Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 January 1894 — Page 2

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THE DAILY JOURNAL.

Printed Every Afternoon Except Sunday.

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T. H. B. McCAIN, President. J. A. GREENE, Secretary. A. A. McCAIN, Treasurer.

DAILY—

One year 16.00 Six months..

Payable In advanoe. Sample copies tree.

Throe months Per week by carrier or mall 10 WEBKLYOne Blx uioutlis Three months

Entered at tho Poatofflce at Crawfordsvllle, Indiana, as second-class matter.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1S94.

MISTAKES OF CLEVELAND. The diplomatic legerdemain of the present Administration on Ilawaiian affairs is receiving due attention by both the newspaper and magazine press. The more the question is discussed the less creditable the President's policy appears. The January Review of Reviews in its "Progress of the World" refers to the mistakes of the Administration as follows:

So far as the United States are now concerned. Hawaii has a firm government under President Dole and his associates. That government negotiate^ a treaty of annexation with our government under President Harrison. The treaty was pending in the Senate when Mr. Cleveland came into office, lie withdrew it from the Senate before it had been acted upon, and he informed the Hawaiian government that annexation was§rejeeted by the United States. This should have ended the Hawaiian question, so far as Mr. Cleveland was concerned. His subsequent disposition to concern himself with the internal affairs of Hawaii appears irrelevant. His rejection of the overtures for annexation leaves the Hawaiian government perfectly free,—unless we use or threaten force to restrain that freedom,—to enter into especial relations with the British or any other government. The spirit shown by the Hawaiian authorities is wholly cotamendable. They have announced their purpose to resist hostile attempts to dispossess them. Mr. Thurston, who has so ably represented the Hawaiian government at Washington, returned to Honolulu in the middle of December to aid and advise President Dole. In all candor let us say that the withdrawal of the annexation treaty was a serious enough mistake, and that the proposed subsequent overthrow of President Dole and restoration of LUiuakalani, in violation of every principle of international law, would, if consummated, have been a dark blot upon our history. Nobody for a moment doubts the absolute rectitude of Mr. Cleveland's intentions in all this mismanaged business. But he has clearly suffered from the misfortune of bad counsel. Mr. Willis, of course, found it practically impossible, when he reached Honolulu, to carry out the policy of overthrow and restoration that had been prepared for him.

The above expresses it in a nutshell. The withdrawal of the treaty from the Senate should have ended the matter so far as the President was concerned. Intriguing with a deposed Queen for her restoration and dictating to her the conditions upon which he would "right a wrong" are certainly unworthy of the Executive Department of the United States. As the Review of Reviews says, the President "has suffered from the misfortune of bad counsel."

A FATAL ADMISSION.

A delegation of pottery workers from Trenton, N. J., waited upon Hon. W. D. Uynum, tne other day, to show to him the disastrous results of the Wilson bill on this industry. After listening to what they had to say Bynum's face lightened up with a smile and he replied: "Well, you fellows will be just as well off. The increase in wages on the other side will be offset by the decrease in wages in your establishments. You can then compete all right and make money." Quick as a ilash one of the delegation turned to the Congressman, and said: "Do you mean to say, Mr. Bynum, that the object of the Wilson bill is to increase wages in Great Britain, and other countries and reduce wages in the United States?" "That's it," answered Itynum. The next minute he understood what a fatal admission he had made. He bit his lip, and then said he trusted the delegation would consider his remarks as strictly confidential. This shows how hollow the pretense is that the Democratic party is the friend of the American workinginan.

THE vital links in the conspiracy against the freedom and security of Americans at Honolulu are still concealed. What was the report made by Minister Willis? What was the answer made by the Queen? These vital steps toward a full knowledge of the situation are concealed from the American people by their servants. They should be made known. There can be no reason, since the entire subject has been referred to Congress, why all the facts should not be known to Congress.

THE phrase "Grover, Grover, 'four years more of Grover, then we'll all be in clover," that was on the lips of every Democrat a year ago and carried on the profuse banners on parade day, no doubt had reference to the many workmen then destined to be idle and who now tramp the country begging from door to door and sleeping at night in the hospitable stack of clover hay.

"VOTE for Cleveland and 81.25 Wheat," was the exhortation of produce dealers to fanners in the fall of 1892. President Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture has just issued his official crop report which gives the average price of wheat December 1,1893, as 52.1 cents per bushel.

TJIK opposition to the Wrilson bill is rapidly on the increase. It may pass the House, but it is safe to say that it can never run the gauntlet of the Senate.

AOTDMRIEF

By A. OONAJ DOILE.

AST 11.

Tht Country of th* Saint*.

CHAPTER I.

on TH» GREAT ALKALI PUIK In the cehtral portion of the great North American continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert which for many along year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska and from the Yellowstone river in the north to the Colorado upon the south is a region of desolation and silence. Nor is nature always in one mood throughout this grim district. It comprises snow-capped and lofty mountains and dark and gloomy valleys. There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged canyons, and there are enormous plains which in winter are white with snow and in summer are gray with the saline alkali dust. They all preserve, however, the common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality and misery.

There are no inhabitants of this land of despair. A band of Pawnees or of Blaekfeet may occasionally traverse it in order to reach other hunting grounds, but the hard lest of the braves are glad to lose sight of those awesome plains, and to find themselves once more upon their prairies. The coyote skulks among the scrub, tho buzzard flaps heavily through the air, and the clumsy grizzly bear lumbers through the dark ravines, and picks up such sustenance as it can among the rocks. These are the sole dwellers in the wilderness.

In the whole world there can be no more dreary view than that from the northern slope of the Sierra Blanco. As far as the eye can reach stretches the great flat plainland, all dusted ovei with patches of alkali, and intersected by clumps of the dwarfish ohaparra] bushes. On the extreme verge of tho horizon lies a long chain of mountain peaks, with their rugged summits flecked with snow. In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon tho dull, gray earth—above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness nothing but silence —complete and heart-subduing silence.

It has been said there Is nothing appertaining to life upon the broad plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there are scattered white objects which glisten In the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach and examine them! They are bones some large and coarse, others smaller and more dclicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside.

Looking down on this very scene, there stood upon the 4th of May, 1847, a solitary traveler. His appearance was such that he might have been the very genius or demon of the region. An observer would have found it difficult to say whether ho was nearer to forty or to sixty. His face was lean and haggard, and the brown, parch-ment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones his long, brown hair and beard were all flecked and dashed with white his eyes were sunken in his head,, and burned with an unnatural luster, while the hand which grasped his rifle was hardly more fleshy than that of a skeleton. As he stood, he. leaned upon his weapon for support, and yet his tall figure and tho massive framework of his bones suggested a wiry and vigorous constitution. His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shriveled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance. The man was dying—dying from hunger and from thirst.

He had toiled painfully down the ravine and on to this little elevation, in the vain hope of seeing some signs of water. Now thfe great salt plain stretched before his eyes, and the distant belt of savage mountains, without asign anywhere of planter tree, which might indicate the presence of moisture. In all that broad landscape there was no gleam of hopo. North and east and west he looked th wild questioning eyes, and then he realized that his wanderings had come to an end, and that there, on that barren crag, ho was about to die. "Why not here, as well as In a feather bed, twenty years hence," he muttered, as he seated himself in the shelter of a bowlder.

Before sitting down, he had deposited upon the ground his useless rifle, and also a large bundle tied up In a gray shawl, which he had carried slung over his right shoulder. It appeared to bo somewhat too heavy for his strength, for, in lowering it, it came down on tho ground with some little violence. Instantly there broke from the gray parcel a little moaning cry, and from it there protruded a small, scared face, with very bright brown eyes, and two littlo speckled dimpled fists. "You've hurt me!" said a childish voice, reproachfully. "Have I though?" the man answered, penitently "I didn't go for to do it." As he spoke he unwrapped the gray shawl and extricated a pretty little girl of about five years of age, whose dainty shoes and smart pink frook, with its little linen apron, all bespoke a mother's care. The child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed thatshe had suffered less

ZOA-PHORA,

"DISEASES OF WONfH MM) CHILDREN,"

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than her companion. "How is It now?" ho answered, anxiously, for sho was still rubbing the towsy golden curls which covered the back of her head. "Kiss it and make it well," she said, with perfect gravity, shoving the injured part up to him. "That's what mother used to do. Where's mother?" "Mother's gone, I guess you'll see her before long." "Gone, eh!" said the little girl. "Funny, she didn't say good-by she 'most always did.lf she was just goin' over to auntie's for tea, and now she's been away for three days. Say, it's awful dry, ain't it? Ain't there no water nor nothing to eat?" "No, thero ain't nothing, dearie. You'll just need to bo patient awhile, and then you'll be all right. Put your head up agin me like that, and then you'll feel better. It ain't easy to talk when your lips is like leather, but I guess, I'd best let you know how the cards lie. What's that you've got?" "Pretty things! flue things!" cried the little girl enthusiastically, holding up two glittering fragments of mica. "When we goes back to home I'll give them to Brother Bob." "You'll see prettier things than them soon," said the man, confidently. "You just wait a bit. I was going to tell you, though—you remember when we left the river?" "Oh, yes." "Well, we reckoned we'd strike another river soon, d'ye see? But there was somethin' wrong compasses, or map, or somethin', and it didn't turn up. Water ran out. Just except a little drop for the likes of you and— and—" "And you couldn't wash yourself," interrupted his companion gravely, staring up at his grimy visage. "No, nor drink. And Mr. Bendor, he was the first to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother." "Then mother's a deader, too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly. "Yes, they all went except you and me. Then I thought there was some chance of water in this direction, so I heaved you over my shoulder' and we tramped it together. It don't seem as though we've improved matters. There's an almighty small chance for us now!" "Do you mean that we are going to die, too?" asked the child, checking her sobs, and raising her tear-stained face. "I guess that's about the size of it." "Why didn't you say so before?" she said, laughing gleefully. "You gave me suoh a fright. Why, of course, now as long as we die we'll be with mother again." "Yes, you will, dearie." "And you, too. I'll tell her how awful good you've been. I'll bet she meete us at the door of Heaven with a big pitcher of water, and a lot of buck' wheat cakes, hot, and toasted on both sides, like Bob and me was fond of.

How long will it be first." "I don't know—not very long." The man's eyes were fixed upon the northern horizon. In the blue vault of the heaven there appeared three little specks which increased in size every moment, so rapidly did they approach. They speedily resolved themselves into three large brown birds, which circled over the heads of the two wanderers, and then settled upon some rocks which overlooked them. They were buzzards, the vultures of the west, whose coming is the forerunner of death. "Cocks and hens!" cried the little girl, gleefully, pointing at their illomened forms, and clapping her hands to make them rise. "Say, did God make this country "In course He did," said her companion, rather startled by this unexpected question. "He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri," the little girl continued. "I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees.' "What would ye think of offering up prayer?" the man asked, diffidently. "It ain't night yet," she answered. "It don't matter. It ain't quite regular, but He won't mind that, you bet. You say over them ones that you used to say every night in the wagon when we was on the plains." "Why don't you say some yourself?" the child asked, with wondering eyes. "I is remember them," he answered. "I hain't said none since I was half the height o' that gun. I guess it's never too late. You say them out, and I'll stand by and come in on the choruses." "Then you'll need to knoel down, and me, too," she said, laying the shawl out for that purpose. "You've got to put your hands up like this. It makes you feel kind of irood."

{To Be Continued.)

Eruption of the Skin Cured, Ed. Venney, Brackville, Ont., says: "I have used Brandrelh's Pills for the past fifteen years, and think them the best cathartic and anti-bilious remedy known. For some five years I suffered with an eruption of the skin that gave me great pain and annoyance. I tried different blood remedies, but, although gaining strength the itching wasunrelisved. I finally concluded to take a thorough course of Brandretli's Pills. I took six each

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for four nights,

then five, four, three, two, lessening each time by ofle, and then for one month took one every night, with the happy result that now my skin is perfectly clear and has been ever since."

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 such satisfaction. It acta gently on Inactive Vowels or liver, relieves the kidneys, cures constipation, oolds fevers, nervous aches, et3., and restores the beauty of health. Ladles and children prefer It. Doctors and driiKirfsts recommend It. TH* FIG HONET CO., of Gnlcago, make It. Try a bottle. Only one ent a dose. Nre & Booo, agents- d-w 0-7

Secures to CIR L8 a painless, perfect development and thus prevent! life-long weakness.

Sustains and soothes (hienvorketI Women, Exhausted Mother«, and prevents prolapsus.

Palpitation, Sleepless

ness,

nervous breaking down (often

preventing insanity), providing a safe Change of Life,

happy old age.

Header, inffcring from any complaint peculiar to the female sex, ZOA-PHORA Is worth everything to you. Letters for advlco, marked "Consulting Department," are Men by onr physician! only. ZOA-PHORA CO., H. G. COLMAN, Sec'y, Kalamazoo, Mich,

and a hale and

LINENS,

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MUSLINS,

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new, desirable goods at

1,300 Linen Doileys'worth 5c Discount Price 1C CaCIl

100 Dozen All Linen (large size Napkins, worth 81.00 Discount Price... DWC uOZ

20 Bolts Turkey Red Damask worth 25c yd 1*71 Discount Price A 12c. yard

25 Bolts Bate's Best Turkey Red and Fancy Damask, 58 inches wide, worth 50 and 65c yd r\r\ Discount Price eUC yd

15 Bolts all Linen Half Bleach Damask, 5 patterns, worth 50 c. n). Discount Price O |Cyd

4,000 yds. Checked Linen, Glass Crash, 18 inches wide, fast colored stripes, worth 10c yd '''fM&tz. Discount Price OC yd

25,000 yds. 18-inch Linen Checked Glass Crash, fast colors, very fine, worth 12Xc «l Discount Price yard

100 doz. extra large, All Linen, knotted fringe Towels, fast colored borders, worth 35c Discount PPice ^OC

100 doz. extra large All Linen Towels with fast colored borders, worth 25c ias Discount Price IO30.

Lonsdale, Masonvill and Fruit of the Loom, 16inch Bleached Muslins, worth 10c yd Discount Price Og yard

Every item in Bleached and Brown Muslins and Sheetings at less than wholesale prices.

KID GLOVES,

250 doz. Ladies' Kid Gloves, all sizes and colore, including black, that have been returned to manufacturer on account of slight imperfections, some so slight asto be-scarcely noticeable, worth $1.00, $1.25, 81.50 and 82.00 perpair

Discount Price

Outing and Domet Flannels.

50 pieces 2,500 yards Domet Flannels, good patterns and colors. Worth 8Xc to 12}c Discount price

THE BIG STORE

LOUIS BISCHOF

137-129 EAST WAIN STREET

Wednesday Morning, January 3, 1894, at 8:30 O'Clock We Will Commence Our

17th Grand Annual Discount Clearing Sale.

If we know anything at all we think we ought by this time to know how to run a Clearing Sale, and we assure the public that all our energies and accumulated experience have been enlisted to make this The Greatest of All Clearing Sales. Read the list and depend upon it that you will find everything just exactly as advertised.

FURS,

49c

'DC yd

This Sale will be for Cash Only. No Goods Charged.

LOUIS BISCHOF,

NOTE: During the last two months we disposed of $to,ooo worth of merchandise to one paHy, which included every undesirable article in our stock, and left us only goods bought during the past six months. We have no old goods to offer. In addition, have just purchased for spot cash

300 Black Hare Muffs, worth 75c Discount price All other furs 33 per cent. off.

DRESS GOODS,

150 bolts Fancy Mixed Suitings, 33 inches wide, good colors, worth 15c per yard Discount price 1~«C

25 bolts all-wool Serge, 40 inches wide in good desirable colors, worth 50c rwi Discount price «WC yd

A grand bargain.

Fine 39 inch Henriettas, all colors and black, worth 25c and 35c per yard Discount price

We never carry over novelty Dress Goods if price will sell them. We have marked a discount of 25, J3X, and 50 per cent, off on all fancy styles.

SPECIAL.

150 dozen fine glass bottles, assorted sizes and styles, cut and ground glass stoppers, worth 50c, 60c and 75c

Discount price, choice

PRINTS,

NOTICE.

per cent, of their value, which will be include! in this sale.

100 Bolts Dress Style Prints, "nice dark grounds, good colors, worth 5c yd r» Discount Price 2*c

All our best Prints, including American Indigo Blue, best Turkey Red, Simpson Mournings and "new fall styles in fancy prints that have sold for 7c

Discount price

Every articlc in our stock will be offered at discount prices

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25, 33K and 50 percent. This

means X. X, and of the original price will be chopped off, making this the grandest bargain 5?l®eTer inaugurated. This includes Hosiery, Underwear, Gloves, Linens, Dress Goods, Cloaks

Silks, Trimmings, Laces, Embroider-"5

ies and Staples. This sale will go down in

Dry Goods history of this city as the climax of merchandising.

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