Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 September 1897 — Page 1

" jam &\)t pike Cotmtjj memocrat. VOL. XXVIII. PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1897. NO. 18

MOST ATTEND SCHOOL The Truancy Law Will go Into Effect at Once. Something About the Fellow Who! is Always Kicking. Am OpiuiftH ky the AtUrafr Oeaeral «b Lmh Pm. Olhrr l«eui% •> !fcew» •* Ittt|H>rUnrr.

TMI AXT Orrii'CKS. Three HmiflrcA mm+ FU»r Officer* Areen tke Track. In ever? -district, hamlet, rillage, town and city throughout Indiana actio preparations are t**gun this week for the opening ©f schools. Many of them opened tins week, The opening is especially important because of enactments of the last legislature influencing educational wurk. With the convening of schools this mouth the new compulsory education Jaw will become operative. There is much speculation as to what will be the result. There are other new laws which wiil have a vital bearing on school work this year and they, too, wih demand do-*© at Ur nt mu and study. The entire sissii system of ludiau* has been shaken up and will start out this year on *n entirely new basis. During the last month officers have been appointed for every count? in the state, whose duty will be to see that ail children between the ages of 8 and 14 years are in eehtol. No c- unty in the state will have less than two of these officers, whin- most of them wiil have five, keeping an eye ou truants and also on parents who are in the hai«t of kee|>tng,childreti away from schools or hiring them to fs**tories. These officers have been dubbed “kid catchers.” These are a few of the pre^w.rations which have been made for the opening of the schools under the new compulsory education law. According to this law all 'children over the

age of Sami under the age of 15—unless excused because of physical or mental incapacity—mast be in school during the regular term. Parents encouraging children in disobeying this law or of keeping their children out of school are subject to imprisonment and to a fine of $10 to $50. Incorrigible children are to be disciplined, but if it is found impossible to handle them they ate to be placed in a “parental house,” to be provided in every section, and there corrected. That is the substaace of the new Indiana compulsory education law. Other states have had laws of this nature hut none have been quite as rigorous as this one. The anti-child labor law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to employ in plant or factory any child under the age of 15 yea's. This is intended to co-operate with the compulsory education law. It is thought that this stops up a great hole which has been a drawback to the Indiana school system. Children have been placed in factories as soon as they were able to do light work and have been robbed of their education. The evil has become great, especially throughout the gas belt, in Indianapolis and in South Bond. One of the first duties of the truant officer will be to visit ail faeT tories to see if school children are employed.;

If they are they must tie taken out at oncft and placed iu schools; if not able to stand the expense the county is to stand it. Children are to have an education whether they warn it or not: whether their parents | would rather saeriicethem towage earning or whether they ar- too poor to stand the expeuw of going to even the public schools, j The school population of Indiana for the last term was 734.$40. Of this number only 543.665 were enrolled and the arerage daily attendance was only 401,70S. These figures show the great number of ehidrcn out of school. If 100.000 more children are brought into the school buildings of the state during the coming winter the uew lawwill have accomplished a great good. It will have warranted the expense which it neeeasitatea. Almost every eity of importance. it is thought, will have to build more school buildings and employ more teachers to handle the extra number of children. In many cities several buddings will have to be erected and the facilities greatly increased. But fbw cities have made moves iu this direction, preferring to see how the law operates. The number of trunnt officers for the state will reach about 350. Their pay is $2 f«r every day they work, which uieatts an expense of $100,000 a year to the state. Kxtra teachers will foot up a much greater bill and the expense of additional facilities arid of taking care of poor children will swell the total to enormous figures. Since the war ludiana has spent |1S0,000,000 f«*r public education. Her etluca

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tion&l bills now amount to about $6,000,000 annually, half of which is few the common school. The school property is valued at $30,000,000 and the productive school fund is more than $10,000,000. There is not a state in the Union that equals it, according to population, and few are as progressive. Last year the number of teachers employed was 14.884, of which 7,754 were females and 7,130 males. It is pretty certain ?that the records next year will not show 350,000 school children' not enrolled and that of those enrolled there will not be 137,000 absent. State Factory Inspector McAbee has been in the gas belt factory district personally making the rounds of all plants. It is understood that he is here upon the express \ orders of Governor Mount. He has found 1 children under 14 years of age on the pay | rolls of nearly every concern. He has noti- j tied the managers of the violation of the anti-child labor laws and warned them to dispense with this child labor at once. He is to make another round within the next two weeks and see that his instructions have been obeved.

Seine of the manufacturers are slow to act and it is claimed that some of the plants which hundreds of children are employed wmt have,to close down. Child labor h*s oceome as extensive in certain districts and certain trades that business has been adjusted to the low wage scale and it is now impossible for the manufacturers to change to a higher wage basis. It ts claimed that the enforcement of the law will work espe cially hard on toy manufacturers and bottle manufacturing houses, where hundreds of children are employed and who do the work better than a man possibly could do it. Many are obeying the inspector’s commands. but a few show a disposition to fight the law. They will be called upon by the truant officers who will require that the chiidreu be turned over to them. Many suits may result from the introduction of the new order of things. It is said that Governor Mount is to take a personal interest in the enforcement of the new Saws. Both are pet ideas of his. lie stands for advancement in education at all hazards, as his letter of a week ago indicated. He not only has Factory Inspector Me A bee out warning manufacturers, but he has other instieetors working along the same lines. He has an idea that the best monument to his administration would be the foundation of a system which would insure every child, under any surroundings or any conditions a chance to acquire at least a rudimentary education. DO*’T BE A KMU kElt. A t'hrvuir tV*sisiui«t Isa Detriment to u (ouiutuiiit y. The following is sensible advice, which if more generally followed would make the world better and the people in it happier: j “A knocker is a fellow who isn’t satisfied with things in general and himself in

particular. He bates lo see anybody prosjter. He is no good at building up. He delights iu tearing down. If somebody starts in business the knocker is on hand with a mournful prediction of failure. If j he hears one man speak well of another the j knocker says. “You don't know him. If i you kuew what I know you'd think different. Knocker never has a good work for any- j body. He's out with his little hammer ail j the time. “Don't be a knocker. There's no fan in j it. It doesn’t pay. It won’t improve your | health. It can’t make you happy. It's! dead sure to spoil your digestion. There’s j nothing iu it. Don't be a knocker. Brace up. Brush your clothes. Smile. Look pleasant. Have a good wort! for: everybody. If yotyr neighbor makes a; start give him a boost. Don’t knock, j Kncourage him. Make him feel good, j When anybody mentions him speak well of I hun. That helps. Be a gentleman dou't i be a knocker' Don't criticise too freely. Don’t try to | refonn everybody. Reform yourself first. Then stop. Let others do their own reforming. Seif-information is best, anyhow. It lasts longer. It’s the real thing. Don’t go trying to make angels on earth. Do the best you can yourself. Time will do the! rest. Don’t keep too busy minding other people’s business. That’s what makes knockers. Mind your own. Don’t be a knocker. LOt?l ASfMH'IATt** FEES. A Ckaage •( View ai is I a car par alisa Fees. The following is from the Indianapolis Kews of last Thursday, and has reference to the new loan association being organised in this city: The Gas City building and loan association of Petersburg, sent a check for $12 to the secretary of state and demanded a charter. The association has a capital of $100,000, and had made a previous application for a charter to the secretary of state, who declined to issue it, saying that $12 was not enough to meet the state’s fees under the new law. The law went into effect on July 1, and Continued to Eighth Page. i

NEWS OF THE WEEK. A Batch of News From the . • Nation's Capitol. Results of the Dingley Tariff Law in Revenue.

The Use of Telephones by the Farming Community a 6«<>d Thing. Jt»i Wkltk Will W of littrtit to the katm. WASHIS6T0X LETTEB. Oor Beyalar (»rmy«itr*t Si-oils ia a Botch of Sews Such a hubbub has been raised about the construction that should be placed upon Sectiou 23 of the Dingley tariff law, imposing discriminating duties, which was amended by the conference committee in a way alleged to be more or less mysterious, and which has been referred to Attorney General McKenna for an official opinion, that Mr. McKinley has been asked to return to Washington at the earliest possible date, in order that he and the entire cabinet may , take a hand in determining the opinion that shall be given out by the Attorney General. $30,000,000 a year in revenue is involved in I this construction, and a possible demoralization of almost our entire foreign commerce. It is understood that Mr. McKinley has promised to return shortly, but has set no date. Attorney General McKenna, probably thinking it a reflection upon his legal ability to have the public know that this matter is to be discussed byMr. MeKinlev and his colleagues of the cabinet, has made a public denial that the opinion was being held back to await Mr. McKinley’s return. All the same, nobody expects the opinion to be rendered until Mr. McKinley returns and approves of it. A Kentucky democrat—John G. Woods of Louisville—has put a portion of the administration on* pms and needles bybringing a suit against the postmaster general to prevent his removal, without cause, from a position in the classified civil service. He obtained a temporary restraining order against his removal, and the

hearing was to have taken place Saturday, but the government asked lor a continuance of one week, and got it. The case will probably be appealed to the 17. S. supreme court, no matter how it may be decided. According to advices just received, Senator Burrows has spent the entire summer iu trying to smooth the way for hts own return to the Senate, and in placing obstacles in the path of Governor Pingrve, who thinks he would fid that senatorial chair much better than Burrows does, and he is not yet easy in his mind. Pingree has got Burrows where he has all the other Michigan republicans—afraid of him. The civil service commission has received such an avalanche of correspondence from tne army of would-be recruits for Uucle Sam's civil service, concerning offers made to furnish iuformatiou, for a fee, by private parties, that it has issued a circular letter containing the following pointed announcement: ‘*Xo person has any information of importance to applicants, concerning examinations which cannot ie obtained without cost from the commission. Ail claims to the contrary, therefore, are misrepresentations." The receipts of the government for the month of August, under the Dingiey tariff law, were $6,538,582 less than the receipts for August lSbfi, under the W ilson tariff law. It may be that the claims of the republicans as to the reveuue-producing qualities of the Dingiey tariff will be readied at sometime in the future, but the above figures show that they are, as yet, a long way from being realized. The republicans are showing how confident they are of carrying Ohio by colonizing voters there from West Virginia and other adjacent states. The -democrats are fully aware of what b being done in that line, and Bees Hanna's henchmen will find it much easier to carry men into Ohio and give them temporary work than it will be to regtsier and vote them. The Spanish minister is still keeping the revenue cutters of the U. 8. government busy hunting for Cuban filibusters. He informed Secretary Gage that the filibusters had abandoned Florida as a starting point and were preparing to send several expeditious front the Carolina const,and Secretary

Gage obediently issued an order to the commanders of all revenue cutters in Southern waters to keep an extra close watch ou the Carolina coast for filibusters. This sort of work must be more or less disgusting to the officers and men in our revenue marine service, but they have no choice in the matter. They must obey the orders of the secretary of the treasury, even if those orders are, dictated by the Spanish minister. TAKII'k' KESCLTS.

A Large Deficiency under (lie Ding* ley Tariff Laws. The first month’s operations of the Dingley bill hare produced a deficit larger even than democratic apprehensions hail nidi, eated or that expert opinion had foreseen. To be exact, expenditures for the month exceeded revenue® bv more than $25,000,000. The customs receipts for August this year were $6,087,708. The customs receipts for August of last year aggregated $12,329,495. The total receipts from all sources during August were $19,023,614. and for the two months of the present fiscal year $58,108,718. The total expenditures forthe month were $33,588,047, which included nearly $14,000,000 paid on account of pensions. The total expenditures for the fiscal year thus far bare been $83,580,237. Last year for the corresponding period the receipts were $54,559,305 and expenditures $77,790,144. These figures are valuable only as showing the difference between a democratic revenue tariff and a republican protective tariff. The duties levid by the Dingley bill exceed ou an average those of the Wilson bill nearly 20 per cent,and yet the deficit under t^e Dingle? law surpasses by more than $2,000,000 for the first fiscal period that of the Corresponding period of the Wilson law. This represents in concrete and unmistakable form the difference between democratic and republican government in the matter of taxation for revenue purposes. If the present rate of deficit continues, and there is no reason to think it will not, it is absolutely certain that the administration will have to resort to a bond issue in order to meet the government’s obligations or divert from the uses for which they were intended funds appropriated by Congress for river and harbor improvements.^ suggested by Senator Allison.one of the fathers of the Dingley bill in the Senate. This is a form of financiering not unknown to republican administration, but a form which will never receive the approval of the American people. Meantime, while the deficit is piling up, the “infant industries,” so tenderly cared for by the Dingleyites, are underselling England at its own doors and are driving Germany, Belgium and France oul of the Orient in sales of steel rails and other iron manufactures. To do this the whole population of the United States is taxed without a cent increase in the wages of labor or the multiplication of the opportunities for the employment of labor.

FARM PHONES Would fer a drf>l Convenience to tfee Fwnen. Kansas is credited with the production of many, novel ideas, innovations, political, social and economical, but one in the social line which has passed the experimental stage has everything to recommend it for general adoption in the rural districts of other states. The enforced Isolation of farmers’ wives has long been a topic for serious thought and discussiou, and any method by which its burdeusome loneliness can be lightened should be and is welcomed with a wide feeling of relief and satisfaction. The isolation and separatum from one's kind is unhealthy to both mind and body; insanity has received many victims from among the wives of farmers,-who work hard and have not the miud-easing resource of fellowship with other women, and many of the women of the farming communities have failed and lostsjhealth from no other cause than the lack of companionship. This idea originated in central Kansas among a number of ranches owned and cultivated by close friends ami relatives, and would work quite as well in Pike county. The farmers in that section,where the distances from house to house are greater than in the middle states, began experimenting with telephones, and this spring introduced a system of local communications which is proving a boon both to the farmers and their wives. The little railroad station is the ^central,” aud the connection with the various houses is made chiefly by means of the barbed wire fences, no insulating process being used, the only care taken being to see that there are no broken fences and to carry the wires across the roads by means of high poles, connecting again on the other side to the fenee wires. The cost of the instruments is |S each, and this constitutes the chief expense—small, indeed, when one thinks of the benefits derived. Mornings the women hold regular social gatherings by talking with one another over the lines, and the farmers themselves use the telephones for business

purposes, one farmer managing a cheese factory chiefly through the medium of hit telephone. The success of this experiment has led to the establishment of many others, and their further extension is but a matter of time. INSTITUTE RESOLUTIONS. The Teachers* lastitate U Pike Ceaatf Beeaifea. The committee selected by the teachers* institute held at Winslow last week submitted the following resolutions, which were adopted: Resolved, That we heartily appreciate the efficient labors of our present instructors; that the valuable thoughts suggested by Professors Johuson and Tomlin and the worthy instruction in music given by Prof. Black have been invaluable to us and if I closely applied by us in our schools this year will make hs better and more useful. Resolved, That we have noted the kind- > ness of our present superintendent and his ^efficiency in the discharge of his official duties. We feel that the trustees made no mistake iu his selection and that he made none in the selection of our present instructors.

Resolved; That we, in behalf of the teachers of Pike count; tender our most siucere thanks to the people of Winslow for so kindly opening their homes to us and inanitesting such great interest in our work by their presence at our meetings. Resolved, That we shall remember the kindness of those who furnished us an organ I at the school hou-e ana a piano at the church. That Miss Barnes and Nellie Young, F. C. ileuringet al. also have our grateful thanks lor assistance in our evening entertainments. Resolved, That we heartily endorse the action of our county school board in providing that the township graded schools shall be placed upon a different course of study, giving to them a higher plane of work; that principals of such schools shall pass examinations in certain .higher branches; that pupils shall pass directly from the district schools to the graded schools on completion of seventh jear work. Resolved.'That since the youths of the county stand iu need of instruction now as much as formerly; that since the efficiency of a teacher's work depends largely upon his pay, and since our *«>rk has been in- | creased by additional work, we believe that the multiplier should be again put back to two and one-fourth. Resolved, That the trustees are requested to furnish to each school district such of the young folks’ reading circle books as they may think proper. J. !>. Grimes, I Nona Scales, Lizzie Davidson, J- Com. W. F. Kisley, ' J. Z. Bell. j TOWNSHIP TKAt'BE S.

List #f Tfea** Who Will Track the Itu| 1«M tk* W later. T. C. Nelson, trustee, has made the following selection of teachers for Marion township for the school year, which begins Monday, October 11th: 5 No. 1. Sulphur Springs. A. V. Hostetler. No. 2. Velpen, W. F. Risley, graded. No. 2, Velpen. W. L. Survant, intermediate. No. 2,, Velpen, J. W.Chambers, primary. No. 8. Spraggins, L>. E. Taylor. No. 4, White Oak, P. D. Smith, g - No. 5. liogbraneh. Ira Tooley. No. 6. Lebanon. S. P. Borders. No. 7. Wibon, Lee Holland. No. 8. Daridsou. Tursa Miller. No. 9. Liberty, Michael Robinson. No. 10. Survant, Frank Brewster. Sol Johnson, trustee of Logan township, has made the following selection of teachers for the eomiug school year,) which begins Monday, September 20th: No. 1, Lida Hightower. No. 2, Krneet Wiison. No. 3. A. J. Loveless. No. 4, Andrew Allen. ; No. 5, II. B. BUixe. No 6, George Deffendall. No. 7, Dudley Swan. Ht^tiKV Are SA.OOO Peraena la the laSlasa cmi rivisi. Reports submitted to the state authorities show that the condition of the Indiana miners is daily becoming more distressing. | The state labor commission estimates the number of sinkers at 7,000. and these, together with their families, makes it apparent that fully 25,000 men, women and children in the ooal regions of this state are hungry on account of the stnke. Daily the governor receives appeals for food from distressed miners, and the state labor commission and the miners’ reiief committee have practically exhausted their resources and are at a tow how to proceed. * Bark leu’s A mica Salve. The best salve in the world for cats, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chopped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or »*o pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Pike 35 cents per ter. For sale by J. B. Adams ft Son.