Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 April 1899 — Page 5

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f The Cumberland telephone company desires to thank the subscribers of Petersburg for their past patronage, and to assure them that it will at all times endeavor to give the best of service at minimum prices. Its present rates are just as cheap as it is possible to make, provided the lines, instruments, switchboards, etc,, are maintained in the best and most reliable condition. The improved switchboard appliances, together with long distance connections, ?give the very best facility for quick, prompt and satisfactory service. We promise to maintain the high standard _4 which we have set, and to at all times protect our customers. If, at any time, others using inferior appliances and unreliable toll line connections, offer to com- . pete with us, we hereby caution ^ our friends against being placed under long-time, arbitrary written contracts, for in such cases we will certainly do whatever is necessary to protect our x own interests. If you tie yourself up in a contract; you will be deprived of taking advantages of any better opportunities which will be offered. It will be the policy of the company to continue to make extensions until all near and remote points are embraced within the limits of your exchange. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. J. H. MCLURKIN, Local Manager. Administrator's Sale of Personal Property. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned administrator of tlie estate of William M. Bell, deceased, will sell at public auction, on Saturday, the 6th day of May, 1899, At the late residence of tlie deceased. In Washington township. Pike county, Indiana, ail of the personal.properly of the deceased. i».»t taken by the widow, consisting of horses, cattle, seven milch cows, hogs, growing wheat,wheat in bin, corn, bay, binder, household and kitchen furniture, farming Implements and other articles too numerous to mention. Turks ok Sale—On all^tumsof five dollars and under cash on I lie day of sale, and on all sums over five dollars a credit of twelve months will be given, tlie purchaser giving note with approved freehold surety, waiving relief from valuation and appraisement laws ami bearing six per ceut interest nfter'WaturltjMintll paid, and no property removed yunttl paid for or note*given. Male to be at 8 o’clock a. m. James 7, Bki.i., April 13, 18?>9. Administrator. (H Notice of Administration. \ _ Notice is hereby given that the undersigned lias been appointed, by the clerk of the circuit court of Pike county, state of Indiana, administrator of the estate of William M. Bell late of Pike county, deceased. Said estate ts supposed to be solvent. James /. Bell, April 13,1899. Administrator. Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has i een appointed by the clerk of the circuit court of Pike county, state of Indiana, athninist tator of the estate ot Mary E. Young, late of Pike county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent-. . Mamukl P. Howard, April 3,1899. • ’ Administrator. Non-Resident Notice. The State of Indiana, Pike County: In the Pike Circuit Court, April term, 1899. M oses Fra n k, ad min is- 'i trator, de bonis non of j the estate of Elijah 1 Hightower, deceased, I vs. 6 | Samantha J.Hightower, j l.,ydtt Hightower, Oli- )• ver Hightower, Mor-| ton High tower, Thelda ! Hightower’. Charles Hightower, Prentice Hightower and Wily I 11am Hightower. ) Now comes the plaintiff, by Posey & Chappell, Ids attorneys, and files hts petition herein, together with an affidavit that said defendant, Wiiltain Hightower, isnota resident of the state ot Indiana; that said action is a petition praying for an order and decree of said court authorizing t he sale of certain real estate belonging to theestiue of said decedent, and described in said petition to make assets for the payment of debts and liabilities of said estale, and that said non-resident defendant is a necessary party thereto. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant, last named, that unless lie be and appear on the Kith judicial day of the hext term ol the Pike circuit court, the same being the 27th day of April, 1899, to he holden on the second Monday of April, A. D. 1899, at the court house in Petersburg, in said county and state, and answerer demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in his absence. W it ness my name and t he seal of said court, affixed at Petersburg, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1899. i J.W. Brumfield, Clerk. ' M

Mice of Final Settlement of Estate. Notice is heieby given 4,o the creditors, heirs and legatees ot Louis FarK, deceased, to appear in the Pike circuit court, held at Petersburg. Indiana, on the 11th day of May. 1899, ami show cause, if any, why the final settlement accounts of Frederick Lippoldt, administrator,with the estate of said decedent should not. be approved, and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirshin, and receive their distributive shares. Witness, the clerk of said court, this 19th day of April, 1899. fid-3 J.W, BBUttriKU), Clerk Pike Circuit Court. Richardson & Taylor, attys. Mice of Final Settlement/ of Estate. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees oi .Samuel M. Hoilon, deceased, to appear in the Pike circuit court, held at Petersburg, on the 8th day of May 1899, and show cause, if any, why the final accounts of .lames D. lloilon, administrator, with the estate of said decedent should noi be approved, and said beirs are notified tc then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Witness, the clerk of said court, this Jtb day of April, 1899. tv ,F. W. Bkcmkikwi, 48-3 V Clerk Pike Circuit Court. Richardson & Taylor, attys.

I INGALLS ON AMBASSADORS.

London's Effects )n American Am< bu st*, dors. The following Article written by Hon. John J. Inp ills, ex-senator, in ] the New York Jc irnal will be read )irith much interes Modern diploma ;y is an absurdity, It dates as a pracl ce from the peace of Westphalia, which, in 1648, ended the Thirty Years time were barrit rs were not neighbu s. democracies. The War. Space and then. Nations There were no divine right of kings was the fov idation of government. Monarchal arried sceptres and j wore crowns. Atmies fought with I swords and spear* and catapults and culveries. There were no telegraphs nor cables, nor ne1 spapers. nor ocean greyhounds,nor iin ited express trains, nor through mailt Men traveled in post-chaises, in co ches and on horseback over founders us roads. Highway robbery was an established industry. The world was m de of priests and tv J their dupes; of ty tims, of masters a, In those days course was conduc t ed by ambassadors, ministers plenipo1 representing sove state, with suite ants and their vicd their slaves, iternational interintiary. envoys extraordinary, legatees and nuncios, eigns, traveling in and retinue, from capital to capitali Thus treaties were negotiated. Thus royal marriages were arranged. Thus the vanquished appealed for mercy to their conquerors, adjusted disputed successions, etc. Thus the plots of cabals, the machinathe intrigues of tions of faction courtiers, the rivalries of courtesans were carried on, conceivable, lived ed like swines in Emperors and , wear derby hats, hile the masses pf the people, condemned to incessant toil, to degradat .on and poverty inupon offal and herdAeir sties, princes nowadays lade-up ties,colored shirts, cutaway » iats, tan shoes and ride a bicycle. Education in civilized J powers is universal. The people are ! supreme. Instead, of highway robbers ! tfe have the tru* :s. Space and time 1 have ’ been annihilated. Railroads, j which are t the arteries, and tele- ! graphs, which are the nerves of the ! world, have aboli hed boundaries, and i made the past, the present and future synomfmous. j A message by .[.ire from London to New York, or from New York to San I Francisco, readies its destination | hours before it is sent. All the cities J of th6s earth ar e now in the same neighborhood, ar 1 continents are con* tiguous. The great transactions between the merchants of America, Germany, France and England are settled daily and hourly by telegraph, and if an intermediary is required he crosses the ocean in six dayh In these vast mutations, governments have come at last $> be the age nts of the people for the/conduct of business, trade and commerce! Djmatjties and traditions have suceconomic policies and the strife for markets, but we still keep up the venerable viction of sending ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary and envoys i xtraordinary to foreign courts as if the world were yet in the Middle Ages. It has the same reason for surviv al as the seals on Our deeds or the buttons on the back of our coats. They have no initiative, nor any duties that could not be as well performed ; irCctly by communication between t he principals of the governments thry represent. Their functions are chiefly those of etiquette, involving question's of precedence in the cabinet chamber and priority at dinners and receptions, j These trivial ai d frivulous pursuits' involve enormous expenditure.. Our ambassadors ar. paid $17,500, but a minister plenipotentiary told me in 1892 in Berlin that it was not possible to maintain the rank and station a-t any of the Eur _pean courts on less than $40,000 a yeir. The employment | thus naturally it:ills more and more, to men of wealth, and leisure, wrho, having nothing to do, are accustomed to doing nothing veil. Our ministers and ambassadors to England ha\*e been without exception of the most exalted type of American manhood.

Chpate, Hay. Bayard, Lincoln, Lowell, Motley and the rest are without blemish. But they have been noted and distinguished over all other diplomats for garrulity. No matter how taciturn at home, the instant they leaye the steam er for the tender at Southampton they are attacked with the cacoethes loquendi, which continues with unabated violence until they embark far the United States again: and, uni ke a flock of blackbirds disturbed ; n their tree, they all say the same tl ing in the same way. The ambassador ordinarily is not multiloquous. I e is a silent creature. Charlemagne T>wer is not talkative and we never h ard from Ethan Allen Hitchcock, nor Jlifton Breckinridge. Andrew D. Whi e speaks a little now and then, but t he most of the corps are so reticent that their names are unknown. Even Horace Porter, the famous racont eur and after-dinner orator, has been mute since last Thanksgiving day “as the harp that once through 1 ara’s halls the soul of music shed.” / l But from England for a generation j has come a dr iv eling chorus of prattle

j and chatter about kindred blood, comi mon language. Milton and Shakes- | peare. at clubs, dinners, banquets, in I newspaper interviews, with fluent and obsequious adulation. The shy recluse : Hawthorne caught the infection, and in his notes records the trepidation as he rose for the first time to rehearse the trite tale of kindred blood, common language and Milton ancl Shakespeare.

' Bayard, the narrow bigot of his time, an arid and desiccated product of a creed outworn, surpassed all his associates in truckling subservience, and in a formal oration before a British audience deliberately reviled and condemned the industrial policies of his country. If this fawning sycophancy were mutual it might be intelligible, but whatever the English ambassadors to the United States may think, they observe decorous silence. Sir Edward Thornton was here fron^ 18(57 till 1881V and during his fourteen years of service no newspaper reporter nor toastmaster ever elicited a syllable from him about the kindred blood, the common tongue, or American literature.; Sackville West’s only public deliverence was a letter incautiously written to a republican decoy duck in California that abruptly ended his occupancy of the British legation. Sir Julian Pauncefote may have a vocabulary, but he is inarticulate. It will be a good omen if Joseph Choate will efface himself and imitate Sir .Julian. He has begun badly, but an influenza fortunately interrupted his volubility and has afforded him an interval for reflection. It is to be hoped that he will wait till we have heard from Sir Julian. The people have of the United States have no overweening love for Great Britain. We all know that she is and always has been our'bnly political and industrial enemy among the great powers of the earth. It is through no fault or neglect of hers that the United States was not blotted from the map. She stands alone, detached by her greed and cruel rapacity, without a friend among the nations. She has waited long before making overtures. Having failed to destroy, she now wishes to propitiate. It will be the morning of a better day for American diplomacy and for the dignity of the American people if Ambassador Choate in his next and last public appearance in London, or elsewhere in the Kingdom. takes occasion to say with unimpassioned emphasis that the malevolent injuries of a century have been neither expiated nor forgotten, and while we intend to maintain just and amiable relations with England will neither love nor fear her. Apropos of Choate, I recall a diverting incident growing out of his patronymic. He was in Washington on business before the supreme court, and his partner, Evatts, who was then in the senate, gave, a dinner in his honor. As it was not a function, the relation of this anecdote is, of course, a flagrant breach of decorum, but perhaps the* statute of limitations mav have run. During a lull in the conversation an eminent justice of the’supreme court then, but not now on the bench, turned to the guest of honor and inquired with sonorous distinctness: “By the way, Mr. Choate, are you any relation to the Great Choate?” This maladroit assumption of the inferiority of Joseph to his cousin Rufus,especially as he had that afternoon made an argument before the tribunal of which the querest was a member, caused a silence like that which occurred in heaven,.according to St. John, about the space of half an hour, at the opening of the seventh seal. The stillness, was audible, till Senator Hoar,with the intuition of genius, turned to the embarrassed jurist with a benevolent smile and chirped in his inimitable falsetto: “Brother Jones, you should have said the Other great Choate,” and so the deadlock was broken. The faux pas of the judge was not unnatural, for Rufus Choate was justly described as great. In no other American have qualities usually considered incompatible been exhibited in such extraordinary activity. He was a planet with the orbit apd splendor of a meteor. John J. Ingalls.

Remarkable Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain of Plainfield, Illinois, makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs: she was treated for a month by her doctor, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefitted from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well; now does her own housework and is as well <as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at J. R. Adams & Son’s drug store. Only -50 cents and $1.00; every bottle guaranteed. The town election occurs next Monday, when an entire set of officers will be elected with the exception of trustee of the third ward.

LOCAL BREVITIES. The Xew» Gathered From Various Parts of the County. Capt. W. E. Chappell of near Algiers, was in town Monday on business. Sam Smith, who is doing police duty at Washington, D. €., is home for a month's visit with his family. E. R King is building an addition to his brick business room on Main, street, now occupied by J. H. Viehe & Co., the grocers. Kidney diseases are the most fatal of all diseases. Foley’s kidney cure a guaranteed remedy or money refunded. J. R Adams & Son. a The Democrat office has a supply pf blank mortgages, deeds, chattel mortgages, bonds for deeds and other blanks. They are printed on good paper and in good form.

Another battle took place Sunday between the American and Filipino troops, in which 49 Americans were killed and wounded. A large number of the Filipinos were killed. Charles G. Covert of Evansville, has received the appointment of supervisor of census for the First congressional district. He will have the appointment of a number of deputies in this county. Newt S.' Selby, formerly of this city and who was employed in this office a number of years ago, has accepted the managemenlfof the Huntingburg News. The Democrat wishes Newt success in his new field of labor. Wellman Thrush was a visitor in the city Monday- Mr. Thrush is well known in this county having been principal of the Keystone schools last year. The past year he has been principal of the high school at Petersburg, the county seat of Pike county. —Bluffton Banner. W. L. Lindsay of Jefferson township, was in town Monday on business. He was bora in Dubois county and came to Jefferson township and has lived on I the same farm for 64 years. He is one of the substantial citizens and farmers of that township. The Sunday school committee of Jefferson towmship is requested to meet at Algiers, Saturday, May 6th, at two o’clock, for the purpose of'arranging a program, and time* and place for holding a convention. '* Ollie Craig, Sec. -—■— - i The town trustees met at the sheriff’s office Saturday evening and selected the following inspectors for the election next Monday: Dickson precinct, John Whitman. Read precinct, Erastus Johnson. Court nouse precinct, John M. White. Joe Patterson has rented the Arlington Hotel and has refurnished it from top to bottom. New house, new furniture, and is prepared to extend first class accommodations at reasonable rates. The house will hereafter be known sis the Patterson House/on south side of Main street, between Fifth and Sixth. %„ 50* An exchange says: “Leeches, whet applied to persistent cigarette smokers, drop off dead, distinct traces of the dangerous empty-rumatic oil given off by tobacco being found in them. ” The species of leeches found in Washington require something more powerful than cigarette poison to phase them. Nothing short of strangulation will make those Washington leeches relinquish their hold upon the body politic. Charles Wesley,ex-marshal of Winslow, who was arrested sometime ago charged with forging the name of R. M. Craig of Otw'ell, to a check calling for $56, was tried in the circuit court last week, the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty Thursday morning. Wesley being oyer 30 years of age he will be taken to Michigan City and serve a term of from two to fourteen years. The jury was out about fifteen minutes.

The several townships will hold graduating exercises this year.' W.S. Corn, county superintendent, has arranged the following dates and places: Madison, Clay and Logan, May 25th, at Union. Washington, June 1st, at White church. Jefferson, June 3rd, at Algiers. Marion, May 22nd, at Flatcreek. Patoka, June 10th, at Winslow. Monroe, May 30th, at Spurgeon. Lqckhart, May 19th and 20th, at Augnsta and Stendal. Corporation of Petersburg, June 2d, at Petersburg. The last lecture of the Petersburg high school lecture course will e given May 4th, 1899 by Col. L. F. Cop :- land. Tickets 35 cents each. The subject is “Seeing thej Elephant ” ° f you have not attested, come ard hear something great. The following is from the Cincinnati Enquire:*: “The Grand opera house was packed to the walls with ladies and gentlemen yesterday, the occasion being a lecture by Col. Copeland, under the auspices of the Unity club, and for two hours the speaker held the audience in rapt attention. Col. Copeland has a remarkable flow of language, and he presented his points in a forcible and eloquent manner, llis lecture bubbled ! over with wit and humor and enterj taining ancedotes, while at times his ! flights of eloquence were sublime.”

The Boston Store is now carryings in the City and will give everybody a chance to pair of Shoes at a remarkably low price. W of your money unless you get value received; are always glad to have you look much better you can do here on shoes than at any

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Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Fair Highest Award.

Lawyers, ILSON * TYNER, All business receives prompt attention. Collections made and remitted. Settlements of estates a specialty Office over Citizens’ bank, Petersburg, Ind. IN ,F. M. wtcson*. T. \\\ TYNKK. ■ - - ~ ^ Petersburg Collecting Agency. Collections In all parts of the tin Remittances »romplly made. C .teasonable. Give us your old aceoutt etc., and we will do the rest. Call on ns. Office ooposite court bouse in building, Petersburg. Ind.

Vfe will sell you a $10.00 Suit for medium weight Oassimere, — and pining, a great wearer and makes pearance.

BLUE SERBE SUITS. We have them , in all the latest make-ups, double-breast and Suits. They are very nobby and combine style and good wearing qualities at the low price of S8.50 a suit. In Boy’s and little Gent’s Clothing we 'lead the procession. The Jane Hopkins brand of Boy’s Knee Pant Suits, made with. dtw|ji|ii8| and knee, hold fast buttons, elastic waist bands, are better and cheaper than any other reliable make.-*Bring the boy, we can fit him and please spirit of the times calls for good merchandise, and while we dislike' boasting, we can safely say that our stock comprises better material, better tailoring and more style than any it has been our good fortune to show, notwithstanding the high standard of our clothing of past seasons. A visit of inspection will be appreciated. * <t <8$Star Clothing Houses F^ETERSBURQ, INDIANA |2ipLeave your Laundry with us, we represent the “Kohi uoor. i teed. Alt work guarant r •niMMNiMmuMinmiNMHMiun