Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 November 1893 — Page 2
DAILY JouRKrtL.
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T. H. MpCAXN, President. A.GRKKNK, Secretary. A. A. McCAIN. Treasurer.
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1883.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE The 11
'estem Christian Advocate is
not political paper and has nothing to do with partisan politics, yet it says its readers expect it to inform them of the issues involved in party contests, and of the drift of publio opinion as shown in their decisions. Speaking of the recent elections and their import the Advooate
says: Under the stimulating economic policy pf the former Administration an era ot remarkable manufacturing prosperity was Inaugurated, which naturally wither on the accession to power of a party holding antagonistic principles of trade. Uncertainty took the place of confidence. Not knowlrur what to expect, from the policy to reduce duties on goods of foreign manufacture, capital, always timid and conservative. became alarmed and turnedxhe key in the lock of its manufactories, and millions ol discharged employes, like jangling nerves, carried the ensuing misery into every part of the Dody politic.
On top of this came the effort to divert the attention of the people from the real cause of tht trouble by conferring their sins on the head of the silver-purchasing bill, and sending that scape-goat Into the wilderness: the only result being an unnecessary and wholly artificial money stringency, prec pitatlng many commercial failures, paralyzing the silver industry and adding other millions to the army of discontented. Whether right or wrong, under such circumstances, the popular reaction invarlabl w,is against the current Administration.
The Advocate gets at the meat of the question in choice diction, and gives the reasons which any intelligent man in the conntry knows to be logically true. The resnlt of the elections oannot but have its effect on the rapid transit tarifftinkering Ways and Means Committee and act as an air-brake on the free trade wheels which have been put in motion.
THE GEKKTHAITDES ATTACKED. A suit has been filed in the Marion Circuit court to set aeide the gerrymander in Indiana for legislative purposes. The suit is in the form of an injunction restraining the several county clerks of the State from issuing notices ot election and the sheriffs from posting up such notices, and to enjoin the several other officers frpm performing their respective duties, for the reason that apportionment act ot 1S93 is unoonsitu tional and void. The complaint id long and sets up in detail wherein the legislature violated the very spirit and letter of the constitution. The Supreme Court onoe decided that this gerrymander was unconstitutional, but tbe legislature in the face of this decision made some minor changes in order to make it a new aot, and passed it again. The court then stood politically four Republicans to one Democrat, though we believe it was unanimous in its decision. As now constituted tbe court stands four Democrats to one Republican. There can be no question as to tbe unconstitutionality of the apportionment act, but it remains to be seen whether the court can rise above its partisan bias and render a just and honest opinion. In any event whether the court's opinion is favorable or unfavorable the people of Indiana [like the people of New York end New Jersey are ripe for a political revolution. The
Democracy may slumber in ^the belief that they have entrenched themselves so thoroughly by wicked and vicious legislation that no power can overthrow them until they wake up to find that the people have been aroused.
0BGAH1ZED CHARITY.
The amount ot money wasted in charity in Crawfordsville in the last few years would start a bank. There are hundreds of kind-hearted people who cannot refuse a beggar whether he is worthy or unworthy, and yet statistics show that two-thirds of this class are unworthy of aid. There is an immense waste of charity yet each person has not time to investigate each particular case. Moreover is is not only a waste but positively wrong to aid unworthy persons. Pauperism is an evil and should not be thus encouraged. Organized charity proposes to aid worthy persons, encourage them and teach them methods ot thrift. It proposes to prevent imposition on the public by frauds, tramps and professional beggars. This cannot b3 done wifbout organized charity and would be worth all of a secretary's salary if accomplished. But enough can be saved by systematic work to pay the secretary's [salary two or three times over. v\
The late Sam J. Tilden, according to McClure's Magazine, onoe said of Mr. Cleveland "This man is somewhBt course mental fibre and disposition, but of great force and stubbornly honest in hiB convictions."
"Gbasbbchser" Bynom evidently the handwriting on the wall. The announcement that he will not be a candidate for re-election is in the nature of being bble to read.
DIXIE'S LAND
BEFORE THE WAR.
SV JAS. FRAN HLI-Jlsl Brims.
.CHAPTER 1L
AMONG THE GRANITE HIl.l.S.
As has been said, the scenes described iu my first chapter were not witnessed by mo. Hut 1 had seen ami known one of the chief actors lonjr before that memorable morning. 1 had seen and known him tinder circumstances that make it necessary to a due comprehension of the narrative to state whero, when and how.
It was five years before. To be exact, it was the spring of IS is. 1 was planting- corn with my father, on one of the almost sterile hillsides of the New Hampshire farm. The humble roof under which 1 was born was visible down near the river. The Merrimac wound along two sides of our little homestead, furnishing the only cheerful feature of the scene. Hills—sterile lulls—encompassed us. Twenty miles away 1 could see the granite top of -Mount lvearsai-jje soaring to the clouds. 1 was a boy of eleven, rather precocious for my years. I attended the public school four months in the year, and labored with my father the balance of the time among' these rocks. I went to '"meeting1" on Sundays in the old edifice on lop of a higrh hill, on the steeple of which a veering wooden •odfish denoted the direot'on of the wind, and saved the people from the profanation which a cross in that place would have caused. I listened to the choir, elevated to a fearful height in the rear gallery, as they thundered forth resounding anthems and fugues. 1 heard thedoleful-visaged and drawling-voiced minister pray forty minutes at a stretch, and preach ninety, frequently devoting ninetenths of the whole race to exquisite and eternal torment. I had a thirst for knowledge that the public school could not supply. Astray copy of the Boston Daily Journal, coming like an enchanter from the outside world, sometimes stimulated this thirst. I was penernlh" reirariled as "a green boy," "an odd stick." etc.: and 1 once heard of Dcucon Ilalleck telling my father that a boy with such outlandish notions as Dorr ought to be whipped regularly twice a week. Doubtless 1 should have been, had the deacon been given the ordering- of me earlier than he wt»s: but my father, although reared in all the vigor of Puritanism. was by nature kind and ten-der-hearted. and religious fanaticism could not change him. To raj- own puzzled 3'outhful mind, it often seemed as though a grave mistake had been made in ray allotment. I seemed to bave been set down in the wrong corner of the world, among a people with whom 1 had no atVuiitv.
I was still a mere boy. I learned as I grew older, and long before 1 bade farewell to my northern home, to respect the intelligence, the force, the sturdy honesty of this people, whose very "failings leaned to virtue's side." Still, 1 thought then, as I think now. that 1 should always have been dwarfed and cramped among them.
Returning to the bleak hill-side where my father and I were striving to plant corn on that afternoon. I record how 1 suddenly stopped work, leaned on my hoe, and contemplated my father. He was in his shirt-sleeves his graying hair and refined but wrinkled face were turned to me as he bent over his toil. A sudden inspiration seized me. "Father! Do you suppose that when I get to be as old as you are, I shall be planting corn in these rocks?"
He stopped and looked up in surprise. "I hope not, Dorr—I hope you won't! But what put such a question into your head just now?" "It's in my head all the time. The way things are going on here, there don't seem to be anything coming to me but the same poverty and the same labor that you have always bad."
He looked at me—a serious, pitying glance it was—and sat down on a granite bowlder. He leaned his head on his hand and sighed. "My boy, I've often thought of this. Your poor mother and I have laid awake nights talking about it:' but never thought it had troubled you any. What do you want?" "To go to the academy—maybe to college—and by and by to get out into the world, try to make a man of myself, like the men 1 read of, and to see something besides these hills and these people. I'd like to get rich, and come back and build a big house for you and mother over on the lake. Yes, I'd like to do anything rather than live here all my life."'
He smiled at my youthful enthusiasm but his look of painful reflection quickly returned. "Dorr, I had just such dreams myself, when I was young, and I presume that my father before me had them. 1 wanted an education, and couldn't have it. Poverty, hard toil and embarrassment seem to be the lot of those who cleave to this soil. God knows. I wish things might be shaped as you_wish them but how to contrive it I do not know."
Ilis hoe dropped from his hand, and his eyes sought the ground. I chanced to look down toward the river road and I saw a man in a buggy stop at our gate. A woman, my mother, of course, as there was none other about the house, came to the door. There was a brief parley then the man-got out, hitched the horse, climbed the fenoe and strode over the upland toward u*.
Perhaps my frame of mind just then Inclined mo toward presentiment. Perhaps the reader will say that it is always easy to predict after the fact. No matter the fact remains the same that a sudden and decided conviction was forced upon me fcbat this stranger was to have a positive influence upon my life, and that his presence hero at this time was of itself a promise of great results for me.
He walked rapidly, removing his wide-brimmed palm-leaf hat and wiping his brow with a large red handkerchief as he came. He was tall, powerful of frame and llorid of face and 1 observed r.that there was something about this color, hardly a tan, that I at once attributed to the sun of another latitude than this. Kvery detail of his person and dress I took in at once my attention was certainly sharpened by the presentiment I have mentioned. I judged him to be at least fifty years old, though his face was plump and unwrinkled. His features were bold and handsome there was a twinkle to
WHAT S .YOUR NAME?' snt.
A HARD-TIMES REMEDY
his eye anil an over-recurring smile upon his face that made him seem the most charming of men. Short curls of chestnut hair ran all over his head. Ilis dress was rich in material and fashionable in cut diamonds were in his shirt-front, and an immense solitaire sparkled on one of his little fingers.
He came up within a few feet of me, and paused. Sly father had thus far not seen him at all he was absorbed in his revery. The stranger looked from me to him, and spoke in a rouud, hearty voice: 'Well, here we are. My lad, what's your name?" "Dorr Jewett. sir." "Is that your father?" "Yes, sir."
He walked over to my abstracted sire and bestowed such a lieartv thwack
Come along to the house as you said." His beaming smile captivated me as we walked along, while he busily talked with my father, he playfully shouldered my hoe, and took hold of my hand. Arrived at the house, my mother was introduced.
It was the first exhibition of highbred politeness I had ever seen, and it impressed me. In the life that I had been living, duty and labor went for everything. courtesy was scant enough. Mr. Bostoek removed his hat, gently took my mother's hand, and bowed very low. "Extremely glad to meet you, madam. "Vour husband is my oldest and dearest friend, though !rve seen nothing of him since wc were mere lads."' "Sit down. sir. and make yourself comfortable," said my mother.' "Will you stay to tea?" "1 hank you—I shall not have time," he replied, looking at a massive-eased gold watch. "The train leaves the village at seven: it's almost five now." "If you were raised in New Hampshire. perhaps you haven't forgotten how to eat mush ami milk." "Why, bless me. madam. Can you give me a bowl of it? My old nigger cooks get up corn bread, corn cake and all kinds of corn fixings, but they can't make mush. I'd like it above all things."
W it a a in is a in our jolly guest sat at the table, partaking with evident relish of the simple entertainment that was set before him. He was a keen observer, notwithstanding his easy, careless way, and I think that nothing had escaped his notice. Never had the house and its furnishings seemed as shabby to me as now. "Beg pardon, Amos: but you know everything is permitted between old friends. You don't thrive well here."" "No," said my father, "an[l I fear I never shall. You remc-mbersotnething about this old place twenty acres out of the thirty no better than a stone quarry. Bad luck has followed me I've had bad seasons, slim crops, sickness and debt. It's a hard struggle, almost a hopeless one." on in
No wian can afford to have a sick Wife or Daughter, nor, in such times as these, A big Doctor bill Zoa Phora cures the sickness, saves the bills.
POTiR JEWETT,
upon his shoulders that he jumped to his feet. "Well, Amos, how are you, anyway?"
My father looked at the laughing fa^e before him. and was disarmed of all anger. But his memory was not reinforced. "Really, sir," he said, "you have the advantage of me." "I am Pierce Bostoek."
CHAPTER III. MT A 111Y PKISCK.
I name him as he appeared to me in the two hours that followed. He came like the benign spirit of some old fairytale, bearing to me bright promise for the future. Xow, when long years have passed, with all the fujl. strange record with which this narrative deals, I can think of the hour and the man in no other way. It was my hour of promise—he was my fairy prince. "Bostoek!" said my father, holding out his hand, "Little Pierce Llostock? Why, it don't seem possible." "Yes, that reminds me, Amos, of how we used to wrestle, side hold. You used to throw me." "I don't think I could do it now," said my father. "I reckon not, Amos. Well, my old chum, I'm mighty glad to see you. Will you believe it, Amos?—being in Uoston for the very first time since I went south, the thought struck me to come up here, and hunt up old friends and sclioolmatcs. There's few of them left and I'm right glad I've found you." "I feel flattered bv your remembrance and your kindness. Pierce. It's but a poor hospitality I have to offer you but you're welcome to it. Come to the house, and we'll sit down and talk over old days." "We'll have to talk fast, Amos. Pre mortgaged my time at the north, and 1 must leave Boston to-morrow. I can give you two hours only. This is your boy, eh?—fine manly "fellow. What's his name?—Dorr? Why, Is it possible you called him after my father?" "Indeed I did. Pierce. You remember how kind ho was to me. The boy's name is Dorr Hostock Jewett." "Now I like that I'll not forget it.
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FRIDAY, NOV, 17.
Chas. H. Yale's
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FRIDAY—"Why I Left the Romanish Priesthood. The Story of My Life."
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lot of
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36
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See the New Silk in All Styles. See the New Dress Trimmings,'
See the New Kid Gloves and Ribbons See the New Handkerchiefs, See the Laces and Embroideries
Our Great November --Sale Is Now On.
Our price in this sale only
See the New Hair Ornaments See the New Blankets,
you.—All welcome—Come to
Louis Bischof
customers the benefit of low prices.
Has just returned from New York. Philadelphia and Boston with one
of the Largest and Best Selected stocks of Merchandise ever
shown in this city, and all bought at spot Cash, and will give my
rCloaks and Furs.
Thtere's something about the garments that catch the taste of most of the ladies and the prices we are making this Fall are astonishing and by comparison with Indianapolis and Chicago, or elsewhere, both style and Price make this the purchasing point. Is it to be wondered at? We will save you from
on each Cloak you buy of us. See our nice Cloak and Caps at
and up as high as you like. We have the Stock and Styles.
•Dress Goods.-
Every day brings something new in Dress Goods, either anew weave is shown or a new combination in colors. The great business in the Dress Goods Department during the past week show that we have what the people want.
To-morrow, in addition to our tailor-made Suitings, Broadcloths and French novelties, we will put on sale our late purchases. Some of them you can buy at half-price.
•Our Suit Department-
inch Cloth Suiting. Regular retail price was
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Ladies' Cashmere Wool Hose, seamless heel and toe,
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Ladies' Cashmere Hose, Seemless Merino Heel and Toe,
Ladies' Extra Quality Ribbed Cashmere Hose,
Ladies' Fast.Black Cotton Hose,
12
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^Children's Underwear.-
We have Vest and Pants, all prices and sizes, from 10c, 15c 20c and 25c.
All Invited to See the New Goods.
In fact, come and see all my late purchases and we will try and please
LOUIS BISCHOF
127-129 EAST MAIN STREET.
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•Ladies' Underwear,-
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