Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 December 1899 — Page 4

fktfikt Goiratg § twtnt nr M. McC. STOOPS. One Tear, In advance *.|1 00 Six Monlb*, In advance. . 50 Entered at the pOKtoffico In J*eteniburg for transmission through the mall* a* sceondclans matter. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,1899. Lincoln On Expansion. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also another man, that is more than selfgovernment—that is despotism. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us: our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands, everywhere. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln. It is reported that Governor Roosevelt is taking boxing lessons. What a talking acquisition pugilism would have should he turn professional. The Indianapolis Press, the new evening <daily, will make its initial appearance next week. Will Herschell, formerly of the Princeton Clarion, has taken a position on the new paper. It has been recently suggested that - trusts be subsidized by the nation, with the bounty distributed according to the size Qf the corporations. And yet this is called a government of the people, by the people and for the peeple. » - Secretary Gage having once more relieved the money stringency by a call for bonds and incidentally added a few millions to the stock gamblers in Wall street, the business of the treasury department may now proceed until the next little speculating flurry. ■-_

Nebraska may be appropriately termed th&. banner democratic state this year. Evidently Mr. Bryan’s home people like him, a liking which , Mr. Hanna's neighbors fail to possess for that trust-defending senator if the returns from Cuyahoga county are a true criterion. Congress, when placed upon its own responsibilitj* at thf opening of the session, will doubtless have all the timidity of a school girl at her first ball, but the absence of Czar Reed will not be felt long, since the country will be safe so long as the great and only Grosvenor is to remain. Chairman James K. Jones of the democratic national committee predicts a democratic victory in the nation next year. Those republicans, wh» inaugurated McKinley for a second term, are about as enterprising and ingenius as the boy who extracted moonbeams from cucumbers. The entire country would be given some decidedly interesting information if Secretary Gage should frankly open his mouth, and let the people know by what form of reasoning he changed his mind and became subservient to the financial sharks of Wall street by issuing a call for $25,000,000 in bonds. Mr. Hanna, it is declared, will retire from the chairmanship of the republican national committee at the meeting in Washington next month. Apparently that little minority for the republican nominee in the total vote Ohio, is having its effect. Even McKinley sees that Hanna must be unloaded.

The people are still fighting the trusts regardless of what the narrowcontracted republicans have to say on the subject. Whenever Mark Hanna cracks his w’hip and says trusts are a good thing these little fellows join in and yelp out and fall in, line without a murmur. Pike_^ county people are notin favor of trusts, and will vote against any man or party favoring them. The farmers are getting their eyes open on the trust question. Everything they buy has advanced in price, and what they sell is at about the same old figures or lower. Wagons have advanced $5.00; mowers $5.00; binders $10.00; nails $2.00 per keg; fencing wire $1.75 per 100 lbs; buggies, $5 to $10.00, and everything else in proportion. But republican editors call this prosperity. Mr. Farmer, what do you call it? It is said that Governor Mount would like to be vice-president. One can expect to hear almost anything these days. The Peru Journal evi- • dently has little faith in the governor’s ability as the following will indicate: “The governor. is pretty small potatoes even for a governor tp say nothing of a vice-president. But what he lacks in other respects he ce rtainly makes up in assurance if he thinks for a moment he will be in it for the high position to which he aspires. He will stand about as much of a chance for the nomination as a toyvboat in a chopped sea. ”• ,

Washington Notes. Gag law is to rule the House again, and, unless present indications are at fault, the McKinley gag is likely to be even worse than the Reed gag. All the pretty talk about changing the House rules in the interests of 1 more liberty for individual members, has been hushed up by the application of the gag, even before the House assembles. Even Hepburn of Iowa, who defied Reed in the last House and made a savage attack on the injustice of the miles which made a tyrant of the speaker, has allowed himself to be gagged and has acquiesced in the program which includes a re-adoption of the Reed rules without any changes that will lessen the speaker’s authority over legislation. The order for the re-adoption of the Reed rules came from Mr. McKinley, who feared that .without them, he would be unable to jam some of the legislation he Will ask for through the House, with its narrow republican majority. According to present plans, the gag rule is also to be applied to the gold standard bill prepared by the House republican caucus committee, which is now be ing considered by the republican members of the Senate finance committee, who for some reason persist in withholding the endorsement of it. ^Instead of having the bill follow the usual routine of being referred to a committee, it has been decided to have it endorsed by the republican caucus when it meets to nominate House officers and ordered passed by \a majority of the House. At the last meeting of the Washington anti-imperialistic league, a resolution was unanimously adopted callihg attention to the anniversaries of the birth and death of George Washington—December 14th and February 22d—the trend toward imperialism on the part of his successor, now in office, in direct contradiction to the lessons taught by the life and laid down bj' the farewell address of Washington, and the necessity of keeping the life of Washington as a beacon light before his countrymen. As one

! ol the ways of doing this, the league I offered a prize of $10 for the best I essay, to be written by a school child ; of the city of Washington, on the les- ■ sons to be learned from the life of Washington. ** Representative DeArmond of Missouri, one of the candidates for the democratic leadership of the House, has very positive opinions as to the policy that shoulcLbe followed by the democrats of the House during the present session of Congress. He thinks the democrats should be aggressive from start to finish in order to place the republicans on the defensive and expose their weak spots to the country; that they should put themselves on record as favoring the withdrawal of United States authority from^the Philippines, and the establishment of an independent government by the Filipinos; that they should advocate the return to the Cubans of their own—theirs not only by natural right, but by the solemn promise and declaration of Congress at the opening of the war with Spain; that they should make plain to the country that the administration party is the protector, as in a large degree it is the creator of trusts; that they should vigorously oppose the enactment of gold standard legislation, if the majority dares to attempt to carry out plans which the money kings are trying to compel them to accept: that they should oppose the creation of a large standing army as one of the methods of crippling imperialism, if it cannot be headed off, and that they should ruthlessly expose the steadily growing extravagance in public expenditures and the unequal burden of federal taxation borne by the poor. Of the coming session of Congress, Judge DeArmond said: “It promises to be an important and far-reaching one. It will not be surprising if its influence upon the approaching national election should be great, if not controlling.”

representative Ball of Texas, who is asupporter^of Representative Bankhead for the democratic leadership of House, says that while the contest is spirited, it is being conducted in such a friendly way that no wounds will be left at dts close to mar democratic harmony, and that as yet, no candidate has enough votes pledged to win. Mr. Ball says the talked of deadlock in the interest of re-electing Mr. Bailey leader, is arrant nonsense; that Mr. Bailey always makes an open fight or none, and that he meant Exactly what he said, when he announced at the last session of Congress, that he would not again be a candidate. Hon. D. C. Dunbar, Democratic National Committeeman from Utah, says the fight against Representative elect Roberts, of that state, is a political rather than a moral one; that while he is bitterly opposed to polygamy; which he fought for years, he knows that the accusations of having violated the U. S laws against polygamy, which have been brought against Mr. Rol>erts, have no foundation In fact. " , Ex-Senator Palmer of Illinois, who is in Washington, predicts that the leading issues in 15XX) will be anti-imper-ialism, a.nti-militarisra, and anti-trust, ! and tha t Col. Bryan will be nominated I and elected President. i

OLD LAWS IN FORCE Governing County and Township Officers of Indiana. Friday State Auditor Hart submit* t ted to Attorney-General Taylor the following question: “Under the county and township bills of 1899 have the county council and advisory board respectively the right to make unlimited levies for county and township purposes, or do; the limits of the levies that formerly : governed county and township officers govern them and limit the levies they j may make?” Mr. Taylor replied as follows: > “There is no repealing provision in j either the county or township reform | law which specifically refers to any i provision of existing laws limiting! levies. Therefore, if such statutes, are repealed they must be repealed! by implication. Statutory repeals by | implication are not favored. There must be an irreconcilable conflict between the two to effect the annulment of the older law. There is no irreconcilable conflict between the statutes fixing the levies and the statute known as the county and township reform laws.” “Sec. 32 of the county reform law (acts 1819, 354) provides: ‘It shall be the duty of said council each year to levy an annual tax within the rate perscribed by flaw sufficient to pay all j current expenses of the county, including such temporary loans and interest on county indebtedness,’ etc. “This provision answers, your question so far as the county reform law is concerned.^ “There being no irreconcilable conflict between the township reform law and-the statute fixing the levies, it is my opinion that the laws fixing the levies in Indiana are still in force and county councils and township advisory boards are governed by them.”

--- A Postmaster’s View of It. Bloomingdale, Illinois, Feb. 20, 1899. Syrup Pepsin Co. Gentlemen:—After having- given the Syrup of Pepsin a i fair trial in my family, I unhesitatingly pronounce it a great boon to all i suffering from indigestion, constipation and dyspepsia in all their forms I with all their train of evil conse- ’ quences. I have fought dyspepsia and constipation of a severe character for 25 years, have employed the most skilled physicians that I could reach, have spent hundreds of dollars and now I find more relief in this pleasant remedy than I have found in anything else. To ah persons of sedentary occupations in life, I wish to say, buy it and use it. I have spent 12 years at the postmaster’s desk, averaging 14 hours a day, and know now if I had had this remedy years ago it would, have saved me much suffering. Respectfully yours, W. M. McCoy, P. M., Bloomingdale, 111. Oliphant Drug Co. d HEALTH REPORT Compiled by the State Hoard for the Last Quarter. For the last quarter the total number of deaths in Indiana reported from all causes, 5,099. This is equivalent to an annual death rate of 7.7 per 1,000 of population. As the death rate is certainly twice this figure, it follows that not more than half the deaths were reported. The new law will make a great change in this next month. The number of deaths caused by tuberculosis was 549, cholera infantum 395, cerebro-spinal meningitis 46, typhoid fever 263, diphtheria 80. The number of cases of smallpox was 46: no deaths. Marriages reported, 6,288: births, 9,110, of which humber 4,677 were white males and 4,261 were white females. The total number of colored | births was 172. From 42 counties come I reports of 111 pairs of twins. The illegitimates were 123 and the stillbirths 183.

Spain’s Greatest Need. Mr. R. P. Olivia of Barcelona,Spain, spends his winters at Aiken, South Carolina. Weak nerves had caused severe pains in the back of his head. On using Electric Bitters, America’s greatest blood nnd nerve remedy, all pain soon left him. He says this grand medicine is what his country needs. All America knows that it cures liver and kidney trouble, purifies the blood,: tones up the stomach, strengthens the nerves, puts vim, vigor and new life into, every muscle, nerve and organ ofJ the body. If weak, fired or ailing you heed it. Every bottle guaranteed, only 50c. Sold by Stearnes & Co., druggists. V Home Seekers Excursion Rates. November 21st, December 5th and 19th. On above dates the Air Line will sell excursion tickets at greatly reduced rates to all points in Texas, Indian Territory, North Dakota and to many points in Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Southwest Missouri and other western and southern states. Inquire or write for rates and full information to J. F. Hurt, agent, Oakland City.__ „ Advance a Step If you have been in the habit of taking pills for your constipation and with poor results, just try a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and you will be surprised at the results* Very pleasant to take. 10c, 50c and $1.00. For sale by Oliphant Drug Co. d

J^ICHARDSOK * TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly I n-t he office. Office In Carpenter building, Eighth and Muln-*ts , Petersburg, Indiana. A8HBY A COFFEY, O. B. Ashby, C. A. Coffey, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all courts. Special attention,given to all civil i uslness. Notary Public constant ly In the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over W. L. Barrett’s store, Petersburg, J milana. SO. DAVENPORT. Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to nil business. Office over J. U. Adams & Son’s drug store, PetershnCg. Indiana. - J.J&LCOMB JPUROW, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all courts. Prompt alien- i Mon given to all business. Office in Carpenter b nek, first floor on Kigh>li-st., Petersburg. • i i-*---rr-I'' R. RICE, • . ' •' j/ Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specially. Office over Citizens’state bunk. Petersburg, Indiana, H. STONECIPHER. Dental Surgeon. Office in rootnatiand 7, in Carpenter building. Petersburg, Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. Anteslhelleg used for painless extraction of teeth. W ILSON A TYNER, f. m. wilsoX. T. W. TVK’KR. Petersburg Collecting Agency. CWleetions In all parts of the United Slates. Remittances promptly made. Charges are reasonable. Give us your old accounts.notes, etc;, and we will do the rest. ^Cnll on or write us. Office opposite court house in Parker building, Petersburg, Ind. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties Interested that I will attend at my office In Stendal, EVERY SATURDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lock hart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS. Trustee.

NOTICE Is hereby given to nil persons con* cerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Jefferson township, „ _ L. E. TRAY LOB, Trustee. Post office address: Otweli, Indiana. Having leased the Borer Coal Coal Mine, and being the nearest mine to town, we are prepared to furnish coal at all times. All orders promptly, filled. TELEPHONE NO. 16-2. 1 - . ~ - ■ Borer Coal Company. ! s<FRED SMITHS Dealer in all kinds 6f FURNITURE I -!

Funeral Supplies a Specialty We keep on band at all times the finest line of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Suits a Specialty. In funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc., of the best make.

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No. 31, south .... . ..;. 6:-l5ara No. 32, north..* ....10:35 am So.33,south .’. ... 1:25pm o,31, north ... 5:15 pm : Fcr sleeping car reservations, maps, rates aud further Information, call on your nearest ticket agent, or address, ■ F. P. J EFFRIKS, G. P. * T. A., H. R. GRISWOLD, A.G.P.AT.A. Evansville, lnd. E. B. GUNCKEU Agent, Petersburg, lnd. : ON S UM PTION

We have the largest stock in town, to have this winter in order to keep warm prices: One lot of 10x4 Blankets, others sell at One lot gbod, heavy, part wool, worth $1 One lot all wool, sells at $3.25, One lot extra Lamb wool, 11x4, Nothing but clean, cold facts, lected stock, bought as low as cash can buying public of Pike and adjoining counties. ! ■ 45c $ 1.25 2.75 *5.00 sej i

At prices never heard of before, that sold at from 40 to 60 cents, reduced yard. Come in and get your daughter all gone. L We are overstocked on some kinds prices: % One lot Ladies’ Lace, latest style, now Ope lot Kangaroo, oil grain, Button, worth One lot in Lace and Button Kid, with worth $2.50, reduced to. at* reduced

FLORIDA t A Superior Through Sleeping Car Line Between St. Louis and Jacksonville. Commencing November 18th the Florida Air Cine, consisting of the L., E. & St. L Ry. 8t. Louis to Louisville, Southern railway in Kentucbk Louisville to Lexington, Queen and CMnt route, Lexington to Chattanooga, VEithern. railway, Chattanooga to Jesup ana Plant System, Jcsnp to Jacksonville. Florida, will inaugurate for the season the great through sleeping car route to Florida. Through sleeping cars will leave St. Louis9:15 pm daily, passing Louisville 7:09 am, Lexington 10:50 am, reaching Chattanooga 5:50 pm, Atlanta 10:80 pm, and Jacksonville 8:80am (second morning.) Stop-overs allowed. This route is through large cities and interesting country, and ip operated over most superior and well established lines of railway. The schedules are fast and most convenient. In addition to the above schedule leaving Mt. Louts at night, train leaving St. Louis 8:08 am, will arrive at Jacksonville the next night 10:00 pm, making only one night out from St. Louis to Jacksonville. This Hue also affords passengers for Florida trip via Asheville, N. C.,the greatest American all-year-urounW resort. Correspondence solicited and information promptly furntsbed. R. A. Cambell, general passenger agent, St. Louis. Missouri. This la also the best line to points in, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and North and South Carolina. _ >e NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee .if Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on office days. J. D. BARKER, Trustee. Posloffice address: Petersburg, Ind.

Illinois Central R. R. TSE SEEOieT to MEMPHIS, Hf 1 ' MjEW ORLEANS Anti all Points in MISSISSIPPI. LOUISIANA ARRANT TI ICO and CALIFORNIA. ARRIVE EVANSVILLE. Evansville ExpressaWv. .*.10:10 am Fast Mail —. . .. .. .. 5:45 pin leave Evansville. Fast Mall,dally . . ..8:30am New Orleans Ex press; v:..... 4:00 pm Connecting at PRI With elegant dai with cafe cars, Pull; dining chair cars. Leaving Evai morning, conneci with the througT For New Orleans California. In wb modatiohs superior. N. KY. ed ve8libuled trains sleepers and free real 8:30 eaqh Friday made at Princeton Pullman Tourist Sleeping Gar points in Texas and are low and aecomHOHESEEKERS’ TICKETS. On the first art# month horn and South weste good to return wt date of sale. Lib A copy of the will be be mailed to F. R, W A. H*. Hanson, r W. A. Eellond, :lrd Tuesdays of each Rets sold to Southern s at special low rates, twenty-one days from -over arrangements. H omeseekere'Gulde . free on application to ;EftrC. p & T. A., Evansville, Ind. i A.. Chicago ' P. A.. Louisville.

smjmmxnmTnmmi \\\U\\\\U\UU\U\\\\\i\\UXUTuUU\\)£ 'mmB ColchWeathenCldthing All t^e* Latest Patterns and Styles to Select from, y7 and up. Suits, $16 and up. Pants, ' ' ' , ■ ■ ^ ' j Call and See our Piece Goods and C. A. Burger & Bro., Merchant Tailors. ..... Louisville, EyansYille & St. Louis G. Railroad Time table In effect Nov. 28, 1897: Kt. Loins Fast Exp. 8:00 a.m. 10:45 a,m. 11:08 a.m. 11:22 a.m. 11:38 a.m. 6:20 p.m. St. Louis Limited. 9:00 p.m. 11:40 p.m. 12:01 a.m. 12:14 a.m. 12:80 a.m. 7:12 a.m. Btatlons. Louisville Fast Exp. Leave ..Louisville ., Leave . .. Huntingburg Leave ..... .Velpen . Leave....Winslow Leave Arrive..’. St. Louis Oakland City 7:00 a.m. 4:25 a.m. 4:02 a.m. 3:62 a.m 8:s? a.m, 9:15 p.m. 5:45 p.m. 2:55 p.m 2:30 p.m. 2.16 p.m. 1:57 p.m. 7:52 a.m. Night trains stop at Winslow and Velpen on signa' only. R. A. Campbell, G.P.A., St. Louis. J. F. Hurt, agent, Oakland City. \ -M ..:4- s® V , is**-*