Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 April 1897 — Page 7

fhrgikrtitatratgilmomt tL MeC. 8TOOP8, EdUw ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. “REPLY PAID.” pgT rHAHCES FORnES-ItOHERTSOXe if

HE .had received a letter in the morning begging- her to somehow procure him a little money. Things were going badly, and he had been ill. She thought of it all day long, having dispatched the little she had, and,

for the thinking, things looked no better. 13 t r brother had not enough to live upon, i.nd there was an end of it. Fate was niggardly with them all. During the afternoon the girl* came in, and Mi*. Hamlin. Mr*. Hamlin was always delightful and cheery. Her lovely dresses and sweet face and fragrant elegance reminded Maisie that at least •he was the right person in the right place—with fitting surroundings, and the beautiful things of life that all women instinctively claim as their right, Iters. “Maisie, you look preposterously defected. What is it? Are you in love with an anarchist, or is it only general aspirations towards the impossible?* “No, I am not in love; but I am thinking of proposing to some one.” “Why?” “Because I am in a hurry. Fred, you know, is frightfully hard up.” “But why don’t you accept Mr. Howard, when he’s so devoted, poor man?” “That wouldn’t be fair, because, you see, bjjfe, devoted, and l—no, 1 think a fat with beard ami glasses is the •ort of thing—in the abstract.” “0, excellent in the abstract. Protects you. is kind to you, and gives you checks. In the concrete he—” “Dear Mrs. Hamlin, don’t! The matter is not discussable in the concrete.” “Fancy Maisie proposing!” said one of the girls. “You don’t know what 1 am capable of,” returned Maisie. “I’ll dare you. Maisie!" Mrs. Hamlin twinkled, "i;20 on, and 1*11 give you a month.” “Twenty pounds!” repeated Maisie, and there was an odd sound In her voice. “Twenty pounds.” “Done!” she said, to the astonishment of the room. “It’s a bet!" Everyone Bat up apd bristled with delighted curiosity. Maisie, of all people, who invari'ably treated her swains with a good-teuipered scorn that was the envy of her friends. “1 will do it now!" she went on, excitedly. “Mabel, give me those telegram forms. Of course, I won’t undertake to carry out the contract if anyone accepts," she added. “No, no; but a bona-fide proposal!" She then sat down and addressed seven telegrams and dispatched them by the maid. “Reply paid," she said. “And now we’ll have tea!” “What have you done?” questioned Mr. Hamlin. “1 have asked seven men to marry me!” “Maisie!" “Well, seven gentlemen will hardly DC able to think that I am pining for them all; and they'll exchange notes.’ “Men never do that." “Ah. what men never do, that surely man always does,” she laughed. “Hbnor with them is a collective virtue that Isos no application in the singular. You Bhall read the answers.” In due course of time tht* an.-,vers came. One bv one the girl ojiened them before her expectant friends, who refused to go till ail had come. “Regrets,” j quoted Maisie, holding up one with ! snook gravity. “Next, please. Ah! thank vou. Susan! ‘Sorry, previous engagement* —- ‘Alas’ impossible!’ — •Circumstances over which I have no control!*—T would if I could, but I can’t!’ ‘No!’—That’s rather impolite, end he really- well, one mustn’t be kissed and tell. Twas so long ago. too Y’ou see, ladies, how devoted my lovers j •11 are; but I have won my bet. Ah! j here is another one more polite re- j fusal. No! *0f course I am honored,* ” •he read. A crimson flush of shame ; spread over the girl’s laughing face, i “That’s chivalrous of him." she said. | trying to hide her embarrassment, j •And novr to invent a polite refusal to > my own proposal.”

Horace Sands wu in chambers when Jlias Maisie's telepram—reply paid— arrived. He was smoking a cigarette ■with Max Welby. They generally smoked together after lunch, in a kind «f sympathetic silence. He read It Slowly, and then said unrecordable j words. After which, for him. unusual j ejaculations, he went out of the room. On returning his friend noticed an expression of most pathetic woe upon his j placid features, and such a hang-dog look that he refrained from putting any questions from fear of intruding on private matters. Horace, however, after some fidgeting, said: “You know, after all, it’s a dreadful thing, but what could a fellow do? She's a charming j girl, of course—but I didn't think of I exactly—in fact, I am not a marrying ] Bum. you know—I never thought of marrving—don't know anything about it" “If you'll explain what you are talking about 1 may be able to understand.” “Well, the fact is, Miss Maiste wired and askgd me—don't you know; and I, of course—** “Asked you what?" “ifell, I suppose I oughtn't to say * he said, suddenly flushing crimson. “Did ahe propose to you ?” asked Weiby, with an incredulous look of amunepseah “Answer paid, too. The drrfl tabs did! And you have accepted r

“What else would you hare me dot* returned Sends, stolidly. For the next few days Horace Sands experienced a general sense of bewildering depression. He was an engaged man —a very lovely girl, it was true, but nevertheless he *as engaged, tied up. as it were—somebody’s property. He must buy presents and rings, and think of furniture. Never in his life had he thought about furniture. Even at college he had not, as many of the men did, troubled bow his diggings were arranged. He passed a man in the street carrying a kitchen safe. He tried to think what a safe was meant for, and realized that they would certainly have to have a safe. Some perambulators in n great shop caught his eye, and he blushed and looked obstinately on the other side of the road. He had postponed calling—-be had not- dared yet He would never summon courage to behave as a lover should to such a wonderful piece of femininity. He remembered now that her eyes were gray, and seTtous, and laughing all at once; that she had a delightful, petulant mouth. The thought of her was sweet. The reality at present was terrifying. He could not yet face his betrothed. He must have time to get used to himself under these new conditions. Another day passed. On the fourth he dressed himself in a frock coat, adorned his buttonhole with a bouquet, and started for her house. When he arrived as far as the street in which she lived he turned round and went to the club. There there was a note from her—three days old. Again he flushed and thrust it into his pocket. He went out, and in the busy traffic of the streets read his first love letter from Mnisie. “Dear Mr. Sands: How Chivalrous and nice of you! It was a bet, you know.” He did not read any more, but strode homewards. He had been a pretty kind of fool, anyhow—a vain ass, too. As If a beautiful girl like that—then he began to laugh. At any rate he was free again j —free!—but somehow he wasn't quite i sure that he wanted to be so very free. ! The furniture had begun to interest him. They met the next evening at Lady Vaughan's. She received him with a very bright smile, and they danced. They danced several times, aud then he said at the end: “I suppose you couldn't eare for me, could you?” And she colored alt over, and said: ”0. no, 1 couldn't, not anyhow in the world!” Fate threw them together. They constantly met. She tried to avoid him, but he would not let her, and she ceased at last to try. At the end of three j months he again asked her to be his.1 wife. The tears crept into her eyes ‘ then, and she said: “You are very kind and chivalrous, and 1 am very grateful, but I can’t, indeed I can’t!” So that he went aw-ay conscious that there was h barrier between them he could not break down. He went abroad with Wei- j by, and proved a preposterously dull companion. “She will never have me!” he said one day, irrelevantly. “I believe it’s all because of that confounded telegram!” “Most likely.” "Whatshall I do?” “Forget her.” “That’s what I have been trying to

THEY DANCED SEVERAL, TIMES. do, but she’s crept somehow into mt I heart, and I can’t.” “Wire, then!” “What?” “What she wired to you." } • •••••• Maisie was sitting with Mrs. Ham’in, j and her pretty face was even paler than ! on the memorable occasion of the send- j ing of the telegrams. “Ah!” she said, j “it is a pity, 1 care for him so much— j so much—and it could never be now! j Could it?” “It's rather difficult.” said Mrs. Hamlin. “How mad of us all to have let you j do it! We didn’t realize till the things j were gone. Your spirits carried us j away. He’s abroad, isn’t he?” - ' “Yes, and I can’t bear it, but I must; j that's life, isn’t it?” she said, with a | little sad smile. “We all manage to bear j what we can’t.” And then a telegram ! came, reply paid. “W’hat is it?” said Mrs. Hamlin. “He has wired. Look!” “And what are you going to say?” The girl sat down upon her heels | upon the floor, and looked first into the ] fire and then at Mrs. Hamlin. “I think I I ought to be polite, don’t you?” she | said. “He was to me.” “Yea.” said Mrs. Hamlin, “I think yot should be polite!” And Miss Maisie was.—Westminster Budget. * Cream of Celery Sssa Ten stalks of celery, one quart of milk, one tablespoonful onion juice, one tablespooufui butter, three tablespoonfuls flour, salt to taste: add one pint ol boiling water. Cut the celery in ineh lengths and cook In the water until soft. Press it through a colander, add it and the onion juice to the milk, thea the salt; cream the butter and floor, stir and cook till it thickens, using a double boiler. This quantity is sufficient for six persona. — Detroit Free

HANNA'S OUTLOOK GLOOMY. Democrats Mm* Cratro^ tk« N«>t Ohio LegUlatarc. The recent municipal elections in Ohio, resulting in democratic victories everywhere, haw rendered quite uncertain tiie comjJexion of the legialature to be chosen in that state in. November. Politicians of both parties naturally are discussing the situation with deep interest, for it is to be remembered that the new legislature will elect a successor to Senator Hanna. It is asserted by democrats and not denied by republicans that t he democratic pcoepect of carrying the legislature end electing a senator have been considers-! Wy brightened by the teat of strength | shown in the Ohio city elections. Two democrats have their eye on the I senatorship. Both of them are rich, j ambitious and greet hustlers, and | neither will stop to count the coot with j such a prize in view. These are exSenator Brice and John R. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both will pitch in from thia time on. In facts both did pitch in weeks ago. They and ail their friends are much encouraged by the present situation. Mark Hanna is desperately in earnest In the endeavor to succeed himself, and as his barre l is a good-sized one. It will be on tap from now right along. Hanna is almost always in a talkative mood. Just now he appears to have relapsed into a thoughtful strain and evihces no eagerness to discuss the lesson of the spring elections in Ohio. It Is understood that the republican mayor of Cleveland, just reelected, is a bitter personal enemy of Hanna and carries his animosity so far as to prefer a democrat in the United States senate to the friend of McKinley. This gentleman is said to control the organization of the dense republican constituency of which the city of Cleveland is the center. This means a fight against Hanna in his own immediate household and predicts the success of the democratic legislative ticket- in that political division. The republican boss of Cincinnati was washed out of sight in that city, and it is scarcely anticipated that he will emerge from the debris in condition to put up any kind of a fight in November. The republican factional dissensions, together with the general party discontent so plainly visible, produce a situation of corresponding elation and depression in the democratic and republican ranks. It will make the coming state campaign one of the most lively interest, not only locally, but nationally. The republican chances for picking up a senator in another state, which might bo named, are fully offset by the imminent prospect of dropping one in Ohio.—St. Louis Be public.

THE SPRING ELECTIONS. 4 Signal Protest Against the McKlnley Administration. Local elections in off years are not alwuys indicative of popular opinion on broader questions of public policy, but when they show a marked revulsion against the party victorious at the last preceding general election, we agree with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that it is difficult to overestimate their significance and importance. And seldom has such a revulsion been more marked than this year. It began in the Connecticut town elections, was emphasized in those of New York and New Jersey, found an echo in Iowa, and on Monday and Tuesday of this week had its most significant expression in Ohio and Michigan,^ Wisconsin and Illinois. The great ^publican cities of Cincinnati and Detroit and Chicago and Milwaukee have reversed. with tremendous democratic majorities, their verdict of last year. Elsewhere in these states the reaction Is equally marked and equally significant. And t’ ere is nothingof sectionalpolitics in t is revolt against the party in power. As all sections have suffered alike from the continued business depression and the delayed prosperity wave, so all sections voice the protest against these conditions. And if republican fatuity persists, as it is now persisting, in forcing upon the country a new bill of abominations for the protection of trusts and the oppression of the people, and if the democrats make no mistakes and sacrifice nothing of conviction to supposed expediency, Mr. McKinley will find, in the last two years of his term, a congress with 100 democratic" majority on his hands.—Illinois State Register. The Doties on Wool. One of the chief objections to the Dingier hill—that is, one of the chief objections by the pougees as distinguished from the gougers—is on account of its high duties on wooL And yet these duties are not high enough to satisfy the wool growers. Their man Lawrence has called a meeting of the Wool Growers’ association in Washington to lay down the law to the senate with regard to the 'uties on wool. The Wool Growers’ association has been bolding meetings in Washington erer since congress assembled last December. It made known to the ways and means committee what was expected and demanded, and it was thought, until this cal! for another meeting, fa at it had got everything it wanted. The president made a mistake, in the first place, in convening congress to pass s tariff law. He should have convened the Wool Growers’ association. That would bare saved time, for no tariff law has passed a republican congress since the existence of the Woo! Growers* association that was not dictated by that organisation of fleecers.—Louisville Courier-JournaJ. -The Dingley tariff bill is McKin-leyis-n to a superlative degree. This wage earners are finding out, and the feet that Dingley ism will only permit one drew where the Wilson bill furnishes more and only one suit of clothes where the Wilson bill furnishes more, while wages do not increase in proparttoe to cost of living. Is coming home iH

OHIO AND THE DINGLEY BILL. Protection Hot Faroret to MeKte> ley's Own State. There is some apprehension manifested in the near west as to the possible effect of the Dingley folly on the political fortunes of Senator Marcus A. Hanna, that distinguished gentleman who rejoiced not long ago in the flattering assurance that he was the whole thing, but who, for some reason or other and for some time past, has been hiding his brilliant light under something. It would be a great misfortune, of course, if Mr. Hanna should come to grief politically, and when his warm friends contemplate the didoes that Ohio cut up last week they are fain to be greatly worried on his account. The Chicago Tribune, a very stanch republican paper, feels moved to say: “Senator Hanna’s term expires in March, 1S99. It would be a misfortune If the next legislature elected In Ohio should be controlled by the democrats, and leave Senator Hanna out In the cold. But there Is no telling what Ohio will do it a tariff bill < Is enacted whose duties weigh more heavily on consumers than those of the law ot ism" In spite of its strong and unswerving republicanism the Tribune, which, by the way, is a very able paper, is cordially opposed to the Dingley folly. It notes that in certain sections, where the tariff issue was forced, McKinley majorities were proportionally smaller than in other sections, and it remarks that “the tariff was not a winning card last fall” and “it does not seem to have been one this spring.” It points to the way Ohio voters went at the g. o. p. and lashed it, in spite of the Dingleykes’ generosity to Ohio, they claiming. that the Buckeye state had received especial consideration at their hands. And so it goes. The Dingley folly ia challenging considerably more and j r&ore severe condemnation than the Me- j Kinlev folly challenged a few wars ago, with this difference, that republic- | an denunciation of the latter was as nothing to that which now scorches the Dingley policy. The moral of all of which is that republican protection is a good thing to put republicanism on the shelf. Nothing is wholly bad.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader. THE TARIFF AND TRUSTS.

Protected Utemta Are Allowed to j Write the Schedules. It is becoming” known that the agent j of each protected interest wrote the schedule in the Dingley tariff bill. The sugar schedule as it uow stands was largely written by Solon Humphreys, Pierre Smith, John Farr, William H. j Lefferts, Charles P. Armstrong and John E. Searles, treasurer of the American Sugar Refining company. i Thomas Harrison, for the Manufac- i turing Chemists* association, wrote in j substance the chemical schedule. H. B. Newton, president of the Nar tional Association of the Brick Mann- [ facto re rs, prepared section 83 of the j bill. Green glass manufacturers wrote section 94, imposing a duty upon green and colored bottles, and their demand was literally complied with. Simon Burns wrote section 99, and his j language was followed word for word. | Manufacturers of spectacles, eyo I glasses, lenses, opera glasses, etc., had ! their schedule as prepared by them- j selves adopted without the change of a j single word. Cotton spinners and cotton manufac turers demanded certain rates in writ- * ing, and their demands were honored. The section of the cutlery schedule referring to pocket knives and table j knives was prepared a month before it was given out by the committee. It was in the possession of a certain manufacturer and he showed it to friends of his in New York and other cities weeks before anyone else knew what that section w as to be. At the same time the majority of the ways and means committee had decided to submit the retroactive amendment. It is- a fact that the wool manufacturers of the country knew on the evening of January 6 wha t the wool schedule was to be. The present boohi in sugar is directly traceable to the fact that the retroactive clause is to be used to put up the price of sugar to the trade, while the trust never intends to pay a cent of increased duty on sugars imported prior to the date the new bill becomes a law. —Chicago Chronicle. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -The municipal elections indicate ( pretty plainly what is thought of Ding- j ley ism.—Utica Observer. -It is as easy to tax the people rich as it is to increase the size of an orange by sucking out the juice.—Los Angeles Herald. -On a moderate estimate the $200,* 000,000 which the Dingley tariff is expected to raise for the government wiU cost the people $1,300,000,000 in advanced prices.—Providence Journal. -The home cities of McKinley, Foraker, Hanna. Alger, Bushnell, Billy J Mason and other goldite, high-tariff re- j publican leaders have fepudiarted and rebuked them most emphatically.—Illinois State Register. --Mr. Hanna has formally and firmly refused to attach any importance to j the recent municipal election results. Mr. Hanna is enough of a politician to shut his eyes when he doesn't care to view unpleasant things.—N. Y. Journal. -It is notonly Chicago, Canton and Cincinnati that have filed, their protests against the Dingley tariff fcilL Italy, Germany and the Netherlands have entered diplomatic objection, with other countries to hear from. Mr. Dingley does not seem to have pleased either insiders or outsiders.—Philadelphia Record. -No wonder the tariff tinkers are taring trouble with reciprocity. Bed>rocity is in conflict with the high tariff dea. Beal reciprocity is free trade,'and • aa damaging to the tariff scheme as he open bounty. -If the tariff theory Is >f any value the tariff should he traigbt, if anything u be

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