two!" This roused her. "Page or two indeed!” she cried. “Wenn man de‘Carnaval’ spielt, spielt man ihn ganz." (When one plays the “Carnaval,” one must play it all.) And she played the whole. The Meanest Man. A mean man on the south side agreed early in the week to meet a girl at luncheon down tv.wn last Saturday, and after luncheon they were going to the matinee. The girl kept her part of the contract. She wore a new silk waist and a new bonnet, and was in the lunchroom as the clock struck 1. After she had waited about five minutes there came a note from the mean man. It said; “The inclosed cards will show you why I can't keep my engagement.” The “inclosed cards” announced that he had been married to a chum of hers that morning.—Chicago Inter Ocean. An Awknard Mlitake. “Briggs is dreadfully nearsighted. You know that hat his wife wears with ! all those black plumes in it?” "Yes, I’ve seen it." “Well, Briggs thought it was the head of a feather duster, and he tied it to his cane and brushed a lot of spider webs from the porch ceiling before his wife caught him at it’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. When either branch of congress is in i session after nightfall, a huge light gleams from the tqp of the great dome over the capital. For many years it has been the custom to burn this light on the occasion of a night session of congress. Argentina, now the Argentine Republic, owes its name to the silvery reflection of ite rivers.

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