Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 August 1894 — Page 3

1 -- $hr 5?itr County gmamt M McO. BTOOPS, Editor tad ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. A SUMMER GIRL ■•The Beginning and End of a neotor’s Aberration. "When I went up to the Catskills several summers ego it was with the full determination of asking Miss Wag* L Tier to be my wife. Age, temperament, ^ everything, pointed to the suitability ot such a marriage; and although I am not a conceited man I certainly did not see failure ahead. My position as rector of the leading church in East Lemon is certainly one calculated to impress a young woman, and from the amount of religious fervor exhibited by Miss Wagner during the past Lenten season I judged that it would not be disagreeable to her to be more permanently and more closely connected with the church. Why I delayed asking her after my mind was made up I cannot saj\ The * Wagners left East Lemon for the summer and 1 had not spoken. I missed Miss Wagner more than I could have supposed. She was 9 good, sensible girl, active in pariah worlfc with a perfect genius for straightening kinks; all the different organizations which eeemed to go so smoothly beneath her guidance and of which 1 was now the Teal, as well as nominal head, seemed suddenly to become Mingled and torn •with dissension. It opened my eyes still more plainly to Miss Wagner’s perfect suitability for a clergyman’s wife. Why had I not spoken before? I blamed myself severely. I was torn with conflicting emotions lest some •one else more sensible than myself might have stepped in and secured her; Jher large fortune would render her more liable to ardent suitors than a girl more moderately circumstanced. I blamed myself for letting this treasure •slip through ihy fingers when everything could have been so well settled

months before, and I daily expected to be punished for my procrastination by hearing of Miss Wagner’s engagement ■to some more hasty swain. With this explanation, therefore, it is needless to say that when my vaca&on came around there was not the least doubt of the direction in which I pointed my steps—the retired and beautiful spot in the Catskills where the Wagners, were summering* and I resolved that before twenty-four hours ■were past I would ask Miss W&gner to be my wife. Nothing could be more romantic than the spot I had selected for my wooing. A rich New Yorker some .years before had bought for a mere song one of the most beautiful hills in the Catskills, three^or four miles from the railroad station, and as secluded as the most distant parts of Maine and the Adirondacks. The handsome lodge gates at the foot of the mountain •opened to let one into a little paradise. The houses tucked away like squirrels’ nest among the forest trees were ~built of undressed logs, with much American spiciness and originality, and had little latticed windows, Dutch •doors and many sylvan appointments. Inside one caught sight of exquisite interiors. In the center of the settlement was the clubhouse, where most •of the members, eschewing household •cares, took their meals, and where, if properly introduced, like myself, a few sojourners could be accommodated. My first sight of Miss Wagner was in the dining-room, where I was welcomed heartily and a place made for me at her table. The dining-room had all the elegance of Delmonico’s, with its little tables, handsome china and excellent service, in contrast to the huge stone chimney in the center of the room, the fireplace filled with logs and the rafters left designedly overhead. There was a certain stir and excitement this evening, my train having brought a plentiful supply of sons, brothers and sweethearts for the •evening hop, as is usual in most places within a day’s journey of New York. After our separation Miss Wagner seemed more than ever just the wife forme; her strong, buxom figure and

well-developed arms snowed to advantage in the simple silk blouse which she, in common with almost every otherjroung woman in the room, wore. Her kind, sensible face had gained a pretty brown color from mountain breezes; she certainly would make a perfect, happy, commonsensiblo clergyman's wife. We were getting quite gay in talking over all that had happened in East Lemon since the Wagners’ departure, when my attention was suddenly arrested by some late comers who were just entering. There were several in the party; an old lady, some young men, 1 suppose, for I saw them, often enough together afterwards; but one figure stood out so indelibly that everyone else in the room suddenly became her background. 1 am not good at describing a lady’s dress or at personal description; but now, after this lapse of time, I can still shut my eyes and see Florence Atherton exactly as she looked that evening; She had on a blouse—so had every woman in the room, but not a mischievous thing like hers—with soft red frilling that fluttered as she moved. Over it was a delightfully chic little jacket, and her plain, tight-fitting i serge ’ skirt had a little stripe of red j around the bottom that peeped out j here and there. Her hair, which was | curly and evidently not very long, was j gathered loosely on top of her head, and the little curly ends strayed around in a way more fascinating than any bang. The only thing I cannot describe ia her face. I can only say that she was a brunette with dark, velvety eyes, and then I have left her personal charm quite unsaid. Miss Wagner noticed my look of interest. “Isn't she too lovely,” she said, an

thusiastically, nd without a touch at jealousy. “She is a Miss Florenoe Atherton; everyone is crazy about her. She and her old aunt hare one of the oottages; the white birch one—'Indian Pipe’ they call it. We call her ’the summer girl;* not the horrid summer girl in the oomie papers, but because she loolts like a flower and is so breezy and summery. I never saw any one half so pretty, did you?” Although I did not say so, 1 certainly never had. It struck me as showing a particularly large nature for Miss Wagner to admire the newcomer, when by contrast she looked positively wooden. I took pains, however, to devote myself unmistakably to her during dinner, and when we parted to meet later in the assembly-room of the club for the evening hop, I congratulated myself that I had well prepared the way for my declaration. By one of the meteorio changes, that later I became used to in “Taoma" (the old Indian name by which the mountain settlement was called), two hours later, when J entered the assembly-room, all traces of flannels and blouses had disappeared, and, instead, a crowd of fashionably dressed men and women filled the room. Miss Wagner was dancing when I entered, so I waited beside the door for the waltz to cease before crossing the room to where her mother was seated. By suoh a slight action my fate was sealed. Miss Atherton came in a few seconds after me and stood beside me watching * the dancers. She was dressed in some soft, white material that showed a baby-like neck and small, roubd, white arms, i never saw one look so young, so ingenue. She began to talk to the man beside her; then my subjugation was complete. I lost my head; 1 forgot Miss Wagner; I got an introduction to her; I, who never danoed, performed wildly with her a country dance which it was these city people’s whim to alternate with the waltzes. An old fiddler who played for the country people about, and who had evidently great contempt for metropolitan terpischPrean powers, called off the figures. No one knew the dance very well, so my blunders passed unnoticed. East Lemon

was not a narrow-minded place, and I bad often stood np in a Virginia reel; yet I think my parish would have been a good deal surprised to see their pastor flying through the unknown figures of this romping dance. That evening was the beginning. I called upon Miss Atherton next day, and the next; I rode with her, di*>ve with her, and, most fascinating of all, walked with her through the green, leafy, mountain paths. I learned her artless, transparent soul like a book; she was a mere child, simple, easily pleased, most amiable. I regretted that 1 noticed a great laxity in her religious opinions, and, in fact, the moat utter indifference to most of the vital questions of the day. I resolved to lead her mind gently to these serious things, and promised myself an easy convert in one so innocent and yielding. Somehow the conversation did not progress as rapidly as I expected; the days of my vacation were drawing to a close when I realized how little progress I had made. Miss Atherton was always polite when I mentioned serious subjects, but we always seemed to drift into talkjng of something else. Her rosebud mouth had a way of puckering itself up into a little round moue, and her dark eyes a way of looking down distraotingly as she plucked to pieces some fortunate flower or drew a blade of grass through her white teeth, that made it very hard for a man to keep his mind on any subject but the grace of her childlike movements; sol gave up her conversion for the present. It was strange how for months 1 had delayed asking Miss Wagner, who was so evidently a suitable wife for me, and here was this little beauty, not a church woman, not half my age, fitted for anything rather than to be the head of the charities which are so ably administered in my parish, and yet I had to keep careful guard on my lips that, despite myself, I should not break out and ask her to marry me almost before we were acquainted. 1 was also in abject terror of what her answer might be. I could not flatter myself that she had showed me more favor than several of the other men—I even doubted my being as well re

ceived; so 1 went on from day to day, fluttering', fluttering. It suddenly came over me how little I really knew of Miss Atherton beyond her possession of a beautiful figure and a baby face— strange qualifications for a clergyman’s wife. 'T suddenly awoke to the fact that I knew absolutely nothing about her. I had talked to her by the hour of my college days and my work, everything, in fact, and she had nev§r seemed to evade returning confidences, and yet I knew absolutely nothing of her antecedents. After much thought I found the solution to this in the fact that there was nothing to tell; she had probably spent her young life in some retired spot with the old aunt who was at present chaperoning her. These thoughts of her innocence and unprotectedness strengthened my resolve. The next day Miss Atherton and I took our favorite walk, up a winding road, then through a leafy path to the mountain top. At this sunset hour it was a most beautiful spot; all the panorama stretched out before us of sweeping valleys and mountain tops; the Kauterskill house looked like a Greek temple against the sky. I felt the enchantment the place and hour; I found myself, before 1 was aware, telling Miss Atherton of my deep admiration. I was unprepared for her change 6f manner; she begged I would never repeat what I had said; she had never imagined for one instant anything of the kind. She was so completely upset that 1 saw it was no use speaking farther just then, and I hurried after her down the mountain, torn with distracting doubts. I went to my room, but could not rest nor sleep. I resolved to woo my little lady more gently on the morrow, and arranged scene after seene in my mind, all* with a somewhat hazy d#neisrwwit

Florence was not,at breakfast aoral luncheon. In the afternoon I called at her cottage; the Dutch door was half* open, as usual, and I reached my hand inside and sounded the knocker. This summons usually brought Florence tripping down the staircase, making si series of pretty pictures on the land* ings; but to-day the little Irish maid, looking somewhat disheveled, ap* peered. “Sure, sir, they're gone—went on the morning train," she said, in answei to my inquiries. Gone! I was aghast. I tried to look unconcerned as I asked when they would be back. “They’re not coming back, sir. l*m left to pack up the things; they're given up the cottage." 1 was stunned, but I took a card and pencil from my pocket in a businesslike way. “1 have some books belonging tq your mistress which 1 would like tq return.” 1 > “I was to give no one the address,* snapped the girl, as though her patience was exhausted. For a moment I regretted my cloth. Had I been as other men 1 would have put my hand in my pocket and a tendollar bill would have unsealed that woman’s lips; but I could not so diy grace myself as a cleryman. 1 left the cottage. No one seemed to know anything of Miss Atherton She had come to “Toama” invited bj the rich man who owned the mountain. 1 went to him, and although h« politely offered to return her th< books, he seemed unwilling to give me any information. He was a hale, bluff, old gentleman, and as I am naturally reserved, I could scarcely take him into my confidence and tell him that my interest in Miss Atherton was more than that of a mere acquaintance. I noticed, too, that his eyes twinkled with suppressed merriment in a way far from healing to my feelings, and I left “Taoma” at the end of my vacation, wounded, sore, and baffled.

I returned to my parish, and as time wore on and my parishioners returned from their summer homes I hoped that Florence's image would fade away. That, however, was not the case; hei face haunted me, the remembrance oi her companionship was always coming into my mind. I do not know what J should have done at this time without Miss Wagner. How she guessed my secret I cannot say; but although she never obtruded her sympathy, she seemed always full of interest and hope for me. She seemed to share my great enthusiasm for Florence, and tc admire her in the frankest, friendliest way, without any jealousy, and 1 spent many hours talking to her of my lost darling. In fact, it was somewhat owing to her that 1 again saw Miss Atherton. Miss Wagner, one December evening, had some cards to the Nineteenth Century club, in the city, and asked me to accompany herself and hex father to hear the debate, which promised to be an interesting one. We could catch a late' train out to East Lemon; and 1 was glad for any excuse that took me into a large, miscellaneous body of people, as the chances were that I should some time find Florence among them. We were seated and I looked around as usual, disappointed, when Miss Wagner said: “Look!” There, right in the seat in front oi me, sat my missing lady-love. She was alone with a very handsome, correctly dressed man. 1 sat there transfixed. They seemed on excellent terms, and once I heard her whisper: “George, where is my fan?” I do not know what the speaker said; 1 was deaf and dumb. As soon as the debate was finished, some friends rushed over to speak to Miss Atherton. I waited for an opportunity to introduce myself. “Why, dear Mrs. Moulton!” I heard them say, “so glad to see you back! We've just bought your new book, but haven’t had time to read it yet. Youx husband has told us of your summer. What fun you must have had.” “Yes, I haven’t had such a chance to study people since before I was married,” Florence—Miss Atherton—Mrs. —, 1 don’t know what to call her—replied, in her bell-like voioe. “You see.

when I go around with George and the babies,4word always seems to pro* cede me that 1 am the author of ‘Argentine,’ and everyone is so kind and flattering that 1 never have a chance to study anyone. I began to despair of ever doing so good again, so I just fled and left George to care for the babies. I had a splendid time! It’s all in the book.” Miss Wagner and 1 looked at each other; we had heard every woid. We left. My wife is such a sensible woman, and so very handsome, too, in her matronly dignity, that 1 often wonder at that summer’s aberration, and that I could have been so blind to her charms as well as merits, it is not the least of these that she always reads to me Mrs. Molton’s new books, and that she has never once thrown at me the fact that I, a self-respecting clergyman, was once madly in love with a married woman. — Polly King, in Gem* orest’s Monthly. ~~ The Teuton Wee Impressed. A young man fresh from college wore as a scarfpin a jeweled gold potato bug. One day he called the attention of an old German bookseller tc it, asking: “Isn’t that pretty, Dutchy?” “Ja, ja,” w?.s the reply. “Dot ish der piggest pugonderschmallestbotato I haf efer seen.”— N. Y. Times. —Muley Hassan, the late sultan o\ Morocco, was the possessor of a fine physique and led a hardy, active life. He had a lofty and rather protruding forehead, differing in this particulai from most of his compatriots, clean cut, aquline features, and a keen, penetrating eye; but his under lip vai heavy and sensual, as is usually the case among the Shereeflan descendant! of Mahomet.

MUCH ACCOMPLISHED. i A 8U; Toward tha Victory of m Homo* Tariff. Speaker Crisp rendered a service of the highest value to the country, to the democratic party and to the cause of an honest tariff when he charged the creation of the sugar trusts and the other trusts to the republican party. Republican protection created nearly all the great trusts and monopolies In reply to the taunts and jeers of the republicans, at the crisis of the closing debate on the tariff, the speaker, being on the floor, said: “If there is a sugar trust in this country which is dominating legislation the republican party created it. And though this bill does not destroy that trust, »s we wish it did, it takes away more than one-half of the protection accorded to that trust.” It was a republican trust which a democratic congress had stripped in part of its power and of its enormous profits. The iron ore trust and the coal trust, equally, were republican creations. They were established by republican protection. They would have had no existence but for the republican tariff, which _ empowered them to rob the people by extortionate prices for their products and to suppress competition by the practice of oppressive and unconscionable methods. Republican tariff history shows the means by which the sugar trust was created. Under the tariff of 18S3 the duty was one cent and two mills per pound for raw sugar and three cents and five mills per pound for refined sugar. The differential tariff by which the sugar trust was created amounted to two cents and three mills per pound —the difference between the duty on raw sugar and the duty on refined sugar. The McKinley tariff superseded, the

THE TREASURY CONDITION. Ouf*r Averted by tbe fame* of m Tariff Bill. There ia very little reason for the alarm that has been set afloat in re* gard to another bond issue. Nat urally the president and his advisers are “watching with eager interest every change in the financial situation," as the i»ress dispatches indicate. It is their duty to do so, and President Cleveland is not the kind of man who neglects his duty. But there is noth* ing in this fact upon which to predicate the apprehension of a new issue of bonds, or the increase in any form of the interest-paying debt. At no time since the enactment of the McKinley law has it provided enough revenue to meet the current expenses of the government During -the four years of Harrison’s administration, three of which were covered by theope rations of that odious and inefficient law, the expenditures exceeded the revenues by 8150,000,000. The deficiency was supplied to the extent of 8100,000,0 00 by a surplusinherited from the last democratic administration, and to the extent of 850,000,000 by postponing payments, temporary loans on collateral and other expedients familiar to exhausted profligates. From these facts it is obvious that to avert bond issues it is necessary to repeal the McKinley law. But nevertheless it is safe to say that them will be no further bond issues for the reason that the defective and inefficient revenue law will be repealed. The gold reserve in the treasury is low at this time, and if there was no immediate hope of an improved revenue system, the necessity of issuing bonds would be imperative. But this danger will be averted by the passage of a tariff bill that will provide the needed revenue to replenish the gold reserve. Mr. Carlisle is right in his

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tariff of 1883. It admitted raw sugar free of duty, but gave the sugar trust the protection of five mills a pound on raw sugar. , f This protection—this money which the two republican tariffs took from the pockets of the people and put in the coffers of the sugar trust—enriched it, made it a giant in strength and armed it to defeat an honest tariff in the present congress. It isa republican trust, of republican paternity, made rich, fat, impudent and imperious in the exercise of power by republican bounty. Yet the democrats were not powerless before it. They gained a partial victory. Speaker Crisp says that they took off half of the protection It was probably less than that. But it was millions of dollars a year in the pockets of the people who consumed the sugar of the trust. All that was gained, bo it much or , little, was gained through a conflict of unsurpassed vigor and bitterness over an enemy inspired with the malignity ufliich comes from baffled fraud and greed. Every advantage of the people which the new tariff possesses over the McKinley tariff literally was torn from the dosperate grasp of tho republican and democratic McKinleyites, eager, fierce and relentless as a wolf with his fangs upon his prey. This is not a defeat and disgrace for the democratic party. It is not a drawn battle, but something like a victory. The enemy is weaker and the cause of an honest tariff stronger. The outposts are gained. One more battle and the citadel will be won!—Chicago Herald. -In view of the republican failure to carry Tennessee by fusion with the populists, republican organs aro now denouncing Poffer, Waito & Co. more vigorously than ever. You may always rely on republicans to see the indecency cf such a combination when it, fails to win.—N. Y. World. -As long as Boss Platt umpire* the game the republicans will have doubts about the result in New York.—Kansas City Times.

▼lew of the case. “There is no necessity for alarm in the present financial situation.—Kansas City Times. POINTED PARAGRAF^IS. -Mr. Harrison is to make a speech that will strike the keynote of the campaign. Ho thinks keynotes should not be allowed to be struck by Reed instruments.—Philadelphia Times. -The republican party made the sugar trust. “If there is a sugar trust in this ceuntry controlling legislation," said Speaker Crisp. ‘*it was created by the republican party”. Truer words were never spoken in congress.—Chicage Ilorald. --What puzzles Tom Reed is to see western republicans adopt the silver ideas ho stole from the sepulcher of James G. Blaine then pace about and designate McKinley, the gold bug, as their choice for president in 1396. That is what staggers Reed, and, in the language of the street, “it is a corker.” —Kansas City Times. -Of course the g. o. p. leaders had no idea of unhorsing democracy in Alabama. They just sent their money down there to get it into circulation and their speakers to secure them the benefits of the gulf breezes. That is the way they always do when money - is plenty and their orators are not exactly in con lition.—Detroit Free P ress. Democratic Sentiment. The resolutions of the democratic conventions of Iowa and Florida embody tho spirit manifested by democratic conventions in Indiana and by democratic mass meetings held in Maryland. They indorse tho president’s letter to Mr. Wilson and condemn the conduct of the senators who arc standing in the way of tariff reduction in order that the sugar trust may be protected. There is a singular unanimity of feeling among democrats on this subject. Not an authoritative voice has been raised in approval of the three sugar-trust senators in the democratic press, in democratic clubs or in democratic conventions. The condemation of the men who stand in the way of tariff reform is universal.— N. Y. World.

PKOnsaiOHAl CASES. J. T. KIMS, M. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. •HMBce In Bank building, fink floor. Wit M found at offieo dag or night - 1 '■ - GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, INIX Prompt Attention Giron to all Bo/tinesa 4a~Offlce over Barrett ft Son's store. Fbakcis B. Poset. Dkwttt Q. CHAFFEE!. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixd. Will practice In all the courts. Succlal tention given to all business. A Nottu-J Public constantly in the office. a^Oltioe— On first floor Bank Building. E. A. ELT. 8. 6. DAVKXPOl ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Im . ^-Office over J. R. Adams ft Son's drug store. Prompt attention given to all buai> ness.

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Surgeon Dentist, - PETERSBURG* IND. Office tn rooms 6 and ? In Carpenter Build Injj. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetic* used (or 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 Diseases of Horses and Cattle * SUCCESSFULLY. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Yours & Co.'s Store.

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