Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 May 1895 — Page 3

€hr 3?ikt County gtmocrat X. Mod. BT00P8, Editor sad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. A POPULAR TAX. •A MU has been Introduced in the Illinois fcflnlitnrn taxing all able-bodied bachelors of thirty-two and over. Bachelors, however, -who can prove that they have proposed marriage to a female of marriageable age at least three times, upon different occasions, and been refused each time, are exempt"—Daily Paper. That's the way they treat 'em in the state of Illinois. fhat's the way to make that state a state of very Joy. Take these giddy bachelors, and if they want to stay In solitary selfishness, why, make ’em up and P*X- , Massachusetts, Jersey, Tennessee, and Delaware, Take this hint that's given, fight a battle for the fair. Maine. New Hampshire, Arkansaw, Pennsy and New York, ^Follow in the footsteps of the land of plains and pork. -Sixty thousand spinsters in the Bay state sit and mope. Life is empty, life is vain, all is void of hope And the men who're sponsors for this fearful state of woe -Should no longer smiUng on their selfish pathway go. Tax 'em into marriage, let the lax be cumulate— Two per cent for two years, twenty-five per cent for eight: • , -Sixty who for ten years dare to go without a wife: Xonfiscation of their wares on bachelors for life— Xess it can be proven that they’ve made an honest try. Set an affidavit from the girls, lest they should lie. Make it necessary for the men who'd be exempts t IE very year to prove they've made at least three fair attempts. —Ha rper's Bazar.

ATTIE FURII MAN was a f great favorite I with the gentlemen, and her partiality for; the sterner sex was as great as theirs for her. “ She was engaged to young

vDr. Hartley, but ne nacl one year more =at the university before his studies were completed, and his fiancee seemed nowise inclined to mourn his absence. There were admirers in plenty ready " to take his place, and she never lacked •an escort to any of the neighborhood -festivities, where she was always the '.life and mischief of the party. Then would write a full history of each aiiair to her absent lover, never -forgetting- to tell him how much she •haa enjoyed herself, how agreeable Mi*. So-and-so had been, what pretty -speeches Mr. Such-a-one had made when -she accepted his escort for the next 'dance at the ball, “and he's such an -elegant w’altzer, you know,” she added tantalizingiy. The young doctor’s * blood fairly boiled when he read these (missives and imagined some other Oman’s arms where he considered none 'but his had any right to be. Yet he dared not protest. He ventured once -to assert his rights, on his last vacation home, and his ring had been offered him with such promptness that it fairly took hi breath away. “I don’t want it. I won’t take it,* 'he gasped. “Just as you like," replied Hattie, coldly. “I thought you were tired of me. If you are, just take back your •old ring. Fred Fox offered me a nicer one last week."

“Oh, Hattie! was all the doctor oould say. 0 • ’ His grieved tone and white face touched the girl's heart, and she hurst out with: “Oh, Frank! I didn’t mean it. I’d rather have your ugly old ring than all the other rings in the world, and I’d rather have you than all”—here she threw her arms around his neck impulsively, hid her face on his shoulder and burst into tears. Then, of course, he begged her pardon and called himself a brute, and she forgave him, and when he went away flirted more than ever. She was usually very prompt in fulfilling their compact of writing weekly

“oh, frank! i-dien’t mean it.** •letters to each other, but on two occasions the weeks had made a month before the longed-for letter came to the absent lover, and then she made no excuse but that she had been having ■so much fun she had quite forgotten to write. The young doctor res-lly believed she •only meant to tease him, yet he felt indignant and mentally vowed that if 'the reins were ever in his hands she should repent her seeming heartlessness. li is a wonder the poor fellow -could study at all, but he did at last .graduate with honor. flattie seemed as proud as he of the

hard-earned diploma, and the young couple spent a delightful fortnight making plans for the future, and trying to decide upon the most desirable location for a young physician to gain a lucrative practice and <> home for his bonnie bride. He was far too manly to ask Hattie to link her fate with, his until he could olfer her a home that would in some degree approach the comfortable one she would leave, even if her parents had been willing for sncb a proceeding. While still undecided, a position was offered him as physician and surgeon with an exploring and surveying party that were making a tour of the for northwest. There was money in it, ^and the needed practice, without fear of competition or failure. It seemed the chance of a lifetime, and had been tendered him through the influence of one of the university professors, yet it would involve a three years’ separation from Hattie, and what assurance had he that some of those other fellows would not win her from him? Even if they did not he felt as if he never could endure three such years of ^ torture as that last one at the university had been. Still he could not refuse. especially when her. parents urged him so strongly fo accept. Hattie seemed very sorry to have him go and promised very faithfully to be true to her troth. “But you can’t expect me to be an old woman, Frank,” she said. “Why, if I couldn't have any fun for three years I’d be wrinkled and gray-haired when you came back, and then you wouldn’t want me at all. ” Frank laughed and said he’d run the risk, and if she’d only wait for him ’twas all he’d ask; but it was with aching heart he kissed her a last fore well, and a torturing fear of what that long three years might bring forth. It was twelve miles from the pretty little village, where their childhood days had been spent, to the nearest railway station, and he arrived there at eleven o'clock one beautiful June night. He found that schedules had been changed and that he could make better time in reaching his party to wait for the morning express. He felt aggravated to think of waiting six long hours that he might have been spending with Hattie, who he\knew was almost crying her pretty eyes out over his departure. The more he thought of it the more torturing it became and with a sudden resolve he bought his ticket, checked his baggage, visited the nearest lively barn and in fifteen minutes a horse and buggy was making the best possible time over the

home road. He could hardly tell just when the momentous thought did occur to him, but as he rode along, dwelling upon Hattie’s earnest assurance that she would marry him “this minute,” if he could only take her along, a possibility flashed across his mind that made him urge the horse to still greater speed. He could not take her with him, but— His heart seemed lighter already and the horse fairly flew along the smooth turnpike. Within a mile of Mr. Furman's there lived a justice of the peace. Dr. Hartley paused long enough to arouse this worthy functionary and hold a hurried consultation with him; then he drove on. Hattie’s parents were somewhat surprised at being disturbed in their slumber, but not so much surprised as when, after a short conference between the young doctor and his fiancee, who had needed no waking, they j were summoned to gi ve their consent to an immediate marriage. They could think of no valid objection^ the young folks wished it, and an^fcour later Justice Evans pronounced the couple man and wife. It was then three o’clock and the young husband had only time to leave his wife in her parents’ care again, bid her another loving farewell and hasten to reach the train that was to bear him so far away from his native Pennsylvania village and her whom he had loved since his earliest recollection. His three years’trip was one of mingled hardship, excitement and pleasure; in all a very enjoyable one to Dr. Hartley. A part of the Sabbath day was spent in writing long loving letters to Hattie. And although he often longed for a sight of the dear face he felt no anxiety on her account, knowing that when he did return she would be watching far him. For the young wife the time did not pass so pleasantly. Poor girl! her “fun” was spoiled. She could not accept other escorts now* and as she had no brother to act as such she was forced to remain at home, and there she moped and pined for Frank until her parents bitterly repented the hasty step they had allowed her to take. And it is

doubtful if in that first long, lonely year she did not herself regret it, but if so none were the wiser, least of all the absent husband. She had never really meant to grieve her faithful lover as she had in that last year, and now that she realized what heartache meant she would not have him suffer as .she did; and so she exerted herself to write cheerful, contented letters. Frank almost believed she did not miss him and wished that she might feel just a little of what he had once felt on account of her thoughtless flirting, yet he was too honorable to give her any reason for distrust and too true for deception of any kind. Home did not seem home to Hattie any more. She herself was so changed that unconsciously her parents’ demeanor changed toward her. Generous checks from Frank much more than supplied her wants,, and what she did not positively need was carefully hoarded to furnish the lovely home that seemed yet so far away, and many hours were' passed ip making pretty trifles for the same: purpose. Much of her time was spen t at Frank’s home. His mother was dead, but with his father, aunt and cousin she seemed best oontent. One day a gossipy neighbor bantered heratouther strange widowhood and remarked that likely Dr. Hartley was having a fine time {dayring agreeable to the ladies, for, of course, no one would suppose him to be a married man. The shot struck home, tor only that very

week he had memtioned in hii letter a lady that reminded hiim of her. To be sure, how did she know in what manner he was spending his time! And how could she blame him if he did sometimes forget his loyalty to her? And then she thought with shame of her own promiscuous flirting of the past. That night she h anted up the piece of l^eper that was legal evidence that the twain were one. In that last year that little paper was one of her greatest comforts, and thankful she was that she was bound to Dr. Hartley, for that same contract made him hers. “He’s mine. He will be true to ms.' He will come bade,” she often sobbed to herself in the wee small hours when haunting thoughts would not let her sleep. And thus that last summer approached its zenith. If Frank had. dreamed of the torture she was undergoing he would never have planned the little revenge that was so 'foreign to his nature. He wrote that he hoped to be home to celebrate their anniversary, but the party was unavoidably detained, and he yielded to the impulse *to repay her for her old tormenting tricks and “forgot to write.” Her letters of late had been brief and unsatisfactory, but little he imagined that it was because the poor girl could not write cheerfully and would not write any other way. .She seemed to care so little that he thought a little anxiety would make his welcome the warmer. The wedding day was a fair counterpart of that other one, and Hattie was feverish with alternating hope and fear. She” started with every sound and listened at every footfall, but the day and night came and went and no Frank came. Worse yet, the week went by and did not bring the missive that never before had failed her. Another week went by and still no tidings. Poor Hattie was almost wild with despair. She was fully convinced that some terrible accident had happened on the homeward journey, and she was indeed a widow. “But he’s mine—he’s mine,?* sh<^ moaned, clasping that piece of precious paper to her heart She Whs at Frank’s father’s. The other inmates of the house were sound asleep that lovely July night, but poor heart-broken Hattie sat by her bedside, with her face buried in the pretty covers—some of her own handiwork —brooding over her desolate life and wondering how many years she would have to live before death would reunite them. And, wondering, she fell asleep only to dream of an ominous yellow envelope being placed in her hand. It was a telegram, and her nervous fingers refused td open

HATTIE SAT BY HER BEDSIDE. it, for she knew but too well what it contained. A sharp rap at the door roused her from her half stupor, and instinctively she rose and started to open it, thinking1 of naught but the dreaded messenger boy with the yellow envelope. “Who’s there?” demanded the old gentleman, wakened from his slumber by a second rap. Her hand was on the knob when an eager, living voice from the dutside exclaimed: “Frank Hartley. Is Hattie here?” The door opened, and after three long, weary years of waiting husband and wife were reunited. It needed the clasp of loving arms to assure Hattie that she had not slept her last sleep and waked in Heaven.— Philadelphia Times. THE RULING PASSION. ! His Counter Manner* Old Not Desert Him. The romantic young clerk in the dry goods emporium had fallen proi foundly in love, and every day was a dream of delight to him and every night was an opalescent fantasy. It is so often that way with the young before marriage. He had wafted in the residue of his salary on such condiments for the sweet object of his hopes as the season afforded, and thought, after several weeks of this lavish liberality, that he I had quite identified himself with all i her future interests. He wasn’t sure, however, so on this evening he was to make a test of it. Everything, as far as he could see, being favorable when he arrived at her domicile, he at once threw himself forward by platoons, and in an impassioned onslaught told her what he thought of her, and oh, how fondly and truly he loved her, and how he could conceal nothing from he* of all his great feeling for her. “Oh, Mr. Gingham,” she replied, “I am so sorry that I cannot reciprocate your feeling for me, but it is impossible, and I am sure if I had thought you were going to say these things to me, I should have insisted that you kept them concealed from this painful ex

posure. The romantic young clerk gasped and fagged. It was so unexpected, but he recovered himself quickly. “Oh, don’t mention it,” he responded, as he gathered himself together into his old-time self once more; “don’t mention it, I pray/ It’s no trouble, I assure you, to show goods. Is there anything else to-day?" And for a month after, he thought his Adam’s apple was a watermelon, such a lump there was in his throat.— Detroit Free Prt*a

WHY THEY OPPOSE IT. Bx-Ckmgressman De Forest, Of Ooxmeotioat, Explains Cto Hermity of tlM Eastern DmotnO to the Fro* Coiup of Silver On On Sixteen-to-On« Ratio; It la Dishonest. Wa8hi5Gtox. Mtj 3.—The coinage question still absorbs the chief interest of public men of all political predilections in the national capital. The reports from the west indicate the probability of a tidal ware in favor of the free coinage of silver. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing from St. Louis, says that the silver sentiment, or, as he calls it, “craze,” is spreading in Missouri and throughout the west. He says that silver clubs are being organized in every town in the state, and then throws out this gentle hint for the information and guidance of the New Yorkers: “It will take a tremendous counter influence to check this wave. Friends of honest money in the east, especially, should be kept thoroughly informed of the status of affairs out here and in the west generally and bring some sort of pressure to bear to offset the work of the silverites. The reform club idea of sending honest money literature to country papers is not altogether prae-' ticable. It conld hardly be utilized in this section for the reason that the rural press in Missouri is almost a unit in opposition to the gold standard. A good way for the honest money advocates to disseminate literature, it

seems to me, after quite an extensive tour through the interior of the state, would be through the local bankers and postmasters of the country towns. The banker is usually, if not always, in favor of a gold basis, and the postmaster would not object probably to circulating a little wholesome reading matter presenting the views of the administration on a vital question.” Western men who come to Washington inform the correspondent that a voice in opposition to the free coinage of silver is scarcely ever heard of in the west. It might be said in answer to this that eastern men can scarcely realize that intelligent, honest people can seriously advocate the free coinage of j silver at the present ratio. In order that western men favorable to the free and unlimited coinage of silver should know what eastern democrats think of the question, the correspondent invited ex-Congresman Robert DeForest, of Connecticut, to express his views. Judge DeForest was a member of the hoase during the Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses. There is not a trace of mugwumpery in him. He is an old-fash-ioned, hard-shelled Yankee democrat. He is an intense partisan and a man of iirst-rate ability. He could not understand why the silver sentiment should be so predominant through'' the agricultural states of the west, but could readily see why the free coinage sentiment should prevail in the mining states. His views may be considered as fairly illustrative of the state of mind of the average New England democrat. Said he: “Connecticut democrats, almost without exception, indorse the views of President Cleveland,- as recently expressed upon the currency question. “I was about to say that I did not believe that there is a man in the state, both honest and' intelligent, who would favor free coinage of silver at the ra(tio of 16 to 1, but I must qualify this, by remarking that I did have a conversation with a gentleman, both honest and Intelligent, who seemed to adhere to that singular heresy. So far as I know, he is the only man among my constituents who answers that description. There are, of course.

a good many intelligent men who are knaves, and there are a good many honest men who are very ignorant, and from these two classes there may be probably a very few who would go in lor the 16 to 1 notion. ‘•Generally speaking, however, it is safe to say that Connecticut democracy .stand on the ancient democratic doctrine, sound currency. By that we mean that every dollar used by the people in commerce or for any other purpose which requires a circulating medium of exchange and a measure of value should be worth a dollar. “We favor the use of both metals, nobody ever questioned that, but we insist, as the democratic platform in the last national campaign insisted, as the democratic party has always insisted, that if gold and silver dollars are issued to be used by the people, they should be of equal interchangeable and intrinsic value. “Now, everybody knows that upon the present ratio of coinage, 16 to 1. they are not of equal intrinsic value, that the silver dollar is worth intrinsically but half as much as the gold dollar; and the only thing that keeps the silver dollar on an equality with the gold dollar in use is the construction placed upon our currency laws by the treasury department to the effect that the government stands pledged to the redemption of the silver currency in gold. That is the policy which has heretofore been maintained. And with the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act, and in the absence of any further provision for the unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio, it is feasible for the treasury to maintain that position. The moment free and unlimited coinage of these depreciated 50-cent silver dollars is adopted by our government, the country would be flooded with them and the gold supply would be inadequate for their redemption. They would, therefore, sink to their actual level of value, would be worth in exchange only about one-half what they now command. We would then have depreciated silver currency, which would drive gold entirely out of circulation and entail upon the country the endless train of losses, uncertainties, in- i

justices and general rain in tmsiaeea affairs, which always result from such a condition of the circulating medium and from arbitrary changes in the standard of value. “The truth is that we are bimetallists. We are silver men in the true and honest sense of the word. We believe in such a • policy of coinage as will keep the silver and the gold dollars circulating side by side. While these other gentlemen are making such loud professions of their bimetallism, they are not bimetallists at alL They are monometallists, silver monometallists, depreciated silver monometallists. They are made up of two classes; one, the men who have silver for sale and want tp create a market for it, by governmental interference at a price far above its worth; the second, those who have contracted obligations upon the gold basis and who want an opportunity to liquidate them on the basis of a depreciated currency, and thus cheat their creditors out of 50 per cent, of all that they owe. They will deny that these are their motives, but the test is found in the fact that they insist upon the ratio of 16 to 1. If they were bimetallists in the proper sense of the word they would not ask for a change on the ratio of 16 to 1, but on the ratio of 32 to 1, which is about what would be needed in order to secure that kind of bimetallism. But that would not answer their purpose at alL Fefr then the silver-producing gentleman when he brought his money to the government market would not obtain for it any more than it was worth. Then the gentleman owing debts contracted upon the gold basis when he brought his silver dollars to his creditor to

discharge the obligation would be obliged to pay just what he owed. For that reason they do not want a ratio of 82 to 1, an honest ratio, but a ratio of 16 to 1, a dishonest ratio,tone which would bring about no genuine bimetallism, but the first effect of which would be an unjust advantage to the dishonest debtors. “It is amusing to listen to the arguments these 16 to 1 patriot’s are accustomed to use. In the first • place they always go back to the act of 1873 by which they say silver was demonetized aud the standard of value changed. This, for the most part, is a groundless assumption. • The standard of value was not and the relative value of silver was not, so much changed by that act as by dther changes in the usfe of silver in other countries, and entirely beyond our control. “The act of 1873 undoubtedly' had some effect in that direction,*and when these gentlemen denounce that act for that reason, there is some little justice in the indignation they express, but the amusing feature of the argument is that they immediately turn around and demand that the government shall perpetrate another wrong of precisely the same character, only of far greater magnitude. “To put it in another way, if the act of 1373 had a tendency to change the standard of value so far as »it effected the money obligations, which had been previously contracted to compel the debtor class to discharge obligations in a currency intrinsically more valuable than that in use at the time that the obligation was contracted, then so far the act of 1873 was unjust. And for ^precisely the same reason a change of the standard not to the depreciated silver dollar, compelling every creditor to receive in payment a currency worth only about one-half intrinsically the value of that which prevailed whed the debt was contracted, would be ,, still more unjust. !I do not suppose that any silver philosopher will be found who will say that it is any more laudable to cheat a creditor than to cheat a debtor. “Another singular thing about these arguments is that they speak of the creditor class as though they were all money kings, brokers, bankers, capi

talists and people of great wealth. The truth is that the debtor class, who would be robbed by this proposed change of ratio to 16 to 1, is made up largely of poor people, merchants, farmers, servant girls and others, who have deposited their little savings in savings institutions, .where it has been loaned again by these institutions in trust for these depositors to the people, who are now clamoring for this kind of free coinage. “I am glad that the line is going to be drawn, and I hope those who talk about a fight to a finish will have all that kind of amusement they want It looks to me as though it was a test between intelligence and ignorance, between honesty and knavery, and between sound statesmanship and deinagogy, and between genuine democratic principles and the vicious blatant doctrine of paternalism in governmental affairs for which our republican and populist friends are so distinguished.’'' —Americans accustomed to the luxuries of New York are much impressed with what they hear touching the cheapness of living in oriental countries, but they seldom suspect that the cost of living in the villages of this country, east and south, is absurdly small compared with what they have been accustomed to. The number of families subject to the income tax in villages of less than 2,000 inhabitants must be exceedingly «maU, yet almost all the inhabitants of such villages are well housed, abundantly fed, and decently dad. A family with $1,200 can keep a horse, visit «the summer watering places, and buy a dozen new books every year. A large house with ample grounds rents for $250, a year, and two servants may be had at about the coast of one in New York. One does not have fashionable afternoon teas, coastly hothouse flowers, concerts, play, and horse shows, bat neither does one with $1,000 a year in the orient. —Cockroaches are never wittingly slain by Chinamen. They consider them sacred insects and think it portends ill-luck to step on them. As they never make any effort to exterminate them, the Chinese quarters were usually •••win with these pests.

J. T. KIMH, 1L XX, Physician and Surgeon,1 JUBG, IX D. mm in B&ttk building, first •• found aft office day or aig&t. GEO. B. ASHBY*

ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to oil Bnoicom «Offlce over Barrett * Son's store. Fbarcis B Posit Drum Q. ciumu POSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will pnetln la all tbs courts. Special as» tent ion given to all business. A Notary Publle constantly In tbs office. ByOffl—* Or lint floor Bank Building. B. A. Bet. 8. Q. Dimroa ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, ■* Petersburg, Iks. SWOfflce over J. R. Adams A Son's drag store. Prompt attention given to all bua£ B. P. Kichardsor A. H. Tatums RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersbubg, Ind. Prompt attention given to nil business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. OSes In^lJnrpenterlU^^ DENTISTRY. Wa H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms 6 and ? in Carpenter Build* in#. Operations flrat-class. All work war* ranted. Anaesthetics used tor painieaa ex* traction ot teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession ot ft fine library and caae of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattii STJCCESSFXJXJL.Y. He also keeps on hand a stock ot Condition Pew ders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Tong & Cars Store.

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