Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 July 1897 — Page 4

POWDER Absolutely Pure* Celebrated for It* treat leavening atrength And helpfulness. Aa-ures the food a«ain»t Alnm and «U forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands, Koyai. BaIISO Pow*>br Co.. Naw York * Sir fikt Cruntij fnwrnrt £' 1 ' “ ..' * ■r n. Sec. stoops. One Tear, tn advance... .*1 * Six Month*.In advance. ■ ••• » Entered at the postofllce In Peterabnrg for transmlsalon through the mall* a* seeondelaa* matter. FRIDAY, JULY 16,1897. CognoEXCE and iwosperity la* arrived in this country after much anxious waiting —300,000 starving miners' compelled to strike. And t© think of Senator Hanna’s men are among the number.

It is possible that in next week’s issue of the Democrat will be given an account of the striking of gas in well No. 2. Well No. 8 will probably tome in the week following. Those who have been auxiously waiting for the ‘‘drilling in® of the wells will be accommodated as above stated. Republican editors and republican papeating or pap-hunting politicians are getting very sensitive on the subject of McKinley prosjR'riiy. Every reference to the ever promised and ever vanishing McKinley prosperity stirs their gall. They; enjoyed immensely the work of lying to the voters and like all other disciples of Annan ias, they never forgive the people they hare deceived. The little squabbles the democrats of this county arv indulging in just itow do not ] augur well for the future. There is trouble ahead. On the other hand, the republicans j have settled ail their differences and when; the pest election comes will present a solid j front.—Petersburg Press. Here goes the editor again whistling j through his hat. In the last campaign it was all squabbles in the democratic party in Pike county. But when the votes were ] counted out it showed that harmony had j existed and instead of a republican victory j the tables were turned into a sweeping victory for the democratic county ticket.: Squabbles, did you say. About the only j political squabble there has been in Pike! county was among republican candidates ] for the Petersburg postofRce. The Raleigh (N.C.) Caucasian in a recent article on the fallacy of this tariff discussion, with which the gold bugs and their allies seek to smother the leading issue of the day. truly says: “The old parties have a used the tariff as a political shuttle-cock for more than a quarter of a eeutury. Times are always bard (no matter whether we have a democrat or republican tariff) when money is scarce and dear. It is the gold standard and monopoly rule that has brought hard times and misery, and no tariff tinkering can restore prosperity. Prosperity will never return until the amount of legal tender money is increased and the robbing dutches of monopoly are taken from the throats of the people. To emphasise this vital fact, the populist fcongressmeu and senators will not. be a party to tariff legislation. It is a sham and a snare to side-track the real and vital issues.”

J’ikt* County Soil. It is said by man; capitalists who have visited here that Pike (.*0001; is one of the richest that the; have ever visited in point of soil and minerals. To make a long story short it is only necessary to note the following: Pike county lias apparently an inexhaustible supply of natural gas. Pike county has immense deposits of bituminous coal. Pike county has immense beds of clay for pottery and earthenware. Pike county has rich beds of fire brick c*»y. Pike county is noted for its blue grass pastures for stock raising. Pike county has never failing pore crystal springs Of soft water. Ber great interests of mining, agricultural, stock nosing, and manufacturing will be developed with marked rapidity in a very short time. Wheat, com, oats, barky, rye and buckwheat on this fertile soil field enormous harvests with a complete failure never known. The surplus anuuaily produced In Pike county is very large, and as the great coal deposits are bring developed vary rapidly the miners are multiplying, and the merchant and manufacturer will come to pater to the wants of the growing populat ion. Visit Petersburg and Pike county before m&ns b 0*» location.

The McKinley organs are at their old tricks again. They are trying to fool the people into the belief that McKinley has a | well matured policy for revolutionising the | currency system and bringing order out of the financial chaos for which their party is alone responsible. * « This time it is a commission into whose hands McKinley will place the task of ‘•revising the currency.” A few weeks ago he sent a “commission” to finrope to sound European governments on the question of international bimetallism. This is the policy to which his party is committed in a half hearted way, by its St. Louis platform. ! That same instrument also binds the party to maintain the single gold standard until j Europe consents for us to go back to the financial system under which the United | States grew rich and powerful and threatened soon to lead the procession of nations. The Congress of the United States alone has the power and1 authority to revise or in any way amend the nation’s currency system. This power and authority McKinley would take from Congress and invest in a commission of his own choosing. The purpose is two-fold. First, the McKinley plan is to obscure the currency issue in a fog of personal obligation in which he would uot be directly involved, and, second, to save himself from the embarrassing situation in which he is sure to be placed by the next Congress, that will be democratic and that wilt send to him, or to the Senate a bill for the remonetisation of silver. - , There is excellent ground for the suspicion, however, that the president’s purpose is uot as broad as either of these plaus suggests. Behind his proposal to lay before Congress, now jest on the point of adjourning, a plan for the betterment of the country's fiscal system is a desire to help his friend Banna. The boss of the republican party has a tremendous fight on his hands. He is running for election to the Senate on a platform reaffirming the principles enunciated at St. Louis and commending the administration of President McKinley. The Ohio voters are asking Hanna not only about that promised prosperity, but also what McKinley is going to do for bimetallism. Six months of his administration have slipped by. No boom has made its appearance .111(1 the "president has. been silent as the tomb on the currency question. A “terse" message to Congress now ou that question, though it be clothed in terms whose ambiguity would bring hope and solace to the weak minded of both sides, would give Hanna some campaign material. This he sadly needs. The McKinley organs are to help in this game. Already they are indulging in surmises as to the strength of the message on the side of bimetallism. It is a petty piece of polities in keeping with McKinley’s and Hanna’s methods. Because they fooled the country once with those methods they will try the game again.—St. Louis Republic.

Attention, Old Soldiers. The manufacturers have instructed Bergen & Oliphaut to give a bottle of 956. HSC of Foley’s Colic Cure free to me first soldier of the civil war that applies for same. It is the great remedy for chrome diarrhoea, cramp colic and all bowel eomplaiuts. j Coni Miners Strike. y Nearly if not quite all the miners in tndia&a are out orr a strike. The miners are all out in Daviess and Sullivan counties and at Princeton the miners have laid aside their tools. Nearly all the miners iu other states are out and the strike is now quite general throughout the country. In some instances the operators have acceded to the demands and the miners have resumed work. Up to this time there has been no violence or destruction of property, and the men are determined.to win. i As far as can be learned there is no strike among the miners in tins county, the operators paying all that has been asked and in. some instances more. It is to be hoped that all will move along smoothly in this county between operators and the miners. Quirk Belief for Asthma. Foley's Honey aud Tar is guaranteed to give prompt relief in all cases of asthma. Do aot class this with other medicines that have failed to gt^ relief. Give it a trial. Bergen & Oiiphant.

B. 1. I’, t . £m>N*»b to Chattanooga. All lines loading to Louisville, in oontieei tion with the Southern railway, will sell I excursion tickets to Chattanooga and return at less than one fare for the round trip. | Tickets will be sold 13th to 15th. good rei taming until July 21st inclusive. Tickets j can be extended to August 15th by depositing with juint agent at Chattanooga prior to July 19th. The Southern railway is the only-through car line from Louisville to Chattanooga. For schedule of trains and ■ further information, apply to neatest ticket | agent or addm* Win. H. Tayloe, assistant | general passenger agent, Louisville, Kentucky. _ 3-5 As the watermelon season will now soon ; open, we give the following from an eastern exchange: “Eating watermelons is an art, learned only by experience. As a * desert, it is mat a success. It falls to heavy I aa a dinner. Like a pretty girl. it is best by itself; it looses half of its charm by . being mixed in a crowd. The melon should be cool; should be ripe; its flesh should jUbtasli like a graduate; Us heart should glow like s sun-kissed cloud at the close of day, and its temperature should be as j chilly as the smile of a Boston belle. When j you gat sack a treasure do not bother with I other food. Open it, gate on it, bury your face in its sweetness and let your appreciation ran riot.1*

(From our rkdIat correspondent.) Washington, .July 18,1897. “Wabbling William” Is therather uncomplimentary name that lias been applied to Mr. McKinley by prominent members of bis party, because of bis lightning changes of mind in connection with that special message to Congress asking for authority to appoint a currency commission, (hie day he would tell the prominent members of his party who called to protest against his sending in the message at this session that he had made up his mind to withhold it until the regular session and make the recommendation in his annual message,, but the next day, when the agents of the banking interests put the screws to him and reminded him of his campaign promises and their campaign contributions, he would announce to them that the message should go in. He kept this up for several days, much to the disgust of those who applied the epithet of “Wabbling William*’ to him and did not finally decide the matter until Secretary Gage, the personal representative I of the bankers, had secured the assistance of the rest of the cabinet to help brace his I backbone up. The authority to appoint I a currency commission will act be given to I Mr. McKinley at this session of Congress. | nor at the next. It is possible that a bill creating such a commission may be passed at the next session, but it will uoi give Mr. McKinley the choosing of its members. If there is to be such a commission the silver democrats will see to it that it shall not be packed in the interest of the single gold standard. Mr. C. E. Somers, who was sergeant-at-arms of the Kentucky Senate at the time that Governor Bradley ordered out the militia to preserve order, and who is conceded to be good authority on the politics of his state, is now visiting Washington. In reply to questions he said: “The silver democracy, which is the regular democracy, will win by 85,000 majority. Our majority may be mueh higher for the democrats are determined to administer a stem rebuke to their enemies within the party as well as without. The present state administration has been a rank failure, and the voters will i take advantage of the coming election to j give it a Fitzsimmons blow. By 1000 there won’t be left enough of single gold standard democracy in Kentucky to utilize as a i historial reminiscence.”

1 he republican senators ana representatives haye succeeded in convincing Mr. McKinley that something must be done for their office seeking const ituents, and he has promised to shortly issue an executive order removing a number of desirable federal positions from the control of the civil service rules. Mr. McKinley was not hard to convince, as he has been as anxious as anybody to let down the bars to the offices, but, having always posed as a civil service reformer, he wanted Congress to order him to act. There are reasons—substantial, too —why Congress has not done so, and is not likely to do so; hence his agreement to act independently. The death of Senator Harris of Tennessee, whose funeral took place ill the Senate chamber on Saturday, removed a striking figure from the arena of national politics, one whose ideas of personal integrity were as old fashioned and as straight laced as his ideas of party fealty, and who didn’t have one set of ideas for public use and auother set to govern his private actious. During his half century of public life, lsham G. Harris was a ctedit to his state and to the democratic party, and was uever guilty of au act that even his most bitter political enemy—he had no personal enemies—could cast suspicion upon. Having said that much, it is needless to add that Senator Harris died a poor man. The democratic senators and representatives who are members of the conference committee on the tariff bill, know no more of what that committee is doing than the rankest outsider does. The republicans informed them as soon as the conference begun that .they wished to fight their differences out among themselves without having anybody else present, and, of course, the democrats retired and remained out of the conference until sent for. The republicans evidently regard Join's of Nevada, as one of themselves, as he neg only was not asked to retire, but is taking a very prominent part in the conference as an able assistant to Senator Aldrich in championing the interests of the sugar trust. It is said the republicans expect to reach an agreement by the middle of the week. If they do, the tariff bill will become .a law before the end of the week, and Congress will at once adjourn.

Satire to Tmdm. • On the third Saturday in Jul v an examination in the Indiana reading circle will ■ be held at Winslow, covering the courses of ; study of the past four years. Any person i successfully passing the examination on ! the work of any four years will receive a diploma from the reading circle board which will exempt him from examination in the science of education and literature for life and professional license, Also an examination in the two leading circle < books of the past year will exempt the applicant from examination in literature and | science of examination for county license for the next year. Very respectfully yours, W. & Cons, Chanty Supt. Only fS.60 te St. Louis, Missouri. The L. E. & St. L. R. it. from Oakland City and Winslow. Tickets on sale ior night train Saturday July $4tb. Good returning on all regular trains of Monday July 26th. Two it vs in the city for jhamaens or pfaagnie. Don’t miss this opportunity to visit friends. For full particulars address, E. D, Stratton T.P. A. t Evansville, lad.

For July Weather. Don’t grunt and sweat this zerc weather, shake yojir winter duds and buy one of our nioe, cool Arctic Suits; take life easy and one day you will strike it rich. Men’s nice Linen Suits, perfect fitting, nicely made; there's years of solid comfort in one of these suits...i Men’s nice Flannel Coat and Vest, pure soft wool---- • Men’s light, cool Lustre Coats, worth $2.00. Men’s Silk Lustre Coats and Vests for nobby dressersMinisters’ extra length Lustre Coats_ .... .. Serge Coats and Vests, extra nobbv for swell dressers ... Men’s Black Vests,nice and cool Men’s soft Negligee Shirts.easy and cool...

We Are Great On hot weather goods. In fact up-to-date for nobby dressers. If you was to see our stylish Chocolate or Green Shoes, the swell Shoe of the summer, you’d buy—just like-others have done, and we would give you 10 free shine tickets with them, entitling you to have tuern shined 10 ^ times free., | Star Clothing Company, ^ Up-to-Date Clothiers. \ restore open Saturday night until . f 10:30 o'clock. » f Job pni)tit)g. Speaking of Printing. Our business is' Printing. What is Necessary. Two things are absolutely necessary in Job Printing—good stock and good workmen. What You Get Here. You want both. ‘That’s what you get here. Up-to-date workmen—*07 printers, if you please. You don'# want printing that looks as if it hatf been printed before Noah built the ark ? Of course you don’t. Good Material, Good Workmen. There is no other business where skill —art if you please—is so necessary as in a printing office. Some offices have good material but poor workmen— blacksmiths. Others have good workmen but poor material. Neither can turn out good work. The Two Combined. Did you ever try us5 If you have you know that we have both material at.d skill—you get .the two best combined for the price of one. Your Moneys Worth. You want the best you can get for your money, dcn’t you. Most people do. And here is where you get it. Not Our Style. If our prices seem lower than our competitors don’t think that we will slight the wor;k. That’s not our style. But don’t thick we'll lose anything. We'll put iu a little profit—not much to be sure—but a little.

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Fine Shoes, Slippers, Summer Dress Goods, Underwear, Clothing, and Straw hlats. All of which will be closed out at cost. When we say “at coat” we mean AT COST. To be convinced of these facts come and see and get our prices. Below we quote a few of the many bargains. Chaliies, all that ace left, 4c per yard. . V Prints, Turkey Bed, 4^c per yard. Shirting, good quality, 4c per yard. - Jackson Summer Corsets at 41c. Ladies* Vests,, 5c .each. Ladies’ Black Hose, 5c per pair. j Ladies’ Black Silk Mitts. 13c; worth 25c.

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I have som« of the best pigs on hands now that I ever owned. 1 have 12 gilts ami 4 males that are tiptop, sired by my great show boar, Boone, No. 2095. Among the tot are two extra December boars that are large enough for service. Prices reasonable. M.L.Heathman, Glezen,{pd

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