Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 August 1899 — Page 5

REGARDING THE WAR. Opinions of Prominent Men ns to the , Government's Course. The following are the views of a number of our citizens on the war we are now conducting: Senator William E. Mason says: •‘That class of dangerous citizens who feel above serving their country have not yet heard of the unnecessary and unconstitutional war now being waged by us to make slaves in the Philippine islands. Congress, the only war-making power under our constitution, has not declared. They say we bought the right to govern from Spain. Then we bought what we had no right to buy and what right had Spain to sell. We purchased goods from a thief—we knew it, and told the world what Spain was long before we purchased. To get the technical right to kill, we call them rebels against a government to which they have never sworn allegiance—we must make them subjects before they can be rebels. ‘‘They say they can’t govern themselves. Why not try them awhile before killing them? They tell us they would kill each other. It isn’t true, but if it was, it would be better than - kill our boys. “Lincoln said that no man is good enough to govern another man without his consent: it was true then, and it is true now. Taxation without representation is as much tyranny In Luzon as it was in Boston harbor at the time of our tea party. We have no more right to govern in the Philippines without the consent of the governed than King George had to govern us in 177(> without our consent. If this i$ treason make the most of it.*’ i; Ex-Senator George F. Edmunds says

in part: ‘ “I am glad you are to hold meetings in the interest of true principles of our government and to oppose the conquest of people on the other side of 'the globe who do not wish to become either citizens or subjects of the United States—a conquest which very lew, if any, of its promoters have undertaken to show would be finally of material or moral benefit to our country, and one of the evils of which in loss of life and health in our army and of the treasure of the United States, I fear, are yet only half known,” Moorfield Story says in part: “As was? said of slavery, so may we say of the attempt to subjugate the Philippines, if ‘it is not wrong, nothing is wrong.’. The moral law has not changed in a year. If Spain was wrong in trying to subdue the Cubans and Filipinos, our country is not right in carrying on the worlc, it should stop. If we had no right to begin we had no right continue.” Andrew Carnegia says: ‘‘Upon no fourth of July celebration until this year has there been reason to lament a departure from the great principles which the fourth of July heralded in 1776. We are no longer upon the old foundation, but have been carried to, the lower platform of the powerful military states of Europe, to whom the republic has been an instructor. The ship of state has been in troubled waters, but there is one of her citizens who believes that the time is not far distant when those who have endangered her will be called to account, and the principles of the declaration of independence taken back again as the chart and compass which will bring back the republic to the high position from which it has temporarily fallen.” The Hon. .T. Sterling Morton says in

part: ‘“Good government, like charity, should begin, at home. After the American mind shall have sufficiently J expanded to perfectly assimilate Dr. Franklin's epigrammatic injunction, ‘Mind your own business,’ it will be in condition to discuss the duties which annex to citizenship. Partyism has warped and shriveled patriotism throughout the republic. It has become so tierce that in its blindness it mistakes the dominant or administration party for the government. All those who differ from or criticise the policy of the government are ‘disloyal.’ ” The Hon. Herbert Welsh, secretary &>f the Indian Rights association, says SP'July 4,1899, has witnessed a most extraordinary paradox of our history. The same free states which struggled against the tyranny of George III, and a century later cemented themselves into what we trust will be a lasting union for the extinction of slavery are now waging an uunatural and cruel war in the distant Philippine Islands, against a people struggling for independence as righteously and as passionately, with as much reckless bravery and stubborn determination as we ourselves showed in resisting the house of Hanover. In union with the Filipinos we fought but a year ago to break the tyranny of Spain. We gave them every moral if not formal assurance of our sympathy in the great struggle for which they struggled—the independence of their people. “We are told that there is now nothing to be done—whether in beginning we have been mistaken or not— but ‘to fight it out.’ An utterance

more foolish or more immoral than that I cannot conceive. Let us beware of the stupid persistency of Geore III, and at least remember that we are Americans.” Bishop Boyd Vincent of Cincinnati, says in part: “Aside from all questions of constitutionality or mere expediency, is the moral situation in which we find ourselves placed in the Philippines which, it seems to me, ought to distress every true American heart. It is so utterly un-American in spirit, so almost inhuman. How any genuine American with the principles of the declaration of independence in his soul can look complacently at what is going on today in the Philippines I cannot understand.” Judge liufus B. Smith of Cincinnati, says in part: “Let us stop our cant about being in those islands from philanthropic motives and confess we are only there through love of power and greed. I still hope and believe that the sober second thought of the country will save us: that in the near future we will retrace our steps and again take for our guide the principles and ideals of the great statesmen whose life and words, whose sacrifices and teachings have been our-most precious heritage and inspiration.” Prof. Charles Eliot Norton says in part: “Every good citizen is called ui>on at this moment to use whatever Influence, whatever power he may jnjssess, to restore the natiigi to its old, true course. One end ns to be aimed at as preliminary lO all others—to bring the deplorable and shameful war in the Philippines to a close.”

United States Postoffice. Luther, Michigan, February 24,1892. Dr. C. D. Warner, (.'oldwater, Michigan. Dear Sir—I was afflicted with that common scourge—“La Grippe,” and had violent paroxisms of coughing from which 1 could get no relief until upon the recommendation of Key. E. L. Odle I bought » 25 cent bottle of your White Wine of Tar, which afforded immediate relief. I have taken two bottles and now consider myself cured, and I always recommend it to all my friends who are similarly afflicted, for I know it to be good. Very truly yours, etc., a Ernest Nichoson, P. M. Sold by Paul Bros. Real Estate Transfers. The fallowing transfers of real estate have been recorded in the county recorder's office during the past week: Winnie and William Stuckey to Arthur H. Taylor, ne qr ne qr sec 23, and pt sw qr nw qr sec 24, town 1 north, range 8 west, 44 acres. Jasper N. Kinman to Alonzo H. Kinman, sw qr nw qr sec 26, town 1 south, range 8 west, 35 acres. A. H. Kinman to James E. Kinman, sw qr nw qr sec 28, town 1 south,range 8 west, 35 acres. Daniel Ellis to Catharine Hedges, pt nw qr se qr sec 15, town*®! south, range 8 west. Shrah M. Harrell to Mary E. Mitchell, lot 29, Petersburg. % John H. Wright to RichardC.Davis, ne frac qr sec 13, and nw qr sec IT, and sw qr nw qr sec 16, and pt se qr sec 8, town 1 north, range 6 west, 347 acres. James Waid to Francis Grimes, w hf lot 33, Proffit's add, Petersburg. Isaac M. Fleener et al to Eliza J. Mason, und int pt sw qr nw qr sec 24, town 3 south, range 8 west. Darthula Ferguson to Alexander Burris, lot 12, Morgan’s add, Petersburg.

Andrew J. Robling,by commissioner, to John F. Robling et al, nw qr sw qr sec 4, and pt sw qr nw qr sec 4, and ne qr se qr sec 5, and n hf se qr se qr sec 5, and pt se qr ne qr sec 5, town 1 south, range 9 west, Ill* acres. Putnam Richardson to Elisha E. Copeland, pt s hf se qr sw qr sec 3, town 2 south, range 8 west, 18 acres. Flora B. Harden to Lizzie Vaughn, lot 50, Hosmer. Levi Lockhart to Elizabeth Jones, lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and n hf 7, Pikeville. Elmer Russell to Perry U. Tiraylor, pt nw cor se qr sec 3, towi*4 south, range 7 west, 25 acres. Lewis E. Trayler to Mary Gilham, pt sw qr ne qr, and pt nw qr se qr sec 19, town 1 north, range 0 west. Mary Gilham to Lewis E. Trayler, pt se qr sec 31, and pt sw qr sec 32, town 1 south, range 6 west, 08 acres. Mary E. Little to Lemuel R. Rogerson, pt e hf sw qr sec 83, town 1 north, range Ofirest, 1 acre. Josiah H. Brenton to the Church of Christ, pt sw qr nw qr sec 5, town 1 south range 7 west. Elisha B. Evans to Flora Thomas, lot 10 sub-division lot 100, Petersburg. A. S. Morgan to Edna E. Gr^ce, lot 85, Velpen. George D. Martin to Samuel P. Howard, ne qr nw qr, and pt s side nw qr ne qr sec 30, town 1 south, range 7 west, 53 acres. - A Whole Family. Rev. L. A. Dunlap of Mount Vernon, I Missouri, says: “My children were | afflicted with a cough resulting from ! measles, my wife with a cough that had prevented her from sleeping,more or less, for live years, and your White Wine of Tar Syrup has cured them all.” Sold by Paul Bros. a

OLD LANDMARK GONE. Oldest Business House In Petersburg Burned Sunday Morning. The citizens of Petersburg were awakened Sunday morning about two o’clock by the clanging of the firebells, and soon an Immense crowd gathered at the corner of Main and Fifth streets. The two story building on the west corner occupied by Stamper & Barker as a marble shop and by George Tucker, justice of the peace, was on fire. The fire department finding the building could not be saved turned their attention to saving the surrounding property. The building was totally destroyed. Stamper & Barker’s loss is about $300, which is fully insured. A large number of monuments were taken out. Squire Tucker’s records were all saved. The cause of the fire is unknown. The building has quite a history. It was erected sometime in 1840 and remodeled in 1851, by William Barr, one of |he leading citizens and attorneys of Petersburg at that time. It was a two-story building and one of the finest in th|s section of the country at the time that it was erected. It’s first occupant was George Griffin, a brother-in-law of Barr’s, who conducted a general store and done an j immense business. The first bank in Pike county was organized there. It was named the Farmers’ and Drovers’, but for some unaccountable reason the promoters of the bank never opened up for business, and Petersburg done without a bank for some

years thereafter. For a time the first graded school was taught within its walls. The Odd Fellows lodge of this place was organized in the second story of the building in 1856, and for a number of years held its meetings in th<i building, where a number of the old residents of Petersburg “rode the frisky goat.” The building has been used for various purposes from store house to residence, paint shop, marble shop, feed store, squire's office, almost every kind of business having occupied it. During the gas boom a year or so ago the lot and building was sold to a Mr. King of Marion, this state, for $1,000, a good round price. To Consumptives. As an honest remedy, Foley's Honey and Tar does not hold out false hopes in advanced stages, but truthfully claims to give comfort and relief in the very worst cases, and in the early stages to effect a cure. J. R. Adams & Son. , a A NEW INVENTION. Which Produces Light and Heat at a Comparatively Low Cost. Winslow can boast of a new invention in the way of heat and light apparatus invented by Dr. Rufus Y. Thoinas, a dentist. The principal is that of the fulcruip or blow pipe which dentists use in melting gold and other substances for filling teeth. Mr. Thomas has demonstrated his apparatus and put the same to a practical test at the Novelty machine shop, owned by Williams & Tislow of this place. The appliances seem to be quite simple, as it consists of two iron tanks, one is filled with pure air and leads by pipes into the other which contains pure liquified carbon, and from that tank pipes lead to the grates, stoves or gas jets. The result is an intense heat which, if turqed on with much pressure, would melt down an ordinary stove in a short time, and the light produced by the same appliance is very brmjft, and equal to one hundred candlepower and is a very soft light when properly adjusted* Mr. Thomas is now engaged in making a burner which will serve for heating a boiler to produce steam sufficient to run the engine at the Novelty machine works. When his whole appliances are completed it*promises to revolutionize the heat and light problem, and will certainly work wonders in the Northwest where coal and wood cannot be obtained only at a great; cost, and light obtained by this process is cheaper than to burn cbal where it can be had for the hauling. Dr. David BeTar of Winslow, and George B. Ashby pf thi£ place, a^e interested in the invention and we predict a great financial success for the company and a blessing to humanity. The Most Fatal Disease. More adults die of kidney trouble than of any other disease. When the first symptoms of this disease appear, no time should be lost in taking Foley’s Kidney Cure, which is guaranteed or money refunded. 50 cents and $1.00. J. R. Adams & Son. a

Executive Meeting. Tuesday, August 22nd, there will be a meeting of the officers Qf Washington township Sunday school association for the purpose of making arrangements for the township convention, which will be held at a later date than the one already designated. The superintendents of the Sunday schools are also expected to be present, as they are a part of the executive. Meeting at 9 o’clock a. m. Clarence Selby, President. Leonard Preston, Secy. Pilesl Piles! <Why be bothered with this annoying complaint when Banner Salve will cure you. 25c. J. R. Adams & Son. a

The shrewd, careful business man is ever on the alert to keep do vim useless expenses, but he does not include judicious advertising to his local newspaper as a useless expense. If he is a business man he knows the value of newspaper advertising and is aware from practical experience that it is a good investment bringing ample returnsefor the money expended, instead of being an expense. The business man who thinks fhat he is economical on account of the few dollars he may save each year by not advertising is, to use-the old adage, •‘penny wise and pound foolish.” The business man loses a great deal more by it than the newspaper. The Michigan City Dispatch says, the convicts at the penitentiary are making their own shoes now and all their own tobacco. Each man is allowed by the state four ounces of tobacco each week. Heretofore state authorities have been buying this, and as it paid the revenue tax it cost 33 cents a pound. Now the authorities raise tobacco and pay no tax. as they can raise it for 11 cents a pound, and this will save the state $1,500 a year. Joe Patterson has rented the lington Hotel and has refurnish from top to bottom. New house, furniture, and is prepared to ex first class accommodations at re able rates. The house will here; be known as the Patterson House south side of Main street, betvv Fifth and Sixth. the Arit new iend niiifter on een SO*:: ed The new rules of the state boarjd of health have been prepared, but: for the lack of money to publish them, they will not be in force until November. These rules are strictly law and apply to Pike county. j

Estimates of Expenditures for 190(1. The followina are the estimates for count y expenditures proposed by the several county officers for the year liWO for the considerate u of the county council at its regular meeting Tuesday, September 5th, 1800: p Court house... ... $ County Jail... .... County poor farm.. Orphans’ home.. . Bridge repairs . .. Commissioners’ court.,. Couuty attorney . .. ... .... Board of health. Elections .... Couuty bonds — .. . Floating debt .*_ Interest on **onnty bonds. . Interest on county orders State Benevolent and penal Institutions .... .... Printing . . ,. Boartl of review ., ... , _ Burial of soldiers/and miscellaneous expense .. . ... Circuit eourt ..■. County auditor’s office .. .... County clerk’s office —. ,. . . County recorder’s offlee. .. ........ County sheriff’s office . .. County treasurer’s office . County superintendent’s offlee . Couuty assessor’s office . County eoroner’s office .. TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS. Jefferson township Washington township Madison township. Clay township .. .. Patoka township. Mouroe township. Logan township. Lockhart township — Marion township. Total expense for county.$43,21 MO l, W. H. Scales, auditor of Pike county, certify that this is a true and correct list of the estimates of expenses for Pike county for the year 1000, filed m my offlee. Witness my hand and seal this 14th dsiy of August, 1800. W. H. Scales, j Auditor Pike County,

Commissioners’ Allowances Lewis Loveless, elections .. ... Gip Traylor, public building . . Charles Moore,public building _ Charles Whitten, public building _ William Ridgway, roads. W. J. Shrodes, boardof review ... — C F. Boon shot, boartl of review....... John B. McKinney, board of review.. W. H. Scales, board of review ........ O. O. Smith, board of rev>evv ......... Wash Carlisle, tax refunded . O.O. Smith, county bonds redeemed . O. O. Smith,interest on county bonds Bead & Lee, poor asylum W. M. Ridgway, roads . Sol Frank, noor asylum . Sol Frauk. insane. W. M. Ridgway, insane W. M. Ridgway, insane . W. M. Ridgway, roads J. IX Grimes, miscellaneous. Charles A. Scraper, elections M. McC. Stoops, printing .. Putnam Richardson, roads Perry A. McRoberts, roads . John A. Church, roads. . .. David R. Chamfers, roads .. State of Indiana, Pike County, ss: 1, W. H. Scales, hereby certify that [thi above allowances were made at the An term of the board of county eommis&ioi as appears of record in my office. W. H. Scal.es,County Audit a

v Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from tUe clerk of. the Pike <t rcuit court,in a cause wherein The Southern Indiana Loan and Saving Institution of Uoekport,Indiana, are plait)tills, and Mart I. Stewart et al are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of four huudred and nine dollars and thirty-etght cents, wttn interest :m said decree and costs, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the 19th dav of August, A. 1 $99, 1>. Between the hours of 10 o’clock a. na and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day, at the door of : he court house in Petersburg, Pike county, llndiaua, the reuts and profits tor a term t ot exceeding seven years, ol‘ the iol towiug ival estate to-wit: Tim east half of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of the eouthwest quarl or, all in section No. 10, township No. 1 sou Hi, range 8 west, containing 40 acres. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the s > me time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without anv relief whatever from valuation or iappraisement laws. j W.M. Riix<WAY, July 26.1800. sheriff Pike County. Klehardson A Taylor, attys. for plaiutltl. Notice of Administratioiif. Novice is hereby given that the undersigi ed lias been appointed by tbe clerk of the cilrcult court of Pike county, state of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Joseph W. Bergen, late of Pike county, deceased. Akthvk H. Taylor. July 39,1890. Admiuistrato .

glCH A R DSOX A T A Y L01 „ Attorneys at low. Prompt attention gl—-»» to a l business. A Notary Public cousin in t fcieotffre. Office In Carpenter bujidiu*. ...gktU and Main-sis., Petersburg, Indiana. ^8H BY A COFFEY, Attorneys at L um. G. B- Ashby, C. A. Coffey, Will practice In all courts. Special attention given to all civil» usiuess, Notary Punlie constantly in the office. Collections utade and p rum pity remitted. Ofilta over W. L. Barrett's store, Petersburg, Indiana. '<•

g a. davenport. Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given tu all business. Ottlw over J. H. Adams A Son's drug store, Petersburg. Indiana. II OL.COM B ft CROW, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In hJI courts. Prompt attention given to all business. OflUk* in Carpenter block, tlrst Hour on Eight h-st., Petersburg. M. L. A L. E. WOOLSEY. * Lawyers. All busings receives prompt attention. Collections made and remitted. .Selttenu uts of estates a specialty Office over Ci tile ns’ bank, Petersburg, Ind. \\ TILSOM ft TYNER, S'. M. WILSON. T. W. TY.NKK. Petersburg Collecting Agency. Collections in all parts of the United States. Remittances’ oromptly made. Charges are reasonably. Give us your old ae founts, notes, etc., amt we will do the rest. Cull on or write us. Office opposite court house in Parker< building, Petersburg. Ind. Physician and Su geon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. •'I Office over Citizens’state ban ^.Petersburg. Indiaua.

w 7 H.STONECIPHER. Dental Surgeon. Office iii rooms <> Hti<i T, in Carpenter buildins:. Petersburg, Indiana, i^'ratmas tlrst©lassl All work warranted. An esthetics used for painless extinction of teeth. NOTICE is hereby given to n 11 parties concerned that 1 will be at my residence SATURDAY AND MONDAY Of each week, to attend to business Connected with the office of trustee of Monroe township. Positively no business trans cted oulv on office day. J. M DAVIS, Trustee. Postoffice address: Spurgeon. ■VTOTICE is hereby given to all personseonis eerned that I will attend at my office EVERY MONDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Jefferson township. L. E. TKAY 3 OB. Trustee. Post office address: Algiers, Indiana. "VTOTICK is hereby gi\’eu to nil parties in* Is terested that i will attend at my office iu Stendai, » , EVERY SATURDAY. To transact business connects with the office ol trustee of laickhart township. Ail persons having business with said office wilt please take notice. J. L. HA SS, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to ail persons- interested that I will attend in my office w fn at my residence EVERY MONDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Marion township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. T. C. NELS IN, Trustee. Postoffice address: Winslow. NrOTICE is hereby given to a 11 parties concerned that 1 will attcud my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY, To transact businessconneete.it with theoffice of trustee of Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on office days. J. D. BARK HIR, Trustee. Postoffice address: Petersburg, ind. Dr. Price’s Cream Baiting Powder World’s Fair Highest Awart

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Funeral Supplies ^Specially. We keep on hand at «JHti&&the finest Hue ol l*»rl..r and Houseinfd Furniture to be a specialty* Cit>‘ tk‘<iromu Jna I’arior Sail* In funeral supplier we keep Caaket*, Shrouds, etc., of the bes^T2^*^' N. Harris & Son itbaiTkrs in ■ S'' - - ^FUFysIlTLRE^1

Funerat Supplies of all kinds I Hearer Free to all Funerals. Wr keep a full It or «»t wCilt** and black caskets, rutie*. slippers, niulull f»iuef»i supplies. Embalming and taking rare or the dead a specialty. We snv4 yttti from 15 to a» percent mi all undertaking goods. Call and see ns for anvthin* In our line of business. Cumberland Telephone in office. OTWELL, INDSAf4A. OSTEOPATHY, iSS THE DRUGLESS SCIENCE. Drs.Sehrttm & Harris wil|;heat jhe Kidman House to meet ami consult with ifrralids ami inlemlitig putieilts on Monday. August 7th. and Motmavs uml Thursdays of each week. 1 ' > ■> - '

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