Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 June 1894 — Page 3

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'V. v boin i nose guou women had died young1, leaving their handsome “boys” with bitterest tears and sorrow. Both looked thorough “men about •town,” each had a tailor who rivaled that of the other, yet, it always happened (their tastes in some respects "being identical) that the same waistcoats and trouserings appealed to both, while their barbers appeared to have entered into a rivalry to cut and shave them, hair for hair, alike. Both attended all the principal race meetings, both loved music and a good play, each •drove a carriage, and rode in the mornings, each had rooms in St. James’ r street, and, to cap the whole thing, they moved more or less in the same set, and were' both in love with the same woman. There was, in fact, no outward difference whatever in their appearance, manner, and, so far as the world knew, mode of life, but there ■was all the difference possible between the heart and disposition of the two mein, as more than one woman could knye told. Naturally, they knew all •eaeph other's secrets, thereby increasing th^ respect and hatred of one man for the other, who in turn despised and scorned his double, making, however, no effort to unmask him.

iTetty, trembling women would at race meetings, or under the trees in the park, or in the Ipbby of the opera, whisper strange reproaches into Jack Infcht-quin's honest ears, and sweetfaCed honest girls and wives would trtiat Blair Athol with a respect he most assuredly did not deserve, so that often he did not explain the mistake at once as Jack did, thereby perhaps -escaping trouble, though it was seldom liijs not to see that agony of shame in a woman's eyes that poor Jack alas! all too often had to face. ’Thus they were circumstanced, a potent cause of discomfort to one another, and a real stumbling to their friends and acquaintances. Often a woman who liked Jack, yet in some Vague intangible way mistrusted Blair Athol, would see Jack driving up to her door, and tell the servants she was at home, only to see the other man walk in a few minutes later, with a ■smile that told how thoroughly he was aware of the mistake that had led to "his admission. Many women furious at l'epeated failure to distinguish one from the other, refused to bow to •eijther, or if accidentally drawn into a -conversation with Jack or Blair Athol, pointedly refrained from giving him a name. (There was only one sign by which the initiated became aware to whom they were speaking. The right sort of a person in Jack's company had a sense of rest, of satisfaction, even of pleaspjre, while Blair Athol’s inspired vague upeasiness, and, among a certain class of men, dislike. The inferior order of woman, the woman who is bound to «uccumb to the fasc inations of some one man or other during her life, infinitely preferred Athol to Jack, and pjossibly he found satisfaction in the fact, for he availed himself of the preference very thoroughly. It did not at all lessen his enjoyment that Jack frequently got all the credit of his double’s misdeeds, and that Kitty Dasent frequently frowned on the innocent victim of one of nature’s breaks, and would not listen to any explanations that might be offered to her.

SALUTING HER IN MILITARY FASHION. But if love is sometimes blind, love •can also on occasions see farther than ^anyone else, and Kitty had never confounded the two with each other; in ■darkest dusk she would have instantly known which was which. For she doved Jack, and it took most of her time to prevent his discovering a fact Blair Athol had long” ago discovered, But which did not weigh one jot against the latter’s inflexible determination to marry her. Kitty was an heiress, and her principal charm lay in her money hags to Blair Athol, while the very existence of those bags were so abhorrent to Jack that they had hitherto proved an insurmountable barrier between them. Both men visited her at her guardian's hou,se in Park lane, but Jack’s were like "angels’ visits, few and far

between, while Blair Athol came constantly, showing himself at his very best, and never making the mistake of disparaging the absent man to the girl who loved him. If Jack knew^the truth, he deliberately shut his eyes to It, but if all her fortune had one fine morning turned to rainbow gold, he would have been by her side as fast as he could get to her after hearing the news — meanwhile never by word or look did he betray himself. People who saw Misp Dasent with him. saw nothing, bift~ they saw a great deal between her and Blair Athol, who occasionally assumed airs of annexation that were more patent to the world than the girl who was preoccupied ; always with the thought of Jack—and Jack’s coldness. Who shall say that the extraordinary resemblance between the two men did not make her accept as a frequent visitor a man whom she did not like, but who j et kept alive in her thevisible im age of Jack? She saw the latter so seldom, that it wanted a tenacious memory indeed to remember him, but neither in her case nor in his did absence make the heart grow fonder of somebody else. The other lovers who came and went, some for her lovableness and loveliness, others who could not see the woman behind the shining of her gold, were no more to her than the shadows at play at hide-and-seek on a mountain side, and Mr. Stranbenzee, her guardian, grew angry as she refused one great marriage, after another and extended, apparently, a favor to Blair Athol that neither the man nor his fortune warranted. Matters were at this stage in the cold early days of February, when parliament, having assembled at an unusual time of the year, Mr. Stranbenzee was forced -to be in town and assisting at those dismal sittings that, varied by uproarious scenes, seem the fashion in parliament to-day. Kitty was kg incapable of dullness as any other brightly intelligent girl of twenty, but the winter months, without news of or any sign from Jack, had tried her greatly, and when Blair Athol came to call the familiar face, that so closely resembled the other, turned her sick with pain and longing, and she could scarcely control herself to utter a commonplace greeting.

Hlair Athol was a far cleverer man than Jack, and he read her like a book, read her and realized distinctly and once for all that she would never take himself as Jack's double, since she could hot marry Jack, and no one would have guessed from his manner that the words he had come to say forever now would remain unsaid. He looked at the 'beautiful young lady warily drawing her thread through the work in her hand, only looking up now and again to glance with a strange wistfulness at the trees in the park, and something—whether an emanation from his own evil heart or a direct prompting of the devil—inspired him with an idea that grew and grew, until lo! perfect in all its devilish proportions. was unfolded a scheme before him. He hardly breathed; he was glad that she did not speak, as he could not then have replied to her. Wondering at his silence, she presently looked up, and there was that in his eyes, introspective, almost clairvoyant, that chilled her. “What a mistake it is,” she cried, suddenly, “to suppose that you are like Capt. lnchequin.” Blair Athol smiled. The smile was woyse than the concentrated gaze of a moment ago. He rose, kissed her hand in cqurtier fashion and passed out. Kitty sat on the floor in her dainty bedroom, enjoying all the rapture and newness of reading the first love letter she had ever received from the man she loved. She pressed it to her lips, she clasped it to her bosom, she held it away from her and she held it near. She laughed, she cried, and all but went out of her senses for pure joy that after all love had conquered pride — that mountains of hateful money had not been able to bury her out of reach of her lover’s arms. “I fear it will all be uphill work, darling,” came at the close of the letter, "as your guardian will never consent to your marrying a comparatively poor man, and you are under age and subject to liis authority. Nevertheless, there is almost no impasse out of which love caunot find a way, and if you love me enough and are time enough it ma}’ not’ be so very long before we are together. I am taking, it for granted, my dear one, that you love me, for have I not seen in you those timid signs that a-girl only gives to the man for whom she has a- preference? And if you knew what a struggle it has been to repress all outward manifestations of my passion during the past year and a half you would indeed pity me. Answer me, my dearest, as soon as possible. My servant will call at twelve o’elocK for your reply. He will not give my name, but asjj^fo speak to you privately. I know ^qr guardian is not at home in the mornings.” The letter closed after the usual passionate manner (more or less) of lovers, and, as it had come by the first morning’s post, Kitty had ample time to put all her heart and soul into the first love letter she had ever written long before noon. At twelve o’clock she was told that a man wished to speak to her, and presently a smart soldier-servant was ushered into her boudoir, saluting her in military fashion as he entered. Kitty blushed, and while handing him the precious missive said: “Ja— Capt. Inchequln is well?” “Yes, miss. He asked me to tell you, miss, that since writing to you riots have broken out at Aldershot, and he does not expect to be able to come to town for at least another week.” Kitty’s heart sank, but she kept a brave front, and having given him a coin that for some unknown reason made him blush, Tommy Atkins once more saluted and retired. But once alone in the corridor, his feet sinking without sound into the velvet pile carpet as he passed between the pictures and statuary with whioh rich men of taste fill their

houses, his face changed suddenly, and once he came to a full stop, hesitating, as if he would have liked to turn back. “What a beauty!” he said to. himself softly, “and a good heart, too— and for him”—and it is a fact that he never set foot inside those doors, o* brought any letter to her agaiu. It was true enough about the riots. Moreover, Jack hail got rather badly stoned, but such was his impatience to openly call Kitty his, that in his fourth letter he asked her to broach the matter to Mr. Stranbenzee, as often women had so much more influence over crusty old guardians than their aspiring suitors, Kitty was nothing loth, having indeed that fine independence of spirit common in great heiresses, and moreover, if he did refuse, she would be twenty-one in six months, and who would not willingly wait longer than that for her Jack? . " So she went gayly to the old gentleman in his study one evening and informed him that Capt. Inchequin, of the —th lancers, had done her the inestimable honor of asking her to share his hut at Aldershot—and his heart. Mr. Stranbenzee showed his appreciation of the compliment by using copious language and dancing. Jfow there is the dance of enjoyment, the dance of pain, and the dance oi rage, and it was this last in which Mr. Stranbenzee indulged, and being almost as rich as his ward, and able to afford any little thing he fancied, he did his dance thoroughly—if without dignity. Possibly Kitty might have forgiven the exhibition if it had not bespattered Jack with such epithets as “fortune hunter,” “half-pay beggar,” “hand-to-mouth adventurer.” and so on, and when in addition to this he announced that he should write to the

SHE SEIZED HIM BY THE 8H0UBDEB. young1 man saying he had received an offer for his ward that he concluded was intended for one of his housemaids, Kitty arose in her wrath, called him a money grabbing old wretch, and rushed away, with just a pause in which to bang the door with all her might. She took her maid (to whom it was no secret) into her confidence, and the passage of letters between the lovers was adroitly managed with the result that one black morning little more than a week from the receipt of Jack’s declaration, two darkly cloaked and deeply veiled women left the house at Park lane almost immediately after Mr. Stranbenzee had gone out, and getting into a cab were driven swiftly to St. George’s square, into which they passed quickly, choked and blinded by the dense fog that filled every nook and corner of the dreary old church in which so many happy and sad marriages have been celebrated. With all their haste they were late, as Mr. Stranbenzee had out of pure contrariety gone out half an hour later than usual, and it was not till they were close to the altar rails that they half saw the bridegroom, who moved at once towards them, and at the same moment the white robe of the clergyman loomed through the fog, and before a word could be exchanged between bride and bridegroom the service had begun. The brid^rroom’s voice was so low that when after the “I wills” were spoken, and the maid had responded to the inquiry of “Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?” his voice was quite inaudible when he pronounced his own name in making his vows to take his Kitty for better and for worse; and Kitty’s was but a murmur when her turn came to utter his name and her own, and make also those vows to whioh she plighted her troth. A sense of almost shame, of unmaidenly haste, of the almost criminal secrecy of the whole thing weighed her down: she had been overpersuaded, anc^she yielded. And somehow even her groom’s presence beside her, his hand-clasp, did not cheer her. When he gave her the ring, and she laid it on the book, and the clergyman gave it in turn to the man, a strange shudder ran through her; he drew her hand towards him, but she snatched it away as one suddenly gone mad, seized him by the shoulders, and peering as at some frightful sight into his face, uttered one long shriek, and broke up into a heap on the altar steps. In the confusion Blair Athol vanished, faded indeed out of London life, a ruined man, who caused gnashing of teeth among others besides his creditors. Steps were hurrying up the aisle—and it was Jack Inchequin who lifted the poor girl up, ?„nd soothed her in his arms, and called her by every fond and foolish word of love that he had resolutely held back so long. “My man confessed the whole hellish conspiracy this morning,” he said later; “he had been heavily bribed by that scoundrel, and I feared lest I should get here too late. We will eome back to you, sir, before long,” he added to the clergyman, “and I’ll promise yon it shall be the right mar next time.” And it was. —The Netherlands furnish beet su^ gar, lily bulbs and choice shrubbery.

REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISTS Dclsr In th* Smtataowd by Fat-Frying Protectionist*. In dealing with the tariff the cardinal sin of the senate has been obstruction, and the sinners are the republicans. Through many years of experience in Coxeyizing schedules the republican senators have become a close trading corporation. With specific duties they have acquired expertness in arranging duties so that low tariffs fall on the grades of goods which are not controlled by import duties and high tariffs on the great staple necessaries of the household. Republicans have in a compact body resisted all progress toward a vote. It is they who have given to Gorman and Brice about all the power used to blackmail the democratic majority. And republicans were in every deal Brice and Gorman made. What do Brice, Gorman, Smith and Murphy care about the cutlery and hardware schedules? What do they care about cotton cloth? The hand of Quay is seen all through the metal classification, and Aldrich would as well have signed his name to the cotton amendments. The Gorman combine has been a republican deal. If the business men who are anxiously awaiting a settlement have had their eyes open they must have seen that the great majority of democrats in both houses were ready and anxious months ago to give the country a liberally devised tariff law. The full strength of the republicans has been put forth for obstruction. Nor can the obstruction come under any honest theory of conviction on the tariff. The republican senators knew that a law of some kind was certain to be passed. They could not say that they were fighting in the hope of preserving the McKinley law. All they have done is to hold their ranks solid for obstruction while the Gorman democrats did the work of the lobby by bulldozing tactics. The easterners

THE BUCKEYE EPHRAIMS. An Earnest »f What the HrKtnlejItea Par* pose to ArcomplUh. Dyed-in-the-wool McKinleyism had the floor and everything1 else at the recent Ohio republican convention. The promised shading of opinion in favor of some recession from the extreme policy of protection, named in honor of the governor of , Ohio, was not apparent in any direction. On the other hand the Buckeye republicans not only stood out on the advance line and hurrahed for McKinleyism, but, encouraged by democratic demoralization in congress, they dared to push out still further. That is the logic and the history of protection. It is never satisfied. Its appetite * thrives lustily upon indulgence. The extreme protection of to-day is insufficient to-morrow. As the infant waxes fat it leans less upon its legs and more upon its crutch, and needs occasionally to replace the old one with a stouter to support its flabby, overfed weight. Having contituted themselves the especial guardians of extreme protection, the Ohio republicans, with never a thank you for what they have received, and never a regret for what it has cost the country to pay the price, raise a shrill cry for more. “We condemn and denounce.” say they, “any attempt to repeal or amend it (the McKinley act) which does not have for its object better protection to American labor and Ameri- , can interests than is secured by it.” Ip the republican vernacular, “better protection for American labor” is a euphemism for biggerbounties for protected monopolists. The Ohio republicans, sounding the keynote of Gov. McKinley’s presidential campaign, declare their desire to advance protective duties still further, to tax the Ameri* can people still more oppressively tot the support of favored and pampered interests, to impose upon the burdened taxpayers of the country a yet heavier weight of unconstitutional taxation

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who lead the republicans got what they wanted for certain special interests, and got it through Gonnan and his band. Then they were willing to negotiate for a roll call. All this four months of obstruction, in committee an,d on the floor, has not been to save the McKinley law, but to capture as much swag as possible for favorite trusts. The commercial weltafe of the country has been sold out through an entire spring season to get concessions for a few establishments. And it must not be forgotten that the industries— cotton, for example—which have won the most of this plunder employ either very little labor or pay very low wages. Obstruction has been republican from first to last. The Coxeyizing democrats have been republicans in the tariff deal. There has befen no resemblance between them and the democratic majority. There has been no sympathy or cooperation between them and the democratic majority. Their gains have been obtained by junction with the republicans and in combat with a democratic force which the people had not made large enough. If the western states had been represented by democrats, a genuine reform bill would have been passed before March.—St. Louis Republic. —Senator Sherman’s plea for a tariff commission was the last despairing cry of the protective buzzard. It would nave served to prolong the robberies for a few yerrs longer, but tho democrats are not to be caught by such chaff. Commissioners for purposes of legislation are not recognized by the constitution, and congress has properly determined to discharge its duty according to law, even if it doesn’t reach public expectation in the ' character of the measure it enacts. But the pending bill is better than ' nothing, and may be regarded as the beginning of the end of protection plundering.—Kansas City Times. -Republican gall needs no medicine. Offering free sugar amendments after the democrats have agreed upon a schedule is about as r.ear good politi- : cal economy as the parents of the su- i gar trust could be expected to come.— < St. Louis Republics

of the many for the benefit of the few It is a fair warning. This is wbat repulicanism aims at. This is the j^brpose of protection. This is what the party of McKinley will do if it gets the power. After the election of 1892 republicans were disposed to apologize for McKinLeyism and to admit that it might have gone a little too far. When divisions began to appear among the democrats in congress, the republicans took heart and resented and resisted all propositions to scale in any way the extreme McKinley duties. Now that treachery has done its utmost in congress to discredit and defeat the cause of tariff reform, the apologists of two years ago boldly declare that the McKinley wall is not high enough.’and that they mean to crown it with a fancy coping | sf still bigger profits to their chosen wards. j Protection, for four years on the defensive, has assumed the aggressive. Not satisfied with the measure which the people have twice condemned at the polls, it invites a square issue between lower taxes on the one iiand, and yet higher bounties on the ather. If the democrats cannot rally apon an issue like that, then treachery and cowardice have struck deeper than anyone has ever supposed. — Louisville Courier-Journal. Truths About High Tariff. High tariff quarantines all open markets. High tariff asks labor to take monopoly on tru . Cold facts show that high tariff has iilled more sheep than the dog tax ;an pay for. High tariff’s attention is directed to the democratic fact that no unprotected industry has imported any ‘'Huns.” There doesn’t seem to be any more genuine protection in Carnegie’s armor alate than in McKinley’s tin helmet. It may be incidentally remarked of ligh tariff that it not only wants to ‘get there with both .feet,” but with ijoth hands as well. Now that the senate* has heroically investigated itself and impartially found itself not guilty of bribery the sugar trust, high tariff and all oth«,r lisiuterested parties may taka a long breath.—Chicago Herald.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, END. ASFOffice in Rank building, first floor Wil oe found at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IXD. Prompt Attention'Given, to all Business , Aa'Offico over Barrett & Son's store. Francis B. Poset. Dewitt Q. Cuappku. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, y Petersburg,- Ixd. Will practice in all the courts. Soecial attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the ol'lce; *S"OfHce-* On first floor Bank Building. E. A. Ely. f». G. Davenport rv ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. aWOffice over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store. Prompt attention given to all business. E. P. Richardson. A. II. TAtlor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. .V Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the Office. Office in Carpenter Building, Eighth aud Main,

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