Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 November 1893 — Page 3

$1xr fife* C0initg Jrmorrat X McC. STOOPS. Editor and Proprietor PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. JUST A LITTLE WHILE. Be patient with the old folks, dear. ^ And tender be to such; $ O smooth their path and soothe their fear— You ne’er can do too much: Their feet have almost reached the end. Have reached the latest mile: \ The Lord for them will surely send * ' In just a little while. Be patient with their foibles, dear; O heed that wrinkled cheek, ‘The brow that tells of age and care* The halting step and weak; Ogive to them the tender tone. The loving gentle smile. For. ah. their life will all be done * In just a little while. B® patient, very patient, deart O raise the voice to meet The hearing of the dulied ear. And let that voice be sweet: O le t them feel the tender kiss., The sunshiue of your smile. For, O, that aged form you’ll mis3 In just a little while. Be patient with the old folks, dear; Their feet have felt the thorns. Of grief and woe they’ve had a share Since first they saw the morn: O give to them the helping hand. The sunshine of your smile: Bear this in mind, friend: Understand ’Tis just a little while. Be patient with the old folks, dear! A sword will pierce your heart If you teglect to do or bear. If you neglect your part: O give them love unstinted free. Without a shade of guile: That they are valued lekthem see— ’Tis just a little while. Be patten t with the old folks, deart The little gift you bring Willjn-yoar heart in after year Yield sweetest blossoming; The memory of your kindliness. When they are laid a wav, Will soothe your grief, will cheer and bless— Be patient then. I pray —A. Day ton, in Christian at Work.

i UTSIDfi. the I soft rustle of I the' b r e e ’ ‘ through the forest leaves the twittering of innumerable birds; the whirr and

chirp and buzz of myriads ol insects; the hot, yellow sunshine on the grass, and over all the blue, blue sky, without a fleck or eloud. Inside, the rustle of book leaves, the ceaseless buzz of the schoolroom, through which the tirm voice of the teacher breaks pleasantly now and then; the sunshine on the floor, the little hot faces with beads of perspiration, on white brows; the bare, dusky, sun-browned feet swinging restly from high benches, and. both gutside and- inside, the scintillating, scorching, shivering heat of a perfect day in midsummer. Suddenly a voice rings through the room high and sharp, with a note of terror in it: “Oh, Miss Fannie, look at that dog!” Fannie Leslie, the younf? Kentucky teacher, raises her eyes absently from the®”page she is correcting, but the vision that meets her gaze quickly changes the expression to one of horror. A huge dog stands in the doorway, a -dog lean and lank and hungry, a dog with hot. blood-shot eyes, and long ropes of froth hanging from his huge Saws; unquestionably a mad dog. A mad dog? Ah! what more horrible ■danger can threaten anyone? The brave man. unarmed, as Fannie Leslie is, would shrink from a conflict with the creature. Thought is a laggard in moments of peace and security, but let danger threaten; and thought flashes through the brain with the rapidity of light, showing us within a minute space of time a vivid picture of past years, present danger and half-formed hopes. So Fannie Leslie, during the one brief moment that the dog hesitated on the threshold, sees as by a flash the •whole vista of life unrolled, and the present peril overshadowing it all. Back over her memory, like a rush of waters, flooded her childhood days, her ■cottage home, the village school, herself a little brown-faced, bare-footed schoolgirl with tangled curls and soiled apron; the years, passing so slowly it seemed to her then, bu!t laden with all •the gladness of childhood—

L ae winters arming use nases or. snow, The summers like buds between. Then the dawn of ambition in her ■brain, followed so closely by earnestness in heart The little white church, ■with the stream in which she was baptized flowing near it; the pastor’s ■words on that last day. Her father's wrinkled brow and rough hand on her hair; t—her mother's thin, loving ■face, and the children—all younger than herself—their good-by words and kisses when she left home to teach this school, her own earnestness in assuming the responsibility, how she had prayed for wisdom ^to bend the twig aright, how \ -she had toid herself that she would * make any sacrifice for these little ones intrusted to *her care, Has the time come when that sacrifice can be made, and does she shrink from it? The room is filled with helpless, frightened children, barefooted and thinly clad. This huge, rabid dog, snarlingand growling and snapping his whiteteeth, his jaws dripping with deadly poison, is about to spring into their midst and deal out death to them. She is their only present protector, her slight strength is the ■only barrier between them and deadly perii And what can she do, after all? She has no weapon—not even a stick or stone is within her reach, and those slim little hands are too frail to battle

unarmed with this huge, mud bruts. Were she to try, she could not save the children, and it would be certain death to her. Life is sweet, and she is so young to die! Only twenty! Why. 4% had hoped to do so much good before she died; to be useful in her life! She can escape, if she will, by letting the children shift for themselves. Shall she? The temptation is horribly strong, and for one instant she wavers. Then, with a quick in-drawing of the breath, she resolves to save the chil-< dren or die in the attempt. These thoughts have swept through her brain in a scarcely-perceptible space of time. She rises to her feet, calm and cool and pale, and her voice is low and tense I when she speaks: “Children, sit perfectly still! Don’t move, and you shall not be hurt.” A heavy wadded cloak hangs upon the wall at her side, a primitive wrap, long and wide. One of the girls had worn it to school in a shower and forgotten it. Fannie Leslie, glancing quickly round the room for a possible weapon, spies this cloak. An inspiration comes to her. Seizing it from the nail on which it hangs, she opens it out to its widest extent, and breathing the words: “Ood help me now!” springs forward, her little form striking upon the dog’s body and bearing it to the floor at the same instant that she dexterously throws the

ciuaii m suen a manner mat it envelopes completely the head and neck of the dog. Then her white hands clutch the muscular throat and press it to the floor with the strength of despair, while her knee, bent upon the prostrate l>ody, holds the dog for the time being a harmless prisonef. But she realizes it cannot t$e for long. The dog is stronger than she^and any moment may shake off hen slight hands. She raises her white face for an instant, and cries in a voice thigh and sharp: “Children, get out of here, / quickly! Get out of the windows and hurry for your lives!'’ *They do hurry. The room is cleared as if by magic. Only one little fellow —the oldest boy—hesitates. “Miss Fannie, can't you get away somehow? 1 don't want to leave you,1* and he begins to sob. i “Go, Dick, go now, while I can hold him. Oh, go, go!” And the boy crawls out as thdugh his heart would break, leaving the schoolroom deserted save for the girl and the dog in this unequal struggle, with life and death in the balance. Oh! will death win? It seems so, for see, the girl's strength is faitiug, the veins on the slim hands stand out like cords; her breath comes iu heavy gasps; every nerve and muscle in her body is strained to the highest tension. In a few minutes, at most, this artificial strength will fail, and with the thought goes up a wild prayer for help, and she still clings with the desperation bora of despair to that heavy throat. But the dog's strength is great; his struggles seem to grow fiercer. Her form is at last thrown from his body, but with almost superhuman strength she retains her hold upon his neck. She does

“MISS FAUN IE, CAN’T TOC GET AWAY?" not hear the footsteps that stop at th« door; she does not see the rough, kind* ly faces peering in, but she does hear with a thrill of hope the voice of the man who cries out in amazement: “Good Lord, Jim, look at that gal, will you! She’s a i good one. now; she’s caught the dog ah’ is shakin' him to death!” k Then a sturdy arm clutches her up, there is the sound of a dull thud, and the dog lies dead at her feet, his skull crushed by a blow from the back of Jim’s ax. “W-w-why, Adam, the gal's g-g-gwine to faint arter all—b-b-by gannies she is!” But she doesn’t, though for an instant her heart stops beating, her brain grows dark and life seems departing. By a strong effort of will, she calls back her strength; the cloud passes from her brain, and, though her lips quiver a little, she holds out her small, trembling hand with a smile. -"-“You have saved my life; you two

men. How can I thank you enough? “Thank us! By gannies, we don't want to be thanked. Didn't you saTe the children, by gunnies?” The crowd of men come up. They have been chasing the dog since daylight, and were only a few minutes behind him. Then Adam tells them how “that gal” had saved her school, and various but hearty are the rude praises showered upon her, while they grasp her little hand heartily in their brawny palms. The hour of danger is very recent, and Fannie Leslie feels the solemnity of it, but, being a true Kentuckian, she has a keen sense of the ludicrous, and manages to laugh heartily at Jim’s earnest and well-meant but rather unique compliments. “B-b-b-by gannies, boys,” he stammered, “she’s a t-1-trump, T tell you, to try to c-c-choke a mad dogf with thosa little hands o’ hers! Its whut 1 call p-P'pluck, and she ought to be sent to the d-d-dime museum—b-b-by gannies —she ought that!”—Illustrated Kentuckian. _ 4-“How is business?” asked Jones, addressing the astronomer. “My business,” replied the investigator of eeleatal phenomena—“mv business is looking up.”

WOOL-PULLING IN OHIO. OK Republican Tricks Stilt Beta* Employed by McKlmlcytte*. We observe, from the Ohio papers, that the republicans are still busy trying to pull wool OTer the eyes of the farmers of the Buckeye state. It really reads like a chapter of ancient history, this reiteration of the old statements that free trade will put down the price of wool and ruin the farmer unless he is vigilant enough to get a protectionist elected governor of Ohio, a position that has nothing to do with the tariff whatever. This is the same old dreary stuff which may have been current in those prehistoric times when the megalosaurus was in the waters, the megatherium in the fields and the mylodon browsing on tree-tops in the forests. At all events, the memory of man runs not back to the time when it was not a part of political discussion. There is much rational entertainment in hearing a republican discuss the I wool tariff before an audience of farmj ers. It is a study in psychology. The orator has to forget all that he and his party haTe contended for in other matters; he has to put out of view both the lessons of the past and the facts of the I existing situation, lie feels bound to j lay the lu»v price of wool on the demoI crats, because that is necessary to the | success of his scheme to get votes; but as this is directly in conflict with all the facts of the case, so much the worse for the facts. There is no case reported in the books where facts ever seriously impeded the fluency of a reI publican spellbinder. in holding the democrats responsible for the decline df wool the republican j has first to forget what he has always said is the object and effect of protection, namely, to make commodities cheaper. As soon as he gets before an audience of Ohio farmers the spellbinder tells them that the tariff on wool was put there to protect the | farmer, and that it has kept up the price. All that has ever been said about the tariff making prices lower is carefully forgotten. There are several other things that have equally to be forgotten. A very important one is that the McKinley bill is still in force, and that a new tariff bill has not even yet been framed. If it be said, as it has been said, that the bare prospect of a change in the tariff disturbs business, the speaker is troubled with another lapse of memory. If changing the tariff is bad for business, how can anyone see his way clear to vote for Mr. McKinley, who spent all of the summer and half of the fall of 1890 in that same process of “tariff tinkering,” which is always con sidered as immoral when undertaken by democrats. The psychologic object lesson, however, does not end here. The gentleman engaged in pulling the wool over the eyes of the Ohio farmers also finds

[ns memory paralyzed with reference to the history of the wool industry since 1867, the year when the policy of high duties on foreign wool may be said to have been inaugurated. It was devised for the avowed purpose of keeping up the price, but it has not done it. The price continued going down until 188%. when there was a slight reduction in the rates. It kept on declining. Protectionists went to the farmers and told them that the decline after 1883 was due to the reduction of the duties, though they had made the reduction themselves. In 1890, the McKinley bill increased the rates, but the fall of prices of wool went on. This worried the spellbinders a good deal, but when Mr. Cleveland was elected president they saw their opportunity, and have since been saying that the low price of wool is due to democratic ascendency. Wool has declined from sixty cents a pound in 1867 to less than half that price now for the corresponding grade. The free trader does not assert that the high tariff has caused the decline of price; but logically the protectionist is bound to take the responsibility, since he contends for the general principle that “protection always cheapens commodities.” It is just as logical to contend that protection has cheapened wool as that it has cheapened woolens, or steel rails, or any other articles which, under the inexorable law of supply and demand, have suffered a great decline in price. But when a protectionist talks to a fanner about wool he always forgets ail about the theory that protection causes the fall of prices. There have been symptoms in recent years that the Ohio farmer, so far as wool is concerned, has reached the limit of his credulity. In one or two elections lately the democratic gains have been heaviest in the wool-growing counties. It remains to be proved that the old wool-pulling device retains any of its potency as a vote-winner in Ohio. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

-Now that Thomas Brackett Reed has not only taken hack his refusal to appear in McKinley’s' Ohio campaign, but has actually made a speech at Cincinnati, the Buckeye democrats should prepare for the inevitable democratic victory which is sure to follow. With Keed at one end of the state and McKinley holding forth at the other, the strain at the middle must have been excessive, just as when two elephants see-saw in the circus, and everyone trembles lest the support should break. Ohio republicans seem to have been much excited over the presence of Seed, and the leadingr protectionist organ in the state so loses itself to all ideas of idiomatic English as to remark that the crowds indicate the “muttering of straws that move with the wind.”—Kansas City Times. -Whatever recommendation Mr. Cleveland might have made to congress regarding the financial situation would have been sure to be denounced either in New York or the far west. One man cannot serve two masters whose requirements differ in every essential, and the toasting the president is getting from some quarters, while it was to have beep expected, in no less hot than that he would have received from others had his action been different. Mr. Cleveland is the victim of an unavoidable condition.—Chicago Times

DEFEATED SCHEMERS. » r«ttl* Effort* of tho BopabUeoa Mf eeffff to Okitraet Tariff Reform. Those republican molders of public opinion who have bent trying to fasten responsibility for the financial condition of the country on the democratic party are beginning to realize the hopelessness of their task. When the attempt to repeal the Sherman act as a measure of relief was first seriously considered, they took the ground that .the scarcity of available money and the business depression were not the re-, suit of the silver purchasing law. but of the prevalent dread among the industrial and commercial classes of the country that the existing tariff laws

nuuiu w reviseu in sowasare nuu the policy for which the party had declared and to enforce which it was elected. Some of the republican senators and representatives expressed this view in congress and it was generally acquiesced in to the extent of silence on the part of those who are specially favored under the high protective system, they believing at the time the Sherman law would be repealed and the financial stringency relieved, while at the same time a strong blow might be struck for the retention i of the McKinley legislation under the impression created that it is necessary to the prosperity of the country. But the action of the minority in the senate and its stubborn refusal to grant the demand for repeal have been the means of compelling the great manufacturing interests of the country to show their hands and confess that the repeal is necessary for the financial preservation of the country, thereby confessing that the tariff scare was only created for selfish partisan and trade interests and that it was without i foundation in fact The unprincipled suggestion of Senator Don Cameron thattne purchase of silver be continued in order that the republicans in congress might be sufficiently strengthl ened to prevent a reform of the tariff, was promptly sat down upon bv the manufacturers of the country, and nowhere more severely than in the great iron and steel center of his own state. They are unanimous in their demands that the Sherman law be repealed as the one thing which will restore prosperity. They declare without qualification that it is responsible for the crisis which would be happily passed but for the uncertainty created by the inexplicable course of the senate. In none of | the appeals from the manufacturers and the commercial organizations to 1 congress is there any expression of fear because the democratic party proposes to keep faith with the people in the revision of the McKinley tariff laws. Their whole cry is for the adoption of a sound financial policy. The attempt to create a tariff scare has been a dismal failure.—Detroit Free Press.

THE ELECTION LAWS. An Art That Receives ttir Approral of an tMitbtntd Vropir. In passing- the bill to repeal the federal election laws the house has simply executed, so far as it can, one of the mandates of the people. The time ehosen was inopportune, but the thing done is right. To speak of this repeal as “removing all safeguards against fraud” and “a deadly blow at honest elections.” as some of the perfervid republican organs do, is to insult the intelligence and virtue of the people. If the citizens of the different states either cannot or will not conduct elections fairly and honestly without the supervision of federal agents, our system of local self government is a failure. If corruption or intimidation prevailed, the attempt to prevent them by central authority, with the aid of bayonets as a logical recourse, would be a remedy worse than the disease. Is it necessary to remind the centralizers that this is not Mexico nor France? The plain fact is that the federal election laws have utterly failed, as Mr. Fitch showed in his very able speech in the house recently, to do anything except to “nag" local authorities and provide a job for partisan agents and burden the taxpayer. The elections have been growing fairer and more honest every year, and the republican party has been growing weaker. But the progress is due wholly to an enlightened public sentiment. This sentiment has secured the ^enactment of ballot-reform laws in a majority of the states, providing privacy for the voter and secrecy for the ballot These laws are worth more as. safeguards to free and honest elections than supervision by an army of federal spies and bulldozers vronld be. The people have decreed that this worthless and undemocratic system shall go, and it is going.—K- Y. World. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

-Gov. McKinley continues to thrust his head into the old British lion’s' mouth. And the “beast” is stuffed with the same old threshed-over straw.—N. Y. World. % -Mr. Dudley is said to have a new financial scheme. If it is constructed on the “block” system it will undoubt* edly have the unquul ified indorsement of Judge Woods.—N. Y. World. -The tariff is not a sectional question, and is not to be settled on sectional lines. A revenue tariff cannot be other than a national tariff, laid, not for.^he benefit of any particular locality, but simply for the purpose of raising the national revenues on the simplest and least burdensome plan. That is the tariff for which the people have pronounced and which they will get if they can get anything from the present senate. — Louisville CourierJournal. -Poor old republican party! It is moribund in the north and west, and dead as a door nail in the south. In ■Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Texas it has gone bodily out of business. In every one of these states the democrats have ceased to count the republican vote among the elements of opposition. The only question is: How will the republican vote divide between democrats and populists? There is nothing left of the republican party in the south except a bad odor and an evil name.—St. Louis Bepublio.

J. T. KTMB. K. n. Physician and Surgeon, PETEESBl'KG. I NIX WOflcr tivBank buildlBjt. flrat floor. WtM | fie found at office day or nifitit. GEO. B. ASHBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, ISDl Prompt Attention Giren to all Bnsines* trOflce over Barrett * Son's store. Fuancis b. Fosar. Dewitt Q. Cstmu. f6sEY A CHAPPELL. Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixix Will practice in all the courts. Specialj^ teution given tr> all business. A Nofflrf Public constantly lit the office. 4®“Office— On first floor Bank Building. E. A. Ely. 8a G. Davbsyobt ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixi>. over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store. Prompt attention giv«u to all business. [ E. 1\ Richardson. A. H. Taylob RICHARDSON £ TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, | Pete iisbu rg, Ini>. Prompt attention given to all business. A | Notary publ.o constantly in the office. Office m Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. U. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IXD. irtttce in rooms6 and T in Carpenter Buildj in*. Operations first-class. All work war* ! ranted. Anaesthetics used for painless ex- : traction of teeth. I_ ' *» NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, -I N D. Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle ST7CfcE8SF|fLLY. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store. Machinist AN1> Blacksmith. to doth* bait of i ruarantMd In all kind* of Block, uulthing. Alio ■atlslactlon loving and Reaping I&cHines ■•paired in thl bolt of workmaaaklp 1 «mplor non* but flnt~«lan workmin. Do not go from homi to g*t your work, but rail ot mi at my ihop on Main 8tmt. Patinbun CHAS. VEECK.

TRUSTEES’ NOTICES OP OPPICC OAT. NOTICE h* hereby given that I win attend to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at home on EVERY MONDAY. AU persons who have business with the office win take notice that 1 win attend to business on no other day. _ M. M. GOTTEN, Trustee NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties.in. terested that I will attend at my office in Stendat, _ EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee ot Lockhart township. All persons having? business with said office will please take notice. 4. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties eon* earned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY. To attend to business connected With the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERT THURSDAT To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. gp-Posittvely no business transacted ax* cent on office days SILAS KIRK. Trustee. "VTOTICK is hereby given to all parties con. ti.s cerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office ot Trustee of Madison township. ggrPositively no business transacted ex* cept office days 4AMES RUMBLE. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons in* terested tbat 1 will attend in my office in Velpen, EVERY FRIDAY. To transact business connected with the office ot Trustee ot Marion township. AU persons having business with said office wiU please take notiee. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. XTOTICK ie hereby giv concerned that I will attend at my < KVRRY DAY To transact business connected with the _ of Trustee ot Jefferson township. & W. HARRIS, 'frosts*

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