Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 April 1896 — Page 7

POSITION OF MR. CARLISLE. fete npt niBf Said Mid li tkt Bifkt Flam. The attitude taken by Sir. Carlisle la his letter to a friend concerning his forcible nomination for the presidency to worthy of the man. The secretary of the treasury is charged with some of the most important dulies resting upon this administration. He could not, without neglecting these, enter into a rough and tumble struggle for the presidential nomination. In this respect, he seta a worthy example to Ihose senators and • representatives whose custom it has been to absent themselves front Washington for weeks while congress is in session in order to secure their own renomination. In the next place, Mr. Carlisle is lightly concerned far more about the declaration of principles of the democratic party than .about its candidate. A mistake in selecting a leader may be rectified. Its consequences are but temporary. But a mistake in a party platform reaches far into the future, and remains an embarrassment and a source of weakness to that party until a generation arises that has had time to forget the blunder. - In the present instance, a false step would be more than unfortunate; it would be fatal;' The failure of the democratic party to declare for sound money and against silver monometallism in its national convention this year would mean, must mean, party disintegration and the absorption of democracy by populism. It is the existence and not merely the success or defeat of the democratic party that is at stake. Therefore. Mr. Carlisle acts the patriot and the loyal democrat when he sets this issue in , the forefront and 'subordinates to it any personal ambition that he may entertain.

PULL OF SIGNIFICANCE. TI&om ¥)to An ItTMton fat Beptblicts Fotltlc*. “Twenty Bessemer steel companies, representing $400,000,000 o< capital and producing half the world’s output, formed an organisation yesterday at tiwe Hotel Waldorf. “The price of steel billets was placed at $20 a ton. Last week they sold at $317 and $18.”—X. V. Press. The above is quoted from the news columns of one of the most rabid and insistent newspaper champions of protection. It carries its own argument. These gentlemen met at the finest hotel in the jvorld. and decided to increase the cost of steel to the builders of all structures in which these billets are used by 17Vi per cent. No one who observes building operations in the large cities can fail to understand how burdensome this will be: upon contractors and builders. There will be a crowding of expenses in other directions, and! the workingmen will not reap any advantage. Upon all grades of men, from the housesmith to the tenant who occupies the completed building, the representatives of $400,OCO.OOO of capital have made a levy of 17Vi per cent. This is of special importance just now because of the political relations of these gentlemen. The present tariff on the products they control is 3$ per cent. This tariff enables them to combine and raise the price three dollars a Ion higher than the competitive level. ! But not satisfied with this enormous advantage, they are investing their I noney in a presidential campaign, in I t he hope of securing a still greater advantage* over the consumers of the j eoods they make. The trusts and proi tected manufacturers are not investing I their money in a republican candidate

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} t ' 1 \'i — Little Era McKinley to Uncle Tom Hanna of Ohio—“Tell me. Uncle Tom, is it nice in the white house?”—Chicago Record.

First of oil, let the fight be made for sound-money principle1*, and candidates will not be lucking. There is not a word in Mr. Carlisle's letter, of course, from beginning: to end. which can be construed as a definite refusal to accept a nomination j under any circumstances, It is not believed that he would. All that he has said is that he does not w ish to obscure issues or divide forces in fais j party until its attitude dn the currency question shall haveybeen definitely determined; and th^a he does not pn>jH>se either to slighvthe duties oih is high office, or to use.n* his predecessor* have done, its great^patronage in order to force himself upon his party as its presidential candidate. In both of these positions Mr. Carlisle commends himself to his party and to the country as a high-minded, honorable, old-fashioned democrat, worthy to bear the name and to be the chosen leader .} of his party if it should so declare. He has said the right thing in the right place, and the whole counlry respects and admires him for it.—St. Paul Globe. ' ». The Tariff Out toek. llm McKinley threat to business should be reckoned with by those merchants and bankers who say that they will breathe more freely when congress adjourns. Congress will adjourn some happy day. but the McKinley canvass, the McKinley nomination and election. If they come, will mean destruction of all business stability up to the summer of 1S98 at least. No new tariff can be passed before that time, and meanwhile ! the shadow oast before h,the intriguing and pulling and battling to fix rates in it,.and the uncertainty which wrill attend both its terms and its working: will leave business gasping and stcuggling for two years more. Add to this j the practical certainty that if any tariff at alt is passed it will ha vejto be by concessions to the silver republicans, and hence by a further unsettling of file I currency as well as customs duties, and the prospect for business men will api pear to be little short of w hat I>r. Johnson called “inspissated gloom."—X. Y. .Fast. —Mr. Carlisle is more interested in the platform which the democratic party should adopt than he is in the nomination it shall make, and he would > hot think of accepting the nomination unless the platform should be satiiCnetorr. By the way, has anybody betid of a single republican candidate who is making any conditions on the •abject of platform" T — Louisville CtwHti Journal

: without substantial hope and expectation of reward. The New York Times | say a: “It is a bad state of things, but sio long 1 as the success of the republican party is aupi>ose<! bv a large body of business men to be needed for the safety and progress ol | their business, we do not doubt that they will invest money in promoting it. Sooner ; or later they will see their mistake, as 1 many of the shrewdest and most far1 sighted of their class have already aeengt. i But until that conviction spreads much j further than It has yet spread, money will j be used, and used freely, at every step in | republican politic^” j The complete ownership of a party i by large combinations of capital should i be a sure handicap to success. We believe i,t will be.—I'tica Observer. PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS. —Under the -Wilson bill the shoddy mills are closed, while the woolen mills work overtime. — Illinois State Register. -At any rate, the McKinley crowd have not claimed Gov. Morton, though they have annexed—on paper—everything else in sight.—K. Y. Sun. -Got. Bradley** fall from the pinnacle of favorite son ism is undoubtedly the most humiliating of the entire batch.—Chicago Times-Herald. -There are people who incline tc the opinion that the St. Louis nomination would make a very appropriate wedding present.—Washington Post. -The protected manufacturers could afford to pay higher wages il they did not hav© to furnish so much “fat" for republican Cflmpsigns.—Chicago Chronicle. --In view of the exploits of Marl: j Manna among the protectees, a frying pan would not be an inappropriate device for a McKinley button. The legend might be: **1 fry. You mein.’*—St. Paul Globe. -Mark Hanna is said to have ordered a large number of cots forwarded to St. Louis for the republican conven* | tion. We are going to have a convention to decide the question, after all.—Iowa State Register (Rep.). -The president of the McKinley club of Hartford, Conn., was defeated for the mayoralty, but he was defeated by ar democrat. The popularity of McKinley ism is limited to the republican rank and file.—St. Louis Republic. - —McKinleyism has twice gone before the country for approval and both times the people detested the party advocating the socialistic doctrine. If it ia to ask for indorsement a third time, and the head and front of the policy is pat forth to champion it a united democracy upon a sound 'platform mm aaaim detest it.—Nashville .interim*.

THE FARMING WORLD. CONVENIENT HOG CHUTE A Derlrc That Will S»t« LoU of labor ob m Stock Farm. J get my stock into a close pen; then at the door 1 pull up my chute, take out end gate, back np the wagon, get a | good supply of switches, get in among the hogs or sheep, throw some corn in chute and wagon and drive the bed full. If I hare enough to fill it I put in end gate, drive to market, stay an hour or two and get home in time to see some fellow who drives his hogs along the road hauling water to cool the tired-out

HOG CHUTE. T v animals, and perhaps loses enough to buy 20 hog loaders. As to how wide to make the chute, mine is about two feet, with a plank on one side, so as to close the balance of end of wagon bed, to keep small pigs from getting out. The end at the wagon should be just as high as the bottom of the wagon bed. v The cut represents^ one of the most convenient and labor-saving implements I ever used. This is an invention of my own, and I never saw one just like it. One man or boy cim load: from little pigs up to 500 or 600-pound hogs and never lift a pound or dig a whe£Ipit or take off a hind wheel. I have used thisdeviee for years, and my neighbors come and borrow it. and all praise its merits. Any greenhorn in one or two hours can make one. For the upright posts I use scantling two by four inches, and for the sides scantling one by four inches. The cut shows it so plain it needs no detail. I took two si^-inch pulleys, put one on the outside of e$cu front post at the foot, simply passing a One-half-inch bolt through the foot of the post and pulley. I then take hold just like a wheelbarrow and move it where I please. For the incline floor T use one by ten scantling, placing top cue on first; then it forms a foothold.— E. J. Xewkirk. in Farm and Fireside.

NEW FORM OF ROUP. < If Not of Tory Virulent Nature the Disease Is Curable. A new disease has appeared among fowls. They have trouble in breathing, keep their mouths open the greater part of the time and are constantly swallowing. There seems to be a yellowish growth in the roofs of their mouths. This is a form of roup, which may have been formed by keeping the fowls in . unclean quarters or where cold night winds can blow upon ♦.hem, or in a close, damp house; or by the attacks of lice, or any one of a dozen different things. It is curable if not of a very virulent nature. The best plan is to separate the diseased fovvls from the others at once and place them in a coop by themselves where the remainder of the flock cannot get at them. Feed in a small trough, giving wheat, cracked corn, tabic scraps chopped fine,” tc which Chat-coal broken to the size of wheat kernels has been added, a heaping teaspoonful to a pint of food. Add 20 drops of kerosene to each pint of drinking water. Clean out the house and burn half a pound of sulphur in it with the doors closed. Then batten up all the chinks to stop drafts, and spread air-slacked Lime over the floor. Spray or swab the walls with kerosene. Remove the old perches and put in new ones. Feed the hens as above described, give an abundance of clean water, keep their quarters neat, dry and clean as your own house, and there will be no trouble. There is always something wrong in the management when the fowls have roup. Study it out and make the necessary changes. Always keep an eye on the fowls, and w hen one becomes sick, place it by itself.—American Agriculturist.

AMONG THE POULTRY. Eggs of a uniform age batch at a uniform time. For laying hens care and close quarters will beat neglect and a ten-acre run every time. The heavy sitters should have shallow nest boxes and rather fiat nests, otherwise there will be tnany broken eggs. Sunshine is good0 for weakly chicks; too much will kill the strongest, especially if it shine through a glass roof into a close box or coop. Early green food is desirable for fowls, but it need not consist of the first blades of grass in the door yard nor the early garden crops. Are your fences mended 1 If a hen deserts her nest, don't throw the eggs away. Put them in warm water for five minutes, dry them with a lag. wrap in woolen and set by the stove and hunt another broody hen. With care the eggs will wait for two or three days if not badly chilled.—Farm Journal Kedaeing the Cost mt Batter. ETery farmer in the United State* ought to aiake as large a profit to-da> on butter gt20 cents a pound as he could ten years ago on 30 cents. The lowe: price will immensely increase the consumption and aid to drive out fraudulent substitutes, and thus give the farmer an honest control of the market. There are plenty of ways at doing this thing—reducing the cost. All that Is needed is that the American farmer shall become a thinking man as well at a workingman. There in no hope ta him tn competing in the production of erode, rough prod ueta.—Hoard’s Dairr

| A BATCH OF BIG FISH STORIES. It is reported that the petrified re- | mains of a whale, SO feet in length, hare I been found in the hills north jof Lompoc, a dozen miles or so back from the sea, in Santa Barbara county, Cal. A 20-pound togue, the biggest fish ever j known to have been caught in Moosehead Lake, Me., was hooked by a guide a few days ago. It measured three feet four inches in length, and is thought to be the largest specimen of the trout family ever caught in Maine. An unusually large octopus, with eight arms, each measuring a little less than six feet in length, was killed at Alameda, Cal., a few days ago. 'The fish fastened its tentacles on a boat which a fisherman was rowing in the harbor. The man rowed his boat ashore, the fish still clinging to it> and killed the octopus with au oar. A devil-fish, measuring 15>4 feet from the tip of one of its eight arms ,to the “tip of another and ten feet fiyim the top of its head to the tip of its longest arm. was killed in the channel at Santa Barbara, Cal., by two boys a few days ago. It was the largest devil fish ever caught In those waters. PEN NAMES OF GREAT WRITERS. “Barry Cornwall” was the assumed name pf Ik W Proctor. Some of Barry's songs will probably live a& long as the English language is spoken. liobert Southey's pen name was “Espriella Alva rev.” It was used in his let- | tors from England. Most of his works were published over his own name. J. Fenimore Cooper began- to write ; under the pen name of “A Traveling i Bachelor.*’ His travels and social con- | dition probably inspired the selection. , Francis Mahoney was long known among his acquaintances as “Father j Prout,”r his best-known book having i been entitled, “Keliques of Father Front.** , John Buskin published his early writings under the pen name “Graduate of | Oxford.” the selection being obviously ■ influenced by his place of education.

SOME DOGS OF HIGH DEGREE. In England and Wales there are 155 j licensed packs of foxhounds, having | 6,239 couples. In Scotland there are nine packs with 326 couples, and in i Ireland 17 with 365 couples. MulhaH says that the largest-known I dog was a St. Bernard called “Plinlim- | mon.” exhibited at Birmingham in 1SS6. ! The height of this animal was 35 inches, and his weight 214 pounds. A trained bloodhound has been known to follow the track of a man on hoseback, and when the rider passed through bushes the animal jumped up and smelled at the leaves touched by the feet of the horseman. Thsbb Is pore Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put to- ! gether, and until the last few years wassup- ! posed to be incurable. For a great many 1 years doctors pronounced it a local disease, ! and prescribed local remedies, and by constantiy failing to cure with local' treatment, pronounced it incurable Sciencehas proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and ; therefore requires constitutional treatment. ! Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. I Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only ! constitutional cure on the market. It Is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a | teaspoonfaL It acts directly on the blood I and muCous surfaces of the svstem. They offer one hundred dollars for any cast' it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. Cbkxby & Co., Toledo, O. SoH bv Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. - Corroborated.—New Yorker—“ArePhiladelphians as slow as New Yorkers think they are!” Philadelphian (surprised>—uDo New Yorkers think we're slow!”—fryth. A Child Enjoys The pleasant flavor, gentle action, and sooth- : ing effect of Syrup of Figs. wh«*n in need of a laxative, anikir the father ,or mother be i costive or biiWus, the most ’gratifying reI suits follow its use; so that it is the best j family remedy known and every family should have a bottle. ■ m _ ‘■I xeve* destroy a receipted bill, do ■ you?'’ said Bunting to Giley. “I don't | think I ever saw one,*’ replied Giley.— Amusing Journal. Dh> you write The N. G. Hamilton Pub. i Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, about their Life of IfcKiniey! Better do so—chance to mako money rapidly.

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