Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — Page 6

Loves of JacK and Jill

HT'S sush a drefful pity.” said little Babs, “for Auntie Jill to be sowwy and cwy!” “Well, she needn’t cry unless she likes,” observed Rex, who understood things, being 9. Auntie Jill, who heard them from the dark corner behind the curtain, stole away to her bedroom, because she hadn't half done her crying. Then the plot began. “Girls and ladles,” protested Babs, “have to cwy sometimes ’cause they do. If daddy doesn’t cut off my hair and make me gwow up a man I shall cwy when I’m a lady.” “It Isn’t any good," objected wise Rex. "When I’m a man I shall be a hunter, and kill Indians and lions, and ■han’t cry for anything.” Babs shook her golden head. “I should cwy if they hurted you, Wex. Wouldn't you cwy if a big Hon catched me and eated me all up?" « Rex put one arm protectlngly round her, because 9 Is old and big, you see. “No. Babsy. I should kill the Hon; that would be ever so much better. Let’s

play tlbby-cat’s a Hon, and shoot him with the popgun, shall we?” But tlbbycat bolted to the apple tree; and the rocking horse was broken, and Rex had spoilt the doll, playing headsman to her "Lady Jane Grey.” “I wis’ Auntie Jill would come downstairs an' play suflink,” sighed Babs. “I’d rather Uncle Jack take us fishing, or play ball,” said Rex. “Are you aure mamma said he wouldn’t ever oome here again?” “Certain sure,” assented Babs; “an' he wasn’t our Uncle Jack, never any more, mamma said—trufly, Wex.” “He never was our uncle, really,” explained the future hunter, "only going to be. But lie was real nice, and I don’t see what Auntie Jill wanted to go and change him for. It’s just like ■women and girls!” “I’se sure Auntie Jill wouldn’t be naughty, ever,” said loyal Babs, indignantly. “Then what Is she crying for?” “I specks ’cause Uncle Jack — “You said he wasn’t uncle any more, Babs.”

“Well, ’cause Uncle-that-used-to-be Jack——” “That Isn’t right, either, Babs. He’s Fack-that-used-to-be-Uncle.” “You’se wewwy unkind, Wex,” poutId his G-year sister. “Don’t be a goose,” replied Rex, loftily. “Well, I’se sure Uncle Jack has been naughty, ’cause mammy looked drefful Angwy, when she telled me about him. An’ Auntie Jill is cwylng ’cause—’cause he cwles when you’se naughty, and has to be shut In ze cupboard.” “You’re a horrid little kid, Babs,” ■aid Rex, wrathfully marching away. “No. I’se not. Don’t go away, Wex, pease, don’t. I’se—Use so welly rateable.” And kind-hearted little Babs threw herself along the rug and sobbed. “I’ll tell you what we’ll do,” said Rex, after he had soothed her with two kisses, a marble, a "conqueror” and half an apple stolen out of the dining room. “We'll go and tell Uncle Jack that auntie’s crying awful, and he’d better come and say he's sorry—else no one won’t love him ever any more.”

"Ob. Wex,” cried Babs, rapturously, “wouldn’t It be beau’ful! An’ I would wear my new bat, if you could get it down from ze cupboard, so I would be nice and ’apecable. Use sure mummy wouldn’t mind if we were going to fesh Uncle Jack.” So Bex tiptoed on a chair for the hat, and primed the popgun as a protection against lions and robbers, and they went round by the ■weetstuff shop, because they generally went that way with Uncle Jack, and • heavy new jienny was burdening Rex’s pocket. Besides, everyone knows that brandy-balls are excellent nourishment for travelers If they get lost In the woods. And If they eat them before they get lost, they make sure of them, and don’t “sticky" their pockets. Thanks to such prudential measures, the young explorers reached the plank across the ditch in good spirits, and were as happy as bold travelers should always be. The plank was not a long one, but the water was so near Bex’s feet when they dangled, and it was such a good opportunity to shoot fish if they should appear, that It took a good while to cross over. Then they had to go the long way round the lane, because the field was full of cows; and, as Babs •aid, "Cows are drefful sings, 'cause ■ey might be bulls.’.’ So the autumn afternoon was turning to evening when they reached the fish pond where Uncle Jack ought to be. But no Jolly uncle appeared -perhaps his mamfba had put him in the cupboard because he was so naughty and made Auntie Jill cry. Box and Bnbs began to feel cold and tired. “1 wls'-I wls’ we had a lot of tea,” lamented Babs. “Perhaps we shall come to a ramp," said Bex, consolingly. “Travelers always do. Then they will give us some buffalo cooked In a pot on three sticks over the fire, and tell us where Uncle Jack Is." So they trudged on cheerfully a little further. But it got so dusk and the cows looked so large and wild in the fading light that they might almost be real buffaloes, which are very different from play ones, as everybody knows. Babs’ shoes stuck in ths mud and couldn’t be found, and Rex fell In souii stinging nettles, and they both got scratched scrambling through a badge. 80 poor little Golden Hair sat

down on a bank and cried, and Rex stroked her head, and would have cried too if crying hadn’t been out of the question for a big boy, who was nearly a man, dada said. Just then Farmer Burton came along with his dog Rover. He found them some apples out of his pocket, and listened attentively while they explained matters. Of course, he ought to take them straight home, but —a wicked emile crossed the old man’s lips—they had come out to find Uncle Jack, and perhaps It would be a good thing If they found him. He had seen him walking distractedly about tn Sleepy Hollow a few minutes ago, and he knew something about lovers’ quarrels. Why, when he was courtlug Dame Margery forty years ago they parted forever once a month! But be didn’t tell the youngsters anything about ihls, only took up Babs on his broad shoulders and walked along so fast that Rex had to trot to keep up with him. “Why does you laugh, Mlsser Burton?” Inquired Babs. "Oh, because you're such a funny little girl to go hunting buffaloes.” “But it was Wex zat was goln’ to shoot zem," apologized she. "Oh, I beg bls pardon,” said the jovial old farmer. “Perhaps he would like to stop behind and shoot them now?" But Rex thought they had better be getting home, as It was so late. Buffaloes, he admitted, In his private mind, were not so nice to hunt In the dark. As they were crossing the hollow a big gentleman came striding along. "Here’s Uncle Jack!” they both exclaimed at once.

“Why, Babs-Rex!” cried he, In amazement. "Whatever ” "Oh, they’ve come to look after you, Mr. Jack." said old Burton, solemnly. “They’ll tell you all about It. Perhaps you'll see ’em home as it is gettlug late.” So saying, he disappeared over a stile with remarkable agility for bls years and size. All the way home he laughed, until Rover thought that he must be going mad, like some 111-balanced dogs in the hot weather. All that evening he chuckled to himself, until his dame confided to the hired man that the master had something on his mind for certain, and the hired man thought that “mebbe he'd had an offer for the heifer." But not for many a long day did he tell the story of the hunters. "Well, you young pickles!” said Jack, who used to be uncle, "what the dickens are you doing here? What the deuce am I to do with you?” he added, under his breath, as he shouldered the girlie. Babs looked at Rex, and Rex looked at Babs.

“We were looking for you,” said the hunter at length. “ ’Cause she cwles when Wex is naughty, an’ mamma puts hlin " “Don’t be such a donkey, Babs," interrupted Rex, indignantly. “Well,” said Jack, “I suppose 1 must take you young rascals home, anyhow." “An’ say you’s sowwy,” pleaded Golden Hair. “I should, if I were you,” counseled Rex, putting his hand in that of uncle-wtm-used-to-be, because he was a very nice uncle, and 9 isn’t so old in the dark. “Men must put up with something from girls and ladles, and be kind to them,” he preached, solemnly. “That’s real true. My dada says so.”. Jack didn't say much, but he held them very tight, and carried Bex as well as Babs in the gloomiest part of the lane, where no one could see. So it wasn’t long before they came to tlio house, where everyone seemed in trouble, except tlbby-cat, who was dozing unconcernedly in front of th? fire Dada, who had Just come home, was starting out to look for them; Sarah, the nurse, and Jane, the housemaid, having Just returned from a vain search. Cook was blinking over the kitchen fire about “them children" till she let things burn, and mamma was sobbing on the sofa in the drawing room, because she was not well enough to get up. Poor Auntie Jill was most wretched of all, because she had cried all her tears away In the afternoon and had none left for the babies.

What a shout of delight went up ns they came in through the open doorl Dada snatched up his boy, and mamma called eagerly for them from the drawing room, so Jack followed In xvith Babs half asleep tn bls arms. Dada and mamma looked nowhere but at the children, while Jack and Jill looked everywhere but at each other. Then Rex and Babs lapghed and chattered, and began to explain matters. "We’we fetched Uncle Jack," said Rex, In a matter-of-fact tone, “to see Auntie Jill. And he's going to take us fishing tomorrow afternoon, if you’ll let him.” “An’ he’s goln’ to be so welly, welly good," asserted Babs, emphatically, "sat Auntie Jill won't be sowwy and cwy, not ever any more.” Mamma looked astounded, and Auntie Jill fqpnd Just one tear to come half out of each eye—for it hadn't been all Jack's fault, really you know. Jack stepped a little nearer to her, and half held out one hand and half didn't. “Don’t be silly, children; you do not understand," said mamma, reprovingly. But dada smiled one of his quiet smiles, as taking one little one upon each knee he sat down on the sofa beside mamma. “I think they do," said he. Then Jack got very near Jill, and took hold of both her hands. “My dear little Jill," said be, rather brokenly.

And she put her head on his shoulder and cried, and said—but really it Isn’t fair to tell what she said. Anyhow, it must have been satisfactory to Rex and Babs, for those young; scamps laughed with glee at the prospect of unlimited fishing, and ball, and swings, and pennies, now that Jack-that-used-to-be-Uncle-that-was-to-be was reinstated.— Chicago Times-Herald.

PHARAOH’S RATS.

Carefully Barred from Landins by Specially Detailed Officers. As the result of an attempt to bar two innocept-looklng animals, a trifle larger than full-grown rats, from this port, the entire machinery of Collector Thomas’ office was set in motion yesterday, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. The creatures were Egyptian ichneumons, sometimes called Pharaoh’s rats. After a long consultation with his secretary, George Barton, the collector decided to refuse them admission and ordered them killed. This last order was subsequently rescinded at the pleading of their owner, the engineer of the British steamer Malbrldge, on which the animals arrived from Matanzas, Cuba. According to Collector Thomas, farmers throughout Pennsylvania may rejoice at the order, for had the ichneumons been admitted they would in time have become as great pests as the English sparrow. In Jamaica, where the animals came from, they were introduced some years ago for the purpose of exterminating vermin, but, the supply of the latter having fallen pretty low, the ichneumons turned their attention to chickens, ducks and other fowl.

As they are exceedingly productive, In all probability there would have been thousands of Ichneumons in the State within a year, and It was this consideration that decided Collector Thomas. When the steamer Malbrldge, with a cargo of sugar, arrived In the Delaware yesterday she was boarded by two customs officials. As they were walking along the deck they were suddenly confronted by two fierce animals about the size of a cat. They were of a gray color, except their legs, which were covered with a reddish brown hair. Inspector Brophy, who was one of the officers, said they resembled abnormally large rats. The latter discovered a ruling by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in which he tells of the danger of admitting these animals. It was then decided to kill them, but the engineer of the steamer pleaded for their lives, and his request was granted. In the meantime a customs officer Is detailed to watch them and prevent their escape. The ichneumon or mongoose is a habitant of Africa and Asia. It has long, weasel-like body and very short legs. In those countries it Is a great help In checking the multiplication of crocodiles by eating their eggs and their young. It attacks and kills the largest and most venomous reptiles.

BEGAN AS A PRINTER'S DEVIL.

Ex-Gov, Swineford Has Struck It Rich in His Copper Mines. It is reported that former Gov. A. P. Swineford, of Alaska, long a noted western newspaper man, has struck It rich in his copper mines on Baranoff Island. The Governor is widely acquainted in Washington, having been a frequent visitor here for many years. He was here repeatedly during his term as Governor, and has been here frequently since that time. He was one of the most efficient executives the big territory ever had, says the Washington Times. Governor Swineford had an interesting career as a newspaper writer, and before that as a printer. He began as a devil in the printing office of the noted Gov. Samuel Medary at Columbus. While apprenticed to the Governor he lived at the Medary residence. The printing office was in a wooden building near the house. One night young Swineford, In a playful mood, lay in wait for bls fellow-devil at the head of the office stairs. He was armed with a new Inkroller, with which he designed to affectionately “swat" his unsuspecting colleague. He waited long and patiently. At last he heard footsteps on the stairway. As they came near the top young Swineford let drive and knocked the person to the foot of the stairs. He went down with a great clatter, and landed In a heap, badly shaken up, but not much hurt. Swineford went out of the window and slid down the wooden eave-trough. He then came around to the stairway to see his demolished rival devil. To his astonishment and horror he found Governor Medary picking himself up at the foot of the stairs. The Governor, all unsuspecting, said: “Alfred, my boy, these infernal Whigs will kill me yet!" Governor Medary lived in strenuous political times.

How Death May He Determined.

A means of distinguishing death from catalepsy has been devised by Dr. Icard of Marseilles and submitted to the Academie des Sciences. He Injects fluoreecln, a strong coloring matter that is not poisonous, Into the veins. A gramme of fluorescln will color 45,000 litres of water. If there is any circulation the body will turn grass green in two minutes, but the color passes away In a couple oHiours without doing any harm.

Electro-Plated Doors.

By the use of a process Invented at Bridgeport, Conn., wooden doors am being electro plated with copper of brass.

Some women come down town so neb dom that they are so timid they always suggest a cat that Is crossing the street.

Some people are afraid, and call it virtue.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Coat of Living. While the Indiana Republican literary bureau is engaged in telling the people of Indiana that they are paying less for their supplies than they did ten or twelve years ago and that they are really better off than they were then, It is Interesting to note that Carpoll D. Wright reports that the demand of the eoal miners of Pennsylvania for an Increase of wages is based on the claim that the prices of the necessaries of life have so advanced that they cannot live on their old wages. This same point is urged in a recent public letter by William Cammack, a Pennsylvania miner, who says he has “been on a strike, together with other miners, for nearly three months, striking for an increase of wages in keeping with the price we have to pay for the necessaries of life and for recognition of our union, which seems to be the only hope that labor (outside of voting right) has in these days of this ‘imaginary prosperity’ and ‘government by injunction.’ ” And furthermore Mr. Cammack specifies the increased prices that he has to pay, as follows: "In 1902 I have to pay 80 cents per gallon for oil that I use in the mines, but the cans hold only three quarts. Everything else Is in proportion, itemized as follows for the years 1898 and 1902:

Prices In Prices In 1898. 1902. Rank oil, per gallon $ .58 $ .80 Powder, per keg 1.20 2.25 Flour, per barrel 3.50 7.00 Ba con, per pound 08 1-3 .16 2-3 Beef, per pound 08 1-3 .18 Granulated sugar, per lb.. .06 1-2 .10 Tea, per pound 40 .70 Canned tomatoes, per doz. .60 1.50 Corn, per bushel 1.00 1.00 Rice, per pound 05 .08 1-3 Breakfast food, per box.. .10 .16 Rolled oats, per box 08 1-3 .12 1-2 Currants, per pound 06 1-4 .12 1-2 Raisins, per pound 081-3 .12 1-2 Dried apples, per pound.. .04 .121-2 Meal, per bushel 50 1.00 Lard, per pound 07 1-2 .13 Dried beans, per pound.. .03 .05 Condensed milk, dbz. cans 1.00 1.50 Coarse salt, per pound ... .01 .04 1-4 Toilet soap, per box 10 .25 Cheese, per pound 08 1-3 .20 Butter, per pound 16 2-3 .35 Vinegar, per gallon 20 .40 Potatoes, per bushel 75 1.40 Kerosene oil, per gallon.. .10 .20 Laundry soap, dos. bars. .25 .50 Ham, per pound 12 .18 These are commodities that the miner has to have to live, and it will be noted that many of them have advanced 100 per cent or more. Coal has gone sailing skyward, but the men who dug it get fio advantage from that. Mr. Cammack further says:

“These are the prices that the average workingman pays now and what they had to pay in 1898. I trust that this statement may be of service in opening the eyes of the laboring men of this country, so that they may vote against the trusts and the party that makes it possible for them to rob the laboring men by charging them these outrageous prices, and if they make any complaint enjoin them from walking on the earth.” It is not surprising that with this sort of sentiment developing among the miners Senators Platt and Quay have made an effort to Induce the mine operators to arbitrate the questions involved. The time has come when the common sense of the people revolts against the exactions of the divinely constituted trustees of .property who operate the trusts.

Vain Republican Ruling. An angry resentment of the popular demand for tariff revision is the most noticeable characteristic of Republican comment thereon, making plain the truth that Republican unwillingness to act against the monopolies enjoyed by the trusts unfits that party for service to the people. The leading organs of Republicanism stigmatize as “tariff-smashers” all those who are in favor of a revision of the tariff. The only variant of this favorite term in which they indulge is the second-choice epithet, “businesskillers,” which they employ hopefully as tending to deter voters from a conclusive Insistence upon tariff revision. In their desperation they are preaching the doctrine that the maintenance of monopoly is necessary to the prosperity of the masses. The millions of Americans now bearing the tax burden of the Dingley tariff have passed that stage where they could be fooled by such tactics. They do not see “prosperity" in the fact that they are compelled to pay higher prices for the products of the American trusts than arc paid by Europeans for the name products. They fall to feel “prosperous" merely because the cost of living In this country has been tremendously Increased in order that the food trusts should make exorbitant profits and pay millions In dividends to a few multi-millionaire monopolists. They can only see and feel that the Dingley tariff is a mighty good thing for the trusts and a mighty bad thing for the people. Nor Is there any popular apprehension of American trade being injured by a revision of the tariff. American merchants and manufacturers are underselling their competitors In all the markets of the world. They are more than equal to holding their own in American markets. They can, without the slightest danger of loss, do without the “protection" of a tariff whose duties are necessarily paid by American consumers. They are very sure that business will be healthier when a healthy competition is possible and when individual enterprise and the

conduct of smaller business concerns stand some show of profit There is no prosperity for the people in the fact that a few hundred trust magnates, out of a population of nearly 80,900,000 souls, make fortunes every year and proceed to spend the bulk of those fortunes in foreign lands. That form of “tariff-smashing” which would revise the Dingley tariff to the wholesome basis of a tariff for revenue only is heartily favored by American public sentiment. This sentiment Is so strong, Indeed, as to make tariff reform the leading issue of the day. Republican organs can no longer frighten American voters by calling them “tariff-smashers” and “businesskillers.” The only business to be killed is the monopoly business, and the only tariff to be smashed is the unjust Dingley tariff that has created and maintained the monopoly business at the sore cost of the people.—St. Louis Republic.

Roosevelt' Humiliation. It appears that all of President Roosevelt’s explanations and Secretary Shaw’s explanations that the administration is not vindictively hostile toward trusts have not been sufficient to satisfy the trust magnates who control the Republican party, and they have forced the most prominent candidate for the Presidential nomination in 1901 to declare unequivocally against any serious effort to get rid of trust domination. In his speech at Fitchburg, Mass., he made his confession as follows: “As sensible men we must decide that it is a great deal better that some people prosper too much than that no one should prosper enough. So that the man who advocates destroying the trusts by measures which would paralyze the Industries of the country is at best a quack and at worst an enemy to the republic.” This is plain, in the light of recent events. The remedy that “would paralyze the industries of the country” is understood by everybody to be the reduction of the tariff on’ trust-made products. The only effort made by President Roosevelt in that line was in the bill for Cuban reciprocity. The objections made to the Cuban reciprocity bill by the tobacco and sugar trusts were exactly the objections that President Roosevelt now makes to remedial legislation by removing tariff donations to trusts. The trusts have forced him to join them in the condemnation of his own policy. And the most humiliating part of this humiliation is that the condemnation is based on falsehood. The idea that the reduction of the tariff on tobacco and sugar in favor of Cuba would have destroyed either of those industries was an utter absurdity, and every sensible man in the land knew it. It is equally absurd to say that the removal of the tariff on trust-made goods which the trusts are now exporting to foreign countries and seUlng In competition with the world would ruin their industries. And yet President Roosevelt Is driven to assume that position and make that false plea to the American people—lndianapolis Sentinel.

Examples of Tariff Robbery. Picture this little scene to yourself: An American housewife goes into a store and buys a pound of borax, paying 8 cents for it. As she tunfe away with her packhge another housewife comes in, buys two pounds of borax and is charged 5 cents for her purchase. “Why do you charge me 8 cents for one pound of borax and let that other woman have two pounds for 5 cents?" the American housewife demands. “Oh," answers the storekeeper, blandly, “she's English, you know..” How long would that storekeeper, openly discriminating in favor of the foreign and against the native customer, lie able to do business anywhere in the United States? Yet this transaction in borax illustrates perfectly what the trusts are doing on a colossal scale in the home and foreign markets. The foreigner gets his American meat chopper for 75 cents, the American is charged $1.04. The American pays sll .for a fruit press, the foreigner gets it for $8.82. A hundred pounds of wire nails cost the American $2.05, the foreigner $1.30. A piano for which the American pays $375 is exported at S3OO. And here are the figures on sewing machines; No. 1 home price, S2O, foreign price $13.25; No. 4 or 9, home price $25, foreign price $17.48. Typewriters which sell in the United States for SIOO are sold abroad from SSO to SOS. Barbed wire for fencing costs the American $2.90 the 100 pounds, the foreigner $2.25. The home price for Wire rope is $9.70 the 100 faet, the export $3.12, or 211 per cent less;

Columns of the American could be filled with like extortions practiced upon the people under the protection of whose laws those trustr- have been built up. It is the tariff, which shelters the monopolies from competition, that enables them to charge what they please nt home while selling nt fair prices to the foreigner, for in other countries rivnls have to be mot in the markets. How long will the American people tolerate this robbery?—Chicago American.

Nothing Is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.—Swift.

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