Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 August 1894 — Page 3

The Pike County Democrat M. McC. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. OH! MERRY BROOK. Oh! merry, gurgling, babbling brook Glinting gold in shaded nook. Reflecting shadows on thy glass. Coquetting sunbeams as they pass. Oh! whence thy song? Ah! didst thou learn in ding or del!., where nymphs of wood their love-plight tell, A tale of Joy from wooer's lips. While in his thirst thy pearl-drop*; sips. That make thee glad? Pray, hath the moon a power to bloae And fondle with a soft caress. As thou dost hasten to thy goal. Thy foaming, madden'd, dashing soul - Into sweet rest? Oh1 hath some angel stooped to drink A setiate draft from thy cool brine . And left a glance on thy fair face That finds a voice in music's grace To solace thee? Or. hath the lips of mountain-god Where thy pyre fount hath her atode. Impressed on thy bright cheeks a kiss That thrills thy soul with endless bliss. That thou dost sing? Or, hath the woods a charm for thee To cause thee sing sweet melody To flowers that deck thy sloping banks And lowly bow their silent thanks, As thou doth pass? Or springs the temper of thy song From what thou doest all day long. As from thy high and r~cky home *, On happy mission thou dost come. ( To make all green? Is this the secret of thy joy. Thy moments find a rich employ; By night by day. in shade and sun, Thy doing good is never done. And so thou’rt glad? Oh' merry brook that runs for aye, Thy lessons teach on life’s drear way To wandering souls that know not this. That doing good is life's sweet bliss, The key of song. . That none can sing who have not felt Their cold, dead hearts in pathos melt To help some other struggling life To win in sin's hard, bitter strife. And wear a crown. That souls must give as well as take If they their lives would happy make. Like brook, their richness they must yield To rocky glen and wood and field. To make all green.

Just as the flow of ceaseless stream That flashes back each passing gleam And gently laves the grasses' feet And with its touch makes violets sweet So fresh and blue; So they alone sing richest $ong. Who faithful seek, the whole day llmg. $ To lift bowed heads, cheer troubled hearts, Dispensing words that love imparts. Like healing balm. , * Flow on, O brook that runs for aye, Bringing cheer along thy way; And may we prove thy lesson sweet To each embittered life we meet. By giving cheer. M. J. Smalley, in interior.

HOMAS MOKLEY knew the value of pro mptitude. He was a young man on whom ninetytwo s e asons had poured bene fits and adversities, although many of th<e latter he took to be

the former, his temperament sneaaing ‘sorrow as a duck does Crater, to use a castanean simile. -. j He was a born and bred New Yorker; but, at the time of which we write, he had been living for the last ten or twelve months in Uxton, up pmong the hills of northwestern Connecticut, studying the natives, for he was a winter. Having filled a portfolio with material for enough dialect stories to run one of the great magazines for a year, he determined to seek his matter in the tnetropolis, and to that end applied for a reportership on the New York Courier-Journal, in which paper many of his brightest things had appeared at remunerative rates. As has been said, he knew the value of promptitude, so when at eight o’clock •one night Farmer Phelps’ hired man handed him a letter from James Fitzgerald, managing editor of the Cour-ier-Journal, asking him to come and see him in regard to a reportership as soon as possible, he made up his mind to take the train which left Winsonia, lour miles distant, at six o'clock: next

“WHY, IT’S STOPPED.” "morning. This would enable him u> Teach the office by half-past ten, and probably catch Mr. Fitzgerald on his arrival at his desk. • Next morning he arose at four, and £ when he left the house he had six ty minutes in which to walk four miles, down hill; ample time, surely. It was so ample that he would hare had fifteen minutes to spare if the home clock had been right. As it wais, he arrived at the station in time to see the train rapidly disappearing around a curve on its way to New York. '3e laughed good-naturedly with the bug

ageman, and asked him when the next down train was due. “Seven-thirty, sharp. You'll not have to wait long.” Seven-thirty. That would bring him into the presence or Mr. Fitzgerald at just about the time he arrived at his sanctum. “Better than to have to wait in a presumably stuffy room," naid he to himself, philosophically. He lit a cigar, and, as the air was bracing and he was fond of walking, he struck out into a five-mile an-hour gait down the main street of Winsonia. His footsteps led him further than he had intended going, and when he reached the Baptist church at East, Winsonia, he saw by its clock that it lacked but forty minutes of train time, and he had four miles to make, He threw away the stump of his cigar, which had been out for some time, broke into a jog trot, and, after covering a mile, he caught his second wind and mended his pace. His fleetness would have served its turn had not a malicious breeze blown his hat over a high iron fence that surrounded a churchyard. By the time he had climbed the fence and recovered his hat. he had consumed so many precious minutes that, although he sprinted the last mile, he arrived at the station only in time to see train number two disappearing around that hateful curve. The baggageman was standing on the platform, and he said: “Ain’t once enough?” “More than enough for most people," said Thomas, whose rare good nature was proof against even such a remark at such a time. The next train for New York was due at 9:56. Being someWhat blown, he walked around the corner to a bil-liard-room, meaning to sit down and watch whatever game might be in progress. “It may be,” soliloquized Thomas, “that Fitzgerald won’t reach the office until after lunch, and I’ll get there at half-past two, in time to see him when he’s feeling good.” He met Ned Halloway at the bil-liard-room. and when Ned asked him to take a cue, he consented. Billiards was a game in which he was apt to lose—himself, at any rate; yet to-day his mind was enough on the alert to enable him, after a time, to glance at the clock over the bar in the next room. It was forty-five minutes past eight.

They began another game, hater he looked again at the clock. A quarter of nine. After another game he looked up once more. “Fifteen minutes to ni—. Say, Ned, what's the matter with that clockV*’ Ned looked at it, then at his watch. “Why, it's stopped!” “You settle—see you later—” and Thomas was gone like a shot. T^iis time he had the rare pleasure of noting how the rear car of a train ^frows rapidly smaller as it recedes. In a momeut the train disappeared around the curve before mentioned. “Say, Mr Morlev, you’ve time to miss the next, easy,” said the baggageman, dryly. Thomas was vexed, but he said, pleasantly: “When is it due?” “Half-past two. Better wait here and make sure of it.” “Oh, dry up!” N<J; do the other thing; it's on me.” After this little duty had been performed, Thomas, with an irrelevancy of action that ihight have struck an observer as amusing, made his way to the Y. M. C. A. rooms to read the magazines. vLet's see,” said he, “I’ll get to his desk at seven. He'll be hard at work, and, if he engages me, he may send me out on an assignment at once.. Glad I missed the other trains.” Thus was Thomas wont to soliloquize. At one o'clock he went to Conley’s inn, and sat down to one of those dinners that attract drummers to a hotel. Necessarily, then, it was a good dinner, and one over which he lingered until nearly two. Then he went into the office and sat down.

The room was warm, and his dinner had made him drowsy. He decided to take a little nap. He had the faculty of waking when he pleased, and he willed to do so at fifteen minutes past two. It would be weakness for him to get to the station with too much time to spare; but this would give him a quarter hour in which to go a half mile. His awakening faculty would seem to have been slightly out of order tlmt day, however, and he did not arouse until twenty-nine minutes past Jtwo by the hotel clock. < Of course, he did not make a fool of himself by trying to do a half mile in sixty seconds, but he walked leisurely^ toward the station, intending to get his ticket and have that off his mind. He laughed heartily at a corpulent fellow who darted by him, carrying a gripHis laughter ceased, however, when, on turning the corner, he discerned the aforesaid fat man in the act of being assisted on tf? the platform of the last car, by the brakeman, the train having acquired considerable momentum. Then he saw it disappear around a curve which was part of the road at that point. There were three explanations possible. Either the train was behind time; or else his awakening faculty was in good repair; or the hotel clock was fourteen minutes fast. The latter proved to be the correct explanation of the somewhat vexing occurrence. “Say, that is a bad habit you have of missing trains,” said his friend, the baggageman. “Goin’ to miss another? —or do anything else?” “No,” said Thomas, shortly. ' He knew that the next train at five was the last. This would make it possible to reach Fitzgerald at half-past nine. “Right in the heat of the work. He’ll engage me to get rid of me,” laughed Thomas to himself. Then he continued: “I never heard of a man missing every train in a day. so I’ll risk callipg on Laura before the next one starts.” . Miss Sedgwick, the one he called Laura, lived out of town near the rail

road track, and two miles nearer New York than Winsonia station. She was a captivating girl, and when Thomas was in her presence he never took heed of time. He was lucky enough to find her at home. She seemed glad to see him, and was much interested in his account of how near he had come to catching some trains that day; and. as nothing is so engaging as a good listener, the min* utes passed on pneumatic tires. When at last he took note of the hour, it was five o'clock. “That clock isn't right, is it?” “Yes, sir. Father keeps it at railroad time. Mercy! you've lost your train again, haven’t you?” "Laura, this time it’s had. I won’t see him to-day, now, and to-morrow may not do.^ Let me go and kick myself.” “I’m awfully sorry, Tom. I hope tomorrow won't be too late.” Thomas squeezed her hand and left her, feeling rather blue. The railroad track was just a block away, and he walked over to it, not with suicidal intent, but just that he might tantalize himself with a view of the train as it sped by, which it should do in about a minute. “At any rate,” said he, “it won't be going around that dreadful curve.” It was the last of December, and the sun had set. When he reached the track he saw far away a glimmer of the headlight of the five o’clock express. Nearer and nearer it came. A moment more and it would rush by like a meteor; but it didn't. It slackened up at the very corner on which Thomas M III . i ii

THE FAT MAN BEING ASSISTED TO TH* PLATFORM. stood to allow an official of the road to jump off. Thomas was not slow, if he did miss trains now and then. He swung himself on the “smoker.” “Go'n’ far?” asked the brakeman. “To New York,” was his reply. “You're in luck.” “Well, I've not missed more than three or four trains in . my life!” said Thomas; and it was strictly true. Half-past nine to the minute found him outside of the editorial rooms of the Courier-Journal. “Can I see Mr. Fitzgerald?” he asked of a boy who catqein response to a knock. __-/ . “No, sir; he went out of town yesterday. Be back to-morrow at twelve.” “Did you get my letter already?” asked Mr. Fitzgerald of Thomas Morley, when he came to his desk next morning and found that young man waiting for him. “Yes, sir; and here I am.” “Well, sir, I like your promptness," and I'-Il give you the place of a man whom we had to discharge for being too slow. You seem to have, what a reporter needs most of all, the ‘getthere’ quality.” “I didn’t allow any trains to pass me,” said Thomas, modestly.—Charles Battell Loomis, in Puck. SLIGHTLY HENPECKED. Glimpse of the Domestic Life of the Late Edwin Booth.

That part oi tne communuy woo only knew the late Edwin Booth as onr country’s most celebrated actor would probably have experienced surprise had they obtained a glimpse of his domestic life with the second Mrs. Booth—to have witnessed the meekness of manner, you might say, with which he complied with her suggestions. That last, however, is scarcely the word for the place, as she was usually in the imperative mood. The Mrs. Booth I refer to was one of the most extraordinary small and precise of women, and it was difficult for the observer to discover wherein lay her attraction for the great actor, .likewise her claim to such absolute oontrol as she practiced over her family. As an instance of the latter, I may cite the following, which occurred nightly and with absolute regularity at a summer resort, where a number of people, including the Booths, were passing a part of the time. Miss Booth would probably be engaged conversing with some of her acquaintances, Mr. Booth immersed in a book. On the stroke of ten Mrs. Booth, with index finger pointing dramatically toward the clock, would enunciate warningly the single word: “Edwina!” ~ Without an instant’s hesitation Miss Booth would bid her friends good night and retire. In possibly half an hoar s time Mrs. Booth, in the same warning voice would remark: “Mr. Booth!” Booth, glancing dreamily up from his book, would regard the small lady an instant as if gradually collecting himself from some other sphere, and then, as obediently as Edwina, he would gravely bid good night to those present and likewise retire.-—Toledo Blade. A Crusher for P*. Smythe (to his daughter)—Yon should listen to your mother’s advice She is a better judge than you of a suitable husband. Miss Smythe (indignantly) — Yes! She showed her judgment once, didn’t she?—Truth

REPUBLICAN HUMBUG. Tbm KatkBl Ex pens ire Trial of HlfffcTariff Protection. The republican platform of 1888, adopted at a time when there was a surplus in the treasury, declared ■ in favor of a tariff high enough to check importations as a means of reducing the surplus. The McKinley law was declared to be iu accord with this plat* form, but for a time imports increased instead of decreased. In the course of a few years, however, with the aid of other republican legislation, the desired decrease of dutiable imports was brought about. For the fiscal year ended June 80, 1894, our imports amounted to $654,* 885,873, against $S66,400,933 for the year 1898, a decrease of $313,000,000. On the other hand, our exports increased from $847,000,000 to $892,000,000. Last year the balance of trade was against us, as the phrase is, by $19,000,000. This year it is $337,000,000 in our favor—that is, our exports exceed our imports by that amount. It will be noted that the last fiscal year was eminently a republican year. We do not now refer to the circumstance that the elections went in favor of the republicans, but to the fact that economic conditions were in accordance with their policy. They believe in checking imports, and they were certainly checked in the last fiscal year. They believe, in increasing our exports, and they were increased. They believe in a large balance of trade, that is, an excess of exports over imports, and the balance last year was exceedingly large. According to the republican theory* the fiscal year 1898-4 was an ideal year. It marked the complete success of the McKinley bill in checking importations. and it happened, besides, that exports were not decreased. Still the republicans are not happy. Instead of pointing with pride to the fact that the McKinley bill had at last accomplished the purpose for which it was intended, they have the temerity to say that the condition of our trade is the result of our having a democratic administration. They know when they say this that the tariff has not been changed, and that there has been no tariff for revenue only before the present congress. They ought to hail the existing conditions as the result of the legislation which they passed in furtherance of the condition which now confronts us.

it wouju oe uncanuiu, uowcver, u we did not admit that in one point our foreign trade last year failed to correspond with republican theories. It is always maintained by them in tariff discussion that trade balances are instantaneously settled in gold. ‘ If we buy $1,000 worth of goods in England,” they say, “we get $1,000 worth of goods and England $1,000 in gold; if we buy $1,000 worth of goods at home, we have both the goods and the gold.” According to this logic we should have imported during the last fiscal yea* $337,000,000 more gold than we exported. Instead of that we exported a few millions more than we imported. There is evidently something wrong about this gold theory. There is also something radically wrong in the notion that checking importations, even if there be no decrease in exports, is an infallable sign of prosperity. Brushing aside the humbug that has been thrown around the subject of foreign trade, we may discern without much difficulty the true principles that underlie it. In normal conditions exports are exchanged for imports, and the large volume of each is indicative of prosperity, because it makes an exchange of products profitable to both parties. But last year's conditions were abnormal. Our imports fell off because we were compelled to use more than one-fourth of our exports to pay debts incurred*during the artificial prosperity of previous years. Our imports, therefore, were small, and indicated not prosperity, but our want of abUity to buy. We' were paying for the grand debauch into which republican legislation plugged the country. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. -All the republican conventions this year are enthusiastic in their ini* dorsements of James G. Blaine and reciprocity. Mr. McKinley evidently stands in need of protection.—St. Louis Republic a -Senator Shearman took occasion to remark, while visiting' in New York the other day, that the republican party was too big to have a boss. This made Thomas B. Platt smile right out loud.—Boston Herald. -The list of heavy taxpayers and the lists of people whose estates are going to be sold for unpaid taxes are making intearesting reading in the New England papers now. The tax sale lists are a good deal longer than usual, as one result of the workings of the McKinley law.—Boston Globe. —-If the battle for tariff reform must be fought over again the democrats throughout all the country are ready to buckle on their armor. On no other issue can they be so thoroughly and so effectively united. They are prepared to grapple with the McKinley trusts and highly protected combinations and carry the fight to a finish. —Buffalo Courier. -The arepublicans have acted with such consummate folly on this sugar question that if the democrats fail at the next election* to receive the vote of every honest man in the United States it will be their own fault. The republicans have admitted in this sugar fight that every assertion ever made by them in favor of protection (save one) was a lie; more than that, they have proved it to be a lie. Six years ago, when this fight opened, they denounced as “traitors bought with British gold” the men who dared say that the protection of the refiners of $33.60 p±r ton, which they then enjoyed, was a tax on the people for their private benefit. To-day they not only admit that protection of $3.80 per ton is a tax on the people for their private benefit, but they denounce it as “robbery that would jwfttify revolution.’V-N. Y. World.

TRUST AND TARIFF. Bow the Saftf Combine Is Favored by th« McKinley Uw. There is nothing plainer than the relat ions of the sugar trust to present and pending congressional legislation. The McKinley law presents the trust annually with thirty million dollars of the public funds. The president and treasurer of the trust have both sworn to this fact. When it became apparent that this bill would be repealed, the trust exerted itsell to save as much of the plunder as,possible. In the course of this endeavor it kicked up such a row as created the hope that the McKinley bill might be permitted to remain on tie statute books, and the flow of the golden stream from the treasury of the United States to the strong box of the trust would thus be continued. The sugar trust prefers the senate bill to the house measure, for the reason that the senate bill affords it incidental protection, while the house bill doesn’t give it any comfort. But the trust isn’t bothering its head about the house bilL Its concern is between the senate bill and the McKinley law, and its hope is that the senate bill will be defeated, in order that the McKinley law may be continued. The passage of the senate bill would cut of! half of the sugar trust’s gratuity. That is why the trust objects to its passage. Moreover, it would guarantee exemption from an impending treasury deficit. But neither the republicans nor the trust care about that. Their only concern is the protection of favorites and the looting of the treasury. If, on the other hand, the senate bill is defeated, the trust will continue to draw its thirty million dollars annually, and a treasury deficit is practically certain to spread humiliation over the* whole people. Every true democrat is opposed to trusts, and nearly every democratic senator is true to his party. But there are enough protectionists among them to make complete tariff reform legislation impossible. It is likely that among those who are most emphatic in their demands for the Wilson bill are some who would vote against it if it was reported by the conferrees. Senator Hill is in evidence on this point. He is paroxysmal in his demand that the senate conferrees recede, and if they did recede he would vote against the report. This is one Of the troubles against which the tariff reformers are compelled to contend.

It is agreed among real larin reiormers that the purposes they must keep in view are the decrease of the burdens of the people and" the increase of the revenues. Both these conditions are essential. If the sugar trust is enabled to extract some advantage from a measure that subserves these purposes that can’t be helped. Every import duty helps some interest. But that is no reason why imposts should be abandoned, to the prejudice of the public Service and the destruction of the public credit. Great men are not swerved frogi duty by clamor. If they were, the rogues would have ^ things their own way, for they can make the most noise. The tariff reformers must do the best they can, without regard to what the rogues and the rabble say.— Kansas City Times. PERFECTLY PLAIN. The President's Views on the Vexation* Sugar Question. The organs of the sugar trust hare found some comfort in that part of the president’s letter to Chairman Wilson which deals with the sugar question. It is regretted that there should be any room for doubt as to the president’s meaning. What he said was this: “Under our party platform and In accordance with our declared party purposes, sugar is a legitimate and logical article of revenue taxation. Unfortunatoly, however, incidents have accompanied certain stages of the legislation which will be submitted to the conference that have aroused in connection with this subject a natural democratic animosity to the methods and manipulations of trusts and combinations. 1 confess to faring in this feeling, and yet it seems to me we ought, if possible, to sufficient

4JT Utv VUlilVi) VO uuai piujuuuv *v vuwv«v wa coolly to weigh the considerations which in formulating tariff legislation ought to guide our treatment of sugar as a taxable article. While no tenderness should bo entertained for trusts, and while I am decidedly opposed to granting them under the guise of tariff taxation any opportunity to further their peculiar methods, I suggest that we ought not to be driven away from the democratic principle and policy which lead to the taxation of sugar by the fear quite likely exaggerated, that in carrying out this principle and policy we may indirectly and inordinately encourage a combination of sugar-refining interests I know that in present conditions this is a dolioate subject, and I appreciate the depth and strength of the feeling which its treatment has aroused. I do not believe that we should do evil that good may come, but it seems to me that we Bbpsld, not forget that our aim is the completion 6t a tariff bill, and that in taxing sugar for proper purposes and within reasonable bounds, whatever eise may be said of our action, we are in no danger of running counter to democratic principle." , A fair interpretation of this paragraph is that sugar, being an article of which we import almost ten times as much as we produce, may be subjected to a duty by a political party which holds that a tariff should be levied ter revenue only. Although a certain amount of the total tax goes to the sugar planter, it is so small that it may be neglected, especially in a case where the needs of the government for revenue are pressing. The next' question touched upon by the president is whether the democratic party bught to be driven away from the policy of a revenue tax on sugar by the fear of indirectly encouraging and favoring the sugar trust While expressing decided opposition to any scheme favoring the trust, he says that consideration ought not to be the governing one.—N. Y. Post -Trusts can never be crushed bo long as the log-rolling system of bartering favors here for faVors there is maintained. In such a contest the strong always get what they neitnex need nor deserve, and the weak are apt to go to the wall. The lesson of recent tariff legislation is plain enough. It teaches that the whole protective system must be swept away, root and branch, and be succeeded by a tariff for revenue only.—Louisville Courier* Journal.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. T. KIME, M. D, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. Offlce In Bank building, first floor. Will be found at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG,. IND. Prompt Attention Given to all Business Offlce over Barrett & Son's store. Francis B. Posey Dewitt Q. Chappell POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. ggrOfflce— On first floor Bank Building. E. A. Elt. S. G. Davenpoke ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. WOfflcf over J. B. Adam* A Son’s drag store/ Prompt attention given to all bnai* ness. - > E. P. Richardson. A. H. Tatlob RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. vj- •. Prompt attention given to h’Y business. A Notary Public eonstantlv in tin office. Office in Carpenter Building. Eighth and "Air*. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONECIPHER, HE]

Surgeon Dentist^ PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms 6 end 7 in Carpenter Build ing. Operations first-eiass. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, 0. V. $., " ,1 PETERSBURG, IND. 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 STJCeESSFTXLJlY. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment , which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B, Yosts? ft Co.’s Sttn.

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