Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 November 1893 — Page 2
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1893.
A SET OF UNSELFISH PATRIOTS The Democrats of Lonieana, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, South Oarolica an 3 Missouri are very far from desiring the Congress they did so mnoh to elect to carry out the tariff declaration of the National platform. These patriots, who in 1890 and 1892 registered their protests against protection and their deeiie for tariff reform, now plead that the reform may be applied to every section save their own. These unselfish patriots are swarming to Washington to show to the Ways and Means eommittee that to remove the tariff from the produot in which they are particularly interested wonld ruin thousands of mem who have their capital invested, throw other thor anJa ont of employment and would be of no especial benefit to anybody except the foreigner who would find a market for his goods by displacing the home product. This argument has Republican sound. What these Damocratio wool men from Texas, the Democratic sugar men from Louisiana, the Democratic rice men from South Carolina, the Democratic lead men from Missouri, the Democratic iron ore and coal men from Alabama, Tennessee and the Virginias, have said to the dark lantern conspirators in the basemect of the National Capitol is just exaotly what the Republicans have been telling the country for the lest thirty years. These Southern Democrats are late in learning the lesson, but they seemed to have learned it.
POTATOES.
The report of the Agricultural department at Washington shows Jthut the average yield of potatoes this year is about 71 bushels to the acre. At the present price of potatoes this is infinitely better than raising wheat or corn It is further shown by the department that during a period of ten years potatoes have brought more clear money to the acre than any other crop. The average yield of wheat ia about 13 bushels, and the price about 50 cents per bushel. Farmers should quit wheat and raise more potatoes. Potatoes are higher than wheat and the yield nearly six times as great.
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THE conference of Republicans at In dianapoiis yesterday was a surprise in the numbers in attendance and the enthusiam which characterized the meeting. Nearly every part of the State was represented not only by those who were in at the birth of the Republican party but a host of young men who have come on to the Btage of active political life since the party was born. They were there, both old and young, with all the enthusiasm of youth. The Republi cans of Indiana are determined to step into the campaign next year -with the right foot foremost, and yesterday's meeting was but an augury of the battle that is to be fought. That they expect to win, obtain a majority in both branches of the Legislature, and secure an additional number of Congressmen, the gerrymander notwithstanding, goea without saying. From every quarter of the State the news was brought that the people nre ripe for a political revolution. They are very tired of Democ racy.
THE JOURNAIJ notes with pleasure that Capt. W. H. Hart, of Frankfort, is in the field for the Republican nomination for Congrees to succeed Judge Wangh in the Ninth District. Captain Hart is a man of conspicuous ability, thoroughly in sympathy with the cardinal principles of the Republican party and withal a gentleman in the highest sense of tbe term. The Republicans ot the Ninth District will honor themselves and the Slate by selecting suoh a man as Captain Hart for their standard bearer.
L. J. COPPAOE, of this city, in a communication to the Indianapols News, speaks of G«n. Harrison's administration as having been conaemned by an overwhelming majority of the people. It would be just as fair to say that Mr. Cleveland's administration was condemned by an overwhelming majority of the people, for Mr. C. lacked just about one million votes of having a majority of the popular vote.
A OBEAT many reasons have been suggested for the great defeat of the Democratic party at the late election. But the best reason ot all is tbe general "cussednees" of the defeated party.
EVEBTTHINO that the Democrats predicted would get higher under the Mo Kinley bill have got lower. This is always the way with Democratic pre diction*. .•
BEFORE THE WAR.
BY J.A.S. H"KLIS'I'XTa.
CHAPTER Vtl (CONTL.N't'tD.)
In the painful silence that succeeded this startling speech, all ev«s were Axed on Castox. He rose from lil.s seat, cool and smiling. "It pleads me very much to retire." he said. "'Witness it. messieurs!—yonder gentleman drives me from his table and his house.''
He bowed, and immediately left the room. Alphonse ltnsnet squirmed in his chair, and at last blurted out: "Bostock, my dear fellow excuse me—but you see I can't remain. This is a wretched business I hope it will end here. But I brought my friend here, and of course I must go with him."
And he did. The soup prow cold, aiidwas removed tin tasted course after course of the choicest dishes succeeded and were hardly touched. Everybody was under a dreadful constraint: occasionally there was a solitary remark, but the effort to keep up a conversation was a flat failure. 1 have said so much, that I ought to tell the whole truth. When the wino appeared, the guests turned to it as a relief from the awkwardness of the situation. I presume everybody drank too much I am certain that I did. 1 will except Bostock. He sat pale, rigid and silent through it all. The guests departed early, with hardly an effort to make the usual compliments to the host.
The next morning I was hardly out of bed when Pierce Bostoclt walked in. He looked as stern and white as when he was denouncing Castes at his own table. "Well, he's challenged you," was my salutation. "No. I shall challenge him. Here's the note. Take It to him, and then go to the man that he names as his friend."
I was thunderstruck. I tried to remonstrate with him. I told him that, so far as an outsider could judge, if anybody had cause to send a challenge, it was Castex. 1 begged him to tell me, in the strict confidence of friendship, what the language was that Castex had uttered to him. I told him that I could not act intelligently for him in this matter, unless I was advised. He peremptorily refused to tell me. "You have been my friend, Dorion," he said. "When I say to you that no human being must Ttnow my cause of offense, you will believe that there is the best of reason for my silence. Napoleon Castex knows, no man better knows, the nature of his offense. He knows me. also and he understands that If he were to lisp a hint of my reasons for challenging him, I would seek him and shoot him down like a dog! Don't argue with me, Alfred Dorion I tell you the man is a coldblooded scoundrel ho has sought me out to force a quarrel upon me, and there are the best of reasons why the affair must go on."
There was nothing for me to do but to deliver the challenge. I found Castex cool, polite and consenting. "There is not one of my name," he said, with his marked French accent, "who ever refused the request of a gentleman to meet him on the field of honor. M. Bostock thinks himself insulted. Some might think that I was. No matter: here is his challenge. Take it to my dear Alphonse: he will arrange everything with you. 1 only say to you, that my remark to M. Bostock was the truth. He knows it to he the truth and he has not the grace to see that I put it in the language of la belle France, that others might not understand it. So much you may tell him, if you choose."
The affair went on to its frightful end. Nobody could discover the truth. Basnet tried his best to make his man divulge the cause of offense, but vain. "I only told him the truth, Snd told it in French, that it might not be heard by others. After I have fought him, I will tell it very loudly, in your harsh English, do yon be sure. Mean while, I am quite willing to fight him. I knew him long before you did."
The wound that Pierce Bostock received was as nearly fatal as a wound can be and leave the victim alive. The ball traversed his lung nothing but the extraordinary skill of the doctor saved him. The doctor had served in the Mexican war, and happened to witness the successful operation of a Mexican surgeon upon a similar wound of Gen. Shields, by cleansing it with a silk handkerchief. In this way Bostock's life was saved but the fever that followed confined him to his bed for weeks, drained his strength, and left him only the shadow of his former self.
Uis affection for his daughter seemed doubled, if that were possible, by this dreadful experience. In every waking hour he wanted her with him. In his delirium he would call her name: when conscious, he would hold her hand and look silently into her facc as she sat by his bed.
I used often to call upon him while he was confined to the house. One day he sent Coralie out of the room and asked me to shut the door. "You are still my friend, Alfred Dorion—are you not?" he abruptly began. "To be sure I am. While I am dreadfully distressed by what has happened—" "No matter about that. I want you to tell me something. What happened after I got that man's bullet? I think my senses were wandering. What did I say?" 1 told him. I repeated his expressions—that he reprctted that he had killed Castex that he wanted to spare him that he was anxious to hear from him a retraction of the words which had caused the duel, nis face darkened as he listened. "Do you mean to say that I said all that silly stuff?". "I have only repeated your own words." "Then my brain irat wandering. Dorion, I meant to kill him. He hns gone to be judged, as I must be one day but, I tell you, I am not sorry he has gone. He well knew when h« came up here with his malignant tongue that either his life or mine must be forfeited."
Yon can Imagine what effect such a declaration had on me. It showed me side of Bostoek's character that I had never suspesUd to exist. I began to
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draw away from him, as did others of his friends. In lesr. than two years after the duel he had alienated himself from all of us. His nature seemed to have changed. He became cold, reserved and haughty. Ho was very little seen away from his home. When ho removed to Louisiana, he passed away from all intercourse with his old friends here. He has answered no lettors. When I bought this place, I negotiated with him through an agent.
You can see, knowing all this, that his life before ho came here was clouded with something fearful and mysterious. I have wearied my brain in conjecturing what it can bo. His wife, Conrad, Coralie,—which of them does it affect—or does it relate to all of them?
If you can guess, you are shrewder than f.
•CUAPTHR VIIL
BETWEEN nUTT ASO TEMPTATION. I slept very soundly that night. The expjience and revelations of the last twenty-fon*hours had been tome more
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WAS MGHTF.n wrrn A PAIR OF TALL WAX CANDLES.
than Incomprehensible they were staggering. I tried to think about the astounding story that Sir. Dorion had told me, after I had bidden him good night, and had been lighted with a pair of tall wax tapers up a broad stairway to a large, square bed-chamber, where a great high-posted, canopied and curtained bed awaited me. I say I tried to think of it but I could make nothing of it 1 speedily gave it up, and lapsed away into slumber.
Bodily and mentally, I was tired, and I slept late. 1 was aroused by a prolonged knocking at my chamberdoor, through which ran a continual current of negro-talk. "Please, young maussa, would you get tip an' come down to breakfast? Maussa Dorion say, wake yo' up easy an' yo' pass out yo' boots to be shined."
When, an hour later. I was seated at the planter's hospitable table, it seemed aS though I had been at home here for a year. Mr. Dorion, clad in a loose linen suit, his wife and three daughters, all pleasant, cool and at least one of them handsome, enter tained me with easy and agreeable conversation. It warms my heart now to think of this, my first agreeable introduction to southern hospitality. As for the feast that was spread on that board—1 despair of conveying an adequate idea of its profusion. was the "stranger within their gates:" I was therefore entitled to all that they could set before me. Coffee, and milk, bacon, eggs, white and corn bread, Bsh from the river', hominy— where shall I stop? I had an appetite but it soon surrendered before the great supply that loaded the table.
After breakfast, Mr. Dorion took ine out on the sliax^' west veranda, and smoked. I declined the weed, and he good-humoredly said: "You'll have to learn, youngster, if you're going to stay in the south. Like the morning cocktail, tobacco is a social force here. And you've been here at my plantation fourteen hours and haven't said a word about politics or slavery. I am beginning to doubt whether you are northern born ornot."
I saw that he tva6 bantering me, but I replied, seriously: "I have never voted yet, and I know nothing about politics. As to slavery, I hope to pet some information about it. I have very little yet."
He clapped me heartily on the slioul der. "You talk like a sensible young fel low. I wish all this noise in congress and in the press could stop, and that the northerners could comedown here, and see what slavery is like. Come along with me, and I'll show you little of it." ,•/!
(To Be Continued.)
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