Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1869 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JAWES R. 8080, -Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOnGtf R. S. PETERSON, .Attorney rxt Xaerov, DECATUK, INDIANA. attention paid to all busi- . ness entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studebaker's Law Office. ' vl2n33tf DYYIEL D. HELLER, .Attorney Law, DECATUK, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywhere in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. vlons2tf D. STUDABAKER, * DECATUR, ‘INDIANA. "VYTILL practice law in Adams and adV V joining counties; secure pensions and other claims against the government; buy and sell realestate; examine titles and pay taxes, and other business pertainingto real estate agency. 13-23. CHARLES M. FRANCE, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all busisiness entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, Draws Deeds and Moitgages and other Instruments in Writing. Office in J. R. Bobo’s Law Office. 13:37 PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEFF. W. H. SCHROCK. JELLEFF & SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional servicestothe people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 ANDREW SOR (< , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, over W. G. Sneer & Brother’s Hard ware Store. vßn42tf. A?~ J? ITr WIIV, M. D?, Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, v11n25 FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, M. D., RESIDENT Ear and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. BSaJTArtificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R. 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good _L farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quontity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you.' If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlon6 AUCTIONEER. CHARLES M. FRA ACE, A.uotioncer, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCES t$ the public that he is a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. JT pT waglkonler*, Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., Indiana. Post-Office address, Wilshire, Ohio. VaF* Special attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court Haute, DECATUR, INDIANA. THE traveling public will find this House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streett, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 ts SOiOSmE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, Wett Stain Street, near the Publie Square PORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllall If HEDEKIN HOUSE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Jfwto Sit. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. GENERAL St*<re OSes. Good st*' bleingin eenaeetioa with tblehousevl2n?s ts

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f orlry. It You Should E’er Get Married, John. If you should e’er get married, John, I 11 tell you what to do— Just get a little tenement, Just big enough for two, And one spare room for company, And one spare bed within it— If you’d begin love's life aright, Y’ou’d better thus begin it, In furniture be moderate, John, And let the stuffed chairs wait; One looking glass will do for both Yourself and loving mate. And Brushes, coo, and other things, Which make a fine appearance— If you can’t well afford it, John 1 , They'll look better a year hence. £ome thinkthey musthavcpictures, John, . Superb and costly, too; Your wife will be a picture, John, Let that suffice for you, Remember that the wise man said, A tent, and love within it, Is better than a splendid house. With bickerings every minute. And one word as to cooking, John, Your wife can do the best; For love to make the biscuits rise, Is better far than yeast. No matter if each day you 'don't Bring turkey to your table, 'Twill relish better by and by, When you are better able. For all you buy, pay money, John, Money that very day— If you would have yjur life run smooth, There is no better way, A note to pay's is an ugly thing, (If thing you please to call it,) When it hangs o’er a man who has No mcney in his wallet. And one thing more romember, John, To keep aloof from strife. And never, never, NEVER speak A eross word to your wife. But if you cannot keep it back, And burnings still require it, Go whisper it into your gun, And then'— go out and fire it. And now when you get married, John, Don’t try to ape the rich; It took them many a tedious year To gain their envied niche. And if you’d gain the summit, Jpbn R Look well to your beginning, And then will all you win repay The care and toil .f winning, .X. • • Jhlcrt THE GIRL QTESTIOY. A Delicate Subject Neatly Handled—Too Much Freedom In Social Lire. “Shirk}’ Dare” concludes a fashion letter in the Chicago licpublican with the following : Somebody wants a chapter on wh’at may be termed intimate etiquette. This is touched by such inquiries as we see in the corres pondents’ column of ladies’ papers, where Lucia wants to know if she ought to a||ow a gentleman to kiss her when she comes home with him from concert, and Caroline is dubious whether she ought to correspond with her friend's betrothed in secret. One can’t but sympathize with the young ladies, knowing how inconsiderately some one has neglected duty toward them. Mothers and guardians seem often to fancy that knowledge how to conduct oneself in the delicate dilemmas of life comes by instinct. Girls leave boarding-school and go into society with the vaguest of notions about their relations to it, and stumble through in its small difficulties, hiding their embarrassments as best they can, and keeping a brave front to tho last, while the world never guesses the secret tortures they undergo in trilling matters. Often enough for mere restless craving for novel confidences, young ladies seek public instead of private advice, when their mothers or friends are quite ready ahd competent to give them all the help they need. But there is a great deal of trial that besets young girls at the age when they feel allurements most keenly, which the best parents forget to provide against. They ought to recall their own debates of etiquette in youth, and teach their children prudence before they need it. Forewarned, forearmed. “Nellie, see here,” says a prudent father to his girl of sixteen, in her tarletan ball-dress, wanning her slippers before the fire, waiting for her escort —if girls ever do any of the waiting. “You’re look ing sweetly fresh to-night, and as fresh in heart as in dress, I hope. You arc to stay so, do you hear, madahen. You’Ve not to let pco pk hold you close when you waltz; nobody has anv business to touch you till you have a lover or husband of your own. I don’t want my gill talked about. Remember, nobody has the least right on any pretense to d<F more than touch your fingers, or lay bis hand on you in the permitted freedom of. the waltz, unless he is your rela-' tire, or going to be.” ] ” And after that she would proba-

bly sit in the conservatory, letting handsome Jack, the fast flat and lady-killer, slip his arm by degrees ! from the back of her chair, lift her lockc-t from her bare neck, and kiss her hand, till he dared kiss her lips, and gather her close by him, which would probably be the sixth time they met, at the farthest.— You see men and women like such things. It’s right they should. I'm not' going to belie the blood that beats in his wrist one instant, to say they should not. Only one may have some choice as to whether one will except caresses from the whole* sale stock of natural liking, or the ; special, reserved fund of precious preference. Suppose, young,warm- 1 hearted girl, that as you lean on that broad shoulder in the half lit parlor to-night, thinking how nice : it is to have somebody fond and j protecting, and how dear you seem to be to him, suppose you should, | by some invisible magnetic sense, ! be made aware of all the cheeks that had rested on that shoulder, and all the forms that arm encircled. ' It's fortunate you don’t know these things. It might lead you, however, to keep yourself more sacred for some one who will love you as entirely as you Ipve this man, who “takes life as it comes,” and by force of habit, if not by inclination, could not remember one woman six months, if his happiness depended on it. Did you ever see the old fashioned book on etiquette called the Young Lady’s Friend? Good Mrs. Farras will never guess the benefitthat straightforward, wholesome book of advice has been to girls. She knew the class she was writing for, and gave her opinion in such frank words as these I quote from memory: “You are to allow no personal freedoms from gentlemen of your acquaintance. If a finger is put out to examine a locket or chain on your dress, draw back and take it off for inspection if you choose. The reason for this rule is clear to those who arc better acquainted with the world.”. The reason is perfectly clear to j every one who comes to twentyfive years of age outside a reform institution. A man of society, who dealt in occasional roughness of speech, said once in a parlor ■ before ladies, that he would never marry a then New York girl of fashion, for the class allowed them selves to be handled too much. A girl who protects herself from the freedoms too much in vogue in society, increases her own value if she only knew it. with those she may have to repulse. I don't believe in prudishness or suspicion, but I do believe that when men and women are not content with the friendship that can be ex- i pressed by frank, kind eyes, and cordial, brief hand-shakes, and clear words, one is not ashamed the world should hear, they should know what intoxication they are sharing. It strikes one curiously to see ladies forget their hands in a man’s clasp, while they are talking so earnestly; there is a great deal of expression in the nearness of two conversationists often which tells a little more than people are aware ' of. It’s all right and innocent, of course, but if people arc properly indifferent to eaeh other's hands, why not observe “convenances,” and drop them when the cordial salute is performed ? You never see Rev. Mr. Surplice hold any hand in his but that of young Rocket, the curate with his melancholy large black eyes, and you never see grave legal gentlemen crushing the flounces of equally grave and interesting spinsters. There is a fine distinct line between the cordial commerce of good will i and heaven-warm affection, that t binds the human family together, i and these leadings of attraction, that with nameless license destroy the bloom of refinement. There is one rule that settles a thousand queries of the nature we • are considering. Whatever is sc-1 cret may be safely left untouched. 1 The touch, the look, the intimacy, the correspondence that needs to be secret, has something wrong i about it. If you arc sure there is no evil in your motives, for heav- j en’s sake come out and avow your friendship, your design, whatever . it may be. You make the world i purer and set a precedent by your ! frankness that tears awav a thou- ’ sand hypocrisies. The world has : a keen scent for the really inno-; cent, and if you can not face its first sneers of criticism you have i reason to doubt yourself. Laurence Sterne, who never aspired to the reputation4»f special morality, once wrote: “I never j drink; I cannot afford it; it costs ‘ ’ me three days, the first in einning. I | the second in sufferiwg; the third| in repenting.’’

Notes on Falicies of American Protectionists—The Balance of Trade. BY FRANCIS LIEBER. By balance of trade is generally" understood the balance between exports and imports; and the proj tectionists say, if more is importjed than exported, it is clear that ■ the balance must have been made I up by money, so that the country has lost so much as the exported money" amounts to. Mr. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury to General Jackson and President Van Buren, i went so far as to show in a report, ; published with one of the Presi- , dent’s annual messages, that ever i since the establishment of this Government the United States have imported more than they" exported; and that thus they have I been carrying on a losing business I ever since. How the country managed to flourish and how national wealth increased, or why people continued trade for nearly a century, while it was all the time a losing business, cannot be seen.— This statement of Mr. Woodbury was made up from the books of our custom houses. Now. if we ' carry on a prosperous trade, the 1 books ought to show importation. If a thousand bales of cotton, valued at 850 each in the port of Charleston, do not realize in Liverpool more than 850,000 and the freight, they’ had much better not be exported; but if they sold in Europe for $65,000, and mejcliandise to the amount of this sum was j imported, so that apparently $15,000 worth more was imported than exported, then it was’ most likely a profitable business. Yet the bal-ance-of-trade protectionists would wish us to believe that in this case $15,000 in coih went out of the country, and that, therefore, the country was by so much impoverished. Money, however, doesnot grow iu the fields; at least, specie docs not. In order to be able to purchase commodities in Europe, we must first produce something to offer in exchange for it. The figurative question much in vogue at one time, “How can a man ex pect to get poorer from day to day, if he takes daily more money out of his breeches’ pockets than he puts in ?” is utterly futile. There is no such thing as “the people’s pockets.” Men must produce values to be able to exchange them for other commodities, which they desire. Here, as elsewhere, we meet with the two truths, which it would be well for us had they never been forgotten: He who interferes with exchange, natural and necessary, interferes with the essential welfare of mankind; and wealth cannot be increased but by production.— It is the only way. Wealth can never be legislated into existence. Laws have indeed been passed, in the course of history, calling a ha*lf dollar a dollar, but no law ! has ever been able to make 82,000 out of 81,000. If the people who carry on that peculiar and important branch of productive industry called commerce, and those people who furi nish them with the commodities which by commerce are exchanged, are not to be trusted with their own interests, and if governments must regulate their exchange and indirectly their production, and if disastrous years, like 1837 and 1857, are held up as terrible examples of unrestrained importation, we ask who are the government which is to play a sort of subprovidence over us? Are they not men like ourselves? Have governments never gone mad with ruinous speculations ? What is asked of government on this point is directly hostile to the principles of self government, which we cherish so highly. Why are all these Government regulations insisted upon merely for foreign trade and foreign importation, and not also for New York trade with New Or I leans or Oregon ? May the peoi pie of San Francisco overstock the market with Massachusetts goods if left to themselves ? Are these marketsunimportant? Now let a I protectionist dare to propose government control in this case, and see how Boston and San Francisco would blaze up in a fire of in dignation. Yet why? If the Government is expected to regulate for us what we shall import and export, then we must go further, and ; let Government (whatever that be) regulate, “organize,” everything; in short, adopt communism at once. Protective tariffs are partial and slightly-veiled communism. The wider trade extends the steadier prices are, on the same principle that averages, for instances of crime, become steady ' in the same degree as the area of f observation is extended. Perfect free trade in grain would impart

an almost* unchangeable price to the cereals. . This idea of considering wealth to consist in the keeping of money within our country, and which has led to the strangest legislation in j various countries, actually induced j Mr. McDuffie, Senator of the Uni ted States from South Carolina, who had been a fierce nullifier, and was a loudly professed free-trader, to declare in the Senate of the United States that he must own there was no harm in" war, economically speaking, if all the articles required for war can be obtained within the country of the belligerent, and the money can thus be retained within the country. It is the exact argument of j Louis XIV., that the many millions squandered by his mania for building remained in the country, aud thus no harm was done. On the contrary, he called the building of Versailles the method of distributing charity appropriate foi’ kings, and I must add, that I have heard educated persons in France say that not only Louis XIV., who nevertheless regretted on his death-bed his mania for wars and building, was perfectly right, and that had not the monarch put the many millions into these spacious fabrics, which continue to stand, they would*be lost . and gone by this time. Spain importing precious met al's from her colonies for centuries, and having a law prohibiting all exportations of precious metals, in order to “keep Spain rich,” sank deeper and deeper into poverty with every decennium, because it would not produce. So I much for keeping “money” in a country. Travel One Hundred Years Ago. 1 ■ ■ . ! An advertisement cut from a paper published more than one ; hundred years ago, shows how ■ Philadelphians got to New York at that time. It was* in these I words: Philadelphia Stage Wagon and • New York Stage Boat performs ‘{their stages twice a week. John i Butler, with his wagon, sets out , l on Mondays from his house, at 1 the sign of the Death of the Fox, • in Strawberry alley, and drives the ■ same day to Trenton Ferry, when , Francis Holman meets him. and proceeds on Tuesday to Brunsi wick, and the passengers goods I being shifted into the wagon of ■ Isaac Fitzrandolp, he takes them to the New Blazing Star to Jacob Fitzrandolph’s the same day, when Rubin Fitzrandolph, with a boat well suited, will receive them, and take them to New York that night. ■ John Butler returning to Philadelphia on Tuesday with the passen- . gers and goods delivered to him by Francis Holman, etc . with the same expedition as above to Nbw York. i March 8, 1759. ( An Apology. An old and popular Irish cler , gyman had a disagreement with one of his parishioners, who was • an extremely refractory character | of great wealth, but of low origin, 1 1 vulgar habits and abusive tongue. ’! Upon hearing from a third party i that his ancestry had been spoken '; of disparagingly by this rich boor, . the old parson, borrowing a Scrip tural metaphor, exclaimed, “Why. sir, my father would not have set him with the dogs of his flock.” This remark reached the ear of the nabob, who immediately repaired to the clergyman and demanded an apology. The good old man listened patiently to the ravings of i his parishioner, and closed the discussion with the remark: “Did I really say that my father would ; not have set you with his dogs ? I was wrong, sir; I believe he I would." * In the Circuit Court at Des ; Moines, the other day, a tall, lank specimen of the pioneer class, ' arose to his tallest attitude, and addressed the Court as follows :— ■ “If the Court please. I have a few ' cases of not much importance which demand my attention, and ’ as I am engaged in the honorable occupation of cutting cord wood at a distance from the city, I would request the Court to suggest a time when I may expect the causes of my clients to be brought up for trial.” The court recognized the urgency of the situation, and fixed a time, and the enterprising attorney departed for the woods. m —a A preacher once said; “Ifyou I know anything that will make a brother's heart glad, run and tell ’ it; but if it is something that will cause a sigh, bottle it up.” A horse dealer describing a F used-up horse, said he looked “as ■ if he’ bad been “diting' a daily I newspaper!”

Extraordinary Story—A Most Remarkable Father and Son A most remarkable case of consanguineous affection and sympathy is that of a father and son, living in the adjoining county of Fleming. The father is about fatty five years of age and the son is not yet twenty. When one has an}' complaint the other is similarly affected. If the father has the headache, The son has it at the same time', if one suffers with the toothache, the other also suffers with it; when one gets a cold, the I other gets it also; and so it goes j on through the whole catalogue of ordinary complaints. But yet more remarkable still is the similarity of their appetites, temperaments, and general actions. What one likes and cats, the other likes and eats; and what one dislikes and won’t eat, the other dislikes and won’t eat. If. one becomes angry, or gloomy, or happy, to the same degree and at the same time is the other angry, or gloomy, or happy. They snc6ze at the same time, sleep at the same time and the same number of hours, aind, the most remarkable of all, they dream at the same time and the dream of one is the same as that of the other. We might go on and enumerate -many other instances of the relaiionship existing between this father and son, though the above are sufficient as showing how strange and remarkable that relationship is.— Carlisle (Kentucky) Mercury. The Woman Who Dared. The woman who dared lives in Illinois. Some time ago, a young country lass had a lover, as most young country girls do ; and she made up her mind to capture him, if such a thing was possible. On a certain Sunday evening, she ' gradually drew out of him a confession that he “liked her,” and, before he was hardly aware of ( himself, a promise of marriage.— t When Henry returned home he meditated over the matter a little, and wondered how foolish he had ( been. With his well known opposition to hasty marriages and promises, how could he explain i his conduct to his “fond parents.” It was indeed a dilemma, and one ■ that perplexed him to solve.— ; Some days after the incident above • noted,'the lady, whom we will call Mary, had a party, and Henry was I one of the invited guests. In the > evening Mary informed him there i was to be a wedding there, and t showed him the license. Imagine - I his surprise on seeing his name , mentioned on the document.— ‘ “Now, Henry, y<*i arc going tb i fulfill your engagement,” she said, I gently stroking him under the ■ chin. He tried to excuse himself > on the ground of not being ready, f and wishing a little time to arrange i his worldly, affairs; but it was no > go. She told him to put on a i bold face, and just finish the affair t up at once, and be done with it.— I At this juncture the squire made his appearance, and the two were • joined together in matrimony; How Turpentine is Made in North Carolina. A new invention for making turpentine claimed attention. The process seems to consist of charring pine wood in a retort, and the production from a cord of wood is said to be 10 gallons of tairpeni tine, worth $-1; 80 gallons of oil, ; 828,15 gallons of black varnish, • 87 50; 100 gallons wood ashes, 85; and 40 bushels of charcoal, besides considerable inflammable ■ gas, but beside this the product [ has a market value of 848 50; all of which is obtainnd at a cost for wood and labor of 810. This is a Wilmington invention, and it will be seen to have wonderful claims. Os course people will think it has a Yankee look, but it must be remembered that since the war Southern men are turning into Yankees, and they make sharp ones.— Cor. ' A r . I'- Tribune. Women's Movemeht. The women's movement will, no doubt, undergo the law and experience of every other movement of opinion in the world, and have . its divisions and diversities. It now shows itself iu two parties. f {the members of one the Ladies Council, not being disposed to go so far as the other who insist on suffrage. The former may be styled the “Moderates” of the movement, and we suppose the other must lie called the “Immoderaves.” The Moderates are to have their own special journal, the liontcn'r World, and as, of course, public opinion will take sides in . this divisions, we shall alwaya , have a leaning to the Moderates. There may possibly be a third party; but for this we have not yet l got a name ready. For the rest, we hope the ladies will avoid the 1 rock and snare of masculine jour--1 nalism and have no fierce conflicts 1 with one another, far the amnse- ‘ ment of the scoffers at “Hen Con vention.”—A’e»e Fort Timet. ‘ The whole universe teaches man • either that he is corrupt, or that be ' is redeemed. Everything teaches him his greatness or bis misery.

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