Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 September 1895 — Page 1

v\ mmm VOL. XXVI. PETERSBURG, IND., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1895. NO. 20.

t---1-.-WitterMH’H Wdewie to the (}. ^ B. Few addresses hove so touched th* hearts of the American people as that delivered by Hon. Henry Watterson editor of the Courier-Journal, at th* opening of the national eucampment at Louisville, llis words brought tears to raanr an old veterau’s eye. He spoke as follows: That promissory note,drawn by the city of Lotiisvllle, endorsed by me amt discounted bv vou in the city of Pittsburg a year ago—it has matured and I aiu come to pay it. You who were so prompt and so generous about it, will not In* displeased to learn that it pu's us to no incouvenfence to pay it. On the contrary, it having been one of those obligations oa which the interest compounding day bv day was designed to eat up the principle, its discharge leaves us poor only in the regret that we may not repeat the transaction every twelve months, and convert this central point of the universe into a permanent eucampmem for the Grand Ann\ of the Republic. , Except -that history distinctions have long been obliterated here, it suight be mentioned that I appear before you as the repre-entative alike of those wore the blue ami of those who .■wore gray in that sectional combat, which, whatever eLe it did or did not, left no shadow upou American soldiership, no stain upon American .manhood. But. in Kentucky, the war ended thirty years ago. Familiar intercommunication between those who fought in it upou opposing sides; marriages and giving in marriage; the rearing of a common progeny ; the ministrations of private friendship; the all-subduing influence of home; and church,* and school, the wife and child, have culminated in such a closely knit web of imerest end affections that none of us care to disentangle the threads that compose ft, and few of us could do so if we would. Here at leas;, the lesson has been

taught and learned that Yon can not chain the carle. And you dare uvl barm luedove; Bat every gate Hate ban to hate. Win open wide to,Jove! Andf the flag! God bless the flag! As tho heart sof McCallum Moore warmed to the tartan, do all hearts warm to the flag! Have you on your round of sight-seeing missed it hereabouts? Do s it make itself on any hand conspicious by its absence? Can you doubt the loya! sincerity of those, who from house-top aud roof-tret-have thown it to the breeze*? Le* seme sacreligious band be raised to haul it down aud see! No, no, comrades; the people eo masse dojiot stoop to conquer*; they may be wroug; they may be perverse, but they uever dissemble. These are honest flags with honest hearts behind them. They a«*e the symbols of a nationality as precious as to you. They fly at last as Webster would have had them fly, bearing no such mottoes as “What is all this worth,* or “Liberty first and Union afterward,* but blazing letters of living tight npon their ample folds, as they float oyer the sea aud over the laud, those words dear to every American heart, “Union and Liberty, now and lot ever, one aud inseparable.* And why not? What is left for you and me to cavil about, tar less to fight about? When Hamiltou and Madison agreed in supporting a constitution wholly acceptable to neither of them, they compromise some difference and they let* some other differences open to double construction; andv among these latter, was the exact relation of the states to the general ! government. The institution ot African slavery, with its irivcoiuili able conditions, got between the north and the south, and—. But I am not here to recite the history of the United States. You know what happened as well as I do, and we all know that theye does not remain a shred of those old issues to divide us. There is not

a Southern man to-day who would lightly brook the effort of a State to, withdraw from the Uoion. Secession is dead. The Union with its system of statehood still intact, survives; and with a power tM^glory among men parsing the dreams of the fathers of the republic. You and I may fold our arms and go to sleep, leaving to younger men to hold and defend a property ten fold greater than that received by us, its ownership unclouded and its title deeds recorded in Heaven! It is, therefore, with a kind ofj exultation, that I fling open this gap** way to the South ! I bid you welcome in the name of the people whose voice is the voice of God. You came, and we resisted you; you come and we greet you; for times change, and meu change with them. You will find here not a sign of the battle; not a resistance of its passions. Grimvisaged war has smoothed his wrinkled trout, and which ever way you turn on either side, deepening as you advance across the Chaplin Hills, where Jackson fell, to Stone’s River, where Rosey fought—and on to Chattenooga and Chickamauga, and over Missionary Ridge, and down by Resaca and Kennesaw, and Altoona, whore Corse “held the fort,” as a second time you march to the sea— pausing awhile about Atlanta to look with wonder on a scene risen as by the hand of enchantment—thence returning by way of Franklin and Nashville—yon shall encounter as you pass those moldering heaps, which remind you of your valor and travail, only the magnanimous spirit of dead heroes, with Grant, Sherman, Thomas McPherson and Logan looking down from the happy stars, as If repeating the words of the Master.—“Charily for all—malice toward none.” We, too, have our graves; we too, i had our heroes! AH, are comrades | now upon the other side, where you ) and I must shortly join them; blessed, j I thrice blessed; we who have lived t 1

see fulfilled the pa'raist’s prophecy of peace: Peace In the quiet dales; Make ranky fertile by the Mood of men; Peace In the woodland and the lonely glen. Peace In the peopled vale*. Peace in a thousand fiek’s of waving grain; Peace In the highway and the flow’ry lane, Peace o’er the wind-swept down. “Peace on the whirling marts. Peace where the scholar things, the hnnter roams? Peace, God of peace, peace in all oar homes And all our hearts I” lidiut a* the Front. The Louisville Courier-Journal of last week devoted almost a page to giving ah account of “Indiana iu the war.” It shows that Indiaua stood first in devotion to the Uuiou and uo state shows a brighter record. “When the end of the war came although; Indiana was a border state and her strength might have been needed to( keep the enemy off her own soil, still when the hooks were balanced it was shown that Indiana had put iuto the array 74 3 per cent of her nten of military age, according to the census of 1860; a higher percentage than any of the larger stales. The average of the north being 61 3. The deaths were 17 7 p *nt of the enlistment. The average death rate ot all the states is 16 7 per cent; showing Indiana’s death rate to be higher than the average. At the battle of Manassas the Nineteenth Indiana lost 61 2 per cent of her men. No state has erected such a monument in honor of her soldiers as can now be seen at Circle Park at Indianapolis and in addition to this Indiana has for years kept a soldiers and sailors orphans home and in addition >o this a suiuiers home is now being erected at the famous Tippecanoe battle ground near Lafeyette Indiana. “The winds of heaven never fanned. The circling au >;gbk never spanned The borders ot a better land. Than our own Indiana.” Another fire company should be organized at once, or the terms of the old company complied will.

The PcrpetaaJ Vacation. There are thousands of young men whose lives are what may be called a continuous vacation. They have no employment. They are loafers, Idlers, drones. Every towu has a tew, and the larger ones scores of them. They Ibegtn the vocation of idling and loafing early. They drop out of the schools to be idlers. If they had an employment they would not keep it. Unfortunate for them, they have relatives who support them, while they spend the years between fifteen and twenty-five in id el ness. Often they are a burden upon iuduetrious and frugal parent sending them to school for a while, permit them to idle about watting for something to turn up. They have imbibed the fatal, but prevalent delusion, that labor is to be escaped, and that the only life worth living is one of idleness and ease. Often they are the sous of men who, by industry and thrift, have obtained the means to support them in idleness for years, They become the elegant and expensive loafers—none the less loafers because they wear fine clothes and have money to spend. No human j being of the male gender has any j right to be a professional idler in his early years. No principle in the divine economy is more positive than ] that all men should have a vocation which involves u-eiul employment. This decree was delivered to Adam wheu his aimless and worthless life in the garden ot Eden was abruptly terminated for hi* good. From Adam to the present time a penalty has been attached to professional idling. Dissipation is the danger and the punishment iu early years. If that is survived, the man who has spent his early years aimlessly lives to spend the period of manhood in poverty. Even if he repents at twenty-five he has passed the years of preparation tor successful performance without acquiring knowledge and skill, and consequently is not wanted. Friends get him situations, hut he is hopelessly

inefficient aud so devoid of purpose that he is soon got rid of,’ Even if he inherits a fair amount of wealth, he runs through with it, and in ten years he is a genteel pauper end wears second-hand clothing. “Three generations from shirt-sleeves to shirtsleeves’* is an American adage, because the heirs of the men who, bjr force ot character and industry, win a competence are often pormitted to grow up with no useful occupation. To those men who eau not afford more than two weeks' vacation, or who canuot be spared more than four weeks by those who employ them, or from their own business, the conditions may seem hud. They may envy the voting man who is on a per- , pettial vacation and bemoan the fate which coin pels them to earn bread. Iu time, however, if they note the careers of those who llve.of idleness, they will be thankful that they were not permitted to speud their early years in aimless leisure. Self-denial is the one thing most difficult to inculcate and a)wavs hard to practice, especially when there are good things to eat within reach. But there is no selfdenial necessary if yon take Simmons Liver Regulator. It i promotes digestion, prevents dyspepsia and a dose after a hearty meal of delicacies will prevent any discomfort* It’s the best go**!-night tod1dy. You eftnnot afford to boy your stationary, pencils, ink, scratchbooks, mucilage and toilet soaps, teas, coffees, cigars and tobacco, in fact all your eating supplies etc., at any other place in Petersburg, hat at the Bine Front grocery, provision and fruit house. 19tf Correspondents are invited to send in the news from various sections of the countv. We would like to have a correspondent from every section of the countv. Make the items brief and send them in by Tuesday of each week.

We have been crowded early and late; people have taken our stores by storm. Spencer Bros, failure in Cincinnati. Times are better; money is more plentiful.. you now for your winter’s supply if you wait. Piles ot goods melt away in a single day like snow in July. These goods are from the great Goods of all kinds are advancing. Why will you delay? ^ou will pay twice what we ask It’s a duty you owe your family to buy of us. where your money will go farthest. Run your eye down this list of prices and compare with what others ask you.

«PEOPLES’ DRY GOODS STORE** Genuine American Blue Calico, per yard, Best Lancaster Ginghams, per yard, Good Cotton Flannel,'full width, per yard, Nice soft Toweling, per yard, Nice patterns Flannelette, per yard, Nice warm Blankets, per pair, Extra heavy Gray Blankets, per pair, Two paii*s Ladies' Gray Hose, # Ladies’ Black Hose, per pair, Ladies’ Fast Black Gloves, per pair, Three papers Brass Pins, Ladies’ winter Undershirts, Infant’s Tests, Ladies’ Black Fleeced Hose, per pair^ Ladies’ fine Kid Shoes, per pair, Infant’s Shoes, per pair. die 5c 5c 3§c 5e 59c $1 29 5c 5c 19c 10c 25c 8c 10c 98c, $1,25 and $1.50 15c and 25c

«STAR CLOTHING Boy’s Knee Pants, good quality, Boy's heavy winter Suits, >' Men’s lined Jeans Pants, per pair, Boy’s Jeans Coats, good and heavy, Men’s nice winter Suits,, Men’s Business Suits, Men’s stylish Dress Suits, Men’s Overcoats, nice styles, Men’s Undershirts, Men’s Working Shirts. Men’s good stout Boots, Men’s genuine Kip Boots, Men’s 4-ply Collars, 10c. Men’s seamless Sox, Men’s wool . Sox, 15c. Lined Gloves, Men’s Cotton Flannel Drawers, W. L. Douglass celebrated Shoes, HOUSE** 19c 75c 75c 98c \ $ 4 50 $7 to 8 00 9 to 10 00 * 2 00 25 25c to 50 1 48 1 98 ; 5 35 25 $2.25, $2.50 and 3 00

Our stores are piled from floor to ceiling with goods. [jQFEverything sold strictly for CASH. Come early and get first choice. If you miss this opportunity the fault is yours.

W. V. HARGROVE & CO., Proprietors of the Peoples’ Dry Goods Store and Star Clothing House, r* Mllfe