Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 March 1896 — Page 3

p Zht¥ifct (County f rmotrat m. WeC. STOOPS. Editor sad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. INDIANA.

THE PLAID LADY. BY HAST K.Y1.E DALLAS. •“There Is the lady in the plaid cloak Again,” people who were strangers in (Dairytown used to say. “I wonder what she runs about so much for?*' Old residents, however, could have -told them that the lady in plaid was Mrs. McMurtry, the richest woman in rthe county; that her running about Always had something to do with the snort gages she held on most of the outlying farms, and that, rich as she was, she had worn the plaid cloak and no other for 20 winters. So that children were in the habit of calling her “The Plaid Lady;" and, indeed, some grownup folk also, in moments of irritation, “How often does the plaid lady come here, Amanda?” Amelia Perry asked of he? sister one day. The plaid lady held a mortgage on their little place, which they had not been able to pay off sinoe their father died. “Well, only about once a week,” Amanda replied. “It does seem oftener, it . I. though.” “Well, Amanda,” said Amelia, “it twms to me as if 1 never look out of the window but I see that plaid cloak coming up the path. Sometimes I wish I could die rather than go through the talk about the trouble that has got to come. What good does it do? Don’t she know I’d pay off that mortgage if I could? And I know that if I can’t she’ll foreclose. That is all right; all just. Poor pa borrowed the money, and if we can’t, pay it, why the little place has got to go, but all this going over and over it is enough to drive one crazy. And she always goes away crying! ‘Make an effort, make an ef- | tort—you’ll wish you had when it is so 1 have to do what I shall be sorry to ■do.’ Oh! if she isn’t coming now. There are wheels.” , “No, it’s the minister’s wife,” raid Miss Amanda, peeping over the kitchen curtain. “Which of us looks deccntcst to go to the door? J can put on my fichu in a minute, and you’ve been crying, Mely, and a person's nose •and eyes will get red if they cry. You . come in after awhile. You know w hat a gossipy place this is, and if Mrs. Becker was to say to her mother that she hoped nothing'unpleasant had Happened to the Miss l’errys, for she felt ■sure Amelia had been shedd.ng tears, why the old lady would tell the next person that called.” So Amelia ran upstairs to bathe her eyes and make herself tidy. while Miss Amanda, with her mouth full of pins, took the. muslin fichu she bad just been pressing from the clotheshorse. and put it on as she walked slowly down the front entry, so that she was ready to ofRNfite door briskly -when the l»el! rang, ahd cry out: “1 saw you getting osit of the buggy, Mrs. Becker, and ian to let you m. How well you look. How are the c hildren, and tour mother, and Mr. Becker? What a touch ing sermon he gave us last Sunday*. 1 saw 20 people in tears.” “It seemed appropriate to the recent loss Deaeou Dewey has suffered,” replied Mrs. Becker. “Generally Mr. Becker feels that he ought to be cheer-iub-but the sad ev«1$ was so recent.” “His second wife, wasn’t it? queried Miss Anmrfiu, wishing that Amelia would not pull so many drawers out in the room overhead, where she was making btr toilet, or scuttle over the floor ♦o often. “llis- second wife? His third,” sa J Mrs. Becker, trying to b*» demure. “Ma says— you know ma will have htr laugh—she says she’s not a minister’s J wife, if i am. Ma says' she saw him looking out .for the fourth last Suu-, •day. She says she wasn’t sme whetb-! «r; it was Martha Hopkins or vou he de- j cided on, but 1 sand- “Well, Amanda j l'erry won’t have him. I’m sure.’ ” “lie’ll not look at me,” said Amanda, ■“so there’s no use refusing him before I'm asked, and Martha Hopkins deapises him on the face of the earth i'-et ides, we’re both too old. When one lias got to Deacon Dewey's tithe of iile, be likes girls of 16 best." ■ “I’ll tell ma that,” said Mr*. Becker, **ahe*U laugh.” “Poor, dear Mrs. Dewey’ It was xeally sad. though. I always thought ♦he wA> very nice, though ma thought—’*

But what ina thought remained untold. or at this moment the postman 5 Hew in at the gate, tapped on the wiudaw and presented a letter. Mia* Amanda glanced at it, and saw that the name of some legal firm was printed on the left-hand upper cornel i. of the envelop. Full of. apprehension, and anxious that Mrs. Becker should not see this, she crammed the letter into her pocket and went on chatthng. * “And how about the fair? When L* 1* to be? ilas the committee decided7” “Yes.” said Mrs. Becker, enthusias ttcallv. "We want it to opca Monday fortnight. We are going to have a >.e\v England kitchen. And I’m go ing about begging loans of china cups and saucers and plates and everything And we thought you would let us have some; we know you would if you j could.” | “We*! I let you have everything but the best dinner and tea set/* said Miss Amanda. “I draw a line there, and so doe* Sister Amelia. But we’ve oceans •of common things, and we’ll wash them all up before they are wanted.” Then Mrs. Becker became profuse in thanks, and Miss Amelia, coming in. they were all very cheerful, «he M isaes Perry making great efforts to appear *0, and the minister's wife, seeing through them very clearly, but klnofy sympathizing for all that

At last she said good-by, and the sisters polled the parlor shades down again and went op to their room, where they divested themselves of their adornments, and pnt on their wrappers to go on with their ironing. Not until this was done did Amelia say: “Didn’t the postman bring a letter, Amanda?" “Yes,’’ replied her sister. ‘ It’s from

some lawyer.1* Amanda laid the letter on the table, and the young’ women looked at each either sorrowfully. * The little house was very plain, but they had been born there, (heir parents had died there, and then they hardly knew how they should feel without that small property, or, indeed, how they should live. Then sitting down together on a chintz-covered lounge, they began to read. As they did so, the expression of their faces slowly changed. They began to utter little “Ohs” and “Ahs,” and as they came to the bottom of the last page, they dropped the letter oh the table and hugged each other. “Do you think we are awake?” asked Miss Amelia. “I am,” said< Amanda. “I feel aa if the idea of losing our home had been a bad dream. But, dear me! we ought to have trusted in Providence. Pa was a righteous man and ma a Christian woman, and some one jn the Bible says: *1 was young, and now I’m old, but never have I seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.* I know Pm not quoting just right, but ! it’s close to it. I had no idea Great- , uncle Peter, whom we never saw in our lives, would leave us anything.” “Nor I,” said Amelia. “And how strange; it’s just about enough to pay off the mortgage and our journey to New York, and a little more. Well, we might buy us bonnets while we are down.” She picked up the letter and read it again, and they went on talking till late in the afternoon, and that day no mqrc ironing was done by the Misses Perry. Gossips in general, and Mrs. Becker’s mother in particular, wondered greatly what could take Miss Amelia away,and why they did not enlighten their neighbors as to the why und wherefore of their departure. When at last they returned, each bearing a bandliox and several parcels,? as well as their traveling-bags, themys-^ tery deepened'. They were evidently in high spirits, nndmodded and smiled on all they met. Miss Amelia took the keys out of her pocket and opened the door, and both entered. Everybody saw that, but they saw no more. When the sisters had taken off their traveling wraps, locked up a lnrge package of bank notes, and tried on their new bonnets, Amanda said: “I suppose the folks think vve are going to disappoint them about those dishes for the fair, and we’d better get them down and wash them. It’s Saturday, and we’ll hc.ve hard work to got them done by night. The fair opens Monday noon, and of course we are not going to break the Sabbath.” Then, arrays in their wrappers, Amanda and Amelia explored cupboards and pantries, went up into the attic and down into the cellar, and finally, having piled plates and bowls, cup« saucers and pitchers on tables, chairs and window sills, until the little kitchen looked like a china shop, they began to wash and polisn them. “My, how •'lose it is here!” said Miss Amanda,' suddenly. “Do raise a window,- Mely.” Amelia obeyed, and turned to her sister, laughing. “Here’s the plaid cloak coming,” she said. , “Glad to know it for once,” said Amanda. “Yes, I never thought I should be giad to see the McMurtry plaid at the door,-” said Amelia. “I'll go and get the money.” She ran upstairs, and came down to find Mrs. McMurtry sitting on a chair in the kitchen. “Yes,” the latter was saying, “I heard vou’d come home, and I thought I’d cal’ and havea litfle talk about our troubles. I shall hate to do what I’ve got to do ” “Yes. I’m really sorry for you,” said Amelia, beginning to wipe a dish. Mrs. McMurtry looked surprised. “1 supiH>se you feel it is serious, and have done your best,” she said. t “I don’t seem to mind much,” said Amelia, laughing. “I don’t look wor- i ried. do 1?”

“Now, Melt, don’t tease,” said Amanda. And Amelia threw hergTee.t towel over her arm and dipped her hand into her pocket and drew out a great roll of banknotes. “You see we’ve no reason to fret; and we can pay you to-day. We’ve had a legacy, and it just covers what we owe jou." She laughed. “Well, I’m as glad as you are,” said Mrs. McMurtry, as Amelia counted out the money and laid it on the table at her elbow. “And I’ll run to Lawyer Smith’s and get the papers and receipts. Take care. Miss Amelia, take care, you’ve dropped four notes on the door—you’re real nervous. Aren’t you? So am 1. You see, we are all so pleased. I should have bated to do what I’d have to do ” With this she turned to the door.Reading back that she would be ba&t^a: once with the receipt. The two young women went on washing the (fishes and packing them1 in boskets, laughing as they worked, until they saw the plaid cloak coming •gain. “Just caught my lawyer,” she said, sinking breathlessly into a chair. ‘ Here’s your receipt. Miss Amelia, and now I’ll take my money, and thank you, too.” “Your money!” said Amanda. “Why surely you took it, Mrs. McMurtry".' “I laid it on the table a t your elbow,” said Amelia. “Why. 1 wouldn’t have carried It off' before I gave you the phpers,” Mrs. McMurtry cried. She plunged her hand into her dress pocket, she felt in the bosom of her dress, she took off her cloak and shook it. Meanwhile Amelia

searched herself and Amanda looked ail over the room. “What can you have done with it?” Mrs., McMurtry asked at last. “I’ve done nothing,” Amelia retorted. “Mrs. McMurtry, you have lost the money on the road or left it at the lawyer’s. I'm sure you took it.” “Did you see me take it?" asked the old lady. “Can either of you swear to that?” “I laid it at your elbow,” said Amelin. “Well, let’s look again,” said Mrs. McMurtry. “We were all real nervous ” And now they searched the house, went over all the china, lifted tea-pot lids, emptied baskets, turned creamjugs upside down—Amelia, in her grief and wrath, continually declaring that she had paid the money and that Mrs. McMurtry was to blame for its loss. At last night fell, and the p!aid cloak , vanished at the door, the wearer utter* ing the words: j “I hope you’ll find your money, young ladies. I should hate to do what Fll [have to do if you don’t,” as a parting [ benediction. “I’m sure she carried it oil with her, [ and I believe she knows she did,” said

Amelia. “Oh, don’t say that, Mely," Raid Amanda. “She’s so rich, too. It wouldn’t i be a temptation.” Then they packed the china for the fair, hoping to find the bills in every mug and pitcher and teapot, but hoping in vain. * , The news of the loss spread rapidly. Miss Amelia posted notioes offering a reward to the “honest finder of a roll | of 50-dollar bills,” probably lost between her home and Lawyer Smith’s office, “by a lady in a plaid cloak.” Mrs. MeMurtry resented this. Public opinion was divided. Some said the bills must, in all the washing of ! china, ha.e gotten into the dishwater or the fire; others, that Mrs. MeMurfry had lost them; others still, on whose property she held mortgages, or who had been “sold oat” by her, made the same remarks about the plaid cloak and the miser’s heart that Amelia Perry had made. Finally the courthouse was packed one day to listen to the ! case of Amelia Perry against Jean MeMurtry—the former declaring that she hail paid the latter the sum ox $2,500; the latter declaring that though the I money was laid upon the table, close to her elbow, she had never touched it. r “I might have taken it up again and forgotten.” she said; “but never since 1 was born did I carry money loose in my hand. When I was a child 1 put my penny in my pocket when l went to buy candy.” While Miss Amelia swore that she laid the money at Mrs. McMurtry’s elbow, she could not avow that she saw her pick it up; and Amanda had not seen her do it either. Every one sympathized with the Perrys, but neither of them could swear that she touched the money. Laying it on the table near her was not giving it to her; and shortly it was de- ; cided that Mrs. MeMurtry had the right to foreclose the mortgage, which was I overdue. While Miss Amanda, who waa very I pale, pinned a blue veil aboi t the bon- I ; net of Miss Amelia, who was drow'nei in tears, Mr.s hmith turned his atten- j tiori to his client, who had found her ; plaid cloak too much for her and had ! removed it. The garment had fallen to the floor. It was an intricate thing, with sleevqs, capes and straps and I know not what, and somehow, in pickI ing it .up, Mr. Smith reversed it and j I laid it over her shoulders upside-down, j bhe, unaware of what bad happened,; t hook it wildly, hoping to settle it, and I suddenly a small boy, who had some- ! how smuggled himself in, -nirieked: | “Get on to the money!” Those nearest, stared A $50 bill was i lying at Mrs. McMurty’s feet. In a mo- : ment more a hollow squa*\* of court j officials had formet. about that lady j and her lawyer, who was on his knees i picking up a vast quantity of bank j notes, all new and crisp and green, i that fell mysteriously as a shower of manna upon the eourtro >m floor. “Two thousand live hundred dollars,” he counted at ],ast. While Mrs. MeMurtry tore off her cloak and flung if from her as though i its touch were deadly, shrieKing: " “There’s a rip in the silk facing, and it made: a pricket of itself, and me a j thief! I did pick up the money with- j out thinking, and 1 put it in there. I j wouldn’t have done it on purpose for | a kingdom. I*ut who’ll believe me? | Nobody.” “I believe you, Mrs. McMurty,” cried Mias ‘Amanda, who, perched on a bench, looked down upon '.he scene; “and I guess sister Amelia does, too.” “Yes,” said Amelia, faintly. “Yes,

it s that np Ui the cioaK lacing tnai a to blame tor all." Meanwhile burnt* of laughter came from the 'midst of the group as Mr. Smith shook out of the plaid cloak, upon the door, a host of hairpins, cards, letters, a ginger-snap, a photograph, all sorts of small, flat triflea, the accumulation, probably, of several tears which Mrs. McMurfry had put into the rip m the facing instead of her pocket. And Anally the courtroom was cleared of a laughing crowd, who waited to see the p*aid cloak nuke its upptarance. It waited in vain. Lawyer Smith smuggled his client home through 'a back door, and the Misses Ferry occupied the vacant seats in the queer little w agon.. It was Miss Amanda who told everyone, next day, -hat Mrs. McMurtry had forgiven them the mortgage and refused to tofleh the recovered money. ‘She say r she owes it to herself to do it," said Amanda, “and I guess she is right, though sister Amelia felt proud about it.” As for the plaid cloak, everybody had seen the gardener burn that to tinder before the McMurtry house, and whea its former owner once more appeared in public, she wore a new* outer garment of piam dark-brr.wrn, and ceased forever to be “The Plaid Lady.*'—X. Y Ledger.

PROSPERITY IN FALL RIVER.

Dividend* ia the Cottom Iadnstry the Larr* Mt ter Mmay Ymik—Low Tariff Brooght Btggw Profits. The New York Tribune published on December 30 the annuel statement of dividends paid iin 1895 bj the cotton mills of Fall River, Mass., the center of the cotton industry in the eastern states. The report shows that the average dividend paid by the various mills was 8.09 per cent., a larger amount than was paid for many years past. In 1893, the year of which the McKinleyites alurays boast as the most prosperous period under a high tariff, the average was 7.36 per cent., but this has been considerably exceeded in 1895. In addition to the unusually high dividends paid large sums have been put by as reserves, or surplus capital, so that in reality the record for last year's business is even greater than the above figures would show. The Bourne mill s, for instance, paid a profit sharing dividend to its employes of seven per cent, in addition to a stockholders’ dividend of 13 per cent., a total profit for the year of 30 per cent. Other mills were only a degree less prosperous, a number of them making extensive additions and re* pairs out of last year’s earning after paying above the average dividend on their stock. It is further reported that four new mills will be erected this year, which will give employ ment to several thousand operatives. The republican readers of Che Tribune, who have been accepting* as gospel that paper's statements that under the Wilson tariff the country was being ruined, industry going to the dogs and business standing still, must have rubbed their eyes on reading this official record of the most successful year in the history of the American cotton industry. Had they not seen daily in editorials and cooked news articles that the country was still in the slough of despondency into which it had been plunged by four years of McKinleyism? Was not the Tribune nsis ting that congress should promptly restore the high tariff law repealed in 1S94 by the democrats, as the only means of starting up our closed mills and factories? Did not that paper solemnly assert that ‘‘free trade” had brought low prices, .Idleness and stagnation? How then could it be possible that one of of our great industries should have been so prosperous, its dividends so largev^ts output so great, its employes’ wages so high? The answer is simple. “The little boy lied.” The orgdn of protected trusts had deliberately suppressed the news of busy mills^ wage advances, new factories started, and general prosperity, which had been recorded by the democratic and independent papers during 1895. Not only that, but it had asserted the reverse of the truth, and by ialse representations had led its readers to believe that the condition of the country was worse than when the McKinley law was in force. Each business failure, no matter what the cause, was ascribed to the Wilson tariff, and magnified beyond its importance. The smallest sign of calamity or depression was eagerly welcomed, and commented on in partisan editorials. But when authoritative statements are issued from the center of a great industrjr showing an exampled condition of prosperity, the Tribune merely records the facts. But that is enough. With better business than ever before, no argument is needed to convince the Fall River manufacturers and workers that they have been helped, not ruined, by the Wilson tariff. The mere statement of these facts condemns the calamity vrailers, and proves their blu'star about the injury of lower taxes, to bp mere buncome and falsehoods. B. W. H. TO WORK FOR HIGHER DUTIES, Protecttoolst Manufacturer* Combine to Restore McKinley Taxes. The National Association of Manufacturers, an organization of protectionists who are engaged in manufacturing industries, held its second annual convention in Chicago recently. The meeting was noticeable for the frankness with which the various speakers declared theiy intention to agitate for higher duties; and for the evident purpose of the association to combine all the protected interests so as to use their influence in favor of more protection. Practically, no other question was considered but that of securing legislation by congress which would increase the profits of manufacturers, and, as the members of the association are aU McKinleyites, their convention was simply a republican side shfrw, which bad no other purpose than perfecting plans for raising corruption funds.

On the question as to the methods of advancing- the interests of the men who want protection, there waa no pretence of concealment It was openly advisee th at the association “should at once undertake to obtain as speedily as pos.'. ble such changes in the tariff as wil!l permit all domestic manufactures to earn reasonable profits for themsel ves;*’ reasonable profits being whatever amounts additional tariff taxes would enable the protected manufacturer to wring from the consumers. | And tli a result of the convention was that arrangements were made for raising a fund, rumored to be $200,000 to be Use! for political purposes during the coming campaign. In view of this action of representatives of the interests which bought and paid for the favors of the McKinley bill, there can be' no doubt but that the oniii great issue in the presidential contest! will be the restoration of high protection. It is evident that the countr y is to be plunged at once into j an agitation for increased duties, and that a il the power whid!fc‘ the great protected trusts and mc2opoliesJfean i exert ' ill be brought to bear on behalf i of the republican’candidates. Nor is | it to i>e merely an educational cam- | paign. Wealthy manufacturers do notj son tribute large sums merely to pay j for high tariff literature and orators, j They may spend a little os. those things ! as a blind, but the men who are fur- | nishing the fat for political purposes know that the great hoik of their •

money will go into the corruption funds for use in doubtful states. And it is for that purpose that the National Manufacturers’ association is now pro* paring to put up its share of the public plunder which came through protection, and will be repaid a thousand fold if the McKinley law is restored. Against this threat of the organized forces of high tariff robbery the democrats must be prepared to fight. They cannot meet corruption with money, bnt they can show the masses that such movements as this of the Manufacturers’ association are not in the interests of the people. All the facts and logic are on the side of the democratic policy, and no amount of protectionist “education’’ can make sensible voters believe that the McKinley doctrine, which was condemned in 1892, is any better now. If the friends of tariff reform will but do their whole duty all the corruption funds will be powerless to defeat the candidate who stands for low taxes, high wages and good times. A Low Tariff Working max.

ANOTHER ABSURDITY. Why Should Hop Grower* Need » Tariff oa Their Products? There were exported to England from San Francisco on one ship re* centlv 50,000 pounds of hops. In a dispatch from that city this is called “a novel shipment,” and it is explained that more hops are grown in California than can be used there. But for some years past considerable quantities of hops have been exported from San Francisco. » ' •, - The exports of hops from, the Pacific coast are, however, but a small part of the quantity exported from the entire country. There were shipped abroad 17,472,975 pounds in 1894 and 17,523,388 pounds in 1395. About nearly all of this great quantity was shipped from the port of New York, and nine-tenths of the cargoes wers sold in England. Almost one-half of the American crop of hops has been exported and sold abroad for some years past, the greater part of the sales having been made in England, in opeu competition with the hops of Germany and the other hop growing countries of the world. Still, there is a demand here, stimu? lated by republican demagogues, for a higher tariff duty on European hops. Many farmers in the east and on the Pacific coast, who appear to know nothing about this great export trade and the meaning of it, have been induced by republican and high tariff organizations to call for a higher duty i and to complain about the duty now j in force. The treasury reports show, however, that while the McKinley duty was equivalent to 26.13 per cent, j in 1894, the present duty was equal to ! 41.25 per cent last year. But why should there be any talk about a duty on imported hops in a country where a great crop is grown and from which nearly one-half of the crop is exported to Europe and sold there? If the hop growers of the United States can sell 17,000,000 pounds in Europe, meeting foreign hop growers there on even terms, without any protection whatever, it is nonsense to pretend that they cannot more easily undersell these foreign hop growers here at home, either with or without the tariff protection of the present law.—N. Y. Times. . , NO BEER TAX Help the Rleh Brewer* but Tux the Poor In the brief debate which was permitted before the republican tariff bill was rushed through the house of representatives, Mr. Turner, of Georgia, scored a knock-down when he ask$ct the advocates of the measure why if they wauted to increase the revenue, they did not simply increase the tax on beer one dollar a barrel instead of in- ; creasing the tax on several thousand articles of necessity. There was no reply to this, for there could be none, i An additional tax of one dollar a batrel on beer would raise fully §30.000,• j 000 and there could be no tax easier to bear. Instead of raising $30,000,000 on I beer the republican party ^eposes to levy a tax on wool and to increase the cost of clothing and qther necessaries of life. What makes Mr. Turner* point all the stronger is the faet that the brewers doing business in Chicago, not only those located in the city bat likewise all having agencies located there, * have combined to. raise the price of beerone dollar a barrel. The shrewd-; brewers have concluded to appropriate the money which could have been raised by internal revenue tax that ; would have been felt by nobody. When it comes to an additional tax on beer or on wool there is no doubt which the people of the United States j will prefer. Mr. Turner exposed the outrageousness of the republican tarifl bill in a way which did not fail to impress the country.—Atlanta Journal

Han Nat Forgotten. What reason is there for supposing that the country wants more protec* tion? The defeat of democratic con* gressmen in 1894 was mainly a con* demnation of their party for not carry out more quickly and completely the platform on which they were elected. Hare the republicans forgotten the sole reason why they were swept put of congress in 1890, and atrain overwhelmingly defeated in 1892? Was it not because they bad enacted that tariff of Abominations, the McKinley law? There was no other national issue but that between free trade and lowef taxes, and trade prohibition and bigip taxation. The popular verdict was everywhere’ in favor of tariff reform. If the protectionists have forgotten these things, the people hare not.—Exchange. * j Tariff* Decrease Trade* Arguing in favor of the enactment' into law of the Dingley tariff bill the New York Tribune says: '“With a tariff passed which would add a large percentage to duties on nearly all ire- ;j ported - goods and especially wool, j woolens and lumber, better prices and lareer transactions would be enconrWed.” By “better prices” the Tribuaw means higher prices, for in the sa«oe editorial it complains that DricUs of goods are ao» low.

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