Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 July 1894 — Page 3

STltt Count;) graorrat M Mod. STOOPS, Editor nod Proprietor PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. V...-1___ ' TS

The rocking chair in its perfection is found only in its native land, America. The European variety of the species is but a tolerable imitation, having neither the comfort nor the elegance of the original article. Still, there are rocking chairs in Europe, and a company in Austria turns out very good semblances, indeed, of bent wood with cane trimmings. 1' was the first one out from the big - hotel to the terrace in front, and therefore had my choice of all the chairs scattered so profusely around; and if none of them were so good as the big red rocking chair of the American hotel veranda, yet the Austrian article standing empty beside the little round metal table was not to be despised, so 1 sat down in it and lit my cigarette. The waiter, who had followed me out, bringing a cup of black coffee, now poured out a liquor glass of the aromatic penetrating, green decoction, pouring it so deftly that it came exactly to the brim and did not spill a drop. 1 have always admired the expertness of the European , waiter, either with coffee or the more expensive monkish liquor. There was a small hedge at the edge of the terrace, and 1 thought I had taken the last seat towards the western end, but I found 1 was mistaken. Behind me on the terrace was a graygreen bush, and behind that bush and sheltered from the hotel lights, stood another round metal table and two chairs.. Two young girls came down the hotel steps with their arms around each other in the confidential fashion of young persons still in their teens. They were aged twenty or thereabouts, and they took their places behind the bush apparently not noticing that I •was within hearing distance. By this time many people were coming out in twos and threes and little groups, and many began walking about the graveled terrace; the wise, however, securing good places for the evening at the little tables before the rush for seats "began. The deep gorge of the Rhine had •filled with darkness, which the thin crest of the silver moon hanging in the sky had not light enough to penetrate. Just before going im~to dinner I had noticed how lovely this gorge was, with the deep green river flecked with white foam from the falls,-1 and the mtrn^titintsof its surface reflecting back the splendor of the-sunset sky. Now all this was gone,, but almost directly below* us the l^hine fall showed white and fleecy in the gathering darkness. We were some hundreds of feet above, but its roar came up to us like the long-sustained note of an organ. The falls of the Rhine are the greatest in Europe, but you can't expect a man brought up on Niagara to wax very enthusiastic about them; still, I will say this, that they are very pretty

TWO YOUNG GIKI.S CAME DOWN THE STEPS. little falls, about sixty feet in height, more like rapids than cataracts, but probably it would not be quite safe to shoot these Rhine rapids in a canoe. I haven’t very much respect for them, but they were pretty, and white, and fleecy, and fragile, as I looked down on them from the terrace of the big hotel.

“You see.” said one of the girls from dehind the bush, ‘"as soon as her parents realized how serious the case was they took her at once to Switzerland.” “Ah,” said I to myself, “some poor invalid who came here with the hope of getting well, and who probably stayed to die.” “Her father left the strictest injunctions that no one was to know where they were. None of the people at the office knew where the family had gone except the confidential eleru, who forwarded the letters.” “But why,” said the other girl, “did they come to so public a place as the Rhine fall? I should have thought they would have been sure to have been found out.” “No,” said the other girl, who must have been quite twenty-one years old, and knew a great deal, of course; “no, the right way when yon are hiding is to go to the most public place you can; it is always in the most out-of-the-way places that you find people you don’t want to meet.” “Oh, ho,” said I to myself, “it is not a case of illness then; it looks more like a defalcation or something of that sort-”

“They took those rooms with the Ions' baleony in front and they tad all their meals served there. I often1 saw the poor girl sitting on the balcony, for they never allowed her to go out, but watched her like a couple of old 'cats. 1 think they expe6ted her to forget, in the midst of scenery like this, but it was quite evident that she forgot nothing.” “As if,” said the younger girl, with some indignation in her voice, “as if the sight of the. Rhine fall would make up for the sight of the person one loves.” ■ “Ah,” said I to myself, with some disappointment, “it is neither a case of consumption nor defalcation, but merely an affair of the heart.” Of course 1 lost interest in the conversation at once and coughed slightly to let them know I was there, but at that moment the big globe containing the carbons for the arc light began to hiss and sputter over our heads, and finally it flooded all the terrace with the steely white illulhination of electricity. The girls shrieked: “Oh!” at this sudden brilliancy, but they went on with their talk.

■ “And how did be find out where they were?" asked the younger girl. “Oh, iu the most ingenious way,” replied the elder. “He tried to bribe the {ieople in the office, and 1 believe he spent a lot of money, but no one knew where they were except the confidential clerk, and of course there was no use attempting to bribe him. Then the young man remembered that the girl had told him her father, who was a strong party man, always took the Bunkum Gazette, no matter in what part of Europe he was, so he went to the Buntcum Gazette office and said to the clerk: ‘I believe a mistake was made in the address of Mr. Spalding. Would you kindly look it up, so that I i may correct it?’ The clerk at once I brought dowfi the book, and as he | opened it the young man said: *H. S. Spalding, please?’ So the clerk ran his finger down the page and read out: ‘II. S. Spalding, Hotel Switzerhof, Neuhausenj, Switzerland.’ ‘Ah!’ said the young man. ‘that is quite right. 1 thought the paper was being sent to Berne.’ And so the young man left at once for Switzerland.” By tins time the terrace was entirely ] filled up, and the electric light threw a i glare over the stirring seeuc. It was nearly nine o'clock and it had become so dark that the fleecy white of the Rhine fall had entirely' disappeared. Then all at once the electric lights went out, and the lights were turned out in the hotel and on the terrace so that we sat for a time in perfect darkness. “So he arrived one night at the Switzerhof hotel just when everybody was out at the illuminations. He knew how it would be; he looked over the hotel register and found out just what apartments the Spaldings occupied. lie was very' particular about liis room, he said, and he went upstairs with the porter, to look at several. One room appeared to suit him very well, because it hail*a little balcony' which was almost within reaching distance of the long balcony in front <of the Spaldings’ suite. ‘Who ! occupies these rooms next to me?’ he asked. jOh, a very quiet English family'. Old gentleman and lady with I their daughter. Very quiet people, I ! assure you, sir.’ ‘Then 1 11 take this room.’ said the young man.” “Wasn't he clever?”cried the younger girl with enthusiasm. “I do wish 1 i had seen him.”

As we sat there in the darkness one l of the employes of the hotel stuck up-something- against the hedge and then struck a match that lit the something he had stuck up. There was a sputtering hiss and a great flame of sparks leaped suddenly into the dark sUy. We all craned our necks to see, and saw a similar streak of fire rise from the opposite sice of the Rhine. Away overhead the rocket burst and filled the darkness with many clusters of brilliant colored lights. Then down to us came the two reports, as if some one had fired pistols in the air. It was one bank of the Rhine signaling to the other that everything was in order. Instantly there shot out from the side of the river on which we sat, and some hundreds of feet below us, the white broadening ray of an electric searchlight It struck the castle Laufen, and made it staud out like a picture shown by a stereopticon. All the world was black, but the castle stood out as if painted in silver. It was a most startling picture, and the crowd on the terrace suffered a polite little ripple of applause to rise from them. With that the searchlight shifted and the castle disappeared as if waved away by :a magician's wand. In its place, lower down, there stood the fleecy foam of the waterfall in the left bank of the Rhine. Next, the island that stands between the two falls, and next again, the wild, rushing torrent that composes the fall on the righthand bank. People said to each other: “Isn't it lovely?” which indeed it was. Then the searchlight suddenly went out, and all was darkness once more.

“And how did he manage to communicate with her?” asked the ybunger girl in an eager whisper. “Well, as soon as the electric lights went out, getting ready for the illumination, he came out on his balcony. She was sitting on the corner of her balcony, the father next, and the mother beyond. You see the father was a little deaf, and the young man knew that, so he leaned over as far as he could and whispered to her, and if there hadn't been a balcony she would have fallen over. As it was, she gave a little shriek, for she recognized his voice at once. But the moment that danger was over everything was all right, and they whispered back and forth easily enough.” “Dear, dear,” said the younger girl, “it's just like a scone in a play, isn’t it?” | / : | Before the elder girl could answer the searchlight was out again. This

[ time it struck the long bridge of nine arches that crosses the river just above the falls, a railway bridge, and the light was timed to illuminate the bridge just as the train shortly after half-past nine was passing. Then the searchlight illuminated the town of Neuhausen on our side of the river. After that it struek the falls again, and the light was made red and blue and all colors of the rainbow. Next half the falls was made one color and the other half another color, and so it went on to the delight of all the enthusiastic young people on the terrace. Then the electric light went out of the business and left us once more in the darkness. “And did they make it up right ♦here in whispers?” asked the younger girl. “Yes, they did. He said he would

• * ^ HR LEANED OVER AS PAR AS HS COULD. have a carriage out in front of the hotel next night when the illuminations were going on at the rear, and she could slip into her room, take what she could, and join him there. It seems there are some formalities requisite in Switzerland before a couple can be married here, a term of residence or something of that sort. Hut this could all be arranged and he had arranged it.” ~ “Oh, wasn't he clever?” repeated the younger girl, who seemed to have unlimited admiration for another girl’s young man. “Yes,” said the elder girl, “and curiously enough her parents told her that the next night they were going to sit out here on the terrace for the first time since they came to this hotel, and the girl thought it was very lucky, but it wasn’t as lucky as she imagined. So she had her room to herself, when the eventful night came. She had plenty of time to pack what things srife— needed, and then she stole down the hotel stairs, fearing at every step she might meet either of her parents, but she reached the door without meeting anyone, as everyone was on the terrace to see the illuminations, and joined the young man where he was waiting for her with a carriage, and they drove off together.”,

Here there was a report of a cannon from the island between the two falls. The effect was instantaneous and magical. Thousands of colored lights, all around the margin of the falls and the ancient Schloss Lanfen, lit up in a moment as if they had "been touched by the same electric spark. They first burned blue, throwing that color over the Rhine falls and far down the river. Then the light turned to red, then to green, and the effect was even prettier than when the searchlight was turned upon the falls. Finally the lights burned themselves out and once more we sat in darkness. “Yes," said the younger girl, “and what happened then'?*’ “Well,” said the elder girl, “the very strangest thing in the world happened. As they were driving along the Cornice road, that ruus frera this hotel to Neuhausen the electric light man was illuminating the town, and suddenly, as if the very spirit of mischief had come over" him, he turned the light full on the road, and chere, just like a magic-lantern picture, stood the carriage. Everyone on the terrace recognized the girl and her parents recognized the young man.” “Oh, wasn’t that terrible!'’ cried the young girl, and I felt sure she clasped her hands in the darkness. Now we came to the last portion ot the illumination. We could dimly see lights hovering about the Schloss Laufen on the other side of the Rhine from where we sat. There was set on fire heaps of powder that gave a brilliant crimson flame. Ruddy fires lit up the grim front of the old castle, while clouds of smoke floated up in the evening air. It looked as if some tremendous conflagration were going on. The red light shed its rays on the falls, and it seemed that all th^tfood shed in the campaigns along the whole Rhine was now pouring over the rocks into the basin below. Slowly the lights died out, and the old castle dimmed into obscurity. Then the .young man of our hotel came and fixed something into the hedge and set it off. It proved to be a sky rocket. A similar one shot up into the sky from the other side of the Rhine and the illumination was at an end until midnight.

“And then what happened?” asked the young girl, tremulously. **Oh, the old gentleman jumped up and ordered a carriage and horses, but, of course, it takes some time to get them ready. The mother began to cry and the father raged up and down, swearing, while everybody in the hotel seemed to wish good-speed to the young couple,”—Detroit Free Press. —Quite a number of early books remain in the exaet state in which they came from the press, with a large blank at the beginning for an illumination. with blanks for the initials, blanks for the chapter heads, with the pages unnumbered and with no signatures to guide the binder in collecting sheets

THE INCOME Ti 7*TbeEiposimof •“Monster’* Antt-Inrome Tax Meeting. \ Most of the big- democratic dkily papers of New York have been, and are still, fighting- against the adoption of the income tax, and the accounts they gave of a ‘’monster” business men's meeting was truly sensational, which makes it all the more pleasant to read the cooling correspondence of sober fact published in the New York World: “I was one of the ‘myriads' who attended the ‘great demonstation' against the income tax in Carnegie Music hall last evening. “I reached the hall about 8:10. Not having a ticket, I was not admitted to the parquet or to either of the first or second tier of boxes. This struck me as somewhat peculiar for a mass meeting In the first gallery,' which will seat about 600, I found less than fifty persons. If. as the Recorder, Herald, and Journal of Commerce, and Commercial Bulletin tell us to-day. the hall •was filled to overflowing long before 8 o'clock, no evidence of this fact existed at 8:15. “I sat in the best position in the house for making an estimate of those present. 1 made a count at 9 o'clock, with the following result. Upper gallery. 2 Lower gallery. 232 Upperboxtler... 53 Lower box tier. 99 Parquet.............■...,. 714 Platform.... 100 Musicians. 26 Reporters...... 20 Total... 1.246 “Not more than two hundred seats in the parquet and lower tier of boxes were hidden from me. At no time were there 1,400 persons in the hall, including policemen and ushers. After the parrots had exposed their ignorance of the proposed income-tax bill, the resolutions were read, the ayes called for and the chairman declared the resolutions adopted ■ ’unanimously.” If he had put the negative he would have heard a strong protest from the forty or fifty persons remaining in the gallery. “I believe no mass meeting was ever better advertised. It probably cost between $2 and $.*> per head to get” the masses to turn out and display their enthusiasm. I am confirmed in the belief that if the people of this city had an opportunity to vote on the ineometax question_they would declare for such a tax by an overwhelming majority. The grosslj* exaggerated statements in many of the papers and the palpable attempts of all concerned to deceive the people are a disgrace to our city. More than that, they sow the seed of anarchy and discontent by establishing the fact there is a ‘plutocratic press.' I for one am most thankful that our greatest and best newspa- | per stands by the people in their de-1 mands for what is right.”—Cor. National Economist.

FREE TRADE MILLSThey Give Steady Employment at Good Wages to Workmen. Tho working1 man may be glad that there are a. few free trade manufacturers in this country who keep their mills running in all kinds of weather and under all kinds of tariff and who do not take advantage of every proposed reduction of tariff duties to compel their employes to accept lower wages. Nearly all kinds of glass are manufactured by tariff protected trusts. These trusts have kept about half of their mills closed during the past two years, and for several months of each year all have been closed. Under the 100 per cent, protection of the McKinley tariff wages have been greatly reduced and many strikes are now on because of threatened reductions. But there is one important exception. The manufacturers of lamp chimneys do not depend upon a tariff for support, have no trust, have not reduced wages and have given steady employment to labor. The following is from the National Glass Budget of June 9: “At a meeting of the lamp chimney manufacturers and a committee o f the workers the wage scale for the next fire was agreed to. Few changes were made, there was no friction of any kind and the previous scale was practically continued. The western as well as local factories took part in the meeting.” One of the manufacturers is Mr. George A. Macbeth,of Pittsburgh, who is said to be the largest individual glass manufacturer in the world. Mr. Macbeth has for years been shipping thousands of dollars worth of chimneys to all parts of the world, including Germany, %vhere,are his chief competitors. He says that with free raw materials he oould distance all competitors. He neither believes in protection for himself nor for any body else. He says: “Twenty-five years of tariff demoralization has cultivated a socialistic and paternal idea of government.” It causes manufacturers to bend their “energies to seeing how high prices they could get instead of working out the problem of cheaper production.” Such manufacturers and such men will be the salvation of the nation, if it ever gets salvation.—B. W. II.

TARIFF ANP WAGES. A High Tariff Don Not Make High Wages. - * • There is another thin? which is not T clear to me. How is it that free trade, with foreign nations that pay low | prices for labor, can benefit all? How i can it but reduce wages to a level with ' those pauper-labor countries? First—Labor does not cost more in ; one country than in another as long as immigration is free; that is, wages may j be higher in one place than in another, j but they cannot remain so unless the work turned out is in proportion. If high wages meant high cost of production, the converse would be true—low wages would mean low cost of production; and no wages at all—slavery— would drive out of existence any wage- , paying institution. But the reverse is j o\ir experience of the last century. The last relic of that barbaric institution—slavery—was abolished in 1838, because it did not pay—the wage system superseded it. The reason is, that where high wages exist it pays to em

plo> labor-saving machinery. In side*, the better the material condition of the workmen as a class the more industrious'and intelligent they are—and intelligence will defeat ignorance in the competitive race every time. Hut even if the cost of production u higher in one country than it is in another, it is, difficult to see how free trade can affect wages. If an article is too high-priced to be saleable in another country, there is no possibility of trading: no one will buy from a foreigner, if the article costs more than would a similar one at home. It is only when both parties can gain that a trade is made; and, in that event, it is impossible to see how either country could lost^Jjy free trade. To protect high wages by taxing immigration would be more sensible, however unjust and selfish; but to levy taxes upon commodities, in the expectation of benefiting those who buy them, is quite as absurd as to try to increase the sale of an article in the market by raising its price.—S. Byron Welcome, in From Earth's Center.

Lower the Duty. The Tin-Plate Consumers* association has addressed to the senate committee on finance a protest against the imposi- ! tion of a duty of 1 1-5 cents a pound on tin plate. This is the rate fixed by the house bill, and the senate committee, after reducing it to 1 cent in its original report, accepted the house bill’s rate in the revision. The duty under the law of 1883 was 1 cent, and the McKinley tariff increased it to 2 2-10 cents; so that it appears that the duty now proposed is higher than the duty which the McKinley tax superseded. A duty of 1 cent would be higher now in proportion to the value than it was in 1889 and 1890. because the price of tin plate abroad has fallen. The association holds that the people were led two years ago by the passage of the tin-plate bill in the last „ house to expect that the democratic tariff bill, whenever it should be passed would reduce the duty to 1 cent for a time and provide for the removal of the entire duty afterward. \)'e suppose that in determining what the duty should be the ways and means committee yielded to the demand for revenue. If now it should appear that sufficient revenue is supplied by other provisions of the bill, the senate committee might well reduce the duty on tin plate to 1 cent, or to three-fourths of a cent, for even the last named rate would be almost as high in proportion toyalue as the rate under the tariff of 1883.—N. Y. Times. Good Democratic Doctrine. For the first time since Senator Mills’ ringing speech, a voice was raised in the senate a few days ago on behalf of the whole people. It was that of Senator Kyle, of South Dakota. Coming from a sheep-raising section he had been counted upon as an opponent of free wool, but he boldly declared that he favors free wool and lower duties on manufactured woolens. He charged, what is perfectly true, that the wool schedule as it stands in the senate bill was framed for the benefit of the republican manufacturers of New England. and not for the poor men and women on the farms who have to buy the cloth and the blankets with their hard-earned money. Hut his further plea that if a duty is placed on sugar and coal one should also be placed on raw wool is fallacious. It is an argument that one bad turn deserves another. Free wool is the best feature left in the bill.—N. Y. World..

He Got It. The senate spent the day recently in relative reaction. The tariff bill was “stalled” by Senator Quay, who barred the way with an installment of his “unfinished remarks.” It is understood that in the interval the “revision committee” was engaged in finding- out. how much this foot-pad of protection would consent to take in the form of concession on the woolen schedule, and permit the bill to proceed. The change he stands out for is explained in our dispatches. He wants power for the woolen manufacturers to levy a heavier tax on Americans of moderate means for the clothing of the women and children. It is an outrageous exaction, but he -will probably get it. The majority leaders, having taken the ground that they must buy their bill through the senate, must pay whatever is really insisted upon. There, has been no spectacle more humiliating in the history of American legislation.—X. Y. Times. A Humiliating1 Confession. . What possible comfort Senator Vest can find in confessing to the cowardly surrender which he and other members of the finance committee made to the protectionist highwaymen who “held up” the Wilson bill, it is hard to imagine. He does it again and again in open senate, as if it somehow afforded him great relief. Last Saturday he stated explicitly that “the members of the committee who were framing the tariff” were “informed” that the bill they had reported “eould not be adopted,” and he spoke excitedly of the changes which had been “forced upon the committee.” I*robably he means, by such remarks, to stir up resentment in the party at the handful of men who have MeKinleyized its tariff in the senate.—X. Y. Post^

Won't Incriminate Himself. Mr. H. O. llavemeyer declined, on the advice of his counsel, to answer the questions of Senator Allen as to contributions made by the sugar trust or in its interest to state and local campaign funds. There is, so far as we can see, but one legal ground on which Mr. Havemeyer can refuse to answer such a question. He cannot be required to incriminate himself.--N. 7. Times. $_ It Might Be Convenient. In the amended tariff bill the datj cn car wheels is changed from thirty per cent, ad valorem to one and onehalf cent a pound. As this country is an exporter of car wheels it does not matter a row of pins to the manufacturers whether the duty be ad valorem of5; specific or whether the rate pei pound be one mill or ten cents.—IThiladelphia Record

PROFESSIONAL CAROS. J. T. KIMS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IXD. WOflkse in Bank building, first floor. WII « oe tound at office day or night. • GEO. B, ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETEhSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Siren to all BuHiaesa 49~Office over Barrett & Son's store. Francis B. Poset. Dewitt q. chappsu POSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in ali the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. ng'Office— On first floor Bank Building. E. A. ELT. S, G. DavenfoM ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. u AS~Offlce over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store. Prompt attention given to all buai* ness. , 'V ■ ' E. P. Richardson. A. Hi Tatiob RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law,. Petersburg, Ind. • Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office, office in Carpeutcr Building, Eighth and ££«•&. "r* DENTISTRY. We H. STONECIPITER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms6 and 7 in Carpenter Build-' ing. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. ' ' '.■( ' - Owing to long practice and the possession of a flue library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle STJCduSSF'TJLiI^Y. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Pow* ders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

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