Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 March 1895 — Page 3

9L Mod. 8T00P8, Editor tad I'roprietor. •PETERSBURG. • ^ • INDIANA. t * A LONELY SOUL. IMartha Baaoom and Her Summer Boarder. —— if “Be you my boarder?" The person addressed looked around Kith a smile at her questioner. She had just alighted from the cars at a wayside -station among the hills, and there was an amused look in her dark eyes, as she answered: “If you are Mins Jdartha Bascom, then I be.” The other woman <lrew a long breath of relief. “I was so afraid,” she said,

•‘that sometumg would Happen uo hender your coming1 Now, just as soon as .the cars are out of sight. I’ll bring around the horse, and we will go home. It’s Deacon Hinds' horse, and he's •dreadful afraid of railroads." i Disappearing behind the station for a moment, she presently came leading a very meek-looking animal. Site held him by the bit, at arm’s length, and seemed very much afraid he would step on her. It was quite evident Martha did not feel at home “With horses. * f The small trunk was placed in the back of the open wagon by the station master, and climbing up beside her •driver, the boarder, whose name was Marcia Ames, presently found herself riding down a most beautiful country road. t It had been a'warm June dav, and the sun was still hot on the little depot platform, but as they turned into the shady highway, a cool breeze met them, laden with all the fragrance of the pines and othsr sweet odors of the wood. The wild roses made pink all the hedges. On one side Marcia saw a meadow white with daisies, like sum* mer snow; and, when Martha BasCom, on meeting a carriage, turned out to let it go by,« her wheels crushed the mint that grew by the roadside, and the strong fragrance came to Marcia like a welcome. She sighed with con* tent. “I am glad I answered that queer advertisement,” she said to herself, “and I will stair here all summer, if things are bearable.” j “What a lovely road!” she said to her companion. » “Aint it?” replied Martha. “Sometimes when I’m worried most to death, I walk down the depot road, as we call It, and my caras all fade away, and things don’t seem worth minding.” Miss Ames locked at her. ) “A character,” she thought, “and one that I shall like to study.” She saw a straight figure that disdained the support of the back of the seat; a carewor n face with grave gray eyes and a smiling mouth that di4 not peem to belong to the rest of the face. She was dressed in a brown checked gingham, as (dean as pqpsible; you could see the folds where it had been ironed. She wore a shade hat with strings, whieh were tied in a prim bow under a rather square chin. She looted t;p. and caught Marcia’s glance. “I hope,” she said, “you won’t laugh at my hat; P>can’t bear bunnets. I know hats ar<s for girls; but I put strings on this and thought they would take the curse off." , f. “1 am not a girl,” said Marcia, pleasantly, “and 1 have a hat in my trunk. I hope you won’t insist on my putting strings on it.” “Oh!” replied the other, “you can wear what you have a mind to; I don’t

<sare. “You need not be surprised,” she ■went on, “If folks look pretty sharp at yon. You see I didn’t tell anybody I was going to take a boarder, and they •doy’t know who you can be. 1 hope you will be contented. 1 haven’t got anuch room., but I can give you a good bed. And I’ve bought a hammock for you. All the summer boarders I ever beard of loved to set in them.” And Marcia assured her she loved hammocks, and did not care for room, as she intended to liye out of doors most of the time. People did stare when they met them, and presently the horse was brought to a standstill by Martha before the gate of a low, red house on the side of a hill, and she told her companion she had got home. ‘‘Yop go in the frontdoor,” said she, “aad>l will get somebody help me out with the trunk, and carry the horse home. Go in and turn to the left. I won’t be but a minute.” Marcia followed directions, and found herself in a large front room. The floor was painted yellow, and was so •clean it shone; various wore places were trying to hide under braided mats, and everything was spotlessly clean, he tween the two front windows a table was set for two. “Her dining-room,” <she said to herself, “or her kitchen,” as tshepaught sight of a small cook-stove. A'cioor opened between the side win■ddws, and Marcia saw a piazza with a hammock in a shady corner. There was a home-made lounge in one part of the room, and she sat down on it, thinking she would not remove her bonnet until she went to her room. And then Martha came in; she untied her hat-strings with nervous hands. “I don’t know how to tell you,” she •said, “but this is all the house I’ve got. I know it’s ridiculous for me to think of taking a boarder, but I’ve, gut to •earn some money somehow, and there didn’t seem to be any other way.” She held out her hands, and Marcia :saw that they trembled. “I will do well by you,” she went on; “do say ithat you will put up with it and stay. "You don’t know what it will be to me.” There was something in the woman’s face that touched Marcia. “She is in 'trouble,” sh e thought, “and I am going ?to help her.” She smiled reassuringly. “If you .don’t think I shall crowd you,” she said, “I’ll stay. But . you don’t mean this room is all yon have?” And Maritha hastened to tell her there was a bedroom where she could sleep. *T

shall sleep on the lounge,” she added, as she opened the door of the little aleeping-roora, and Marcia went in and took off her bonnet. * It was the next morning. Martha's housework was all done; so she took her rocking-chair out on the piazza, where her boarder was trying the new hammock, and as she rocked she knit, and presently begun to talk. “1 want to tell yon all about it,” she ssid. “Yon see, this was father’s house, and when he died he left it to brother James and me, after mother. , James, he thought he would move right down here, and he wanted mother and me to lire in with them, and hare a chamber finished off to sleep in; bnt we didn’t want to—we didn’t like his wife orer and above—and so we divided the house. Afterwards, James built on a porch on his part They’ve got a dining-room and everything. “And mother and I lived in here for a good many, years. We got along real comfortable. She had her pension, and I sewed braid; bnt after awhile they stopped bringing braid around. It was all sewed on machines in the straw shop. And then mother died.” . 1 She was silent a moment and Murcia saw her lip quiver. “She died, ■ and I was all alone. James wanted me to break up and live in with them—his wife wanted this room for a parlor—but I could not; it was .home and 1 knew it wouldn't be in the other part “The childrenfcwere sarsy, too; they \ hadn’t used mother well, and one of them called me an old maid. His mother heard him and I looked at her, for I thought she would take him to due; but she didn’t; she only laughed. And she knew,” continued Martha, -all about my disappointment too. 1 was going to marry Hiram Parker, and I had all my sheets and pillow cases made,- and mother and I were just going to quilt I had five bed, quilts all ready for the bars. He wasn't sicx but two weeks; it was the typhus fever. I am sure I feel just like a widder, and I went to his funeral as chief mourner. It was real cruel for James’ wife to let her boy twit me so, as if 1 never had a chance to be married, like old Liddy Wilbqr.” And Martha’s knitting needles flashed brightly in the sun, and her gray eyes were almost black with the remembrance of her wrongs. Marcia murmured sympathizingly, and presently Martha went on. “It's eight years now,” she said, “since mother died, and they are always at me to give them this part of the house. I can’t bear to. I’ve got along in spite df them till now.” “liut how1 could you?” said Marcia, j “What did you do to get something to

eair The other woman looked at her a moment. *T suppose,” she said, “you’ll despise me, but I’ve worked just like a man. That field over there; is mine. I planted it myself, and raised a good many things to sell. I went huckleberrying, and I sold my grass standing, for fifteen dollars, every year, and year before last I sold potatoes enough to buy me a barrel of flour and an alpaca dress. I got a man to plow the field, and I planted the potatoes myself, and hoed them, and dug them. I’ve got along all right till last year; it was so dry that everything dried up. There wasn’t any huckleberries, and my potatoes were too little to sell.- James used to put a hose in the pond and get water to water ‘ his garden, but he never put a drop on mine. They wanted me to give up and they thought I would have to. “I came pretty short last winter. Many a time I did not have anything to eat but hasty pudding, and I could not buy any tea. X used to smell it from the other part of the house, and I wanted it so bad. “I’ve got a splendid garden this year, but I know we may have a dry season again, hnd I made up my mind I must have a little money to fall back on. I laid awake night after night, thinking of every way folks took to earn money, and finally I thought if I could only take a lady boarder I could save most of her board in the summer; for most of folks like garden sass and so forth, and I’ve got most everything planted, and they are doing well. I tried to get the school-marm. I went to see her, and when she' heard what accommodations I could give her, she laughed at me; but she promised she would hot tell anybody I asked her. “I composed that advertisement myself, and sent it to a Boston paper, because 1 didn’t know anybody around here that took a paper from there, and I could not bear to have anybody know I had tried to get a boarder if I did not get one. I never saw how it looked in print,” und she looked appealingly at Marcia, who told her kindly that it was very much to the point and all right, Then they sat in silence for awhile, and Marcia thought how she had read the advertisement in her city home, and laughed at it, and then suddenly determined to answer it, and find out what manner of woman Martha Baacom was. She thought over the words she had read:

"Wanted, a lady boarder, by a plain country woman, who will do the t>est she can. The view from the piazza is beautiful, and, you will be sure to like it. Address Miss Martha Buseom‘, Littlefield, Mass. ” And here she was, seated on the piazza. She let her eyes wander over the scene before her. “Yes, it is beautiful,” she thought. The house was on a hill, and she could look a long way down the valley at her feet. Field after field was outlined there; the stone walls that marked their boundaries seemed like children’s work—like the playhouses her brothers used to make years ago, marking out the rooms with a row of stones. A thick growth of bushes and trees told where the river crep£, and she could see the glitter jpt the water, here and there, between the trees,, One day they were in the parlor, as Marcia called the piazza. She had hung it around with pretty shawls, and had a bright cushion in the hammock; a vine sh aded one side, and Martha’s thrush st ng in his cage among the leaves. ‘“There is one thing I want to tell

you," said Martha. MIt don't seem ri^htto take four dotlar» a week for your board. I never was so happy in my life an 1 have been since you come. You don’t eat hardly a thing, and I haven't bad but one white petticoat to wash for you sinoe you Jhave been here." “And there is one thing I-want to tell yon," said her Mend. “I .always go somewhere in the country Jn the summer, and 1 never paid leak' than seven dollars a week for board in my life. I intend to pay as much as tint, I assure yon. Four dollars a week!” she said, scornfully. “It is very evident, my dear Martha, you are taking your first boarder.” Martha sat up straight in her rocking chair; her eyes shone like diamonds and there was a faint red in her faded cheek. “If you stay till September and pay me seven dollars a week," she said, ex* citedly, “I’ll have me a cow. I can keep her as well as not, if 1 can only get her in the first plaee. I've got a pasture, and I can raise a lot of pumpkins and fodder corn. I /know bow to milk. I can make baiter. Why, I can most live on her milk,” and she burst into a flood of tears and hid her

iace in ner nanas. “I shall have somethin? to love after yon are gone,” she said one day. “I got me a eat after mother died; she was real pretty, and I thought so much of her. She used to sleep on the foot of my bed, and I did not feel half so lonesome nights, if I could not sleep; for I spoke to her, she would purr and come up and rub herself against me. 1 thought there never was inch a cat; but James’ boys, they used to stone her whenever she went over on their side, and one day she came dragging herself home with a broken leg, add her head was hurt, too. She died before night and I buried her under the laylock there. And I missed her so 1 got me another; but that one was missing within a week, and one of the boys 1 kept asking me what had become of my cat, and laughing in a hateful way. So I made up my mind 1 could not'have any more pets. “But they won’t dare to hurt a cow, they are too valuable; and I could have the law on them if they did,” she added, grimly. “Anybody can do what they have a mind to to cats, poor things!” for Martha had never heard of the “society with the long name.” “Let me see,” said Marcia, “what kind of a cow^will you get—Jersey?” “I shall get a red and white one,” said Martha. “Father used to keep a cow, and that was speckled red and white. I mean to get one just like her, if I can. What will James’ folks say! I guess they’ll think it will be some time before they’ll have my house for a parlor. “it beats all,” she said, one day, “how little things1 trouble folks. Now, any great trial, like death and such, you can carry to the Lord, and He will help you bear it; but anybody feels so mean to trouble Him about the little things. “Now, there was mother’s gold heads. She always told me 1 should have them after her. Many a time I’ve put them on my neck when I was a little girl, and wished mother would give them to me then; but she would take them, and say 1 should have them some time. “And when she died I was almost crazy, and James’ wife, she had to see to everything. “It was a, few weeks afterwards, and I saw mother’s beads on Maria’s neck —that is her oldest girl. 1 felt dreadfully. 1 went out to the bam and talked to James about it. He said Maria wanted them as bad as I did, and he didn’t know as she would give them up. His wife made a fuss about it, and so I did not have them. “But it was a trial. I never had a piece of jewelry m my life but a carnelian ring. I have got that now, but I have outgrown it.” Now, Martha had a birthday that week; and James’ wife was astonished, as she was getting breakfast one morning, by seeing her sister’s boarder coming in. She had in her hand a beautiful gold chain. There was a locket attacked, and the rhinestone in it sparkled like a diamond in the morning sun. “Mrs. Bascom,” said the lady, “I want to make a bargain with yon. 1 want you to exchange your daughter’s gold beads for this chain; it is fully as valuable, and prettier fof her. “You know it is Miss Martha's birthday to-day, and I want to give her a present. I know there is nothing she will prize like her mother’s gold beads. ” Both mother and child were delighted with the chain. “I have always felt mean about those beads,” said Mrs. Bascom, “but the girl wantecf them so; and I'm real glad to change. Here, let me brighten

them up a bit,” and she hurried around after a piece of flannel and some whiting-. . . - And so it happened, just after break* fast, as Martha was getting up from the table, Marcia Ames’ white arms went lovingly around her neck, and clasped there the precious beads. The autumn camp all too soon, and the friends parted pntil next summer, Marcia said. f A gentle red and white cow stood by the bars in Marthas pasture, and it was on her glossy neck that Martha left the tears she shed when the stage that bore her friend away went out of sight. For Marcia had insisted on the cow becoming a reality before she went away, and had named her at Martha’s request. Sultana was the rather high flown name she had bestowed upon her; and her mistress thought it just the right name, as, indeed, she would have if Marcia had called her Peter Snooks. They had a merry time when they christened the gentle creature, who calmly chewed her cud,, and looked at them with her great mild eyes, as she .thought to herself: “What fools these mortals be!” I do not think Martha Bascom ever closed her eyes at night, as long as she lived, without thanking God for the friend she had found—a friend who did not forget her as the years went by.— McClure's Magazine.

THE BONO CONTRACT. Willi— of the Administration te A* Ural Em«rc*ocjr. \ Tht secretary of the treasuiy has for iA 'w months enjoyed the distinction of bein, ? the worst abused man in the eoanv r7- It is not a very pleasant podtiga v ° occupy, but Mr. Carlisle has ~sd it with his customary dig* nity, aad, 80 f*r as the world knows, without se rious disturbance to his temper or dk *estion.

Mr. CkriiiM. aic» nos, ox coarse, expect tn mtfafy fcfa f> itics when he arranged the of the it w-bond issue. It has not astonished either him or bistrienda that the contract u "ith the new syndis cate has caused hi*' to be denounced ! by the repubttean and populist orators ' and press from D»tc,®*enl>«ba He hat too loag been tbeix* target to care for such firecracker artilVery when he knows, and knows that the public knows, he has done the best possible fair his country. All the assaults made upon the government hare sought to establish two things: That it was unpatriotic and unjust to American citizens to sell the bonds to a foreign syndicate, and *that they were sold at tod low a price. Few hare the hardihood to say that they should not have been issued. Unquestionably it would be best to place all loans with our own people, all things being equal. It is also true1 that a low price was- realized for the issue. But every thoughtful man who carefully examines into the condition of 1 affairs must not only approve the sale i abroad, bnt also the bargain made with the great banking houses which took the bonds By the terms of the-eontract the members of the syndicate obligated themselves to check the exportations of ; gold. The only way to do this is by keeping ’down the rate of exchange, ’■ both by importing gold and by the employment of such other means for influencing the markets as lie in the power of ihe Morgans and Rothschilds and t their associates who have great credits | abroad which may be drawn up6n at will. This is really the principal consideration in the sale;, it could have been obtained from no other combination, unless, perhaps, the associated banks of New York could have been prevailed upon to enter into such an agreement. It is unfortunate that they did not rise to the situation. The New

xorK clearing nouse is maae up 01 an aggregation of financiers who have shown themselves-equal to any great emergency. While the Bank of England had to call upon the richer Bank of France for assistance after the Baring crash, the New York clearing house weathered th*- great financial storm of 1893 without soliciting a penny of help, and held up the whole country in so doing. Had this great association desired to help the government it could, have checked the gold run on the treasury i long ago. The members have not cared to assume this patriotie duty, strained relations having grown up between ; some of them and the secretary of the treasury, who has acted as he thought ; best independently of their wishes and advice. Private pique influenced them to such an extent that with over eightyone million dollars in gold coin in their vaults and with a further stock to draw from of over five hundred million dollars scattered over America, they refused to spare one dollar to relieve the treasury. i Under the circumstances Mr. Carlisle made the best and wisest arrangement possible. Knowing that no matter at what price the bonds might be sold in this country the gold would be immediately withdrawn and again hoarded, he decided to treat with a syndicate that could not only furnish gold, but also give some reasonable guarantee of its preservation for at least a time. Only such houses as the Rothschilds and the Morgans could give this guarantee. There is no sufficient ground for supposing that the syndicate either cannot or will not do much of what it- has agreed to da It can control hostile bankers, some of whom there must be, by indirect influences, and thus virtually secure the cooperation of the New York clearing house and the great continental and .English banking institutions. The Rothschilds have branches in all the great money centers of the world—London, Vienna, Paris, Brussels and Frankfort—and through them can sell commercial bills so as to keep down on the rate of exchange in favor of a country they are helping. They have been doing this for nearly a hundred years, and this

they have no doubt agreed to do again, if necessary, for the United States. From now on we shall be able to watch for the first time, at least in many years, an intelligent manipulation of the money markets for a praiseworthy and patriotic purpose. We can hardly see how the syndicate can fail to preserve a satisfactory gold balance in the treasury for many months. There will undoubtedly be attempts to cut it down. Such a one was Russell Sage’s recent withdrawal of 8550,000 from the subtreasury and the efforts to force gold to a premium. But these movements will almost necessarily be individual efforts disconnected and of little consequence when exerted against the syndicate’s influences. A combination to bear the government’s credit would not be tolerated. The exportation o^ gold ceased as soon as an intimation of the contract got abroad, and there is no indication that it will be resumed, though at a time of the year when the tide sets its strongest to Europe. If the syndicate do what it has undertake nthe value of such a service cannot be overestimated. The daily loss to business under such conditions as prevailed during the great gold run was far in excess of what the interest on the bonds for a year would be: The syndicate made the bond issue a success, and the five millions or so it may make will be fairly and honestly earned. When this administration and the men who compose it have passed into history, it will be understood by all that Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Cleveland met the greatest emergency that has arisen since the war with courage, patriotism and wisdom.—Louisville Cour-ier-Journal.

CONGRESS AND FINANCE. The administration cannot very well drive ou*the Fifty-third congress as Cromwell «_,roT® ou* the rump parliament. Far 0*?®.****®*. *Ae constitution is against lit. Fu*h«rmore, there is in this country a rooted prejudice i calling in musketeers ^oexpedit latire proceedings. But 5* pity—at least in some respect®not say in alL When a house of represen UHirc® that is overwhelmingly democratic decisively re jects a proposition the adoption of which would strengthen the national treasury half a million a year for thirty years, no doubt every democrat who Is also a patriot and a good citizen must for a moment chafe under the restrictions of nettled constitutional practice. “We have had enough of this!” cried Cromwell, striding into the middle of the Chamber. “Tbe Lord hath done writh you. 1 will put an end to your prating. . It is not :St that you should sit here any longer. Yon should give place to better men.” And they scuttled out before his mudketeers. - # » Of course^ we see that this was irregular and iootah One evil cannot be corrected by another and mors monstrous. But the behavior of tbe house of representatives in rejecting a proposition to authorise the issue of three per cent, gold bond* must, in the present

circumstances, o* wt down ns an act of such uncommon mad unpatriotic madness ns to c&IVfor the smnM codsure the people can pronounce. There would be a suesg* satisfaction in seeing these false servants put out—always by some safe constitutional process—if only their successors would be any bettor. But what are we to- infer from the ^conduct of the republicans in the house? Mr. Reed's behavior the other day was plainly dishonest ancl insincere. He professed to support the sound-money resolution,, and through partisanship or a worse motive did it what harm he could. This is not of good augury for the republican congress to come. Following this defeat of a- sound financial proposition, we may expect attacks upon the gold-purchase contract just made by the administration. Ignorance and vice will cheerfiilly join hands in that business. It still seems to be a little difficult to convince even intelligent persons that this contract provides for something more tlhan the sale of bonds. A study oi its provisions shows that it makes provision not only for replenishing the treasury’s stock of gold, but lor protecting it against all preventable drains. How efficient the protection is will probably appear. • It Delight be well for the too-ready critics to wait and see whether the government ha* made a bad bargain.—N. Y. Times. ^ M• KINLEY’S ERROR. A Condition Brought About by High Tariff Legislation. Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, the putative author of the McKinley bill, says the way to maintain the gold reseif-ve in the treasury is to stop the deficit in the revenues. This is a strange] proposition coming from that sourcie. From the close of the war until the McKinley law became operative there was no deficit in the revenues. From that time until the day the bill was repealed there was nothing else. At the close of Cleveland’s first term in the presidency, March 4, 1889, there was a surplus in the treasury of more than one hundred million dollars, and a revenue redundancy that excited the concern of the statesmanship of the country. Bnt in 1890 the McKinley law wsis enacted, and the condition was changed. In three years the surplus was exhausted, and instead, there was a treasury deficit amounting to more than 6 fifty million dollars. In other words, the revenue deficit amounted to more than fifty million dollars a year under the McKinley law. For Gov. McKinley to comment in the language imputed to him] in regard to the revenue deficit is, therefore, to set him down as a monte bank. Under the circumstances he should be modest and silent. It 'does not lay in his mouth to censure anyone. Whatever evils the treasury has encountered in the last five years are attributable to his bungling and to no other cause. —Kansas City Times. OPINIONS AND POINTERS. * -It is generally believed that Mr. Reed had»killed his presidential chances by his course on the financial question in congress.—Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.). ’ -We trust Tom Reed will stop dodging long enough to explain what he means when he attributes to Mr. Springer elastic thoughts on the currency problem, — St. Lonis Post-Dis-patch. -Why grieve that American stock raisers have lost a trade of eighteen million dollars a year with France? The sugar trust still lives.—Chicago Times. ' J_ ' | 1 x-It is to be hoped Tom Reed’s neighbors in Maine will not be rude enough to ask him leading questions about his financial views. — Chicago Record. -There is an impression that the political difficulties of Tho mas B. Reed are not entirely disagreeable to his devoted friend, William. McKinley.— Brooklyn Eagle. -Mr. Bantelle’s red hair is the only assurance that Maine can now give the country that she keeps a plumed knight in stock. Reed’s feather is white.—St. Louis Republic. -What would be the state of our financial affairs to-day had the administration neglected to make this (bond] bargain, depending on congress to provide for the needs of the treasury?—N. Y. Post. -That the administration should be charged with dishonesty in the transaction effected with the sixty-five-million-dollar syndicate is an outrage not to be excused by the utmost stretch of allowance for partisan or factional hostility.—Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.).

_»«om«ioiru CAtHk * t. Knot it a, Physician and Surgeon, ncm»nc*G,na WTOflloe In Bank bonding, dm floor WB •• found at office day or night GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IHD. Prompt Attention Giron to nil «rOeice over Barrett ft Sc«’« Mora. Haicu B. Ikon Diwrre Q. Ciirrut POSEY ft CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petkmrboro. Imo. Will practice la aN' the emu tention given to all bncfenees. Pnbllc constantly la the oflflee. On first floor Bank Duilding. 5P !ta^

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