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rotted her spine. Ilngnlar Ml.fort on* nt >n ludlan* Giri Aho H»«l Hwallnwr.l * Pin. A large number of phyniciana who w< re acquainted w ith the ease of Verla, the 12-year-old daughter of Frank Chriaman. a prominent bualneaa man of Mkldhtewn. near Muncie, Ind., were tHianlmoua in laying that it waa the pi,»t jH-culiar caw' of the kind on record, wy* thet ineinnati Enquirer. Thia girl’died nt her home the other evening after terrible differing for four yearn. When at the age of nix yearn nhe nwallowed a pin. She di<l not suffer any from the effects, but her frightened parent* summoned a physician, who informed them thut it wan nn impossibility to remove the pin. but that it would soon work out at some portion of the body. Two years Inter she commenced suffering with pains in her back, and it soon became necessary that she remain in bed. A physicinn was called, but could not explain the cause of the pain. Other physicians were called and t he cause wunexplained one day when they discovered the point of the pin protruding through her back just below the shoulder blades. The physicians removed the pin and from that time until her death her suffering was continual. The pin having worked its way through the spinal column, caused a separation of the suture conaecting the vertebrae, which immediately cofnmcncod to decay. A hump formed on her back and assumed large projiott.ioris. After her death an examination was made which revealed that the spinal column had entirely rotted in twain, four of the vertebrae being completely gone. The ribs were, of couroe, disconnected and were floating. SLAIN BY AMBITION. Tkr Sad Story Behind a Mulrlda That Has startled Vienna There is an interesting story underneath a little dl»|teta'h from Vienna, to the effect that the aged Field Marshal Lieut. Gustav von Dunst-Adelsheim, one of Austria's most distinguished veteran soldiers, had committed suicide after killing his wife, says the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. This fine old soldier was married to a Baroness Aisle, a lady almost 25 years younger than himself. She was known in Vienna ns a stylish and ambitious woman. According to her own station in life, and in the high military rank of her hu-band, she maintained a fashionable home, keeping full pace with the nobility. She was enabled to do so, as her husband drew a yearly salary of 14.000 Austrian florins (about $6,000). and the cov.ph- moreover were childless. But when the general retired from the army his revenues dropped down to SI,BOO, for the pensions paid the Austrian army officers nreextremely small. The baroness could not part with lux-' uries and social ambition, nnd the fond old general yielded to her demands and kept up his costly residence in Vienna, instead of going to some cheaper place. The general speculated to increase his revenue, lie failed, being heavily in debt. The gallant soldier, who had faced the enemies of his empire and country in more than a dozen battles, could not bear the thought of seeing his name disgraced, and resolved to die. His wife also preferred death to social ruin, and so they ended the struggle with a revolver. HEADSMAN OF NAPLES. Drath 111 Exile nt a Man Who Bad Taken Many Live.. On the little island of ('stica, 40 miles from Palermo, Italy, there died the other day a man who was for years the terror of the people of Naples and the kngdom of the. Two Sicilies. He was Gaetano Impellizzeri. once the heads* man under Ferdinand 11. of Naples. The useless executions attributed to Itnpellizzeri. says the New York Triliuue, are countless, and with the cruelty which lie showed led to his denunciation by Mr. Gladstone 40 years ago In the philippics which the statesman directed against Ferdinand. The executions were only in part public; it was the executions in secret—usually at night which gave the man his power. It was he who executed in San Franciseo place, Naples, the Calabrian Agetilus Milnnoque. who on December 9, IHM, hud made a bayonet thrust at. King | erdinand 11., and patriots innumerable became his victims. It hen Garibaldi entered Naples in September, 1860, the excited populace "ent in search of the hated headsman, but h» cared much for his own life, although he thought little of that of others, and escaped with his wife. Later lie was imprisoned on the island I stica, where he became nn officer °f the fort built in those* days to protect the island against pirates. lie was in receipt of a pension of five dollars a Bonth- much more than he deserved. was 81 years old at t.he time of his death. A GRIM AMUSEMENT. Torture Self.lnfllctad While Playing a Curious Game. A custom of the Abyssinian braves is WMribed by Pearson's Weekly. The P" ’ 1 themselves play an active part ”' lp ' When young people lire gathT'. for amusement, one of hem will ”s"’ Idling u straw of gre u millet, ’Nch is fun of p ith . hut \ Tver’s blood runs cold, probably, c , e ni tist smile or own himself a - .®?- W ben she has cut the pith in-

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to bits mi Inch long, he stretches out his bare arm. The example set, every girl w ho respects herself and has a lover follows it. The young men form a circle with arms extended. Blithely, then, with many a jest, doubtless, the maidens arrange their bits of pith upright In some fanciful design on the bare flesh, nnd set them alight. They nre nearly nn Inch thick, ami they burn very slowly, but the hapless youth must stand and smile as well us he can till the bloisi of the seared flesh extinguishes them. LAWYERS WERE HARD FIGHTERS. IHstingttlfthfMl Attorney* Who Battled Hrnvely for Their Client*. Clients love a hard fighter, nnd the onlookers are impressed with his zeal. In my own experience, says a writer in the Southern Magazine, I have had cases where I advised my clients not to sue because I waa sure they had no chance, and although they followed my advice, instead of employing other counsel, they refused to ]>ay a reasonable fee, and in one case left me to pay the court costa. And I have seldom advised a client to compromise or submit to arbitration that I did not displease him. It requires moral courage to advise one against his inclinations, but it is sometimes a lawyer's sacred duty. Whatever may be said as to its morality or true wisdom, yet I must say I regard this aggressive and partisan spirit more conducive to modern success than profound judgment, for I have seen lawyers succeed chiefly by reason of it in whom the logical faculty was not at all conspicuous. In speaking of success, it will be observed that I do not mean the eminence of such men as Erskine, Wirt, Webster, William Pinckney. Rufus Choate and Charles O’Conor, but such success as is attained by the leading members of the bar in every town or city of the United States, who have a good practice, sometimes very lucrative, though they are unknown to fame and forgotten outside their neighborhood when they are gone. PASSING OF THE ELEPHANT. It I. Said That the Clrena Favorite I. Ba-<-<>uain< Kcare®. There is a wail in the New York Ledger that there Is every reason to believe that elephants, like the American bison, are fast disappearing. In 1886 a worker in ivory in Sheffield. England, endeavored, in all seriousness, to figure out how long the elephant would last. His own house, he said, had in the one year used 1,280 pairs of tusks, which meant the killing of more than that many animals, for not every elephant yields two tusks of ivory to the ivory hunter. That the African species is fast disappearing there is littledoubt. There are many elephants in Ceylon, and from that island most of those that are displayed in traveling menageries and zoological gardens come. The showman has very little use for the African elephant, because he is less intelligent than his Indian cousin and much meaner in disposition. The African elephant is the longer-legged and smaller-bodied animal. Jumbo, who was a half-breed, had the long legs of the African and the body of the Indian elephant. Jumbo was undoubtedly the largest of all elephants, standing 12 feet eight inches in height. The largest elephant remembered in India was one ridden by the viceroy in 1880, which stood ten feet four inches. Col. Pollock records that the king of Burmah had a sacred white elephant which waa two inches taller. MOUND GUILDERS' CORN. After Burial for Cesturle. It Grow. Like Heed Grain. A curious experiment was made this summer by Charles Graham, a nurseryman of this county, and the result lies upon the desk before your correspondent as he writes, says a letter in the Indiauapofis News, Last year Mr. A. A. Graham, of Mount Vernon, Ind., mac'** a visit to the vicinity of Alton, HL, and called upon a friend, who had just opened a mound builders’ burial mound. Upon the mound grew several large trees, among them nn oak four feet in diameter, nnd thus the age of the mound was established as considerable. In it were found the crumbling remains of bones, and among other utensils a large pot, containing a maize very much like our present common red corn. Os this Mr. Graham secured several grains, and on returning home planted it. It grew, and the result was that he produced a strain of corn which is most likely the ancestor of the corn we now cultivate. In spite of having been in the grave for certainly not Jess than 400 years, it grew very rapidly and produced a large, well-shaped ear upon a fairly tall stalk. The ear is well set, the grains being somewhat smaller than any of the present varieties, except pop-corn. In shape the grain resembles dried sweet corn, being rough and wrinkled. In taste it is sweet and agreeable. Walking On® Thoawnd Mlle* to Church. The history of Canada, especially its earlier history, preserves the story of many a deed of heroism and devotion on the part of Christian missionaries who worked nnd perished among the Indians, but there are few stories which reflect so much credit on Indian piety as that published from Quebec. Montagnais and Eskimos came from the southern shore of Hudson straits to worship in the province of Quebec. This involved a tramp on foot of 1,000 miles. No pilgrimage in the middle ages was

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ever made In circumstances of greater hardship. The citizen who la loath to walk a block to church along a smooth, dry pavement ought to think of these Indiana plodding 1,000 miles through an Inhospitable country, through forests, across rivers, mountains and lakes, to render a duty they owe to their religion. From th* Nauds. And apropos of m*s bathing, nn amusing incident ha|>|s*ncd on the Is-uch one morning. The girls were drying their bathing suits while sitting n la Turque on the sand, nnd one who won hatless and stockingless was holding a parasol over her to keep the sun from burning her bare legs nnd freckling her nose. With hardly a moment’s warning it commenced to rain, and there waa a gathering up of wraps nnd a scampering for the bathhouses from all except the maid with the parasol. She danced out into the breakers, parasol and all, and was going to finish her bath In spite of the rain, but she wasn't going to get her "hair out of curl." OUR CITIES SAVED BY RUSSIA K.tnsrkable Statement Mail, by th. Grand Duka Alexis. Two interesting and significant stories were told in the Brooklyn navy yard the other day which have a special bearing on events now in progress of development. The first relates to the young German emperor, who made several visits to the white squadron when it was at Kiel. One day he was talking with a celebrated American captain. "Captain,” said he, “I see that most of your country’s warships are fast cruisers. What do you call them, ah, commerce destroyers, do you not?" “Yes, emperor," said the American. “We’ve been watching you on this side,” the emperor went on, “and we have come to the conclusion that these ships are built for a war with England. What other nation has any commerce to destroy?" There was a silence after this, for our captain had said more than he intended. Grand Duke Alexis, w ho is a full Russian admiral and the head of the Russian navy, was also a frequent visitor to Ihe Americans at Kiel. One day, watching the Columbia, the grand duke said to the captain: “I’m glad you Americans are rebuilding your fleet. I>o you know w hat most impressed me when I visited your country ? The first thing was your w onderful natural wealth and the second the absolutely inadequate means at your disposal for natural defense. Twice in my career I have heard the project of capturing one or two of your great cities and holding them for ransom deliberately discussed by officers of European fleets whose countries had hard work to make ends meet. And they meant it, too, but they were told that Russia and the United States are friends.” USEFUL BALE OF COTTON. ...lated the Actor, to Carry Out Thetr Show Bill Pledge.. “You may say what you pleaseabout the Mexicans,” said J. G. Walling, of Denver, who has spent a couple of years in the republic in the interests of some silver mines in which he is part owner, says a Houston Post reporter, but when they make a law over there they enforce it. One of their laws is that when a circus or theatrical company of any kind bills a town they have got to carry out the programme just ns advertised, or t he authorities swoop down on them and gobble the door receipts and generally fire the whole company into jail. So, you see, it don’t do for them to blow their horn too much before the gentle Aztecs. I remember one summer that Lilly Clay's burlesque company advertised to show in San Luis Potosi. They had gorgeous colored lithographs up all over town, showing the giddiest lot of blondes that you ever saw, not overburdened with clothes, and displaying the most generous contours and proportions. The house was packed and the company came out in the grariil butterfly ballet, but alas! the generous proproportions and the graceful contours, save In a few exceptions, were not ns advertised. In a few minutes the officers of the law had the company in the toils.” "Did they break up the show?” “No. The manager held a consultation with the officers and settled the matter by sending for half a bale of cotton, and the troop retired to their dressing-rooms and emerged later on more than fulfilling the promised glories of the bill posters. The show then proceeded and everybody was happy.” Mr. Walling says this is true and it will have to go. ONE ON HAWKSHAW. Ba Kalded a Den of Lli-en.ad Hon.okreeker» and Robber*. One of the detectives connected with the bureau at the city hull went into a barber shop the other evening and sat in one of the chairs to be shaved, says the Philadelphia Record. While the barber was making ready to shave him he started one of his characteristic conversations. Receiving short answers to every question that he put to the detective, however, the tonsorial artist brought the tete-a-tete to a close and silence reigned supreme. The local Hawkshaw was in half a while the barber was busily en-

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gaged in applying a lather on his face, when suddenly the sound of a hammer striking ngainst some metallic substance was heard emanating from the rear of the burlier shop. Then voices were heard in the following dialogue: •‘That was a good job that we done out at Germantown last week, Pete." "Yes, that was the neatest piece of work we done for some time; there was so little trouble with it.” The detective at once opened his eyes and became interested. The first voice continued: “It brought us in $325 mid we had better —” His conversat ion at this stage was interrupted by knocks on the door and hearing the detective’s voice calling out: “Leave me in or I’ll break down the door,” one of the men in the back room threw the door open. The Hawkshaw, expecting to find a den of counterfeiters or burglars, rushed through the doorand fell into a plumber’s shop, where two of the employee were ingynalin<'<4 to Teach. The esteem in w hich the sailor's calling is held in Massachusetts const towns is indicated by a story that comes from Martha's Vineyard. A teacher was w anted and a sailor applied for the position. He had to pass an examination by the committee, and he trembled at the ordeal, being sadly unlearned in book lore. The chairman began the examination: “Mr. , what is the shape of the earth?” “It is round, sir,” the candidate answered. "How do you know?” “Because I have sailed around it three times.” “That will do, sir!’’ He received his “certificate” ns a teaehci without another question being asked. Ma.text Women of Jnpnn. The chief exponents of music in Japan are women. Most men would consider that they were making themselves ridiculous by singing or playing in society.

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