Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 January 1897 — Page 5

OUR NEW YORK LETTER i An Old IdM With Money In It-The Greet Boree Show Bumtrag — Taxing Chappie* Who Look Horsy. [Special Correspondence.! It has often been said that any icau with a good idea and a little mone/cui come to New York and boild up a successful business in a very short time, w Many persons have also been found on the contrary side of this statement, it ia true, hut it seems to be correct nevertheless. A short time ago a millinery firm on Sixth avenue in this city closed ^its doors and either went out of business or removed to another part of town. ^The natural inference was that the stand was a poor one, at least for any enterprise dependent for success upon the patronage of women. One man, however, was shrewd enough to see that there might bare been other causes conspiring to the undoing of the merchant who had given up the place, and that it was one of the best locations in the city for a small, cheap business. Not a New Idea. He invested in a large s*ock of 5 and 10 cent goods and opened the place again. To say that he has been successful would be putting the case too mildly. His establishment has been literally overrun ever since its inception, and it Is no unusual thing for women to go there to make purchases and be obliged to return home without having accomplished the object of tboir trip down town. Everybody knows that the 5 and 10 cent counter idea was not a new one, and a few years ago these counters were the adjuncts of nearly every store in the country, so tbenj was nothing original About that phase of the scheme. Where Ke Woe Clever. , ">— What was smart, however, was the discovery of the fact that a great many •mall and low priced articles in the mammoth combination stores were slow sellers because the shoppers did not care to go to the trouble of digging them out, so to speak. From this the conclusion was natural that a store in which these articles were grouped conveniently aud in which nothing else should be sold would be likely to be well patronized. The merit of his idea was in his taking at the flocd the tide which Shakespeare says, under such circumstances, leads on to fortune. . Ideas of New Women. Woman was in the ascendancy at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century club in this city. She exceeded in numbers the representatives of the other sex, aud she alone occupied the platform, except when Mr. Taylor, the president, made a few introductory remarks. The subject of the discussion was, “is / Domestic Life Disappearing In Oar > *"* American Cities, and, if iro, Why?” Mii. Helen Campbell of tbe UDiversity of Wisconsin took up the questiou and told the many disadvantages under which women -labor in bememaking. j

oiif qan;eu'STaTi.'iH^ <toa niuiouucvu u;t* fact that a very small proportion of the women in America have any servant*-', and consoquefttly arc obliged tn do their own work, and manyi*f them have t ) earn this money too. This, she eaui, was j the reason why to muny gave op the effort and wandered into a boarding boose, “tim gnat difiintt-grater.” as she expressed it Another cause for the lessening of cli fashioned homes was the ,! craze for travel among people of means. **Thcro ere a gr**at many persons,” she said, “who spend their time going i about the w«*r!d and never seem to think in any place of anything except i how to get to e >me other place. ” Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood deplored the change in homo feeling. Mrs. Wood j also said the people cf New York were J too much airaid of the' expense of a itcnie. If they would not consider so many things necessities* they coaid all have homes of their own. ' “One-third of 0or .expeiias,” she' said, “are for things that we feci sure pec>pls*will expect os to have, and an- j other Third for wha* we want because our neighbors have them. ” And Mtk Wood uttered a truth j which evary thinking man or woman in New York is willing to admit. The Horse Show Humbug. What on awful lot of humbugs most of us are, to bo sure! Tako the recent, horse show in this city as an illustration. It was a horse show only to a . handful of people. To the vast multitude it was merely an opportunity to see the persons made famous by the society columns of our very ridiculous ‘•metropolitan” newspapers. To the members of the Four Hundred it was a sor t of dress parade, whore the populace was give® an opportunity to g«*e upon j the niagiiiScent apparel of those who assume to be the social superiors of er- j cry one else in this vast city. The horse show is always a great pecuniary sue- \ cess because of these conditions, and for no other rt-astm whatever. The swell set comes to be locked at, and multitudes come to do the looking. Relegated to 1 its proper sphere and devoted to its (ostensibly) legitimate purpose, the horse show would make a reputation in New York entertainments because of its monumental failure.

3Hor*y Youasr ChRppie#. The thing is, of dourae, hot without its humorous ft nturvs, the most coc* fpicaoo* of which are the efforts of the %ouug chappies, and even of the old ones, to be regarded as being awfully 4 horsy. The attempts, too, of those who are not provided with a superabundance of wealth to ape the doings of them harmless ninnies, who have more money ^ than brains or physique, form ji semipatbetio background which gives atmosphere to the picture. So that, taken all 1 in all, no one who paid his money to jgo < to the bone show can justly complain of not having received a quid pro qua and rear apparently healthy children upon an income which, even when the wife works, ia rarely above 60 cents a peek, and sometimes it falls below that Joseph RrascLL. Small Incomes. Will inn* of men in India live, marry

YOUTHS1 DEPARTMENT. Bow Docs Go to Sleep—A Funny Com-poottion-The Game of Telegram*. Two Children In Disgrace. What does a dog generally do when it goes to its bed. be it indoors or out? Perhaps you say, “Go to sleep. ’* Well, he Bleeps, of coarse, sooner or later, but! most dogs are rather fussy, as it seems i to us, before they settle down and lie j stilt True, we are a little like them, j because, when we put our heads upon the pillow at night, we often move about till wo feel comfortable and turn from side to side. Especially do children and grown up folk do this who have long hair, for they cannot rest till It lies smoothly. But a dog has a peculiar and funny way of turning round before he goes to sleep. Some people say he usually turns three times. IlMre noticed dogs make several more than that number. We cotild understand this certainly, supposing it was the habit of rough, hairy dogs only, but smooth skinned dogs have just the same way of twisting about. A boy who had seen how they did this said that he thought they were trying to find the head of the bed. It seems more likely that the d ss move till they make a place where their heads can lie comfortably. |h One of our great naturalists has studied this habit of our tame dogs, and he thinks they do it because the wild dogs who were their ancestors had to turn when they laid down among the long grass of the prairies, so as to make a space, or they would not have had enough air. Here is another carious thing which has been noticed: You know the sun every day seems to move from the cast to the west, but a dog, when be terns round in his bed, moves, as much as b© can, just the other way, from west toward east. And if you leek at some of the climbing plants in ary garden where you may be walking you might see ‘hat each kind has its own way of twisting or twining; some go with the sun and some do not. We can easily notice the difference if we look at a bop piant and a convolvulus, but the cause of it, iu either animals or plants, we cannot tolL As to this habit of turning round before sleeping, however, it is not with dogs only that it is usual, fox the same thing is dt ue by many cats, though they aro not qaito so fidgety, und just go round once or twice, then quickly rod themselves into a bull. But a noise which would wake up a dog and keep him on the watch for a long time has no effect upon a cat. The two auima's are different iu nature. One thing more I may add, by way cf advice: If you come any where upon a dog that is sleeping, don’t touch it. Very often dogs at first waking ;uro incliced to snap. Hence the truth of an old proverb, “Let sleeping dega lie. ’’

^Naming Kails. Any boy who has been about a harper:! ?r Fhtrp or has handled u saw a%d hammer b :m- *Jf knows all abont the diferent kinds of nails—fourpeuuy, eightpenny, tenpeury and so ou—'.and perhaps he has sometimes wondered why the difTor?i;; sizes aro known as “pennies. ” The reason, ns St. Nicholas gives it, is this; Originally an cightpenny nail, for example, w**s called »n “eipht pound” I’aii, U <~a1,00^) nails of 'that particular siz-3 weighed eight pocuus. Carpenters were not partiehiur about pro- i Bouncing tbf> name* very clearly, and in j a short time an eight pound nail was known as an “eight jjuu” nail. From ! that it became changed to “ei-ht pen, ” | and then somebody, thinking “pen” ' was a oontrccticn for “penny,” changed J it to “eif h- 'cnny,’’ and that’s the way ! it has m.ifu icd to this day. It is some- 1 what curio*'* that a pound should have ; work'd its way down to a penny and • that when we say penny we really mean pound. A Funny Corr-pcrition. Here is a fuutiy composition which a j boy wrote about Thanksgiving and | which the New York Times considered j wort h reporting; “Thanksgiving .was brought over; from England Ly too Paritan fathers in too year 1T2CL It h:is tuid her ever since. On Thanksgiving everybodc^gir**. | to church in the morning, so as uTbavt everything oni of the way before din- - uer. Then ’yea o» me home and bang ar. and a little while and get awful hungry smelling the turkey. After dinner Thanksgiving is over. “ The Game cf Telegrams. ‘ Tb*» game of telegrams may be played by asking each otic cf year gues ts 1 in tarn to suggest the initial letters ; that shall compose the words of the ] message. A writer in The Ladies’ Home Journal gives as an example one made use of at a party the other evening. The letters famished were C. T. M. M. W. B. 1L t P. T. & T. D., and the mr-. sage case person made from them wrs: “Cotae. Thrnk^viug morning. Moth r will be here. Come prepared to stay to dinner. ’*

i Two Children In Disgrace. , Tb<re were two children—Jim ami Sue— Who much desired the world to riew. Bat, oh. tb-y fell in groat tlmcrare , And thought the world a horrid piece. For no one onr them start away, jka it was mother's washing day. /They c'lid not know which way to go, ' Ami «(£?n their Joy wee turned to woe. The world wee gnat, the world wee wide, | And Jimmy set him down aiul oried. Bat it ores er«a woSk? for bins Who lit the mad bed lost one «ho» And mother, standing at the rate, Wes w uadi-ring what had made them la taw When two email creatures she sspiid Who walked and limped and sadly cried. She straightway led them to the tab And* k-fVtbem there to wash end scmh. Though Jimmy howled. *‘l went my tea." '! Boe saad. "We first quite clean most be.” I Whan they Wrere both quite ctean and nsad, : I They net then down, their ten to sat. i Beal Jim. **»'H stow at hone with yon, Jpsar mother." "So will I.” said Sue

THE SPORTING WORLD. Cycling on public streets and roads: in Saxony is subject to minute and carefully enforced police regulations, which i in many places prohibit altogether the j use of brakeless machines. The roads, with but few exceptions, axe perfect, and wheeling is smooth and easy, but on account of rainy weather, which prevails most of the year, wheel guards for wet days are indispensable. Every machine must, in th$ first place, have an open plate or shield affixed to the brake rod or handle bar and be provided with a spring lid, on which is engraved in clear lettering the name, profession or rank and residence of the rider. In lieu of this the rider’s card and address attached to the handle bar Would comply with the law and would ! temporarily answer every requirement. The alarm bell is, of course, demand- \ ed everywhere. The law requires that the lamp be rather highly placed on the wheel and be kept lighted from within j half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise; furthermore, that the light must shine through uncolored glass. Each bicycle must be provided with an easily managed brake, operating quickly and powerfully. Cycling on roads exclusively intended for pedestrians or on the elevated footbaths and highways is strictly prohibited. Two bicyclers may ride side by side when it can be done without blocking the thoroughfare or annoying othtr riders or vehicles, otherwisejssingle file is .he rule. More than two machines abreast are not permitted under any circumstances. When meeting other bicycles or overtaking them, or when approaching passages of the road where it is not possible j to see a long distance, or when reaching a steep descent, the cycler is obliged to give frequent signals with his bell as a ; matter of strict precaution in avoiding collisions. Moderate speed must be j maintained at all times, Scorching is forbidden on all highways. At very steep down grades the cycler must dismount and guide his wheel until the descent is parsed before remounting.— New York Herald. European Baseball Trips. Tom Brown, the center fielder of the Washington?, does not believo in European baseball trips. “I believe,” said he recently, “that the now abandoned European trip cf the Baltimore players would have proved a physical handicap to them j when they played the next champion-j ship season. 1 was abroad with the ; Spalding baseball tourists in 1888 and j 1889. We combined ball playing with j pleasure, and I tell you the combination doesn’t mix. Ball players must lead the steady, systematic life of an athle.e I when they are playing ball. On that • globe tTotting tour of 1888 and 1889 the < boys lived pretty high, but were obliged ! to get out and play ball. It was pret y | tough for some of us. Wo didn’t feel j like playing ball, but were obliged to j don a uniform and scamper around the [ field when wo should have been resting > ourselves after a ifovviing good time j with the boys. It was an awful strain, j and when we lauded in New York early in the spring the majority of us felt j stale, all gone, exhausted, .and I then began to r* gret that I had taken the trip. After six months ot' active we 'c on the diamond a player needs rest for the other six months. ’ ’—Exchange.

Bis Chess Match In America. AH of the big chess players who participated iu the recent tournaments in Nuremberg and Budapest have promised j to coxae to the United States to take part iu a tournament. It only remains to raise the necessary priz ss. All desire : that there should bo a doable round, playing portions of the match iu different cities. England in the forthcomiug match j will be-represented by nearly the same team as she was before. Mr. Pillsbury j will play for the United States. Ke says that ii Showalt^r challenges him he will accent, bat that it would not he wise for him to challenge hhowolter. Unlucky British Boxers. This has certainly been a very unfortunate year for the English sporting men, who always bad the opinion that j the only champion boxers in the world > were in England. The sporting men of j Ibis country, however, were just as : proud of our American boxers as the ! Englishmen were of theirs, and at the j present time it can be easily discovered where the genuine champion b >xers are located. Everyone of the-British boxera, with two exceptions—Billy Pliinmer and Pedlar Palmer—has been de- : feated by American boxers, and the sports over there are nearly heartbroken. —New York World. !

Anson’s Colts on the Gridiron. * i Jimmy Ryan, who has been playing in the our field vvich the Chicago baseball team for ov* r 11 years, says that Anson's Colts would make a good football < team, and that the old man should teach them the game. Ryan’s make up of the team is as follows: Anson, center; Everett and Lange, guards ; Decker and Thornton, tackles; Terry and Donobne, ends; Griffi h, qnarter back; Kittridge j and Pfeffer, half backs; Dahlen, full 1 back; McCormick, Friend and Briggs substitutes Ryan is only willing to be the referee.—Exchange. Sporting Notes. The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania division L. A. W. wiJ be held on . Dec. 14. Edmund Heard, who plays left end on the Harvard freshmen football team, has been elected captain The champion “bag” far stag shoot- ; ing in Scotland this year fell to Lord Tweedmouth, who scored 15? head. George J. Roll of Blue bland, Ills.. I won the DuPont live bird trophy at Baltimore recently by killing 48 oat at 50 • birds. Columbia college has extended an in- 1 ▼itation to Tale, Harvard and Pennsylvania to meet in a gun and golf competition. ... ’i

MEXICO PROSPEROUS. What Silver Monometallism Has Done For That Enterprising Nation. Mexico is still enjoying the prosperity which began in that country some years ago, says the St Louis Post-Dispatch. The annual budget for the fiscal year beginning July next indicates that the revenues of the government will exceed the expenditures, an experience new to Mexioo until within recent years. The surplus for the current fiscal year is over $6,000,000. The dispatch from the City of Mexico announcing these figures says that “Bankers regard the outlook as one justifying very bright anticipation.** The commercial ant? financial progress of Mexico' under a single silver standard has confounded the advocates of gold monometallism and has even disappointed, in its extent and long continuance, bimetallists who believe in the maintenance of parity between the two money metals as the basis of all permanent values in trade What will be to many even more surprising in the Mexican intelligence is that an English syndicate has bought the entire street railway system of the Cify of Mexico and is extending the lines at a large outlay of capital. It will be something of a revelation to those* who were led ir. the late campaign to believe .hat foreign capital would be withdrawn fropi this country if bimetallism were attempted to find such capital seeking investment in a single silver standard country. Bnt Englishmen have for several years been investing money in Mexican lands, mines and railroads. Doubtless they would prefer to draw their Mexican dividends iu gold, but the opportunities for large profits in that country are so great uuder free silver coinage that they are eager % take the very small risks of international exchange. UNITE FOR FINAL EFFORT.

The Silver Forces In tlie I'nitcd State* Should Prepare For 1900. The Buffalo Evening Times, which did good service in the late campaign for the Democratic cause, editorially remarks as follows: It behooves the Democratic party to prypars for a conflict which will be rnnrkod. as whs the battle of 1S96. l>y the ose of unlitaitod sums of money distributed by trusts, corporations and syndicates ou one side and the exertions of self sacrificing men appealing to reason and patriotism cn the <|ther. Agitation and education must work in harmony with the party organisation. We wilineod all our strength, let it not be wasted. The campaign for 1900 cannot be commenced too early. We all feel, no matter which way we voted, that the result of the p^fidential election of last November was unsatisfactory and indefinite, The popular majority of McKinley was but a trifle of the aggregate vote, while of the 45 states only the electoral votes of 22 were given in their entirety for the successful candidate. The election, in fact, determined nothing, except that the wholesale output of money and influence bp the combined banks, trusts and syndic;.tes temporarily deluded and induced enough voters to give McKinley a snffiomit majority. The issues of the Chicago platform of 1S9G are yet on trial and uncondemned before the American people. When, with a fair contest aud a full hearing and a mature deliberation, they Shall be rejected,, wo may despair of the republic.—New York News. MAKE IT PUBLIC. Che People Should Kcow Dow Money Is Spent by National 1* renuttc**. It is probably impractical to regulato national committees, but there is n'o better regulator in the loug run than publicity. The country ought to know how much xaoney is spent by the national committees, who contributed the fupd and how it is spent. It would throw a great deal of light on subsequent legislation and the’ relations of special interests to the federal government and to party administrations. If national committees knew that their expenditures would be mudo public, the country would be relieved only of assaults on the purity of the ballot box by committees, but of many scandals now connected with national elections. If had expected to have to tell where he got it and what be did with it, the election might have been different.—St Louis Republic. NEEDS INVESTIGATING. Light Should Be Shed on the r» of Money In tue Xstlcoal Election. The unanimous burst of silence with which the Hanna organs have received Senator Allen’s proposition for an inquiry regarding the expenditures of the national committees in the late campaign indicates that there is some foundation for the popular belief that said organs got a large share of the miillqns contributed by the trusts and monopolies to elect Hanna’s protege. The Democrats and their allies in the senate ought to insist upon ap investigation, which would doubtless involve most sensational developments m to the use of the vast corruption fond placed at Hanna’s disposal

* The Presidential Tote. Bead this and paste it away. It is tbe sum total of tbe popular vote for president : For McKinley Bryan. Prohibition... Pklic«r. Socialist. ... 7.KMB0 e.5JS.QBl NB.il Mtf uFA S2,»42 —6,815,173 McKinley over all.. 2S4&S McKinley’s vote was 61 per cefiigf alL * Bryan’s vote was per cent of alL Palmer’s vote was less than 1 per cent of all. The Benson of It. “What does tbe president want of more bonds?’* “To retire tbe greenbacks.” “Bat wbmt dees tbe president want to retire tbe greenbacks for?” “So as to issue .more bands, of fpazae Minneapolis Tribune. 4

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