Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 January 1899 — Page 1

VOL. XXIX.

Tlie Farmer anti Society. [An Essay read by MissThirza B. Deen, of Petersburg. Ind., nt the Pike County, Farmers’ institute.] Society, with all its branches, floweirs and fruits, has its roots in the individual man. And the fanner is one of thjsise great social members. Without society there could be 'no union of labor. Every man would have to dQk£Vervth:ng for himself and would consequently spend his life in the lowest *ecu pat ions. Society is supported by work. The satisfaction of human wants is the motive of social activity. Small and Vincent have classified human wants as follows: Health, wealth* sociability, knowledge, esthetic, and the wVnjts connected with activity of conscience. The value of any member of society is'determined by the extent to which lie toiltributes to the satisfaction of cue or more of these wants. There could be no intellectual advancement from age to age without society, nothing inherited from the past and nothing given to the future. Without society there could be no cothraerce, no public opinions, no religion, iio ‘‘farmers’ institute,” no true humanity in man. It 4s by a union of the social members that the farmer has so many ad van

tages m society, even m rural districts. He now has n:uny advantages, can improve intellectually and can be educated without beiftg a scholar. Almost every farmer may now have access to a daily newspaper if he wishes it. This enables him to know what is going on in tb* world, and thus"he can form opinions as to general topics of the day along with bis cjty brethren. *t)ne of the greatest enemies the farmer/has to contend with his own excessive^ modesty or distrust In his own powers \nd ability. And while there are many who'iatl because of 'the opposite extreme, there are many more who dou&t themselves so much as to wonder, seriously, whether it is over worth their goibg forward at all. Now, a$ a rule, these people are the most worth -cultivation. Then there are many farmers who seem to think they *>we nothing to society or to themselves beyoud tilling the soil. This a very much mistaken idea; He owes a great deal to his mind which elevates him above the brute. He owes a great ddnl-to his body physiologically. Health,' said Simonides long ago, is good for mortal man. Life, said Longfellow, without health is a burden, with health is a joy and gladness.The body needs rest and the appetites condoled. Temperance not only includes abstaining from intoxicating drinks, but includes sobriety in pleasure, labor, dress and food. Temperance contributes much to sound judgment aud staidness of character, which influences the social relation of man. The senses also contribute much to man's social being. Many walk throtgh the world like ghosts as if they, were in the world, but not of it. They have eyes and see not, ears and hear not. The attentive eye is ever alert to the beauties which surround it, and surely beauty is one of the attributes of good society. The farmer who prides himself in making his home beautiful will draw about him the best society, for man is so constructed as to seek congenial company. One live, energetic, esthetic farmer iu a neighborhood can do much to elevate the surrounding society, for human beings are imitators to some extent; he uses taste in the arrangement of shade trees and flowers, and his house is painted in the latest style; in fact, he is an “up-to-date” man, and as looked upon as a leader and not a follower in society.’ H is a mistaken idea to think because a man earns his bread by the sweat of his face he is not susceptible to the influence which contributes to the highest and most elevated society. He, above all, has the best opportunity in many respects; the long winter evenings may be spent in social gatherings in the community for mutual improvement. Subjects of interest

can be discussed which will not only benefit: tbe immediate members, but their inflnenoe will be felt in the neighborhood. It is the farmer’s own fault that he is as a general thing so secluded. Why not the farmers have a musical club in the neighborhood to meet once a fortnight and give one or two public recitals during the winter? Why not have a reading club in which some good books and magazines can be read and discussed? Let the' old men and women take part as well as younger ones. This thing of getting old as soon as ; you are married is all nonsense-then is when yon want to begin to live.-, What if the price of- pork and butter should be discussed at the musical and reading club, * they would only be the better for it. God bless the good old farmer who knows when to sell his produce to reap the benefits of his labor, and his helpmate who commands a high market price for her golden butter. ■e No one can make his influence any more felt in society than the farmer; taken as a class farmers are moral, patriotic and sympathetic; he it is who has time to take his fellow man by the hand and help him to live a useful and good life; be it is who is able to give the school teacher many of the different products of the soil, thus many beauties in natural sci

enee. \\ e rejoice in the lrecdo :n v>f our land, and wc are so justly proud that eyery man, woman and child has a chance to elevate themselves. Did not the farmer do his part in holding the union together when it was threatened to be burst asunder and one section arrayed against pother? And who was their leader? Abraham Lincoln, the rail splitter. It is frequently said man is the product of two forces, birth and education, or heredity and environment, but there is one force not to be forgotten, and that is his own personality. That work is lest for a man which he can best do to elevate society and be of use to his fellow men. God has something for each, to do which no one el-e^cau do u,s well. It is better to stir the soil,and reap a bountiful harvest than to stir medicine and be a poor physician, or pound the pulpit and make, a poor sermon. The good farmer who puts aside business op the Sabbath day and goes to some little country schoolhouse to superintend a small Sabbath school often makes a more lasting impression upon the mind of some young man than the eloquence of Talmage \yould.do, and makes for himseif a more lasting monument than that made by hands. What greater reward can he u>k than to have young men aud women rise up and call him blesseil, perhaps after hp has gone fo his everlasting rewan^atltl- say it was he who, by his preceptv and example,

ueipea me to lead a better life, to be of more use in society ? Is it not bread cast upon the water? lie who would ilo the most good must know his ovrn age. Ids community, his circumstances,' the needs of the time and place in which he lives. His services to humanity are not renjdered by repeating, by rote the services which others have rendered before him, but by ministering to the needs of the present. The man who imagines the woyld owes him -a aliving has taken the first step toward knavery; the second step is taken w lied lie tries to collect the debt not due him. The greater the success, the greater thief he is if he takes out more than he puts in. ^ bile the man lives we sometimes count him greatest who possesses the most, but when the man dies we ednnt him greatest who has done most good for his felloi|r men. Need the farmer think that just because he is a farmer he can let opportunities pass Unheeded? Need he think precept is enough? Need he think there is nothing he can do? Need he think if he gives $50 ty a church that is being built on the edge of his farih and pays the minister $10 a year he has the right to sit by his fire and not bestir himself to help with the work of keeping the right things moving in his society? If you are old, go aud help by your advice; if vou are young, go and put your shoulder to the wheel, for, indeed, the field is wide. It is often very hard to keep up Sabbath schools in the country because heads of families will not attend. Perhaps one or two iu the neighborhood go a few Sabbaths—do the best they; can —but, -in spite of all, a few hoodlums will make the place hideous with their boisterous wavs, and the few give up aud say we could do no more without help, while they who stayed at home soliloquize, “1 told you so.” Then in a fe>w years these hoodlums add strength arid-numbers to'their company, and the neighborhood is noted far and near for its roughness. Those very farmers who sat by the fire and prophesied will wonder why it is as it did not used to be. Is there anything strauge about it? We think not. Let every farmer be as energetic all the time as most of them are during a Presidential campaign, when political rallies are the

event oi tne times, Some do not believe m rallies, but then^s the time many a farmer’s poor, tired wife gets a new dress for herself and all the children, the family wagon is hitched up, and they all .get a grand trip to town and hear the brass band—perhaps the first holiday they have had in four years. Does this not add something to their monotonous lives? Pleasure is a means,, not the end of life— it is the oil which keeps the machinery of life from wearing out. Be never has a good time, but he who has a hearty laugh in company which leaves a sweet remem- > branee has done his fellow man good, because we are better fitted for our work by our merriment. * Fame is not the end of life; it is only a shadow east, and the shadow depends more upon the place the than stands than upon his size. ..It is a trademark. Many jrfeU have the stamp of fame upon theuhLbt^ without the real quality of success in them. Often there is an invisible hand writing, “Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.” Many a man who boasts of the Stars and Stripes as his protector is HE**ly t° sell bis birth-right to the highest buulerX Do we fipd many farmers in this class? Wealth is not the end of life. It is a j power, and life consist®, not in the pos- ' session of power, but in the right use of it. . Often it is not the farmer who can boast ol his broad fields and large granaries who J does the most for the promotion of hia

conmmuity, but the man whu claims only | kis twenty acres who will be most missed when death reaps l:is harvest. Then he who achieves most and is a true social - member in society, with A heart that can feet for a neighbor's woe. And share in his joy with a friendly glow. > ""Ufa sympathies iarge enough to enfold . All men as brot) -rs is better than gold. How to Prevent* Pneumonia. ) \ ou are perhaps aware that pneumonia | always results frotn a cold or from an attack | of la grippe. During the epidemic of la j grippe a few years ago when so tnahjr eases : resulted in pneumonia, it was observed that ! tb? attack was never followed by that disease when Chamberlain's Congh Remedy was used. It counteracts any tendency of a cold or la grippe to result in that dangerous disease. It is the best remedy m the world for bad eolds and la grippe. Every bottle warranted. For sale by J. R. Adams & Son. • j

Live Stock Disease In Indiana Daring: ISOS. (Purdue University Agricultural Experin ent Station, Newspaper Bulletin No. 71, Jannary it, 1WD.1 The veterinary department of the experiment station has been keeping a careful observation the occurrence of the diseases of domestic animals in the state, and a brief summary of the conditions for tlm past year are as follows: The greatest loss has l»een caused by hog cholera. The disease has been general all over the state, but has not so completely devastated all the herds in a given locTality^ as is often the case. The total loss is probably more than 900,COO hogs, valued at more than $5,000,000. The disease has subsided somewhat at the present time. The station has used :4,SOO pounds of ^ajwrantced cholera cures" in the past two bout finding a practical remedy. Cattle were affected by an unusual number of di-eases. Contagious sore eyes existed as an epidemic during the late summer. W hiie it did not cause many fataltics, it resulted in much loss in del&yiug the fattening process and in a diminished flow,o„f milk. A few weeks later an epidemic of sore foot and •'InoHth disease occurred, also causing considerable loss. Within the past few weeks several hundred fatalities have resulted from eating spoiled corn and lodder. This loss is erroneously attributed to ergot. Ergot, however, never occurs on corn, and as far as experiments have shown, the corn smut does not produce any known disease. The disease is probably produced by some product of the decomposition of the corn. Tuberculosis has been found where it had not been supposed to exist, and requests for tuberculin tests are constantly being made. The station, however, is not prepared to conduct these tests. Symptomatic anthrax caused Considerable alarm in some localities. Sheep escaped disease as a rule during the summet^months^ but late reports indicate some trouble may be expected this winter. % 4 Horses have been practically free from epidemics. A. W. Bitting, D. V. M. La Grippe Successfully Treated, “I have just recovered from the second attack of la grippe this year,” says Mr. James SA. Jones, publisher of the Leader, Mexia, Texas. ‘‘In the latter case I used Chamberlain’s cough remedy, and I think with considerable success, only being in bed a iittle over two days against ^en days for the former attack. The sceonVattaek I am satisfied would have been equally as bad as the first but for the use of this remedy as I had to go to bed in six hours after being ‘struck’ with it, while in the first case 1 was able to attend to business about two days before getting ‘down,” For sale by J. R. Adams & Son. j

Otw'ell Items. The cold wave has struck us at last. Miss Ermna Alford h&s gene, to Men roe City to visit her brother. . The fallowing officers were installed by the Qdd Fellow’s lodge at Otwell last Thursday night: Noble Grand, S. R. Clark; Vice Grand, Clarence Abbott; Recording Secretary, George W. Schell; Permanent Secretary, W. H. May; Treasurer, Henry Coleman. O. D. Harris is on the sick list. The Evening Lights are still holding forth at Traylor Union. The G. 4- R’s will have a public installation of'officers on the 21st of January. Joseph Dcmsey is getting better the doetors think he will get along and is able to be up. R. M. Craig shipped five ear loads of hogs last Tuesday to Indianapolis. Foley’s Honey and Tar Cough Syrup wherever introduced is considered the most pleasant and effective remedy for all throat and lnug complaints. It is the only prominent cough medicine that contains no opiates, and that can safely be given to children. J. R. Adams & Son. j ' ' \ *

tv AKII | *«TO V I.ETTKIt. 0«r Kcitilsr C«m*|ien4riit s«iUh in u Butch of Ncwk. Senator Mason fired an expected bombshell into the ranks of the Philippine annexationists when he offered his resolution, starting with a quotation from the Declaration of Independence-“where*s, all just powers of government are derived f*r>i x the consent of the governed”—and dt - daring that the United States will m t attempt to govern the people of any olb r country without the consent of tire peop e themselves or subject them by force too r domimofMgaiust their will. Unless t e attitude Aguinaido and his follow* rs (changes widely from what the latestoffic al advices state it to be. we have got togovt m them by f&ce or not at all. Represcnr.aff'ye Daily won his coust utional tight without a report from he Uouse judiciary committee, ijalthough tie members of the committee are unders od to be unanimous in the belief that' he acceptance of a commission in the vclinteer army, by a representative, vacate his seat in the House. Czar Reed won Mr. Bailey’s fight for him, by refusing to ( rtify the vouchers for the pay of the :: ree members of the U^use who h^ld c&n missions. ' i The mail of southern senators and representatives is full of protests from ex confederate soldiers against the pro[>os of Senator Butler, of North Carolina toigive them United States pensions. Se; ator Pascal presented a formal memorial tr- the Senate against the Butler idea, froa the confederate veterans of Ocala, Florida The House has administered* its at mal scare to the civil service commission, sad it was more real than usual. This time the nouse,'sitting as a committee of the v pole actually voted to strike out the appro nation the civil service commission, iu the executive, legislative and judicial bill. When the yea and nay vote was taken, however, the appropriation got a small majority, and this year’s scare was over.

Senator Caffrey of Luuisaua, made speeches in support of Senator Vest’s resolu- ! tion, declaring a colonial system to be prohibited by the United Slates” constitution. Mr. Swanson, after pointing out that, in his opinion, the trade advantages we would secure, by the annexation of the Philippines, would ndt-begin to balance the expenses of keeping them, stated hi? belief that the main support of the imperialistic policy came from those who are‘working to bring about an offensive and defensive alliance between the United States and Great Britain. Senator Caffrey’s speech was a reply to that made before the holiday recess by Senator Platt of Connecticut. He SJ\jd: “Here the bold proposition is advanced that the right to govern is broad and imperial and without limitation by our constitution. If the argument advanced by the senator from Connecticut be true and sound, then the individual rights of man are to be held by the United States under a congressional despotism. Our constitution knows no despotism; it sedulously provides against despotism; but right “here is a despotism of the most flagrant character possible.” No one doubts that the treaty of peace, which went to the Senate last week, will in due time receive the necessary number of votes to ratify it, with a number to spare, but it does not necessarily follow that the Senate will, in the meantime, consent to be muzzled. This was fully demonstrated when the Senate adopted, over the vigorous protest of Senator Davis, chairman of the committee ou foreign relations, ami late a tion falling upon the president, if not incbmpatable with public interests, to send to the Senate eopi|p of all instructions given to the peace commissioners during their stay in Paris. The Senate took the ground that it ought to have this information before voting on the treaty.

The boys who tried toeat the *‘embalmed” ..beef issued to them in Cuba and Porto Rico will have to read the testimony of Alger-controlled army officers in order to find out what elegant beef -that was, and how mistaken they were in finding fault with it. A man who was in both places [ and who knew what he was talking about remarked: “The testimony of some of these officers is quite as nauseating to me as that embalmed beef was,’* There are reasons for the belief that his dickering with Aguinaldo cost E. Spencer Pratt, the position of United States consul at Singapore, to which Robert A. Mosley, Jr., of Alabama, bus been nominated. Pratt was largely responsible for Agninaldo's being taken to Manila by Admiral Dewey, a fact of whieh he boasted in recently published official correspondence. It is now stated that Pratt resigned his position, but he was probably officially invited to do so. '' As a rule, democrats in CongiW decline to discuss, for publication, the statement against silver ami in faTor of expansion, made by Mr. Richard Croker, head of the Tammany organisation, further than to say that they accept Mr! Crokers; assertion that the statement was made as his individual - S . ■' . . . - ' k . :

opinion: nijil that ns such it is torth n< wore than the opinion of »nv oth< r imlivi dual (lfmJtrut of equal prominence. Privately,* number of them have< xpressed the opinion, that so far as nnvthit g be can accomplish by got Bp to the d« mocratic national convention, is concerned, Mr. Crokcr might just fs well stay at heme. Brats the Klondike, Mr. A. C. Thomas, of Marysville, Texas, has found a more valuable discovery than has yet been made ip the Klondike, for years he suffered untold agony from consumption accotnfianied by hemorrhages, and was absolutely cured by Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, h<* declares that gold is of little value in comparison to this marveloos cure, would have it even if it cost a hundred dollars a bottle. Asthma, bronchitis and all throat and lung affections arc positively cured by Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption. Trial bottles free at J. R. Adams & Sou’s drug store. Regular size 30 cents and $1.00., Guaranteed to cure or |#ice refunded. ^

Divorce Law Revision. A meeting of those interested in securing a revision of the divorce laws of Indiana has been held at Indianapolis. 1 he movement was originated by the Friends, but the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Christians were represented also at the meeting and promised hearty eo-opcrat ions. The discussion was first in the direction of reducing the^nuiuber of causes for which a divorce can be granted. This was not deemed advisable, and the nvxyf reposition was thaton law should beefiacted forbidding the re-marriage if a divorce had been granted for aduitery. TliV was also rejected, and it was agreed that-<large per cent of the evil of divorce results from those desiring to marry again at once. A bill to forbid marriage of a divorced person within two years after lie decree has been granted, was favored, and a sub-com-mittee was appointed to draw up such a bill and present it to the legislature. The City Markets. Eggs—17 J cents.4 Butter—12| cents. -v . * » Onions—73 cents j>er bu. Potatoes—50 cents j>er bu,. Chickens—Chicks ?e, het * 5e. Turkeys—Hen turks 7c. Navy Beans—$1.73 per lu. \ Shoulders—5 cents,’ Sides—9e. Lard—9 cents per lb. . Pork—Hams, smoked, 12 J cents. Wheat—60 cents per bushel. Corn—26 eents per bushel. Oats—30 eents per bushel. Rye—40 cents per bushel."5. Clover Seed—$2.25 per bushel. Salt—83 per bbl. ; Hogs—$3.10 to $3,15 per 100. - Cattle—$2.00 to $4.00 per 100. Shee|>*-$3.00 to $4.00 per 100. Cincinnati Markets.* Wednesday, Jan. 4,1899. Wheat, 68c to 70e; corn, 36 to 38c; oats, 26 to 29c; rye, 54 to 57e; cattle, heavy, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, good shippers, $3.Q0 to $3.50; sheep, $2.25 to $4.00. . ------ . • Free Pills* Send your address to H. E. Bueklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of constipation and siqk headache. For malaria and liver troubles they have been proved iuvaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 25c. per box. Sold by J. R. Adams & Son, druggists.

Weather„F«r January.According to Brother Hicks, there will be several kinds of weather during the balance of the month. On the 13th, look for marked change to warmer in all western sections, followed by rain or snow. With other causes present, the heaviest snows and blizzards occur during the Mercury periods in our winters. Hence such results may appear, especially north and west, from, about 11th to 15th. The cold wave will rush to the gulf regions with great rapidity. Thefcharacteristics of ! the Mereary disturbances are prolonged cloudiness, with mist and drizaKng rain ending in general destructive sleet, the rain and mist becoming solid sheets of ice on trees, buildings etc. The regular change to warmer, will advance from the west, causing more rain, snow and sleet, about 17th to 19th and it will now be safe to count on a cold wav® from th^ northwest causing blizzards bo the north am) west. The same changes will be naturaMrom the 23d to 26th. > Another Go^l Man Gone Wrong. lie failed to Foley's Kidney Cure for his kidney eofnplaint. J. B» Adams & Son. ' i

Te.i.Ou! K«n Sa Monday mumimr about 1 vatchinaii Little discovered parted the budding oeeup the butc her, to fee au mediately sounded the » :he incident which befell N^cvr Years morning it c loud enough to lie beard any; the M. E. church bell was sometime before the^people and by the time that niany whole block of butidmgs but little of the gumls of W the butcher, David Hoi Johnson Jfe Lane, growra,", Montgomery, saloon Lt, The losses on guodk is almost^ kSg'b * he'mlr William lie in - big to i<eU on be, rung nev and It was, aroused, itwllbt iire^ad Hl-'gfcn, §L fhe ?*«§!, The buildings were owned by M.H. Frank. The Klondike saloon was nu-tvly a tent and /■he boss was not great, flic io?-«*s were as -Mows: Johnson & Lane, $2,oC9; menace Ii • m fi *!,OOU. M. IT. Frank, #1,800; k David Horton, |^00. noi.„„. William Ilisgen, $450; no iii^, Jacob Montgomery, #1W; mi; insurance. Johnson & Lane moved whs$go>*ls were saved into the Blue Front lading, where they will more than I.kei^^&siuess in total, of note# mson is saved all ry struc'l his is out in the future. Their lossc was They had also a large n which were in the safe. Mr, trustee of thhrtownship, the books and papers. William llisgen built a tore and is again doing \ the second time lie ha> been the past two months. The Kjoudike siUoun has put up a tenporaty'strueture. \ ■ ’-Miy; ' The -snpposition'is that the Ere was the work of au tneeiidmry cha' acte;, Three fires have taken place in the block since September last, each time burning?,out a portion of the old frame buddings. It is understood that the owners of the ground fj§ IS will erect substantial brick in the early spring.

arc room, ron Lodge of Pike imerv Ule, his fourattack of •ra cattkj leartown. ‘tore hire. te MtCorSpurgeon Itm** A small child cf( B. T. quite sick is now better. We would like cor: every postoffice in the cm ujews. Thr Modern Woodmen in a new hall over A. M. ft’ The following officers of I. O. 0. F. ha\© been iu«: Seales, X. G.; J. L. Davis, Davis, Per Secretary: A bey urer; A. II. Oxby; Ii-eordn Our people are petition roi^fe direct to Oik laud Clay. Bank. George McConnell, for: county^ now in the mill was here a tew days ago, ing tniU is a success The Cumberland Tele; going to build a luie to with Petersburg. We h up in a short-time. W. B. Osbortt. one of i in Pike county, who had a gaip, is able to be in his W. L. McKinney passed with thirty-eight head of taking them to his home W. B. Osborn has. botrgi brosc’s interest in tire \YiH will go, on the road thick Harvesting Company school is out. 'v One day last week Hi was helping saw down a t falling struck him on tl*e the skull. His injuries are latal. His brothers scut toDr. Merchant who raised the brain and the boy is with hopes of recovery. R. B. Langford showed ns that he informs us has for at least one hunu His father brought it from he ^s a boy, it hail form his grand father. It is tty; has the crown stamped *m forjiprizes it very highly as sake; During the.holiday went out. - celeb tating. ami -damage. Filling up etef< down out houses, t house at R. B. church finding out who they we# and* made them clean rebuild- the outbuildings, Uen from move W ,Treasutail r « Pike tttpany is our town the line 1 me hers town Am on as his Gissleman e tree in fracturing :ht to be hstadt for till from oitig well dredge the family y years. ;tand when fprsged to pper and Mr. Langmtly keep our boys tie d tearing the coal Ferguson them eras aud

How to Lock Good. Good looks are really ladth than skin deep, depending entirely dh^healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver be inactive, you have a bilious took; if your kidneys be affected, you have a pinched look. Secure good health and you will* sorely have good looks, Bitters” is good alternative and look. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys. Purities the blood, cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at J. B. Adams & Sen’s drugstore. iiO cents per bottle.. t