Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 March 1900 — Page 6

"Charity Begins At Home ." Be kind to your body. member it is fed not by thoughts of what you think you*U do, but by the strong volume of vital force which the heart distributes. Treat your life's blood well. Hood's Sarsaparilla is a medicinal sister of charity, and aids to keep you in good health as nothing else can. Pure Blood—" My blood was poor. / had headaches and but little appetite• Since taking two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, the headaches are gone, my blood is in good condition and I have a good appetite. " C. A. Hoffman, 580 Broadway, Long Island City, N. Y. Hood'd Pills cure liver Ills; the non-lrrltatlng and only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Points to the New Man. A shopkeeper named Danger moved across a street and put up this notice; - Danger, from over the way.” jiither man, who took the premises, put /tnia notice: , ^ “This is a safe shop; no Danger here.”— Answers._ _ _% Catarrh Cannot Be vareo /With Local Applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Ball’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription.' It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what E reduces such wonderful results in curing atarrh. Send for testimonials, free. P. J. CIJENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Sold bv all druggists, price 75c. Hall’s Family Puls are the best. „ Soggeited by the L. Teacher—Now, Johnny, you know the eagle stands for America. What animal typifies Great Britain? Johnny—I dunno. "Ob, yes you do. Think for a moment; it begins with L.” „(Eagerly)—“Lobster!”—Catholic Standard and Times. Give the Children a Drink called Grain-T). It is a delicious, appetizing, nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have used it. because when properly prepared it tastes ike the finest coffee but ts free' from all its injurious properties. Grain-0 aidsJ$ligestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant bq,t a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benefit. Costs about J aa much aa coffee. 15 and 25c. At the Front. , v He was a newspaper man. “Late war new* kept me downtown,” he stammered, as he entered the house at 5:30 a. m. “Humph!” replied his wife. “Well, we’ll make a little more war news right here for a late edition.” And the battle was on.— Philadelphia North American.

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How Are They Going to Handle the Democratic National Convention Traffic?

CONFESS THEY ARE UP A6AINST IT HARD, Ordinary Fourth of July Truffle U»- ' unify Keeps All the Rollins Stock In the Country Busy, and They Have Other Bis Convention Bust* neu at the Same Time. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 25.—Local railway officials ar$|wrought tip over the tremendous situation that they assert is presented by the democratic national committee fixing the date for their convention in this city on July 4. Regular Fourth of July excursions, beginning on July 3, and running to July 5, they s%y, will alone tax the facilities of the railways to the utmost limit. With a view to meeting the exigency, which is pronounced almost insurmountable, a meeting of the local passenger association to devise ways and means has been called. What One Acent Says. One local passenger agent is quoted as saying that the association would recommend to the national democratic committee the feasibility of changing the date of the convention at least a few days earlier than the Fourth. One official expressed himself as follows. “Ordinarily the. Fourth of July excursions take up every coach available on railroads all over the country, in addition to the democratic^convention this year, the railroads will have to haul delegates to the convention of the National Association of Teachers in the south,and to the National Christian Endeavor convention. Somebody Will Have to Suffer. “Somebody will have to suffer. While sleeping and chair cars will be available for far-away delegations, there will be an absolute lack or ordinary cotches in which to transport delegates and convention visitors from nearby states. This can not be overcome by securing coaches from other parts of the country, for the same coi ditions will exist all oVer the Union.” JUST LIKE FOURTH OF JULY. Cnlmn* Celebrate Anniversary of the Commencement of Their War for Freedom.

Santiago de Cuba, Feb. 26.—The order of Gen. Wood making Sunday a holiday in honor of the beginning of the revolution was very popular and was observed strictly. Except for a dew American houses it was impossible to find a business establishment open. The Cubans consider the day in the same light as the Americans do the Fourth of July. Xhe principal celebration was held at the Antonio Mace© club, where the speeches were quite different in tone from any made at any previous demonstration. All the speakers accepted in good faith the avowed intention of »the United States government to establish a Cuban republic, and one of the principal subjects of discussion was the method of floating the first loan for the payment of the soldiers of the Cuban army. The annonneemex^t by the officers of the Marine hospital service that quarantine regulations will be put Into force on April 1 led to a special meeting of the chamber of commerce, Sunday, at which a committee was appointed to draw tip resolutions protesting against this as an unnecessary -precaution, as yellow fever has rarej lv, if ever, appeared here before the middle of May. Moreover, it is pointed out, that the sanitary department is now so efficient that, in the opinion of experts, an outbreak of yellow fever this year is highly improbable. Maj. Barbour, chief of the sanitary department, lias tendered his resignation, and Maj. Carr succeeds to the title of sanitary inspector. It is alleged that some irregularities have been discovered in the conduct of the department. Several merchants have made affidavits that there "have been discrepancies between the amounts paid and the amounts receipted for. JUMPED TEN FEET IN THE AIR. A. Trolley Car Thrown from the Track Rolls Down nil Embank-ment--Many Injured. Atlanta, Ga.. Feb. 2G.—A street cai on the Decatur Blue line was wrecked Sunday morning near Oakland cemetery, by striking an obstruction which had evidently been placed across the track. The ear jumped fully ten feet into the air and rolled 15 feet down an embankment. The 12 passengers on the car were more or less injured. Those sustaining serious injuries are: j Motorman Georg* Maddox, Herschell Dellaperry,- Policeman Eugene Coker, Policeman Sid Cogler and E. W. Wallace. . ft is thought Dellaperry and Cogler are fatally wounded i WOODENWARE MAY GO HIGHER A Secret Meeting of the Woodenware Aaociatton May Decide to Raise the Price* ____ < v Cleveland, O., Feb. 25.—As a result of a secret meetiug of the Woodenware asociation, which has been in session here for several days past, it is said, there is likely to be another advance in prices of smal wooden ware articles. The last meeting of the association, held in this city, a few months ago. was followed by a ten per cent advance.

DIED A WEALTHY PAUPER. Tbm Tara In Johann Moeller's Hard Lnsk Didn’t Coosa UntU After His Death. Chicago, Feb. 26.—A special to the Record from Duluth, Minn., says: “Johann Mueller, who died a sup* posed jiauper, left property which haa risen in value to several hundred thou* sand dollars. Mueller was a homesteader who took up government pine land a few miles north of this city some years ago. He became so involved in financial troubles that many trifling judgments were taken against his land, on which he had also given two small mortgages, aggregating about $800. Finally, 14 mouths ago, he died in the poor house. He had no relatives in America, and hi3 body was buried by the' county. About the time of his death it was found that valuable? deposits of iron oi*e existed in the neighborhood of his homestead, and search was begun for Mueller. Detectives were sent all over the United States to find him, and while they were followingelusiveclews from Arizona to Cuba the poor man died in the poor house, three miles from the offices of those Duluth men who were so anxious to find him. One of the two mortgages held against him was by a Catholic priest I of this city, who foreclosed it, aad ! then brought an assignment of the > sheriff's certificate on the first mort* gage, thereby shutting out the claim•ants who had sued for title. In the meantime the discoveries of ore crept closer to Mueller’s land, and finally the priest was able to negotiate an option on half of it to the Carnegie steel interests for $200,000 cash, or an annual income of $25,000 or more, the exact amount of his income being determined by the quality of ore mined yearly. The other hidf he held for $100,000. Then ore was found by the Carnegie company, and within the last few days the option has been olosed and the remaining half has been absolutely withdrawn from the market as worth far more than $100,000. jNow action has been brought by still other claimants who found Mueller’s heirs living penniless in some obscure German village, and there will be a hearing before the probate court this week to determine why they shall not be declared administrators of the estate. If the foreclosure cf Muellers second mortgage,.*■which was by advertisement, is valid,* the title is with the priest, and he has a fortune of perhaps $500,000; if not, the heirs and the opposing claimants will reap a still greater reward, for they will not only get the property, hut will he able to overturn the option and agreement that has keen made with the Carnegie Steel Co., and can probably sell for a higher price. The steel company will fight with the priest in his efforts to retain control. A VERITABLE SEA OF FLAME. One Hundrett and Fifty Persons Injured nt a B1k Fire in Parti —Heavy Losses.

Paris, Feb. 26.—As the result of a fire that broke out Sunday morning at St. Quen, a suburb of Paris, in a collection of alcohol and oil stores, a series of explosions occurred spreading the flames until a blotk of six im*mense warehouses was involved in a huge conflagration. A great concourse of spectators had assembled, and had approached too near, when, suddenly and, unexpectedly the explosions occurred. A large number of people, including some firemen. wore more or less injured. The last explosion occurred at 6 p. m., when it was thought such danger had beer* averted. Thirty persons were injured by flying debris. The official computation shows that 150 were hurt, quite a number seriously. The lire broke out at eight o’clock, from some cause as yet unknown, and had obtained a firm hold before it was discovered. It progressed without exciting incidents during the mcrnjng, and. at one o’clock half been gotten under control. At. four o’clock, however, the falling walls permitted the flames to reach a number of alcohol vats, and then the explosions began to take place. The block of Warehouses was almost surrounded by unoccupied grougftl, over which the burning alcohol spread when the buildings collapsed, resembling a sea of flames, and causing consternation throughout the district. People in the dwellings near by began hastily removing their furniture. The suffocating heat and fumes seriously hampered the work of the fire brigade. A number of engines were sent from Paris to assist. The firemen worked fearlessly, and, more than once, were precipitated to the ground by falling roofs and walls. A detachment of soldiers aided the firemen in emptying the adjacent houses of furniture; and the ambulances were busy in carrying victims to the neighboring hospital. Fortunately the flames did not reach the immense reservoirs of petroleum. The loss is estimated at 2,000,0(K) francs. Incendiarism 1m MarUetfiiie Island. Fort de France, Feb. 27.—The French cruiser Troude returned here, Saturday morning, from St. Pierre, and the French cruiser Suchet has arrived at Fort de France. An incendiary fire was kindled at three points on the Perrinelle plantar tion, in the outskirts of St. Pierre. Passeiufcrs Safe. Portland, Me., Feb. 27.—All the paaBvugers on the Allan liner Californian, ashore outside this harbor, are safe. The steamer is thought to be ia no immediate danger. <

HOW TO REACH THE TRUSTS Monopolies Protected from Prosecn- 1 tion bp this President auid Attorney General. * It frequently happens that a nmn who is hunting for something will overlook the desired article when it is under his very nose. This is true of most of the delegates to the antitrust conference who are looking for a method of curbing the trusts. Nearly every delegate has a plan of his; own—more or less complicated and. impracticable—but it has remained for Mr. Frank & Monnett, late attorney general of Ohio, and Mr. Williams, of Massachusetts, to point out the obvious remedy for trust aggression. Messrs. Monnett and Williams suggest no new legislation, no constitutional amendments, no commissions or other quasi-executive bodies to deal with the matter. They point out that the remedy already exists. The only necessity is to utilize it. That is to say, Mr. Monnett declares that the Sherman law, if enforced, will reach the trusts. Mr. Williams adds the corollary statement that the people can. have the Sherman law enforced by electing officers who will enforce it. Neither statement can successfully be controverted. The trusts now flourish unchecked not because there is no law which will reach them, but because the laws Already on the statute books are not enforced by the president of the United States and his attorney general. Those officers nullify the Sherman law. They would nullify any similar legislation that might be enacted. The fault is not with the law, but with the officers who refuse to enforce it—who beg the question by declaring that it can’t be enforced^ The president, through his attorney general, has paralyzed the energies of every United States district attorney in the country. Among those officers are no doubt many men like Mr. S. H. Bethea—active, ambitious and desirous of enforcing the federal statutes. But no matter how energetic they may be they dare‘hot attempt to attack the trusts by means of the Sherman law, because Mr. Griggs, usurping the functions of the United- States supreme court, has repeatedlydeclared that the Sherman law does not apply to the trusts and that it is, therefore, useless to proceed under its provisions. No district attorney will risk the displeasure of his superior officer by instituting Sherman law prosecutions in the face of such a deliverance. The trusts are protected from prosecution by the president and the attorney general, The obvious remedy is to elect a president who will enforce the laws instead of nullifying them. The administration can make no defense for its attitude. It stahds between the trusts and the law. Even if it be conceded that the Sherman law might be held invalid by the courts what excuse can the administration make for denying those tribunals the opportunity of passing upon it? ’The president’s position is that of a state’s attorney who should turn all the murderers out of the county jail and an-' swer public protests by the declaration that the statute against murder couldn’t be enforced and that he wasn’t going to try to enforce it. It is a nullification of the law of the land and an invasion of the right of the judiciary fo construe the statutes. Nothing else can be made of it. The president and his party protect the, trusts. Nay. they punish republican officers who prosecute the trusts, as Mr. Monnett himself can testify, having been denied a renomination by Mr. Hanna because he dared to institute and maintain a prosecution against the Standard Oil combination contrary to the wishes and instructions of the republican boss of Ohio. * If the people of this country wish to get rid of the trusts they must first get rid of Hanna, McKinley and Griggs, who are owned, boc’y, boots and breeches, by the trusts. With a president in the white house who will enforce the laws the trust question will quickly be settled.—Chicago.Ghronicle. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -If the republicans are so sure of winning, why is it that they have to select a-candidate for vice president,by forced draft?—Albany Argus. \ -Accepting the protective tariffhs the mother of trusts, its abolition should speedily starve the combines into capitulation.—St. Louis Republic. -From Consul Macrum’s account of the attempt to make a British consul of him at Pretoria, it might seem that John Hay himself has been doing some “loafing around the throne.”—N. Y. World. -There are indications that the chorus of protest against Mark Hanna’s ship subsidy steal has frightened the republican leaders, and that they have concluded that it would be safar to defer this outrage until after the election.—Indianapolis Sentinel. -Porto Rico is as much a part of the United States as Alaska, and more accessible. Yet the bulldozing tactics of a protected interest lead the government to erect a tariff wall against * it. This is another shame of the McKinley administration. — Rochester Herald. --There is too much Great Britain and too little Bunker Hill about our state department now. The proposed Hay-Pauncefote degradation started a prickly heat of protest on our body politic, and the Macrum story may aggravate the trouble into a serious eruption.—Minneapolis Times. -Once more, lest you forget, we call attention to the fact that the McKinley administration is taking two dollars from your pocket in the way of taxes where formerly Uncle Sam took but one dollar. Government expenditures have doubled since McKinley’s advent.—Helena (Mont.) Independent.

A FUND FOR CORRUPTION. taiti VUl Be Let Alone oo Lrag no Tfcty Glee 17* to Mark Never has the United States witnessed such a campaign for the presidency as that now impending promises to be. There has in the past been debauchery of the franchise, corruption of the people’s ballot, but not on tny such scale of magnitude as is now being prepared for the coming election. ° In order to promote republican success a campaign fund of $25,000,000 is to be raised, and how? By the contributions of the rank and file of republicans throughout the nation? By the voluntary offerings of those theorists who see**:in republican doctrines the essence of political wisdom? Not at all. It will be collected from tljie trust beneficiaries oV the McKinley administration, 'iwo hundred combinations of capital, representing 52,000,000,000, will contribute the money. Mark Hanna recently came out in an interview absolving trusts from blame. They are doing no harm and “should be let alone,” he said. Soon followed the announcement of the gigantic fund to be raised to further McKinley’s candidacy. The trusts will be “let alone” so far as legislation by congress and prosecution under the law by McKinley’s attorney general go, but they will not oe “let alone” by the illustrious CleTieander until they have contributed their pro rata of the corruption fund. Think of What such a sura means when improperly used. It cannot be honestly utilized. Such ah amount ;is many times more than the most extravagant manager of an honest campaign could spend. It is an amount of money which, if divided among 75,000,DOO people, the population approximately of this country, would give each 33 1-3 cents. The usual reckoning is that one in five of the population is a voter. Then this Hanna campaign fund is great enough to allow each voter .more than $1.65. Twice this amount, $3.30, would be available for each oi the necessary votes to gain, a pppular majority. But the money will not be spent thjat way. It will be put in large sums in the doubtful and close states. Th^se will be purchased, outright. If the money was to be expended pro rata in the country the McKinley managers in Denver might reasonably Expect a contribution exceeding $56,(joC from the national committee. In addition to the corrupt might of this immense sum, there will be another element in the campaign even more reprehensible. It is the policy; of force and intimidation, employed quite largely in 1896, and to he per fected in its workings this year. Tpi $2,000,000,000 of capital, represented;na the campaign fund, will also contribute to republican success by compelling the hundreds of thousands ' of men dependent upon them to support the McKinley ticket. Democratic success may not be impossible in spite of all the money the trusts can throw into the campaign, if only the vote is free and fair. Bet if in the large manufacturing centers of the close states intimidation of the voters is employed successfully, thi re can be but one result of the cain-i paign. McKinley will be reelected — Denver Post. SAID BY^ LINCOLN. Words Which, in the Light of sequent Events, Condemn Imperialism. In the light of current events { it must be clear that McKinleyism is synonymous with Hannaism*, and j he latter, the exponent of everything dangerous to a government of theippopie. American citizens who stop to think will oe impressed by the gftdf between the principles upon whf-li this nation was founded, and upon fae observance of which it ran* alonc . be perpetuated. Mr. Bryan points >:it the gulf in bis summing up of the .situation published hi the New York Journal. “When the .republican party meets the speeches of Abraham Lincoln in the next campaign, it will find that the gulf between Lincolnism and II innaism is so great that the admirers of the former cannot be followers oi the latter.” Here is the impassable gulf dug by Abraham Lincoln, at Lewiston, August, 1858, in, a speech referring to -i«: wisdom of the men who announced .in; American declaration of independence to the world. Ibaagine Mclfinleyism, Hannaism, imperialism, abiding by such doctrine! “Wise statesmen as they- were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants; and so they* established these gi*eat self-evident truths that, when in the distant future, sc me man, some faction, some interest should set up the doctrine tfiat itrae but rirh men, or none but white m en or none but Anglo-Saxon white men were entitled to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might- look up again to the declaration of independence, and take cdurage to renew tho battle which tl- dr fathers began, * * * so that *o man should thereafter dare to lipiil; >rt and circumscribe the principles which the temple ot liberty was bci built” —t—It appears from a response oi Secretary Gage to a resolution of ©cmgress in regard to the expenditure oi; the $50,000,000 war fund that it cost ih#t United States $105,144 to whitewash former Secretary Alger, and it wii- 4 poor job at that. The c-ommissioit rit were supplied with fountain pens*cb ifing $12 each in order that they mishit make precious notes of testimony, (jit wernment commissions have fcecomk: a rather expensive luxury* in these .*©• cent times. -Philadelnhia Record.

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