Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 November 1898 — Page 3

She £? ike Counts §euiomt m. M«C. STOOPS. Editor »<l Proprietor. HITEUSBURG. : : INDIANA. THE ISLE OF HOME. from shadow-land of memory tA. golden dream cornea unto me. In fancy I am back among The happy hours when 1 was young. in visions yet I aee the day. When 1 had been a year away— 9&y first year—and I sought once more. (Heart-sore and sick, my father’s door. And. as I climbed the winding road ‘Up the last hill, a something glowed iWlthin’my bosom like a flame. ecatacy without a name. « ■ there, across the evening’s gioam. ; saw the old barn darkly loom, past It, from a window bright, sword of glory pierced the night— _ be light of home. As from afar The wise men saw the heavenly star, go that sweet light, unto my eyes. Beamed leading on to Paradise.

in, tn fancy. I draw near: In I through the window peer; I pass the open door: _I steal across the floor: (Again I clasp my mother's form; .Again I feel her tear drops warm; Again I grasp my father's hand; Again I feel my heart expand Into that overwhelming sense Of Joy too deep for utterance. iBut *tls a romance often told. A story that is sweet and old. A tale that’s found the world's heart warm Since Jesus gave It deathless form; Ahd many a heart with Joy has burned Above some prodigal returned. iSo sweet that scene was unto me. lit sheds a balm through memory. jA sort of kindly influence broiutht To touch and gladden every th<J^ht. That night I slept within—O Joy!— The room I slept in when a boy. A golden dream came unto me; 5 thought the whole world was a sen; Whose breaking waves rose fierce and high {Beneath a black, tempestuous sky. ,And many a life I saw go out: •And many a wreck was strewn about; [But. safe amid the rush and roar, 5 stood upon a happy shore, A land that shone 'neath Heaven's smile. A sunny, green and peaceful Isle. On which the old house reared its form. Aa ark of safety tn the storm; 1 stood, amid the breakers* foam. {Secure upon the lale of Home. —J. A. Edgerton. In Western Rural.

"I CAN Trace the consequence# that j| befell me for my impersonation of ■ute tree toad to the deep-seated and generous admiration I had in my early childhood, thanka to my mother, for the Divine Creator. Apart from this,the real cause of my distress I was in a great measure assisted by my brother Will, who, for hi* eight year#, wa# perhaps the most •killful manipulator of other boys’ troubles that ever thrived. In looking back over my boyhood and upon reckoning up my downfalls, I can easily and with justice hold him in a great measure responsible. But he was my brother, older than I, and I always listened to what I Imagined was the superior counsel. It was he who induced me to become a toad. You shall read how it came about. In the far west, where the events of this tale are laid, there are long summer months, during which *he mosquito, the gnat, the grasshopper and the quaint tree toad maintain a fat and healthy existence, never neglecting an opportunity to infest your domicile and rnuke themselves perfectly at home. It was my pleasure to assault these intruders, and my mother’s labor to intervene in favor of the defenselea-s creatures. She was a woman ot heart . and conscience and every living thing was held above annoyance by her. Frequently the toad wa* the theme of a discourse which my brother and 1 received from her knee. One day a tree toad dropped from the pear tree that shaded the front porch where Will and I sat receiving our daily lessou in Christianity and morals. The arrival of the green toad, wildeyed and somewhat orcrcome at hi* •urrouudings. enabled me to change the conversation. > “Mother,** I asked, “why is the toad green? Wouldn’t blue or red do just

as well. ' **Xo, nay child,” she answered with that gentleness which 1 was to long in learning to respect. **<Jod has made the poor little creatures of the earth ond air in such a way that they may find protection from their enemies The grasshopper i* the color of the sand, the horned toad the color of the rocks the tree toad the color of the trees and so on. When the tree toad ie m the leaves it is hard for the birds to find him. Therefore hi* color is his protection. It is God’s way of caring for His toad*. And in all things He exorcises tie same watchfulness. If yon should look for the tree toad among the foliage you would be a long time binding the little fellow.” 1 was greatly affected. But not to the extent that my brother Will was Presently the toad hopped from the porch and disappeared among the green grasses of the garden. Will watched him thoughtfully for a moment and then laid hiadevilish piaffe. *Ecb, I got a scheme. Come with me.” he whispered in my receptive ear. Offering some trivial excuse to our mother, we hurried away hand in hand, ond passing around the back of the wide veranda my consciencelessbrotV or dragged me through a hole under the porch, and blindly following him 1 crawled along to a corner of the lattice work where he conflaingly removed a painter's packet and disclosed to me a bucket of green paint left there by the workmen who were rejuvenating our happy little home. | "r As ou former occasion*. 1 was ready o* do his bidding. He swashed the ■ .

brush around In the green paint for u tew moments and limbered it up. “Now, Bobby,” said be, turning to me and bolding up the brush, ‘Tm go ing to make a tree toad ot you In about five minute*. You know tbe reason why? Mother said God made tbe tree toad green *c that the birds and tbe toad catchers couldn’t see him.” “But I don't want to be no toad, WiH," I remonstrated mildly. “Ob, yee, you do. Wait till I tell yon wby. If I make a tree toad of you you can climb np in the pear tree and book tbe pears, father has forbidden us. Don’t you see, Bobby, they can’t anybody see you up there. You eat all you want, and, then throw some over tbe fenee to me. That’s tbe beauty about being a tree toad. Come, now, sit down on this box, and Yll make the finest tree toad out of you that ever lived. Tbe Lord will take care of you all right.” I suffered him to proceed. It was summer time, aa»I said before, and my apparal consisted of a short pair of knickerbockers buttoned to a light shirt waist. I was barefooted and

bareheadto. With a few swashes of the wide brush I began to assume a beautiful verdant tiut. My legs and arms came under the splendor of the paint first, and then with a few deft splashes my pants and shirt waist received attention at the hands of my reincarnating brother. “Ain’t it great, Bobby? Shut your eye* while 1 smear your face. No decent tree toad ever gets along without a green face. Quit talking or I’ll put it in your mouth! There, that’s good. Now bend your head down while I paint your hair. Oh, bully, bully, bully. You’re the prettiest tree toad I ever saw, Bobby. I’d kiss you, but I don’t like tree toads very much.” I thought I detected a synical look in hi# eyes, but he was my brother and l revered his judgment. I also ad* mired my remarkable resemblance to a toad. At this juncture in the pro* ceedings it was about dusk, and we crawled out again to begin the raid on the pear tree. Made bold by the belief that 1 was completely protected from inquisitive eyes, I made directly for the luscious fruit and shinned up the trunk of the tree. Wicked Willie reposed comfortably in the tall grass ouvside the fence, and at intervals I tossed him a choice and juicy Bartlett pear, which he consumed in evident pleasure. I incidentally ate a great deal of green paint, whichr I smeared on the pears. But I figured that a frog should never be ashamed of his colors, so it didn't deter me. Presently my father, a somewhat positive and decided man, came out on the porch and walked down under the pear tree to drink in the beauties of j eventide. He was a lover of nature and stood for some time viewing the garden and the beautiful landscape of I our country home. From my perch above I made a close study of my sire. I became absorbed m his majestic presence. Uuconseiously I let slip from my fingers the core of a pear. It landed in his scant hair, and his gray eyes fixed themselves upon me.. But 1 was sure of my invisibility. lie adjusted bis glasses carefully and looked at me again. \ ‘ “Robert 1” The voice sounded like a Krupp gun. “What is the matter with you? What are you doing in that pear tree?*’ “I'm a tree toad, and you can't see me. I'm not here.** Wicked Willie exploded with laughter from his station behind t*>e fence,

“I DON'T WANT TO BE A TOAD.“ But the next instant he was commie sloued by our parent to bring me down to the face of the earth. 1 looked the field over and decided to come down without further urging. Leaving a long green trail. I slipped . from the branches and stood demon* like and unsightly before my astonished governor. j He .reached for me, but hesitAted. j He had never before been called upon j to spank a tree toad whose colors j came off every time he was seised. Finally he lost oontrol of his love for j dumb animals, and we had a lively en- I gsgement, which finished by his lead- i ing me, well plastered himself, before I my mother, to whom I rushed for a i tree toad's protection. She. too, had j gone back on the poor little creature, and I flopped around the dining-roOm, laav’tg my trade-mark over the entire scene. 1 waa soaked in sweet oil for an hour or two every day. My hair was cut away in tangled and snarled masses, and 1 was finally restored to childhood again. 1 was never able to give a satisfactory explanation of the case. Wicked Willie denied all association with the actual painting, and my father decided that a boy with the audacity to impersonate a tree toad certainly had tha impudence to invent the deception. The very sight of a tree toad to-day brings tears to my eyes.—Robert H. Bavin, in Francium

Gen. Kitchener, the Conqueror of the Dervishes, Presented with the Freedom of London. A SWORD OF HONOR ALSO PRESENTED. *%• Quaint Ceremonial Took Place at tkt Guild Hall, In HUPtocnm to Wklektht Geuoral was tfa* Roclpiout or aa Ovmtloi Out tka Crowds of People ikat Um4 the Streets. London, Not. 5.—The streets of tb*. city were crowded all morning, an immense number of people seeking to | witness Gen. Kitchener's triumphal progress to the Guild hall, to receive the freedom of the city of London and ! the sword of honor presented to him in recognition of his defeat of the : dervishes at Omdurman. Tho General Given aa Ovation. The general received a great ovation, as, accompanied by three aides-de-camp, and dressed in full generift’a uniform with the Egyptian sash, he drove through the streets. At the Guild hall there was the quaintest

(MR HERBERT KITCHENER. (Worshiped in England an the Her* of Omdurmaa) kind of ceremony which was witnessed by some 3,500 spectators, chiefly city dignitaries and their families, though Lord Rosebery and Lord Halsbury, the lord chancellor, and a few other notabilities were present. A Scene of Vr«at Enthusiasm There was a scene af great enthusiasm when Gen. Kitchener took his place on the dias by the side of the lord mayor, Mr. Horatio David Davies. The clerk i then read a document setting forth that citizens, one described as a butcher, one as a barber, and one as a stationer, had declared the general to be a fit and proper person. RMtntd for Ea|l»Bd'« OrMtMt Sobs. In presenting the sword of honor the lord mayor read an address, in which he said this honor was only reserved for England’s greatest sons. Gen. Kitchener, in replying, expressed his deep and heartfelt thanks and said the success of the campaign was due not only to the oneness of purpose and cheerful spirit of determination, but the master mind of Lord Cromer (the British agent in Egypt), under whose able direction, the sirdar asserted, the Soudan had been reconquered. ANTICOSTI ISLAND. m« British Foreign Office Wants to Learn the Particular* of it* Sale to a Citizen of France.

Toronto, Ont., Nov. 5.—The foreign office of the British government has cabled to Canada asking for a report upon and an explanation of the sale of the island of Anticosti, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, to a subject of a foreign power. Atty.-Gen. Archambault has received a request from Ottawa for a report upon the whole subject. The purchaser is a French capitalist, who, it is said, is now evicting English settlers, and could, with sufficient arms on the island, control the St. Lawrence river. In the event of a war between Great Britain and France this would be of immense advantage to France. It is believed that the British government will order the cancellation of the sale. __ GEN. WHEELER AT MOBILE. The Old VMwu Given a CoaUaaons Over tloa. a Pablle Raeapttaa and . a Maaquat. Mobile. Ala., Nov. 5.—Gen. Joe Wheeler and staff, consisting of Capt. J. K. Thompson, Maj. H. a Terrell and Charles E. Penny, arrived from Huntsville, and were met by a committee. The party joined the Mobile A Ohio officials on a private car to Citronelle, where Gen. Wheeler will inspect the proposed site of the army sanitarium. The progress of the general through the streets was a continuous ovation. From the car he made a abort address. The purport of the address' was the future of Alabama and the southern states in commercial relation with the territory which the United States has acquired “by force of etrcqmstaneea.*! The general held a public reception at the Kattel house at night, and was tendered a banquet. MM Uul.a tht Dtpamrv of Troop*. Washington, Nov. 5.—Advices from the Cuban military commission yesterday were to the effect that the Spanish evacuation of Puerto Principe will take place earlier than the 23d, and that it will be desirable to send the troops, designated in the order issued yesterday, as early as the 13th. The transport Chester, which will carry a regiment, probably will sail from Savannah, on the 8th. with the Fifteenth infantry, which is to go to the town of Puerto Principe. The Eighth cavalry and the Third Georgia will follow aoon afterwards.

ARMY OP OCCUPATION. A Qwml Oid«f AailfutattNop for Mo of Cuba—Ordered to b* 1b Roodioeoa. Washington, Not. 5.—A general order was issued yesterday designating i the troops for occupation in Cuba. It is as follows: Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant | General's Office, Washington, Not. 4. I —The secretary of war directs that the following troops be held in read- ; iness to proceed to the island of Cuba mid to occupy the stations herein des- ! ignated, the movement to take place | from time to time under instructions | to be communicated hereafter: First Army Corps—Headquarters at | Cienfuegos. First Division — Headquarters at , Cienfuegos. First Brigade—Headquarters and ! one regiment of infantry at Santa Clara; two regiments of infantry and the Seventh United States cavalry at Cienfuegos. *

second linguae—Headquarters and two regiments of infantry at Trinidad; one regiment of infantry at Sancti Spiritus. Third Brigade—Headquarters and one regiment of infantry at Sagua la Grande; one regiment of infantry at Placetas and one regiment of infantry distributed between Kemedios and Caibarien. Second Division—Headquarters at liatanzas; First and Third brigades and the Tenth United States cavalry at Matanzas; Second brigade at Cardenas. Second Army Corps—Headquarters^ at Havana; First and Second divisions at Havana. Third Division — Headquarters at Mariel. First Brigade—Headquarters and one regiment of infantry at Pinar del Rio; one regiment of infantry at Mariel; one regiment of infantry at Guanajay. Second Brigade—Headquarters and one regiment of infantry at Nuevitas; one regiment of infantry at Puerto Principe; six troops of the Eighth United States cavalry at Puerto Principe; six troops of the Eighth United States cavalry at Nuevitas. Seventh Army Corps—Headquarters at Havana; First and Second divisions at Havana; Second and Sixth United States cavalry at Havana. The Second regiment of United States artillery will be assigned to the Seventh corps prior to departure from the United States. The batteries will retain their present stations until notified to prepare for embarkation for Havana. Four light batteries to be hereafter lesignated will be assigned as follows: Two to the garrison of Havana and two to Matanzas. The Second, Sixth and Tenth United States cavalry will remain with the , Fourth army corps until detached for ; embarkation. Corps commanders are charged with the preparation of their commands for these movements. The juartermaster-general will make timely arrangements for the transportation, not only of the commands, but the necessary impedimenta. Hospitals will, as far as possible, be pro- : rided in advance of the arrival of troops. Subsistence to meet the needs of the above service will be fully provided. AN IRREPARABLE LOSS.

Ih« American Pic* Forfeit the tiood Opinion of the CnatUion Butehere—A Numerous and Opulent Horde. Madrid,Xov. 5.—The Imparcial. commenting upon the peace negotiations now in progress in Paris, says: “If the United States had shown in the protocol the intention to keep the Philippine islands the matter would noV hare taken the course it did. Spain has never considered the Philippines as lost, nor has she desired their loss. On the contrary her intentions was shown by her facing the ■nger of Germany on the question of the Caroline islands.” In conclusion the Imparcial remarks: “America, by her conduct, has lost her place among civilised peoples, an.* henceforth will only count as thr most numerous and opulent of hordes.” BILLY AMONG THE BABIES.

Tbo 6«rau Knpwor M»Mf Him—It Solid with the Inhabitants of ths City of Jsrosolom Jerusalem, Not. 5.—The emperor and empress of Germany left on board a train for Jaffa yesterday morning amidst the firing of salutes and cheering of large crowds of people. Their majesties declared that they were greatly pleased with their visit and shook hands with principal civil and military authorities. Their majesties have made themselves most popular with all classes of people, the thorough affableness of the,, emperor being much remarked. He took Arab babies in his aims and told their frightened mothers that he was: the father of seven children, and also complimented them upon the healthfulness of their infants. A STEEL RAIL TRUST. As Alleged Cewblaatlea of Stool tins Tho Trie# of lt*ita to bo Advaaeed .to SM fw Too. Philadelphia, Nov. 5.—A report la current that a contract has been consummated between the Federal Steel Co^ the Lackawana Iron and Steel Co., and the Colorado company, to recover a period of five years for the maintenance and regulation of the production of steel rails. It is said the price is to be advanced from $13, the present price, to $20 a ton. .

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R ICHARDSON A TAYLOR, cs Attorneys at Lam. Prompt Attention given to nil business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Office In Carpenter building. Eighth and Main-sts., Petersburg, ind. ^SHBY A COFFEY. Q. B. Ashby, C. A. Coffey. Attorneys at Law, Will practice In all courts. Special attention given to all civil business. Notary Public constantly In the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over W. L. Barrett’s store, Petersburg, lnd. g O. DAVENPORT, Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. g M.AC.L HOLCOMB, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all courts. Prompt attention given to all business. Office In Carpenter block, fiist floor on Eighth-st., Petersburg. L. K. WOOLSEY, Attorney at Law. All business promptly attended to. Collections promptly made and remitted. Abstracts of Title a specialty. Office In Prank’s building, opposite Press office, Petersburg, lnd. ----■■■■■ R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens’ State Bank, Peteisburg, Indiana. T. W. BASINGER, Physician and Surgeon, Office over Bergen A Ollphant’s drug store, room No. 9, Petersburg, lnd. All calls promptly answered. Telephone No. 42, office and residence.

w H. STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Office in rooms 6 and 7, In Carpenter bonding. Petersburg. Indiana. Operations first - class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. Q C. MURPHY, Dental Surgeon. Parlors In the Carpenter building, Peters* burg, Indiana. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. VTOT1CE Is hereby given to all persons inis teres ted that I will attend in my office at my residence EVERY MONDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Marlon township All persons having business with said office will please takeuotice. T. C. NELSON.Trustee. Post office address: W In slow. t NOTICE Is hereby given to ail parties concerneotthat 1 will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY, To transact btwness connected with the office af trustee of Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on office dare. J. D. BARKER. Trustee. Postoffice address: Peteisburg. Ind. NOTICE Is hereby given to alt pauttes Interested that 1 will attend at my office in Siendal. _ EVERY SATURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having busluses with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS, Trustee. NS OTICE is hereby given to alt parties concerned that I win be at my office at Pleasaatvtlle. MONDAY AND SATURDAY of each week, to attend to business connected with the office ot trustee of Monroe township, Positively no business transacted only on office lays. J. M. DAVIS. Trustee Poetoffice address Spurgtoa. NOTICE Is hereby given to all persons concerned that I wilt attend at my office EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Jefferson township. L. E TRAYLOR. Trusts# Postoffice address: Algiers, Ind.

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