Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 March 1897 — Page 7

A GOOD SLEEPER. lUKIalcr^i Docility tm the H«ii» «C W© again ask the nation to observe the admiration felt by Mr. Hanna lor •ae of Mr. McKinley’s special gifts. It did seem difficult before to imagine any condition possible to the presidentelect in which the Warwick who placed him at the head of this nation would not contend that he showed his superiority to the ordinary run of monkind. Now he has surely reached the limit. During the progress of the campaign for the presidency Mr. Hanna took frequent occasion to explain why it was he b*d been led to espouse the McKinley cause. 3e had accidentally met the object of his affections in the course of an unimportant political movement in Ohio and afterwards was thrown with him in the transaction of minor business affairs. Mr. Hanna was impressed by the “sterling quality” of Mr. McKinley's character, his “inflexibly honesty of purpose” and his alertness of intellect. He determined that such a man ought logically to be president. Haring made him president, Mr. Hanna now presents Mr. McKinley invested with new and hitherto unmentioned charms to the gaze of an aidmiring people. According to this most excellent and ingenious hornblower, the presi-dent-elect, even in his capacity for sleeping, is a peerless character. “I never saw a man like him.” rhapsodizes Mr. Hanna. “He can sleep at any time." At first glance, it would seem that the country should receive this testimonial of the president-elect’s capacity for slumber with genuine thankfulness. A man who can sleep well is a safe man as a rule; he has an easy conscience and he is not given to imperiling a calm serenity of judgment by indulging in vain worrying. But a too ready facility for sleep on the part of a president—especially when elected to that high office through the friendliness of such interests as were represented by Mr. Hanna—may prove a regrettable possession. The most aente wakefulness on the part of Mr. McKinley in his dealings with the 'Hanna contingent is to be earnestly desired.—St. Loois Republic.

NOT YET SETTLED. Hr. Bryan Hold* That the Money QMention Im Still an Issue. “Free Coinage” was the subject of a lecture delivered by William Jennings Bryan at Carnegie ball under the auspice* 01 tlie Kew York Bimetallic association.. In bis speech Mr. Bryan said: "It will not be necessary for me to speak longer than to thank you for the encouragement of your presence, arul to express my appreciation of the work which has been done by the advocates of bimetallism in the eastern states. I hare never lest an opportunity to assure those who labored for free coinage here that we. who In the treat and south have more oMocal victories to rejoice over, recognise the obstacles which were In your way. and recognise the ralor with which you fought. I do not know any democrat, free silver republican or populist who deserves more credit than those who made the fight In New York city. X want to say that your fight here has given you a warm place In the hearts of the west and south "Now a word of encouragement. I want to aay to those who have fought that the fight Is not done. I want to encourage you by saying that I have not found one person who was with us who is sorry tha^ he was with u*. and of those who fought under the allied forces not one to-day regrets the part he took on election day and durtng the campaign. “I am proud of the work done by the * altlled forces during the last campaign. No matter what may be the permanent settlement of the money question, the American people are better for the campaign through which they have passed. The government will be better; the laW3 will be better. The next four years are going to be the hardest for the men who jar® in politics for pecuniary benefits of aay years In recent history-. “I want to say that I do not believe that this money question is yet settled. We, are no better now than we were before ejection. I have not reformed. I believe in those principles as much now as tfc®n. and it Is going to be no easier for monometall 1sts and bimetallists to associate than before. Any man who comes to act with us must be one of us and his sins will be forgive:;, but he cannot bring his sins with him.” Senator Mark Hanna. Gov. Bushnell definitely announces his purpose to appoint Mark Hanna as a senator of the I'nited States.to siieeced John Sherman. It is an appointment utterly anil conspicuously unfit; to be made. It is the outcome of a complicated political dicker, which unhappily involves the president-elect himself, os our Canton dispatches show. Mark Hanna has no pretensions whatever to statesmanship. He has neither learning nor experience, neither an acquaintance wfith public afftjirs nor skill In their conduct. His solitary claim upon attention is that he raised and disbursed a gigantic campaign fund for the debauchment of American politics. Without that claim upon attention his appointment to the.senate would be ludicrous. With it that appointment m a blistering scandal.—X. Y. World.

Bum's Place. Mr. Sherman's prospective successor In the senate does not appear overburdened with modesty. He ascribes BushneU’s intention to appoint him to the fact that the sentiment in Ohio toward him (Hanna) was such that BushneH thought he had better appoint him. This seems a rather ungracious return for the favor promised, and distinctly implies that the governor was forced to make the appointment.’ Then Mr. Banna sent his regrets to Detroit, where he had been invited to participate In the celebration of Washington’s birthday, assigning aa one of the ran* sons for not coming that McKinley was sick. This seems to imply that Hanna has to attend to presidential business when McKinley is ill. Have we already a deputy president?—Louisville Cou-rier-Journal. -Good times have not yet come back. The republican party Is doing Its best to defer their coming by entering upon a general revision of the tariff, the most upsetting and business-de-stroying occupation in which it could knee engaged. The fall elections will give the people an opportunity to peas upon this policy.—X. Y. Times.'

WHERE tt'KINLEY 13 WEAK. The New York Press has undertaken the formidable task of proving' that extreme protection will bring about increased revenues. Sensible republicans usually abandon such nonsense immediately after the campaign- But the Press takes its tariff doctrine seriously, and insists that we can have a tariff high enough to keep out foreign goods and at the same time supply revenue to meet the extravagant demands of a more than billion-dollar congress. It says: “One of the theories held by extreme believers in a low tariff is that, if it does nothing else, a low tariff should increase revenues in those classifications where duties are cut down, by stimulating larger imports, and, consequently, giving the government a greater volume of articles from which to exact duties. We have found that occasionally some of those who believe in protection beI cause it permits Americans to do business are weak mi the revenue part of a protective tariff. One of the republicans who is “weak on the revenue part” of a protective tariff is John B. Henderson, formerly United 1 States senator from Missouri, and regarded as fully up to the level of Edmunds, of Vermont, in statesmanship. In an interview last week Mr. Henderson said: “I am afraid that If the tariff is made higher the import duties will fgU off and ■ decrease the revenues of the government | considerably. They will fall off for this reason, vlx.: Our manufacturers can now ! manufacture twice as much as they can consume, and the surplus they expect to export. They can successfully compete with the imported goods, and with a high tariff they can undersells As a result we will not have such large Importations, and we will have to raise our revenue in another manner.” Another who is “weak on the revenue l*art’’ is President-elect McKinley. When be made his tariff bill he called it an “act to reduce the public revenues,” and he made a speech showing how the increase of tariff rates would reduce the revenue- It worked exactly a£ was predicted. The revenue's were reduced until there was a deficit under the McKinley law of $69,000,000. If the Press could shut out imports and collect duty on them at the earn© time it would have a really strong revenue system. But as long as shutting | out goods deprives us of tariff duties I that might otherwise be collected the I protective tariff system will be “weak 1 in its revenue part.”—Utica Observer.

THE TIME WILL COME. Whci America Will Ceo*e <*akla* XlllloaBire* by Law. A special correspondent of the London Telegraph, writing from New York regarding the Bradley Martin ball before that much-advertised event came off, haa the following to say regarding the opposition to the function that manifested itself and the causes leading.up to that opposition:. “There is much in the social condition of this great republic to cause real anxiety. The gaps are too broad. It is said on good authority that the total i number of rich families, despite the great difference of population, is only a little larger than in Britain, and the . r .'Aggregate wealth is less, and yet the disparities of condition, excite here far deeper feeling. But there is reason for this. In the United Kingdom the law does not interfere to enrich the towns at the expense of the country, to impoverish the farm in order to aggrandize the factory, to penalize west and south with the view of favoring the north and east, to make wealthy the manufacturer at the cost of the consumer, whereas the law does step in to lay the burden of taxation on the shoulders best able to bear it. Here everything the poor man buys is made dearer in order that some rich man may be made richer. In every way the rich man is taxed in England, living or dying: in every way he escapes in the United States. Trusts ar i tariffs fleece the people of the re 1 districts and the poor everywhere for the benefit of the capitaland, so fir as tariffs are concerned, the next government and congress actually propose to make matters still worse. Tire true inwardness of the outcry is that it is a symptom of how deep there is sinking into the conscience of the American people the Wrong that has been and is being perpetrated. A loud cry will rise to Heaven by and by that the manufacture of millionaires by acts of congress and defiance of law must cease.” —Chicago Chronicle.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -The hardest task confronting the republican party is to find oat what it belie,vc* on the money question.—St. Louis Republic. -An Ohio shoe factory has received an order from England for 42,000 pairs of shoes. And yet they tell os that, on account of the difference in wages, American labor cannot compete with English labor.—Rochester (X. Y.) Herald. ——The difference between the present cost of trust products and the present. cost of products of free competition, with regard to former cost, jgan be accurately measured. It is precisely the amount of nine-tenths of the private fortunes of Messrs. Rockefeller, Havemeyer, et al.—S. Y. Journal. ——-The most curious thing about the proposed new tariff bill is that on nearly all articles it restores the rates of the McKinley law. and still the McKinley law was entitled “an act to reduce the revenues." whereas the excuse for the coming bill is that the revenues must be increased.—Kansas City Star. -Mr. Hanna is going to give our in- ' duetries a tariff “stimulus.** What that is we all know. They have been dosed with stimuli for 35 years until most of them, tike confirmed old topers, really believe that they cannot get along without it The last debauch resulted from the stimulus given in 1890, and most of the precious infanta have been aching uitt Irnfminjn—nr over sinee. Now Mr. Hanna is going to give them another dose.—St Paul Globe.

FARM AND GARDEN. HINTS FOR BEGINNERS. One C*m Hake m Seaaikie Start wttli Beer. The first step is to get a good test book on bee-keeping and study it thoroughly. Then get another one and study that. Perhaps a third could ba profitably added to the list. If % beekeepers' convention should be held near by, attend that; if not, visit neighbor* ing bee-keepers and “talk bees” with them—perhaps this would be better than the ordinary bee conventions, though both are good. After this, if it is the intention to make bee-keeping a special business, much time may be saved by spending at least one season with some professional apiarist. If this cannot be done, the best way will be to begin at borne with a few colonies, and allow the bees and the knowledge to keep pace one with the other. The beginner is quite likely to make some mistakes, and it is better to make them with a small number of colonies. Perhaps ten colouies would be sufficient j to begin with. Many recommend buy. ! ing cheap colonies of blacks in bos | hives, transferring them to movable frames and Italianizing them; but transferring as usually done is a very disagreeable job, requiring some nerve, i patience and skill, and seems scarcely ■ the proper work at which to set a novice. : In Italianizing there is also a risk ot ! losing queens, particularly if the work I is done by an inexperienced person' Still, | if one has plenty of determination amt | little money this course may be ad via* j able. It is much more pleasant, however, for the beginner to begin with I Italians in movable comb hives. Spring is the best time to buy bees, and it is better to get them as near home as possible, as express charges are very heavy and long journeys are likely to injure the eolonies. I would advise even a beginner to buy black bees in box hives near home and then j transfer and Italianize, rather than have i bees shipped many hundreds of miles, i The cost of beginning in bee-keeping might be estimated something as follows: Bee literature..'.$ 5 QC Bee-smoker and veil... 1 Ten colonies ot bees at $5.... 50 CO New hives for swarms..10 W Sections and comb foundations.10 M

Total .-.*6 5« It might be well for the beginner to produce extracted honey at first, in which case an extractor would be needed. This costs about ten dollars, but no sections would be needed, nor so much foundation, though there would be needed some vessels in which to store the honey. The one thing that the beginner needs to avoid in producing extracted honey is extracting too closely, taking away too much honey and leaving the bees short of stores. No honey should be taken from the brood nest. A rock upon which the beginner is likely to split is dividing colonies too early, too frequently or too late. To allow each colony to swarm once, if it will, and prevent after-swarm-ing, would be a safe plan for the beginner to follow.-jpCoIman’s Rural World. FEEDER FOR TURKEYS. & Device That Serves the PsrpoM Indicated by Its Same. I have had several years’ experience in the poultry business, especially in turkey raising. I find that it never pays to keep fattening turkeys in confinement. The problem was how to feed them without letting the chickens share in food. I finally hit upon a device that serves the purpose admirably. I made a trough out of boards six feet long

FEEDER FOR TURKEYS. and six inches wide, putting legs on i X shape, making trough just high enough so the chickens could not reach the food, but the turkeys could. Lay | a board or plank on top. wide enough 1 nail the board ou top, as you want to take it off when putting in feed. Set the trough near the turkeys' roosting place and keep it well supplied with food, so the birds can get all they want at all times. I use a mixture of corn five parts, oats two parts and wheat one [.art.—Ohio Farmer.

Krtcardias Poultry Dl»r*»e». Most of the diseases that afflict poul try are the effects of unsanitary sur- ! roundings and due entirely to the care- ! lessness or indifference of keepers. ; Naturally poultry is not sickly, and if given proper care will keep in good health without being dosed with any drugs or nostrums of any kind. The writer has had a good many years of j experience in poultry keeping, and in | all that time has never found it neeesi sary to give any great amount of medi- ; cine to his flocks. Pure ft ,»d, pure war ter, comfortable quarters and cleanlij ness in all the surroundings of the flock ! will insure its health and thrift. The ! poultry keeper who has “bad luck” with i his flock and finds it dwindling away ! from the effect of disease is nine times j out of ten receiving the just penalty | for some of his sins of omission.—Farmf en’ Voice. Skeen aa Sesreagen. A few sheep can be kept very cheaply I m every farm, foe they will eat much that other stock will not touch. The | sheep is. however, very delicate in its | taste, so far as refusing what is uncleanly. But its taste is different from that j of other animals. Sheep will eat green [ and bitter fruit that falls early, which no pig can be starved into rating. It is nn excellent stock to prevent tend growing up with bushes, as it browses down nearly everything that grows. In the winter sheep will thrive on bean fodder, to it naturally, while other if they will eat it, can only -r

SHATTERED. Tho Precarious Condition of Prof A. & Nya A Prominent tows Educator’* Pslmtsl Experience sa Belated by Hlmttos Newspaper Man. From the Gazette. Cedar Falla, la. The la gnppe, that dread disease that had inch a run throughout this country three or four years since, left many who were previously in robust health, with shattered constitutions and seemingly confirmed invalids. Prof A. H. Nye. living at No. 2500 Olive Street, Cedar Palls, Iowa, was among the anrnber left in a precarious condition by the disease. No strength, feet and limbs badly swollen, in fact, almost helpless. Prof, Nye Is a native of New York State, having come west in 1886—a healthy, robust man. He is a school teacher by profession, having served as county superintendent of schools of this (Black Hawk) county several terms, and he has the respect of all with Whom he comes in contact. His helpless condition called forth the sympathy of the entire community. He tried the best medical skill procurable, and spent most of his ready means in the vain endeavor to recover hu health, and had about given up completely discouraged. He had stopped taking medicine, being fully convinced in his own mind ; that there was no help for him, and that he j would have to spend the balance of his days | as an invalid,a burden to family and friends. | Some one who had heard of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, spoke to him about,them and j urged him to give them a trial. His poor i success with eminent physicians made him [ skeptical and he had no faith in what was j called proprietary medicine, and would not j listen to this advice for some days. The { friend being persistent, however, and having i faith in the Pink Pills, would not let urn un- j til he had finally prevailed upon the sufferer j to send for a box, which he reluctantly did, ! and after receiving than decided to give ; them a fair trial. The first box relieved him \ in a surprising manner; yet he was not con- j vineed that it was the medicine that had j helped him, but the weather, which had turned pleasant, and did not send for a further supply until he was again about as bad as before taking the pills. Then he con- : eluded he would make another trial, and took three boxes, and to-day is nearly if not ‘ Suite as well as before the attack of la grippe. ; t is needless to say he cannot say too much \ for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. | for people who have been left in poor health , from la grippe or any other cause. Anyone i wishing to test the validity of this letter can write Mr. Nye, No. 2500 Olive Street. Cedar Falls. Iowa, and he will cheerfully recommend the medicine, and state his condition ! before and after using. - \ Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a j condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as lococnctor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe, j palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow i complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sen* post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for 12.59 (they, are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

Cause qi the Deficiency.— I mink the pio* t - lacks atmosphere,’' said the kindly cru.c. ‘Tact is,'* said the artist. “I had a bard time raising the wind while I was painting.”—Indianapolis Journal. In every section of this country there is more or less land lying idle and bringing the owner but little in the way of revenue. As the country gradually becomes more thickly settled, taxes on real estate grow higher and the burden from carrying unprodueing or waste land more irksome. It is good business to make every foot of land yield something to help bear its share of the expenses of the farm. This may be done in several ways. That land which is too wet for the plow may be ditched or tile drained, and thus be brought under cultivation and production. A more difficult task will be encountered, however, in clearing up tim-ber-land, in removing trees, stumps, grubs, etc., etc. For this purpose several machines have been put upon the market, but none are better than that made by the Milne Manufacturing Co., 7© Eighth St., Monmouth, HI., a thoroughly responsible firm, w hose advertisement appears in this paper. They manufacture the Hawkeye Grub and Stump machine in several sizes, and guarantee it to pull stumps or grubs, and io pull up trees of ordinary size. This machine, unlike others, does not need to be moved for ev%ry stomp, but will clear out a circle of two acres at one sitting. Write this firm for catalogue, circulars, prices, etc. “I think the joke has been earned far enough ” said the editor, as he marked “accepted’* on it.—Brooklyn Life. Icy pavefnents and bruises give aches and pains. St. Jacobs Oil gives cure, comfort. It is entirely superfluous to tell people that you are getting old; you show it Cold breeds a brood of ache* and pains. St. Jacobs Oil destroys them. Railroad men will not dance except ate "grand bail.”—Atchison Globe. Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe, 10c. The way to get a better position is to more than fill your present one.—Ram’s Horn.

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