Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 January 1899 — Page 7

AT LOW TIDE. la purpose deed? Desire fallen tsleep? 4nd is there naught will make This sluggish pulse of mine. Which scarce doth creep, / ' A faster pace to keep? f .For life seems only half awake. That which was once a song divine. And set my heart a-throbbing to its note. Is now a discord in sl. minor key, / And lost its melody. Ambition is an art which lies supine. Per like a boat Battered and beaten by the storms gone byTossed high upon the beach, j , Beyond the grasping reach . Of tortuous wave and cruel tide, My shattered hopes and aspirations lie. Indifferent to whatever fate betide am L Perchance on some auspicious day A careless rover on life’s restless sea Will anchor slip Anear my grounded ship, j Recalk the seams, and set the sail a-taut Tc* catch the breeze, then anchor weigh, And turn her prow towards some friendly port. *: -Arthur D. F. Randolph, in Lipplncott’s. ... ■ ■ * About a | Fellow Countryman, j • (Copyright, 1898.) ♦ 1 YEARS ago I was employed aaan expert engineer by a European gov--eminent, and chanced to be closely tied down at our hotel by my wife’s serious illness. Being thus alone and depressed, I welcomed the sight of a fellow countryman, solitary like myself. We met for several days, both at table and in the smoking-room, and as our acquaintance ripened the conversation naturally drifted to a topic of mutual interest, ordnance or gun- :: nery. , “I have eo~.e to Europe,” said my friend, who was a man of some 50 winters, “to introduced patent.” “Ah, that fs interesting,” said I. “Yes, I have worked for ye^rs upon the loading of heavy guns and have reacflbd what 1 consider a happy result.” ); v “And have you presented your papers to the war office?’,’ I inquired. “Well, that is the trouble,” exclaimed Col. Holden, whose face flushed with suppressed irritation. “I have done so, with no success.” “But what was the reply—what were their reasons for not trying or examining your model?” I asked. “There has been no reply,” he blurted out, his indignation showing itself more and more.

Ah, that is strange,” said I. “lam closely connected with the officers of the department, and though I cannot say they are quick to adopt innovations, they are always courteous to those who present themselves and will usually, at least, make a fair examination,” “Well, I don’t see what is tvrong with my papers,” said the choleric eolonel, as I now observed him to be, “Since you are acquainted with those matters, it can do no harm to show you my papers, and if you will have alike patience and kindness you may throw some light upon my quandaries.” “I am quite at your service,” I assured him, and so we appointed a time when I should goto his room, * The next day, at the hour named, I rapped at his door. It was promptly opened ahd the colonel ushered me in with evidences of excitement, gun, about the size of one used on a pleasure yacht, a little beauty, stbod as if ready for action, in one corner of the room, while the large center table was covered with papers. "To commence with, here is a copy of my letter to the war office.” •? I„ took up the sheet and controlled my features while I read a plain statement “that in view of the utter ignorance and deplorable lack of advancement in the European ordnance,” the writer almost :from a sense of pity woul'd show the - war office how to convert their very ancient guns into modern ones if invited to make a test, of the brought. model which he had This was followed by a second and a third note requesting an audience or a hearing. And to none had there come any reply.

“Well, my friend,” said I, after looking with considerable surprise at the model and the patent, which was marvelously clever, “I fear you have not been happy in your tone toward those officials. You see, though you may consider them behind the time, it is best- not to tell them so, and if you like I will undertake to get you, not only a hearing, but a trial.” He thanked me heartily, and the following day I found myself at the war office. “Herr von Staed,” said I to the secretary,, a dignified, courteous man, “a countryman of mine chances to be at my hotel, and though he is, perhaps, what we term a roug|i diamond, an old soldier as well, he hah certainly struck a clever invention which would be of use to you.” - ~ , “Indeed!” said the secretary, “may I ask who your friend is, And what is his invention?” “His name is Holden.” At which the secretary smiled and drew from a pigeon hole the eccentric communication, copies of which I had already seen. “I fear your friend is over-burdened with conceit,” observed the secretary. “Are you sure he has a good thing?” “Yes.” I said, “and if you will accept my apology for his indiscreet and awkward style, I will undertake to reduce him to greater respect.” The secretary motioned to a domestic near the door and told him h> request Lieut. Stalehaver to join ust When the young officer appeared the secretary kindly said, “Lieut. Stalehaver, please listen to Mr. Thompson’s account of the invention offered to us last week in those extraordinary letters.” “^f ter I had explained the invention, “Good,” said the honorable secretary, “Lieut. Stalehaver. form a committee - VP *

r - —1 ----—.. at three officers and wait upon thin fen* tlemun. Bring me the result.** I repaired at once to Col. Holden with the good news, and some/days ‘later not only an inv<»stigation^*0ks made, but the model was tested. I was absorbed in other matters and also greatly disturbed by my wife’s illness, so oniy from time to time did 11 see my American friend, whose choleric propensities had changed into bland amiability and high spirits. |, Seated at dinner one evening, my quiet was disturbed by the excitement of Col. Holden, who grasped me by the hand and, seating himseii by my side, exclaimed: “My dear Mr. Thompson, how can I ever thank you? My fortune is made.’ The government is going to cut all of their old guns *n two and introduce ! my loading apparatus. I shall order j myself a yacht at ones and arm her with small guns, all on my model.” “Not so fast—not so fast,” said I “But,” he- rattled on, “1 have a farm in Illinois overlooking the lake, a stunning sight! I shall build me a house | and surround it by a .fort mounted j with these gucr.” And! on he rattled, with plans equally wild. Then he sul> sided and ate his dinner like a hungry ! man. - Eleven o’clock Thursday morning was set for the great test of the new gun. The war officials, at their own | expense, ha'd cut down one of their ! large guns and altered it with the co*- I cnel's new loading apparatus. Wednesday evening, in greater ex- j citement than ever, he sent for me and ] asked me to accompany him to the testing grounds the next day,, which I consented to do. I was somewhat detained on Thursday morning, for my wife had grown j worse, but arranging for her comfort, i I hastened to the colonel's room* hop- | ing to catch him there and rush with j him in a carriage, which 3 had ordered, j to the testing grounds. I knocked at ! No. 17!), but no answer came, and after ! several knocks I made my way quickly j to the office. “Where is Col. Holden ?” I asked the clerk. “In his room, sir, I suppose,” answered he. j “Then he must be asieep, for I have knocked loudly and received no reply.’ “Would you like me tc* go to his mom with you? Perhaps your wife is iii and Coi. Holden could be of service to you,” he ventured, in surmise to explain my haste and excitement.

~>o, sam l, as we Burned up the stairs, “we had an official appointment and hare scarcely time to get to the testing grounds now.” We reached the door and knocked eveh louder than before. No answer came, and the clerk turned the knob of the door, which,offered no resistance. But where was; the colonel? Gone, the model gun—bag and baggage, the inmate had departed. Icouid not understand, but leading the stupefied clerk staring blankly, I rushed down and jumped into the carriage which was waiting. “War offic^f* I said. At the office I was admitted without ceremony to the secretary’s presence. “Have the officers gone to the testing ground?*’ I asked, quite breathlessly. “You have just missed them,” replied the secretary, “but if you drive rapidly you will overtake them.” j “Then you have heal'd no newsof our inventor?” I returned, ♦ ..“Only that he is to meet our officers for the test trial.” “I beg your pardon for my precipitate visit, and will hurry as you suggested. I fear there is some mystery, for whieh I hope you will not hold me responsible.” I was gone before Herr von Staed ■could ask an explanation, and drove madly to the testing grounds. I did not overtake the officers, but found them already giving their orders in preparation for the trial. “Has «ol. polden arrived?” I asked, immediately. “No, we are waiting for him. But what could detain him? We had wagered he would be oydenng the gunners about before we could get here.” “Well, gentlemen,” I said, reluctantly, “you might proceed with the trial. Col. Holden has left his hotel, bag, baggage and gum** “By jove, that’s like the mighty inventor,” said young Lieut. Stein. “Kind of a disappearing gun carriage, eh, fellows?”

±ie ii come around later to claim the boodle,” said another officer, “for he has mighty plans for yachts and pasties on an American lake.” . “Well, gentlemen,” said I, “report upon this trial as favorably as possi ble; and I will try and find the colonel. Au revoxr,” and I drove back to my hotel. The clerk stood at the door waiting for me. • “A messenger from the railroad star tion brought this, sir, after you left.” “Well, in the name of all that is qxyer! The colonel is honest, if eccentric.” The envelope contained & check for the hotel bill, with neither word nor comment. “What messenger brought this?” “One of the regular porters, though he must have been well fed. I could get nothing out of him. Mum was the word.” I went to the railroad station. The booking agent knew the colonel by sight, apd remembered selling him a ticket to Paris. I notified the war office, and though the government detectives were ordered to make an exhaustive search, our friend, the colonel, has never appeared upon the scene,’ even to claim the money. Leveled by Poverty.) In a home for* sandwich men in Ijondon there are said to be several university graduates and medical men, and a Scotchman who ran through £60,000 in three years, I /

CIVIL SERVICE ASSAULTED. *»«UkMM Spotlumen Stop tk« ip. praprtatlra (or the OmmIwIos. When President McKinley wrote his recent message to congress he neglected to say a single word for civil service reform. Wes the subject crowded ont by the new issues created by the late war. or was the omission intentional? At one time the president was an ardent civil service reformer. Has his new love for imperialism extinguished his old faith in the efficacy of a movement designed to overthrow the time-honored spoils system? He must have known that his silence upon this Question would encourage the ^nemies of this reform to renew their attacks with fresh energy. If the republican president shows so little interest in the maintenance of the civil service law, why should the republican spoilsmen in congress hesitate to attack the measr ure? And this is what they have done. These eminent friends of good government scored, a glorious victory when .they succeeded in having the appropriation for the civil service commission struck out from the legislative, executive andi judicial appropriation bill, during debate in committee of ^tbe tghole. Emboldened by Mr. McKinley’s indifference such distinguished political purists as Grosvenor, of Ohio; Evans, of Kentucky, and Hepburn, of Iowa, dared to make* a bold assault upon the iniquitous law that interferes so exasperatingly with the glorious prerogative of dispensing the spoils that goes with the congressional office. Especially timely is this attack. Thanks to the president’s indifference and the broad-minded congressmen who are working for the overthrow of this outrageous law. there is a possibility of returning to the good old way off treating a public office as a private spap. When we think of the new co-4

-SE HANNA AND M»PKLEY. The President and Hlit Uineker Am Still In Accord in Some Thlaa:*. Not long ago Senator HaniA said some things agaiqgt the proposal to increase the navy forthwith at an expense of $50,000,000. Be expressed the opinion that we had warships enough actually built or under contract and that there was no good reason why we should incur further expense on this account just now. Be made the point that radical changes were likely to become necessary in the construction of fighting craft and that ships built on plans now in favor were likely to become obsolete by the time they were ready to go to sea. When Mr. Banna expressed himself to this effect some people jumped to the conclusion that he and Mr. McKinley were no longer in accord. They assumed that Mr. McKinley had set his heart on more navy and would break with anyone who opposed him in that matter. But since then it has been given out that the shipyards were too busy on other work .to undertake more naval construction for some time tJ come. As this outgiving was of a semiofficial character, we may infer that the president and Mr. Banxa are not so very far apart on this subject. The truth probably is that the president has become convinced that the people will net relish additional taxes Ik$ond what will be necessasry for the maintenance of a standing army of 100,000 and the payment of the pensions which will arise out of this increase in the army and service in the tropics. Probably the president is giving out excuses in advance through Mr. Haxtna and others for not pressing the matter of a large navy until the people have become accustomed to their additional burdens and are ready to carry still more burdsns without revolting. That is a way he has. t

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lonial career upon which we are about entering, the timeliness of this onslaught upon civil service reform becomes most apparent. We are taking upon ourselves the administration of government in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. There will be a lot of nice, fat places in the colonial department. Shall we fill them under the absurd, impractical civil service rules which insist upon placing-merit and fitness ahead of “pull” and partisanship? Certainly not, if the Grosvenors and Hepburns in congress can help it, Spain did not so govern the islands which she has just turned over to us* and everybody knows how successfully she managed them, and what a glorious opportunity her colonial service offered to her impoverished aristocracy and worn-out politicians to recuperate their shattered fortunes at the colonists’ expense. All the world knows how much purer and better Spain’s colonial system, founded upon the doctrine of the spoilsmen, has been, than England’s, based upon stringent civil service laws.i By all means let us rid ourselves of the odious merit system, before we fill the colonial offices, in order that we may make the same brilliant success of imperialism as Spain has made, instead of following Great Britain’s sad example. And let us be thankful that we have statesmen in congress who are shrewd enough to see the dafiger which lies concealed in the deadly merit system, and who are brave enough to attack it, even though the people, misguided' creatures who do not know what is good for the country, are strongly in favor of sticking to a plan that- makes “a public office a public trust.”—Detroit Free Press. \Trwt» Brea by tbe Tariff. Ttye great manufacturing industries of New England would be the most difficult of all to ring together in trust combinations,, but present tendencies are painting toward some measure of consolidation even here. The envelope trust1 is being followed by a Combination of writing paper manufacturers, and there is talk at Haverhill of a shoe manufacturers* combination. In cotton manufacturing some pooling of interests has already been effectedin the sale of print cloths, and the movement is likely to extend. It will doubtless soon include the woolen manufacturers who have found that relief through high tariff is not what was bargained for. The force® of competition are working more and more through vast aggregations of capital so far as consolidation in industry is; permitting them to work at all.—Snrlnerfield (Mass.! Republican

The surplus, for which the treasury is indebted to the proceeds of bond sales, is melting away and more taxes will become necessary at no very distant day, even if the navy is not increased, and the president wpuld rather not havfe to face that necessity next year, when- it will be in order to nominate candidates for the presidency again. In |he glow of warlike ardor the people <Jo not complain much of the extra forc£. But the ardor will cool in the course of time and when still more taxes become necessary for the purpose of elevating 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 of Malays with guns taxpayers will begin to doubt whethjer the fun they are getting out of the dance is worth the pay of the piper. Mr. McKinley is politician enough to look forward to that contingency and to put sqme restraint upon his desire ^o spend the earnings of the people in the compound cause of commerce and h Chicago Chronicle OPINIONS AN^ POINTERS. -The stars and stripes are floating over Cuba. But the honor of thisTcountry is pledged that they do not remain there.—Utica Observer* -“Benevolent assimilation" is the climax of humbug and hypocrisy as applied to that “forcible annexation" which Mr. McKinley once declared would be “criminal aggression."—U. Y. World. -It takes something more than the old flag and an appropriation, with an exhortation to remember the -Maine thrown in, to constitute a sufficing national platform for the democracy.—St. Louis Republic. -About a year ago Mr. McKinley said in his message .to congress: “I speak not of forcible annexation, for that cannot be thoughtof. That by our code of morality woijfd be criminal aggression.” If tha*t was true then, it is true now.—Illinois State Register. -The president’s proclamation to the Philippines allows ‘bur unwilling subjects to buy and sell where they please. The average American citizen, located here at home, is compelled to buy from the trusts and to sell in a market that is prejudiced against him by an archaic tariff.—Denver News. -The college presidents and professors of the country are practically unanimous in their opposition to the Philippine annexation. But this wiR not influence the republican bosses at Washington. Education and enlightenment are hardly ever in acccrd with republican policies.—Man cheater (N. HJ Union.

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