Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 September 1897 — Page 3

■ - Sht *ike Countg f rwonat m. MeC. ITOOPS, Editor Md Ftoprlotor. PETERSBURG. • - INDIANA. THE SUPPLY OF WASHINGTONS. Aacrleaa Brand Scarce, Bat England Shows Ip Somo Hcmaaata. A woman whose husband belongs to the family from which George Washington sprung registered at the Auditorium hotel under the name of Mrs. Nelson Washington, of London, England. She was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Boland, of Toronto, Ont. Mrs. Washington is the wife of Dr. Nelson Washington. of Milwaukee, Wis., formerly of Toronto. She is traveling in this country for recreation and health with her daughter and son-in-law. Her husband, she says, is the great-great-great-grandson of Stephen Washington, who left England with two brothers,one ol whom was the ancestor of George, who is the Father of his Country. George's ancestors settled in Virginia and Stephen settled in Ontario, Can. As time sped on, the Washingtons in Canada gradually decreased, until now only one man in that country bears the glorious cognomen, lie is Dr. John Washington, of Goderich. Ont., great-greatr grandson of Stephen, and a cousin not far removed from the immortal George. His oply son. Dr. Walter Washington, is practicing medicine iu Newark, N. J. He and his father and Dr. Nelson Washington, his uncle, are said to be the only male person* on this continent related to (Jeorge Washington who bear the family name and can prove their title to it. As George fought to deliver his country from the thraldom which Great Britain put upon it, so his Uncle Stephen in Canada and his cousins fought to preserve the dominion, or at least the Ontario settlement, to the mother country. “No correspondence ever ensued between the descendants of the two families after that time,” said Mrs. Washington, “and the American Washingtons were unaware of the existence of any of their kinsmen across the border, although the latter have always used the insignia of the Washington family in England and in this country—the three stars and three stripes—as their crest on their stationery and effects.

ffis soffit years ago my nusnanu s ianii* ly's title to the renowned name was disputed in Canada, and to set at rest all such calumnies l)r. John Washington journeyed to England to the old seat of the family and there secured the family tree, proving conclusively that a brother of the ancestor of George Washington went to Canada shortly after his two brothers settled in Virginia. By tracing up the family in Ontario he has added branches to the family tree until the pedigree has assumed large proportions. He proved for all and evermore to his countrymen that he waa related to the Washington family of Virginia and since his trip to England no one has disputed his claim.” Mrs. Roland, the daughter of Dr. Nelson Washington, does not bt ar^nueh resemblance to the “Father of his Country.” She is pretty, of medium height, a blond, and carries no doubt with her as to her relationship with the tirst president of the .United States.—Chicago Chronicle. iBianllr la Animals. ^ That animals are, to an extent, subject to the same mental maladies as human beings, has not been a populnr belief among insanity experts. It has, however, become necessary to admit that there is some corresponding uffection in animals and men or one answering to the same description. Hydrophobia appears to be a form of insanity and it is said that horses have gore mad w ith fright. There is no good reason « hy this should not be. and very much can be brought in as corroborative testimony of the statement. When a perfectly manageable animal, hitherto without fault or evidence of vieiousne.SK, suddenly turns upon its keeper and savagely attacks him, there must t>e some good reasons for it. The animal nature is so made up that cause and effect stand in very elose relation to each other. It is, therefore, in order to make no sweeping assertions on conditions of this sort until incontestible evidence is furnished upon which U base the premises.-*-N*. Y. Ledger.

Sapient Sucker. “My, nay!” exclaimed the sucker to ihe boy, who bad just yauked him out of the water with a snare; "my, njv, how modern improvements art spreading, to be sure.” “Modern improvements?” returned the boy, inquiringly. “Yes," answered the captive sucker, as he flopped himself over to a more •hody retreat on the grassy bank, “who’d ever thought, for instance, that telegraphy would be utilized in Ash* ing?” “Telegraphy in fishing?” echoed the boy in a dazed sort of way; “what are you talking about, anyway? Your lift into this climate must have rattled you a little. What’s this sort of thing got to do with telegraphy in fishing. l*d like to know?” “\\ by,” responded the finny logician, as he lazily fanned himself with nia gills, “how would 1 have known that you wanted me if you hadn’t wired ine?”—Richmond Dispatch. At One Hoarding. Hour. “Here is a hew conundrum,” said the cheerful boarder; “1 made it myself. ■>Yhat is the difference between me and a Klondike mfber? Can you guess, Mrs, Bashlcigh?” “No, 1 never liked conundrums," snapped^the landlady. “AM give it up?” There was no response. “Because,” said the cheerful boarder, “one stakes the claim and the other •lajms the steak!” /Anri he helped himself to the last bit 9 ,<df sirloin on the platter.—Cleveland f ** D~w'

SOME OTHER DAY. Wh«n clouds the sullen skies o'ercast And raindrops patter thick and fast. And all the earth is chill and drear, WUhln your heart let love and cheer Still live and reign; The clouds will pass, so never fear; The sun will greet the earth again. Some other day. ^ When loud the winds of winter wall And flowers perish in the gale. Let not your burdened spirit weep As you ascend life's rugged steep. Or blindly grope Tour way through valleys dark and deep. Again will shine the star of hope Some other day. Some days are filled with clouds and rain. And life seems naught but grief and pain. But brighter days shall come anon When clouds shall all go sailing on And fade from view; And lo. behold that promised dawn. And gleaming skies of amure hue, 8ome other day. Some other day life's toil and strife, And storms that seem forever rife Will pass away; and souls oppressed Shall lay them down to peace and rest In realms afar, That haven of the true and blessed. That port where saints immortal are— Some other day! -Sidney Warren Mase, in Good Housekeeping. _______ AT home in Boston, Tom Sandersou would hardly have selected >10808“ Abraham Smith for a playmate, but down here in southern Louisiana it was Mose or nobody. Tom had come down to spend the winter with his uncle who was the station agent at Bayou StsFelice, a little halting place on the Southern Pacific railroad where the engines sometimas stopped to driuk from the big tank beside the tracks, but where | few passengers ever got on or off the | trails. Thefe was but one house in St. ; Felice besides the station agent’s, and that was the tumble-down cabin where old Tube Smith had lived ever since the war set him free: there was only one

told about the catfish. Moae himself did not believe that there was a fish in the world as long as the one Tom had described, but he only said: “Golly, I doan want nuffin to do wid dem t’ings, Marse Tbm,” and rolled his eyes till only the white showed. By the next morning Tom had forgotten all about the whale, but Mose had not. “Less go cat-fishin’,” said he. “It ain’t so excitin’ as shootin ’whales, but I reckon we can have some fun.” Tom fell into the trap at once. “All right,” he said, “get out the boat.” Mose left the big fiat-bottomed boat which the boys generally used on the bank and shoved off the smaller skiff, into one end of which he fitted a reel. The stout line was wound upon the reel, the big hook was carefully baited, and Tom took his place at one end while Mose sat in the other, steering the skiff with a single oar. “We’ll jess float down with the current,” said he, “and see what ketches us.” \ A short end from the line on the reel was trailing in the water, and Tom watched it carefully. Two or three times there was a little jerk at the line and Tom started to pull it in, buheach time Mose stopped him. “We’re after catfish,” said the darky boy; “doan mind dem little t’ings. You’ll know de real t’ing when vou gits it.” A moment later they got the “real thing.” There was a rush through the water that sent a shower of .bubbles to the surface, the loose end of the line took a dive and then began whirring off the reel at lightning speed. “Hoi’ ’ini, doan let ’im break dat line.” shouted Mose, as he brought the boat sharply round to point down stream. Tom was sure the smoking line had burned all the flesh from his hands as it flew through them, but he braced his feet, clenched his teeth, and tried his best to hold the small sized hurricane that had seized his hook. The reel stopped pitying out line now, but the little boat began to move swiftly through the water, and Tom feared that his arm wouh$ be yanked off as his capture dashed from one side of the

-- *1 DIDN’T •SPOSE ANYBODY WHAT KETCHEP WHALES WOULD MIN' AN ORNERY LITTLE CATFISH.”

boy besides Tom Sanderson, and that | was Moses Abraham, Tobe's son. ! They were a strange pair of playfel- : low s. these n\o. Tom was a wideawake northern boy accustomed to the bustle and uoise of -a big city and pos- ! sessing what he considered a very comI plete knowledge of the world in general. Mose w as as shiftless and happy a darkV as could be found in the^nple | south, lie had never been to school, never had a care except when the hoecake gave out in the little cabin and he | felt hungry, and he never had to worry about keeping his face clean, for it was naturally as shiny us a well-polished shoe, lie divided his time between sleeping in the warm sun, swimming in the warm water of the bayou, and I roaming the woods and fields. Here he made friends with the birds and rabbits and even tried to be on good terms with the slimy little alligators that erept up on the muddy bauks of the larger bayou to sleep in the sun as Mose himself sometimes did. But in spite of the differences between them, the white boy and the black got on well together. Tom was naturally domineering, and Mose was perfectly satisfied to addreis him a« “Marse Tom.” to do all the rowing when they went out on the bayou together, and to play that he was pack-horse or slave or whatever Tom wished, so long as Tom kept him well supplied with candy and pennies, two things entirely new and very pleasant to the Barky boy, Mose was a good listener, too, and always sat with saucer eyes and open mouth while Tom related stories of the sights he had seen and the things he had done. Sometimes Mose started to tell of his on n adventures, but Tom always had something much more startling to relate, even if he had to draw on his imagination for it, and Mose swallowed all his wonderful tales, believing them to be perfectly true—at least, so Tom thought. One day Mose bad been telling how a catfish that weighed 60 pounds Ind been caught in the river close by. ‘‘Oh. that’s nothing,” said Tpm, as if catfish were too small for him to bother with. “Once I wa#out on a big whaling schooner in the ocean when they caught a whale. They shot a harpoon into him with a gun, but he dragged the ship a mile before he gave up, and when we got him he was longer than the railroad switch out here.” The only whale Tom had ever seen was a stuffed one in a museum, but he was bound to beat the story Mose had

stream to the other in an effort to free himself. He had no idea as to what he had hooked, for he could see only a swirling and foaming in the muddy water at the end of his line. It was an alligator most likely, he thought -noth-ing-smaller could run away with two boys and a boat in this way. He devoutly wished that the line would break, l*ut he dared not let go for fear the creature might tip the boat over and devour them both. As they flew along, Tom’s terror increased. Mose was shouting encouragement to him from the other end of the boat and chuckling to himself Suddenly, as they sailed out into a broader pool, the monster turned back. “Keep the line in front," shouted the negro lad; “he’ll tip us over." JBut it was too late. As the line moved back along the side of the boat and then tightened again, the little shell rolled over as easily as a log and both boys were splashing about in the water. Tom imagined he could feel the alligator’s jaws closing on his legs, but in reality it was only the sharp stones and shells on the mud bottom, cutting his bare feet. He scrambled out on the bank with a shriek of terror and sat there still shaking with fright. Then as he heard a shout from he. looked back and saw* the black boy struggling with the monster. “Help, tielp!” shouted Tom at the top of hi» voice, but Mose needed no help and soon waded ashore, dragging with him the body of a catfish almost as long as himself. Tom looked at its ugly head and branching spurs, but he was still too scared to speak. Mose shook the water from himself and sat down on the bank to regain his breath. Then as he looked at Tom, white and trembling, his face broadened into a grin. “Golly, Marse Tom,” said he, “I didn't spose anybody what ketcbed whales would min’ jess an ornery little catfish." And Mose rolled on the bank shaking with laughter. The fish weighed a little over 50 pounds, and Tom never again told of catching whales. —A dyspeptic condition with its acidity eats away the teeth almost with the rapidity of ice melting in fierce heat. Many of the patent infants’ foods are highly deficient in teeth-timber, that it. lime salts and other phosphates. Milk is the best thing on which to feed a eMML

RECEIVING LIGHT. 9«I4k«t Writers Are rtadlng Out Soaetklig. Presently, when some of the reckless editors who have charge of the gold organa realize that the conitfaual fall In silver is likely to produce results that have heretofore ployed no part in> their calculations, they may be willing to admit that the question is more important than even partisanship has matte it. The Boston Advertiser seems to be getting a glimpse of the real situation that now threatens to impose itself on the country should silver, as Mint Diw rector Preston boastfully predicts—fall to 40 cents enounce. Our contemporary notes that there is now about $3,600,000,000 of legal tender silver in circulation in the world, the bullion value of which has decreased more than 50 per cent, since 1873, and says that if silver continues to decrease in value, this vast amount! of money now current at its face value, must either take on the form af token money or circulate at its bullion value. The Advertiser goes on to say that probably the great commercial nations of the world would be glad to see some miracle by which -silver would be restored to the value which ft had three decades ago. The difficulty about this is that the men who do the .financial thinking for the commercial naitionsof the world are the very men who are largely responsible for the gradual demonetization of silver. It was a great undertaking, and it has required a good deal of patient diplomacy and bold legI illative fraud to bring it about;. On this | account, we think it is expecting too I much to suppose that they will be willing to permit the commercial nations to ! retrace their steps with respect to silver.

It is true they have made billions or profitsoutof the undertaking-, buit there still remain some wry rich pickings in this country, and vce may be sure that tho greed and rapacity which haw engineered silver demonetization will not allow any of the proceeds to slip through their fingers. The actual glee with which some of tne more active gold men announce me further full in silver can only be based cn the knowledge that the depreciation of our silver money will prove a^Heh harvest for those who control the available gold. How long this further scheme of spoliation will be disposed depends entirely on- the will of those who are to profit by it. The Constitution is of the opinion that the. people of this country will for1* many years rue the day when they pen mitted themseCves to be deceived into defeating the democratic party last year. We do not mean to intimate that the democratic party is likely to be defeated in 1900. but we do menu to say that the element which controls the republican lenders will have ample opportunity to do irreparable damage to the financial interests of the people before a new congress can be assembled. The senate is a barrier, but it is well to remember that, as the senate was controlled by the gold trust in 1S93. it ?an be so aoritrolled in 1S98. Meanwhile, there is but one thing for the democracy to do, and that is for all its forces to hold themselves in readiness to restore the government to the people in 1900.—Atlanta Constitution. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. ——The republicans are expecting wheat, not the Dingley law. to pull them through in- Ohio and Iowa this year.—Galveston News. -The sugar trust has to divide $33,000,000, which represents theprosperity that ha9 struck it since the Dingley subsidy was secured-—Kansas Crty Times. -The Dingley differential is giving the sugar trust more money than any other combination of a dozen men is ever known to have received for political services in the history of the eoun-try.-rN. Y. World.

■ ID) regaru ro xne unie marcer oi increase of wages in protected industries, Mr. McKinley begs to ask the workingmen if bread isn’t going' up? What do the workingmen want anyhow —the earth?—Albany Argus. -The gold organs are trying to destroy “parity” with their mouths. Right in the midst of what tbey call “prosperity,” they shout in a frenzied way that the silver dollar is only worth 40 cents. This would be sad, if true.— Atlanta Constitution -Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, erf course, but it if •»© harm to ask what we will do for prosperity next year if we don't have a foreign famine to help us out. Bingleyism isn't showing a disposition to be up and doing.— Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader. -It is hardly fair to hold the republicans responsible flor the famine in Europe and the consequent rise in wheat, still they seem to be willing to have it charged up to them, since they are bragging so much about the rise in wheat.—Buffalo Times. ——The republicans are trying to decide which of the three republican governors of democratic states have done the most harm to their party. Black, of New York; Tanner, of Illinois, or Bradley, of Kentucky. Rich voter selects the candidate nearest home.—Louisville Post. -All together, the outlook for the agriculturist is brightening with the lengthening days, and he ought to be the happiest citizen, in the country today. And so he would be were it not for the knowledge that Dingleyism is going to increase the coat erf living to him,—St. Louis Republic. y ——There has been plenty of pre-, tentious legislation for the farmer, but it assumes an ignorance on his part that cannot distinguish the real from the fictitious; a childish simplicity in him that finds satisfaction in the glittering be able and lets shrewder heads take the aubsthnee. Nothing could more clearly indicate the contempt in which the farmer is held than does all this mass of legislation enacted in behalf of agrienlture, and apparently accepted by it aa aatisfactorv.—St. Paid Globe.

MYSTERIES OF THE TARIFF. Repiblleaa Law a Fearful and Wea« derfal Tkinf. An organ of protection which would enact a prohibitory tariff and yet collect revenues therefrom sufficient to pay the pension account has discovered a new sensation in its precious Dingley bill. Section 22 is the puzzler and the dazzler this time. Secretary Gage has turned section 22 inside out* examined it to the point of neuralgia, and handed it along to that famous trick artist, At-torney-General McKenna, with the request that he exercise upon it all his skill at prestidigitation. It is hoped that after the attorneygeneral has made a few passes in the air and waved his magic wand, an anxious world may know what section 22 means. At present it is several shades darker than the Eleusinian mysteries. “In all previous laws the section corresponding to section 22 of tfhe new law, after providing for the ten percent, discriminating duty on goods Imported in vessels not flying the United States flag, provided that ‘this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, or merchandise whloh shall be imported in vessels not of the United States entitled at the time of such importation by treaty or act of congress to be entered In ports of the United States on the payment of the same duties as shall then be payable on goods, etc., imported in vessels of the United States.* The new law omits ‘acts of congress’ and substitutes ‘convention.’ so as to make it read not exempt by ‘treaty or* convention.’ ‘‘It is in pursuance of an act of congress (section 4.22$) that presidents in the past have by proclamation exempted the vessels of many countries from thisdiscriminating duty. The question now before the at-torney-general is whether the omission of the word ‘act of congress' does not repeal section 4.22S. If It does. It will strike a tremendous blow at all foreign lines now exempt by presidential proclamation and coniine the exemption strictily to' the vessels of countries with which we have treaties granting such exemptions.’*

1 qe list of these countries includes such first-class powers as Germany and Austria, but does not include France and Eng-1 and and the British colonies. One of these colonies, it will be remembered, is likely to be seriously affected by another Dingley mystery, namely, the clause which is supposed to discriminate against goods coming through Canada. The clause has raised a tremendous hullabaloo in the .New Engs land states, which have found that the competition of the Canadian Pacific with United States transcontinental lines is a good thing for them, and on this point also the assistance of McKenna, the great unraveler, has been invoked. The very framers of the tariff Gill profess ignorance of the origin of the clause which is said to have been sneaked in by some few persons who had influence with the senate committee on finance. 'Tis a fearful and wonderful piece of legislation, to be sure, but after all there is nothing so remarkable about it as the profound logic of that same organ of protection, which proposes to have the foreigners pay our pensions I through the instrumentality of a tariff. The American consumer of the foreigner's goods would like more light upon this abstruse subject.—Chicago Journals REMOVAL OF ONE FALSE ISSUE. The Republican Bimetallism Dodge Many silver-republicans voted.for McKinley beca-use of the pledge in theplar form in. favor of international bimetallism. These voters now see that this pledge was simply a dodge to fool the people. None of the republican leaders is desirous of establishing bimetallism, either through uatioual or international action. All of these lenders knew thsjLt, so long as the settlement international bimetallism rested in the hands of England, the policy of gold monometallism was safe, and) for this reason they inserted the plank referred to, believing that it would catch votes and thus in reality make the gold monetary system all the more.secure. Exposed.

± iitr if jiuum aii picaaicaiuca vxrc international bimetallism dodge has been played for the last time. It has served the purpose for a quarter of a century anti is now completely worn out and discredited. No longer will this bait be used to catch gudgeons, not because there is any change in the ethics of the gold clique, but because the leaders recognize that the trick has lost its attraction. Now the fight is to be made squarely on the issue of gol<L,and the people should hall this change of front as an omen of victory. The sentiment in favor of bimetallism is growing stronger every day in the United States. But for bribery, intimidation and false promises on the part of the republicans the people would have won in the last presidential oampa ign. Now t hat the issue has been made plain.; that falsehoods have been exposed; that international bimetallism has been shown in its true light, the people will flock to the support of that party which has their interests at heart, and will, by their united votes in 1S9S and 1900, establish national bimetallism and thus restore the prosperity that was destroyed by the demonetization of silver.—Chicago Dispatch. -Readers of democratic papers demand that their party press serve them fairly .and honestly. The democratic press does not seek to mislead or deceive its readers on men or measures. It does not always cater to their prejudices. and join them in the folly of temporary aberrations from democratic standards and landmarks. It is honest with the people, and that is why, as a distinguished republican said a few days ago, that the readers of the democratic papers are more intelligent than the readers of republican journals, and that the democratic press is a power in the land.—-Utica Observer. -There does not seem to be any sufficient virtue left in the republican party to enebleit to escape unassisted from the tangle of corruption and extravagance in which it has become Involved. It is the mere plaything ot self-helping schemers who use it for their own advantage and advancement. —Philadelphia RrconL

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