Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 June 1893 — Page 2
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TUESDAY, JUNE '27. 1893.
AN ENORMOUS SHRINKAGE OF VALUES. The New York Pn'ss of Inst. Saturday gives a detailed statement of the shrinkage of values of the various kinds of stocks and bonds on the New York Stock Exchange since the date ot Cleveland's election. It occupies nearly three columns and gives the price at which each was held on the 8th of November together with the price on Jnne 23. The showing is fearful. The decline in the actual market value of the securities whose name, amount ot issue are given in detail, reaches the stupendous total cf $517,059,157.
As there are nearly one half as many more inactive but regularly listed stocks whose quotations are not readily obtainable on any given day, it is apparent that the shrinkage, affecting, as it has, the entire list, "gilt edge" stocks suffering with the rest, muBt be nearly 8800,000,000. Another proof of this is that the capital stock and bonds of the companies quoted aggregate less than §5,000,000,000, while the whole amount of securities on the regular list of the Exchange is over §7,000,000,000.
The Press estimate of losses necessarily oruits the vast sum of State, city and eountv bonds whose prices are not readily obtained and the still greater amount of stock of limited corporations, manufacturing companies and private firms. As the shrinkage in value in many of these is approximately as large as in listed stocks and bonds, it will be seen that the decline in real values of American personal property since the late election is probably in excess of §1,500,000,000.
One Billion and a Half! Such a loss can hardly be conceived by the individual because the figure is so far beyond any possible personal experience or single commercial transaction. It exceeds the entire sum of actual money in the United States—gold, Bilver and paper, national bank notes and treasury notes!
In this fact lies the secret of the colossal losses, the financial stringency and the daily long list of commercial and banking failures. It is want of ilcnce. About 93 per cent, ot all the business of the country is transacted on credit and about 7 per cent, only on the basis of cash. When credit is impaired, when confidence is lacking, more than nine-tenths of all the business in hand is affected. That is the situation to-day. Financial authorities differ bb to the responsibility, but all of them agree as to the cause. It is want of confidence. When did this lack of confidence first manifest itself? What is known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was signed July 14,1890. All stock values in the country slightly rose afterward and there was no reaction until the Baring failure and the English and South American panics which followed affected this country in the following December. The effect of the financial crisis abroad passed away in the next eight months, and in the fall of 1891, with the Sherman law in full operation, values advanced to the highest level in six years. Good times generally prevailed.
The conditions continued favorable through the winter, spring and summer of 1892. The price of silver having fallen nearly 25 per cent, it was deemed wine by the majority of Bepnblicans to repeal the Silver Purchase act, by which 4 500,000 ounces were being bought by the government monthly. But the Congress with 145 Democratic majority in the House was overwhelmingly for "free silver," and refused to repeal the act unless an absolute Free Silver Coinage law was substituted.
Stocks and values were steadily main tained, however, until the election of Mr. Cleveland and a Democratic Congress. Although the Sherman law had been nearly two years in full operation there were no serious financial trouble of any kind, no lack of confidence and fewer failures than for some years.
Soon after the election the diastrous change came. The people saw imports daily increasing and gold slipping away by the millions to pay for them. They saw exports decreasing and the balance of foreign trade turning againBt this country. Every money lender in the land and every possessor of money realized that a shrinking gold reserve and a hesitating Administration were the sole bulwark of safety against a Congrees overwhelmingly Democratic and strongly in favor of debused currency and free silver. The
Administration allowed the gold reserve to be depleted for the first time since that reserve was established by John Sherman as a guarantee ot specie payments.
Then the "panic" began. And of the SHOO,000.000 shrinkage in actual values since the last election nearly threefourths, or half a billion dollars, Las occurred since President Cleveland's inauguration ill (jays ago.
ABOUT HAND WHITING.
An Expert Deolaros That It Is Doaeneratiiaff.
The Chiroffrapby of Writers for the Preis Growing Wort* on Aceouut of llurrj nod fiatlgae—Faults of fMohiof.
Is it true that handwriting is growing worse and worse all the world over? This is the statement of Mr. Jackson in his "Theory and Practice of Handwriting." Official reports, says the T.ondon News, seem to confirm Mr. Jackson's belief. On the other hand, persons of considerable experience in reading literary manuscripts and examination papers of the higher orders can hardly agree with him. As a rule, the manuscripts of novels and of examination papers are legible and evtn rather pleasing. The exceptions are scarcely four per cent, in examination papers in novels an author foolishly sends in a mere rough draft, with erasions and additions tacked on by pins or-waste ends of postage stamp paper. But these examples of hundwriting are the work, except as regards many novels, of rather highly educated persons, and they throw no light on the hands of people far from literacy.
The letters of servant girls and of other people without aspirations to culture are often penned in excellent and characteristic hands, and, on the whole, we do not think that the age writes ill, as a general rule. Naturally people who have to write great quantities of "copy" for the press or tpr other purposes find their hands, if Roman and fine at first, gradually disappearing in scrawl due to fatigue. A number of popular and prolific authors are suffering from "writers' cramp," and their hands must have been degenerating in the progress of the malady.
To do the work with the minimum of fatigue is the author's object, and certainly it seems as if the men and women with the most slovenly hands suffer least from writers' cramp. Mr. Jackson, however, thinks that writing is very bad, that its badness is due to bad teaching, promiscuously selected models (he prefers examples on the blackboard to headlines), and, above all, the error is in sloping as opposed to perpendicular or vertical writing. The natural man, he thinks, sits upright to his work, and would write perpendicularly but for the prevalence of sloping copies. From these comes the habit of sprawling sideways at the desk, and that habit is bad for the eyes, bad for the spine, bad for discipline in Bchool (as it facilitates tattling), and finally bad for the handwriting. The slope keeps on running down hill till it loses itself in an indecipherable scrawl.
History proves, Mr. Jackson thinks, that all writing was originally vertical. We do not see Egyptian hieroglyphs on the slope they are drawn upright, and so are the more elaborate pictures of the Aztec "schritt" of the Mayas of Eastern Island, the Sanskrit hand, the Phoenician (witness the Moabite stone), the Greek, whether on inscriptions on stone, on vases, or in writing on papyri but not. we think, in the Italic hand copied from the writing of Musurus in the editions of Aldus. The Italio hand is on a slope—fifteen hundred. Mr. Jackson says that all writing in Europe was vertical, upright, till the age of Elizabeth. The Aldine texts in Italics seem to us to suggest a doubt on this point.
HOW WE TASTE.
The Middle of the Tongne la the Moat Sensitive. Strictly speaking, with the tip of the tongue one cannot really taste at all If you put a drop of oil of bitter almonds on that part of the mouth you will find, no doubt, to your great surprise, that it produces no effect of any sort you only taste it when it begins slowly to diffuse itself and reaches the true tasting region in the middle distance. But if you pnt a little mustard or cayenne on the same part you will find that it bite* you immediately—the experiment should be tried sparingly—while if you put it lower clown in the mouth yon will swallow it almost without noticing the pungency of the stimulant.
The reason is, says the Yankee Blade, that the tip of the tongue is supplied only with the nerves of touch, not nerves of taste proper they belong to a totally different main branch, and they go' to a different center ir. the brain, together with he very similar threads, which supply the nerves of smell for mustard and pepper.
That is why the smell and taste of these pungent substances are so much alike, as everybody must have noticed, a good sniff at a mustard pot producing almost the same irritating effects as an incautious dose.
When one is trying deliberate experiments on the subject in order to test the varying sensitiveness of the differentrparts to different substances it is necessary to keep the tongue quite dry In order to isolate the thing you are experimenting with and prevent it spreading to all parts of the mouth together. In actual practice this result is obtained in a rather ludicrous manner—by blowing upon the tongue between each experiment with a pair of bellows. To such undignified expedients does the pursuit of science lead the modern physiologist.
Why IK*nd Organ* Are Sent Uere. Italy has had no national anthem, for neither the "Garibaldi Hymn" nor the *'Royal March" can justly lay claim to this title. Germany does not possess a national song in tho true sense of the word. Kovener's "Sword Song" is famous because of the romantic circumstances under which it was composed while the "Wacht am Uhein" owes its popularity to Its applicability during the Franco-German war. Some, however, consider "Hell dir im Siegorkranz," which is none other than the air "God Save the Queen," as the national anthem of the fatherland. Spain Is not more fortunate than Italy or Germany. She has many pretty songs, but none of them can be said to breathe a purely national feeling.
"Your Money your lAfe." Such a demand, at the mouth ot a "sixshooter," sets a man thinking pretty lively! With a iittle more thinking, there would bo less suffering.
Think of the terrible results of neglected consumption! which might easily be averted by tho timely use of Nature's Great Specific, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Csnsumptjon, which is lung scrofula, is a constitutional disease, and requires just such a thorough and effectual constitutional remedy 1 Taken in time, before the lung tissues are wasted, it is guaranteed a radical cure! Equally certain in all scrofulous affections and blood disorders, Large bottles, one dollar, of any druggist.
This Date In History—June 27.
14S)—Louis Xll of France was born at Blots died 1.M5. 1550—Charles IX of Franco, son of Catherine do Modict, born died of remorse for the St. Bartholomew massac re, 1574. 1C8&—Charles XII of Sweden born killed 1718. 1700—Battlo of Pultowa and completo rout of Chai tea
XII by troops of Peter the Great. 1743—Battle of Dettingen.
BMITUSON.
Jftrues Sratthsondied in Genoa born 1705 natural son of tho third Duko of Northumberland and Lady Somerset left SAM.OUO to found tho Smithsonian institution.
Joseph and Hyram Smith were killed by a mob at Carthage, Ills. 1870—Harriet Martineau, author and agnostic, died at AiublesidQ, England Itorn 1690— Intenso boat throughot tho west hundreds were prostrated in Chicago.
Our Only Day.
ere this our only day-
Did not our yesterdays and morrows give To hope and memory their interplayHow should we bear to live?
Not merely what wo are,
But what we wore and what wo are to be Make up our life—the near days each a star, Tho far days nebula*.
At once would love forget
It* keen pursuits and coy delays of bliss And its delicious pangs of fond regret Wero there no day but this.
And who, to win a friend.
Would to the secrets of his heart invite A fellowship that should begin and end Between a night and night?
Who, too, would pause to prato
Of Insult or remember slight or scorn Who would this night lie down to sleep »dth hate
Were there to be no morn?
Who would take heed to wrong-
To misery's complaint or pity's call, The long wall of tho weak against the strong. If this onfc day wero all?
And what were wealth with shame,
The vanity of otHcc, pride of caste, The winy sparkle of tho bubble fame. If this day wero tho last?
Aye, what were all days worth
Were there no looking backward or before— If every human life that drops to earth .. Were lost forevermore?
But each day is a link
Of days that pass and never pass away For memory and hoio—to live, to think— Each is our only day. —Coatcs Kinnejr.
The Minister to Turkey.
Alexander W. Terrell, the new minister to Turkey, is a prominent citizen of Texas. He was admitted to tho Missouri bar in 1S49 at the age of 20 years
ALEXANDER W. TERRELL.
and four years later removed to Austin, where he was elected judge of the second judicial district, when he was but 29 years old, in 1857. He served in the Confederate army and has since served two terms in the state senate. He is a native of Patrick county, Va., where he was bom on Nov. 3, 1829.
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Allow me to add my tribute to tho efficacy of Ely's Cream Balm. I was suffering from a severe attack of influenza and catarrh and was induced to try your remedy. Tho result was marvelous. could hardly articulate, and in less than twenty-four hours the catarrhal symptoms arfd my hoarseness disappeared and I was able to sing a heavy role in grand opera with voice unimpaired. I strongly recommend it to all singers.—Wm. H. Hamilton, Leading Basso of the C.
D.
Hess Grand Opera Co.
Children Cry for
Pltcher'e Oastorla-
"Fat Doetor lllll* Hake Lean Wills,' but Dr. Sage's Catarrh Kemedy costs less than one doctor's visit. Catarrh is a loathsome, dangerous disease, and the time has come when to suffer from it is a disgrace. No person of culture and refinement cares to Inflict upon his friends his offensive breath, disgusting hawking and spitting and disagreeable efforts to breathe freely and clear the throat and noso-hence the cultured and refined, use I)r. Sago's Catarrh Remedy. And no wiso and prudent man cares to run the risk of leaving his family without a 'protector, by letting his "slight catarrh" run into serious or fatal throat and lung troubles, hence the wise and prudent use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. The proprietors of this remedy are so confident of its curativc propertie-i, that they have made a standing offer of a reward of $500 for a case they cannot cure.
MICE, INSECTS AND SPARROWS. Owls Eat All Three, Hesldos Gopher* llftbblt* and Other l'cts of the Farm.
Tho little screech owl, well known In most parts of the country, is indefatigable in its work of destroying mice and Insects. It may often be seen at dusk, hovering about barns and outbuildings, watching for mice or skimming along tho fields and along hedgerows in search of grasshoppers, crickets and beetles. Many birds of this species have taken up a residence in the cities, having learned to feed upon what the Boston Transcript calls that most destructive nuisance, the English sparrow. In winter rural residents often notice the tracks of mice which form networks in tho snow crossing and recrossing, passing in and out of walls and stacks—tending to show how active these small rodents are when most of the world sleeps. Occasionally such a track stops abruptly and, while the observer is trying to read more of the history written in the snow, his eyes cateli tho faint impression of a pair of wing-tips near where the trail ends, and instantly he Is made aware that a tragedy has been enacted. Screech-owls also feed on chipmunks, shrews, moles and occasionally bats. During warm spells in winter they forage extensively and store up in their homes quantities of food as a provision agaiust inclement weather. Probably the most important from an economic point of view nmong owls is the barn-owl. Its food is almost entirely made up of injurious mammals. In the west it feeds largely on pouched gophers, and tho stomach contents of many Individuals examined have revealed little else than the romains of these rodents. To appreciate properly the services of this owl it must be remembered that pouched gophers ore among the most, if not tho most, destructive mammals which Inhabit this country. In various other localities it feeds extensively on the common rat. Tho great horned owl, which in the east is persistent in its attacks on poultry and game, kills immense numbers of rabbits in rabbit-in-fested parts of the west, where its assistant'". is invaluable to the farmer. II is much addicted to eating skunks, of which it devours great numbers wherever these objectionable animals are aommon.
WORTH
MOBOS ROUTE.
2:20 a.m Night Express 1:02 a.m 12:15p.m....Passenger (no stops).... 4:17 a.m 5:35 p.ru Express (allstops) l:58p.in 2:40 p.m Local Freight 9:00 a.m
BIG 4—Peoria Division,
0:07 a.m Dally (except Sunday) G:50p.tn. 5:30 p.m Dally 12:40a.m. 2:0:! a. ui Daily 8:47 a.m 1:05 p.m....Dally (except Sunday)....1 ::iii p.m
south
AND ALIA.
NORTH
0 44 am 8:10am 5:20 0:11) iu 8:10 in 2:33 in 2:33 ui Local Freight 2:33
VANDALIA LINE
I I TIME TABLE SOUTHBOUND. St. .Joe Mail 8:10 a.m. South Bond Express (1:1!) p. in. St. Joe Special 2::):ip in. Local Freight 2 m.
SOUTHBOUND,
Torre Haute Express ... ..0:44 a. m. Terre Haute Mail
r:20
p.m.
Southern Express .8:10 p.m. Local freight 2:33p.m.
For complete time card, giving all trains and stations, and for full information as for rates, through cars, etc., address
Graham & Morton
Transportation Co.
WINNING BETWEEN
Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Chicago.
The Equipment of this line Includes the superb new steamer, '-City of Chicago" and "Chicora" whose first class appointments make travel via lake the acme of comfort and convenience. Connections made at St. Joseph with tho
Vandalia Railway.
The following schedule is Affective May 15. Leave St. Joseph at 3 p. m. daily. Leave St. Joseph at 9 p. m. dally.
Leave Chicago from Dock, foot of Wabash avenue, 9:30 a. m., and 11 p. m., dally. Tho steamor "Glenn" makes tri-weekly trips between Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Milwaukee, leaving St.
Joseph Mouday, Wed
nesday and Friday evenings.
Full information as to through passenger and freight rates may be obtained from Agent Vandalia Ky., Cruwfordsvllle, lnd.» or
J. H. Graham, Prost., Benton Harbor. Mich.
Terre Haute and St. Joseph, Trains 55 and 56. Taking effect Monday, Jnne 12th, 1893, the Vandalia line will run daily except Sunday, fast trains 55 and 5G, between Terre Haute and St. Joseph. During past seasons these trains have found great favor with the traveling public, and this announcement, there fore, will be received as a bit of good news. These trains will run about as they did lust year, viz: Leave Terre Haute at 1 p. m., arrive at St. Joseph, Mich., 7:30 p. leave St. Joseph at 2:40 p. m., arrive at Terre Haute 9:45 p. m. For complete schedule of Vandalia Line trains address any ticket agent of that line, or Ohas. M. Wheeler, Traveling Passenger, Agent, Terre Haute, Ind.
Health and Happiness.
Honey of Figs Is the queen of all cathartics syrups or pills. One anticipates its taking with pleasure No other remedy sells so well or gives hucli satisfaction. It acts gently on Ina.tivc bowels or liver, relieves the kidneys, curcs constipation, colds fevers, nervous aches, et- ., and restores the boauty of health. Ladies and children prefer it. Doctors and druggists recommend it. The Fio Honky Co., of Chicago, make It. Try a bottle. Only one entadose. Nye 1c Booe, agents- d-wO-7
O, woman, despairing and wretched, Dreading, yet longing, to die. Hear the glad chorus that rises,
Filling the dome of the sky: "Bisters, bo glad, there's holp to bo had: No longer be miserable, gloooiy and sad Lost nualth regain," rings outthe refrain, "Poor creatures, bo healthy and happy again."
How? By taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Proscription, the world's greatest remedy for all kinds of diseases peculiar to women It brings back tone and vigor to tbe system weakened by those distressing compluints known only to women, which make life such a burden. It restores relaxed organs to a normal condition, It fortifies the system against tho approach '.of diseases wh'.ch often terminate uf untold misory, if notiu death—which is preferable to tho pain and torment of living, iu many instances. It is tho great gift of scientific skill and research to women, and for it sho cannot be too grateful. 1- cores her ills when nothing else can. It is' guaranteed to give satisfaction or price, #1.00 returned. Absolutely sold on trial.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Gasteria.
In Silks.
and
85c.
In Dress Goods.
75
500
20
LOUIS BISCHOF
127-129 EAST MAIN STREET.
Our June Clearing Sale.
worth $1.00 to $1.50.
In Hosiery and Underwear.
50
Those who took advantage of our sale last June know what this announcement means—but we do even better this year because we have a heavier stock of goods on hand—the unfavorable weather has prevented their sale before—we must clear them out. Hence great bargains will be found in every line of goods we sell—the following being merely a few examples.
Japanese Printed Silks in seasonable and desirable shades and styles. Three bargains at
Plain and fancy all-wool and half-wool,
3SC-
Plain and fancy in all wool and Mohair,
75c*
Ladies' and Children's fast black hose,
Ladies' silk plated hose in fancy shades,
Ladies' gauze vests,
to
15
5c,
Unbleached Damask,
Muslin corset covers, plain and trimmed,
Ladis' muslin underwear, any garment,
Ladies' muslin underwear, any garment,
Children's lace caps, r^c, worth
Children's lace caps,
Boys' waists,
Ladies' leather belts,
to
25
39c, 49c, 69c,
Beautiful weaves in solid colors and combinations,
dozen towels, white and colored borders,
35c.
50
dozen napkins at
100
83c,
to
20c.
25
pieces plaid and stripe white [goods at
35c-
In Other Lines.
silk umbrellas, large and small handles,
$3.00
Foster
5-hook
kid gloves, size 7^ to
$1 to $1.50.
Ladies' driving gauntlet gloves,
Ladies' black silk mitts and gloves,
to
50c.
32
yards embroidery flouncing,
Madame Strong's corset waists,
Good quality pearl buttons, all sizes,
white bed spreads,
100
I2$C.
500
worth
19c,
worth 10c.
Ladies fine lisle thread vests,
25c,
In Linens and White Goods.
worth
46c,
Turkey Red Damask,
50c, 65c
16 2-3C,
Extra fine novelties in French and German dress goods at
worth
25
49c,
35c.
worth
65c.
36c,
worth
50c
each.
9c.
worth
37c,
to
worth
60
to 75c.
50c,
worth
75c,
worth
25
to
59c,
35c.
worth $1 to$i.25.
22
worth $1 to $1.25.
pieces plaid and striped white goods at
1-2, worth
30
13c
per yd. worth
22
1-2C, worth
25
to
worth
75
worth
Ladies' shirt waists,
59c
Patent Medical French woven corsets, $1.75, worth
5oo flat and folding Japanese paper fans,
5oo embroidered mull ties, 10c each, worth
73c,
20
to $1.
50c.
49c,
worth
75
to $1.
17c,
worth
25
to
35c.
yd., worth
worth $1.
Ladies' sur.imer skirts, 25c, worth 5oc. Good prints, light and dark styles, 5c, worth 7c. 5,ooo yards domets at 5c, worth 8 to 10c. Good brown muslin, 4c yd., worth 5.
pairs Nottingham lace curtains at
1,000 yds. dotted Swiss for curtains at 25c yd., worth 35c. i5 pieces all chenille portieres at
$3,
worth
qo ladies' spring capes and jackets, $4, worth $5 to $6.
Wash Goods Department.
Wouldn't it be ail excellent idea to come in and see the two allowing Bargains:
500 pieces Ginghams, Bedford Cords, Pongees, etc at 7jc, worth 10 to
to 25c.
25c,
worth
35c.
50c,
worth
35
to
37c,
75c.
50c.
97c,
69c,
inch printed China silk for drapery,
worth
8,
$1.25.
all shades,
59c,
worth
worth $1.50.
59c,
doz. ladies' embroidered handkerchiefs,
worth $1.
25c
each, worth
59c
35
yd., worth
75
to $1.
85c
97c,
to 1$].
worth $1.25.
$2.7").
10,
worth i5 to
20c.
10
to
20c.
7c
doz., worth 10c.
$3.5o,
worth
$4,970,
1,000 yds. curtain scrims, 10c, worth i5c. Ladies' percale suits, $1.75, worth $2.25. Ladies' gingham suits,
$3.75.
Ladies' wool Eton and blazer suits,$4.50, worth $6. 25 ladies' spring capes and jackets,
pieces Ginghams, Satines, Pongees and other beautiful wash' fabrics at ioc, worth 12I to
We have an axe to grind but the advice is good just the same.
$4.50
$2,
to
worth
$5.
worth $6.
$2.75.
20c- ,'