Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 February 1896 — Page 3

5S&. tC* of the heart ed I the long ago, f Faded and yellowed by time, you know. But cherished still In shadow, and Cometh to ms her valentine; Here Is a couplet quaint and true:

"T1W row » rw The violet** blue.'* And X cream j» the gloaming aof. and low •Of the iaas who penned K long ago. A little in aid with the bluest eyes That ever danced 'neath winter's skies; - A roguish miss whose love was told To the sound of a kiss in a moonl.1 wold; But here is the rest or her rhyming true: •* Love is sweet And so are you;** And a toy's cheeks flushed at the final line Oil a ructio sweetheart's *alenline. - ihcp in the past, but dimly hid Behind a soft eye's drooping lid, •Quivers the arrow that Cupid keen Allot ar the Castle of Might-have been; And plainer still grows the couplet true— ** Tim rose is red. The violet’s Wue,” And laughter low. wmenns half dlvlna, Hippies across her valentine. v With a cherished thought for the love it told i tenderly open each yellow fold. And my hiart beats fas; as It beat one d*»y Tn a past that Is hallowed and far away; i can «ce the eyes that were deep and blue; *' Love is sweet ' • And so are you;** An thought to* lass as she penned each " 4 fine, | ‘ And sealed’wuh a kiss her valentine. —T. C. Harbaugh. In Truth.

T’S illigant *nd that’s the truth, but none too illigantforthe widdy McFadden,” cried honest Donald O’Dillon, as heTupturously suyeyed the bit of pasteboard covered with roses, tulips and poppies. “And the varses, Barney, read ’em again.” "As strata as tulips and rosea. My pretty,- fall maiden, are you; As bright as the sun in the heavens. ! As dewdropa, tender and true." “That describes the widdy, preciae4jr,” Interrupted Donald, excitedly. "I come to you hoping, yet fainting. Your valentine tain 1 would be; If 'tia yes. keep on with your smiling. If ‘tls no, return this to me." “Ye’ve foine taste, Barney, me b’y, *nd whenyer turn comes ’nd yer courten tome swate crather loike the widdy, l’U do aa much for ye. And now if ye’ll | 4*st do me the favor to present it this •veiling, Til count this a foine day’s work." v “Present It yourself, Donald.” “Faith, 'nd I’m that bashful I’d blush Snecelf into a faver; ye won’t go back on me now, Barney. Ye naden’t go' in unless ye phuse; ye kin wait at the door fer the answer.” Simple Donald had never even heard ■of the courtship of Hikes Standish else be might have thought twice before wending a stalwart youth, ten years his Junior, to do his wooing for him. La his eyes, Barney Casey w as naught but the “lad” brought with him from the old country; 1 doubt if he ever knew he was 23. <? “I’ve got to see Kodger about thradIng work tio-morrow, anyway,” Barney mud. slowly, after a moment’s reflection. Barney always said everything alow It. it

“So ye's haTe.** When Barney went out, Donald carefully scrubbed his hands and then took tap the precious bit of pasteboard that Barney had ridden seven miles to procure. Eagerly he examined it over ■and over, trying to read from memory that wonderful poem. “it’s a foine thing to be a schollard Hike Barney,*’ he mused, longing to really read the mystic words. “It was a lucky day fer me whin I , coaxed him away from old Baily; ’nd a lucky thing for the b’y. ' “This’ll fetch the widdy, I reckon; «he*s a ainaibie woman, a very sinsible woman.” Then he carefully folded the -card in a bit of paper, andjuat at duak, 3 Barney started on his mission. “What’U 1 say?” he queried. Donald reflected awhile, then •answered pompously: (Donald could -be pompous when he had only Barney to face.) “Till her e* ye’ve brought her « valentine *nd I want ter know if I kin •come over to-morrow night.” It was only a 20-minute walk for n youth like Barney, to the widow Mc--I'udden’s ckiim.and all too soon he found himself at the door. “Wish Donald O’Dillon *ud do his own -courtin’,” he muttered, as he paused for a moment to glance through the uneurta ined window. “It makes home outen a place ter Shev a wonfhn around,” he continued to himself, as he watched the widow deftly washing the supper dishes. She looked buxom enough in the uncertain tight of an open wood fire and one tmllo* candle. A sound very ■nigh escaped Barney’s lips as he ■rigorous thump on the door. “Come in,” called the widow, 4ng the summons was from her little hoy, who had gone to the ham a fsw minutes befetra.

Somewhat abashed, Barney walked In. Looking around, Mrs. MeFadden gave a little scream, then hastened to explain, meanwhile hospitably proffering a chair. “I^ifought yea a valentine.” The words fhirly tripped over each other as they came out of Baitoey's mouth, and he rather collapsed than sat down in the chair. He had spoken fast for once, but had never felt so “flustrated” before. All smiles and blushes, the widow proceeded to open the package, declaring the while that he was fooling her, that nobody would trouble to give her a valentine, though she used to get plenty of them. As the wrapping fell off. she burst into exclamations of admiration and deligat equaling Donald’s own. Again Barney was mentally berating the latter for not doing his own courting. Blushingly the widow read the versea through twice, then turned a beaming countenance on Barney. “This is a great surprise to me, Mr. Casey, but a most agreeable one. I shall keep the valentine," she added, shyly, extending her hand toward him. He took it; whnt else could he do? his face like scarlet and hia heart beating so loud he was sure she must hear it. “I* shall'tell Donald ’tis yis, thin?** “Certainly ye* may.** “He said ez he wanted to come over iher morrow a veiling.” “Any time he likes.” A boyish whistle in the “near** distance caused the widow’s blushes to de&gfcn. Rodger,” she said, sweetly. “Shalt I till the b’yes to onct *nd have doner* “Ye* kin use yer plashure,” drawled the youth in some surprise, feeling rather gratified than otherwise that she should treat him so kindly and consult him so deferentially.. There was a stamping of feet outside, and two ruddy Irish lads, the one ten, the other about 16, came noisily in. “Htllo!” shouted Rodger, the elder, catching sight of Barney; then he stared in astonishment as he noticed his step-mother standing beside him, trailing and rosy, a large esutd in her hand. "Is’t a litter ye’ve Jlgfe sure?” he asked. rW “No, b’ys, it’a no litter, it’a a v.ilen

1 ..' ■■■■■■ ^ .■ bade was toward the door; bat when Donald turned a face full of expectancy upon him he sank onto a stool, cover* Inf hi« face with his hands. “By all the saints, Barney, don't tell me she refused,” groaned poor Donald, his arms hanging helplessly by his side!, his lower jaw dropping, his whole at- i titude one of fear and suspense. If was then that Barney, lifting his head, I fully realized how much his news would ' mean to his benefactor. Like a flash came the remembrance of all thisyman had done for him. of the miserable existence he had snatched him from, of ! the many times he had gone hungry that might be fed, of the almost mother lore he had given him; and j a sudden resolve formed in his soul, ! Indeed, at that moment this untutored j Irish lad (madly in love with the widow J cs he had long been) arose to the heights of a hero. . “It’s all right, Donald, b’y” (he fell : as if he himself had aged years in the last-two hours). “She didn’t send th< valentine back *nd she said ez yez could come over when yez plaze.” In his joy Donald forgot for a tim< how pale and quiet Barney was and how queer he had acted when he first came in; but by and by he said: “Yez seems to be ctit up the evening my b’y; what ails yez?” “I jist feel a bit faint—sort o’ gone in my stomick.” “It's the hit of a tonic yes needs Barney, a sup of beer or the loike,” Neither man slept much that night Donald was too happy and too full o! plans for the future; Barney too mis erable and too anxious as to the out come of his one little plan for the mor row. Donald fell asleep toward morning and the younger man, dressin| noiselessly, slipped out of the house running every step of the way to th< McFaddeu claim. He was sorely afraid his courage would forsake him or wordt fail him. Possibly the widow did noi look quite as youthful and enchanting in the cloudy morning light, her hail badly rumpled and her toilet carelessly made. Bodger was “doing chores” and Dan was stdll asleep. Everything fa* vored the wretched confession pool Barney had to make. The widew listened in surprise, but seemed not half as much put out as the poor fellow had .supposed she would; in fact, he had nq reed for the long list of arguments h«

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tine; *nd a great >07 has come to yer i»i\her.’nd yea, sure, this day; 'nd now I’ll introduce ycz to yer father, that is to be, Barney Ca<ey, sure.” •‘Hooray!” cried little Dan, throw* ing up his cap and turning a somersault; but Barney did not notice anything that was going on; he simply tried to open his Ups to say something to correct the awful mistake, but: no words came; indeed he could not think of a single thing to say, but his bronzed face grew actually pale, and He trembled like a man in • chill. But Dan's antics, Rodger’s hearty, if Inelegant: “Bully fer ycz, Barney, me ’nd vou’U make a team at farmcn’,” and the widow's sweet effusiveness completely covered his confusion and the opportunity .was gone. lie forgot his errand wkh Rodger, and escaped as soon as possible, though they all seemed loath to leave him go. Once alone in the Keen night air, poor Barney apostrophized something after this fashion: “The howly saints preserve me, what hiv 1 done! To think of her taken me up loike this! I’m a ruined man—Donald 11 niver forgive me. Faith 'nd if he stroikes me dead 1 won’t blame him —poor sowl! Bliss her purty face, but she’s illigant though. Barney Casey, ycz was born to luck. Howly Mooes! !i*s not mesilf ez can go home the right. I b'lave she means to marry me, sure, 'nd it*s mesilf that's long sighed ftr her in sac ret, bat knowen ez Donrid bed his eye on her I'd niver hev [ tried courten her fer mesilf. Faith *nd l l belave courten and poppen the quesI rion is a bit o’ bizness iveiy man had wetter attind to for himself.** It took almost an hour for Barney Casey to go over the way that, earlier in tin evening, had been traversed In SO minutes. When he earn** in sight of the -shanty and aaw Donald pacing impatiently about within he fairly cursed the pretty widow and his own good fortune. Donald paused to-stir np the fin, and Barney honied in while his

bad arranged to help win the “lost cause.” , **’Nd the b’ys," Barney added. “Donald must niver aven surmise there waa a mistake.” “I’ll manage them—lave it to me," she answered, confidently. “And after all a match between Donald and mesilf is more fitting,” she added; “the loikes of yes should wait fer some swate young gurl.” Barney waa home and had the fire kindled before Donald fairly awoke from pleasant dreams that were but a continuation of his waking ones. Donald found the day as long as ever impatient lover did. but evening came at last and early twilight saw’ him on, his way; nor was there aught in the Widow’s ; greeting to make him surmise that her dreams of the night before had been of other than himself. There was a wedding in n fortnight, but Barney steadfastly refused to make one of the happy family at the McFadden claim. The widow’s house was : much more comfortable and pretentious | than the O’Dillon’s, but Barney de- | dared “the owld shanty" Was good enough for a bachelor like himself. | All this is two years past and now i Barney is fixing up the shanty, while ; carefully hidden away is a valentine, | fen times finer than the one Donald sent ; the widow, intended, we mistrust, for the pretty daughter of a neighbor living a couple of miles beyond the widow's claim. , “AH is well that en,ds well,” and as i Donald O’Dillon has been oftimes i heard to say : “It jist takes a valentine to fetch ’em.”—Velma C. Melville, is Farm, Field and Fireside. “Did yon send Miss Hawkins n valentine, Busby?" “Yes; but she sent it back. Ever since she took an editorial position <m the Social Gazette she’s been doing * things like that. Foreeot kUt*-i \ Harper's i

PROTECTING WOOL. 'j How Frote ioabto FropoM to “Pat oo th*i Screws** likes They Are A Me to Do So. Those who would know what the republican ;»if policy really is and would understand what the party promises to do with the tariff two years hencu should not overlook the acts aud pi- Dclamations of the National Wool Growers* association and its presdent, Judin Lawrence. -< We havo before us a copy of Judge Lawrence address or report “to the wool growers of the United 8tates” concerning the provisions of the pending- tariff Jill which relate to wool. ; The association emphaticly expressed its disapproval of Speaker Reed’s original policy of inaction; soon afterwards he surrendered to the advocatesof agitation on McKinley lines. It now expresses its disapproval of the house bill, although Mr. Reed’s chairman of the ways and means committee and other republicans have distinctly promised that the party will, if it shall have the power, restore the full McKinley tariff ia 1393. Judge Lawrence now says that the McKinley tariff on wool was not high enough w hen it was in force, and would not be high enough now. “Most people supposed,” he remarks, “that the McKiuley du ies oa wool were protective, but they were not.” Owing to several causes, on 3 of which was “the decline in the world’s wool price,” “the McKinley act ceased to accomplish the purpose intended by it Under it prices of wool c instantly declined, and the <

inevitable res ult would soon have been a failure t y secure prosperity to American sheep husbandry. Even in Texas, where the cast of growing wool is as low as; if not less than, in any other state, sheep declined in numbers from 4,218,812 in 1890 to 2,859,269 in im These nev.* ail'd unexpected results and conditions call for increased protection, not for reduction. The duties of the act o:f 1890 [the McKinley tariff] are now even less than low revenue duties.” And yet the .McKinley duty on clothing wool, calculated upon the price of last year s free imports, would have been 72 per cent.!; This is too lojSv for protection and is “even less than a low revenue duty”! We direct attention to Judge Lawrence's admission that under the high wool duties of the McKinley tariff the priee of domestic wool “constantly declined.” In that tariff : the duty on clothing wool (11 cents a pound) was equivalent to more than ! 59}{ cent on the entire quantity imported in the years 1393 and 1894. This was hot sufficient to prevent the wool growing industry from deciihing, j he says. As for the' duty proposed in the pending bill—wlych v/ouid increase the ; cost of clothing wool by 43 per cent., with an effect upon the cost of woolen clothing that our readers scan estimate for themselves—Judge Lawrence says: “This is no protection at all. Inadequate protection is no better than free wool.” And he urges the wool growers everywhere ,to send delegates to j Washington who shall appeal to the senate for the amendments which the association desires! What do Judge Lawrence and his association want? What are the duties which those “delegates” are urged to demand? A specilic duty on clothing wool which would, on the basis of last year’s imports, be equivalent to 73 per cent., and a specific duty on coarse carpet wool which, upon the basis of the imports of 1893, would be 103 per cent instead of the 32.37 per cent of even the McKinley tariff. He admits that the duty proposed by the association for carpet wool j would have been. 155 per cent upon 26,000,000 pounds imported from China last year. That is to say, the duty proposed is 8 cents a pound, and the value of that wool was only 5.15 cents a pound. All wools are free of duty now, and our readers can easily see how the price of woolen clothing and carpets to consumers would be affected if the cost of the raw materials should be increased as the a!>sociation would have it increased by the imposition of,its schedule of tariff taxe*. The republican party promises, however, to enact these duties or the McKinley duties on wool two years hence. It believed it had satisfied the association in 1890, and if the association shall demand in 1893 rates higher than those of the Mclvinley act, they twill be granted by the party if it shall have the power then to enact a tariff law. The promise to re-enact the McKinley wool schedule has been made repeatedly by republican leaders in congress, as it was made in the ways and means committee room, since the beginning •»f the session. —N. Y. Times.

“STRICKEN INDUFTFilES. they Smb to Prosper Under th« Policy of Tariff Reform. The republican house has undertaken to “encourage'’ the ‘Stricken industry” of wool manufacturing by imposing a duty of 43X per cent upon the raw material of that industry. It would assist the manufacturers by increasing the cost of the wool they use by 42 X per cent now and' by promising to snake the increase 70 per cent in 1S9& The American Wool and Cotton Reporter, which is the leading or gin of the wool trade, has just published its annual record of new undertakings in the textile industries. “The past six months,** says the reporter, “have; seen the undertaking of the construe- ! tion of many textile mills that will j stand for years to come as monuments j of what brains, energy, and money can produce in these days of active competition. While the last half of the year 1895 has not such a brilliant record as regards the constriction of textile plants as the first sit months can boast still it is a record to be proud of, and cannot bat demonstrate the healthy, steady, and imphl growth of the textile industry of the country, opening more widely a field fc>r the investment of the sayings c f the people and furnishing employment either directly or lx directly for thousands of persons. 'The year will long he ro- j membered is one of the mqst active ha j the annals if textile mill CQxutraction i

the country has yet seen, no leas than 857 new enterprises having been launched within that period, being one more than during that memorable and prosperous year 189%" The tabular statement is as follows: First Six gntirt ° Months. lea*, t Woolen.......................... & 61 Cotton... 73 146 Knitting...57 , » Silk. if SI ; Miscellaneous..... 17 tt Total.....!Sh 957 So it appears that woolen manufacturers have invested money in 81 hew enterprises during the year. Greater productive capacity was. required for the consumption, of the very large quantities of clothing wool purchased. More than 135,000,000 pounds of fine foreign clothing wool were imported to be added to the domestic product How would the industry be affected if the cost of such wool shonld jbe increased by 42& percent now and toy 70 per cent two years hence? The republican party also undertakes by its tariff bill to increase the present duties on cotton goods by 15 per cent, regarding the manufacture of cottons, We suppose, as one of those “strickea industries” mentioned in the ways and means committee’s report But everybody knows that the cotton manufao* turing industry has been very active and prosperous during the last seven or eight months. Wages have been increased in all the mills, and the record shows a list of 146 new factory enterprises, “ranging in importance,” says the Reporter, “from small spinning mills in the south to large and imposing affairs such as the new mill of the Berkshire Manufacturing Co., Adams, ^flass., which is to be 440xllS feet, five stories, with 80,000 spindles and 3,100 looms, the whole costing in the neighborhood of $1,000,000.” It is .* also pointed out that several other concerns 1 operating large mills have built additions which in some instances double the productive capacity/ The average duty on cotton goods during the last fiscal years 40 per cent. Is not that high enough?-rX. Y. Times. NOW AN IRON ORE TRUST

Which Will Be Strengthened by the T»rlfl i on lorelfa Ores. J At a meeting of representatives of j the Bessemer iron ore interests on the ! Mesaba, Vermillion, Gogebic, Menom’inee and Marquette ranges in the Bake Superior mining region, held at Cleve- ; land on January 10, an agreement was ■ made by which the owners of the various properties are to act together in j fixing the prices of ores. In order to j maintain rates it will, be found neees- j sary to limit production, and accordingly an understanding was reached | whereby the output of different mines will be equitably determined. It is stated that the deal was brought I about chiefly through the efforts of; John D. Rockefeller, of the Standard j oil trust, who has recently purchased i extensive iron pre properties in the j Lake Superior district As the promoters of this new trust j control practically all the Bessemer I ore mines, they will probably be able j to carry out their plans for this sea- | son’s output The result will be that j the iron and steel makers of Chicago, ! Cleveland, and other manufacturing centers, which depend on Lake Superior ores, will be forced to pay higher prices for their raw material. This will increase the cost of iron and steel in all the forms in which they are consumed, and will injuriously effect hundreds of industries which are engaged in converting the products of furnhces I and rolling millg, into various forms of manufactured goods. Higher prices will mean that the farmers’ nails, j fence wire, cotton ties, axes, bolts, and hinges, and all kinds of hardware in general use, will cost more than they dc now. In this way the long arm of the ore trust will reach out over .the whole country, and its nimble finger* will filch from the people’s pockets a portion of their hard-earned wealth. The only hindrance to the organ iza- j ; tion of a national ore trust, which J would control all the iron mines oi ] the country and put up prices far above what the Lake Superior ore producers will be able tp charge, is the competition of the iron ores of Cuba and Canada, which under , [the reduced duties of the Wilson tariff would come in in large quantities were an attempt made to corner the market. That the uuty on foreign ore was not altogether abolished, as provided in the tariff bill when it was passed by the house, is distinctively to the advantage of the men who are now trying to make the people pay more for iron. The agents in the senate of the few monopolists who own the principal ore deposits, knew how important it was that foreign competition should be prevented by high tariff taxes. The dnty of 40 cents per ton imposed by protectionist senators means that the ore barons can charge just that much more for

their product. With the threat of higher prices of j ore and reduced production, which will mean less employment for labor, j it would seem that the time for public ! favors to the great and powerful iron j mining interests was past It surely ] cannot be said that the business of j shoveling ore out of a hole in the ground is an infant industry which still needs protection: Iron has been ■hided in this country for abont 150 years, and the “infant* must have its wisdom teeth cut by this time. 7et the republican house has passed a bill which increases the protection on iron ore, and if the McKinleyites could have their way there is no donbt but that they would restore the duty of 75 cents per ton, or even impose a higher: tax This is the answer of the repub-, lican party to the people’s protest j against trust oppression, aided by j tariffs which shut out foreign compete I tion: “We will give the mine owners more protection* so that they can charge higher prices, just as soon as we get a chance to legislate.” Will the people like that sort of favoriteisral The people—their business *s to vote And pay taxes, not to ask foolish qpeations about the origin of rdpubUca* campaign funds, or why trusts spend millions to control congress. , s ^ W. &

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