Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 August 1894 — Page 3

£hc pit; County ijntwmt K McO. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. AN AMATEUK BOOTBLACK. How & Bright Boy Spont Two Days in New York. * Miss Ainslie strolled through the rooms occupied for that day by the “Fair for the benefit of the W. X. Y. Z.” That was what 1 the posters at every street corner said. Of course she must make a purchase; courtesy required that. Miss Ainslie’s thrifty Scotch blood rebelled at the idea of throwing away money on something which was of no earthly use. “1 can make prettier things than those for half their price,” she thought, as she looked over the fancy work. “I’d rather give money out-and-out.” “Then came a genuine surprise. A kind-ly-disposed dealer had Sent some of his small wares, the profits from their sale to enrich the “W- X. Y. Z.” Really practical things, not usually seen at fairs. There were lemon squeezers, and nut crackers, and whist brooms— too long a list to mention. , Miss Ainslie’s ej’es rested on a box; it looked quite like a casket of polished wood, say six inches long, four inches wide, and three inches high. She touched the spring which fastened it; the lid flew back, and there was just the most complete little blacking set —a round box of blacking, a round brush to put it on with, and a long brush do make it shine. Inside the cover was a mark wrtich said **45c.’’ “ Reasonable price, I’m sure, ” thought,Miss Ainslie. “I’ll get it for Wallace’s birthdaj'. It’ll be just the thing for his traveling-bag, and may remind him to keep tidy while he's away.’’ She drew a brehth of relief; two difficult questions, what to buy at a fair and what present to send a boy, being thus disposal of.

Hclliauc /11IIC5UU U.O U> healthy lad except for one thing. Every year on a certain day he had to fly away from home. On the l“th Qf August he was well; on the ISth he couldn't breathe, because hay fever stifled him. They all said it came with the blossoming of the golden-rod. So it was a point with the Ainslie family that each year, not later than the 15th of August, some one must start with Wallace for the White mountains, or some one of the places where hay fever is unknown, and there Wallace must stay until frosts came. The boy liked it well enough; he had a royal good time; but it was a grea t inconvenience to the older people. However,' they hoped that, by taking these measures ^during his growing years, the tendency would be overcome before he reached manhood. This year he had gone to Bethlehem, in the White mountains. W’hen the birthday present arrived, on September 2, and the wrappings were stripped off vyitli eager curiosity, Wallace whistled—a long whistle. “Well, Aunt May is a queer one. Of all things, to send me some^blacking brushes!” But, being trained to good breeding, he managed to write a let-" ter of thanks and not show his disappointment. *‘I am so much obliged to you, sir.” Mr. Ainslie was saying to Mr, Allen. The two gentlemen stood on the steps of the Alpine house at Bethlehem. It was the first da}* of October. “My six weeks are up. and I can’t possibly stay any longer; but the frosts are late this year, and I don't like to take Wallace back yet.” “Leave him in my care,” Mr. Allen had offered. “1 shan’t go till the last of the month. I can take him as far as New York and put him on the train; there’s no change from there, and he’ll be safe at your place before evening.” “Thank you! thank you! He’s been over the route so many times I .think he could manage it himself, but he's .rather young to travel alone. I shall feel quite safe to leave him with you.”

October is glorious in tne mountains, buc the glories quickly vanish under the cold north breath.' It was time for even the late stayers to go home. “We’ll start to-night, Wallace. I don’t think I’ll telegraph ^’our father; if your mother doesn’t know you’re on the road till you get there, she’Won’t have occasion to worry. These mothers do worry sometimes, my boy.” “All right.” said Wallace. He had a boy’s liking for doing things in a manly way. At evening they were just ready to start. % “Here, sir! Mr. Allen, sir?” and one of those fateful vellow-b^pwn envelopes was thrust into that gentleman’s hand. He opened it and looked annoyed. “Here’s a pretty go! This telegram says'! must stop off on important business at Springfield* and then go to Providence. What am I to do with you? It may be days before I can go home.” The kind man spoke hurriedly in his perplexity. "I can get through New York all right, Mr. Allen; I’m not a bit afraid.” “Well, we go together to Springfield, at any rate. I’ll telegraph to a friend in the city to meet you and see you started for home. LuCky you reach New York in the morning! That seems to be the only think I can do, for we’re about the last ones left here, and I don’t know a soul whom I could trust you to.” “Never you fear, sir.” Wallace was only fourteen, and not large for his age, but he looked exultant. “Yes, there’s one thing more I can do; I’ll give you my card and write on it all the directions for reaching my house. If Barclay misses you. or you have any trouble in New York, yon can go to my house and stop over a day with Mrs. Allen. Here, put the card in your pocketbook, where it’ll be safe.” “Thank you very much,” said Wah lace. “But I know exactly how to (Change cars, even if no one meets me. iWa’ve done it lots of times. I’ve been

back from Bethlehem three times Already.” “You’ll be fast asleep when 1 leave you at Springfield. And you may as well get to bed now.” For they had finished their plans on the train. “Mind you write i*s socn as you get home.” “Gqd keep the lad from harm! I don’t half like it, but what can I do?” said Mr. Allen to himself. Broad daylight. Alone in New York, and penniless! Just a little better than dark night, and that was all; for Mr. Barclay was out of town and did not get the telegram, and when Wallace had elbovved through the crowd to a little open space, he put his hand in his trousers pocket, to find pocketbook, monej’ and ticket gone. Mr. Allen's card, too, and he had not even looked at the address! .Only his bag was left, siting over his shoulder by its strong strap. Small blame if he felt like crying for about five minutes; but he set his teeth and said: “I won’t!” as hard as he could. There was plenty of good blood in his veins; all his life he had been taught courage and self-reliance, and he had the dash of romance which belongs to every high-spirited boy. What should he do? He might tell his story and beg for help to get home. “No, sir! No Ainslie ever begged.” The thought of stealing never enteied his head; he had been too honorably bred. Mechanically he opened his bag. There were his few toilet necessities; there was a nice lunch prepared for him at the Alpine house, by the precaution of his friend. He need not go hungry for one day at least. In the bottom of the bag lay the blacking case, and a swift remembrance came of the postscript he had added to his letter of thanks. “If I get hard up I can go into business with the rig you sent me”—that was the postscript. “I’ll do it and earn money enough to get home with. It only takes two dollars. I wonder how many ‘shines’ that means? Papa always says any honest work is honorable. I don’t think he’ll care. Besides, there isn’t anything else for a fellow to do, as 1 can see.” These were the thoughts that passed through his brain, and Wallace threw his head back with the air of a conqueror.

ihe first man to whom Wallacesaia: “Shine, sir'?*’ stuck out his foot mechanically, and didn't so much as look at the boy when he tossed him a nickel. He was too much engrossed in the reports of stocks in the morning' paper. After that, now andthm, a gentleman gave a curious glance at the unusual sight of a clean bootblack who wore decent clothes; but New York is far too busy and lias too much of the unexpected to permit inquiry—with this exception, where personal rights are infringed one may ask questions; and that happened pretty soon. There came a stinging slap on Wallace's cheek, and he sprang up to confront a dirty young knight of the brush, not quite so large as himself, whose visage was, to say the least, wrathful. “Wot yer doin’ herein my beat, hey? Yer don’t b'long here nuther! Git out o’ this! Git! I say. My! ain’t he swell”! How many shines did it take ter bfiy them doe’s—or did yer steal ’em?” Wallace had a strong sense of truth and justice and he was quick-witted. After the first intense surprise and anger he saw that the little bootblack had a certain right to an explanation. “I’ll tell him just how it is,” he thought. “See here,” he said, “I’m not a swell—these are my every-day clothes” (“My!” said the other), “and I didn’t steak them. Sotne thief picked my pocket as I got off the train—took all my money and my car ticket. I had this blacking kit in my bag, and I just thought I’d earn enough to get home with. It’ll only take two dolI lars. I’ve made fifteen cents already.” It was wonderful sto watch the change creep over that grimy face— from wrath to open-mouthed admiration and genuine respect.

“Well, I vuin! That s burly:” was all he could say. “I don't want to take your customers,” continued Wallace. Can’t you show me a place where I won’t be on anybody’s regular beat?” ‘•My eyes!” |ommy Mills drew in his breath and winked one eye. “Yes, siree, yer bet I can, now I know yer ain't no swell -ver a real gentleman. Yer needn’t go nowheres else: yer can stay right by me. When the men comes from their lunch there’ll be lots more’n I can do. All the same I’d fight any feller as tried to come on my beat ’thout askin’ permission. This yer’s a bully time fer bizness,” he continued. “All the gents is jest home from their summers out, and it’s powerful dusty to-da3r. It’ll be dull ’null bimeby when the gents wears their rubbers, bless their delikit souls!” His teeth showed white in the surrounding smut as he grinned, though with no perception that he made a pun. j “Say,” he called out as the day wore on, “where you goin’ to stay nights? Yer won’t make no forty shines in one day, I tell yer—yer’ll do well if you do it in two, though ’tis the best season for biz!” Wallace had not yet tackled this problem, and he looked troubled. _ “Why, I Jkopit know; I hadn’t thought so far>^ Couldn’t l sleep outdoors? The nights aren’t very cold yet.” “I’m afeared not. Yer see, yer don’t look like a streeter. The cops” (“The what?” from Wallace), “Well, the perlice ’d be sure to pounce on yer an’ take yer to the station ’us. But yer can come with me; I’ve got a home, as some hoys ain’t (with evident pride). There's only one bed, an’ ma’m an’ the little gals has that I sleeps on the floor—an’ mebbe—yer could bunk down, too?”—hesitatingly. “Of course I could, and glad of the chance. I’ve slept on the ground before now, when we camped out. Thank you ever so much.” Tommy wasn’t used to being thanked*

and he seemed embarrassed. Earlier In the day Wallace had asked him to share his abundant lunch, and the bootblack tasted such food as seldom touched his hungry tongue. But it won his heart. In return he had freely replenished Wallace’s blacking when the little box gave out. That night was a revelation. Wallace had never before come face to face with poverty, and this was beyond belief. Yet the one room was as clean as a room could be in whioh all ; the processes of living went on. | Tommy, too, with great politeness, I offered the tin wash-basin for Wallace’s use before he scrubbed his own ; face and hands. In a rough way he was kind to his mother and his little sis- ' ters: a pair of twins they were, not ! three years old. He was evidently ; proud to introduce his new acquaintance. It was proof of Wallace’s fine ; training that he felt only pitiful and i not superior. Mrs. Mills, in her young ' (lays, had been nearer to his world than | she was now—that is, she had been a servant in a respectable - family. It i was a comfort to tell the, story of her hard life even to this boy, he had such pitying eyes. •■Tommy has never been a week in the coutry in all his life, sor, an’ him goin’ on thirteen. I’ve tried to have him go with them fresh-airers, but he wouldn’t *go an’ leave me with the babies—he's that good. Tommy is, an’ his father dead two years come January.” Wallace’s heart was soft for the little fellow whose fate had been so different from his own. When bedtime came Mrs. Mills made what shift she could for decency by hanging a tattered sheet across the room. Then both boys laid down on an old quilt for a mattress, and were no longer ofiiTpSOr and the other rich, for sleep led them both into the happy land of dreams. It &>ok the novice the best part of two day^To earn his fare home, and he felt very proud when he Sound he had a little more than enough. He learned much in those days of “how the other half lives”—not by any means the worst of them either, because theirs was an honest life at least. They paid ten dollars a month rent for that one poor room. Wallace thought of a comfortable whole house belonging to his father which didn’t bring in so much as that.

“It's only a little while, spring1 an’ fall, that Tommy’s work is brisk like it is now,” Mrs. Mills said. “An’, anyway, ’tain’t like it was before these Eyetafians took it up, anr 1 the big hotels has their own shiners. Not half so much chance for the boys. But with me sewin’ for shops an’ Tommy’s work, we ain’t never come to the starvin’ point yet—praise God for that!” she added, reverently. “I’ll never forget you, Tommy,” said Wallace, as they went to the Grand Central station on the morning of the third day. “I’ve put down just where you live, and I’m going to write to-you, see if I don’t, and—and—” but he didn’t conclude the sentence. There were vague ideas of what his powerful papa could do which he did not care to disclose. “Well I vum!”—which seemed to be Tommy’s usual expression when surprise overcame him. The boys shook hands, though the bootblack was evidently unused to such courtesy. Wallace had ten cents left after buying his ticket. Forty-two shines in two days—that wasn't bad for a beginner. He wanted to offer the ten cents to Tommy, but an innate delicacy prevented him—the hospitality had been too true for that. Mr. Ainslie came to his dinner early that day. He looked anxious, and carried an open letter. “Here’s Allen writing to say he hopes our boy is safe at home—had to send him alone from Springfield. Started Monday night, and here ’tis Thursday. What can have happened to him?” There was a great-to-do, of course, with the mother and Miss Ainslie both set to worrying. Right in the midst of it Wallace walked in—no he bounded in, looking a little shabby as to his clothes, but perfectly well and happy.

Uidn t he enjoy telling his story, though! any boy likes to be a hero. “You see my postscript came true, Aunt May. 1 thought your > present was an awfully queer one, but it turned out to be a daisy.” “My dear,” said Miss Ainslie,” you will find that true with much that comes to us in life. We don’t fancy the gift at first, but it proves to be t&e very best in the end.” Miss Ainslie liked to slip in a gentle lesson when she could. '“We must try to do something for that Tommy,” said Mr. Ainslie. “Oh, papa! I knew you would. You’re a brick!”—that was Wallace’s opinion. # What Mr. Ainslie did, and what came of it would make a book, and therefore cannot come into a short story—only, it maybe hinted, that the Mills family went into the country, and that Tommy proved efficient in office-work. Maybe he studied law. Certainly he might make a good judge, for he could see both sides of the question—and all ambitions are possible t o boys in America.—Helena Hawley, in Christian Work. Kissing. It was a woman of the world who said: “Kissing is like any other intoxicant; once you cultivate a taste for it there is no such thing as getting enough of it.” And it was a young matron with a heart full of lave for her first-born who declared in the very face of the crusty old doctor’s learned objections to kissing that as long as there were mothers and babies in the world there would be kissing ad libitum.—Philadelphia Bulletin. —Evaporation is two or three times greater *in the sunshine than in the shade, and five or six times as great in summer as in winter; is greater during a breeze than in a calm, and is greater from fields of melting snow than from an equal surface of the ocean. t

PBOTECTION POUNDED. Ex-Gov. Boies, of Iowa, Talks on the Tariff. ■Mill ud CombfaiM, StrlkM and Lockouts the Basalt of BcpnbUeu Rule— Democratic Discord Decried. . In his address as chairman of the Iowa democratic convention at Des Moines on Wednesday, August 1, exGov. Boies spoke upon the several political questions before the people today and touched in particular upon that of the tariff as being of paramount inportance. The speaker was severely caustic in his remarks upon republican rule, as will be seen below: “For a continuous period of more than thirty years the policy of one political party dominated the affairs of this nation. “With complete control of every branch of the national government during most of these years, and like control of some of its branches daring the remainder, it was able to and did mold its theories into law and maintain them as such regardless of the opinions of half our people as to the wisdom or justice of the policy pursued. ••At the commencement of this period an overwhelming public necessity compelled the raising of vast sums of money to protect the very life of the nation and everywhere loyal men willingly assumed the burden it Imposed. “Prominent among the means adopted to meet the requirements of the hour was an excessive tariff tax laid upon imports of almost every conceivable kind. ••The authors of this measure in presenting It to the pnblio mind were careful to declare that it was formulated as a war measure, the burdens of which were to be borne by the people no longer than the necessity that credted it continued to exist. “ ‘The protection of American industries’ by this measure so far as I have ever heard, was not even suggested as one of the reasons for its adoption. “To have urged its enactment on such a ground at that time would have produced a shock to the public mind fatal to the chances of success. “Notwithstanding, however, that its purpose was wholly different, its unavoidable effect was an excesstve degree of protection to American manufacturers of competing articles and of like necessity an excessive burden of taxation on those who were not engaged in their production. „ “A stimulus so powerful could not fail to infuse unnatural, if not unhealthy, energy Into one class of business at the expense of equivalent loss to others.

•• wnen me war was over ana me time aaa come when some of the burdens it Imposed could be lifted from the shoulders of the people the manufacturing Industries of the country had become a gigantic political power, capable of directing in a large degree the legislation of the nation, and so as one by one the measures that had been adopted for the raising of means to carry on the struggle fell before the sickle of the revenue reformer care was taken that the tariff, if changed at all, was so changed as to Injure in the least possible degree the vast monopolies that had sprung into existence under its protecting care. “The plea of necessity being no longer available for its continuance, it became necessary to Invoke the old excuse of ‘protection to Amerloan labor’ for a war tariff that often afforded protection many times greater than the entire cost of all the labor Involved in the production of protected articles. “It was while the law remained in this condition that President Cleveland’s first term of office was injected into the political history of the nation, and although powerless to change, it because of republican ascendency in one branch of the national legislature during all of his term he was able by a wise and economical administration of the affairs of the government to. demonstrate that the burdens of taxation under our tariff system were far in excess of the actual requires of the government, and this he did by handing over to his republican successor a trousseau filled to overflowing with money needlessly withdrawn from the pockets of the people. “Courageously grasping the truth of the sitnation as it became known to him. Mr. Cleveland, in the face of an opposition that he knew would largely array against him the vast monied interests of the protected industries of the country with all the influence they could bring to bear to compass his defeat, championed the people’s cause, boldly declared that ‘unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation,’ and in a message that will ever remain memorable in the history of the executive office of the nation urged congress to reform the tariff and reduce the burdens it imposed. “The issue was Instantly made. Republican leaders were quick to realize the mighty force that could be drawn to the aid of their party by uniting in its behalf the powerful Influence which the protected manufacturers of the land could bring to its aid and from that day the voice of tariff reform in the councils of that party have been hushed in the stillness of death. ‘ “Then came the struggle of '88, the defeat of Mr. Cleveland, the election df a republican president, followed by a republican majority in both branches of the national legislature; the more than redemption of republican pledges to the tariff barons by the enactment of the McKinley bill, that in letter and spirit spat upon the theory that the legislative power of taxation by this government is limited to its right to collect revenue for the economical administration of its affairs and carried to an extreme the opposite theory that one of its legitimate powers is the levying of taxes to promote pecuniary interests of certain classes of individuals.

“When followed the struggle oi with tms overshadowing & issue clearly and manfully made between the two great parties: the campaign of education; the victory at the polls for tariff reform on lines defined in the democratic platform; the election to the presidency of the man who had made the issue and once suffered defeat by reason of it. and the election of a majority in both branches of the national legislature, generally supposed to be in full accord with democratic theories as promulgated in the platform of the party and defined by its leaders in most if not all parts of the union. "That victory was not won without definite and oft-repeated promises by those who claimed to speak for the party as to what would be done if party success crowned our efforts. "To manufacturers they pledged free raw material; to the masses tariff for revenue alone, coupled with a faithful and economical administration of public affairs. "If democracy would live; if it would not low in the first flush of its victory so gallantly won, lay down its arms, surrender all for which it fought and prepare its winding sheet for the tomb.it must not lower the standard of the promise made. “There is now no middle ground on which it •an cast an anchor. Protection for protection's sake, independent of that which necessarily follows a revenue tariff, is either wrong in principle and violative of both natural and constitutional rights, or it is right in principle and justified by the fundamental law of the “If right in one instance it is right in all. If right in one degree it is right in any to which the caprice or greed of a majority may see fit to carry it. "He who is willing that his party as such shall retrace a single step from the position ik assumed in 1892,»who would surrender an iota of the principle for which he then fought and won, is not a democrat. If any such there are let them go to the camp of the enemy. They *are less dangerous there than in our own. “I know it is true we have not as yet tasted the fruits of the victory we won. I have heard as you have done the gibes of the men who so loudly prate of protection to Amerloan labor and point with assumed disdain to closed factories, stagnant marts of trade, and armies of idle men as legitimate fruits of the struggle we helped to win, and I have felt the sting of regret that a single man with intelligence sufficient to entitle him to the franchise of American citizenship should have been deceived by ■weh a cry. “I have, however, too mooli **>lth in the iar

tolllgenee of the elector* Of this rtpabUe. M the sober second thought of the plain people of this nstion, to believe they can ions be misled in placing the responsibility for the disasters we are suffering where it belongs. “In time these people will stop to Inquire how it is possible that the democratic party can be responsible for a financial panic that had its inception in a looted treasury that lour years before was turned over to a republican administration by a democratic president gorged with a hundred millions of gold in excess of every natural demand against, and of every legitimate requirement of the government. and I know when they do this they will place the responsibility on the heads of /those who in four short years dissipated this l magnificent sum without diminishing in the .least degree the burdens of the people, and ln\its place presented to the scared creditors of the nation the empty skeleton of a treasury from which every dollar of legitimate surplus had been extracted. “I know, too. that sometime in the future when voluble politicians speak and write of the beneficent effect of a protective tariff to the laboring men of the nation, they. too. will stop to ask bow it happened that after an experience of more than thirty years under the most rigid protective laws a free people ever endured, the first breath of misfortune that came could coyer the country with organized armies of destitute men striving to reach the seat of government and lay before congress their helpless condition that they might beg of it for public assistance. “Surely a system that was oonoeived In charity for laboring men after a trial so long and so complete should have left them sufficient of the fruits of their toil to tide them over a panic of a few short weeks without organized effort to bring the government to their aid. “No, gentlemen, this mask of protection of American labor under which the eager recipients of tariff favor have organized their trusts and combines to suck the life blood from the very veins and arteries of labor everywhere has Deen torn by recent events until the man who refuses to look through It and see that it covers nothing hut the bony fingers of greed, that have used It so long and so well, will deserve no sympathy If he becomes or remains the serf it has so largely helped to make of so many. “And turning from the men who labor in the protected , industries to that vastly greater body who cultivate our farms, operate our railways and conduct the Innumerable classes of business that none are so brazen as to claim, derive a direct benefit from protective laws, democracy must ask them to stop long enough to read the lessons a few short months have crowded into the history of a country whose destinies they hold in their own hands and control by their own votes. “They, too, must remember we are standing at the end of more than three decades of a most Intense protective policy on the part of the government: that no change in this policy has yet been effected; that it is still in practical force.

auu fiuuii ia vuc tvauit. “Trusts and combines on every hand; the fruits of labor taken from the many and given to the few; millionaires counted by the thousands; homeless men by millions; rumblings of discontent from every quarter, but loudest and longest in the very centers of the most highly protected industries of the land; strikes and lockouts everywhere; armies of idle men gathered in our cities and marching over the country, vaunting their destitution in the face of the world, with here and there the howl of the anarohlst, the knife of the assassin and brand of the incendiary emphasizing with fire and blood a discontent that has become almost epidemio and threatens the stability of tne government itself until the last resort of a nation, an appeal to the military arm for protection, has become a public necessity. “Surely there mast be a oause for all this. "Where is it to be found? “Certainly not in any governmental policy for which the democratic party is responsible, for in the whole period of a generation tt has been unable to subject any one of its theories to a practical lest. “And equally certain it is that if these conditions are due ln any degree or to any extent to the acts of a political party the responsibility for them must rest upon the shoulders of that party whose theories have been molded into laws that for thirty odd years have controlled the policy of the government. "May we not, theref ore, well inquire whether we have not carried the theory of a paternal government that is to single out one or many branches of business and give them the aid of governmental protection, which simply means that through force of law it will take from one class to give to another, up to the danger line of experiment, and are we not already sufficiently warned that some change in the political policy of the government is necessary if we would preserve it for generations to come? “And what theory, let me ask, is it possible to evolve, that would be more likely to bring peace to a torn and distracted country than that to which the democratic party is pledged; a policy that formulated into law would simply mean equal and exact justice to all with special privileges to none coupled with a faithful, honest and economical administration of publlo affairs. “I wish I could stop here and look forward with undiminished confidence to the final consummation of the wishes and faithful fulfilment of the promises of the party as I understand them. I know, however, I cannot do this. -It would be a cowardly evasion of truth to attempt to conceal the fact that the democratic party has reached a crisis in its history that threatens itscwelf»re if not its life. “In what I now say I speak for no faction in' that party, for no man or set of men within it, for I have neither right nor authority to so sneak.

“Aa an individual I may rightly express my views on a matter of such grave importance to the party of which I am a member, and availing myself of this privilege I want to say that when the history of this administration is written, I hope it will not contain the statement that the democratic party of this union was incapable of keeping to any extent or in any degree the principal promise upon Which it rode into power. “Within the party councils I want the voice of crimination and recrimination hushed at once. I want, gentlemen, to realize that we live in a country of vast, of varied pnd sometimes conflicting interests that affect different localities in different ways; that many general laws must of necessity be the result of compromise; and i want Ihe democratic members in congress to agree upon the very best measure of tarlfl reform it is possible to pass and make it the law of the land without further delay. “I want this because it is better than nothing and because it will be an honest effort on the part of these members to carry out as fa* as possible the pledge of their party as they understand it. 9 “If it does not come ujp to the requirement of that pledge as I read it I will not lay down my arms; I will not consider the matter settled; I will say frankly that my party haa not been able to keep in all its parts and to its full extent one of the pledges it made, upon which it waa intrusted with power, and' in my own way to the extent of the influence I am able to exert. I will help to keep the wheels of reform in motion until all that has been promised is fnittifniiy performed. This is my view of the duty of democrats in this crisis both in and out of congress.” The proposal that railway employes who have grown old or received injuries in the service incapacitating them from work should reeive pensions is favored by quite a number of railroad managers. Such a rule would certainly have a great influence in preventing strikes and promoting the efficiency of employes. Most men will work better when assured of a competency in their old age, and the plan is worthy of serious consideration. The surveyors of the United States geographical engineering department assure us that w|thin fifty yeiurs the Missouri river will have disappeared. It is due, so the surveyors say, to a leak somewhere in the bed of the river. Why not convene a congress oi plumbers to attend to the matter*

FBOPCS8IOXAL CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IXD. 49*Offlce in Bank bnlld ing, first floor. WII oe found at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to all Brutices* WOffiee over Barrett & Son's store. Francis B. Poset. Dewitt Q. Chappku POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. Will practice inwall the courts. Snecial attention given, to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. -SMTOfflee— On first floor Bank Building. - E. A. Elt. S. G. Davenport ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. ■, RS-Officc over J. R. Adams & Son’s drug store. Prompt attention given to all business. E. P. Richardson. A. II. Tatboh RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, “ Petersburg, Ixd. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONECIPHER, i

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms 6 and 7 in Carpenter Building. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseises of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULLY. He also keeps on band a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

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lyOrtirri t of yoor New«d*«hT*r »«»d 8a e*nts for Utnt n0 berto W. J. 80HSB, Pnblbkor, 3Iut 18th St., Sow Tor*. 0>SAIfB THIS PAPia m) ttao TRUSTEES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will attend to the duties ot the office of trustee ot Clay township at,home on EYJERT MONDAY. All persons who have business with the office will take notice that I will attend to business-on no- omer day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE i» hereby given to all parties interested that I will attend at my officer in Stendal. . EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township.' All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. TVT OTICK is hereby given to all parties coals cerned 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. OTICE is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. " ‘ . gy-Positively no business transacted ex* cept on office days. SILAS'KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties co»*« cerned that I will attend at my residents EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with tb« office of Trustee of Madison township. ^“Positively no business transacted except office days. - V JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. 3, NOTICE is hereby given to all persons interested tbat I will attend in my office In Velpen, EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marion township. All persons having business with sail office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. -L. NOTICE is hereby given to all persona concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY DAI To transact business connected With tbf office of Trustee of Jeflomm to wash j p R. W. H ARRIS, Trustee. rv