Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 January 1896 — Page 4

53 ife* County gjcmomt Sr n. McC. stoops. Of' Tk« Pike I'witf D«a«rrat h»s t hr l*relmUttoB at ujr aewspaper B^bliKhrd m flu CMitf. A4»erU»er* wiil ma>e a aote of tklhlTartt 9 One Tear, to advance ... .fl *5 Six Month*, in advance.— H5 Entered at the postofflee in Petersburg for Uanamtaaiwi through the mails as secondclass matter. * FUIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1896. TtfE Indiana supreme eourt is now jn session. An opinion is. looked lor iu ity£ next tew days in the legislative gerrymander suR. TifEconcensusot opinion as expressby the democratic district conventions throughout the state Wednesday is that Claude Matthews is ’big enough tor the. presidency and that Indiana will make the fact plain in the national convention. In the state of Tennessee they •have’’ B Jaw making it puuishable by; a fine |50 for carrying a pistol, to which is added the costs of the suit. And for carrying a dagger a one year's peui- j teuitiarv sentence can be assessed. A law of this kind in Indiana would be] a wholesome thing aud.be the means off preventing crime. Ol-K republican friends meet 8at-, unlay for the purpose of electing a chairman of the couuty central coins tfjjttee ai.d the selection of delegates to tbe. district Convention. The fight prednises io be great and the fun furious. The Nebeker-Gowdy state chairmanship mixed up in the fight, while the Posev-Scbolz ami the Holloway Kircheval-KoJb clause are taking a mix in tft'e selection. Fight *er out. Republican candidates for county | office are more commoner than fleas] Oti a dog’s back. The woods are full j of ’em. The town bf Petersburg' has presented a formidable array of «eekera-after-the nomination who are Williug to sacrifice themselves for tbe people. The "Big Four*’ and the ."‘Little Four” are now hard at work j io control the nominations. For' years the former has done up the latter to a queen’s taste. ... - 1 1 ■' ■ Thk Demoprslneed have no fvar, republican* will take care of the county without difficulty.—Premi. ' ' From tbe extra bill* allowed the county .Ooramia* toners. and ••whUewashhjg," the republican rtng wlllown the county in two ^nore year*.—News. The above are the opinions of the yepjttdican organs of Pike county. The News owus up the “corn,’' but of. course the Press seems to think that the 169,000 debt and county orders floating and selling at a discount is a great blessing to the tax<*pavere, Congressman Hakdv of this state is securing data for the purpose of introducing a,bill in the lower house of congress within short time t*» make eligible to the pension list those Indiana soldiers called out during the War, but who were never formally mustered into the United states, army. Among these arc men called out at the time of the Morgan raid! and on similar duty. The bill ifpassed will affect nearly 1,000 veterans living in this state. I

I iie i’ikc* loamy im* moo nil nas worries • itself Ipto cpwim about ihe itatiouery eon- i tract. It Ignore* the fad that the county officer* all ties Inti the conirad lot cu tJ«•cbitlule plan,. Time and again has Muff been ordered but never delivered and as a result It had to be purchased elsewhere. Under the new contract you nay tor what you got and not for something that U not forthcoming.—Petersburg Press. li‘ the county officer* wanted the stationery contract let on the schedule plan why w hs not the tact advertised ao that all bidders for the work could j have hail a chance *t the work? ''-When was it advertised that the contract wopld be let on the schedule plan or any other plan? If “stutf" was purchased from any other house bills jwere never presented for the amounts Evk^UY contract made by the board ot comtni-'lonep* of whatever nature should be made a part of liie coin ads- j iioner* proceedings. In fact they should be spread on the record in complete form. The quarterly reports; of the various county officials should also be made a part of tl»e record. If they are not put ou record or any reference made of Them wl^ttever what is the u«e ol th**n. being made. The report* are a pari of the proceed-* logs ami should, be placed ou recor# the same p« an application for liquor* license. They are of more importance, to the public and tl/e tax-payers in general. Suppose that some of these reports should become lost or mislaid, would there tie any possible record pt^ their contents on any of the books f Well handy. The rfport* amt all contracts should be made a par{ of |.hc lecrd. Put Viu ou record. >• 7

Whilk it has uot been the costom iii Pike county for some years to j advertise for bids for building [ bridges, the letting contracts for [public printing and many other things that might be named, it is about time to cgil a halt. The people of the county should know when contracts are to be let, be they what they may, for public work of any kind. Thousands of dollars could be saved in a few years if all were given a chance tQ bid on work that is to be done for the county. The tax-payers j, are called on to pay for the work and j they hardly ever know when a bridge, levy or any other kind of work is' to be done. If a wooden bridge is to be built .there $re any number of carpenters in Pike county who would probably put in bids. If it is an irou bridge that is to be built there are numbers Of contractors in that line of work who would be willing to bid on the work. At The coining election in November the voters of Pike county should call a halt on the manner of doing busiuess in Pike county. Public work should I be advertised aud the people given a j chance to bid on the same. Ock neighbor ot the Press has a very high opinion of tiie business j men and voters of the town of Peters-1 burg. Notice the following in speaking of the probable nominations of! Hon. A. II. Taylor and lion. F. B. Posey for governor on the democratic and republican tickets respectively : • * * "Business in Petersburg would ■imply be given up for three months and everybody would unite in "whooping her up."' To the floater the entire campaign would be one glorious dream, an earthly paradise where money could be had by simply wishing for it and beer and whiskey would flow as freely as the water that courses over the pebbles of White river; the pleasure and joys that princes and lords can indulge in alone would fall to th#v lot of the happy floater. * * Just to thinifc dh»t business would l>e given up ttnd to the floater the campaign wuuTd be a gloriohsdream. What a high regard the editor has for the voters. What class, Mr. EdUor, docs the ‘‘floater” belong to anyhow? / 1 -■ " " It «s idle to at'empt 10 replenish the treasury fey a tax on wool. , Unless President Cleveland Is forgetful of his own teachings and prepare^ tosurrender bis positive convictions on the subject, no such measure1 can meet with executive approval. Besides, the republican party itself is ndt united on the measure, as is evidenced fey the open rebellion of the Chicago Tribune, the leading republican journal ot the west, aud the mattering* ot the republican leaders in every section of the country where the wool growing is not a great interest. It is a tact, al-o that taxing wool has never protected wool growers, or any branch of American labor. The practical eflect of such taxation has beep to protect English labor, and to preclude the manufacture of the best woolens in the country.

Pike county need* a genera) overhauling. It needs a change in the business affairs, It needs an investi-j gation. Just to think of it* in 1894 thereewa* a surplus iipfhe treasury of; over $17,500, the total county debt at that time being only about $27000. Alt the present time the debt has crawled up tu nearly $00,000 and still oti the increase, and with the highest rate of taxation known for many i years. What's the matter? There seems to be quite a Kick going up among the tax-payers a*j tl-v% learn the amount of faxes they; will be required to pay this year, j The tax levy is excessive am) the citizens will be required to crack,| down quite liberally tins spring. The t rate is* the highest known in- Pike j county for rnanv years. • j Speaker Rico is teat t uj that hi“emergency revenue tatifl bill” wills be returned to the house with amend;! ments. Mr., lived’* tariff bill of 18^0, | it will be remembered, was not thoroughly amended until the people considered it lit committee of the w hole, State Pcmoeratic C wnimittee. The state central committee as] elected over the state last week is as a« follows: Firs? District—John W. Spencer, Evans- , vtlle. Second District—Parks M. Martin, Spencer, j Third District—Richard H. Willett. Leaven? worth. . Fourth District—Joel Matlock, Rrownstown. * “ Fifth District—Frank A. Horner, Brasil. Sixth District—K. ti. Hord.fchelbyvtlle. .seventhDistrict—Thomas Taggart. IndianapotU. • Eighth District—J. J. Netterville, Anderson. i .Ninth District—,W. H. Johnson, Crawfords- i rille. Tenth District-Will lam H. Blackstock, Lafayette. « Eleventh District— Rufus Magic, Logansport. , Twelfth District—Thomas H. Marshall., Columbia City. .. ] Thirteenth District—Peter T. Kruger, Plymouth. The conveotiona were all well attended and the proceeding?! were as a rule harmonious.

Better Education For the Farmer and His Family. Edward Eggleston in one of his delightful stories describing life in the early settlements! of this state has a character whom he calls Dave j Shawnee—the man who had no | “bcok-larnm,” but plenty <?f “eddication. I once believed that these | two terms meant exactly the same thing, but since I have observed somewhat the different careers of so-called educated people and noted many failures among them, I am convinced that to be well educated requires more than a familiarity with books. We have all known the boy or girl sent out- from the farm home* by fond parents and supported by hard-earned and ill-spared money, whose success in life did not nearly equal the desires and expectations of his friends. On the ether hand we have all noted the keenwitted lad without the means to go to school, or perhaps without even time of his own to attend our excellent public schools who acquires a large fund of information simply by being alive to every opportunity to learn something Useful. Our4 children on the farm are not in school more than half so many months in the year as the children in towns and cities, and usually the best teachers seek employment in towns rather than, in the country. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, t]je average country child has a§ good a common school education at ^welve or fourteen as the average towrr child has at the same age. There are several reasons for this. One is that there is 'almost no playing “hookey” in tne country. Another is that there are no greater attractions to occupy their thoughts than the school. It is the social center as well as the Temple of Instruction. Our children have more respect, and reverence for their teacher!.than dd city children, and with energies concentrated on what advantages they do have, they often outstrip their city cousins who have better. The district schools are good as they are. Indeed, I some-, times wonder how they could be improved. The trouble is that by mismanagement of funds the terms are much shorter than they should be. The sanitary condition of the houses is bad aad tly school property is not kept in proper repair. The course of study is good and our children should by diligent application complete the common branches in eight years as the school officers intended they should do.

■mere is greui neeu oi mure iqwnship graded schools with course of study similar* to that of the high schools of our towns and cities. But let us remember that the school is not the only means of education. Our general government maintains, at a great expense, the Department of Agriculture for the information of farmers on the various subjects j pertaining to their avocation. Then I we have the State Experiment Sta- j tions from whose reports much can j be,learned- And the state; has of late years appropriated money for j holding Farmers’ Institutes in. each j county. So much has been done for I us but thejfarraers themselves have been strangely indifferent and slow i to take advantage of the help-offered j them. ' There was an old farmer living in Wisconsin who4wrote to the Score-1 tary of Agriculture for .a certain! book which iis he said was printed' for distribution among the farmers and that being his buslues's he thought he was entitled to a copy of it. The secretary replied politely, iisking for explanations as to which particular edition he should send. The farmer wrote in answer, “I don’t care a pin which fdition, uor what the book is about, [ want it for a scrap :bo6k.” Asso- j ciatiun with people of culture and re-j linement is of great benefit to any J .me, aud particularly toythe young. Farmers often care too/littte ,for so- j ciety for themselves |or for their families. They seem so overworked j both ^ father and mother, that to; make a visit or to entertain some incited guest seems almost like wasted ! Lime to them.' Let them consider] the intellectual improvement derived from conversation with well-in-formed people. We may, not be able to afford a j course of study in astronomy, geol-1 cgy. chemistry, or any other of the sciences for our children, but they' have a great opportunity to study the phenomena of nature for themselves. They can make observa-; tions of the sky; the trees and plants fhe rocks and minerals and find pleasure and profit for tbemeelves.! There are still I ndian relics to be I

found and it is well to encourage young people to make tbjeir own collections of such relics in connection with the study of United States History. A child will learn more by making his own collections of natural curiosities than he will by reading a book. Sometimes a trip to "some place outside one’s immediate SA*rroundings furnishes new ideas and rouses one from mental legarthy. We mingle too little witth the great world outside our own little circle of friends. As a result our children appear timid and reticent in companv when they should be able to converse brilliantly with almost any one. Some people unkindly call this verdant and country-fied manners. But it really is extreme modesty and a painful sense of one's inability to appear well before others. Literary societies and reading circles in the country are not to be despised as a meiius of education. One good book does you more good if it I is read aloud, so all may share its contents. The family newspaper is a great factor in the education of one's family; I do not mean the sensational weeklies with exaggerated dccouuts of prize fights and. murders, but there are papers of pure moral tone and < high literary character and ; these are the class to which I refer The more expensive magazines might do service in two or three families ! who woifljj agree to share the.ex1 peases. While there are so many |good -books and papers to be obtained at such reasonable prices. [ let parents aud teachers beware of the bad, and also of tne silly andt trashy literature. I am afraid we | leave the choosing of reading matter too much in the hands of the young people themselves. Their books and papers should be carefully selected for them by older heads un-. til there has been a correct taste fori the best. - That better'education, for the farm- j er today and thefarraerof the future; will greatly increase the; • enjoymeut of life, seems too self evident to.need any argument. I do cot belittv that all should have a college coijrs iu Latin and Greek to increase their enjoyment of life, but as a class they shputd have better business educations than they have today. They should learn book-keeping, business forms and above all acquire a correct spelling. There are a groat many farmers now who are obliged to go to some one more familiar with such work than themselves to have notes drawn up or letters written. But’be it said that the habit of bad spelling is not confined to farmers. It appears that our educational sys* tems everywhere are paying very little attention to spelling. Our forefathers who cleared away the gigantic forests from the land which npw constitutes our f^irm homes were too busy to give much time, to the cultivation of their minds. They left us but few accounts of home life. So the history of our state lacks the charm which the stories of folk lore lend to the history of New England during, the colonial and Revolutionery periods. It will-be a means of mental improvement and afford much pleasure to j the family to keep a record not only | of the births, deaths and marriages I but of other important eveuts hap-| pening in the family. . Such a rec- J ord will be a treasure t« our children and our children s children, many j years after the hand that prepared j, it has returned io its original dust, j Eugenia Chappell. ~t

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