Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 December 1898 — Page 3

MISS TABBYCAT’S RECEPTION. Tho eldest Misl Tabbycat cave aa “At Home." WUb music, and choice recitations Sr Signor Angora (quite lately from Rome). Who rendered the “Yowls of all Nations.” *The “Squalls Without Words.” sung by Frauleln von Manx. Were greeted with murmurs of “Charm* tag!** •While her “Chanson de Alley** eledted thanks So loud they were almost alarming. ^ There was. too. a sonata, composed by C. Waul. Which was classic, and claimed the attention 3Bor fully an hour; the themes, one and alt Were models of feline invention. This piece, and the trio: “Beloved Young Mouse.” , Were voted the evening's successes; The latter was purred by three guests of the house. Who wore solid tortoise-shell dresses. The pleasant refreshments were freely dispensed At twelve; there were crumbs of long standing. And milk In all possible forms, save condensed. Set forth on the cellar-way landing. .Now little Miss Velvetpaw, tattering home In a showerrbeneath the umbrella -Of 8tgr.or Angora (quite lately from Rome), Said: "Wasn’t it nice In that cellar? “And wasn’t Miss Tabby the dearest old thing? And weren't those spilt milkings Just splendid? And didn’t that Manx creature know how to sing? Though she looked—well, least said, soonest mended!” But Frauleln von Manx, treading homeward alone With a large book of songs, said (’twas spiteful Of course), “she was ready to gnaw a dry bore. And the datrtp In that cellar was frightful!” And the eldest Mi» Tabbyeat sank on the stair Where she’d stood, and reflected with sorrow •On the mesa that her party had made ev’rywfcere. And (b'e bills that would come on the morrow. " —Elisabeth L. Gould. In Youth’s Companion.

COLONEL DREW’S ONLY COMMAND th« Story of Bon** or tfc* Ho.pitai Staff By H. QUAD

NATCRALLLY enough, we were all down on the noneombatants. It is always so in the fighting lines. The jaamstcr enlists as a teamster, and it is a very useful and necessary adjunct of an army, but yet when the fight is on .and you think of his being safe in the rear, there is a feeling against him. So with the hospital staff and others. We had other reasons for being down .-on "Bonos," however. In addition to being out of the row, he was the man who examined us at sick call half the time, or when the regimental surgeon had an excuse for being absent. 'fhere is a programme about “sick--call,” anti it was only one variation when the hospital steward is the man you run out your tongue at. When the bugles sou.nd the call, the ailing form in line and march up to be examined. So do the shrinkers. There are generally three shrinkers to one sick man. There is a widexpread idea that neither the regimental surgeon nor the hospital steward is on to this fact, but that Is one of the first things they discover. When wc came up before “Bones" the .progruiume was: “Sick, eh?” “Yes. sir.” “What’s the matter?" “Had a fever all night and was out -of my head most of the time.” ‘fRun out vour tongue so I can see it.” “Yes, sir.” “Take three of these.” The looks of the tongue settled it About one in six wasexcused fromduty for the day; the rest.were pronounced fit for drill and work. It was because | we couldn’t beat “Bones” that we called j him “Bones." It was because he saw j through our little gam»' that we would i huve made his daily life miserable if! we had known how.

It was because the regulations of war | ,put “Bone*** to the rear when a fight ] was on that we hoped a stray bullet' would search him out some day. In time “Hones” caiue to realise that he ] had no friends in the rank and tile of I the Seventeenth, but I must do him the ! justice to add that it made uo difference ' •with hiin. He neither prescribed more ttor less physic, neither excused more nor less men from duty. He went right j along doing his duty by the United j States, and looking serious and con- j scientious over it. and this was another : cause for complaint on our part. Ity and by. when we were hating ! “Bones” with ail our hearts .and things I had gone so bad that the sight of him set men to yelling, we marched away to • outflank Jackson, as he had outflanked I rope at Manassas. It was sharp fight- j •log along the front from the start, and ] rafter two days* march our corps went i into battle line one morning, and we Iknew- that there was a host of the enemy an our front. A brigade was detached to rroonnoi*ter the woods to our left, and later on .our regiment was detached to deploy as skirmishers and draw out the con--cealed strength of the enemy. Away we went with a yell, glad to be in at last, and it wasn’t five minutes before men • began to fall pretty teat We pushed on up to the woods, drove the gray skirmishers back, and then massed on the •center to hold a gap between the hills. Troops were moving up to support u* .and hold the ground we had gained, w hen the enemy came swarming out Then far ten minutes the old Seven*

[ teenth made its war record. We held • full brigade. We did even better than that—we repulsed three determined assaults by four times our number, and we killed and wounded almost as many men as we bad in the ranks. Bui there was a blunder somewhere. Our supports fell back, the enemy was reinforced, and we were left there to be sacrificed. There was a panic—no retreat. It was simply that the lone regiment. realizing that it had been abandoned. broke up into detachments and fought almost without leaders and each man for himself. Again a whole brigade moved up against us, and, though we were only 700 now. we poured in such a cool and deadly fire that the advance wavered— halted—broke back, and left us to wave cur caps and cheer at our success. We might have retreated then, 1 think, but no one gave the word. In five minutes it was too late. A regiment to an army is as a fly to a horse. Our resistance simply annoyed. We saw a force gathering in the edge I of the woods beyond, and every man I felt that it was the end. Those battle lines would walk right over ns next time. We looked back to the federal lines, but no reinforcements were on their way. If we rose up to retreat we should be swept by the grape and cannister of the guns in battery and waiting. “It’s our last fight.” Called man to man, as we hugged closer to the earth and drew a long breath. In frout of us lay our regimental flag, with half a dozen dead men beside it, and colonel, major and half the com- \ pany captains were down, dead or badly wounded. The gray lines had just begun tc move when a shout of “Bones! Bones!" rang along our lines. It was the hospital steward, sure enough. Of all the thousands of federal soldiers in our rear, he alone had made his way across the fields to die with us. He had lost his cap on the way, but men knew him by his eyeglasses and long hair and hatchet face. He came on the run. and without pause he sprang over j the forms lying down—over the gunbarrels pointed to the front, and, lifting. up the flag, he waved it an,d shoutedf “Men of the Seventeenth, follow me!" I have seen a dozen generals leading brigades or divisions into action, but i never saw one who grew tall and heroic \ as rapidly as “Bones." One minute he was a hat less, bowbacked hospital steward. The next he was a hero, seem- j ing to be six feet tall and as straight as an arrow. We just got one look at him. and then the 700 men sprang up with yells ani cheers and followed his lead. He turned to the left, led up straight at three guns posted there, and in the dash of 40 yards or so we were quickly among them and had wiped out the artillerists. Then it was down the hill on the other side, the men dragging the captured guns along—through the skirmish

•‘MEN OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST. FOLr LOW ME!" lines creeping up—around the cornel of a grove .and then the federal ranks opened with cheers to let us through. There was “Bones,” still at the head, still acting as colonel, flag bearer and savior, and what do you think he did and said as Gen. Devins rode up and took the flag from his grasp and called him the hero of the Army of the Potomac? He sat down for a minute tc catch his breath and wipe his glasses, and then rose up to reply: “Why, general, I saw that the boyi needed some one. and so 1 went down!”

1 hey woulu have made cones a captain for what he did that day, but he would have none of it. He remained a hospital steward to the end of the war, ! but he was “Hones" no more to the Seventeenth. His name was Drew, and : we called him Col. Drew after that day, I and the man who didn’t get a chance tc j shake hands with him at least once every 24 hours felt that things were somehow out of kilter. In that perilous gap there was a j chance for any one of us to have become a hero, but it was “Bones” who rose up—“Hones," the noncombatant of the hospital stall.—Detroit Free Press. Xaleeljr Said. One of the great churchmen who sat in convention brought his daughter here with him, a guileless, unworldly girl, who is unused to the ways of cities. She dined out with some friends one evening, and when a glass of champagne was poured for her she drank it. She was not used to drinking wine of any kind, and her hostess, knowing this, presently said: “1 hope the wine won’t affect you.** The girl smiled happily. “Oh,” said she. “I am conscious of a feeling dne to the wine, but—but, I don’t find it at all annoying.”—Wash ington Post. Solitude** Seine*. “Yes. there's some consolation in everything!” remarked Robinson Crusoe to the brisk young reporter along with the rescue party. “You see, 1 had nobody on the island to say T told yon sol*---*. Y. Kvexuxur Journal.

THE CLAIM IS FALSE. Absurd and Impossible Assumptions •f Gold Standard Ad* •There is not a single-objection to bimetallism that rests upon any broader or better basis than the technical quibbles, false analogies, and.naked assumptions which characterize their affirmative claims in favor of gold. Take the claim that bimetallism is lmpracticable, or, as some put it. impossible. What objections are offered to it ? Why, we are told that “we cannot have two standards of value any more than we can have two standards of length.*' A distinguished citizen of Nebraska* and I a prominent member of the “Sound Money league,** has been reported as saying that to him “two standards of value are utterly unthinkable.” If he used that expression it merely proves the “unthinkable” character of the apparatus which he carries around on his shoulders and which he probably thinks is a thinker. The truth is that there are different standards of various kinds. The Freneh meter is a standard of length and the American yard is another. The avoirdupois pound is a standard of weight and so is a pound troy. There are no less than three different standards by which heatis measured. and so with other things. But these standards ere easily adjusted, one to another, and it requires no great intellect to make the adjustment. It is equally so with standards of value. Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a “standard” of value, because the word “standard” implies fixity, while values are all the time changing. A money “standard^ is merely a system by which values are computed. Different countries have different systems and different units. England has the pound sterling of gold. India has the silver rupee, artificially raised above the* level of silver bullion. China has four different kinds of silver taels; we have the dollar, etc., etc. But the difference^ between these various units or standards are easily calculated. It does cot require a mind of any great thinking power to enable one to understand the difference. Commerce is going right on between countries with different money systems. The most ordinary clerk can convert pounds into rupees, or dollars into^taels, and without any very labored effort at thinking, either. The idea which called out this unique expression Is this; If we attempt to establish bimetallism by admitting both metals to free coinage it is claimed that gold Will at once go to a premium, the parity will •be broken and we will have two standards of value, which the gentleman says is “unthinkable.” Now, suppose just that should take place and gold should go to a premium of, say, 50 per cent. W1 at would that mean? Simply that two gold dollars would be equal to three silver dollars. Surely no man can be so utterly destitute of intelligence as be unable to comprehend as plain a proposition as that. In the face of the whole monetary history of the world the gold men assume that the very moment gold and silver parted company (if they did part) our finances would fall into confusion worse confounded, and ruin follow. Just how the ruin would come they never attempt to explain, save by a series of propositions that are both absurd and impossible. O. J. WARNER.

NO FORCE BILL. It la Xot Likely That the Republicans WUI Again Hamper Them, selves. Alarm lest an attempt be made in congress to pass another force bill is expressed by the Richmond Dispatch. It thinks that the republicans assured $f power in all branches of the federal government after March 4, 1899, will entertain the project. v It says: “The recent race riots in the Carolinas furnish them with all the excuse they wish. Nor does h matter to them whether those disturbances were provoked by the negroes themselves, cr, perhaps, we would ^better say, by those negroes who suffered themselves to be guided by incendiary whites.” It may be that some of the ultra radicals in the republican ranks, like Boutelle, Ilanna, lloar and Lodge, itch to get even with the south for voting the democratic ticket, as they have itched in the past for the same cause; but they are hardly strong enough to commit their party to a folly from which James U. Blaine saved it when partisan and sectional bitterness ran higher. It is not likely that a level-headed, adroit politician like McKinley will lend

active encouragement to a measure whose advocacy added seriously to Mr. Harrison’s weakness when he ran for a s#bnd term and which would contrib* ute largely to the defeat of his party in 1900. Party advantage for the democrats would be greatly augmented by an effort of the republicans in congress to pass a force bill. The threat would , solidify the south and be almost sure to restore New York. New Jersey, Con- j necticut, Delaware and Indiana to the column of certain democratic states, with chances of acquisitions in the west and middle west. The prospect of a force bill is remote as a practicality. There may occur the expected talk on southern outrages, but the likelihood of a farce bill being even considered is remote. The republican party has more irons in the lire already than it can well manage without increasing its difficulties by advocating a force bill.—St. Louis Republic. -The persistent and heavily Increased deficit since the Dingley law went Into operation shows Its failurt as a revenue producer, while large exports of domestic manufactures underselling the foreigners in their own markets demonstrate the absurdity of Its protective features. la short, tbs protectionist theory has been exploded# aa a political issue tt to dead aaa door aallv—N. Y. Herald.

WHAT BRYAH SAYS. fn« Stiver Will Prove a Strait ft* tor to the Meat Presidential Casa paisa. Col. Bryan, in an interview, said: “While I do not understand that service in the volunteer army prevents a soldier from having and expressing opinions upon political questions, 1 declined to take part in the late campaign lest I should be accused by partisan opponents of attempting to embarrass the administration. Now that the election is over I shall exercise the citizen’s privilege of discussing the returns. “Compared with the election of 1894, the republicans have gained in some places and lost in others. It was not a sweeping republican victory. On the whole the result was not surprising when it is remembered that the administration is just concluding a successful war. “While a majority of the soldiers are probably anti-republicans, the management of the war has been entirely in republican hands, and the strongest argument used during the campaign was that a republican defeat would discredit the president in the eyes of foreign nations while his commissioners were engaged in making a treaty. “It was not a trial upon the issues now before the people, but a successful pica for a continuance of the cose. “The people have not accepted the gold standard; they have not fallen in love with the plan to give the banks a monopoly of the issue of paper money; they have not decided to retire the greenbacks; they have not surrendered to the trusts. “These questions were forced into the background by the declaration of war, but they must be faced again as soon as peace is restored. “The Chicago platform presents for public consideration certain vital economic questions. That platform has | not been abandoned by those who indorsed it in 1SD6. It will be reaffirmed in 1900, because it gives expression to the hopes and aspirations of a large majority of,the pai^L__/ “When the democrm^populists and silver republicans favqrwl Cuban independence they understood that war j would give a temporary advantage to j the party in power; but they were will- [ ing to risk defeat in order to aid a peo- | pie fighting to be free. “Neither can the election be regarded as ah indorsement of any definite i policy. Until a treaty of peace has I been entered into and the terms made j known, the people cannot pass judgment upon it. Whether the war will j raise any question of sufficient impor- ; tauce to turn public attention away from domestic problems remains to be seen.” In regard to the Nebraska election ■ he said: “A light vote was cast in Nebraska, but the fustohists have elected the en- j tire state ticket and carried the same congressional district that they carried in *96. If Senator Allen is defeated for | reelection it will be because senators j are elected by legislature instead of by the people. If a republican senator is | chosen by the new legislature he will go to Washington to represent a minority of the people of the state and to thwart the wil lof the majority.”—N. Y. World.

PRESS COMMENTS. -Apologists for the trusts assert that trust management puts an end to strikes. The window glass trust has started a month late owing to disagreement on wages. Trust managers are not usually philanthropists. They pay “market” wages, and not a cent more than they are compelled to.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. -Mr. Dingley has evidently found the war tax to be the working member of the revenue family. That is why he is unwilling to change it, and thereby force alterations in his tariff measure that will lower the profits of the manufacturer by putting additional import duties into Uncle Sam's treasury.—St. Louis Republic. -The people may expect the coming two years to witness a striking increase in the activity of the trusts. The way monopoly shocks jumped up on 'change the day after election showed the estimate put by the beneficiaries of the trusts upon the value to their pockets of the transfer of complete governmental power to the republican party. —N. Y. Journal. •-It may be remembered that James A. Garfield once announced in congress that he was “for that protection which leads to free trade.” Can it be that the time has come for his party to take that I free trade path, and are his successors i in northern Ohio republican leadership, , Messrs. Hanna and McKinley, getting | ready to head the procession?—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

-Senator Hanna in an interview said that the tariff would have to be revised “to meet existing conditions—because under the present tariff we are not deriving enough revenue to support to government.'* Dingleylsm is thus virtually discredited by the one man more than any other responsible for Its existence. It is a confession that the republican party is starting out to steal its way in the democratic position cf a tariff for revenue only.—St. Louis liepublic. -It has, until the advent of the present administration, always been the declared and acknowledged policy of our government to keep out of foreign entanglements. But we are now drifting into them with a vengeance. The clear indications are that we are about to become involved with foreign power* in the assertion of rights we do not concede to them. No doubt there will be an attempt to denounce as unpatriotic all who do not agree with the administration in ita schemes of seining the Philippines. But the sober sons* of the country is opposed to the admire of the Philippines either with or without wnr.—Cleveland fO.) Pmao %

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