Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 November 1897 — Page 4

*■* 8 hr gikt County Jtmocrat Rv H. 11c('. STOOPS. One Year, In advance H BIx Month*.in advauw . *5 Entered at the poatoffio* In PMUsburg for txatiHmiNtclon through the mails as secondclass matter. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1*97. WlUT Petersburg needs now as bad as anything else is a system of water works. There is a growing demand for it. The city is growing and should have all the advantages of h city. The town is supplied with a natural gas piunt which furnishes fuel for heating and lighting, a first lass electric lighting plant, and now needs « system of water works. A system of water works could be put in hero at a cost not to exceed $90,000, which would tv ample f«.j the heels <>f this eitv for several years to come. The ciiuMis of Petersburg bavi been talking water works for several years, but 11 . deh'-ti it ■ ! ■ ; ' ( V-T he- I. I;,'.- ! in the matter, it would l*1 well for those iatercstod in such an * ■■ t to look the matter up and make an effort to pat in a plant early next spring A line quality of pure soft water can easily be secured by drilling a number of wells at a depth of from 100 to I7r* feet, which would supply ;i city 'several ‘it!’-' the size .of Petersburg. Tin- city is Unit ! t< w and become one of the leading business centers of Southern Indiana and should by all means have water works. Burn the disci dural gas in this city a large number of residences have been built besides three buxines# room-. Even business ro»m in the city is occupied anu people are on the lookout every day for a vacant residence. There should U* at Least thirty or forty residence- built her** this full and winter to supply the demand. Petersburg, no doubt, will make rap’d strides next spring, when dwelling bouses and busim-s roius will be in demand. The population of this city has increased more m the past six months than m the five years previous and will more than double iis present js'pwla! ii duriug the next live year*. Now is the time to help build up your towu.

It [safari that no'business car, bo run on wind but must * u rastonally have a Hub* money now and then to meet its obligation*. Well, »i lo vti a little* inuey during' 'the next !ft'u>r three months. and if our patrons who km... th msl ivc* indebted on subscriptions <• •: •*.'« wii! < ouiribute their delinquencies we will meet ail oar creditor* w ith a smile and punk down the eash. Come and see u.s. make u> happy and in return we will inake ethers enjoy lilt*. The republicans of Ubio art* ju*t now having mere fun than they bargained for la-fore the election. There an* several repri*.'en’<Ht,Ve' who weiee.o ?c«l Ht the tirCll » who say they will not support Mark Hanna for senator and the.tr'* where the fun comes in. Without these representatives Mark cannot l*e dec led to the Senate. S*me of the dissatisfied membejs want Bushneli to go to the Senate instead of the honorable Man-us. W. H. Eicuhorv of Bluffton, has been appointed by Governor Mount to fill a va* fancy eaused bv the n »igf at ion of a inernK r f tin board of r.....; -r- ■ f the state reformatory at Jeffersonville. Mr. Ki»hhorn w,k> leader of th» minority forces m the last house of representatives and has announced his candidacy fir re-election. He is wei! known thn ugh ut th< . Prnuunuau has one of tl fit lectri light plauts in this section of the state, and is the only eity <n ** isit* rn Indiana that use's natural gas for fuel and lighting. Now what is needed to make the citiaeas enjoy life i< a system of water works. Now is the tmie to take the matter under consideration and next apt tag < • mi .. Thoitsakiw of republican* wen* too busy sowing dollar wheat U> go to the elections last Tuesday. They will U* out m lull force next fail.—Petersburg Prv-s. Pardon us. professor, but they were sowing $2,00 clover seed. Von see elovgrtaud has taken a drop from $5.00 j**r tmshel. Au. of the speeehea made by the late Senator Voorbees are being collected and will be printed in bx>k form under the title “Forty Years of Oratory.” The great popularity of the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash will give the boi k a phenomena! sale. Wheat linger* around the dollar mark “without the aid or « -nseut of auy foreign nation.”—Petersburg Pres*. And it might be added tn the above that jluvenseed lingers around the $2.00 mark.

A Gold Standard Wittnuit Gold. The latest English argument for the gold standard is that it can be maintained without gold. Certainly it can. The less gold 've have the more perfect the operation of the gold standard. The idea of the gold standard is that hail the metallic money of i the world makes a better standard than the whole of it. Therefore oue-fourth the | quantity would be better than one-half, and none at all except what England owns would lie the perfection of it. The London ; Times says: “lu a long state paper the Indian governj ment puts forth the reasons for its reluctance, and avers that the Indian currency experiment has reached a point wheu it will become a phenomenal success. An exchange rate of Is 4d per rupee has already been touched, and will soon be jtermanently established; the rupee will cease to fluctuate and the desideratum, a gold standard without gold, will appear. ‘‘The Indian government goes further and alleges that the reopening of its mints with Prance and the United States at a bimetallic rate of 15 1-9 to 1 would be ruin to India, since a 2s rtfjiee would kill exports and render out dependency unable to compete with the markets of the world.” We especially request democrats to call the attention of the gold men to this statement of the Loudon Times, and ask them to think what it means. Here is a confession that the starving millions of India will be blessed ;u the midst of privations and sufferings the gold standard has brought upon them if the English’ government can only fix upon them a gold standard without gold.- We have Uvn giving England K>nJs j for gold to maintain our gold standard, and any Jay >he wants our gold all she need do j is to return our bonds and withdraw her | gold. England intends t. give us a gold standard and then let tis maintain it withi out gold, in common with her other financial ( dependencies. j Heretofore the gold argument has l>een j for dollars of “intrinsic’' value equal to , their fa. e value, hut new it is for represen- | tat ivts dollars which have no intrinsic value. ' A gold standard without gdkf means j dollars that call for gold, but which have . no m. re intrinsic value than the present j greenback dollars. So if our dollars are to | be at last dependent'for their enure value on their redemption,by the government or by the hanks,, why have the gold standard? Why not have the double standard of eld and silver, doubling our supply of j standard money, supplemented by greenbacks, instead of national bank notes?— L-*uisvitle Dispatch. Household God*. The ancient (i reeks ladieved that the Penates were the g sis who attended to the f welfare and prosperity of the family. They 1 wire wor>hi; ped as hou-ehold gods in every home. The household gml of today is Dr. King’s New Discvery. For consumption, i cough-,colds and for all affections or throat, i chest and lungs it is invaluable. It has (.been tried for a quarter of it century and is < guaranteed to cure or money returned. No household should be without this gotal angel. It is pleasant to take and a safe and ; sure remedy for old and young. Free trial | !» t: vs a: «i. U. Adams & Son’s drug store. KeguLu size 50c. ami $1.00. \% \MU>UTO> I.KITKII.

Our ltrgular Correspondent Srnits in a Halt li ol Nmvi. “Teddy” Ro«>sevt>lt limy soon l>e out of a i job, if he dinsn't learn to bridle his tongue when talking in public upon 'subjects on which the administration's [»osition i< offi- ' eiaUy unannounced. He was giyen a hint ( of tia> when he returned from New York. , where he made an after dinner speech on t he necessity of our having a fighting nav v, if we wished to escape the ridicule of the world, and having our declarations eonI corning the Monne doctrine treated as merely so much bluster. “Teddy" used Hawaii fora dummy irr order to give the .eimtnistration's alleged Cuban |«oliey two or three heavy U»ly blows, but the application was too plain to be ovci looked. He has been wanted not to do so again. The administration is playing horse with the Canadian prom > r, who, with a party ; of officials is in Washington, ostensibly to attend the sealing conference, but in reality to sound this government on the probability of negotiating a reciprocity treaty. The president has swapped “taffy" with the premier and given him .a dinner; .Secretary Sherman has' i< ne the same, and he has been turned over to Mr. Hasson, chief cook of the reciprocity kitchen, to confer on the -;:1 *. He’ll get alj. th• , c. Terences he wAnts, but when England really authorizes Wr ambassador, or someone else*, to fry to ;i< g •ti'itc. a treaty of e>*ammri lal reciprocity which shall end •■‘ace Canadian products, it will t* found that so far as Canada's principal products are concerned, it will be an impossibility. The Canadian premier doesn’t seem to know that in a numbr of states, one of the mam arguments used in the last national campaign for republican success, was that it would shut out Canadian competition. The Spanish minister lias begun his *ntertaimncut of public men on a scale which indicates that no matter how hand up Spain may be, it has no intention of reducing the amount of money spent in Washington in the attempt to make friends for Spain, The first blow out of the Spanish minister was an elegant dinner, at the swell Metropolitan club, in honor of a Spanish editor. The administration and the U. S. supreme court were well represented at this dinner, but either the wily Spaniard must have thought it needless to waste his expensive dinner on Congress, or the congressmen asked must have sent regrets. Be that as it may, Senator Elkins was the only mem- j

ber of the legislative branch of the government that attended the dinner. The silk stocking element of the Maryland republicans, beaded by Senator Wellington, are straining every nerve in their efforts to make sure that the Maryland legislature does not elect Representative Mudd to succeed Senator Gorman. These men probably know what they are doing, but their activity against Mudd, who is considered in Washington as the weakest of all the aspirants to Senator Gorman’s seat, reminds one of going after Reed birds with Gattliug guns. The postoffiee department has officially decided that the interior department was right when it disbarred John Wedderburn and John Wedderburn & Co., from practice before the patent office, for gross frauds upon gullible clients, and has issued a fraud order against John Wedderburn, John Wedderburn & Co., and the National Recorder, a newspaper owned by them. This order shuts them out of the mails, and will cause all matter addressed to them to be returned to t he writers, after being officially stamped “fraudulent.” Newspapers which continue to priut Wedderburn & Co’s, advertisement after knowledge of this fraud order may also be shut out of the mails. The general opinion among the most prominent democrats who have been in Washington siuce that republican fight j upon the election of Boss llanim, has appeared to grow to such large proportions, is that the democrats of Ohio should have nothing whatever to do with it.' There is, of course, a bare possibility that enough republican members of the Ohio legislature would, if the democrats would help them, j be willing to elect some other republican j to the Senate than Hanna, but the most ! powerful microscope made would not show | the smallest particle of advantage to the j Ohio democrats in defeating Hanna and j electing auutlK r republican to the Senate.! As king as Ohio has got to have another! republican senator, Hanna is the best man. j for the democrats, both in Ohio and elsewhere, tha; could be chosen. But even if it would be advantageous for the democrats to knock Hanna out and help to elect some other republican, it would not lie advisable for the democrats in the Ohio legislature to become parties to a deal with the alleged anti-Hamm republican members of that body, for the simple reason that Hanna, with the aid of .Mr. McKinley, will almost certainly be able, by the use of patronage and otlur methods, to get a sufficient dumber of republican votes to be elected. It is a fight between llannaism and Forakerism. aud no democrat should interfere. Something to Know. it may be worth something to know that the very tost medicine for restoring the tired out nervous system to a healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This medicine is phrely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the nerve centres in the stomach, gently stimulates the liver and kidneys, aids these organs in thro wing off impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters improves the appetite, aids digestion and is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold for 50c. or $1.00 per bottle at J. R. Adams Sou’s drug store.

Tli*' Hicks 189S Almanac and Taper. Wo arc iuformed that the ISOS Almanac of Prof. Irl K. Hicks is now ready, and judging from ns past history, it will not be \uatiy weeks in finding its way into homes and offices all over America. It is tutudi) larger and finer than any previuus i'sue. It contains 116 pages, is splendidly printed and illustrated on fine book paper, having the finest portrait ever given of Prof. Hicks. It can no longer be dented that the publications of Prof. Hicks have becotne.a necessity to the family and commercial life of this country. His journal, Word and Works, aside from its storm, weather and astronomical features has taken rank with the Wst literary, scientific arid family magazines of the age. Do n< believe hearsay and reports. See the Hicks Almanac and paper for yourself. You will then know why they are so popular. They are educators of the millions, and unrivaled safeguards to property and human life. It is matter of simple record that Prof. Ilicks has foretold for many years all gn at storms, floods, drouths ami tornadoes, even the recent terrible drouth over all the country. The Almanac alone is 0,1 cents a copy. The pa|«er is $1.00 a year with the Almanac as .. premium. Send to Word and Works Publishing Co., 2th) 1 Locu?t street, St. Louis, Missouri. Itucklen’s Aruica Salve. The fa«st salve in the world for cuts, bruise's, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hand-', chilblains, corns, and ail skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay retpiirH. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded* Price 2d cents per box. For sale by J. H. Adams «k Son. Florida Excursion ltatcs* Excursion tickets to Florida and other Southern resorts are now on sale via the Southern railway, from and through! Louisville and Cincinnati, in connection with the t^ueen a* Crescent route. Be-t routes and schedules. For particular's i address, W. H. Taylok. Asst* Gen'l. Pass, j Agt. Southern Railway Company, Louis- i ville, Kentucky, Delays Are Dangerous. Many of your friemL, or people whom you know of. have contracted consumption, pneumonia or other fatal diseases by neglect of a single cold or cough. Foleys Honey and Tar, a safe, sure and pleasant cough medicine, would have saved them.: It rs guaranteed. Bergen & Oliphaut. n {

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Funeral Supplies a Specialty. W«* keep on hand at all times the finest litu of Parlor anil Household Furniture to tafound in t he city. Bedroom and Parlor Suit* a Specialty. In funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc., of the host make. Patronize Home Newspapers. i THEE Indiana State Sentinel. (Established 1822.) It supported the democratic candidates and platform in 1896. as it has done for three-quarters of a century, and as it will do again in 18U8 and ltHK>. The Indiana State Sentinel has been fighting the battles of the people during its entire existence. It has advocated bimetallism, ever - since the issue was raised. It is going to continue this fight the best it knows how until the v: ty i-won. The Indiana State Sentinel is opposed to trusts and-Monopolies of every description. It favors an income tax and all other taxes which will compel rich men and corporations to pay their full share —no i.. re and no less—toward the expanses f carrying on our national, slot** and- local governments. It is opm sc 1 to protective tariffs, subsidies, bounties. j. l»s and steals of all kinds. . It i-i:> ves :;i talking right out for the people every time. It always strikes from the shoulder. It isuot owned by the money jtower, notooQtrolled by it, not in sympathy with it. The Indiana State Sentinel stands with William J. Bryan on the Chicago platform. The Indiana State Sentinel, 8 pages, 56 broad columns, contains ail the news of the world, the latest markets.-speci-al} tr prepared agricultural department, poems, continued and complete stories, wit and humor, the best original and selected miscellany. . It is e*iual in ail respects as a family and political newspaper to an v weekly paper published in New York. Cincinnati. Chicago, St. Louis or Louisville. The Democrat will be furnished with the State Sentinel for one year to any address for $1.60. Send your subscriptions to this office. Remittances may be made by postoffice money orders, drafts, checks or in coin, postage stamps or currency.

r Nowiatilts eighth! -A Clumce of the Season at W. L. Barrett's. The Greatest Bargains the Country Has Ever Known And if you are thinking about the purchase of Clothing of any kind it will pay you to visit his Store. He is over crowded and must sell by December 25. «-A Complete Wreck of Prices^ Mem's Suits in Fancy Checks, Plaids, Blue and Black Cheviots, C< r oot Styles, Single and Double-Breasted, Worth #7.50; for ....... .... Men's All Wool- Cassimer and Cheviot Suits, made in the newest Shades of Browfi Mixtures in Plaids and Checked Patterns, and cut in the latest styles of Single and Double Breasted. A Suit that retails for #10.00; will go at. . Men's All Wool Clay Worsted in Blue and Black, nicely made, extra quality. Sells everywhere for $10.00; will go at.,... Boy’s Short Pant Suits in neat dark colors, both Reefer and and Double Breasted styles in Cheviot. Plaids. Checks and Brown Mixtures, well trimmed, age 3 to 15 years; from Men's Overcoats, made of a good quality of goodsjn Blue. Black and Urey, lirnd throughout, durable, velvet- collar; for only............... Men’s Overcoats, ma le of Pare Wool in Blue, Black and Brown Kerseys, good Serge lining and Silk sleeve lining; for only ............. Men’s Overcoats, made from a high gnlde of Beaver,1 heavy Serge lining, extra quality of Silk sleeve lining; Regular price, $12.00, lor.... $4.98 $7.50 $6.75 48c to $5 $3.75 $4.75 $8.50 Come and Examine Our Stock. Prepare for the-Cold Wave. W. L. BARRETT, ^PETERSBURG, IND<? •■•■•■•I

Fail and Winter Suits^ {; m m ra l All the Latest Patterns and Slyfes to SeJect from. Suits, $i6 and up. Pants, $4 and up. Call and See our Piece Goods and Trimmings. C. A. Barger & Bro., Merchant Tailors. | i

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I have some of the best pips on hands now that I ever owned. 1 have 12 gilts and 4 males that are tiptop, sired by my great show boar, Boone, No. 2005. Among the lot are two extra December boars that are large enough for service. Prices reasonable. M.L.Heathman, Glezen.lnd

Louisville, Evansville <& St. Louis C. Railroad Time table in effect me 27.1897: *t. Louis ; St. Louis Fast Exp.' Limited. Stations. 8:07 a.m. #:07 p.m Leave lu:45 a.in. 11:45 p.m. Leave ll:n5 a.m.; 12:01 am. Leave 11:10 a.m. 12:15 a.m. Leave 11:31 am.; 12:31 a.m. Leave 6:2U p.m. 6:50 a.m. Arrive. I<nuisvi)le .... arrive Huntingburg . ... arrive Velpeu airlve Winslow . .arrive OaklandCity.. arrive .St. Louie- . Leave Louisville Limited. 7:00 a.m. 4:25 a.m. 4:02 a.m. 3:52 a.m 8:37 am. 8:15 p.m. Louisville Fast Exp, 5:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 2:38 p.m, 2^27 p.m 2:12 p.m 7:36 a m. Night traius stop at Winslow and Velpen on signal only. R, A. Campbell, G.P.A., St. Louis, J, P. Hurt, agent, Oakland City, /