Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 August 1897 — Page 4

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®kr£ ikt Cmratg graroat By H. McC. STOOPS. Poe Year, in advance. .91 B Blx Months, in advance.. Entered at the poctofflc* in Petersburg for transmission through the mails ** scedndMam matter. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1897. Pike county ha* natural gas, ‘oil and ,ooaL What other county iu Indiana can say as much? This county is the richest In the point of minerals of any in the gtate. The city weeklies don't publish your .church notices, obituaries of your friends or items of interest to your locality exclu - sively, witfcyrut pay, therefore your home paper should he the first for you to favor, its your best friend and to try to give your patronage to others is wrong. Laso&inumk.v all over the country ate aow demanding that they receive an increase in wages since the new tariff bill .went into effect. If this robber tarriff now was enacted to protect the laborer he should Mow receive an increase in wages equal to that benefit which the robber trusts have received. The people are now getting the rosy aide ,of the Klondfke gold craze. Next spring, when the gold hunters return, if some of them ever do alive, there will be other Stories of the famous gold field. There is jew question but what there is plenty of goid there, but starvation and the severe cold weather will catch many a prospector before next spring. Farmers are selling their wheat under a { M*w law this year which promises to give general satisfaction. The law does away With the test which has been used the past few years by grain merchants and millers pod substitutes the standard half bushel measure furnished by the United States. A purchaser of wheat is required, in making the test, to nse the half bushel measure and a straight edged stick, the latter to be used to level the whcft in said measure. No Other test shall be uaed. The penalty for violation is a fine of not more than $10 to which may be added six months in jail. It is a very bad tariff bill. It is the very worst tariff bill ever written. It takes more from the people in proportion to what it gives the treasury than any other tariff bill ever framed. It gives more to the trusts and monopolists than any other, and gives it with less excuse than was ever before known. There has been no pretense in its passage of answering the cry of "‘infant industries.” There has not even been the plea of revenue necessity, for the most strenuous advocates of the bill have ad-1 milted that for at least a year to come it cannot produce an adequate revenue while its effects after that must depend upon trade conditio us not now to be foreseen.— Hew York World (dem.)

Governor Pingree, republican of Michigan, last Saturday setat the following to the officials at Washington City: **I regard the duty on lumber, hides and! sugar as unrepublican, unpatriotic and unfair. The lumber now used goes largely into small homes and farmhouses and to a class already greatly overtaxed. Hie laborer; wears twice as many shoes as the millionaire and must contribute twice as much for the tax on hides. He must use as much sugar and pay as much toward the duty on sugar. “It is grossly onfair to make the poor pay as modi per capita as the rich towards the support of the government. Property and not human stomachs should he searched. Property is protected by oar laws and should pay for its protection.” Pm county will in all probability have a thorough system of railroads. This is what the people need about as much as anything else. To make a people and county prosperous there most be plenty of work. |f two or more railroads should be built there is no question but what this vast coal territory would be more readily developed pod give employment to thousands of men. With the finding of natural gas and oil here, it has given railroad companies a chance to think favorably of the scheme to build railroads through this oounty. The pounty needs better railroad facilities and should manufacturers locate In the oounty they would no doubt come the sooner if the facilities for shipping were improved. The people should talk the matter up and by all fpnans give the proper encouragement for Hyagkhjes of railroad.

WaiuuMr ®** T®rHL In no interview on the tariff, prosperity, I't, ex-Post mas ter-General Wanamaker who recently criticized McKinley’s administration, said: “Whatever else April, Mar, June ami July of tips year did, they did hot improve the tariff bill n<jr assist the treasury that now confesses that it w^uts money so badly that it must set back the clock 16 hours to get 9100,000 from importers reassessed for goods passed on the last day.” “What is your idea of the correct principle upon which to form a perfect tariff bill, Mr. Wanamaker?” “The chief end of an American man, if he is a congressman, * was the reply, “is to know how to rightly assess on imports a sufficiency to make the Uuited States the favored nation for employment—just that and nothing more. If necessities of the United 8tates government require more than this the revenue should be raised from other sources. Eventually the tariff must be equalised for all sections, and sit evenly cm each of the four corners of the country, and not bear too heavily over the middle. Three years isn’t long enough to fully try the Dingley tariff. I would like to impress this fact Half of three years will be passed before the over imports are used up and all the industries are under way again. “Has not prosperity already come, then?” queried the reporter. “Surely you do not mean to have 449 believe that you think prosperity has coo*? over night, so to speak,” replied Mr. Wanamaker. “The four-year-old star of hope has simply given away to the two brighter stars of ‘confidence’ and permission to use American capital at home in employing American workingmen,’ but it wjllget fully started again. It will do no good to spend time in picking out the flaws of the Dingley bill and saying what ought to have been and what might have been better. Let us I look at the good that is in it. It is now the j established tariff of the government, and the sooner we adjust its best provisions available and such clauses as are unsatisfactory, as little hurtful as possible, the sooner the country will feel the throb of, new life and start 00 its onward bound of prosperity.” Wheat and fiold. The gold newspapers so far presume on the ignorance of their readers as to publish the statement that while we have an unusually large crop of wheat in the United States the foreign crops are short and that the price will consequently be high, and at the same time they argue that this proves that the gold standard is responsible for the! advance in wheat. If the gold standard advances prices at all, or permits them to advance, the movement would be general and would effect real estate and property of every other description in every part of the country, regardless of local conditions. The advance in stocks of corporations, and especially trust stocks, is easily explained. The earnings o^the railroads depend on the tonuage to a great extent. The trusts have been depending on tariff legislation in their favor which the Dingley bill gives them. This explains the advance in these lines, and the advance in the price of wheat can be accounted for by the short crops in foreign countries. But there has not been any general advance along the whole line, and there will not be any such advance under the gold standard that will be of more than temporary duration. There ought to be some reaction after such a long period of depression, on the same principle that the bow that is bent will spring back. The general tendency of prices has been, and will continue to be. down ware! as long as we have the gold standard. Though we will hare now aud then periods of reaction, j any temporary reaction will be followed by still greater depression in toe next downward movement.—Louisville Dispatch.

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After Pfftrybarc Gat. The passage by city council of the Neeley ordinance practically assures to Vincennes \ the great benefits of natural gas for fuel! and poser. For if our local companies should fail . find gas beneata the city, we can rely on the Neeley people piping the gas from Petersburg, a distanoe of £0 miles. The experts hare not the least doubt that Pike county has an exhaustless field of gas, j and by the same token, Vincennes will in a J very few months be pulsating with such a growth as she never had in all her long j career. The smoke from scores of factories | will rise as an evidence of,not aa ephemeral j boom, but a well established and permanent advancement that will place Vincennes far: up in the list of W*edieg Hooster cities,*— I Vincennes Son. The Mart mini Disease. It is not generally known that more adults die of kidney trouble than any other disease. ; When the first symptoms of this disesis sppeSr. no time should be lost in taking Foley’s Sidney Chin, which is guaranteed [ or money refunded. Bergen A tHipbant. a

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WAsaimtoB, August 2,1997. The republicans hare other troubles than those which will be made by the new tariff ahead of them. They are going to have no end of worry over finance in the near future. It is an open secret that there is a serious difference of opinion in the cabinet on the advisability of committing the administration and the party to the retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes. Secretary Gage, as the personal representative of the bankers and ultra gold men, will make a hard fight to commit the administration and party to the retirement of those notes, although he knows as well as anybody that no such legislation can be put through during the life of the present Congress, because of the silver majority in tbeSenate. Proof that Mr. McKinley is afraid,of this question may be found in the careful manner in which he avoided oommitting himself in his special message to Congress asking for authority to appoint £ currency commission. Mr. McKinley has been everything on the money question. He voted for the free coinage of silver in J&77, and as late as the Fifty-first Congress, he voted and spoke for the Windom alter bill and the Sherman substitute therefor. Me didn't want the gold standard platform of last year's republican convention. It is doubtful if he knows what he wants now. He prefers to trim and to wait, but Secretary Gage intends, unless he is prevented, to submit to Congress in his annual report the outlines of a bill .that would perpetuate the single gold standard, not because he thinks it «;ill pass, but because he wishes to commit the administration and the republican party. Members of the administration still in Washingtoti, are somewhat worried over the results.of the new tariff as far as they have become apparent. They did not like the shutting down of those big New England cottop mills, and some of them went as far as tc say that the mill owners should have been willing to keep on running their mills, even if they lost money, to help along the republican party. They like even less the story of increased prices for almost everything but labor that comes from every direction. Speaking of this phase of the matter a prominent Philadelphia business man, now in Washington, said: M1 hear] that a general rise in prices is to take place, and that people may prepare to pay more for their dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, and all articles of household necessity. If this is going to k«a so. I predict tremendous discontent and dissatisfaction among the people. In flush times there would be no complaint, but when commodities rise in value aud the volume of money is not increased, the common people are bound to suffer, especially when, as now, there is no chance of an advance in wages. The upshot of the matter will be a revolt against the political party that passed the law which made dearer all things the consumer is bound to buy, without doing anything to increase the ability of the consumer to purchase the necessaries of life. If the republican party hasn’t a very rough row to hoe.theu I am utterly without ability as a prophet.” Some of the civil service cranks are doing so much shouting over Mr. McKinley’s extension of the civil service law to a few of the small custom house employes, that they have overlooked his exemption from those rules of numerous important places iu the customs and internal revenue service. His amendments to the rules, prohibiting the discharge of gore mine ut employes, except for cause and only upon written charges, has. of course, been warmly received in Washington,where so many people are* pecuniarily interested in a life tenure of office, but if the country endorses the idea I will miss my guess. With a life tenure of office, there will necessarily come in a few years a civil pension list. Both ideas are undemocratic and un-American, creating as they do a privileged clans. If it had not been for the social influences of Washington, there would never have been any civil service law, and when the same influences were brought to bear on Mr. Cleveland to secure a life tenure for those in office, he positively refused to make the amendment that Mr. McKinley has now made. Senator Gorman seldom talks for publication, but without vi dating confidence, I can say that be is preparing to make the fight of his life to restore Maryland to the democratic column, and that he is absolutely confident that he will succeed and be re-elected to the Senate.

Farmers’ Institute. The farmers of the southern part of the county will hold a summer institute and basket picnic at Pleasantrilie, on Thursday, August 19. Prof. W. C. Lattaof Purdue University Superintendent of Fanners’ Institute, will be here on that day to tell us something about what Purdue is doing for the fanners. Other speakers will he present. Let us all lay aside our cares and toils and spend one day in social and intellectual enjoyment. We would be glad to have some Sunday School choir or chorus furnish music for the occasion. Any boy or girl that can furnish a declamation will receive our earnest thanks. By older of Committee. Condensed Testimony. Charles B. Hood, broker ami manufacturer’* agent, Columbus. Ohio, certifies that Dr. King s New Discovery has no equal aa a cough remedy. J. D. Brown prop. St James hotel. Ft- Wayne. Indiana, testifies that he was cured of a cough of two years standing, caused by la grippe, by Dr. King's N«f Discovery. B. F. Merrill, Bafdwmsviiie. Mass., says that be bas used and reeomended It and never knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures Mrs. Ben>mf:»« of *±2 E 35th St. Chicago, always keeps it at band aad baa no fear of Man* because it instantly relieves. Free trial bottles at J. Adams 4 Son's drug HWF*

Warm weather prevailed daring the days and cool weather during the nights. Frequent local rains- fell in the central .and southern portions, bat in the northern portion rain is needed in most localities. Corn is growing nicely and has a good, fresh green color ; it stands well and is beginning to shoot and tassel; in some fields in the ! northern portion, rain 4s needed to secure s good crop. Millet is growing well and heading nicely; young clover is growing well and is beginning to bloom. Late potatoes are doing well in most fields; they need rain in the northern portion, where bugs are doing much damage. Melons, cabbage, tomatoes, beans, other vegetables and other garde? truck are in good conditio® and growing well. Apples have fallen o£ much, and in the northern portion the crop is not good, but in the central and southern portions a fair crop is still possible. The blackberry crop is immense, but there is no market for thorn and many berries are spoiling. Good crops of rye and barley are being threshed. Wheat threshing continues, and the yield is better than was expected; rains retarded threshing in localities of the central and southern portions.. A good crop of oats is being harvested; in the southern portion they are all in the shock, and threshing has begun; the heads are well filled and the berry is plump but the straw is short. An immense hay crop has been secured, although in localities of the southern and central portions much hay was spoiled by the rains. Early potatoes yield only lightly. Stock is in good condition, and pasturage remains good; in the northern portion pastures need rain. In Bartholomew county hundreds of bogs died of cholera. Plowing for winter wheat progresses slowly in the southern portion. Did l'ou Ever. Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not. get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has beeu found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure ot all femalecomplaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have loss of appetite, constipation, headache, fainting spells, nervous sleepless, excitable, melancholy or troubled witn dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and strength are guaranteed by its use. Large bottles only Jifty cents at J. R. Adams Jt Son’s drug store.

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Notice of Administrator’s Sale of Real Notice is hereby given that the undersigned administrator of the estate of George whitman, deceased, by virtue of an order of the Pike Circuit court of Pike county, Indiana, made at the February term, IS97, of said court, directing him to sell the real estate of the decedent therein described, will sell at private sale on and after Saturday, August 28th, 1897, until Saturday, September 4th, 1897, The following described real estate of said decedent in Pike county. Indiana, to-wit: The southeast quarter or section it*, town i south, range S greet. Said land will be sold in forty aero tracts to suit purchaser, where the same can he done without Injury to the value of the residue. Bids wifi be received at any time between sail dates by the undersigned and sales will be made upon said lands. No bid for private sale ml less than tpe appraised value of the land bid for will be received by said adsplnlstrstor, as no private sale can be made for lees than the appraised value of the land so sold. The appraisement of said lands can be seen by calling on said administrator And by the further direction of said order so made by said court, said administrator on Saturday, September 4th. 1897,2 At tea o’clock a. m-t will sell at public auction on said lands, all of said lands remaining up to that time unsold, for not ton than two-thirds of the appraised veins thereof. All said sales will be In discharge of all liens against said real estate. Tius op Sajlk.—All mid sale*, both public and private, will be made upon the following terms, to-wit: The purchaser to pay onethird of the purchase price In cash on day of sale, and execute bis two notes In >qual amounts for the residue thereof, doe and payable in nine and eighteen months from date of sale, respectively. both bearing six per cent Interest per annum from date of sale, and attorney's fees, and waiving relief ftom valuation or appraisement laws, with gooa and sufficient personal security thereon to the approval of the undersigned administrator. Dakivs C. Barkxtt, Administrator. s. G. Davenport, atty. 1M Notice of Administration. Notice Is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Pike County, 8tate of Indiana, administrator, of the estate of Sarah E. Bailer, late of Pike county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Estate.

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