Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 December 1894 — Page 3

1TH a Ne w Year’s January comes a parting of the ways. One leading to new glories, one away trading days; One back to dying embers, one to hearthstones fresh ablaze. 3)risk winds from off bleak hillsides play with the fleecy snow. While mirth and cheor are plentiful where homo Ares brightly glow, and sweet content and happiness hand in hand together go. The reign of winter weakens as freshly passing time The breath of springtime hastens to melt the * frost-king’s rime, WUtte the god of day rides htgber on each day's heavenward climb. Bud and blossom take their places as the seasons come and go, .And the stream of time lnoessant keeps up its , onward flow. .And springtime glories vanish when comes the summer’s glow. Anon with waving leatage appear bright tints of emerald green. "Where floral wealth and beauty catch rare hues of rainbow sheen. Then brilliant banners float, in turn, waved by an autumn queen. Full soon the frost-king strolls abroad with sharp and chilling breath. Beckoning winter's coming onward, where It closely followeth. Until field and forest recognize the season’s annual death. A robe of spotless ermine over mother earth is spread. The streams are bound with icy chains, each hill lays bare its head. And December comes to find once more the olayear dying—dead. —Clark W. Bryan, in Good Housekeeping. DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. «->'■ The gray Old Year, who saw him die! I, said the poet. 1 saw him die. l stood by his bedside all the while. And he gazed at the world with a saddened smile On his dear old face, while he slowly said: “They’re tired of me now and wish me dead.” And he shook his crown of snow-whito hair. White as the snow ill the midnight air. Then lowered his kingly head to hear The first footfall of the gay Young Year. At last it came, a silvery bell. Ahl that was the Old Year’s funeral knclL He rose, when he hoard the first faint swell. And waved hia hand in a mute farewell To the sleeping earth that awoke to cheer The birth of ihe snow-clad, white-robed year. Then Father Time took the Old Year's hand - And drew him srway to that mystic land Where all the ghosts of the dead years go. Into the world of the long ago. Then the New Year took the vacant place. My eyes were Ailed. I turned my face As there came through the starlit night the knell Of the dying Year and its weird farowelL —Mary E. Mannix. In Good Housekeeping

Original. OUNG CUPID is something1 of a wag, and I fancy ho must have chuckled a bit

when he bent his bow and sent an arrow straight at the heart of Jason Claggett Jason was two inches over six feet tall. But those seventy-four inches were seldom or never stretched out in perpendicular sequence; for many weary days of trudging behind the plow and many others spent in picking legions of tobacco worms had bent Jason's back and invested his knees with a prominence which might have suggested to a casual observer that their owner had been just about to 4 kneel and then had had doubts about ^ the advisability of so doing and was yet undecided. Nature had crowned him with an abundant thatcftOof flaming hair, and the sun and wind had given him a complexion hardly less red than his locks, and then poor Jason stuttered badly. It is hardly needful to add that he was bashful, painfully and seemingly hopelessly so. - As might have been expected, the object of his affection was exactly his opposite—it is thus that Cupid loves to work. Dolly Trilligan was pretty and short and inclined to chubbiness —a fresh, wholesome, country lass. Being in/Tove with her with all the •trength of his great, awkward, bashful being, it followed naturally that Jason’s bashfulnoss was painfully augmented when in her presence, and he was abjectly and .helplessly dumb when he would have given the world and all to have appeared to advantage. He would willingly have parted with his right arm to have been,for a brief apace endowed with the readiness of tongue that would have enabled him to pour out the old, old story and ask her to become his wife. Time and again he4iad made up his mind boldly, almost fiercely, to put his fate to the test, but upon each occaaion when the supreme moment came his courage had deserted him before the flash of her bright eyes, and he had sat dumb as the lamb before the shearer. Often he had vowed to tell her, though he died on the .spot, and «ach time he had found himself reduced to what he felt to be the verge •of stuttering imbecility, and had crawled away, hating himself and his •cowardice. And so it came to pass that, since he had first begun worshiping at her •hrine, the weeks had grown into

months, and still he seemed no nearer the consummation of his heart’s desire than at first I think Mistress Dolly had encouraged him a wee bit at times and smoothed tho way for him as much as maidenly modesty would permit bet if so, Jasbn, in his abject humility, never knew it It may be that she pitied him—and pity is akin to love, ’tis said; or, perhaps, when Master Cupid so sorely wounded Jason, he had also aimed a shaft at Dolly’s warm heart She knew that Jason's drawlwicks were all plainly apparent lie was an honest upright, industrious young fellow, forehanded in that he already owned the tract of land adjoining his father’s farm and had in the bank sufficient capital wherewith tq make a comfortable, though modest, start in life. . But fair lady cannot wait forever for faint heart, and, perhaps, Mistress Dolly had grown a little weary of Jason’s procrastination. At any rate, there came a time when the swain learned that he must bestir himself. Dolly’s little brother, an imp of great promise, informed Jason, under the bond of eternal secrecy, that Dolly

nately in the seventh heaven of do* light and the lowest depth of despairing doubt. Dolly was his for the asking—Hurrah! Jimmy had said so, and Jimmy ought to know. Cut it was too good to be true—he could not bring himself to believe it. Uis for the asking? Oh, Jimmy must be mistaken! And thus the teeter-board of his spirits i rose and fell. The chores were done in a whirl of ( conflicting emotions. Dolly would have j him—he gave old Tokus, the horse, a j double allowance of oats. No, it could j not be true—he kicked Quinine, the j dog, half way across the barn lot. When the evening meal was over Jason j hied him to his chamber and arrayed himself for the coming ordeal. He oiled his ruddy looks with odoriferous unguents and anointed his boots lavishly with mutton tallow. It is no light ; task to deck one's self for such an er- j rand as Jason's, and it was well along j toward nine o'clock before he set off j across the fields for the Trilligan homestead. As he drew nigh unto the house the mighty import of what he was about to do burst upon him and his courage deserted him, and he tramped back and forth in the snow for many minutes,

“HK CAME TO CALL,” ANSWERED DOLLY.

had vowed that if Jason did not speak e’er the year had flown his subsequent speaking would avail him nothing. “If you don’t ask her this year you won’t get her at all,” quoth the lad. “She means business!” The implication that he might be successful in the event of his taking time by the forelock filled Jason with happiness. “Gug-gugrgo 'long, Jimmy!” he stammered, desirous of dallying with his new-found joy as long as possible. “Sh-sh-she w-w-w—she w-wouldn’t have mum-mum—she wouldn’t have me, anyhow!” “H’m!" answered young James, with a judicial air. “You never can tell about girls; they are always doin’ foolish things. Butjshe’ll have you if you get a move on you and ask her in time, Jase." “Dud-dud-dud—" “Aw, no, she didn’t tell me so, o’ course! But I know it, all right enough. I wouldn’t tell you anything about it, though, if you wasn’t a pretty good sort of a fellow. You gimme a dime once.” ‘'Bub-bub-but—’’ “And that ain’t all I know,” interrupted the lad, tentatively. The astute James reasoned that this tantalizing revelation ought to be the means of enriching him to the extent of another dime, and when Jason handed him a quarter instead of the coveted dime he warrcsd tow-t-d his victim. “We are goifi* to navelotk'of company to-morrow," he sfcid. “Henry and his wife, and Cousin Marvin’s folks, hnd the Wollivers, and—” “Fuf-fuf—” “That’s so! Fred Wolliver is cornin’ with his {ftther and mother, and—well, I guess he likes Dolly pretty well, and—” “Dud-dud—” “Oh, you never know $vhat a girl will do! But I’ll tell you-what, Jase: You go over to-night and fix it up with Dolly and get ahead of iPred. I like you better’n I do him, anyhow. He never gimme anything in his life. If I had ten cents more 1 could—” This delicate hint elicited another quarter from Jason, who was now in the state of mind where money is as dross. “Bub-bub-but,” he began, timorously. “There’s pup-pup-plenty—” “Plenty of time?” broke in the lad. “Why, to-morrow is New Year’s; your year will be out at midnight, and then where will you be?" “Bub-bub-but it ain’t a ye-ye—it ain’t a year sus-sus-—’’ “She didn’t say a year since you began goin’ with her. She said if you didn’t ask her this year she wouldn’t have you at all, and—’’ “I—I’ll ask her!*’ broke in Jason, firmly. “Gee-whizz!’’ ejaculated the lad, as he jingled his booty in the palm of his hand when safely out of Jason’s hearing. “Why didn’t I think of this before? I might have made as much as ten dollasrs out of Jason if I had started in early enough." All the rest of the afternoon Jason was in a tremor of excitement, alter

t<ir with doubts and fears and weak and trembling at the thought of the terrible ordeal so near atT hand. He shook in every limb, ami5 his heart rose in his throat till it almost choked him. . He felt as if he could never do it in the world. But he must—he must! And, nerved to momentary courage by his desperation, he bolted toward the door and bestowed upon it a thunderous knock, and then, startled at his own daring, was on the point of fleeing ipgloriously when the door opened and Miss Dolly stood before him. She expressed pleasurable surprise upon discovering his identity, as if, artful maiden, she had not been waiting all the evening for his coming! Earlier in the evening, parents, brothers and sisters, in obedience to a hint from Jimmy, had retired previous to their usual wont, leaving Dolly to carry out her declaration of sitting up to watch the Old Year out and the New Year in. But Gran’pap Trilligan had not been included in the harmless j plot, for the reason that he usually re- j tired early, anyhow'. But to-night the veteran, with the unreasoning obsti- ! nacy of age, had determined to be in at J the death of the passing year on his ; own account. There was no use in arguing with j gran’pap, and so he was left to do his J pleasure, in the expectation that he j would soon forget this determination | and totter off to bed. But gran’pap j was made of sterner stuff, and having j seated himself in the rocker before the { fire with the intention of remaining i till midnight, there he sat, for the! time being, as firmly planted as the Rock of Gibraltar, albeit ho soon dozed off and bade "fair to sleep away the last hours of the expiring year. But Jasou’s resonant knock had aroused him and now the old man was wide awake and sternly determined to stay so. He regarded the visitor critically and with visible disapproval. What on earth could be Jason’s reason for coming there at such an unwar- j ranted hour? Gran’pap did not ap- j prove of gadding around at night, and showed it. “Uowdy-du, Jason?” he saluted, suspiciously. “ ’Pears to me you’re out mighty late. Ain’t nothing the matter j at home, is there?” “Nun-nun-no,” answered - Jason, guiltily. “W-w-we ace all w-w—” “Har?” Gran’pap was as deaf as the proverbial adder. “I sus-sus—I say w-we are all w-w-w —we are all—” ‘‘What’s that?” broke in gran’pap, who fancied he was missing something of vital importance. “I sus-sus-said—” began Jason, raising his voiee, “I sus—” “Dead?” snapped gran’pap. “Whose dead? It hain’tyour mar, is it? She’s been poorly for quite a spell, but nobody thought she’d die of it.” “Nun-nun—” “Har?” “I sus-sus-sus—I sus—" “What’s that?” “He says nobody is dead, grandfather,” Doily cried to the old man, in her clear young voice, and Jason felt

like falling down and worshiping hei then and there. "Ar-har!” ejaculated gran’pap, comprehending. "Nobody dead! Thought you said there was. Warl, then, wnat is the matter?** "Nun-nun—** began Jasoa. "Ilcy?” "Nun-nun—” » “There is nothing the matter, grandfather,” explained Dolly. “Uain’t har?” snapped the veteran. He felt that he had been imposed upon in some manner. “Warl, then, what did you come over for, Jason?” "I dud-dud—I dud-didn’t cuc-cuc—” began Jason, feeling like a culprit convicted of a dire crime. “I dud-dud-didn’t—” "Har?” "He came to call,” answered DoHy. tier face reddening with vexation. "To call?” snorted gran'pap. “To call for what?” *‘Nun-nun-nun—” "Have we got anything of Jason’s, Dolly?” "No, sir. He came to—to call on me.” "To call on you!” ejaculated the veteran. "H'm!” By this time poor Jason was reduced to a mental tatteration, and I think had not gran’pap subsided very soon the bashful swain would have fled from the house in his desperation. As it was, the old man presently settled back in his chair and fell to wagging his aged head and muttering to himself. Plainly he did not comprehend matters yet. By and by he dropped off into an uneasy doze, broken by occasional grunts and mutterings, which, as ill luck would have it, were so timed that they broke into Jason’s desperate attempts at conversation, and each time reduced him to sudden silence. He cast an anxious eye on the clock, swiftly ticking away his opportunity, and essayed to introduce the subject nearest his heart,but just then gran'pap gave a«sudden start and the swain came to as sudden a stop. It was a trying ordeal for Dolly also, but she was more nearly equal to the emergency. "Nice weather we are having, Jason?” she said. “Ye-ye-yes,” answered the poor fellow, eagerly; "bub-bub-but it lullul—but it lul—” “Yes, it does look as if it would be colder soon.” "Yc-ye-yes!” blurted Jason, gratefully. "Lul-lul-looks lul-like it w-w-w-w—like it w-would be alfuf-fuf-fuf-alfired cold!” "Yes, indeed! How is your pa’s health?”

“Mum-mum-middlin, th-thank ye! And thus it went on for the next three-quarters of an hour, the time to the wretched suitor seeming to fly by with the speed of an arrow. Once, when, seemingly by accident, he was almost upon the point of committing himself, gran’pap gave a choking snort and sat bolt upright, only to settle back again without waking. But this was enough to sidetrack Jason for a quarter of an hour. And, at last, what with one thing and another, the time had sped till it lacked but ten minutes of midnight. Feeling like a criminal being led forth to execution, and moved to desperation by the crisis, Jason turned squarely toward Dolly. “Dud-dud-Dolly,” he blurted. I lullul—I lul-lul—” Poor Dolly was almost on the verge of hysterics. Gran’pap stirred uneasily in his chair. “Dud-Dolly, I lul-lul—I lul-lul—” It was no use! The poor fellow stuck hard and fast. Gran’pap threatened to wake up at any moment. “1 lul-lul-lul—” “Sing it, Jason!” cried Dolly. There was a preliminary grinding sound in the old clock, more ominous than the sound from gran’pap’s chair, and Jason opened his mouth and chanted in good rich tones: “Dolly, I late you! WiU you marry me?” 0 And the little woman, half crying, half laughing, answered: “Yes, Jason, I will!” Gran’pap awoke with a jump. “Ar-har!” he cried, in his piping treble. “So that’s what you came for, hey, Jason?” The old clock, having completed its preliminary grind, began tolling the knell of the year. “Ye-yes!” answered Jason, boldly, whfn the clock’s clamor was done. “Of cuc-cuc-course that’s w-w-what I cuc-cuc-came for.” “YYarl,” said gran’pap, sententiously, “the best thing for me to do is to git along off to bed! I’m too old to be settin’ up at this time o’ night." Tom P. Morgan. The Fruit of Resolution. No man ever gathered a harvest from his field who had not first resolved to gather one. No man ever won a victory or conquered an enemy, whose success was not the result of resolution and planning. No man ever accomplished better things who did not first resolve and attempt better things. Shall we form good resolutions for the new year? Certainly, if we would render better serviee in the future than in the past.—United Presbyterian. > _1_l—LmiHe Was Ready. “Are you ready to meet that solemn event in every man’s existence, the New Year?” asked the meditative man. “You bet I am,” replied his flippant friend. “I have more material for swearing off than I ever had before in my life.”—Washington Star. Ills Reformation. “Jack, dear, I hope you’ve de termined to swear off on something New Year’s day." “I have.” “What is it? Cigarettes?” “No. Milliners’ bills.”—Brooklyn Life._ Her Relt. Last night this little belt was placed Around the world. Yon see It spanned my Arabella's waist. And she's the world to me! _-N_ Y. Herald., A Sequence. “IIow intelligent Melissa is!* “Yes; she it homalv. isn’t she?”— Puck

FOLLY OF THE SUGAR TRUST. The Rwh Bluff of a Protection-Focterid Monopoly. The threat of the augur trust to close its eastern refineries was characteristic of the methods of that monopoly. It was made by Mr. IL O. Havemeyer, the president of the trust, within a few days of the meeting of congress, and Mr. Haremeyer based the pretended necessity for closing the refineries and turning thousands of men out of employment on the probability of the passage of the freesugar bill, which, having gone through the house of representatives at the last session of congress, is pending in the senate. At the time when this throat was uttered there was small probability that the free-sugar bill would be passed by the senate. There was then no evidence, so far as the public knew, that the hold of the trust on the senators who compelled the surrender to its demands was weakened. But Mr. llavemeyer’s interview has evidently greatly discredited the trust in Washington. It has aroused a widespread indignation against the trust, which, coupled with the popular verdict in the country, and especially in his own state, has compelled even the obstinate and cynical Senator Smith to denounce the friends by adhering to whom last summer he incurred much deserved odium. The threat was clearly ill-timed, and otherwise indicative that to Mr. Havemeyer, as to other men who have been cleverly and astutely defiant of the public sentiment in favor of morality, and whose aiicceas in corruption or selfish greed has seemed unbounded, there has come a time when folly has taken possession of him. So crhel and unnecessary was his threat that the president felt constrained to mention it in his message, and to express a willingness, in view of it, that the especial protection enjoyed by the trust should be repealed. Mr. Havemeyer apparently thought that he had only to drivo his workingmen into the streets to stay the hand of the advocates of free sugar. But he forgot, or never realized, the almost universal hatred which his own and his associates’ conduct in Washington had inspired. He and they were among the most potent factors of democratic defeat. The country believes the trust purchased protection from the senate, and that Gorman, Brice, Smith and some others were practically its agents. It knows from the testimpny of the two Havemeyers and Searles that the trust habitually corrupted both political parties. It has reason to know that the trust is amply protected, and that if it has lost money or failed to make it in the last three months it is because it was too confident in its power to postpone the operation of the act until the 1st of January. More important than all else is the knowledge that the business of refining sugar is conducted in this country more cheaply than anywhere else in the world, and that the trust can actually pay some duty on its raw material and still compete with the German and English refineries in the markets of the world. It knows from Henry 0. Havemeyer’s own testimony,, given in 1880, that American refiners do not need protection. The indignant outcry with which Mr. Havemeyer’s threat was greeted was followed by the return to the refineries of the few workingmen who were discharged. This was a confession that, instead of being under a stress of civil circumstances, the trust could not afford to stop production^ even for a few days, and for the purpose of preventing the passage of the free-sugar bill.

me resuitoi an tois uu^rui iu mspire the senate to do somethin? towards curing one of the grossest scandals that ever tainted it. The differential duty at least should be abolished. If this much is accomplished the country will be grateful for Mr. Havemeyer’s folly.— Harper's Weekly. SUGAR TRUST SENATORS. A. Monopoly Created and Supported by Republicans. By a rote of twenty-three to twentyseven, the United States senate refused to strike out the discriminating duties in favor of the sugar trust. The vote showed clearly the friends and the enemies of the trust. Of the twenty-three votes to strike out the differential duty in favor of the sugar trust, twenty-two were democrats. Of the twenty-seven votes against striking out, twenty-four were republicans and populists. The monopoly of the sugar trust was begun by republican legislation. It was one of the essential features of the McKinley bill, which made a high discrimination in favor of the sugar trust That discrimination was reduced by a hard fight, and the effort to abolish it entirely received only one republican vote. The sugar trust makes a profit of ten million dollarSU year by its privilege of laying a tax on the people of a fraction of a cent on every pound of sugar they consume. The United States government authorizes the sugar trust to collect from the people an annual income ten times as large as that which it costs to run the whole government of this city. While on one hand the United States favors the sugar trust by Jts protecting tariff, on the other hand it permits the sugar trust to oppress its la- , borers and to close its refineries and still more to raise its profits from the people. The test vote of the senate shows who the friends of the sugar trust are. —Albany Argus. -No more interesting paper has been issued from the government at Washington during recent years than the annual report of the secretary of agriculture, Hon. J. Sterling Morton. Not the least interesting feature of this valuable paper is the statement at the outset that six hundred thousand dollars of the appropriation for the department for the last fiscal year have been covered back into the treasury, being twenty-three per cent of the entire amount, and that “economy has not diminished efficiency.’’—Kansas City Times. v

POLITICAL HERESY. What a Republican Journal Say* of Me. Klaleyka. The defeat which prohibitory protection has just sustained in the re-publican-congressional campaign committee is significant. It came on the question of continuing the committee Headquarters and the maintenance of its literary bureau until March 15 next. This was, the proposition of Chairman Babcock and the other leaders of the moderate, wing of the party and it was oppose^ by the'high protectionists under the direction of Boutelle of Maine. The moderates were successful by a large majority. For three months more the head- . quarters will be kept Open, and during this time literature on the tariff question will be sent out to republicans or others who ask for it and the campaign of education be continued. Just what happened in the congressional committee would happen in caucus if the matter were brought before the entire republican delegation of both branches. High protection, the protection which is understood by the term McKinleyism, would be beaten four or five to one on a vote of the whole body-of republican members of congress. McKinleyism denotes high protection—protection in some places very close to the prohibitory point, and in many places much nearer that point than is necessary for the producer, fair for the government, or just to the consumer. The term is concrete and specific, and the wayfaring man, though a fool, will know precisely what it means. McKinleyism u not republican doctrine and n$yer was. Undoubtedly if the^ republican masses of the country were permitted to vote on the McKinley bill just after it was put into shape they would have rejected and condemned it by a vote of at least three to one. A man can be a sound and consistent protectionist without believing that' the highest duties are always the best duties. All the protection which the really representative men of the party ever wanted was that which woul<£b$set the lower wages paid abroad. There are, it is true, in the republican party, as there were in the whig party, men who think that nothing whatever should be admitted to the country which can be made or raised here, no matter what the price here is, but in the whig days those men were never allowed to dictate tariffs. The republicans, too, kept them in the background until recently. They had no hand in the framing of the Morrill bill which passed the house in 1860 and the senate in February, 1861. The duties in that act, of course, Were subsequently increased, but that was during the war, when an impost was put on everything that a tax-gatherer could reach. After the war the duties started downward, and they kept on going down until 1890. Then the import exclusionists and abolitionists got control of the ways and means committee, framed the McKinley tariff,and the party was overwhelmingly and deservedly beaten in that year and in 1892 as a consequence. No tariff will ever again be framed on the 1890 lines. There is an irrepressible conflict between McKinleyism and republicanism. McKinleyism is a S^lic of barbarism, a survival of the ark ages. It is political heresy, economic lunacy, Chinese statesmanship. The republican party will see to it that the McKinleyism resurrectionists be sent to the rear and kept there. — St. Louis Globe-Democrat 4*ep.). _

POINTED PARAGRAPHS. '-Every dollar that Steve Elkins will spend in buying the West Virginia senatorsnip represents honest American sweat, not a drop of which has been sweated by Elkins himself. How long will the people allow the plutocracy to fly its red flag over the senate? —N. Y. World. -Ex-President Benjamin Harrison has permitted it to transpire through a friend that he haS not authorized anybody to say that he is not a candidate for the republican nomination for president in 1896, nor that he is a candidate. But he says for himself (through his friend) that he does not desire the nomination and would accept it only “under extreme pressure.,r It is easy to see, however, that he confidently expects to feel the “pressure.” —Chicago Herald. —-“No tariff will ever again be framed on the 1890 lipes,” says that outspoken republican journal, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “There is an irrepressible conflict between McKinleyism and republicanism. McKinleyism is a relic of barbarism, a survival of the dark ages. It is political heresy, economic lunacy, Chinese statesmanship. The republican party will see to it that, the McKinley ism resurrectionists be sent to the rear and kept there.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. -A four-dollar rise in one day in the price of sugar trust stock! This is to be traced as directly to the fact that every republican voting in the senate voted against taking steps to remove the duty from which the sugar trust benefits as effect was ever to be traced to cause in any quarter. The democrats contributed a mite to aid it also, but it is only fair to them to say that the greatest bulk of their senators went the other way. The republican leaders easily control their party and make it a unit in the interest of monopoly, while the democrats are helpless for efficiency in the other direction.—Boston Herald. -McKinleyism is thoroughly discredited even in his own party. The high priest of the faith wiU have to modify his views or cease to be a presidential possibility. As speaker of the house Seed will concentrate the public gaze and attention. He will be a much more conspicuous figure than the governor of Ohio or the distinguished citizen of Indianapolis who delivers lectures and practices law. The czar’s way to the nomination seems an easy one, but the antagonism which he has created and which he will create when again he is speaker makes the question of his selection entirely a different matter.—Detroit Tree Press.