Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 June 1897 — Page 3

IIIII 111 11» IN ORPHAN GIRL : ► -- * BY AMY RANDOLPH. ; MR. FOLLIOTT had just finished his dinner. Mr. Folliott was a very rich man, and his cook had once been a pupil of the great Soyer, so that the meal, although unostentatious in every respect, was of the best and choicest. The asparagus soup, a delicate young baked shad, roast ham with champagne sauce, n salad, coffee, sweets—all these things Mr. Folliott enjoyed because, in their way, they were perfect. And he was just culling out a few monster strawberries from among their green leaves when a footstep sounded on the veranda. He looked quickly up. A tall child of 13 stood there, her face flushed, her hair disheveled, and her thick boots powdered with the fine dust of the roads. *‘l am so hungry.*’ burst involuntarily f’-om her lips. “Can’t I have one of those cakes?” Mr. Folliott frowned and shook his head. “If you are a beggar,” he said, “you had .better go around to the back door. | Mrs. Hanford will givejrou something, I dare say.” The child blushed deeply, and drew herself up with something of unconscious dignity. “I’m not a beggar,” she said. “Can't a girl be hungry without being a beggar? I have come here* to look for Paul Folliott.” “That’s my name,” said the old gentleman. a little suspiciously. “Then.’’ said she, composedly, “I have come here to be your little girl. I am CIracie Bellaire. My papa was Col. Bruce Bellaire. and when he died he said that you would take care of me. Here are his letters. And. now. please, let them give me something to eat.”> And this is the way in which Grace Bellaire came to the house of her fa- j ther's distant kinsman. Paul Folliott. She was a pretty child when the dust w as trashed out of her dimples and the shining brown curls were brushed into ’ something like shape. She had Bruce Bellaire’s large, dreamy eyes and exquisite Greek 'profile, and Mr. Folliott, j even while he experienced a thrill of consternation at this new charge, felt j his heart warm toward’her. “My dear.” said he, “you are a nice j little girl, hut what can 1 do with you?” j “1 could stay here and plat*, couldn't I?” said Gracie. innocently. “But there is something else in the world for little girls to do besides play- J iug.” said Mr. Folliott—and so he took j counsel with Mrs. Hanford, his housekeeper. “Dear heart, sir." said that kindly I personage, “it seems to me plain enough. Why don't you send her to ! Mrs. John Folliott? Don't you remem- I ber last summer, w hen she was here ! and you helped her out w ith the debts l that troubled her so badly, she de- j ■clared she would do anything in the ; , It .

*TM BO HIXGRY." world to show her gratitude? And she's got daughters of her own, hasn't she? j \\ho is there in the world that could i bring' Miss Graeie up better than she?” | “Mrs. Hanford, you are a genius'” j •said Mr. Folliott. “Why on earth didn't 1 think of that myself?” Mrs. John Folliott came to the Grange j •t once a portly, smiling- matron. “The darling!” she cried, ehthusias- ; tically, embracing Oracle, who looked j rather awed at the sight of so much ; splendor. “I shall love her as dearly j os if she were my own! Poor, dear ; Cousin Bruce! How well 1 remember j him! You sweet one, you are the very j picture of your papa!” So Mrs. John Folliott, greatly re- i joieing, returned to the brown stone ! house in New York, w hose rent was un- i paid, and to the daughters whose expensive dresses were yet written up ■on the wrong side of Mile. Surlitor's ] books. “It's positively providential.” said i Mrs. Folliott. “A thousand dollars a ] year clearly added to ourincome!" “But there is that great, awkward ! child to bring up,” said Madalena Fol- ! liott. a handsome 'brunette, w ho hud yust made her debut in society. “Oh. that doe* not signify,” said the j serene matron. “Her coat will be ab- j solutcly nothing.” And so, in the course of a few weeks. ! Grade Bella ire found herself settling 1 down to the position of lady's maid to ] the three Misses Folliott. She sewed | the buttons on Madaleua’s boots, sbe : ran out on rainy days, when the very I chambermaid objected on account of the weather, to match shades of worsted and filoselle for Alicette, the second daughter; she washed Florence's poodle for her, and wept many a tear of bitter mortification the while. And by degrees her shoes grew worn and rusty, her healthy young growth outstripped the limits of the coatee serge gowns.

her bonnet and mantle became ao shabby tfcat she could not go oat except under cover of the friendly dusk. Once, driven by desperation, she wore Florence’s white chapeau and soft sear jacket. But she never repeated the experiment, for Mrs. Folliott met her on the stairs and flashed the light of her great, black eyes upon her in a manner that was truly appalling. “If ever you presume to do such a thing again,” said she, in a low voice of concentrated wrath, “you shall be shut up on bread and water for a month!” - “But I have nothing to wear,” pleaded Grace. “Your clothes are good enough,” said Mrs. Folliott, sharply. “There is nothing so sinful as vanity!” “But when I go to school—” began Grace. “You are not going to school,” said Mrs. Folliott. “It is your business to stay here and help Jane with the china and silver, and make yourself useful. You are not a young lady, like Miss Alicette and Miss Florence—you are only a working-girl.” Child though she was, Gracie Bella! re comprehended the injustice of all this. Kind old Mr. Folliott hadn’t meant this when he gave her over into Mrs. John Folliott's charge. He must have forgotten to send the money, Grace thought, or she never would have been treated thus. “It’s a shame!” said honest Bridget, the cook. “The child ought to have j exercise, at least.” “Sure, if she was the cat they couldn’t j take less notice of her,” said Norah. the j waitress. “And just look at the clothes of her,” ; said Fannie, the smart chambermaid. “She’s kept me awake with her cough j for two nights.” said Bridget, “and all j the paregoric 1 give her don’t loose it | up a bit.” For Mrs. Folliott, under an extra pres i sure of company, had ordered Grace tc j sleep with Bridget for a night Or two. j and when the company was gone noth- | ing had been said about her resuming j her little room again. j “The girls need it to keep their summer dresses in,” said Mrs. Folliott.] “And Grace is just as well off with ] Bridget.” “They wouldn’t care if she coughed herself out of the world entirely," said Xornh. “Worse luck to ’em,” said Fannie. ( “But nobody ever yet ground down th« ■ orphan and the fatherless without there j was a judgment on ’em for it!” Mr. Folliott all this time was beginning to be a little uneasy. His elegant •city relative wrote at stated intervals, but her communications were eminent- i Iv unsatisfactory. “I should like to see the child,” he i said within himself. “And last night 1 ] dreamed , that Bruce Bellaire came tc me, just as he used to look, and asked jrne what I had done with his one eweiamb. I don’t believe in supernatural ■ warnings. I never had any faith in j signs and omens. But 1 believe I will go down to New York and see if Gracie is well.” , , ' I And so, late one snowy Deeemllei night, there came a tremendous peal at the door bell of Mrs. John Folliott’s mansion. That lady was absent to a fashionable reception with her three I daughters. Norah and Fanny had gone to visit a friend in a neighboring kitchen, and Bridget, half asleep, stum- I bled to the front door and opened it. “Miss Grace, is it?” she stammered. ; “Sure, if yez’ll step in the parlay I’ll send her up to you.” ^ “Up!” repeated the keen old gentle- ; man; “where is she?” “In the kitchen, sir.” confessed; Bridtret.

“I will go where she is,” said Mr. Folliott. “Take me to her at once.” Poor little Gracie sat before the kitch- , eu lire, the meekest and palest of Cin- i derellas, in an unconsciously drooping ! attitude. Her dress was worn and faded, her hair brushed back iu a plain j plait, her cheek transparently pale, and i there was an expression in her eyes, as | they looked into the red embers, that 1 made Mr. Folliott’s heart ache. j “I've not come any too soon,” he j thought, and then he said alound: “Gracie! Little Gracie!” With a sudden cry she sprang to her feet and ran sobbingdnto his arms. “OJh. take me away!” she exclaimed. : “Oh. 1 am so miserable here!” The old man looked at her, with tears in his eyes. “1 have made a mistake, Gracie,” said he. “No man can do his duty by proxy. I should have kept you myself. Never ) mind, little one, henceforward you shal' j be all my own.” He turned to Bridget. “Pack her clothes.” said he, "and lose no time.” \ Bridget stared. “Are you going tc I take, her away, air?” said she. Mr. Folliott nodded. “And it's- glad of it I am,” said thi i honest girl, “for though it’s weariful lonesome I shall be without her. it’s nc place for a gentleman's daughter, is this j owld black-beetle-haunted kitchen. No more it ain't!” And when Mrs. Folliott and her daughters returned, tired and cross, at two o’clock in the morning, there was no patient Gracie to do the duties of a j lady’s maid to them. And a note from j their rich relative on the hall table ex- i plained the phenomenon. Mrs. Folliott grew pale as she read i the curt words in which Cousin Paul expressed his meaning. “We shall never have a cent from him j again as long as we live," said she. But Gracie. secure in his parental ! love, was happy, and when she looked ! back over those New York days they ^ seemed like nothing but a troubled dream. From which she had awakened, thank Heaven!—N. Y. Ledger. —While a man in Ottawa, Earn, was trying to catch with a rope and hook a tin can that had dropped into a well, his gold watch dropped out of hie pocket. At last he contrived to draw np the one* end La it wan the match.

EXPORT BOUNTIES. Senator Cannon Introduces Lubin's Scheme to Help Farmers. He Make* a Hot Speeek sot Floors All Opponeote—Preeeot Protect too Is One Sided aad ftobs the Fanner —He Sow Sells la a Cheap and Bays la a Dear Market—Can Be Protected Only by Export Bounties oa Farm Products—It He Cannot Get These He Wants Ahsolate Free Trade. Senator Cannon, of Utah, introduced on May 25 an amendment to the tariff bill which is likely to make trouble for the republican leaders, and which may break down the whole protective system. The amendment favors the Lubin scheme of paying export bounties on farm products. This scheme is now being pushed vigorously, not only by its author, David Lubin, but also by the grangers of many states and by trades unions and ministers. It makes its fight inside the ranks of protection, and has already opened more farmers’ eyes to the folly of the system than all of the tariff reform work that has been done. Senator Cannon told some plain truths when introducing this amendment. He spoke in part as follows: It was with great surprise, upon an examination of the measure, that I found that the great class of our population who have from the beginning not only supported the protective tariff party by their votes, but have supported tbe protective tariff principle by their industry from the beginning of its operation, were in a large degree excluded from any of its benefits. It is, I say, to supply a very patent omission from the measure as it now stands that the amendment is proposed, and it will be advocated here until a vote shall be had thereon. The bill, as it is offered to-day, affords no protection to agricultural staples. There is remaining, 1 presume, no advocate of the protective tariff system who will contend that in this bill, with these import duties, there is afford**! any protection or benefit of increased prices arising from import duties upon any of. those commodities of which we export our surplus, nor are there remaining at the present time in the school* of protection very many men w ho will contend and none who w ill prove that the indirect protection afforded to -the farmer by the tariff on manufactured goods is sufficient eompensation to him for th.e cost entailed upon him in earning the protective tariff system upon manufactured goods. It has become apparent to all thoughtful observers, and certainly it is known to all who have any direct connection with the agricultural industry of the United States, that the farmer cannot, and the man who reads him well knows that the farmer will not, much longer bear"this burden. There are three remedies possible. The second remedy, and one which I, as a believer in protection, would be ready to accept rather than to hold to and vote for an inequitable bill, w;ould be absolute free trade, by which the farmer might buy as cheaply as he is compelled to sell, and that remedy this congress will not seek to enforce. There remains, then, but the third—the application of an export bounty which shall in a measure give restitution to the farmer fpr the higher prices which he is compelled to pay in protected markets.

.no proposition Daseu upon tne declaration of equal protection to all the industries of the United States is complete, nor can there be successfully j made a contention that it is just, unless | it gives to the exporter of agricultural staples from the United States an equivalent benefit to that given to the manufacturer (ay the imposition of an import duty. ],. A duty of 25 cents a bushel upon wheat is a delusion and a snare. The farmer of the United States gets no benefit from it. The imposition of duty upon cotton, if that were attempted, would be of no value to the cotton producer. The imposition of a duty on rye is of no value to the farmer of the United States. Every other protected industry has a direct benefit from this tariff, because where we do not produce in the United States sufficient for our own consumption and a quantity considerable in extent for export the import duty serves as a means whereby the local producer can enhance the price to the local consumer. The immediate benefit to the farmer derived from the treasury of the United States wouU not be all- For this comparatively small expenditure to him he would receive for these staples more than $225,000,000 in higher prices than he now receives. It is true that this would increase the price of breadstuffs to the consumers in the cities, but under the declaration made here to-day that with higher prices the people will be more able to buy we will have a larger consumption of wheat and wheat flour and other agricultural staples in the cities of the country than we have now at the low prices. Mr. Butler—Mr. President, the senator from Utah said he was in favor of about $13,000,000 export duty on wheat at ten cents a bushel. If we pay an export bounty of ten cents a bushel, that will raise the price of every bushel of wheat; whether exported or consumed at home, that much, will it not? Mr. Cannon—Certainly it will. Mr. Butler—Then, for an investment jf $13,000,000, which the government would pay out in the shape of an export bounty, the wheat farmers of the country would get their protection of $60,000,000 or $70,000,000, would they not? Mr. Cannon—They would, if there be any truth in the protective principle. Mr. Butler—That would be a eery good investment. Mr. Cannon—It would be a very good Investment if it were to be made in behalf of any manufacturing industry or any trust in the United States, but anything in behalf of the fanner is looked spon with scorn aad la luuaifcrad a

' doubtful investment by the legislator* i of the United States. In addition, Mr. President, it is a I very poor argument, when you have | been robbing some man for years and ; he asks you for justice, to say that you propose to continue to rob him of more ! and say that you do not. know where you are going to get the money with which to restore that which you have unrighteously taken. It is the very first duty of the congress of the United States to provide a bill which shall not only be honest in its present application, but which shall pay back some portion of that which has been taken from the pockets of the toilers of this land. I have talked with the farmPTS in 20 states of the union since last fall, and I firmly believe that this tariff would no longer endure them until the farmers of the United Stated can have a chance to ! revise it at the polls, if you do not give to them some portion of its benefits. The farmer is bending beneath a bur* den which he cannot carry longer. He has been the backbone of the integrity of the United States, but there comes in the place of the free and independent farmer of this country a race of tenantry to reap servilely where he sowed nobly, men who receive their opinions from others instead of giving their own independent voice at the polls and in all their declarations to their fellowmen. The senate of the United States can afford to be absolutely just. I believe the amendment should be adopted. Mr. Chandler—May I ask the senator from Utah a question? ^ Mr. Cannon—Certainly. Mr. Chandler—I heard the senator speak of robbery a little while ago with reference to the farmer. Does the senator mean that the farmer has been robbed all these years by the tariff? Is that the senator’s argument? Mr. Cannon—Yes, sir, decidedly. Mr. Chandler—When did the senatoi first think that the American tariff system was a robbery of the farmer? Mr. Cannon—Just so soon as the senator gave sufficient attention to the subject to understand the truth of it. I advocated republican tariffs as earnestly and as faithfully in my humble way as the senator from New Hampshire, and I believed exactly what I taught. But I am not disposed any longer to advocate a system by which one portion of the population is taxed for the benefit of another portion of the population. I think that it is unfair to cherish only one class, and that the class which has already the most power of self-protection. If the senator from New Hampshire will go across the plains of Kansas, as I have gone, and across the plains of Nebraska, I believe in him sufficiently to think he will come back and say that this bill is robbery of the American farmer. 1 have stated that I am in favor of a protective tariff system. I stated that in the guilelessness of my soul, being a republican, I went out and advocated the republican idea of a protective tariff. I never was brought quite so close to responsibility concerning it before as I am to-day. Heretofore I have discussed it on the stump, advocating it in general terms, but as soon as I am confronted with responsibility which obliges me to look more closely into its application to all the people I am simply discharging my duty when I seek to amend this measure so that it shall be honest to all. - Puhinc Alans a Good Thias

The Infamana Wool Schedule. _ The senate computations of the equiv* ! alects for Dingley bill rates on woolen I goods only need to be stated. They j make opposing argument unnecessary j in the mere reading. For example, the j rate is 55 percent, on second-class wool, j 2S9 per cent, on garnetted waste. 326 I per cent, on shoddy, 171 per cent, on j woolen cloths valued at not more than j 50 cents per pound, 167 per cent, on j blankets more than three yards in j length and valued at not more than 50 cents per pound, 212 percent, on shawls valued at not exceeding 40 cents per pound, 151 per cent, on knit fabrics val- j ued at not exceeding 40 cents per pound, 257 per cent, on hats of wool valued at not more than 30 cents per pound, 410 per cent, on felts of the same value, 147 per cent, on plushes valued at not over 40 cents per pound, and 64 per cent, on the aggregate of woolen carpets. The people of the United States could better afford to buy every sheep in the country and to put every shepherd on the pension list than to submit themsehes to such shameless plundering.— Philadelphia Record. How Capitalist* Save Tfceataelvos. The woolen manufacturers continue to stock up with eheap raw material in anticipation of the coming tariff iegi»> lation, the transactions in the Boston market last week amounting to nearly 3,000,000 pounds of foreign wool and over 1,250,000 pounds of domestic. They expect to reap rich profits when they can make this wool into cloth to be sold at the advanced pr ices which are now in sight. It is one more illustration of the fact that the capitalists can ove* come many of the evils of any kind of tariff. It is the consumers who mart bear the burden of the nfferi||t* Providence Journal.

WORK OF A TORNADO. row Uojm Killed at the Illinois Institution for the Feeble Minded—A Party of Twenty-One Takes Shelter In an Old Cow Barn, and the Structure Goes Down. Lincoln, 111., June IS.—At 8:45 p. m., following- two days and one night of intense heat, with the murcnry ranging from 82 to 100 degrees, a terrible storm passed over this city and county, causing loss of life and property. The grounds of the state institution for feeble-mined children and the farm connected therewith received the full force of the storm. At the institution the roofs of the north wing, the custodial building and the powerhouse were partially blown off, and a dozen huge walnut and elm trees were twisted and thrown around like straws in an angry flood. The loss to the state is heavy, but there was no loss of life. At the farm, two miles south of the institution, a large cow barn, constructed in 1894 at a cost of $3,000. collapsed like an egg shell in the hand of a strong man, catching 26 boys and two men, killing four and severely injuring three. •The dead are: Sylvester Baker, age 15. James O’Brien, age 13. Neal McKenzie, age IS. ;■ Castle Le Baron, age 16. . All of Chicago, and pupils of the institution. The injured are: Jacob Wilmert, farm superintendent, hurt about the head and believed to be fatally injured. Lemuel Gleason, class attendant, back and lower limbs injured. Henry Berger, Willie Withem aqd Willie Fisher, pupils, severely, though not dangerously, hurt. - - —■ At nine o'clock this morning William Sehellpepper, an attendant, was ordered to leave the institution and take 21 boys to the farm to pick peas, but declined, and tendered his resignation, to which incident he probably owes his life. A substitute was secured in the person of Lemuel Gleason, who, with the 31 boys, departed wi what they deemed an outing. They left in high glee with baskets packed with good things to eat, performed their work on the farm with cheerfulness, and at two o’clock were given permission to go to the creek near by and indulge in bathing. The storm came up suddenly, aud, by command of their attendant, the crowd ran to the barn for shelter. This was a huge structure, 174x28 feet, containing 40 tons of hay. It was built on a cheap plan, with box sills 2x3 inches. No sooner had they entered the death trap than the wind struck it, and the entire building fell in. There was a stampede, all escaping except the four caught, who were instantly killed when close to the doors. Lemuel Gleason, attendant, who was with the boys when the crash came, saved several by his bravery and coolness. Oblivious of his own safety, he rescued several, and was found ^on top of ft boy. pinioned down by timbers, saving the boy, and receiving severe injuries himself. The farm superintendent, Jacob Wilmert, left the barn when struck by the storm, and was struck down by flying timbers. The storm came from the northwest at a time when the mercury marked 94 degress. A great bank of clouds came rolling and tossing like a huge sea billow, rising and falling as it swept along, obscuring vision by a cloud of dust, and followed quickly by one of the hardest downfalls of rain of 20 minutes’duration ever seen in this conntv. The storm appeared to be in two sections, dividing a few miles west of the institution, in which are nearly 700 inmates, including officers and attendants. The division of the storm's forces alone saved the institution from complete destruction and a dreadful loss of life and property. The officers of the institution. Doctors Atherton and Barnett, superintendent and assistant superintendent, and Chief Clerk Whitlock were on the ground early caring for the injured, looking up those that escaped and directing the removal of. the dead. The storm is reported to have been severe in the country, with probabilities of severe destruction o! property and life. In the city the loss is considerable. *

KANSAS VILLAGE DEMOLISHED. Every Uoqm la the Town of Hotel Swept Away by Wind. Larxed, Kas., June 18.—A cyclone swept through the northwestern part of the county between six and seven o’clock last nights Rosel, a small village on the Jetmore extension of the Santa Fe, 18 miles west of here, was struck and almost completely wiped out of existence. Two grain elevators and every house in the place were swept away. At X»p»rrllle, I1L Napekvllxx. 111., June 18.—Naperville and vicinity were visited by a heavy downpour of rain this morning. For two hours the rain came down in a regular cloudburst, flooding cellars and basements, while portions of the business streets were from six to eight inches under water. The wind assumed the proportions of a tornado at some places, tearing up trees, leveling fences, etc. The lightning struck several dwellings. At Joliet, 111. Joliet. 111., June 18.—A heavy wind and electrical storm struck Joliet at five o'clock this morning. At that hour it was as dark as at midnight. The mercury fell within a few minutes to 60 degrees, but during the storm summer hest and icy blasts alternated. Trees, awnings and windows were wrecked. Mattoox. 11L, June 18.—At five o’clock this afternoon the city was visited by a heavy windstorm, which did considerable damage. Several hone were struck by lightning.

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