Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 June 1893 — Page 3

-I" 1 .= AN AMERICAN HYMN. , ' God save our native laud. And make her strong3® stand For truth and right. Long may her banner wav% Flag of the free and brave! Thou who alone canst save, Grauther Thy might ' Ever from sea to sea May law and liberty O'er all prevail "Where’er the rivers flow. Where’er the breezes blow, May love and justioe grow, And never fail. In living unity i May all her people be. Kept evermore. From henoe on every side May freedom’s swelling tide Foil grandly, far and wide, ‘ To every shore. >0 God! to Thee we raise $t -Our grateful song of praise For this glad land. Thou didst our fathers lead. Thou wilt their children heed. Supplying all their need From Thy full hand. —Julius H. Scclye, in Christian Union.

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CCopyriKhteJ, 1SDI, by a S. Morton, and published by special arrangement.] CHAPTER X.—CosTETOEa “Been out prospecting1 to-day?’’ the ■colonel inquired, seating himself on the -edge of his desk, having first, by a wave •of his hand, proffered North one of the handsome leather-cushioned chairs. “No, I’ve been very much taken up ■with some professional matters, and lhave scarcely had time to give a thought -to the election,” returned North, calmly, feeling this stately and impressive editor to be rather the most formidable ■person he had yet encountered. “Everything seems to be going forward ^satisfactorily, I should judge from what Warner tells me,” he added, using Warner's name as a sort of passport to the ■colonel’s confidence. “My credentials,” he mentally observed. “Oh, yes!” and Clipper's manner -grew enthusiastic. “There’s no doubt .at all that we’ll sweep the city one week from Tuesday. There’s the north and east divisions solid for us; there may be a few scattering votes for the prohibition candidates, as there usually sire in those wards, but the prohibition racket hasn’t been worked to any extent in this canvass, you know, since -one of their men got so awfully tight, smd I think we may safely count on a walkover in those districts, for the in--dependent ticket takes them all by stovra. The west wing is a little -doubtful yet, and the south wards are generally conceded to the opposition; but the doubtful wards can all be fixed up for us, I am confident, and we’ll * score the handsomest victory ever won in X-. What d’ye think of that, old -fellow?” “Very good, colonel,” said North, •with a slight nod or two by way of ■emphasizing his satisfaction. “Good? Good?” echoed th^ colonel, swinging his long arms through the air enthusiastically. “Why, man alive, it’s immense! That’s what it is!—immense! You see”—and he dropped into a chair beside North, as he continued with great fervor in tone and gesture, “we’ve just happened to strike the keynote of popular sentiment. I f there is any one •word in the vocabular/ that the people are sick to death of seeing and hearing and having thrown at them, it's that hackneyed, threadbare, meaningless -di. ly liable, ‘Reform.’ Now, while we mean reform all right -enough, we haven’t paraded it before the public during this campaign; but it ha»been the tail-piece of every other political kite that has been set flying for years past. There’s old Wymer’s party, for instance, going to revolutionize the world by its reforms in the labor and capital muddle. Nobody knows by what peculiar handling of a problem that is and always must remain simply a question of mutual forbearance between the two classes they propose to adjust matters so as to benefit the human race in general, and the workingmien of X-in particular. Didn’t go to their meeting last night, did you? Well, I went, and I got enough of it. Fairly siekened me to hear Rochester ttpouting about the accumulation of ■wealth by the few as a direct robbery 4>f the masses, and so on, and advocating a system of division that would give 'the worthless loafer, who was too lazy to earn a crust of bread, the same amount of this world's goods that was allotted to the industrious hardworking man. That wasn’t the way he put it, of course, hut it’s just what the confounded rubbish amounts to. And, >vhat with holding up working men’s

SUDDENLY THE DOOR OPENED. ^unions, and organized strikes, and all that sort of business as a legitimate means of resisting the tyranny of capital the world over, and lauding the ■Socialists of Germany and the Nihilists of Russia, and the whole crew of , rampaging law-defying anarchists the world over, he succeeded in ■stirring up a spirit of dissatisfaction and lawlessness that needed only the provocation to develop into riot and bloodshed. Now, I am by no Cleans alarmed for the results i.n this ' oresent contest, for I foresee that Roch

ester, Bingham et aL are going to tie pretty thoroughly extinguished; tout can it toe that such doctrines as thl^are promulgating are gaining ground among the lower classes? If so, there will be bitter fruit in the future. We must look to our free school system and the liberal education of the masses to deliver us from the threatened danger. Chir children must be taught from their youth up that in this republican country the higher order of intelligence and morals must rule and ignorance and vice keep their proper subordinate places. I heard a rumor this morning that Tom Chelsea was going to ‘flop.’ Know anything about it, North? Don’t, eh? Then perhaps it isn’t true. I sent Warner around to sit down on him if it was. The doctor has been around all morning—” “The doctor?” er, Warner,” explained <the colonel, with an Inquiring stare. “Oh, to be sure! Warner, of course!” and North made a hasty effort to redeem himself by this. animated assent. “Out on his professional rounds as hegter of political dissensions and so on ,£f(?elidg the pulse of the public, you know.” V “And what docs he report?” A “Well, he makes a cautious diagnosis, but; I’ve given you the substance of it already. lie reports your popularity on the increase, but he doesn't claim much for Ilalleck. Between you and mo, North, I suspect that Warner would about as lief see Halleck get left! lias he said anything of the sort to you?” aDd the colonel looked sharply at North. The latter had a confused reeollection of Warner’s remarks on this subject in their conversation of the pre, vioqs evening. His cautiousness, howeyer, prevented him from repeating them; he merely answered indifferently: “No, he hasn't spoken of it, except to repeat in a general way what he had already said to you.about his objection to Ilalleck’s .nomination. I didn't gather at all that he felt any personal disaffection toward Halleck; on the contrary, I inferred that he intended to work for the straight ticket, and felt very cordially toward all the candidates.” *

“Oh, he 11 work all right enough: lve no fear about that. Warner's a square man, and all that, you know,” the colonel hastened to rejoin, with the air of1 retreating in good order. “'By the way, North, do you ever hear anything about Gus Thompson nowadays?” “pus Thompson? Why, no, not a syllable,” said North, with an air of lively interest. “What has become of him?" “Must be prospecting the Salt river region, to see how his party friends are going to fare by-and-by,” suggested Clipper dryly, ’‘it's odd how. that fellow has dropped out of this campaign. Why, along the first, when we held our primaries, I really thought his'chances were as good as Brown’s; but ail at oncie he disappeared, and since then no one has seemed to care enough about him to ask what has become of him. His party haven't treated him right, after all the work he’s done for them. If they had done the square thing by him he would have been in "the common council by this time. Not that anyone wants him there, particularly, only that would have been the shortest way to discharge certain political.debts. Now see here, North,” and Col. Clipper turned to his desk and commenced a hasty search among the loosely scattering manuscripts there, “here's an article that I wish. you’d glance over. It's a review of Detwiller’s official career, and it cuts him up pretty badly. What I want is for you to tell me if there is anything in the way it's expressed that would make me liable to an action— your opinion as a lawyer, you know.” North nodded comprehendrngly as he took the manuscript from Clipper, while the latter, tipped back in a chair at a perilous angle, with his shoulders squared pugnaciously and his thumbs thrust into the armholes of his vest, looked on in grave but eager silence. The article was written in Clipper’s happiest vein, sharp as lightning, bristling with classical allusions, but perfectly unscrupulous in its attack upon the character, reputation and pubiic career of the unhappy Detwiller. North noted.with a considerable degree of professional appreciation how skillfully the writer kept within the letter of the law while he ruthlessly transgressed the spirit. Returning the manuscript to the colonel after a careful examination, /coupled with a mental review of the law of libel, North said, with a laugh: “That will do, Clipper. You are safe so far as a legal action is concerned, but if you are liable to meet Detwiller you would better provide yourself with some efficient weapon of defense. This article is enough to incite even an ordinarily peaceful man to war and bloodj shed.”

uu, l can nuxxuie uetwiiier, or a dozen like him!” returned the handsome colonel, valiantly. “Knew my toad, you see! But a suit at law is a different thin#. I’m glad to have- your opinion of this, because I don't want to get any new libel suits on my hands until I get a few of the old lot worked off, and Detwiller's a vindictive fellow." He would bring an action in very short time if he found it could be sustained. .I’ll bring this out in Monday's issue and we’ll see if it doesn’t make a stir in the camp. There’ll be more ‘artistic profanity’ in Detwiller’s vicinity than has been heard there for many a day!” A somewhat urgent call for Col. Clipper at this point interrupted their conversation, and North embraced the opportunity to bow himself out of the editorial presence. CHaFTES XI. Fal.—Good hearts, devise something. —Merry Wives of Windsor. The following day was Sunday, and, although North’s mind was so absorbed with the important investigation that he had in hand that he felt impatient of everything that delayed its prosecution, he was forced to submit to the twenty-four hours’ inactivity, and suspense. He passed the greater part of : the time in his own apartments ar.d was fortunately left to the undisturbed solitude that he so greatly desired.

At as early an boor as practicable the next morning- he started out with the intention of calling upon Mrs. Maynard and talcing np the discussion of the Dunkirk will case at the interesting point where they had dropped it at their last interview. “I wonder,” he soliloquized, as he walked slowly down the street in the bright morning sunlight, “1 wonder if Noll is in the habit of devoting so much of his time during office hours to calling on Mrs. Maynard? To be sure, the absorbing nature of my business will sufficiently excuse the course in her eyes, but what Noll’s partner and clients Will think of my persistent neglect of all professional duties and my ‘continued absence from the office is an interesting and pertinent question which I leave for them to answer. They will probably suspect that, for a man who is so entirely in the hands of his friends, Noll is devoting a great deal of time to a personal supervision of the campaign—looking after his fences, in fact, very much after the manner of other candidates Well, I don't see that I can help it, and. really—” “Mr. North! I say, sir, I want to speak t6 you! Will you stop, sir?” The voice was that of an elderly gentleman, and it was pitched in a loud key and charged with a degree of stern emphasis which indicated the speaker had allowed his angry passions to rise to a disagreeable extent. North suddenly stopped and whirled around with a disconcerted air. Coming after him at a high pressure rate of speed was a gray-haired, gray-whisk-ered, ruddy-faced old gentleman dressed in a gray tweed business suit. One chubby red hand grasped a stout hickn I <y' i!

“ will you stop, sir.?” ory cane, while the other as he talked was employed in violent and threatening gestures which were anything but reassuring in their effect. Glancing calmly at this excited old gentleman, North lifted his hat, saying courteously: “Good morning, sir.” “Gh, good morning, sir!” retorted the old gentleman, irascibly, not intending the words as an answering salutation, but merely echoing -them in wrathful mockery. “You think you're a mighty line young gentleman, no doubt, Mr. North! You set up to be a gentleman, I say, don't you?” “Really, sir,” said North, in amazement, looking at his interlocutor as if he considered him an escaped lunatic, “your language is quite uncalled for. If you have any business with me, I request that you state it civilly; otherwise I must decline to listen to you.” “Oh, you take a lofty air upon yourself, Mr." North—a lofty air, don’t you?” returned the old gentleman,still angrily, though his tones and manner softened instantly tinder North’s cool, steady look. “You’ve worn my patience and civility out long ago, and now I want to know what you are going to do, eh? Because if you haven’t got any plans, why then I have, and it is time something was done about this matter.” “To what matter do you refer?” inquired North, who might pave suspected his indignant assailant’s identity by this time, if he had not been too greatly annoyed to think clearly about that question. “Eh? What am I talking about?” demanded the old gentleman glaring wrathfully from beneath a pair of shaggy eyebrows as he rendered this free translation of North’s'words. “Wall, if that ain’t the toppin’ off of impertinence! You’ve put me off time and time agin with your triflin’ excuses and promises, but I’ll swear that you never tried this dodge before!1 Memory’s failin’, eh? Then perhaps 1 can jog it a little. Here, sir!” and tugging %riousiy at the inner pocket of his coat, he drew forth a large, dog-eared account book and extracted from it a soiled folded paper which he thrust defiantly at North; “here’s that note of Amiijis with your indorsement written across it; and now Amity's cleared oat and here's the note overdue by six weeks'”

horth received tae paper daintily with the tips of his gloved fingers, unfolded and glanced over it. There was Ollin's indorsement in clear, bold characters, that defied all doubt or denial. “Oh, I see, this is old Archer,” thought North, ruefully: “Yes, that is the name; Jonathan Archer. Well, I see very plainly that I shall be obliged to pay this note in order to save myself serious embarrassment. Let me see, what’s the amount? By jove, two hundred dollars —why, I haven’t so much as that with me, and if I had—” ■ “Wall, what do you say now, sir?” demanded Mr. Archer, with a grtn of triumph. “’S'pose you remember the business now, don’t you? . Reckon you can’t very well go back on your own hand write!” “Oh, heavens and earth!” thought North. “If this was the way he talked to Wee the other day, I don’t wonder that my honored colleague was out of temper about it. What on earth am I to do?” He looked up and down the street, stroking his mustache in a meditative way for a moment; then turning to Mr. Archer, who was contemplating him with evident impatience, yet with an air of consciously possessing all the advantage, North began suavely: “I promise you, Mr. Archer, that this little matter shall be attended to as quickly as possible—” “Now, sir, now!” interrupted Mr.

Archer excitedly. “It’S got to be settled inside of ten minutes or Pll sue you for the hull amount! You’ve put me off a dozen times if you’ve done it once, with that same smooth promise, and I’ve waited and waited as civil as a gentleman all this timfcywhile my own creditors are pushing me to the wall. And what with my waiting and your getting so airy that you can’t see me on the street, but pass me by a dozen times a day without speaking”—North glanced sharply at Mr. Archer, and suddenly realized that he had frequently seen him during the past few days—“I begin to feel mighty shaky, and the sooner I see my money the better satisfied I’ll be. Now, sir, this note’s got to be paid, and paid inside of teD minutes. That’s my determination, and there’ll be no back dowp on it, either.” It required all the tact that North possessed, as well as a recollection of Mr. Archer’s undoubted provocation, to enable him to control himself under the exasperation caused by this scene; but he contrived to say calmly enough, though with considerable sharpness mingled with the remonstrance: “Really, sir, you must be more reasonable about this matter. It is simply impossible for me to settle this claim on ten minutes’ notice. I shall be obliged to telegraph for the money, and that will necessitate a delay of possibly several hours. You really must wait, sir.” “And haven’t I told you plain enough that I won’t wait?” retorted Mr. Archer, belligerently waving'his hand. “I’m done with triflin’. If you haven’t got the money right by you, sir, you don’t need to telegraph to Californy or the dear knows where, to get it. You can borrow it off some of your friends right here in town as easy as turnin’ over your hand, and you’d better do it mighty sudden!” [to be continued.] A NEW TORTURE FAD.

Women Hare Discovered Another Way of Making Mfeu Miserable. “I don’t mind how much the girls talk to me through their bonnets,” said the man, “but I do object to their talk ing down my back. ” “What do you mean?” asued his chum. “Just what I sav. It’s only at a theater, or in church, but it always gives me a chill. Last time it was at a theater. She was talking to her escort, h'-'t every word she said cavorted on the case of my brain and slid down my spinal column.” ‘.'Why, what did she say?” asked the chum, much interested. “What didn’t she say?” growled the man. “What right had she to be talking at all when the curtain was up and the play on? First she must talk of her sandals, because they cramped her feet, and that brought haj^jps within grazing distance of the back of my neck. I nearly had a fit. Then sho wanted her opera glasses adjusted and asked ‘Charlie’ if he could use the same focus, and went into a dissertation on eyes. Then at a thrilling moment in the play she said in a soft whisper, that slid down my spinal column: T dp be* lieve her diamonds are only paste.’ “But I do not mind this so much as some things that have nothing to do with the play. ‘Don’t, Charlie!’ gives me a fiendish desire to turn and rend Charlie. The ‘Charlies’ never talk much, for two reasons. One is that the young woman does all the talking her self, and he can only squeeze her hand1 on the sly; the other is a wholesome fear that the outraged theater-goers of his own sex will rise and brain him if he persists in drowning out the play.” “Nice state of affaire,” said the chum, sarcastically, “but it is different in church; rather a pleasant diversion, isn’t it, from the fifthly and sixthly episodes?” “Oh, is it? To have a kneeling penitent ask on the edge of your coat collar why on earth that Mrs. Blank wears that red bonnet so everlastingly, or drop a contribution nickel down your back from sheer nervousness. I’m going to weara fireman’s hat if the girls don’t stop the practice. I know it’s just a new way they have discovered of making us wretched.” And the man looked so woe-begone that his chum felt called upon to relate his grievance in hopes of a reform.—Detroit Free Press.

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