Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 6 January 1894 — Page 2

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THE DAILY JOURNAL.

Printed Every Afternoon Except Sunday.

THE JOURNAL COMPANYT. H, B. McCAIN, Presideut. J. A. GREENE, Secretary.

WEEKLY— One year Six months Three mouths

A. A. MoCAIX, Treasurer.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 0, 1894.

VIGOROUS UEXVXCIATION.

The New York Sun, a stalwart a'nd leading- Democratic newspaper, denounces the Wilson tariff bill in most, vigorous English. It says:

The government is now spending at the rate of S6.000.000 a month more than it earns. That is to say it is running behind at the rate of $7-.000,000 a year. As imports are likely to decrease still further on account of the hard times, and the anticipation of tariff legislation reviving, lowering or otherwise changing certain duties, the hole will probably be greater than is indicated by the figures for the past five months. The government- is thus likely to be S72.000.000 or more to the bad by .hme 30, 1SU4. This condition canuot be improved as far as the present fiscal year is concerned.

The lion. Itenton G. McMilliu puts the deficiency made by the Wilson bill at SO-',000,000. Suppose the Ways and Means Committee screw up some of the internal taxes and devise new ones so as to fill up the hole made by the Wilson bill. The ST'-'.000.000 cavity remains. llow is it to be filled if the Willson bill is stalled? The talk about cutting down expenditures twenty or thirty millions is fudge. A large amount of expenditure is fixed and what security, or even hope, can there be that men who have torn up their pledge to make a tariff for revenue only will feel themselves bound to administer the government economically?

Did ever a set of men posing as economists get themselves into a sorrier plight than Prof. Wilson's committee? Who but the Lord Treasurer of the King of the Cannibal Islands, would ever think of diminishing his income for the purpose of .paving his debts? The gentleman who jumped into the barberry bush was a financial xillegory prefiguring this bedeviled committee. We are going to be ST'J.000.000 short. We will get square by reducing our income by $02,000.000.

Here is finance that seems to come from a Christmas pantomime and breaths the rich humor of l'antaloon. Yet if Pantaloon found that the manager was recouping himself for losses and bad business by positively extending the free list Pantaloon would have that manager hauled before a lunacy commission immediate! v.

1IOW AlJOU'f TilE WOOL-KAlSICIiSf WHAT free hides did for thejeather business free wool will do for the woolen manufacturers.— ImliinwpoUt) A'civs.•

Hut what will free wool do for the wool raisers? And by the way both the woolen manufacturers and the wool raisers are opposed to free wool. The raising of wool in this country is a great industry, giving employment to thousands of laborers and millions of capital. There is now no such industry in the country as, that of producing hides, and All the tariff you could put on hides would not make another day's employment for any one for no one raises cattle merely for the hides. You cannot encourage the production of hides, but you can the production of wool, for many farmers keep sheep principally for the wool. It is possible that under the policy of free trade the hide industry may be again established in this country as it was under the South Carolina free trade tariff of 1833. Along at the culmination of the hard times of 1837. it was a common thing for people to kill their poor cattle for the hides, the hide being the only part of the animal that would sell in the market for anything. There were numerous tanneries in this State at that time, and many old settlers can give amusing accounts of the hide industry that grew up under Ir. Calhoun's free trade policy which commenced in 1833. It looks very much as if we were coming to another period in which hide industry will again flourish. But (lod forbid that the folly of 1*33 should be repeated.

A V1LTOHV L'FLI L'KXSIOM-.US.

Judge Long, whose pension was suspended along with thousands ol others, has been restored to the rolls. This action of Commissioner of Pensions Lochren pending an application in court for a mandamus to compel him to do so is a surrender in advance of his entire position. Secretary Hoke Smith, who came into oliice determined to defeat the Union soldiers if lie could, has been driven from his position by an indignant public sentiment that forced the recent legislation by Congress and now Commissioner Lochren, alarmed by the same public sentiment, and threatened by a serious demonstration against him in Congress, is seeking to run away from his own record by restoring Judge Long to the pension roll. .Judge Long's case has been taken by the pensioners of the country, suffering under the injustice of the Lochren rulings, as a test of their rights. He was suspended peremptorily by Lochren, because total helplessness was not proven. This in the face of the fact that lie had lost an arm at the elbow and has a gun-shot wound in the left hip which gives* him such trouble that a trained nurse is in almost constant attendance upon him. The confession of the Pension OHice in this case is important to every veteran on the rolls. Thousands of crippled and otherwise pensionless soldiers of the Union ariny had been deprived of their means of sustinance through the Hoke Smith class of reformers in the Pension Office. To tliein the news will be most cheering.

A SM IN SCARLET

By A. 00NAN DOXLB.

(.11A

I'TKK 11,CONTINUED.

She had reached the outskirts of the city, when she found the road blocked by a great drove of cattle, driven by a half-dozen wild-looking herdsmen from the plains. In her impatience she endeavored to pass this obstacle by pushing her horse into what appeared to be a gap. Scarcely had she got iairl into it, however, before the beasts closed in behind her, and she found herslf completely embedded in the moving stream of fierce-eyed, long-horned bullocks. Accustomed as she was to deal with cattle, she was not alarmed at her situatiou, but took advantage of every opportunity to urge her horse on in the hope of pushing her way through the cavalcade. nfortunately, the horns of one of the beasts, either by accident or design, came in violent contact with the flank of the mustang, and excited it to madness. In an instanfr it reared up on its hind legs with a snort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that would have unseated any but a most skillful rider. The situation was full of peril. Every plunge of the excited horse brought it against the horns again, and goaded it to fresh madness. It was all that the girl could do to keep herself in the saddle, yet a slip would mean a terrible death under the hoofs of the unwieldy and terrified animals. Unaccustomed to sudden emergencies, her head began to swim, and her grip upon the bridle to relax. Choked by the rising cloud of dust and by tho steam from the struggling creatures, she might have abandoned her efforts in despair, but for a lcindly voice at

'I AM OFF, tUCT,

her elbow which assured her of assistance. At the same moment a sinewy brown hand caught the frightened horse by the curb, and, forcing a way through the drove, soon brought her to the outskirts. "You're not hurt, I hope, miss," said her preserver respectfully.

She looked up. at his dark, fierce face, and laughed saucily. "I'm awful frightened," she said naively "whoever would have thought that Poncho would have been so scared by a lot of cows?" "Thank God you kept your seat," the other said earnestly. He was a tall, savage-looking young fellow, mounted on a powerful roan horse, and clad in the rough dress of a hunter, with a long rifle slung over his shoulders. "I guess you are the daughter of John Ferrier," he remarked. "I saw you ride down from his house. When 3*ou see him, ask him if he remembers the Jefferson Hopes, of St. Louis. If he's the same Ferrier, my father and he were pretty thick." "Hadn't you better come and ask yourself?" she asked, demurely.

The young fellow seemed pleased at the suggestion, and his dark eyes sparkled with pleasure. "I'll do so." he said "we've been in the mountains for two months, and are not over and above in visiting condition. lie must take us as he finds us." "He has a good deal to thank you for, and so have I," she answered "he's awful fond of me. If those cows had jumped on mo he'd have never got over it."' "Neither would I," said her companion. "You? Well, I don't see that it would make much matter t,o you, anyhow. You ain't even a friend of ours."

The young hunter's dark face grew so gloomy over this remark that Lucy Ferrier laughed aloud. "There, I didn't mean that," she said "of course, you are a friend now. You must come and see us. Xow I must push along, or father won't trust mo with his business any more. Good-by!" "Good-by," he answered,, raising his broad sombrero, and bending over her little hand. She wheeled her mustang round, gave it a cut with her ridingwhip, and darted away down the broad road in a rolling cloud of dust.

Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn. He and thev had been among the Nevada mountains prospecting for silver, and were returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capital enough to work some lodes which they had discovered. He had been as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel. The sigi.t of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as tho Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths. When she had vanished from his sight, he realized that a crisis had come in his life, and that neither silver speculations nor any other questions could over be of such importance to him as this new and allabsorbing one. -The love which had sprung up in his heart was not the sudden, changeable fancy of a boy, but rather the wild, fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper. He had been accustomed to succeed in all that he undertook. He swore in his heart he would not fail in this if human effort and human perseverance could render him successful.

Ho called on John Ferrier that night, and many times again until his face was a familiar one at the farmhouse. John, cooped up in tho valley, and absorbed in his work, had little chance of learning the news of the outside world during the last twelve years. All this Jefferson Hope was able to tell him, and in a style which interested Lucy as well as her father. He had been a pioneer in California, and could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes made ami fortunes lost in those wild, halcjron days. He had been a scout, too, and a trapper, a silver explorer and a ranchman. Wherever stirring adventures were to be had, Jefferson Hope had been there in search of them, lie soon became a favorite with the

farmer, who spoke eloquently of Tils virtues. On such occasions Lucy was silent, but her blushing cheek and her bright, happy eyes showed only too clearly that her young heart was no longer her own. Her honest father may not have observed these symptoms, but thoy were assuredly not thrown away upon the man who had won her affections.

It was a summer evening when he came galloping down the road and pulled up at the gate. She was at the doorway, and cam'o down to meet him. Ho threw the bridle over the fence and strode up the pathway. "I am off, Lucy," he said, taking he* two hands in his and gazing tenderly down into hr.r face "I won't ask you to come with me now, but will you be ready to come when I "am here again?" "And when will that be?" she asked, blushing and laughing. "A. couple of months at tho outside. I *U1 come and claim you then, my

HJ8, WAS STILL BITTIXG WITH HIS ELBOWS ON 1113 KNEES.

darling. There's no one who can stand between us." "And how about father?" "lie has given his conscnt, provided we get these mines working all right. 1 have no fear on that head." "Oh, well, of course, if you and father have arranged it, there's no more to be said," she whispered, with her cheek against his broad breast* "Thank God!" lie said, hoarsely, stooping and kissing her. "It is settled then. The longer I stay, the harder it will be to go. They arc waitng for me at the canyon. Good-by, ny own darling—good-by. In two months you shall see me." lie tore himself from her as he spoke, and, flinging himself upon his horse, galloped furiously away, never evec looking round, as though afraid that his resolution might fail him if he took one glance at what he was leaving. She stood at the gate, gazing after him until he vanished from her sight. Then she walked back into the house, the happiest girl in all Utah.

CHAPTER III.

loss FltnniEK TALKS WITH THE PBOPHBT. Three weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had departed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier's heart was sore within him when he thought of the y.oung man's return, and of the impending loss of his'adoptcd child. Yet her bright and happy face reconciled him to the arrangement more than any argument could have done. He had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Movmon. Such a marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think oi the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an orthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in Land of the Saints.

Yes, a dangerous matter—so dangerous that even the most saintly dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath, lest something which fell from their lips might be misconstrued, and bring down a swift retribution upon them. The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description. Not the Inquisition of Seville nor the German Vehmgericht, nor the secret societies of Italy, were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the territory of Utah.

Its invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible. It appeared to be omniscient and omnipotent,. and yet was neither seen nor heard. The man who held out against the church vanished away, and none knew whither he had gone or what had befallen him. His wife and children awaited him at home, but no father ever returned to tell them how he had fared at the hands of his secret judges. A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet npne knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which "was suspended over them. No wonder that men went about in fear and trembling, and that even in the heart of the wilderness they dared not whisper the doubts which oppressed them. ,C f)

on in

Kmpltflns of ihe Skin iirtMl.

Ed. Venney, Hracljville. Out., says: "1 have used Hrandretli'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 liie great pain and annoyance. 1 tried different blood remedies, but, although gaining strength the itching wasunrelisved. I finally concluded to take a thorough course of Hrandrcth's Pills. I took six each night for four nights, then five, four, three, two. lessening each time by one, 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."

J. M. ('. A. Klcrtlnn.

Notice Is tiurehy (flven that the annual nioeilnir oi t.lica«t.lve meiiibera of tlio Crawfordsvllle Younir Men's Christian Association will be hold at the building on Tncwlav. January l. 1

HI)-}, at 7:J0 o'clock, for tlio election of five directors, and nucli other business us may coroc before tho mooting. .TAMES H, OMIOHNB. O. M. Ultimo, liccordintr Secretary. I'roHidcn 1

Health and Ifnp)hii*K.

Money of Klsrs Is tlio queen of all catharticssyrups or pills. One anticipates IU taklnir with pleasure. No other reinody soils so well or gives Mich eatlsfaotlon. It acts gently on lna.tlvo Lowels or liver. rellcv tho kidneys, cures constipation, oolds fevers, uorvous aches, of ., and restores tho beauty of health. Ladles and chlldrou prefer It. jDoctora and driwKlsts recommend It. TIIK Km HONKY Co of Cblcavo. make It Try a bottlo. Only one ontailose. Nvo & Itooc, agents- d-w8-7

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Children Cry for

Pitcher's Castoria*

Wednesday Morning, January

actly as advertised.

LINENS,

1,200 Linen Doileys'worth 5c Discount Price ...v..

100 Dozen All Linen (large size Napkins, worth $1.00 Discount Price...

20 Ilolts Turkey Red Damask worth 25c yd Discount Price

25 Ilolts Bate's Best Turkey Red and Fancy Damask, 58 inches wide, worth 50 and 05c yd Discount Price

15 Bolts all Linen Half Bleach Damask, 5 patterns, worth 50 c. Discount Price

4,000 yds. Checked Linen, Glass Crash, 10 inches wide, fast colored stripes, wortB 10c yd Discount Price ,. vv

25,000 yds. 18-inch Linen Cheeked Glass Crash, fast colors, very fine, worth 12%c Discount Price

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

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

MUSLINS,

414

Lonsdale, Masonvill and Fruit of the Loom, iliinch Bleached Muslins, worth 10c yd Discount Price

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

KID QL0VE5,

350 doz. Ladies' Kid Gloves, all sizes and «olore, including black, that have been returned to manufacturer on account of slight imperfeetions, some so slightasto bcscarcely noticeable, worth $1.00, 81.25, $1.50 and $2.00 per pair

Discount Price

Outing and Domet Flannels.

50 pieces 2,501 yards Domet Flannels, good patterns and colors. Worth 8tfc to 12Kc Discount price OC VQ

months. We have no old goods to offer.

BIG

LOUIS BISCHOF

127-139 EAST MAIN STREET

3, 1894,

37c yd

5c yd

64 yard

23c

yard

49c

Commence Our

17th Grand Annual

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 accumu-^

lated 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 ex

8:30

Discount Clearing Sale.

FURS,

lc each

69c doz

17k

yard

29c yd

300 Black Ilarc Muffs, worth 7.re Discount price All other furs 33 per cent. off.

DRESS GOODS,

NOTICE.

BS^-This Sale will be for Cash Only. No Goods Charged.

LOUIS BISCHOF,

NOTE:-During the last two months we disposed of $10,000 worth of merchandise to one party/ which included every undesirable article in our stock,

new, desirable goods at 50 per cent, of their value, which will be included! in this sale.

and

O'Clock We Will

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

25 bolts all-wool Serge, 40 inches wide in good desirable colors, worth 50c Discouut price

A grand bargain.

Fine 36 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, 3JX, and 50 per cent, off on all fancy styles.

SPECIAL.

'3c.

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

Discount prise, choice

PRINTS,

100 Bolts Dress Style Prints, nice dark grounds^' good colors, worth »c yd Discount Price...

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

Discount price i.,..

Every article in our stock will be offered at discount prices of 25, 3JX and 50 per cent. This means X, and of the original price will be chopped off, making this the grandest bargain sale ever inaugurated. This includes Hosiery. Underwear, Gloves, Linens, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Curtains, Silks, Trimmings, Laces, Einbroiderles and Staples. This sale will go down in the Dry Goods history of this city as the climax of merchandising.

addition, have just purchased for spot cash

left us only goods bought during the past six

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23c

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worth of

$8,000