Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 April 1895 — Page 7

-ASTER ; 4*} W/WHBN the springtide with M ita cheer, lltftla# And the Cowers fair apB wk And the1 leaves upon the branches gently wave. How the thoughts of those we’ve lost— In the shadow and the frost— 1*tUse in teasty to our vision from the gravel Ah! far fairer thaa the flowers. Stealing back Into the bowers. ' -Sweeter than the voices of the birds that sing. Arts the thoughts of those we love. In the paradise above. O In the gtory of the never-ending spring! Tet their memories abide In the sunlight at our side. Aeii they whisper wards of comfort when we weep; And above each silent grave. Saiter lilies seem to wave. Sign they were not dead but only fell asleep! As we meet the flowers below— After winter frost and snow— So past silence of the long and weary years. Shall we meet the loved and blest, And shall enter in their rest. .awe shall know no more of partings or of team. —William Brunton, In Good Housekeeping.

Ml ISS ISABEL MERRILL J[ * \ f^mtk out on the veranda of ier widespreading, pleasant home to T>id her guest a hospitable adieu. It ~vras a custom the genial judge, her father, had taught her. To-day, the wide porch was a place

Had her calW been one of the **wim women” §he might then have found her opportunity. Instead, being somewhat in awe of Miss Merrill, she went her way, and the mistress turned back, through the wide doors, across the broad hall and the long, sunny sittingroom into the small conservatory where the fresh green of leaves and the brilliant blossoms spoke of love and tendance. All around its upper border lay the thick, green leaves of a beautiful ivy, and, as Mira Isabel from her high step unloosed the many loops that held the swaying vine in place, her thoughts went back over its history. It was ten yei,rs since the judge, her courtly, beloved father, had brought her the green t&lip Urom a city florist. It was just after the death of her mother, and he had said they would part the slip, and during the summer time one should grow on the grave of their beloved. Tbat was well! Wm not all her life thenceforth linked with death? Her brave, strong young brother had helped her with the Mips; and told them then of his purpose to devote his life to the lost ones of Africa. Her father, who loved Clod better than self, gave him up; but she, never. And when, after two years of work, the fever of the country made him its victim, it seemed but a second burial. But life had still been full and rich while her father was a part of it. The beautiful home had its mission of cheer while he was at its head. It was when he weDt, a year ago, that Miss Isabel seemed to dra w the shades over every grace and hope of life. She dropped out from its interests and seemed to have no heart for either the joys or sorrows of others. The home was still sunny and br ight, hut it was sadly still. “I wish something would rouse Miss Isabel,” Martha would say to David when, the work of the day done, they rested in the large kitchen. “A woman’s good for nothing nnless something’s pulling at her heart strings. Miss Isabel vrants a husband, or some ehild, or some fellow feeling for somebody. If it’s sickly, all the better. A sick cat’s better thau nothing for a lone woman.” And David, well assured of his wife’s wisdom, nodded a sleepy assent. The Easter morning1 came full of a glorious sunshine. Miss Isabel sat down by her window, Bible in hand, to read her morning lesson, of that other morning in a far Judean land, when the stone was rolled away from the door and the angel came to the waiting women with his wonderful promise. “But he comes not to me,” whispered i

“THE-LORD BK PRAISED, MA’AM!"

^for lingering. The warm spring sun•sbine made flickering tracings of the leafless vines upon the stained floor. A ■straight marble walk led from the entrance to the steep village street Opposite, was a well-kept, pillared mansion. Beyond, the eye looked down into a narrow valley, filled with streets of pleasant homes that ran up the slopes beyond to the railroad tracks and station. One or two long, manywindowed mills with their flocks of wooden houses about them, all garish In yellow paint told of the industries -of the little village. There was a " glimpse beside one mill of a sheet of falling waters like glistening silver. “The lines have fallen to yon in pleasant places,’’ the caller said, softly, taking in all the promise of the sweet •spring day and longing to speak comfort. But Miss Isabel made no assent. A small boy came up the white walk leaving the print of each muddy shoe upon its polished surface, and handed Miss Merrill a note. She looked up 'from its reading with a shadow of a ■frown. “They want my ivy for the church to-morrow,” j she said. .“It has been 'taken there for the last five years, but "it is so large: now it disturbs it sadly. It did not recover from the effects of the removal last year for three months, :and I said then it should not be taken <Lown again.” .Then, suddenly, while both face and tone belied the more gracious words: ““Yes, tell them they may have it. But I will send it myself; at least it will fare better in David’s hands. What does it matter, ^anyway!” bitterly. / The caller was watching the shabby Boy down the street. “I am glad the winter is over and gone for such,” she said then. “That is Eddie Wright. He and his little sister are to go the poorhouse. Their mother has just died, on the Lane. She used to be a teacher. Her husband died three year# ago. She has been sick all winter, and I suppose tfcey have l-eally suffered from hunger and cold.” “So? I did not suppose we had any suffering in this village—except heart suff ering,” Miss Isabel added.

the heart of the lonely woman, “for my dead hopes there is no resurrection.” When the church bell rang out its sounding summons she obeyed its call and sought the familiar pew. “Holy, holy, holy,” sang the choir with an earnestness that bore many of the worshipers into sacred presence. “’Tis the day of resurrection,” followed the clear voice of the soloist, and the tall lilies bent their heads, and the green palms swayed gently in the soft breezes that floated in. But to all notes of joy or promise Miss Isabel’s aching heart had but one answer: “There is no Easter awakening in my life. All its joy lies in the past and there is neither hope nor need of me more.” She gave but little heed to the sermon of her old pastor; there was too much ring of gladness to suit her mood. The hymn that followed was unnoticed trt first, but the last verse, in the clear bird-notes of the soprano, every word distinct, arrested her attention: “To-day the angels are standing still Beside the open graves. The darksome gloom with their light they fill. As they speak of the Lord who saves. Christ conquered death in that bitter strife. He will bring us into eternal life." Something dimmed the sad eyes suddenly. Had He then so loved her? and what had she done for Him? “Dear Lord,” spoke the pastor’s voice, full of tender longing, “if there is any soul here unwilling that Thou shouldst roll away the stone from the door, wilt Tfciou have pity and show that soul Thyself? If there is any heart here that has buried all its good or all its worth to humanity under any stone of self, wilt Thou in tender mercy roll the stone away, and bid the dead come forth to living work, and to God?” And that word was for Isabel Merrill. Alone in her own room, she gave the afternoon to a look at her stone. From her sealed heart she drew out its self-pity, its neglect of others, and held them up in the light. She saw how many talents had been committed to her, and that she had buried them under her selfishness. Deep humility took possession of her that grew at last into

a longing1 desire that this Easter dftj might become her awakening-. That criming the glad praise service seethed all for her. After it she walked homeward: with the caller of the day before. “Did yon say thoee Wright children were going to the poorhouse?" she asked at parting. “I suppose so, yes, unless some one offers to take them.” Miss Merrill found Martha in the conservatory straightening np a plant the cat had thrown over. “Martha, I am thirty-five years bid, am I not?11 “You should know, surely.” “And that is ‘years of discretion,* Is it not?” “With some, yea.” “Martha, I am going to adopt two children." “The Lord be praised, ma'am. A body with a lug house, and money in the bank, and a lonesome heart, is to be pitied.” Another Easter day comes around to the pleasant home on the hill, bnt Miss Isabel finds brief time for her morning study. The children, who have been hers now for ne&ly a year, require attention. Little Alice, who has the voice of a bird, is to sing at the evening concert, and Eddie is to speak, and Miss Isabel is as proud and anxious as any mother In the land. But they are not alL In the sunny bedroom off the sitting-room, a sweetfaced old lady lies among her pillows, and, almost helpless from rheumatism as she is, everyone in the house comes to her for eomfort and advice. She has outlived all near relatives, and there had been for her only an Old Ladies* home in a strange city when Miss Isabel “took her in.” And in the kitchen an old man feebly totters about, or waits in restful quiet by the window. It is a distant eonsin of David who has no one to care for his infirmities. “A gfHng spirit is a dreadful growing thing,” Martha says. “If yon once let it in, it’s like yeast a-spreading and spreading until the whole batch is full of it.” Miss Isabel’s reward is already great: “For there is no debtor in the world so honorable,, so superbly honorable, as love.”—Howe Genning, in Chicago Advance. -r- 9

FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Ship's Lead Brought Up m Five Dollar Gold Pieoe Irom the Depths. When the steamer City of Augusta of the Savannah line was just in sight of Cape Hatteras recently one of the passengers, an old man with snow-white hair and beard, walked into the saloon and approached a group of passengers seated at a table. In bis hand he held a five dollar gold piece. Stopping before the group and holding out the coin he said: “There is a gold piece that, has just come from the bottom of the ocean. I was on deck when they were heaving the lead and after the second officer had! examined the soap on the end of itto see what kind of substance it brought up and had placed it again in the rack at the side of the rail, out of curiosity I, too, examined it. Looking at the end' where the soap is put 1 saw through the dark gray clay which the lead had brought up from the bottom something glisten, and, taking out m3* knife, dug into the soft substance and drew forth this gold piece. It was edgeways in the soap at the end of the ldad and in no other way could it have got there than by being picked up from the bottom.” As he held the gold piece in his hand and afterward passed it to the passengers to examine it could be seen that it was covered with soap and was dull in appearance. The water where it is as-' serted the coin was taken was about one hundred and fifty feet deep. AlJ of the passengers soon heard of the find. Many doubted the story of the whitehaired passenger, but he firmly adhered to the original story that the gold* piece Came from the bottom of the. ocean and was brought up by the lead of the City of Augusta. Capt. H. C. Daggett, the commander of the ship, shook his head w;hen he heard the story. That night at dinner he told the passengers that he had decided to give up his command and go fishing for gold pieces off Cape Hatteras instead. Easter EggsIt is said that eggs, rabbits and lilies rule at Easter. These three emblema of the season certainly furnish a great amount of merriment and gladness, as the festivities of the occasion depend largely on a full supply of them. The practice of using eggs if traced back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians* as well as to the Romans and Gauls, who taught their people to look upon the egg as a symbol Of divinity. Tile giftgiving of eggs at Easter is an old custom derived from the Persians, who exchanged eggs at their New Year’s feasts—that is, at the beginning of their agricultural year—in token of a renewal of vernal life. The Jewish people-used the egg in the feast of the ij passover, and even the ancient-Druids performed their religious rites with ceremonies of egsr symbols. In Italy eggs are carried to church and blessed, after which they are used on the table with floral decorations. Visitors are invited to partake of Easter eggs as a special act of courtesy,—Detroit Free Press. _ A Pertinent Question. T was Easter services: her fair and soulful facts ! W.T’ Seemed quite the persoaation of both piety and grace: fms to this day. when memory her winsome presence brings. I think the tnought her face first brought—an angf 1. minus wings. But was it prayer she offered as in loveliness she sat? - Ah. no! She simply asked a friend. “Where did you get that hat?” —Nixon Waterman, In Puo? The Wile at Easter. She pretends it is love. But it means a new bonnet. Why kind as a dove? She pretends it is love. Hut 1 am above All such guile and frown on U. She pretehds it is iove. But it means a new bonnet —James Jay O’Connell, la Judge

1"■■■■ .-= THE I FTY-THIRD CONGRESS. IMtMOrt BMnr Ttoa Thrt^f the Fifty. Mimy things expected of the Fifty • third congress here not been accomplished. Its record has not been sncl t as to make all true democrats rejoic*! and it has been called ‘incompetent’* by not a few prominent democrats and democratic newspapers. Many of ill most seTere critics, however, recognise > tliat, as compared with the Fifty-first, I oir McKinley congress of 1890. the record of the last congress is excellent. It is jaot disputed that the McKinley congress was more effective in that it did more of what it was planned to de v Elat that is just why the record is s o bad—it planned nothing for the goal of the country at large. It accon - plisaed nothing, aside from makin % ordinary appropriations, for tie masses; all was in the interest of tl • c lasses—pro tec ted manufacturers, mil • owners, bounty grabbers and subsidy hunters. .; It greatly increased the protecticn to the mill owjfers but left labdr uiiproteeted, to cSjWrpete, on a free trace basis, with the Italians and Huns imported by the mill owner to beat wages down. It added considerably to the sawdust protection given to farmers and attempted the new bunco game called reciprocity, which was to open up great markets for our farm products In Sonth America—as if the great detire of South Americans was to exchange their wheat and pork for our pork and wheat. It threw bounties and subsidies in all directions, so that, by March, 1893, the $100,000,000 surplus left by Cleveland in 1390 was entirely exhausted and the treasury was on the verge of bankruptcy. The Fifty-third congress has accomplished a great deal. First, It undid the Sherman silver purchase act of 1890 which, with republican extravagance. was responsible for the panic and depression which had already begun before Harrison left the white Louse. Second, It repealed the federal election laws which no leading republican, except Senator Force-Bill Lodge, would now rehabilitate. Third, It gave us free wool and reduced tariff duties generally about as much as McKinley increased them. Fourth, It gave us the income tax which, though it is not perfect, is yet a great improvement on any tariff system of taxation. It is noticeable that the republicans are not advocating the repeal of this tax. Fifth, It abolished the payment bounties to sugar producers. Sixth, It lessened the net protection to the sugar trust, but, unfortunately, increased the duty on refined sugar about one cent per pound. But for two or three traitors in their ranks—“senators from Havemeyer”—the democrats would have given us free sugar and left no protection to the trust. It is noticeable that the most that the Fifty-third congress did, or attempted to do, was to undo the work of the republican congress of 189D. So far as it has succeeded it has done excellent work. Practically all that the Fifty-first congress did was bad, and all that the Fifty-third congress has done is good. And yet the democratic congress receives kicks and cuffs from all sides, because it could not, in two years, undo all of the evil legislation that republicans have, for thirty years, been fastening upon this country. The democrats have partially failed becau se they undertook too big a contract. What they have done will remain forever a permanent benefit to this country. Not even the republicans wiill dare to advocate many of their old laws which the democrats have repealed. Byrox W. Holt.

CANADA IN CLOVER. Some of Her Pet Trust*—She Xa Well Protected from the Pauper Labor Products of the United States. Oh. what a blessed thing’ is protective tariff! especially in a country with small population and dependent upon foreign countries for many of its supplies. Canada is just now enjoying this blessing. Her tariff wall is not half as high as was our dizzy McKinley wall, but it is doing most effective work in shielding the numerous trusts which are springing up all over Canada since the protection cap-stone was added to the wall. This blessing is expressed in advanced prices for manufactured goods and in mills closed to restrict production and advance prices. Consequently the Canucks, who dislike work and are very fond of high prices, are enjoying themselves immensely. Their joy is added to nearly every day when they read of some new trust that is supporting or advancipg prices. The Iron Age of February 21 contains several items in its Canadian notes which must make thousands of little McKinleys in Cfnada dance with joy. Here are some of them: “A large manufacturing firm in the western part of Ontario claim to be able to import wire nails from *tke United States at a cost of $50 a carload less than they can buy them at home."' The Canadian dnty on wire nails is IK cents per pound, ’the price of wire nails in the United States being about $1 per keg of 100 pounds, the cost of these nails in Canada would be at least $2.50 per keg, aside from freight and other charges. But even this is considerably below the price fixed by the Canadian trust. “No, thank you,** says the Canadian mechanic, joyfully, io%iis cousin across the line, “we don’t want any of your pauper American nails over here; we much prefer to pay $3 per keg for our patriotic Canadianlabor nails than $1 per keg for your cheap and nasty nails.” '‘The manufacturers of steel clad bath tubs have agreed upon a list and a discount of 20 per cent., with an extra 5 per cent, off for dozen lots.” A duty of 30 per cent, protects this steel clad bath trust. “Wrought iron pipe manufacturers have reduced the trade discount on some of their smaller sizes, the change being equivalent to an advance of 5 to 73^ per cent. -The advance has been made on Jtf-inch. 5t-inch and X-inch.” K The duty on pipes and tubes varies from 15 per cent to one cent per pound and 30 per cent—the highest duties !>eiug on these smaller sizes thus 1

vanced in price. The lot of the Cavaafc 1b a happv one He is removed from the temptation of drinking or bathing in water contaminated by coming in contact with cheap American pipe* and tube*. ’ “The new nail combine seems to be holding together, though the Halifax men are in nnder protest. They think the lease price, $3.10. is too high. They have not on their side, as the Montrealers have, prohibiting freight rates to shat oat American competition, and, they want to be free to lower the price when they please, aa the Americans can easily afford to cut $3.10. Also they want to be left alone in their territory free from Montreal competition. The latter point was yielded.** This refers to the cat nail combine formed a few weeks ago and which includes nil manufacturers in Canada. Prices were fixed at $2.10 per keg for nails that sell in Pittsburgh for 85 and 90 cents per keg. The duty being only one cent per pound there i^ a tnargin of 35 cents to overcost of getting each keg into Canada. The benefits to labor, from protection and trusts, are made clear in another item in these Canadian notes. It says: “A nail strike, lasting some time, has been brought about in Montreal again this winter. The proposal the men rebelled against was a reduction of 10 per cent, during the depression. They finally yielded.’* This shows that the laborers in the nail mills of Canada are unwilling to work for whatever their protected bosses may offer, but that they are drifting towards the dreaded pauper wages across the southern border. -It also shows that a *'depression** may occur even in a protected country. But probably the “depression” and the wage reductions there, like those in this country in 1893, were caused by some wicked son of a free trader who broke up the whole protection procession by shouting tariff reform through a crack in the fence. Protection is a very delicate and sensitive institution. It works like a charm when everybody has implicit confidence in it, but is completely “discomboberated” at the first sign of skepticism. Other items among these Canadian notes indicate annealed wire and barbed wire combines, both of which have had to lower prices somewhat to keep ont the cheap American products. The unpatriotic Montreal merchant is kicking because the wire combine is charging him $3 for barbed whrt?) that it sells to the Ontario ana frontier trade at S3.87, competition being l^enest there from the American side. But the one item which more than all others will give our dear McKinley unalloyed joy is the following: “Notwithstanding the duty of 35 per cent., imported bieycles from the United States sell at the- same price here as Canadian. This duty was the source of a large amount of revenue last year.” *s This demonstrates the truth of McKinley’s oft-repeated and oft-denied statement that “a protective tariff is not a tax; but if it is a tax, the foreigner pays it.” In this case the foreigner is the American. A half million Americans generously pay $20 or $30 more for their wheels in order that our manufacturers may be able to supply the Canucks at greatly reduced prices. This benevolent or missionary spirit developed in foreigners, by protection, is one of the most attractive features of the whole beautiful system. Bybox W. Holt.

ITS EFFECT. The Predictions of Free Wool Men Thoroughly Sustained. & Abraham Mills, the well-known wool merchant, prepared for the New York chamber of commerce the following1 review of the wool trade of America for the year 1894: The passage of the free-wool tariff bill by congress in August, 1894, constitutes an epoehal event in the history of the wool trade, not only of this country but of the whole world. It is no small event when seventy million of pre-eminently industrial people abandon the policy of a generation, after long discussion and against the bitter opposition of classes greatly concerned in the maintenance of a condition of things in which their interests were heavily involved, and in which they were intrenched by years of favorable legislation. The culmination of protection came with the McKinley bill of 1890, and its repeal quickly followed. Since last autumn, therefore, we have had to face the novel experiment of free wool and moderate duties upon gpods. and to discover whether those who have struggled daring a business lifetime for this position are right or wrong. The result of the six months past seems to be in favor of the contention that free wool is of immense advantage to the American manufacturer and to that greatest of all classes, the American consumer. With an almost prohibitory duty upon foreign wool, the American article was alone freely available to our manufacturers, and had to be made the best of, even when unsuitable for desired results. Foreign manufacturers were thus left free to select the most suitable wools for every purpose, and at abnormally low prices, owing to the absence of American competition. This condition enabled them to fight successfully a high tariff upon goods, and to pour them into our markets unchecked by even the McKinley bilL This is no longer the case. Our manu? facturers have now free choice of the wools of the world and of its by-prod-ucts, and they can at length secure the identical cheap raw material which formerly their foreign competitors so successfully used against them. The course of the trade sinee the new tariff has thoroughly sustained the prediction of the free wool men. No mills have been closed, but, more machinery | has been started up, and the natural ; apprehension of our mill owners has j given way to great confidence as to the future. They do not claim that profits are larger or even reasonable, but they do maintain they cap hold their own, and do more, when they have had time to better adapt themselves to the novel conditions, and when the couqtry resumes its normal prosperity

ranmiiosAi. emc. J. T. EIMB, It 2X» Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IKK. la Buk bulldlne. ftm Soar VM •e tonnd M office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG. IN IX Pro»pt Attention Given to »11 Basines* *rvmc« our otften ji oocs noit. raAjrcu R. Posit. Dewitt Q. cumu POSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ixix Will practice la all the conrta Special a* tension given to all bnstn^se. A Notary Public constantly In the office. wrOfSoeOn first floor Bank Raiding. B. A. ElT. 8. ft DATEHTOSE ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg. Ixd. earofficc otw J. R. Adams A Son’s drag store. r Prompt attention given to all boat B. p. BlCHAHbSOK A. H. Tatin RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. r Prompt attention given to nil business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and DENTISTRY. W, H. STONECIPHEB,

Surgeon Dentist, , PETERSBURG, TND. Office in rooms6 and ? In Carpenter building. Operations lirst-class. All work warranted. Anesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, 0. V. S., PETERSBURG, INC. Owing to long practice and the possession of » fine library and case of instruments, Hr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle STTCCES3ITJX.X.Y. He »i«" keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and, Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Yoeeg & Ce.’s Store.

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