Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 November 1893 — Page 2
DAILY JOURNAL
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1$93.
OUK S0ADS
Travelling over our tree gravel roads just row, after a rain, one finds them full of depressions filled with water. These depressions, if filled now, would oosC but a trifle. Bat they will all be left alone until next summer, when each one of them will oost the county dollars, where to fill them now would oost only cents. When will our road commissioners ever learn that thousands of dollars could ba saved every Tear to the people by following the old role, "a stitch in time saves nine?" No one with an eye to economy would ever think of conduoting his own private business as our road repairing is done. Whatpver superintendent suffers great ponds of water to
Btand
upon
hi?
road
should be dismissed at once in the public interest. One half the money now spent npon onr roads, if properlv used,
pat them in
good
repair
the year around, and give the people not only the benefit of lower taies. but the
use
of smooth, level roads.
ORGANIZED CHARITY
T«rre Haute has been wotk.ng tor several years under the plan for organized oharity that has been adopted in this city and whioh will soon be in working order. In that oity the sooiety got rid of sixty dependents in one year, thereby Baving to the tax payers the sum of $7,200. The cases of 355 families were investigated and only 115 of them were found woithy, or lees than 33 per c«nt. Under their plan each household and each business firm is pro vided with blink forms for referring ap plicants for aid to the general secretary of the society. This relieves the citizen of the tramp and other professional beggar nuisances, whose cases are investigated by the officer of the society and properly dealt with. Particular attention is paid to children, who are cleaned and dressed and started to school. Once established in school, and given encour agement, they are sure to leave the life of pauperism.
CoMHENTtsa on Congressman BrookBlurt's late newspaper interview the Attica Ledger remarks
Congressman Brookshire thinks the last election ought to teaoh a lesson to Democrats He sayp that In the West, where so many veterans of the late war have their homes, there is a feeling that the administration of tbe lnterlDrdepartment Is hostile to the soldiers. He knows thai in Indiana there is severe criticism of tlio acta of the administration in this direction and thinks It is time to hedge. The time for Brookshlre to have rendered aid in this dl rectlon was a year ago, when his party resolved to do just what is now being done. If he had confldcnce in the promises of his party ho ought then to have told the veterans what to expect in case of Democratic success. Mr. lirookbhlrc's post mortem opinions do the vcteranH no good at this stage of the game,
TUB Ways and Means Committee has given it out that it intends to place all agricultural products on the free list. This will be unpleasant news to the American farmers but it makes the Canadian farmers kick up their heels for joy. What rights have the American farmers that a Democratic Wave and Means committee is bound to respect? With wool and all agricultural products on the free list the outlook for better prices for the farmer is indeed gloomy
TKP.BE HALTS Exprcsn: —The Hon Mr. Brookshire has views on the Hawaiian question in particular and fiilibus tering in general. The distance to which Mr. Brookshire can pierce tbe future amazes us, it does indeed Screwed on to an eye glass he would mike a good telescope.
THE Demooratio Senators and Con gressmen from Louisiana have notified Chairman Wilson, of the Ways and M'.ans Committee, that unless protec tion is afforded to what they call "our people" they will vote against tbe pro posed tariff bill. They either want the bounty retained on sugar or the tariff replaced.
THE Covington People'x Paper has been sold by Mrs. J. H. Spenoe to Charles H. Gwynn, formerly proprietor of the Covington Friend. The paper will continue to be Republican. J. Bpence will remain as manager.
INOFJISOLI/B last lecture on Lincoln closes with this striking antithesis "Lincoln was the grandest figure fieroest civil war. Lincoln is the gen tlest memory of our world."
IN DIXIE'S LAND
BEFORE THE WAR.
BY JAS. SVEVAJSJ-B^EN BTTT8.
CHAPTER XI-ICOXTISPED.) To"mo this was all now and strange, and I was asking' many questions about these strange features of the land when the boat stopped and the captain announced "liostoclc's." I was the solo pnssonrrer lnnded here. Engaging a lusty and lazy negro to carry my trunk and show me the wny, I tork the last steps of my journey with throbbing heart. All that Mr. Dorion had related, all that he had put into his warnings, recurred to me. I stopped. I shrank from the test that I had come two thousand miles to make. "Dar am de house, inaussa," said my guide.
It was a large frame house with verandas above and below. It stood not two hundred yards back from the bayou. Stately oaks, beautiful magnolias were before and around it. through which were seen glimpses of wide plantation lands.
The day -was hot, the sun oppressive. As I advanced toward the house I saw a man seated in the shade, while another was speaking earnestly and with much gesticulation to him. 1 stopped, fearful of intruding, but I was already within earshot, "A lazy, idle, sulky nigger, sir, I tell you! He don't earn his salt. I'd have whaled him long ago if you hadn't forbidden me and I must tell you. sir, if he ain't to be whipped, he'd better be sold. Mayn't I send him over to New Orleans?"
The answer was inaudible. "Yes, sir, I know you don't like it but I'm convinced it's the only -way to manage. Well, then—if here ain't the lazy devil right here now The sassy dog'. LooW here, you Jeremiah! Didn't tell you to keep to the cane-hoeing all day? Where you been?"
My attendant, balancing my trunk upon his head, and spreading out his hands In a deprecating way, replied: "O! so yo' did, Manssa Le Feere, an' meant to stay—'deed I did!—but I hear de boat a-comin' down de bayou,
of
SINCE Dan Voorhees has denounced Hoke Smith, what will be the tune of those Democratic newspapers that have been defending the pension methods of the present Administration
MT ATTENDANT HALAXCF.n THE TP.tJKE OX HIS HEAD. an' I went down to Bee um, nn' I'm totin' updis yeryounffmaussa'strunk."
He put down tbe burden, and not waiting for the silver piece that I wished to give him he made a quick movement in the direction of the fields. The overseer abruptly withdrew.
The man who was seated had his baclc to me, but by the looks of the overseer he must have known that there was somebody beside the trnant negro behind him. He rose and turned round. It was a thin, bent figure, in a flowered dressing-gown and slippers. His hair presented that singular appearance caused by turning white in patches and streaks. His face was hollow and wrinkled: his eyes were lusterless.
With the most apathetic expression he looked at me. and seemed to think that my appearance did not call for question or remark. At least he made none.
I beg your pardon, sir," I said. "Is Mr. Pierce Bostock at home? Can I see him?"
The overseer attends to all business," he said, peevishly. "Go to him: there he goes." 'I have no business that he can attend to. I must see Mr. Bostock personally." 'Must you. indeed?" He began to rouse a little at the word, and show irritation. "Where do you come from, anyway, young man, that you think a La Fourche planter can be made to attend in person at the beck and call of every interloper who fancies he has business with him? What—"
His own talk, delivered in a feeble, broken voice, excited him and brought on a fit of coughing. He stamped with vexation, and sat down on a bamboo settee through sheer weakness. "I am Pierce Bostock," he said, when he could find voice again. "What the devil do you want?"
I ought to have expected this announcement. and to have been prepared for it but I felt very much at that instant as though I had been following a chimera. To be exact, I felt cold and sick, and the hopes of long years vanished as a puff of smoke. And yet it seemed incredible. Thin Mr. Bostock —this the hearty, ruddy, happy planter who had crossed our stony New Hampshire fields ten years before, and pushed out my horizon everywhere— this feeble, testy, drooping invalid?
My hopes were all turned to ashes on the spot: yet I resolved to speak out, and end the farce. He would not recognize me, or would bid me begone if he should. No matter—I would see which he would do, and then tear this cruel leaf out of the book of my life, and turn to other scenes. "Well—are you dumb? What do you say for yourself?" "Mr. Bostock, I am Dorr Jewett. Do you not know me?"
A very faint appearance of interest came to his face. "Jewctt?" he repeated. "I believe I used to hear that name. Why, yes Amos Jewett was my schoolfe'low when I was a boy. Dorr—Dorr? That was my father's name."
I saw that his mind was groping for memory, and I waited. lie motioned me to sit down with him. He looked at me, but was silent. "Amos Jewett was my father," I ventured. "Don't you remember coming to our poor Xew Hampshire home ten years ago, sir? Don't you remember how kind you were to us? I was the boy you took so much notice of."
He heard me, and the mists seemed dispelled from his brain as by magic. A look of surprised intelligence came to his face. "You Dorr Jewett?—little Dorr? how you hare jrowpl I'm
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Hot often glatl to see "anyone liiil my child, in these days but 1 am glad to see you. Is your father well?" "Why, he died, sir, more than a year ago. I wrote to you about it." "I never read letters now—nor papers—nor books. Not now. Yet I do remember a nice letter you wrote me ODce. years ago, before—"
The change that came over that woeful face terrified me. It was literally black with rage, with fury, called up by his ow«n speech. "Yes, sir," I hastened to say. "and you answered It so kindly." "Did I? That is well I am glad to hear it. So you've come to look up a wretched and lonely old man like me, have you, because 1 was kind to you? Do you know, my boy, I don't think there's another man in Louisiana, or out of it, could soften me the way you have. I'm going to have you stay here, now you've come. Oh, yes, I do remember now all about the time I went to Boston, and back among the hills where I was born, and how I found you and poor Amos out in the fields, and ate your good mother's mush and milk—"
No man 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.
Get Your House Insured
Bryant does it free. Get his Cresting' on your house and riu are free from thunder and lightning. No explosion ever occurs on a house that has it on, tesides the top of the house is protected from the weather and ornamented at the same tini3, and so cheap that you can't a'ljrd 'to d) without it.
His face seemed recreated. It actually wore a gentle smile. "But it was long ago, and life has been hard and cruel with me since, and I had forgotten all these pleasant things. Why, boy, it seems to me as if you'd come to me frofti another world."
He took my hand in his own thin hand. "You'll stay with me, Dorr Jewett, won't you?"
I believe the tears came to my eyes at the question. It was asked* in a I voice which was the ghost of that
hearty, resonant tone that had long sounded in my dreams. I told him that I would stay awhile. "Always, Dorr I want you with me. I remember, now. I asked you long ago to come. I am rich, my boy I've got money, and plantations, and slaves but I haven't any friends. Well, who would I be kind to, if it wasn't to Amos Jewett and his bov? O! Amos
and throw mo but he'd fight any boy that tried to put upon me. I want somebody to talk to my girl can't always be with me. Le Fevre is a good fellow, but he's never happy unless he's driving the niggers round. He shall show you the plantation when you've rested to-morrow—yes, that will he time enough. When you want to go to New Orleans he shall go with von I never stir off the place. You'll see how the cane grows—the old cane and the new cane. Le Fevre says he's got more than a hundred acres now planted. He'll show you the sugar mill, and maybe he can figure up what tho crop will be this year. Good black soil this, Dorr. This is better than planting corn in the cracks of the rocks up north, eh? No, you won't ta'k about going away, Dorr Jewett."
So he rambled on, a wreck of mind as well as body, continually striving to struggle out of the gloom in which he was involved, and to reach backward to familiar faces and scenes.
A burst of melody shook the air a clear, pure voice, singing a merry French song. Mr. Bostock raised his head, and anew intelligence gave momentary luster to his eyes. "Ah, that's Coialie!" he said. "You shall see Coralle. Here she comes."
CHAPTF.R XII. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
Down the walk she came irom the house, light of step and graceful as a fawn, clothed in pure white, with roses in her raven hair.. She was coming directly to her father, when she saw me. She looked from me to him his smile at once seemed to arrest her attention. "Why, papa, what has happened?" she exclaimed. "You are almost laughing! When did that happen before?" "This is Dorr Jewett," he said, "the son of my old friend and schoolmate in the north. Dorr, this is my daugh-
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time, child. Everything must he macTt agreeable to him." "Indeed, siuce he has made yoi smile, papa, I hope he will stay long You are very welcome, Mr. Jewett."
With bewitching grace she extended her hand. I took it. and new hopescame to me. The world seemed brightening.
We walked up to the house together We sat in the cool rooms with their antique furniture. Mr. Bostock had become passive and silent, from the fatigue. I thought, of unusual emotions. But I was rejoiced to see that he looked often at me, and that my presence seemed to have a good effect on him. in
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Big
Bargains
In Clothing.
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The Stock of
goods formerly
owned by JimMolony to
be sold by order of
the couit.
$16.00 Suits for $8.00 15.00 7.50 10.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 A Good Shirt, worth 50c, 25c. Good pr Overalls w'rth 50 c,25c
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The Test of Time
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At S fBB CENT.
Qp food mcroantllo and resident property in Oraw/onf»TULB. C. W. WRIGHT.
$2
to
$5
$v $7.50 $10
Give this department a careful look.
One lot of
75c.
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Our price in this sale only
25c.
50c.
You should see them.
Our Great November --Sale Is Now On.
customers the benefit of low prices.
See the New Blankets,
Louis Bischof
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.-
There's something about the garments that catch the taste of most of the ladies and the prices we are making this Fall are astonishing andby 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 j'ou like. We have the Stock and Styles.
Dress Goods.-
Every day brings something new in Dress Goods, either anew \vea?e 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 Departments
inch Cloth Suiting. Regular retail price was
39c
per yard.
Ask to see our Cheviot Suitings. Ask to see the novelties in suitings. See the Storm Serge, all colors, all prices. Black Wool Goods are popular this season. See our line and see the low prices. See Silk Finish Henriettas. All colors and the lowest prices.
Ladies' Extra Quality Ribbed Cashmere Hose,
Ladies' Hosiery.-zzzzz:
Ladies' Cashmere Wool Hose, seamless heel and toe,
Ladies' Fleece Lined Hose, high spliced heels, regular made, fast black,
Ladies' Cashmere Hose, Seemless Merino Heel and Toe,
Ladies' Fast Black Cotton Hose, 5c, 8c, and 10c.
•Children's Hose.
Children's Fast Black Hose at 10c. Children's Fast Black Novelty Ribbed Hose, 10c. Infant's Cashmere Hose, 10c,
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•Ladies' Underwear,-
A good quality of Ladies' Cotton Union Suits for
Ladies' Jersey Union Suits, extra quality, with pearl button and crochet neck at $1. Ladies Jersey Vests, high neck and long sleeves, at
Those extra heavy basket weave vests,with pants to match,softly fleeced on inside, only
In fact we have a full line of Underwear. We can please you. Give this department your attention and save money.
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.
See the New Silk in All Styles. See the New Lace Curtains See the New Dress Trimmings, See the New Kid Gloves and Ribbons
See the New Handkerchiefs, See the Laces and Embroideries See the New Hair Ornaments
In fact, come and see all my late purchases and we will try and please you.—All welcome—Come to
LOUIS BISCHOF
EAST MAIN STREET.
$4,
50c, 60c
and
19c.
21c.
25c.
1-2C,
15c, 20c
and
25c.
50c.
25c.
See the New Comforts and Yarns, See the New Chenille Portierres, See our New Children's Cloaks,
See our New Ladies' Cloaks. See the New Styles in the cel. ebrated Strr Waist
for Boys.