Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 May 1894 — Page 3

She Pike County Democrat M McC. 8TOOPS. Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA.

AMERICAN DIAMONDS. Those That Are found Come to Vt la Meteoritles From Other World*. Though diamonds will never be an important product of the United States. —only an occasional gem of this kind being picked up here and there—such vast quantities of them are consumed here that the geological survey has thought it worth while to prepare a monograph on the subject, which will soon be issued. The fact has been established that the supposed diamonds found in meteorites near the Canon Diablo, in Arizona, •are actually such. This is a matter of profound interest, indicating as it does that such stones exist on other planets. •Some authorities assert that diamonds —like coal, which is so nearly of the same chemical constitution—couid not possibly come into existence without previous vegetable growths to generate their material. For this reason they infer that the finding of the gems in meteorites prove that there must have been vegetable life in the place whence the meteorites came. If there was vegetable life there, it is a fair presumption that there was animal life also All this may be untrue, but it affords the first-guess glimpse ever obtained into the greatest problem that mankind has attempted to handle, namely, the question whether life exists in other worlds than ours. It seems strange to take a'couple of ounces of charcoal in one hand and to consider that one is handling the pure material of the diamond. If you could transform it into crj'stalline form, you could sell -those few pinches of stuff for 11,000,000 perhaps. No bonder that chemists are eager to discover the secret of effecting this change. To assert that they will never learn how to make crystal of carbon would be absurd. 15v means of the voltaic battery real diamonds of almost microscopic size have been deposited upon threads of platinum. But even if a successful process should be discovered, it might be that the cost of making a diamond by it would be bigger than the price df a stone of equal size and purity from the mines. One recalls the experiments of Prof. Sage, who turned out gold pieces in his laboratory from gold extracted from the ashes of certain burned, vegetable substances. 6 The result was beautiful, scientifically speaking, but the expense of making in this way one 15 gold piece was about $25. I The value of rough gems of all sorts produced in this country in 1893 was 950,000 less than the output for the year before, amounting to only $202,000. The decrease was mainly owing to the industrial depression. The precious stones of the United States are sold in large part to tourists, who purchase them as sovenirs of localities visited.— Providence Journal.

CHARCOAL. A Supplanted Product—The Few Uses to A wholesale dealer ..in chareoal says that not one barrel of charcoal is sold in New York now where five barrels were sold forty years ago. Then every grocer sold charcoal; you could buy three cents worth or five cents worth anywhere. In every grocery, if you looked overhead, you would see clay furnaces such as were then commonly used to burn charcoal in for various household purposes. Charcoal was then used almost altogether to start fires •with. Wagons went about the^streets with charcoal to sell, and the cry of the charcoal man was one of the famili&r cries of the city. The charcoal business has been on the decline for thirty years. Its first great start downward came with the introduction of kindling wood, a 'business that has now grown to large proportions. Kindling wood has, in this ■city, almost entirely taken the place of charcoal in its ordinary domestic uses. Nowadays charcoal is Hardly used anywhere except in hotels, and by plumbers, tin roofers and coppersmiths. Hotels use it for broiling; a first-class French cook in a hotel won’t cook unless you give him a charcoal fire to broil with. It is used for this purpose iu some private houses, but not in many. Most of the soft-wood charcoal that is used here comes from New Jersey and Delaware, all by rail. Thirty-five years ago there were thirty schooners engaged in bringing charcoal to .this market; now there is not one. Most of the hard-wood charcoal used 'here comes from chemical factories,in Delaware county, this state, where the .wood has been treated for wood alcohol and acetate of lime. Seven-eighths of the hotels in New York use this coal, but perhaps a little less is sold every year, for even in first-class hotels gas is to some extent taking its place. Charcoal has other uses, however. Placed in retorts or kilns it is subjected to fire in such a way as to get the gas ■out of it and make it as near carbon as possible. It is then g#bund in different grades of fineness and* sold to distillers for use in rectifying high wines. Granulated charcoal is sold *to ice manufacturers for use in filtering water. The use of ice machines is ikcreasing in the north as well as in the south, and New York granulated charcoal is shipped to all parts of the country. .That trade is increasing.-N. Y. Sun. First Politician—As he is a man of ’ great ability, we may use him as an orator. Second Politician—But it is his habit to keep his mouth shut, and never say a word. *1 First Politician—Then we’ll make him a boss!—Puck. Merely a Crank. “Did the doctors pronounce Smythe insane?” “No. They examined some of his gray matter under a microscope and iound that he had only a few wheels.” Which It U Now Put. Fully Qualified.

sleeps, the soldier sleeps, no more To wake at break of day, hear the morning gun's glad roar

In echoes aie sway: No more to hear the bugle note Borne on the waking breeze, __ £)r see the smoke from camp-fires float Above the arching trees; No more to breathe the Incense sweet From soldiers' homely fare. As busy hands and hurried feet , The morning meal prepare; No more the breakfast call to hall With merry quip and jest, Or haste to greet the tardy mail From those he loved the best; * ■■ No more to see the banner bright Its lovely folds unturl Against the sky’s soft amber light And clouds of gold and pearl; No more at mounting of the guard To take his place ia ranks, Or reap the morn-relief's reward— The weary sentry's thanks; No more to pass the long, ldng day On lonely picket post. Where oft the bushes, far away, Seem an advancing host; No more to speed the weary hours With dreams o’er fragrant pipe. Or plucking dear, familiar flowers Or luscious berries ripe; No more the camp-fire’s genial glow At eventide to seek, Where tales of love and joy and woo The laugh or tear bespeak; Or as the blackened brierwood bowl Its cheering vapor breathes. To see sweet visions gently roll S' Along the fleecy wreaths. . He sleeps, the soldier sleeps, no more To waken to the fray, The cannon’s loud defiant roar, The bugle's blatant bray. The shout of sentries rusbing in, The long roll of the drum, The shell’s wild scream and horrid din, The bullet's deadly hum. The battle line, the gleaming steel. The volley's blinding flash, The charge, the stricken comrade’s reel. The vengeful forward dash, The grandeur of the serried rank, As o’er the field it sweeps. The struggle on the breastworks’ bank— For, lot The soldier sleeps. Sweet be his slpep. for all he had— His life—be freely gave That o’er a land with peace made glad The flag he loved might wave; 'And while his grave the chaplet bears Above its lowly sod, The crown of duty done he wears Before the throne of God. —Thomas Calver, in Once a Week.

HIS rainy night and talking of Decor ation day reminds me of an incident of onr first celebration in the

'c* little town where laired in the Southern part of Illinois. It was in the ’60’s and for some years the towns around us had been keeping what you now call Memorial day, and some one suggested that we, too, raise a small flag and scatter flowers on the graves of our soldier boys once a year, so that we would show to all that our boys in blue and our boys in gray were not forgotten, and the 30th of May was set |part for that work of love. It was the night before the SOth that I saw her walking along through the rain, seemingly utterly regardless of the storm which swept around her. She had neither umbrella nor cloak to protect her slim form from the watery elements. She wore a thin calico dress and a well-worn shawl; her head was covered by an untrimmed straw hat She was neat and clean. I knew somewhat of her circumstances and so wondered at her being away from home at dusk. A number of years before she and John, her husband, good, honest John Small, had begun their wedded life in a little, vine-covered cottage just on the outskirts of our town. John worked in the town—a splendid mechanic they said he was—a manlylooking fellow, tall, broad-shouldered, with wavy hair and dark-brown eyes He made a Comfortable living and they were very happj. When the oldest child was six and the youngest a baby in arms that great “call to arms" for a nation’s safety came, and John—what could John do but respond? A company was organized in our little town afcd John enlisted. One day, with banners flying, and the beat of drum and noise of fife resounding through the streets as if it were a gala day instead of a day of gloom and fear, they marched away. 1 remember it plainly, as if it were but yesterday, seeing John stoop over the baby in her arms, as if loath to leave them, kiss the tiny face and hands over and over again. He fought and fell, a captain among our boys, and when well enough they sent him home, only for the loved ones there to see how intensely he suffered. Th% journey was too much for him. Unconscious when he arrived, he remained so until he lifted up his eyes in that land where battle strife and beat of martial drum are never known and soldiers’ graves are never dug. We buried him—I say we because our whole town honored our fallen captain, and universal was the sorrow expressed for his wife and babies. There was a little money left, and Mary kept her place and raised garden staff to sell. As years rolled by that

was not enough to give her even a scant supply, and she moved into town and took in sewing. Time had healed the sorrow in the hearts of the town folk as it had covered the grave with green. As I watched her I thought of her sorrow and great needs, and wondered how we could so soon forget her. | I saw her enter a shop and come out directly with a disappointed look, tucking something under her arm. In my own arms I carried a box of cut flowers which I had purchased to place on the grave of an only son whom I had laid to rest just after that dreadful battle of Bull Run. Although it was raining very hard at this time, wopdering still more at hei mysterious way, I followed. The last place which she had entered was a music store and I racked my brain to find a reason for her doing sa She hurried along and presently she seemed to come to the desired place, cautiously looked around her and then entered. When 1 came abreast of the place 1 saw that it waa a loan-shop Gould it have come to this? Was she so reduced in circumstances that she found it nec

movements. It plunged forward through the union lines opposite it and kept going until it crossed the state road, for control of which both armies were fighting. On it went over the road, through more woods, and into a clear field; bringing up at Widow Glenn’s house, half a mile in the rear of the whole union army. Rosecrahs had to pull two brigades out of the battle and send them after Bates to drive him back to where he belonged. In that wild, resistless charge the Tennessee brigadier had three horses shot under him.—American Tribune. PATRIOTIC OBSERVATION. The Duty and Privllece of a Loving and Grateful People. At this season there should be no alloy in the golden tribute of our country I to the soldiers. Their memory should be cherished, their bravery extolled and their examples emulated. It is impossible to value too highly their deeds on southern battle fields, nor to speak too emphatically of their patriotic motives. The inculcation of the lessons of patriotism is as much a duty as the defense of the country. The an

/ PARTING WITH JOHN 8 FLUTE.

essary to pawn articles to exist? 11 waited patiently until she appeared, the “something” under her shawl was gone and she started to retrace her steps homeward. I did not follow farther, but resolved that 1 would not sleep that night until I knew just how John’s wife was situated. After changing my wet garments for dry apparel and having a cup of tea, I started for her home. When I reached the door of her apartment at the end of a long, dimlylighted hall, I heard her running the machine and singing as she worked. I was surprised at this, for with poverty I had always coupled discontent. She answered my knock by opening the door and saying how surprised she was to see me standing there. We talked of many interesting subjects, she telling me of the children and her work and of her many, many struggles with poverty and doctors and drug bills. Naturally our conversation turned to<the subject of Decoration day as the morrow had been christened, and smiling such a sweet, calm smile, she arose and going to the sink at the other end of the room brought from it a box filled with flowers, which she had bought to place on John’s grave. She told me then, with her eyes filled with tears, she knew her John was a noble soldier and he so dearly loved flowers she could not think of his grave with but a flag to mark it and so she had managed to buy some for it The children would go with her early on the morrow and they would spend an hour or two with him. “She had managed to buy some.” Yes, there was the secret of her walk in the storm and her mysterious disappearance into the place of the “three balls.” 1 said nothing to her of what I intended, but silently admired such deep devotion. 1 saw his grave next day literally covered with the fragrant blossoms. That evening a friend called at the place of “three balls" and upo\ inquiry found that it was John’s old, loved flute that she had not paw bed, as she | was ignorant of the practice/{but had sold. * ry He purchased the same at my request and we sent it, together with1-* purse well filled with money collected by the army boys, to John’s wife, making it indeed a day of decoration to those lonely hearts.—Chicago News. A DESPERATE CHARGE. IS Carried a Bold Confederate Brigade Completely Through the Union Army. From nine in the morning till five in the afternoon this charging and coun-ter-charging in the woods went on. Brigade after brigade was knocked to pieces, fell back, reformed and went in again. There was a surprise every half hour. The trees were not so thick as to hinder the progress of the troops. They were thick enough, however, to conceal movements, until often the columns marching in different directions came front to front or front to flank within half a musket shot before either discovered the other. Then volleys were delivered and received at short range. Masses of troops fell to fighting until one or the other gave Tray. This happened when Stuart, of the confederate side, marching to relieve Cheatham, came plump upon two brigades of Van Cleve’s division of union troops, and fought them muzzle to muzzle. Bate’s brigade, led by the present junior senator from Tennessee, made one of the most remarkable

niversary of the day when the graves of our beloved heroes are strewn with the flowers of a nation’s love should be observed with all the fervor which a patriotic and home-loving people can command. The observation of Decoration day should not be left alone to the organizations of old soldiers. A grateful nation should make of the day an annual occasion for the rehearsal of the valorous deeds of “the boys of ’61 ;** citizens should vie with each other in exemplifying their affection for them, and the youth of the land then, if at no other time, should hear the history of their achievements. A patriotic people must not suffer the stigma that they.have allowed the enthusiastic and hearty recognition of this occasion gradually to faiL—Chicago Graphic. AS BY A MIRACLE. Showing How Presence of Hind Can Secure Absence of Bodies. The opera house was crowded. The certain had gone down hastily in the middle of the second act of the musical extravaganza, and the audience, after a slight buzz of surprise and impatience, sat waiting for it to rise again. Something had happened. A fire had broken out in the property room. With the feeble means at their command the stage attendants tried in vain to extinguish it. The flames licked up the combustible materials strewn- carelessly about and began to eat their way upward. Dense volumes of smoke obstructed the efforts of the hastily-improvised fire brigade, and rose aloft through the unprotected regions back of the stage. The terrible truth could be kept from the audience only a few moments longer. The fire was beyond control. Something must be done. Outwardly calm, but with a face whose ghastly paleness mocked the mechanical smile it wore, the leading tenor stepped in front of the curtain. There are times when the soul of man, moved by an intuition whose lightning flash infinitely transcends the swiftest processes of thought, leaps instantly and unerringly to the solution of some gigantic problem before whose sudden awful and inevitable front the plodding faculties of reason stand appalled and helpless. In the life of this man the supreme moment had come. The problem confronted him, and he was equal to it. The building must be emptied with all speed, but without the dreadful knowledge that life and death were involved. There must be no maddened rush of frenzied humanity, blocking the doors and barring its own way of escape. There was only one thing to be done. Assuming the easy attitude of a favorite singer in the act of responding to a second encore, the leading tenor unfolded a piece of sheet music and spoke in a low tone to the leader oi the orchestra: “Prof. Gibbons,” he said, “oblige me by playing ‘Two Little Girls in Blue.’ ** —Chicago Tribune. —A young/Lake Benton carpenter, recently married, described the dear girl’s dre^s as follows: “It has plain sides, with base around the bottom, crown molding above, dormer window sleeves running into the gable, with a scroll work of velvet around the neck.” —Minneapolis Journal*

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DEXTISTUV. W. H. STON'ECIPHfiR,

Surgeon Dentist PETERSBURG, IND. office in rooms9 and 7 in Carpenter Build* ln«. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. $., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession ot a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SXJCCKSSFTJTJL.Y. Be also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable pricey Office Over J. B. Young & Go/s Store. Machinist AND Blacksmith. I am prepared to do the best of work, with Mtlsiactlon guaranteed In all kinds of Black* smithing. Also loving aid Reaping Machines Repaired in the best of workmanship 1 am* ploy none but firet-elass workmen. Do nod go from home to get your work, but call eg me at my shop on Main Street, Petersburg Indiana. CHAS. VEECK. TRUSTEES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. NOTICE is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at home on •*. EVERT MONDAY. - All persons who have business with tha office will take notice that X will attend to business on no other day. _ M M. GOWFN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties Interested that 1 will attend at my offica In Stendal, EVERY ST ACRE* AY, To transact business connected with tha office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties ooncerned that I will d« at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend totkmsiness connected- with tha office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. OTICE is hereby given that 1^111 be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with tha office of Trustee of Logan township. ^-Positively no business transacted except on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. 49-Positively no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons Interested that I will attend In my office i» Velpen. EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marion township. AX* persons having business with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. oflCB is hereby glvee to all persona concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY DAT Bo transact business connected with the affine mi Trustee ot Jefferson tj.trnehlp. E W. HARRIS, —