Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1900 — Page 6

THE DEMOCRAT ■VIRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW (1. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. fl.oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. DEC. 20. We wish our readers a merry Clristmas. Cuban itch is another blessing contracted in our new colonial possessions, that should not be overlooked. Kokomo is already in the throes of a postoffice fight that is hotter than hades, with no favorable indications of abating. Even Indiana can furnish a few lynching bees in order that Governor Mount may have the opportunity to air himself. Republican legislators in this congressional district have held a conference and decided to stand by the Hon. John A. Bonham, for speaker. This makes seven of the one hundred solid. Senator Hanna is getting alarmed about the ship subsidy bill, which he said at the beginning of the session he would get through the senate before the holidav recess. He has changed his mind. We call the 1 attention of the W. C. T. I. to the fact that special praise is due to President McKinley, for his patriotic displav favoring the brewing interests of the country, in saving them $10,000,000 a year in the reduction of the war taxes. The gravel road bond sale for the new macadam roads in this county, is booked for the auditor's office January 7. Here is an opportunity for those having on hands an extra supply of prosperity, to get action. The sale is for the Monroe township roads. Although the army reorganization bill has not yet been’ reported from the senate committee? on military affairs. and is not likely to be until after the Christmas recess.’ which will be from Dec. 21 until January 3. the republicans are already swooping down on Mr. McKinley with demands of promises of appointments that will be made when the bill becomes a law. and it is said that some republican .M*nators have intimated to him that they will not allow the bill to go through unless their demands for pap are met. The failure of the state to score a conviction in the Bolds embezzlement case, was certainly no fault of David E. Smith, who had charge of the case for the state, and who waged a vigor | ous and telling prosecution. During the trial of the case he fully met the expectation of his friends and ad- 1 mirers and demonstrated beyond any I doubt his qualifications as a lawyer of ability, and before whom stands a future that is bright with promises of success and honor. In this he is' certainly especially favored, and having the natural ability he is destined to some day occupy a very enviable position in the profession of law.

| The Most Impressive Thing j | That we can say about our HOLIDAY LINE is d ® that it is complete withe everything that is useful ® I’- for MAN, BOY and CHILD. We have an elegant i si assortment ofNeckties in Terks, Puffs, Four-in-hands. I | Bows and Bat Wings. Oxford and Folding Muffles, g || Smoking Jackets-a large assortment of samples. The f q famous Longley and Royal Hats. Dress Suit Cases I Club Bags. Staley’s world renowned Wool Under- I U wear and Overshirts. The H. &P. Gloves and MitH tens. And do not forget our Suits and Overcoats | Look to us for the right things in p Clothing and Furnishings. » 0 Pete Holthouse & Co. H

Governor-elect Durbin is wisely refraining from participating in the exciting contest of the speakership. He holds that it is not his business to dictate who shall fill that position or even to use his influence for the furtherance of anybody’s interests. He is also maintaining a disen’it silence con - i corning the appointments which will be at his disposal. Whenever he is approached by newspaper reporters or others who seek information concerning these matters, be simply tells them that he is not governor yet and until be formerlly assumes the duties of that office he has no offices to fill. The policy which he has thus chosen to pursue augers well for the success of his administration. South Bend Times. Senator Allen of Nebraska, has proposed an amendment to the ship subsidy bill, authorizing payment of Ixiunties on agricultural products exported. The amounts named lieing ten cents a bushel on wheat, fifty cents a barrel on wheat flour, ten cents a bushel on rye, fifty cents a barrel on rye flour, five cents a bushel on corn, seven cents per cental on ground corn, one cent a pound on cotton, two cents a pound on hops, and two cents a pound on toliacco. There is, of course no probability that Senator Alien’s amendment will be adopted; but he, and many others, ragaid the proposition as on the same footing with the object aimed at by ‘he ship subsidy bill, as far as principle is concerned, and being a much better way to give away public money, because it would be more widely distributed just what Hanna does not want. Senator George A. Osborn, of Grant, Blackford and Wells counties, has almost completed his plan for reapportioning the state for congressional purposes. His bill will provide for the removal of Johnson county from the Seventh district and its I annexation either to the Fourth or Sixth. Warren countv is taken from the Tenth and put in the Ninth: Lawrence county will be taken from the Second and put into the Third or Fourth: Monroe from the Second and put in the Fourth; Dubois will lie taken from the Second too andput in the Third: Wells will be transferred from the Eighth to the Eleventh and Howard from the Eleventh to the Ninth; Randolph from the Eighth to the Sixth; Elkhart from the Thirteenth to the Twelfth and Whitley from the Twelfth to the Thirteenth.

No administration has ever received a more humiliating defeat at the hands of a senate controlled by a majority of its own party, than has been ad’ ministered to the present one by the amendment added to the HayPauncetote treaty within the last fewdays. Instead of cringing to England as the treaty, as originally drawn by Lord Pauucefote. and accepted bv Secretary Hay and Mr. McKinley, did. and begging the consent of Eng land and other European powes to our constructing the Nicaragua canal with our own money and then giving to all other countries equal ; rights therein with us. the amended treaty serves notice on England that j the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is thereby , abrogated; that we are going to dig the canal and control and protect it in our own way and without asking the consent of any other power in the I world. In short, when the senate ratifies that treaty it will be a thoroughly American document, as the public sentiment of the country has from the first demanded that it should ' lie.

A STANDING ARMY. We have a standing army. The volunteer service occurs when men are called to volunteer their services for some short period in an emergency. They go to the volunteer service from every avocation and when the period of service is past return to the forge or to the farm, to counter or to the court room, the occupations they laid aside to render a short service in time of danger. With the standing army it is not so. Tbe usual term of service is five years. All the officers are men educated and trained at schools and academies established for that especial purpose; or officers of the volunteer service transferred to the regular service on account of merit as commanding officers and merit well known from experience in the field. These are all professional soldiers. They have no other business or occupation. True the officer may write, and enter into other business engagements but these side employments are transient, temporary and to occupy such leisure as his duties may leave at his disposal, but “the art of war" like law is a “jealous mistress and will tolerate no rival.’’ If he would rise in command he must devote himself to his profession. With the soldier in the ranks of the regular army the case is the same. He generally enlists for five years and when theterm of five years is out, for five years more and is often rewarded with promotion from the ranks. If he has served ten years in the regular army the best part of his life is passed and he sometimes leaves it and goes into other professions or business but it is uot the usual course. He is a soldier. In America the standard is high. In recruiting for the ranks great regard is had of the moral and mental, as well as the physical qualities. A high moral, mental and physical standard is fixed bv the army regulations and every soldier enlistwl into tbe regular army must come up to this standard. In America every barracks has its library and every company has its literature, some better, some worse, but libraries, literature and education are open to all when not on active service in the field. We are a nation of nearly eighty millions of people. The regular army will no doubt be increased to about i one hundred thousand men. There; are more than fifteen millions of legal voters of the United States. Yet the soldier of the regular army is a trained soldier and better, a well trained and educated soldier. What danger then can Ire taught to come of the regular army unless it be on discharge, when without occupation he seeks a living. His only profession is of arms, he knows no other and in time of peace when regiments are discharged, what will he do?

Macaulay, the historian, writing of armies in 1824, uses the following language: “It was believed, of old. that there were some devils easily raised but never to be laid; insomuch that if a magician called them up, he should be forced to find them alwavs some employment; for though they would do all his bidding yet, if he left them but one moment without some work of evil to perform, they would turn their chaws against himself. Such a fiend is an army. They who evoke it cannot dismiss it. They are at once its masters and its slaves. Let them not fail to find for them task a f ter task of blood and rapine. Let them not leave it for a moment in repose lest it tear them in pieces," and then the hlstoriou takes a view of the other side of the question, and uses this language: “An army is always a weapon dangerous to those

who use it, yet he who falls among thieves spares not to fire his musket for fear it may burst in his hand; nor must states refrain from defending themselves, lest their defenders should at last turn against them. Nevertheless against this danger, statesmen should carefully provide; and that they may do so, they should take especial care that neither the officers or the soldiers do forget fnat they are also citizens. The first argument against the army he attributes to the Poet Cowley and the last argument in favor of an army, he attributes to the Poet John Milton, but of coursewe know it is all of it the voice of Macauley whois speaking. But Maeaulav did not know in 1824 when lie wrote the essay, of the Amer ican army, and it may well be doubted if there is any other like it. or in any way approaching it. In proportion to the great body of citizens it is small, compact, strong, mentally, morally, physically. In every sense of the wort! is. and intended to be, the most superior military body in proportion to numbers ever organized for military purposes. In short, a small but great force, of which great services may at any moment lie de manded, expec ting and ready at any moment to render them for the republic, ready for the government services at any call and at all times. In every war in which this government has been engaged since tne organization of the regular army, whenever and wherever engaged, that branch of the service has been the staff on which it leaned and it never yet failed in its duty. The volunteer I forces are always ready toepmeat any I call of patriotism. The same spirit inspires the one which inspires the other and the regular soldier is in a true sense a volunteer. He chooses the regular service in the army of his own free choice. He volunteers in that service because he wishes to. not because he i« allotted, or drawn, or owes service. It is the service a man gives voluntarily to his country and liberty. The regular soldier is a citizen, and has all the rights of citizenship and all its responsibilities. He is identified. He is one with his country. His country’s shame is his shame. His country's glory is his glory. He must be an American citizen, native or naturalized. He is identified with the great republic of which he is a part and for which he is willing to work, fight or die. My flag and my country, it is sometimes on his lips, always in his heart. In time of peace he will take his discharge or marks time. He is always willing to go to the front and he knows how to “stand and wait." Whoever distrusts his patriotism does him an injustice. The American soldier is a patriot, whether regular or volunteer, they" both stand in the same relation to the great republic

“its defeat is their defeat." They feel it. Its victories are their victories. They rejoice. Thank God they are many. On a thousand, yes a thousand battlefields, the American soldier shed his blood and laid down his life moved by the love of country and its flag. Who then shall doubt or question his patriotism in time of peace when there is no war if that time ever comes. MuOwen. The county commissioners show their enterprise in again attempting the contracting of county infirmary buildings, which are so badly needed at tbe county farm. This is the third attempt, and certainly no one ever heard of a failure under such perseverance.

TOLD IX HIS DREAMS. PECULIAR VISION OF A RANCHER ON A NEW MEXICO PRAIRIE. His Partner Appeared to Him Daring Sleep and Informed Him of the Fearful l«te That He Had Met at the Hand* of the Indian®. “No, I can't say I go much on stiperi stition and that sort of thing, but 1 d like some of these wise chaps to explain a little incident that happened to me down in the I’ecos valley, iu New Mexico, a few years ago." Grizzled Dob Morrow, veteran eowI boy. ranchman, globe trotter and philosopher. took another pull at his cigar i as he sat comfortably in his seat iu tbe I hotel lobby. A thoughtful look came . over his face, and his companions at the table awaited in silence his further utterances. After a pause Bob continued: “We were ‘sign' riding, Lee Wells and 1. Know what ‘sign' riding is? An imaginary line is drawn on the | prairie. Two men. one stationed at each end. ride toward each other at a given hour. Any cattle that have I crossed that line are rounded up and f driven back. The idea is to keep the I eattle together as much as possible during the winter. “Our line was about ten miles long. Lee and I used to meet half way every day. and if no cattle had crossed we d sit down and smoke and chat a bit. Sometimes we d visit each other s ’dobe and generally churn together as far as men can when ten miles apart. We each had six horses, the pick of the herd, and mighty proud we were, too, ! of ’em. “ ’Bout that time the Indians were rather troublesome. They generally went in small bands, and occasionally the loss of a bunch of horses would be reported by ranchmen tbereatxmt. Lee 1 and I didn't fear 'em much. They carried only bows and arrows, and if it came to a chase our horses eould easily outrun theirs. The greatest danger we had to fear was the loss of our horses. “Lee and I had talked frequently about the Indians, and both were of the same mind—ls attacked, kill the horses rather than let the marauding thieves get 'em. “I left I-ee at tbe half way mark, as ueual. one day, got back to my 'dobe and after eating dinner turned in. I hadn't been asleep very long when I was awakened by a sort of feeling that there was somebody in tbe room. I groped under the pillow for uiy gun. turning over as I did so. and there in the doorway stood Lee Wells. The feathered shafts of six arrows were sticking from his breast, and his face in the moonlight looked drawn and ghastly. There was a smile of satisfaction on his face, though, as he said quietly: “ ’Well, they got me. Bob, but they didn't get the horses ' "I was out of l»ed in an instant. The minute my feet touched the floor Lee vanished. The door was shut and locked just as 1 left it when 1 went to bed. Pondering over the realistic ‘dreAn.’ or whatever it was. I turned in again, but it was a long time before I got to sleep again. "A second time I was awakened by the same vision. There stood Ix-e in the doorway, and again he pointed to the arrow shafts and said: “ 'They got me. Bob. but they didn't get tlie horses.’ “No more sleep for me that night. I looked around the 'dobe, thinking perhaps Lee '»as playing me a trick. I went out to the corral. The horses were all right, and there were no signs of anybody having l»een around. I sat up and smoked and thought a whole lot until daybreak:/hen I mounted and set off for the half way mark. Lee wasn't there, and there was no sign of his coming, so I rode on to his dobe. “There, at the gate of the corral, was Lee's body, with six arrows in his chest, just as I bad seen them In the vision. Inside the corral lay the bodies of his horses, all killed with bullets. "It was plain to me that, seeing the Indians coming. Lee had deliberately killed the horses before turning his attention to the thieves. Judging from the hoof prints, there must have been about 20 Indians in the bunch. Lee must have damaged them some before he fell, judging from the cartridge shells lying around. They took his Winchester, of course, and looted the 'dobe. They didn't get much for their trouble, though. "But what I want to know is was that a dream or did Lis- Wells really appear before me In some sort of form ?" His hearers could not explain.—New York Mail and Express. ( harmed the Reaat. “Look at this handkerchief.” said a young society man to his professional friend who has an office In the Porter building. t'Thnt bit of lace and ruffle Is worth Its weight In gold to me.” "Some connection with old associations—a mere sentiment, I suppose," suggested tbe professional man. "Nothing of the kind. From a practical standpoint it Is just as valuable as I describe It to be. A sentiment enters into the case, however." "Well, tell us about It." "The handkerchief, then, is tbe token by which I am permitted to enter the house where my sweetheart Uvea. Without it I should be torn to pieces by a huge bulldog there. The beast Is as ferocious as a tiger. During tbe day he Is kept In chains, but after 7 o'clock In tbe evening bls mistress releases him In tbe yard. No stranger after that hour can enter the gate. The terrible animal was a menace to my suit until the lady lilt upon the plan of giving roe her handkerchief for use as a pass. New when tbe dog rushes toward me I have only to toss the dainty token to him. He smells It and walks peacefully back to his kennel. Do you blame me for valuing It so highly?”—

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The Pleannre« of Old Irc. No sane man would like to live hli life over again. It is astonishing how the ordinary affairs of life seem to adapt themselves to your added years, i One's pleasures are quieter, but quite as enjoyable. To live in the lives of your children, to watch their progress, the development of their minds, Is one great source of [Measure. Then one has music, reading, gardening, etc. May I also add that 1 took the advice of an old friend some years ago who said the two thftlgs most likely to give pleasure in declining life were to learn whist and to play the violoncello?-A Mau of Sixty In Spectator. The Coat of Cwttlu# an Old VtlM. In the state department at Washington Is the most comprehensive and complete set of atlases and maps to be found anywhere in tills country. As can be readily appreciated, they are vitally necessary to the^ carrying on of the department, and therefore neither trouble nor expense is s[>ared in Wiling them constantly up to date. It would be supposed that their t xtreme value and Importance would be patent to every one. Some years ago. however, one of the most valuable atlases was found with two of the maps cut out The maps had not been abstracted. They had simply been detached from the binding. Investigation proved the mutilation to t>e the work of a certain elerk, who on lieiug hauled up by his superior , explained why he bad done it ns fol--1 lows: “Those books are terribly heavy and I hard to handle, and so I cut the maps I out In order to get at them easier. The i atlases were very old. and I didn't suppose they were of any value or that any one w ould care.” To the state department an atlas Is like a bottle of wine to a Judge of flu l ' drinks-its value Increases in direct ratio with its age. It was felt in the department that that particular clerk had mistaken bls calling in life, nnd to him was accordingly given an opportunity to pursue another one.—New York I Tribune. Care For Inoomnla. I suppose all of us are suffering front i the invasion of electricity. My old friend Bounce, who was a victim of InI somnla for 40 years, thinks he sleeps 1 now better than any other man on earth. He lost his way in the Adirondack* and staid overnight In the cabin of a forester. His sleep was the deep sleep of a Just man made perfect, and In the morning he found that be ba not moved half an Inch all night. “It’s the Insulation." the forester Insisted. "You city folks are killin yourselves with contact. If you'll br in the contact you’ll be able to sleep am get your nerves back.” This matter of “contact" was finally explained to mean that our bedpo* l are In contact with the floors, t>< floors with the walls and the waiu with mother earth, so that whatey personal magnetism a man has iu goes away In the nighttime, leavli' him like a log on his mattress. » forester had obtained four glm"' ins lators from telegraph poles somewbe and screwed them on the posts of guest bed. so that the electricity not run away. Bounce the very MW D ' got home insulated his bed, and that moment to the present his loan nla has been banished. - New 5 Press.