Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1895 — Page 8

KEEP A MERRY HEART. No use to vbine and worry 'Cause tiie .-sun don't shine to-day. No use to fume an’ flurry ’Cause shadows cloud the way. The skies will surely brighten. The shadows all depart Jes go on straight an learn to wait L An keep a merry heart There is no use o’ growliu : It costs no mere to smile Tho’ winter's storms art bowlin’ Spring ’ll be here after while. There is no use o' kickin' Jes' go on with your part. Be stanch an' true in all you do An’ keep a merry heart. There i» no use o’ wearin’ A melancholy air. The world is not a-carin’ Your grief an’ woe to sbvre. Altho’ some grievous sorrow Should cause a tear tu start,* Jes’ let good cheer drive back the tear An keep a merry heart. William West, in Chicago Keeord. OLD NEWSPAPERS. BY GEORGE A. ROBERTSON. Thera has been such a complete revolution in the manner of conducting newspapers and in the character of their contents within the past few decades that it is now almost impossible to understand the power that was exerted by Horace Greeley and other great editors in the days just preceding the great civil war and during that struggle. The of au ingenious German chemist that fairly good print paper can be made from wood pulp, the introduction of type-setting machines, and the improvements of the wonderful web presses of the pres ent time, have completely transformed the mechanical departments of all the leading newspapers, and made it possible to issue papers of maximidi size at a minimum of cost. Ben Perley Poore, the long time famous Washington correspondent, told me a short time before his death that when he first went to Washington in 1855 be was absolutely limited to ten words per day by telegraph. The remainder of his report was sent by mail; the publishers of that newspaper and its readers being perfectly content to wait a day or two lor their news. The price of telegraphing nt that time between Washington and Boston was ten cents per word. To-day the leading dailies receive, during the sessions of congress, ten and twelve thousand words a day. They are members of one or the other of the great newsgathering associations that cover the entire globe, and send over their special wires from fifty to eighty thousand words per day. The telegraph outstrips the sun, and often the people are reading in their afternoon papers of things that happened in Europe at au hour earlier than that at which the paper went to press. All these conditions of the present are so different from those that prevailed in 1833, when Horace Greeley and Francis Story started the penny Morning Post in Philadelphia, that there is almost nothing in common between the two. In the first and most important particular the newspaper was not then a necessity of everyday life. It was simply called a news- | paper out of courtesy. It contained very little of whut is now understood | as news. It was more the reflection of the editor’s opinions, and people then, ! as now, could live without opinions. If the editor was brilliant and could write interestingly the paper usually succeeded. If he wa*> dull and stupid the paper was short-lived. The attempt of Story and Greeley to puolisa the Morning Post at one cent per ' day was a dismal failure. It now seems almost unaccountable that the publication of that insignificant weekly sheet, the Log Cabin, in 1840, by Mr. Greeley, In New York, should have brought him into national prominence. But the brilliancy of the editorials and the unique way in which national matters were presented made | in that day and generation a profound impression, and Mr. Greeley was almost immediately brought into national renown. His counsel was sought, and he was in several important mat- ! ters able to adjust differences between the great whig leaders. Capt. C. E. Henry, who figured prominently in politics for many years, aud , who was at the time of President Garfield’s death marshal of the District of Columbia, knew Mr. Greeley well, and is an admirer of his genius. In a recent conversation with the captain he related numerous incidents and characteristics of the editor that are entity new or forgotten by those of th« present day who read newspapers. These points give a good and satisfactory key to the character and power of the great editor. •‘Greeley had away of meeting an opponent that was practically unanswerable,” said the captain. ”1 remember that a certain editor in New York for whom he had great contempt was continually pitching into him and trying to draw him iato discussion. Greeley stood it until he thought it was about time to reply and finally printed the following editorial paragraph. ‘lf the editor who wears mourning under his fingernails for his departed veracity, will surprise his system with a bath, we will attempt a clean discussion with him.’ “Ibis of course ended the slurs and insinuations that had up till that time been very frequent fn the opposition sheet” One of the most remarkable instances of Greeley's repartee was in a contest with James Watson Webb, the editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer, a rival whig paper. Webb had been in the army and was quite fiery in disposition. He had fought a duel with Thomas F. Marshall, of Kentucky, in June, 1842, in which he was severely wounded. When indicted for dueling he pleaded guilty, having had an understanding that the offense would be considered a technical one, and that Gov. Seward would pardon him. He was. accordingly, found guilty and pardoned. Some years after, when in a discus-

sion with Greeley, Webb, who was a fine dresser, had occasion to refer to Mr. Greeley's slovenly appearance and remarked that he attracted a great deal of attention when walking on Broadway. Mr. Greely’s reply was as follows: ‘The *Courier and Enquirer’ says that the dress of the editor of this paper attracts a great deal of attention when he walks along Broadway. In reply we wish to say that had it not been for the executive clemency of Gov. Seward, the clothes worn by James Watson Webb would attract a great deal more attention if worn on Broadway.” There was no further discussion of the question of clothes for some time to come in the columns of the Courier and Enquirer. The famous political partnership, consisting of Thurlow Weed, William H. Seward and Horace Greeley, dated from the time Greeley first came to New York, and Weed and Seward recognized that he was going to be a very important element in forming politii cal sentiment. Fcr a number of years this partnership controlled the politics of the Empire state, fixing the persons who were to hold office and formulating political platforms. Greeley’s editorial and political rival was Henry J. Raymond, who was nine years younger, and who came to New York thoroughly equipped to take a very important part in all that was going on. He was employed by Greeley as an assistant editor in 1841, but two years later went to the Courier and Enquirer and held an editorial position there till 1851, when he founded the Times, of which sheet he was editor till his death in 1868. Greeley bad often professed that he did not desire to hold office, and Weed and Seward had come to regard these professions as sincere. They, tnerefore, usually made up their slates without giving any place upon the ticket to him. In 1854, however, Mr. Greeley had decided that he would like to stand for lieutenant governor. He had as yet not made his desires known to Weed and Seward, and they accordingly proceeded to make up their ticket, and selected Raymond for this office. This was driving the iron into Greeley’s soul. He would not have cared so much to have been turned down himself if some one besides bis hated young rival, Raymond, had been selected. He was too good a party man, however, to make any public outcry or to bolt the ticket. He went on till the close of the campaign doing the best he could for the whig party, and then, on the night of election, sent that famous historic letter to Gov. Seward, which read as follows: “At this hour (midnight) sufficient returns are in to show th.t the entire stat»: ticket is elected. 1 take this occasion to serve notice that the partnership hitherto existing of Seward, Wee t and Greeley is hereby dissolved by the withdrawal of the junior member therei from. H.G.”

During the next ten years Greeley did not hold any political office and did his most effective newspaper work, lie was very active in opposing all the schemes and ambitions of his former political partners. In 18S0 he went to the republican national convention, and while the New York delegation was a unit for Seward for the nresidenry, he was the most effective single factor in defeating Sexvard and in securing the nomination of Lincoln. His familiar old white coat was seen moving about everywhere among the delegates working to undo his former political partner. The members of the New York delegation were some of them so much ex asperated at his action that they were disposed to assault him. His face was covered with smiles and he xvas delighted at the result He felt perfectly content to take the taunts that xvere hurled at him of oeing a traitor to his state. In the subsequent struggle there was a great deal said about there being a certain letter that, explained a great deal of Mr. Greeley's political animus. Finally, when enough had been said to create a high degree of interest in the contents of the letter, Mr, Greeley himself printed it and so stopped the discussion and made a ten stroke thereby. Mr. Greeley was very generous if approached in the proper way aud when he was in the proper mood. He took a great interest in bettering the condition of those whom he could and xvith this end in view was greatly inter* ested in securing emigration to the west. It was well understood by those connected with him that when Mr. Greeley was in the midst of his writing he was not to be disturbed by anyone, and that if he was interrupted he became very irritable. Fexv would risk disturbing him, therefore, while he was in the midst of his thought, A certain very stylish colored inaa in xvhom Mr. Greeley had manifested considerable interest had been in several times to talk with him. Knowing where Mr. Greeley’s private office was, he walked in one day without announcing himself. Mr. Greeley was busily engaged in writing, and with his face close to his desk did not look up. The visitor took his place close to the great editor's elbow aud waited several minutes for him to look up aud recognize him. Mr. Greeley kept on writing. Finally the man said: “1 called, Mr. Greeley, to talk with you about that matter we were speaking about.” Mr. Greeley only wrote the harder and bent more closely over his manuscript “I say, Mr. Greeley, that 1 desire to talk with you about colonizing the colored people.” Still the great editor wrote on, his face assuming a clouded expression that his friends knew so well as indicating a coming storm, 'fter waiting a few minutes longer the colored man again spoke: “I have been thinking—” But he never finished. Mr. Greeley could stand it no longer. Starting up and glancing at the intruder he burst forth: “Go away! Go over into New Jersey and go to raising potatoes!”—N. Y. Advertiser.

THE C ZAK’S TuMB. Boom for Only a Faw Moro Bodies In tho Great Cathedral. Dowdy Decorations of a Decadent School Bar the Interior—Sarcophagi That Mark here the Ko manoffs Lie. Before knowing aught of its origin (the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul), save that it was founded by Peter the Great, whose modest cottage lies close by, carefully shielded from the weather, and whose experiences in western Europe gave him a preference for the style of the tinm in which he lived, one could vouch by merely looking at it from the south side of the Neva, across the stream, that it was designed by a Dutchman, writes the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London News. It is devoid alike of stateliness and race. It has a singular spire, a true fleehe, rising from a nondescript rotund protulierance that is supported by a stucco tower. But, perhaps, the most remarkable thing about this structure is the fact that the knob and spire were covered, to begin with, in beaten gold worth over four thousand one hundred pound sterling, which has had to be laid'out more than once, for the spire has suffered several times from lightning. The building itself, which is of a dull green—a washed-out eau de Nil —is two hundred and ten feet long and ninety-eight feet wide, thus differing from most Russian churches, which are in the form of a Greek, or equalarmed, cross. Within a few inches of sixty feet high the “cathedral” Church of SS. Peter and Paul strikes one as being badly proportioned, but this evil is abated by the space of the high altar behind tile Ikonostas, or sacred picture screen answering to our western rood screen, which shortens the east and west dimensions at all times save for a few minutes at high mass. The internal decorations are a-bizarre combination of Byzantine art, with that of the worst period, the most dowdy, the decadence, of the renaissance, and not even during great function can the inside be called imposing. Right and left outside the great gate of ikonostas are six very plain white marble sarcophagi and at the west end are two similar rows, while the whole of the north side and nearly the whole of the south side of the church are filled with similar tombs. Not that they are real tombs. They merely mark the spaces below where the Romanoffs lie in vaults. And there is not room for more than eight or nine more without building a mausoleum as an annex to the church, a project which has already been mooted. If it should be carried out we may hope in the interest of good taste that the Dutch style of architecture will be religiously tabooed. On the sarcophagi, whose only structural ornament, if it can be so called, is a beveled edge around the lids, are laid ormolu, double or Byzantine crosses, and these are scarcely visible for the wreaths of evergreens and flowers, some new and fresh daily for those whose memory is still green, some dry and withered, as befitting what David calls "a dead man out of mind.” On the west end of every sarcophagus is a brass escutcheon giving in the Russian language the styles and titles of him or her who lies below, little reeking of the gray-coated soldiers who keep guard over them, : and who, capless, bear themselves as though they felt to their souls the solemnity of the place and their duty. Interspersed among the white marble tombs are palms in pots, plants which would be all the better for a little water, though I am told they are frequently changed and attended to. There is not a single seat in the edifice save a throne for the emperor and another for the empress, as the Russian worshiper is not by any means allowed to take his ease in a Domus Dei. Close to the south door is the tomb of Peter the Great, near an ikon of St. Peter, the frame of which gives the height and width of the first emperor at his birth. Facing this picture is the tomb of the Great Peter, with whom lies his wife and successor, Catherine I. Catherine 11. lies near the ikonostas. Opposite the tomb of Peter I. lies Nicholas 1., with whom we warred forty years ago. His brother Constantine’s tomb is distinguished by two great iron keys, with colored ribbons attached, these being the keys of the old Polish fortresses of Zamosc and Modlin. Other of the sarcophagi have medals and medallions in morocco cases lying upon them —Peter the Great’s has the golden centenary medal of the foundation of this city, 1803, while on the tomb of Alexander I. lies a silver medal commemorating the eventful year 1812, when la grand armee entered Russia seven hundred thousand strong and left it scarcely a tenth that number. There is an open gilt ironwork railing round each tomb, on the east end of which is fastened a plaque giving in Russian letters the name of the great person who lies below. Around the walls are trophies of arms and shields, flags, fortress keys, regimental standards showing by their colors or devices that they were taken from Turks and Persians, Swedes and Poles, Circassians and French. There is not one British flag, and there are only two British boat flags in all Russia. Altogether, if the church is bizarre in its ensemble it has much that may well detain a visitor for hours, and while one cannot but think it would be more impressive if the windows were filled with stained glass it must be confessed there is pictorial color enough scattered about. Twenty-nine of the golden-framed I ikons were painted by Russian artists to the order of Catherine 11., and not one of them but deserves a little atten- ■ tion, which may also be properly claimed by a marble “Descent from the Cross" bought abroad by Peter the Great, and a real work of delicate and sympathetic art which seems, however, contrary to the spirit of the rule of the oriental church that there shall be i no other sculptured image than the i crucifix.

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Our bread trade is growing, t Don’t ask us why? The bread is I what talks. Union Bakery. For Notions, Small Hardware, Tinware and Holiday Goods, call on the Bargain Store next door to Postoffice. We bake the largest and best' cookies and buns in town. No lie I either. Coffee & Baker, Union t Bakery. Crushed Oyster Shells for Poultry. Will make your hens lay in winter. Ensures, a healthy and profitable poultry yard. For sale by J. D. Hale. Follow the crowd at meal time and yon will find yourself at the I'nion Bakery. P, W. Smith has purchased all the timber on land in Adams county owned by Joseph ' D. Nuttman, consisting of about 500 acres, and hereby ■ warn all persons to keep off ' of said land and not to cut or remove any timber from said land. P. w. SMITH. E. Buhler & Bro. Are paying the highest ' market price for 2d-Growth i White Oak Logs, also Oak and Elm Butts. If you have timber of this kind to sell i see them. Office and factory' North Eighthstrset, Decatur Indiana. Are You Insured? Dear Sir:-The undersigned paving secured the agency of the strongest insurance cor-' porations in existence, respectfully solicits your pat ronage and guarantees in return prompt attention on bis part to the wants of his cus to be without insurance E ' F. COFFEE. Agt. | -KWJ'iefhoiie

Central : Grocery. Lemon Cling Peaches 25c can. Peninsulars 15c per pound. Citron 25c per pound. Boiled Cider 40c per gallon. Seedless Raisins. Kippert Herring. 20c. per box. Sardines, 5, 10, 15c. per box. Salmon, 15, 18, 22c. per box. Boneless Herring, 15c. per box. Putted Ham, 15c. per can. Horn Harbor Oysters, 15c. can. Spanish Olives, 25c. perbot. Shredded Pine Apple, 50c. per quart jar. Sliced Pine Apple, 50c. per quart jar. Silver Leaf Maple Syrup. Buckwheat Flour. on it non OUT IN THE COLD gs®_ ; AND WET your, feet r*Hju;re comfortable pr> u ' r ' ,n ‘ Tht STew 00 th --* Ixl ■ world as eood as ' ■ Mishawaka All-Knit I »00L BOOTS. Thrt-e times as durable as auy fe* -JI made—pnwttiw/f F* ■'’/!> Watcb tbe trade r rB ’ • / Band in red A are i mitat. ms. PaxeD» s '“My l , . and made by “iSHAWAM WOOi.ES MFC. Co.. tai For sale by C.C.BOESE&CO —Dealers in MM WD r Ml niu, ram?; B3OTS, K Shippers of Produce and Poultry. PREBLE, IND.