Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 March 1895 — Page 3

4Ebtf£ifct Gmratg §mtctat M. MeO. BT00P8, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANAAT THE DOOR. We irert standing in the doorway— My little wile and I— $■ The polden son upon her hair I ° Fell down so silently! A small white hand upon my am. What could I wish lor more Than the kindly glance at loving eyea, As she kissed me at the door? 1 know she loves with all her heart Thu one who stands beside. And the years have been so Joyous 4 Since first I called her bride! We had so much ol happiness In the years that went before. But the happiest time ot all was When she kissed me at the door! Who cares lor wealth of land or gold. Of fame or matchless power? It does not give the happiness Just one little hour. With one who loves me as her life— She says she loves me more; f And 1 thought she did this morning When she kissed me at the door! At times it seems as if the world, With ail its wealth of gold. Is very small and poor indeed Compared with what I hold. And when the clouds hang grim and dark, I only think the more Ot one who waits a coming step. To kiss me at the door! I If we lire till age shall scatter The frost upoa her head. I know she'll love me Just the same w As the mornings we were wed. But If the angels ball her And she goes to Heaven before, I shall know her when 1 meet her. For she'll kiss me at the doori —£. W. Butcher, in Banner ol Goid.

I ALLUS held,” ^ said the Chronic Loafer, as he stretched his leg's along the counter and rested his back comfortably against a pile of calicoes,' “thet they ain’t no sech thing as a roarinborin al

lus. I know some sais tnej' is elec me lights, but when I seen thet big un last night I said to my missus, an’ I hoi’ I’m right, thet et was nothin’ but th’ iron furnaces over th’ mo’ntain, Fer, s’pose. ez th’ Teacher sais, they is lights up et th’ north pole, does you . uns believe we could see ’em all thet distance? Well, now!” He gazed impressively about the store at the close of this discourse. The Miller, the Shoemaker and the G A. 11. Man were disposed to agree with him, but the School-Teacher was sarcastic. “If you had ever studied physical geography,” he said, “you would know that the aurora borealis is nqt a light made upon terra firma, but a peculiar magnetic condition of the atmosphere for which there is no apparent accounting.” He looked toward the Chronic Loafer. “And the manner in which -you pronounce it is exceedingly ludicrous. It isnota roarinborin always. It is spelled a-u-r-o-r-a b-o-r-e-a-l-i-s.” The Tinsmith, -who was seated upon a nail keg, rubbing his hands in the warm rays of ,the stove, chuckled softly. The Chronic Loafer noticed him and felt convinced that the correction of his own grammar had caused the other’s mirth. ^‘What’s you uns so tickled about now?” he asked, gruffly. “1 was jest thinkin’,” the Tinsmith replied, his countenance assuming its natural expression, “of the time my old frien’ Quincy Muthersbaugh spelled down John Jimison.who tot up to Happy Grove school. He done et on thet very word. My, but thet there was a bee.” “Now, ’fore you git grindin’ ’way— sence you've got on spellin’—I want ter tell a good un on—” , “Let him tell us about Quincy Muth

“I WAS JEST A-THINKIN’’.” ersbaugh,” the School-Teacher interposed, decisively. “Your good un can keep.” Compelled to silence, the Chronio Loafer rolled' over on his hack and gazed dejectedly into the dim recesses of the ceiling, while the Tinsmith began: “Some folks is nat’ral spellers, jiept as others is nat’ral musicians. Ag€n, et’s jest as hard ter make a good speller by edication as et is ter make a g x>d bass horn player. Fer a feller thet hain’t thet inborn; idee of how many letters is needed ter make a word’ll never spell no better than the man thet hain’t a nat’ral sense of how much wind’s needed for a note ’ll play a lass "horn.” “I cannot wholly agree with you,” interrupted the School-Teacher. “Cive a "child first words of one syllable, then two; then drill them in words ending in tion until —” ' “We won’t discuss thet, Teacher, fer et don’t affect our case. John Jimison was a nat’ral speller. You never seen

1th* like. Crire him * ward! of six or seven syllables an’ he’d 8]ieU et out like et was on a blackboard right before him. When he was twenty he hed spelled down alii the scholars in Happy iirove, an’ 'd Avon ’bout six bees. Then lie went to the Pikes tovrn normal school, out in the western part of Pennsylvany. When he come back yon never knowed th’ beat. He Hed stedied Latin an’ algebiray, but I guess he must n-spent consider’ble time a-brushin’ up Ids spellin’, fer there was only one feller about these parts who could keep him fer any time at all. Hie was my frien1 Quincy Muthersbaugh. You uns knows Quincy. He tot two winters up et Kishikoouilla's school, and went west after he mawried. He was a powerful good feller—still—an’ a fine teacher an’ speller—but John Jimison hed the advantage of a normal school edi

cation, an knowed it, fer you uns never seen th* like of th’ way he kerried on when he was teachin ter Happy Grove. > •‘Thet was th’ winter we hed so pouch snow. It hed drifted in the roads, so we diove through th’ fiel’s, ef you uns remember. What with church so&hbles, an’ singin' school, an’ spellin’ bees, they was a heap sight goin’ on. “Not a week passed but me an’ Quincy Aluthersbaugh went some’ereS, an’ ’fore 1 know’d et both him an’ John Jimison was keepin’ company with Hannah Ciders. She was jest as pretty as a peach, plump an’ rosy, with th’ slickest natural hair an’ teeth you ever seen. She was powerful fond of edication, so when them two teachers was after her she jest couldn’t make up her min’. She favored both. But it seemed ter me like Quincy was her favoryte without her knowin’ it., He’d go see her an’ set down an^jneVeB say nothin’ much, but she kincTer thot him pleas* ant company. He was good-lookin’ an’ sure an’ no fool. Jimison was amusin’, tuler'ble in his looks, an’ hed th’ advantage of a normal school edication, an' kinder dazzled her. Et alius’peared ter me, still, as if he was a bit conceity, but then, he took with th’ girls. “Hannah Ciders didn’t know which of them two ter choose. Et seems she figured on it all fall an’ well inter th’ winter. She begin ter get thin an’ lose all her color, an’ both them fellers were near wild with anxiousness an’ continual qUarrelin’. Then what yer s’pose they done?” , “ECU take a long time fer ’em ter do much, th’ way you tells et,” the Chronic Loafer grumbled. , “She give out,” continued the Tinsmith, not heeding the interruption, “thet she’d take the best edicated. Thet tickled Jimison, who blowed round ter all his friends how he was. Quincy, he jest grit his teeth an' said

be was ready* He was goin , he put et, ‘like th’ male knights of old, ter tilt in th' turning months fer his lady. They agreed ter hev it out on th' quiet at th, big spellin' between their schools th’ followin’ week. I thot Quincy was gone. He jest went ter work though, an’ fer sev-'ral days before th’ bee 1 seen nothin’ of him. He was stedyin’ th' spellin’ book. ‘‘The night come, an’ sechacrowd as they was et the Happy Grove school. They was sleighin’, an’ fer a quarter of a mile in front of th' buildin’ they was nothin’ but horses hitched ter th* fences. Th" schoolroom was all decorated agfvith greens an’ lighted with ile lampsqr for th’ occasion, an’ was jest packed. All th’ seats was filled with girls, an’ th’ men was lined four deep ’long th’ walls, an’ banked up on top of one 'nother at th’ back. On one side of th’ platform, settin’ on a bench ’long under th’ blackboard, was th’ sixteen best scholars of the Happy Grove school, led be John Jimison. He was smilin’ an’ conferdent, an’ gazin’ longin' at Hannah Ciders, who was on one of th’ front seats an’ ’peared rather nervous. He was all togged out in a new Prince Albert coat for her benefit. “1 was standin’ be th’ stove meltin’ th’ snow off me boots, when 1 hed a few words with Quincy Muthersbaugh. He seemed jest at little excited, but Towed et ud come out all right. Then he took his place with his sixteen scholars on th’ other side the platfortn, and th' proceeding begin. “Teacher Long, from over in Lemon

township, called out the words trom a speller, while me<an’ ’nother feller kept tally. The first word given out was soupeny, an’ Quincy missed et. He spelled et Vu-p-e-n-a.’ 1 jest felt sick when 1 marked down one again’ his side. Jimison took her, spelled her all right, an' commenced ter smile. Muthersbaugh looked solemn. The feller nex’ on his side spelled supersedes correct while tne man nex’ John Jimison missed superannuation, an’ then Happy Grove and Kishikoquillas was even. They kep’ thet up an hour an’ a half, an’I tell yer et was most excitin’ ter see them trained spellers battlin’. When they quit Happy Grove hed two less misses than Kishikoquillas. Jimison commenced ter smile triumphant, but Quincy di dn’t do nothin* ’cept set there quiet like. After a recess of ten minutes they begin ter spell down. AH ♦he scholars lined up in a row, an' whenever one missed a word they hed to go sit in th’ audience. They spelled an’spelled till finally they was no one left but Quincy Muthersbaugh an’ John Jimison, jest standin’ there glarin’ et each other an’ singin’ out letters. Et was a grand sight. Hannah Ciders was pale an’ tremblin’, fer she knowed the vally of an idle word then. The aud’ence was most stretch in’ their necks outen joint, they was so interested. Two lamps w«mt out an’ no one fixed ’em; th’ air was jest blue with tl*’ steam made by the snow meltin’ off th’ fellers’ boots an’ the stove begin to smoke’ an’ th’ room was suffocatin’, but no one thot ter put up a wnder th’ excitemen’ was so bag. “Sech words as penultimate, concatenation, peuta teuch an’ silhouette come dead easy ter them teajchers. They kep’ glarin’ at each other an’ spellin’ like their life depended on et. Poor Long’s voice got weaker an* weaker a givin’ out words. I was thet nervous I could hairdly see. They spelled all the ations and entions, all the words ending in ism, die and ness, tell et seemed they’d use up th’ book.

Quincy was gettin’ move excited. Jim* ison's knees was tremblin' risible. “Then Long (fare out Roryborjr Alins. Yon could a heard a pin drop in the room. Jimison be begin slow as ef it was dead easy: ‘A-r-o-r-a. Aurora, b-o-r. Aurora Bor; e-a-l-i-s; Aurora Borealis.’ “They was a mumble went over the room, an* he seen he was wrong an' yelled: ‘A-u, I mean!’ “ ‘Too late,’ says Long. ‘Only one chanc’t et a time tell one or th’ other spells et. Th’gentleman who gets et right'Brst wins, accordin’ ter rules,’ “Jimison was white as a sheet an’ his iaoe and hands was a twitchin* as h« stood there glarin’ et Quincy. Muthersbaugh looked at the floor like he was stedyin'. I seen Hannah Ciders lean forward an’ grip th* desk with her hands, an’ then 1 kuow'd she'd made up her min' which she |avored. “He begin: ‘A-u, au; r-o-r, ror, Auror; a. Aurora; B-o-r. bor, Aurora Bor; e; Aurora Bore; a-i, al; Aurora Boreal—* Then he stopped an’ looked I at the floor an’ sledied. * “I jest stood up. I was thet excited, fer I knowed what was wrong. I seen tears in Hannah Ciders’ eyes aa she leaned for’a'd, not breathin’; I seen Jimison grin an' know'd he remembered he’d left out th' u an’ 'nd spell et sure jest as quick as he’d get a chanc’t. I believed Quincy was goin* ter say, ‘a,* am’ thet et was all up with him, an’ thet Hannah Ciders know’d who she favored too late, fer she wasn’t a girl ter break a ’greemen’. “Then sudden a feller run in the door an’ yelled: ‘Some uns run off with Teacher Jimison's horse am* sleigh!’ “You uns never seen sech a panic. Th’ weemen jumped up an’ yelled; th’ men jist piled out th’ door; John Jimison climbed out of the winder, an*

SAM STUCK BIS UK AD IX. Teacher Long- dropped his spellin’ book an’follored. Ter ray surprise Quincy Muthersbaugh never moved; he jest stood there lookin’ at Hannah Ciders an’ smilin’, while she was gazin' back as red as a beet. I was gettin’out th’ winder among th’ last an’ turned 'round ter see ef Quince was behind me; thet’s • how I come ter notice et. I jest stopped an’ looked at both of em’. For three minutes them two stared et each other an’ I stared at ’em, not knowin’ what ter make of et. Meantime the room was cleared. Outside we heard th’ sleighbells ringin’ as th’ fellers started off after th’ thieves; we heard John Jimison and Teacher Long callin’ to 'em to tell em to go in this an’ thet direction; we heard th’ weemen complainin’ because they'd so many hev to walk home. “Then th’ rear winder right back of where Quincy was standin’ slid up an’ his young brother Sam stuck his head in, an’ when he seen th’ coast was clear, whispered: ‘I jest give the ’larin in time. Quince, didn’t I? I've hitched Teacher Jimison's horse right here behind th’ schoolhouse, an’ you kin take her home as soon as th' last of these here fools gits away.’ “Quincy smiled an’ said; ‘I thot you was never cornin’ an’ I'd hev ter spell %t out.’ „ “But th’ winder was shet down an’ his brother was gone: “Then he steps down and off the platform an’ walks up ter Hannah Ciders, an’ says: ’Th’ last syllable e-a-l-a-s.’ “ ‘No,’ she says, quiet like, ‘et's e-a-l-i-s. But thet ain’t no difference.’ “I slipped out the winder an’ started home. 'Bout ten minutes later John Jimison's horse and sleigh passed me on th’ road an’ from whet I seen I jedged et wouldn’t a done him much good anyway ef he had spelled down Quincy Muthersbaugh.”—N. Y. Even ing Sun. _ ,«

Fearless. “Fear,” said the Russian general, Skobeleff, to a subordinate officer, “must cease when a man reaches the grade of captain.” Every officer'under him was expected, when the occasion came, to lay down his life as an exam* pie to his men. “I must show my men how badly the Turks aim,” he said while standing as a target on a rampart of a trench, at the siege of Plevna. “I know how to cure him of exposing himself,” said a soldier in the trenches. “The first time he jumps on the rampart let us all jump after him.” They did so, and Skobeleff, who could not bear needlessly to expose his men, jumped down.—Yohji’s Companion. She Drew the Line. English, as she is spoke by the English is, at times, provocative of both amusement and amazement, A recent-ly-imported English governess on Michigan avenue was told one day by her lady patron that owing to sudden domestic insurrection and departure of servants from the house-she would have to ask her to have the care of her own bedchamber until a fresh invoice of servants could be secured. To this the accomplished English woman naively replied: “Well, Twill make my bed, but I tell you - frankly I will not broom my rtx>m.’'—Chicago Record. —Algiers is so called from the Arabic words Al-Jezair, meaning “a peninsula.” —Guinea was named from a West African word, meaning “abounding in gold."

A 7TEEO SHAKE.fi. Tftw Pitiable Spectacle Ff—fJ by tne Kx-Cur m a Trtnmr. When the committee of ways wii means took op the question of sarin* six teen million dollars to the taxpayer* by authorizing geld bonds for the riseent loan. Mr. T. B. Heed, the republican leader, apposed the measuro. When the currency bill, as amended, was before the house, Mr. Reed did not rote on the first roll call, and did not vote on the second roll call until lie had had time to ascertain by a simple mathematical device that the bill wmis surely defeated. Then he recorded his honorable name In the affirmative. A change of a very few votes, say a dozen, with a little drumming up of dodging members, would have secured the pas* sage of the bill. It is: our impression that a'much greater change than that could have been secured by Mr. Reed had he so wished. While the bill was pending in committee of the whole Mr. Reed divided the republicans who would have voted for the bill as a whole by raising the question of payment in gold. He proposed a substitute which in the midst of a number of confusing provisions included payment in coin, he at the time knowing perfectly well that payment in gold was of the essence of the measure, and that no other mode of payment would meet the requirements of the situation. Here we have the short and simple annals of the very poor statesmanship of Mr. Reed. It is related of the once brilliant and aggressive gentleman from Maine, in the y eard890, when the Sherman bill was urged as the only\ means of preventing a free coinage bill, and when it was suggested that a free coinagebill would in any case be vetoed by President Harrison, that Mr. Reed remarked that he was not acquainted with anyone who knew what Mr. Harrison would do or would not do with such a bill. The president was at that time a candidate for renomination, and the significance of Mr. Reed’s remark was obvious. Mr. Reed is now himself an aspirant for a presidential nomination. Is he acquainted with anyone who knows what he will do or will not do on any matter that ir^y affect the satisfaction of his legitimate but demoralizing ambition? The doubt suggested by the question is bitter, but it is inevitable. Mr. Reed’s own course compels it. The once courageous and rather contemptuous representative,

who com pencil uumiruuou ior ms candor and respect for his sincerity, however he may have lacked in manners, has vanished, and in his place we see the halting1, timid, scheming, halfsuppliant politician, squirming and twisting around whatever he fancies may be an obstacle in his path. And the element in this spectacle that is at once pitiful and grotesque is that, of all possible ways, this, for a man of Mr. Reed’s mind and temperament, is the least likely to lead to success. It is the very converse of that which his great rival, Mr. Blaine, fo|r lowed to tragic failure. Naturally a plotter, the latter assumed the manner and sought to make the reputation of a dashing and open-hearted leader. Mr. Reed, having shown that he is by nature a brave and spirited fighter, now seeks the advantages of a shre wd trimmer. What is common to both careers, what was fatal in one and is full of perilr for the other, Is the contradiction between the real character and that assumed. Mr. Blaine could not win the confidence due to a bold leader because at heart he was not one, and Mr. Reed cannot gain by the arts of the tricky politician even the advantage they are capable of giving because at heart he despises them and is unfitted for .hem. This fact, so obvious to those whose observation is unprejudiced, it is probably too late for Mr. Reed to recognize. But if he jcould get himself into the frame of mind habitual with him only, a short year ago, there are some things that we should venture to call to his attention with the hope that it would not be in vain. One of these is that on the currency question the tendency of public opinion in the United States for the past twenty years has been distinctly toward honest money, which is the same as saying, in the conditions prevailing, toward gold payments. This is shown by the fact that, though the issue has never been clearly voted on, the more nearly it has been presented, the more decided has opinion been ip the right • direction. If it were possible now to put the question to the peole, unobscured and unconfused, the answer would be overwhelmingly for honest money. The next point to be noted is that there is * a very powerful current of events tending to force this issue directly upon the country. We have paltered with it, compromised it, deferred it, over and over again. At every successive stage the result has been more disastrous. The half-blind, half cowardly hesitation in taking the final step, paying our demand notes

once for all in gold, and destroying forever the last excuse for doubting the absolute honesty of the nation, has cost us, literally, tiro thousand millions of dollars in taxes and millions more in business losses. If the American people once clearly understand this, they will act with a swiftness and decision that nothing can withstand. In that day the leader they will choose will not be a trimmer or a schemer. They will not choose him for his skill in dodging issues or evading ' -iffieulties. They will take the man they think they can trust because he hasnot failed them. There wasa time when Mr. Reed had given reason for such confidence in him. Lately he has impaired it. Yet a man who has the courage irankly to recognize wherein he is wrong and promptly and firmly to put himself in the right is not a man to discard. Honestly, Mr. Reed, we believe that you have still a chance.— N. Y. Times._ ——The people will now watch to see what the populist and republican majority of the senate will do. There has been a majority of populists and democrats for two years. Now there will be all populists and republicans. It will be interesting to see how this nsw mixt ure works.—Albany Arggs.

THE TREASURY SIITUATIQH. What b Show* If laforKiktloa mt mm thmtlc Character. The report of Secretary Carlisle seat to the senate the other day shows only what intelligent people knew before. The difference between? a senator and other people in regard to seeking information is this: When a senator is in want of information, as he generally is, he writes a resolution asking the secreta ry of the treasury or some other officer of the government, to send i^to him. When an ordinary individual desires information he hunts up official r ports, and by comparing them is able to reach conclusions for himself. Senator Gorman, as a member of the protection majority of the senate, is anxious to make the impression that there is a deficiency of revenue—not merely that there has been a deficit, which has been repeatedly officially rev ported, but that the deficit is likely to continue, lie wishes to make the impression that the deficit causes the depletion of the gold reserve, which is known to be wholly false. But by artful manipulation of figures it is possible to make that impression on the unsuspecting. As we have said, it has nUt been denied that there was a deficit in the revenue. Most of it was under the McKinley bill, but it has continued under the new tariff, because the new revlaw has not yet gone into fnli ,tion. Bat this deficit existed t from the money borrowed. jiting the money borrowed, receipts have exceeded expenditures. The money borrowed was foir the gold reserve, and it has been asserted that the gold so borrowed has been used to pay current expenses. The CourierJommal has heretofore shown this to be false, and the secretary’s report confirms whj.t we said. The secretary’s report shows that since January' 1* 1894, #186.862,842 of legal tenders have been redeemed in gold, and of these $79,338,903 are still in the treasury. This shows conclusively that there is and has been no necessity of using the gold reserve to pay current expenses. On the contrary, thfere are more legal tenders in the treasury than are needed for current expenses. „ * Some of the republicans have shifted their“ground, and, now say that if the revenue were sufficient the greenbacks could stay in the treasury when once redeemed. But they know very well the law says that they shall be reis-. sued'. How can they be reissued except by paying them out for current expenses? The law in this respect has been obeyed, but theref is still a large amount of the legal tenders in the treasury. To stop the run on the treasury for gold the whole $500,000,000 of legal tenders would have to be brought into the treasury and kept there, which would provoke an outery about the contraction of the currency.^-Louis-ville Courier-Journal.

OUR NATIONAL CREDIT. , , It< Will Remain Intact Under Cleveland*! Management. Financial conditions in this country are humiliating' to the average patriotic citizen. We have ill-advised laws and an incongruous currency system, from which relief might have been afforded but for a stupid neglect of proper legist lation. Public sentiment*eo:idemns dere « liction on the part of the present congress,* but it goes back to the original cause of existing difficulties and finds it in legislation enacted by the party which so long had the control of our national affairs. At the critical juncture encountered with the failure of the house to pass the Springer bill or any other financial measure promising relief, the one dependence left was ' the executive branch of the government. It is the avowed policy of the president to maintain the credit of the nation at all costs and by every means i at his command. This policy has been pursued, and the vital necessity to which it is responsive has been met. The treasury reserve will not be fatally impaired so long as existing law under which he acts remain in force. Congress may be delinquent, but the president can be relied upon, so long as his power is equal to the demands of the recurring financial exigency.—Detroit Free Press. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -If the republican party is sound on the money question, not one of its | foremost presidential aspirants has the courage to say so.—Louisville Cour-ier-Journal. -From now on, the peopls cannot hold the democratic party responsiblo for either the omissions or the commissions of the senate of the United States.—Albany Argus. -The pliability of Gov. McKinley in his tariff views may cause their breaking altogether before the next national republican convention holds its meeting.—Washington News. -A Reed shaken by the wind in the first struggle between national honesty and national shame will be poor presidential timber when logging time comes on.—Chicago Herald. -The world do move. Gov. McKinley actually gave his hearers at Rochester to understand that a foreign market for American manufacturers is not altogether to be despised.—Boston

uiooe. i—i—Tom Reed insists that what the country needs is moire revenue. The country tried the system of Mr. Reed’s congress for getting less revenue and found it very disastrous, but there is no present necessity'for rushing to the other extreme.—Indianapolis Sentinel. -Mr. McKinley said recently: “We want foreign markets for our products of agriculture and manufactures, but not at the loss of a home market.” He did not go on to explain, however, how our surplus products are to be disposed of. It takes at least two nations to make commerce, and we can as easily be shut out from Europe as we can shut Europe out. And why does Mr. McKinley go back to the tariff and put off the financial problems with the meaningless equivocation that there is wisdom and patriotism enough in the country to relieve us of our monetary troubles?—St. Louis Post- Dispatch.

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