Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 December 1894 — Page 3

€Uw§®»€mratj} Jraorrat M. McO. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. TEBSBURG. - - - INDIANA.

AM in the burgling1 business, and I maintain that it can be conducted a a

nonetsuv ■other. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I •certainly have raised it to a much .higher level than it was when first 1 -selected that means of livelihood. My motto: “Honesty Is the Best Police—See.” is neatly engraved on all my professional tools and my title of “The Honest Burglar,” will go on my tombstone in due time, and when my ■Strictly honorable exploits can be safely mentioned with pride by my relatives and friends. I always make a point of seeking a foeman worthy of my steal. Never do I enter a house—no matter what inducements its contents may offer— which has not the very latest scientific burglar proteotiona Ordinary locks and bolts I positively refuse to attack, and carelessly left open doors and windows I disdain to make use of. I leave those tidbits for dishonest burglars who have not the professional pride that I find so high-toned and profitable and so encouraging to one’s self-respect Now that I have properly introduced my honest self I’ll tell a story. A wealthy chap who had made his millions in a way I despise had erected _ a grand mansion with all the finest electrical burglar alarms known to date. Every door and window was doubly protected so the slightest touch after the wires were set would jangle numberless bells and turn on the lighted gas all over the house in a brilliant illumination. In addition to all that melodious display there were tell-tale steps on each staircase and tempting bits of silverware, connected with wires to the main battery, left in plain sight by the 6afe in the diningroom. All these imposing preparations, so expensive and troublesome for their owner, gave to me a glorious delight, and I looked forward to attacking them with all a small boy’s Fourth of July enthusiasm. At last the battle night came, and with it Mr. William Mummer, my active partner in the business. Mr. Mummer was highly respected in the profession. Like myself, he never stooped to oonquer, and was equally noted for his gentlemanly ways and sturdy honesty. Only once in his bnsy life was he ever taken in and done for, and I couldn’t blame him a bit, either. You see, he was making a professional call on a rich bachelor, and while putting things away in the handsome room he was painfully surprised by the sudden arrival of his host with some gentlemen friends. Not willing to seem intrusive, Mr. Mummer quietly slipped under the bed to await an opportunity for departing pleasantly. From his snug retreat Mr. Mummer beheld six weU-polished boots spread -themselves comfortably on the Turkish rug, evidently in shape to stay awhile, -despite William’s anxiety to catch the traixi for home. Soon the jolly gentlemen lighted atones, ending each one with a chorus •of hearty laughter. William, who understood the proper ■etiquette of not mixing in where he -wasn’t wanted, kept a becoming silence until a funnier story than usual was told, and then, after an agonising struggle to choke down his unfortunate mirth, he exploded with a tre^ mendous “haw - haw - hawt” which frightened th$ gentlemen shamefully. It is needless to say that Mr. 'Mummer had ample time afterward to enjoy the joke while taking a little vacation from business in the state

, jtaunary. But he soon recovered my respect :for his sterling qualities by a trick he played when cornered in a fashionable •boarding house one night. While the landlady was ringing the big bell and the alarmed boarders ■were searching for him with guns, Mr. Mummer entered a deserted room «,nd promptly went to bed with his boots on. There, with the blankets ^tightly tucked under his handsome ~chin, he lay yelling as loud as the loudest and grandly ordering the bold warriors with guns from his room when they rushed in to see if he was being murdered. ’Twas lucky his bed o belonged to a terror-stricken maiden lady who had sought refuge elsewhere —otherwise Mr. Mummer might not -have been so very smart, after all/ But he got out of his scrape * at daylight and took his swag, too, and consequently his fame was undiminished by that episode. Now that 1 have introduced Mr. William Mummer, Esq., 1 will go on with my story. ’Twas a black midnight in a dreary Novemb er. The sky was clouded ana a lively wind was banging shutters .and moaning through the swaying branches as Bill and I quietly stole along the dismally dark and deserted •eountry road. With valises containing articles used in our trade,' and smoking pipes with stoppers on to hide their glow, we silently made good time over the wet and soggy ground till old Fort Electricity, as we dubbed the object of -onr attack, loomed up before us.

We knew the piece well, for both BUI end myself had managed to secure work there when the house was being remodeled. Through e side hedge and across the large lawn from tree to tree we eantiously advanced, pausing frequently to observe and listen. Not a sound, save the uncanny shriek of a screech owl and the blustering, „ chilly wind soughing among the evergreens and creaking the bare tree tops, fell on our eager ears. Thanks to the supposed superior protection of electricity, dogs were not on hand to interfere with our pleasure —though had there been we had a patent wajr of winning their friend* ship.

When we got close to the house we made a circuit around it and. finding everything safe and comfortable, we prepared for business. Instead of attempting a guarded door or window, or even cutting a hole through the oiapboards into the parlor, as we might have done, to avoid the wires, our plan was to enter through the unprotected roof. Taking from my bag an arrow with a coil of fishing line attached, I placed it in a bow (which had been my cane while traveling) and neatly shot the line above and over the house, so that it fell clear of windows or obstructions. In a few minutes a signal tug on it told me that Bill had found the arrow on ’tother side of the honse. Then I tied on a heavier line, light but strong enough to hang two ordinary men, and signaled Bill to haul away. Next I fastened on a well-greased, highpower pulley block, on which was the flexible rope for our ascent and gave the signal to haul away again and make fast Soon Bill did so and, joining me, we got ready to go aloft I went first, of course, being the senior partner in the concern and chief manager of my unpatented invention. Comfortably sitting on a wooden cross piece I pulled away on the endless rope attachment (one pound pull lifting four), and easily raised myself to where I could reach and mount upon the broad eaves of the shingled sloping roof. In a jiffy Partner Bill performed the same circus act and was at my side. Like two cats we quickly clambered, with the help of the cross line, to the scuttle, and then, with no trouble at all to such artists as we were, the bolt was forced and Fort Electricity was taken, with its garrison blissfully dreaming of the safety afforded by the latest burglar alarms. Softly Creeping down the scuttle ladder we gained the garret floor and there, by the cheery light of our dark lanterns, we donned our working suits, consisting of long white nightgowns and caps, and which. I am proud to say, I invented for occasions like the present, Being an honest burglar, I never considered it square to needlessly startle a sleeping person. The ladies especially suffer from nervous shock and fright and either faint dead away or scream so loudly that it is annoying, to say the least. _ The men are apt to waken out of humor or scared to death, and in both cases are generally beyond reach of argument. But in our handsome ruffled nightgowns and caps we fearlessly glide in and out of bedrooms, make half-awake men turn over on their pillows 60 we can get their watches or pistols, with no more than a sleepy grunt at being disturbed, and even get in bed beside them if there’s danger of actual discovery. You see our boldness and appearance naturally cause them to take us for members'll the family and treat us accordingly. This Burely is much pleasanter than burning sulphur matches under their noses or blinding their eyes with the rays of a dark-lantern, or giving them a pointed revolver bluff or a billy crack on a defenseless bald head. Put yourself in their places and I guess you’ll fully agree with me. Well, Bill and I, like two whiterobed Santa Clauses, came downstairs and went straight to our work, Bill taking the rooms on one side of the dimly-lighted hall, and I the others. f Here let me say that snoring, which is usually offensive to the listener, becomes in our business a most melodious nL'iHllSJUI tflllltlUl H.llllll

BUT IT WASN’T BILL. and soothing1 soun.d. Like Sancho Panza, I bless the man who invented sleep, and thrice bless the woman, perhaps, who invented the sweeter snore, though I never do it myself, not having time at night like other folks. Breathing these blessings, I entered the main room, where the old general of the fort lay snoring for all he was worth. First I tackled his trousers and got his well-stuffed wallet, then pieked up a young jewelry store from the bureau, then fished for his watch under his pillow. But the old snorer lay on it hard so it wouldn’t come. Shoving him gently by the shoulder I whispered, “turn over.” Half opening his eyes enough to see my white robe, he gave the usual grunt and obeyed, in a moment his interrupted snore began louder than before, and the ticker was mine. To the next room I went and as •asily helped myself.

"". .— The third room, which was the freest chamber, I visited with equal success, and then, not intending' to upset the electrical arrangement on the first floor, I sneaked out in the hall to find Bill and to skip out for (rood the way we had oorae. ▲ dimly-burning gaslight made the darkness risible, and shortly I saw Bill's noble ghostlike figure emerge from a room and, without looking in my direction, walk toward the far end of the hall. In one instant I noiselessly reached him and, touching his arm, whispered: “Come, Bill; it’s time to git!” The form turned around—but it wasn’t Bill. The fierce mother-in-law of the establishment stood before me, I burning me with her eyes. Ere I could hide my surprised face and modestly retreat—so she might do the same—she got onto my nightgown racket and like a tigress she grabbed my whiskers with both hands and shrieked bloody murder and “thieves!” “robbers!" “help!” etc., till she made me tired. I never felt so queer in all my life. At once yells and screams and howls of fear came from all over in a mad chorus; off went the bnrglar-alarm bells and the rattles and up flashed the gas till the whole lower part of the house . was brilliant. Luckily 1 had captured the pillowed pistols, or ■ they’d have gone off, too. ; At the instant a stalwart figure in white bounded out of another- room and flew to my assistance.^ “Bill!” I gasped. “Quick! For your life! Pull | her away!” He gently but firmly embraced the old lady’s waist and pulled while I tried to bite her worse than tiger’s claws. “Tickle her, Bill!” i groaned, seeing the pull didn’t work. That fetched her. She lost her grip—retaining, however, half my beard, and went for Bill. But he was too quicks dk... .d'mm

SAVE OUK FOLKS IX THE HOUSE. to be caught. Neatly dodging her tei^ rible talons, he pushed her in a room, and before the terrified household dared show themselves we had escaped th rough the scuttle and were on the roof. A slide down the rope and our safety was assured, but we had not a second to lose. Hastily we tried to find our only means of flight. Like great lizards we crawled about in the darkness, but our efforts were in vain. The rope was gone. “What’s up now, Bill?” I whispered. “We are, Tom,” he answered, grimly; “we’ve been shadowed from outside and they’ve cut the rope. Nice trap for two old rats like we. ” In spite of myself I shivered. “Well, what’s to be done, Bill? No use praying for a balloon, is there?” “Not much, pard,” said William, as cheerfully as he could, “and no use trying the front door. There ain’t a lightning rod, either, to slide down op, and we can’t reach the water leader. I wish I was a bird.” “Well, we’ll both be birds—jail birds—Bill, if we don’t do something. Think quick.” Now guns were beginning to shoot from the windows and we heard answering shouts from without. Evidently the house was being surrounded. ' r1 “Tom,” whispered Bill,' “I’ve thought. We must jump.” “Dp or down?” says I, not relishing the job. “Down, of course,” grinned brave William, “into the big evergreen tree by that chimney. Now, Tom—come on.” Bill skinned to the roofs edge like a monkey, I after him. When over he leaped into the blackness and I heard the branches break, but no sickening thud on the ground, as 1 feared. Hiving him time to get out of my way, I followed, and also held on the bending boughs. In a trice both of us reached the grass, and before we could start to run a dozen excited men with pitchforks and guns were around us, the light from the windows showing us to advantage. But luckily we had forgotten to remove our nightgowns. “Quick now!” cried Bill with wonderful presence of mind. “Save our folks in the house. The robbers are murdering them. They chased us out the windows. Smash in the front door and save their lives. Don’t you hear them scream?” Off rushed our captors and with axes they broke the door and entered to the reseue. Bill and 1, dropping our robes de nuit, took the opposite direction, gained the road, and laughed all the way home.—Detroit Free Press.

The Outcome of a Bath Vow. “Why did she refuse him?” “He thought too much of himself.” “That is better than thinking too little of himself. 1 shouldn’t think she would hare refused him for that.” “Well, you see, he thinks himself the best man in the world, and she had said she wouldn’t marry the best man in the world.”—N. Y. Press. —The wild goose and some other aquatic birds are able to admit air be* tween the skin and the body, and are thns protected against cold by an almost impervious air cushion.,

WHY WAGES ADVANCE.

Tr«• Wool Hh Opened Kills and Caneed a Ovwt Demand for Labor-Wars* Adraws In Six Oreat Mills. Free wool prosperity is affecting some results not dreamed of by the McKinley school of philosophers. For the first time in four years the tendency of wages in textile mills is upwards instead of downwards. The protection theory that increased duties which foster trusts that advance or sustain prices by closing mills to restrict production, will advance wages has proven an ignominious failure. The American Economist, in 1892, after searching the whole country and sending out thousands of circular letters beseeching protected manufacturers to report all wage advances, published a list of twenty-three purported advances. The Reform club promptly made an investigation of each case and. proved that the list was a fraud. In a majority of the mills mentioned there had been heavy wage reductions. The Reform club did more—it published a list of over 1,200 cases of wage reductions in protected industries during the first two years of McKinley protection. This was a bad beginning for a theory that promises so much. It will, however, scarcely be denied, even by republicans, that wages declined more during the last, than during the first, half of the McKinley period. Mills not closed were running on short time and paying low wages. A great change has occurred since wool became free. Instead of three men after every job, there are now more jobs than men. Lower prices, greater consumption, increased production, greater demand for labor, higher wages—these are the logical sequences of free raw materials and reduced duties. Confronted by this new condition the woolen manufacturers in spite of their theories are forced to raise wages. It goes so against their grain to advance wages just before a congressional election that many partisan protectionists may resist the pressure until November; but many cannot hold out. Gradually but surely the wage-earners are getting back to where they were before the McKinley bill struck them. The Wool and Cotton Reporter devotes a page each week to a “Bulletin of New Enterprises.” During, the seven weeks from August 31 to October 18, it mentioned 87 “new mills;” 144 “enlargements and improvements;” 158 “mills starting up,” and only seven “mills shutting down” because of lack of orders. Hands are becoming scarce in some textile districts. Thus on October 11, the Reporter said that two woolen mills in West Virginia (one the largest in the state) are running on five quarters time and are still unable to fill orders offered “though before September 1 they had no trouble in filling all orders, working half time. One will work double time as soon as enough men can be gotten.” High tariff or low tariff, wages will go up when the demand for labor exseeds the supply. Hence the following wage advances, probably the fii%t ones in woolen mills for four or five years: On September 6 the Wool and Cotton Reporter said that “Rawitzer Bros., of Stafford Springs, had settled with their dissatisfied weavers, giving them a 25 per cent, advance in wages.” On September 27 the Reporter said that the winders at the Riverside knitting mills at Cohoes, N. Y., struck for an increase of wages last week. Mr. Boehlowitz, the proprietor, stated that an increase would be granted October 1. The knitters and carders were also promised an increase on October 1. On October 4 the Reporter said that the strike at the woolen and worsted mill of Alexander Crow, Jr., at Twen-ty-first street and Pennsylvania avenue, Philadelphia, was declared off on the 25th ult., a compromise being effected with them. Mr. Crow agreed to restore 10 per cent, of the reduction, and the 400 employes returned to work next day. On October 4 the Reporter said: “The Woodstock mills,Norristown, Pa., reopened Monday and the strike is broken. The company will pay all employes the rate of wages they received before the last reduction was made on February 17.” On October 15 the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin said: “The employes of the extensive Blackin ton woolen mills, at North Adams, Mass., commenced work to-day under a 10 per cent increase. The advance was voluntary on the part of the management.” On October 15 wages were advanced 5 per cent, in aU departments of the Cohoes mills, Dover, N. H. This restores half of the cut-down of last sum mer and is good news to thousands of operatives. It will probably end the mule spinners’ strike. On October 12 the strike at the woolen mill of the North Adams manufacturing Co. at Braytonville was settled a compromise having been effected. The employes had asked for a restoration of the 10 per cent, reduction made last March. On that day they were granted a restoration of 5 per cent, with a promise of the other 5 per cent, as soon as the state of trade

will permit. On October 19 it was reported that the Pontoosuc Woolen Co. at Pittsfield had advanced the wages of the employes 5 per cent. On October 23 wages were advanced 10 per cent, with extra pay for extra hours over fifty-eight in the great Briggsville woolen mills near North Adams, Mass. In other cases where attempts were made just before, or soon after the passage of the new tariff bill to reduce wages, the attempt is proving a failure. Thus on October 13 the Fall River manufacturers made the proposition which was adopted by the spinners, “that the spinners return to work under a reduction of 5 per cent. If the margin holds at 85 cents, as at present, for sixty days, the other five will be restored. If it declines to 65 cents or below the 5 per cent, will be increased to 10 per cent, reduction.” On October 13 it was reported from Williamson, Mass., that the “Brayton

Till® strikers cam© to a settlement to* day and will return to work Monday." The strikers are to receive S per cent, of the cat hack. Strikes for advances are on in several factories. Thus the Continental worsted mills, Philadelphia, were closed down on October 4, on account of the operatives striking for a 20 per cent, advance in wages. The same cause (free wool, cheaper clothing and an increased demand) is largely responsible for the abolition of “sweat shops.” In New York city about 10,000 workers on garments who have been getting from S3 to S6 a week by working twelve, fourteen or sixteen hours a day in “sweat shops” began in September to get $8 or 810 a week for working ten hours a day in factories. Cheaper raw materials and cheaper products,in other industries are certain j to produce the same result that free 1 wool is producing so quickly in tha woolen mills. On October 5th, it was reported from Reading, Pa., that the [ cigar trade is exceedingly lively in this ; country. All the factories are work- ; ing over-time now. Many being kept in operation from 7 o’clock in the morning until nearly mid-night. In addition to this, Glazer, Preme & Co., have voluntarily restored the old scale of wages in all departments, by which the price received by the workingmen is increased on an average of a dollar per 1,000 cigars. Wages have been advanced 5 per cent, in Krekauer’s piano factory, 136 street and Third avenue, New York city. Similar reports mnst soon follow from other places and other industries. Manufactuers of hats, of pottery and of files (two industries to be ruined by the Wilson bill) report that they have not been so busy in years. The business of the calamity croakers grow more and more difficult. Byox H. Holt.

A DEMOCRATIC POSTER. It Tells an Interesting Story for Labor— The Country's Experiment. For four years the country has been experimenting' with dear goods, under, the MeKinley-Harrison theory that “cheap and nasty” go together and that cheap coats make cheap men. We got tired of that theory and decided to experiment with the other theory— that cheapness is a blessing and that the more goods we can obtain in exchange for a day’s labor the better we are off. The democratic congressional committee has issued a poster which shows the tariff reductions on many articles and commodities of an ordinary household. Each article is illustrated and the reductions are made conspicuous by placing them on the illustrations. The short story told on this poster is a very interesting one to labor. It runs as follows: “Labor rises in the morning under the new democratic tariff. He puts on his flannel shirt reduced 70% per cent., his trousers reduced 75% per cent., his vest reduced 65% per cent., his coat reduced 74% per cent, and shoes reduced 20 per cent. He washes his face and hands in a bucket reduced 28% per cent., with soap reduced 50 per cent, and dries himself on a cotton towel reduced 35 per cent. He puts some coal reduced 46% per cent., into a stove reduced 33% per cent. He eats his breakfast from a plate reduced 45% per cent., with a knife and fork reduced 53 per cent., seasons his food with free salt, smokes his clay pipe reduced 80 percent., and reads that under tariff reform, lumber, binding twine, grain bags, cotton ties, cotton bagging, copper, salt, wool and agricultural implements are free. He draws on his overcoat reduced 75 per cent, and puts on his hat reduced 71 8-10 per cent. His wife wears a woolen dress reduced 75 per cent., a hat reduced 70 per cent., wool stockings reduced 74% per cent., shoes reduced 20 per cent., and puts on her woolen shawl reduced 76% percent. To help him earn a living she uses thread reduced 21% per cent., with needles reduced 28% per cent, and uses scissors on his bed reduced 28% per cent., draws over him a sheet reduced 50 per cent, and a blanket reduced 71% and happily contemplates reductions of carpets 67 per cent., dress goods 46 per cent., tin plate 46 per cent., china 45 per cent., watting 72 per cent., pearl buttons 41 per cent., gloves 45per cent., pocket knives 68% per cent. “ ‘The simple and plain duty which we owe to the people is to reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of an economical Operation of the government.’—Grover Cleveland. “Every great battle for human freedom is waged around the question of taxation. Every advance toward free exchange of commodity is an advance of civilization. ‘“Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to tajce out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury.’ “Lower prices, increased consumption, compels employment of additional labor and raises wages.” reduced 22% per cent.

Prosperous Pottery Mills. The East Liverpool (O.) Crisis, an organ of the pottery trade—one of the many industries which was going to be ruined by tariff reform—gives this complacent picture of the ruins thus far wrought: . “The pottery trade in the west is now booming more than it has done at any time during the past three years. Not a man in the City need be idle who wants to work. Workmen for odd jobs were never so hard to find here. Not one, but half a dozen works in this city are now running over time, and the talk of a shut-down, prevalent * few weeks since, has been silenced. The Chelsea, at New Cumberland, is experiencing the biggest boom in its history and is running out nine kilns of ware per week, which breaks the record for that plant.” And this is the state of affairs in a great typical industry in Gov. McKinley’s state. But has the governor heard of it? No; the governor has not heard of it. He is too far from homeonly bad news travels far—and too busy spell-binding the rustlers on the frontier at the rate of twenty-two speeches a day.—Philadelphia Record

PROriSUONAI. CARDS. J. t. hm^ If. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IXD. RpOfflc* tn Bank building, first floor. Wifi •e found at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT 1AW PETERSBURG, INIX Prompt Attention Given to all Business flS*Offlce over Barrett A Son’s store. f * ' I Francis B. Poset. Dewitt q. Chapfsia POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. Special a*- » tention given to ail business. A Notary Public constantly tn the office. flarOffiee-* On first floor Bank Building.

E. A. ELT. 8. Q. P-i.YSNfO^ ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. taromec over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug •tore. Prompt attention given to all bust* ness. E. P. Richardsoji A. H. TiTUtt RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, i Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixp. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office, office in Carpenter Buildings Eighth and “i<a. V_w DENTISTRY. We H. STONECIPHER, Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms 6 and 7 in Carpenter Build* ing. Operations drst'Class. All work war* ranted. Anaesthetics used for painless ex* traction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. $., o 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 Pow* ders and Liniment, which he sella at reasonable prices. Office Over i. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

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