Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 January 1894 — Page 2

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THE DAILY JOURNAL.

Printed Every Afternoon Except Sunday.

THE JOURNAL COMPANY. T. H. B. McCAIN, President. J. A..GREENE, Secretary.

A. A. MCCAIN, Treasurer.

DAILTOne year $5.00 81* months 2.50 Throe months 1.35 Perweekby currier or ........ 10

WKKKLYOnoyear .11 00 Six months 50 Three moDlhs 25

Payable in advance. Sample coplos tree. Kntered ut the Postoffloe at Crawfordsvllle

Indiana, as second-class matter.

FRIDAY. JANUARY 19, 1894.

AN IXDKFEXSIBI.K CONSPIUAC Y. Some of the most scathing denunciations of the President's Hawaiian policy are from the Democratic newspapers. For instance here is the Chicago Times, which shows as little mercy for the Administration as Queen Lil exhibited for President Dole. The Times says:

The Time* does not envv the subservient Democratic Representatives and Senators who have undertaken to defend Cleveland through the thick and the thin of his Hawaiian policy. If he had not been in possession of Willis' dispatch of November 16 when he sent his December message to Congress he might have been accused of a lack of foresight. As it is, he stands convicted of a most indefensible conspiracy. Minister Willis' own letters now prove the folly and criminality of the President's course. Never before has an Executive of the United States been forced to lay before Congress such complete material for his own overthrow. Out of the mouth of his own minister he is condemned.

Although the conspiracy has been defeated it is none the less the duty of Congress to probe the infamy to the bottom, and to hold to strict responsibility those who have been guilty of violating the constitution and the laws. All the truth has not been told. The verbal instructions to Willis are still a secret, and the orders to the naval oflicers have not been made public. Turn on the search light.

CHAIH.MAX WILSON'S ADMISSIONS In the course of his speech on Wednesday Chairman Wilson in advocating an amendment offered by himself to his own bill, providing that the wool schedule should not go into effect for a year, said that Arnold.Constable & Co., of New York, and other large merchants, were waiting to see to whom they could give their orders, to home or foreign manufacturers, and that if his amendment were not adopted they might give their orders to foreign manufacturers, taking the chance of getting them at low duties. In this speech Mr. Wilson gave his whole case away. The object of the bill is to throw this country open to foreign importations, and if the bill is good at one time it is good at another. If it is a benefit it should go into effect as soon as possible. If free wool is a good thing for the country, this year should receive the benefit. Hut Mr. Wilson's admissions would imply the contrary.

TIIF. Ways and Means Committee has agreed upon an incomc tax bill. All classes of incomes are included in the measure, and the uniform rate of 2 per cent, tax on incomes of 84,000 and over is fixed. The tax is to go into effect January 1.1S95, and the first collection is to be made July 1, 1895. It seems the Democratic party is determined to commit hari kari. It is safe to say. however, that the fight against an income tax will be more bitter than it has been against the Wilson bill. The Ways and Means Committee may propose but Congress disposes.

IN 1885 this country imported 100 bales of Egyption cotton. Each year the number of bales imported has steadily increased until in 1893 nearly 40,000 bales were imported. As Indian wheat is driving American out of European markets, so will 'Egyptian cotton drive us out of the foreign market American labor cannot compete with Indians and Egyptians working for eighteen cents a day.

THE "cuckoos" want to drop the Hawaiian business, but Representative llolman and other Democrats in Congress propose that the Administration shall be rebiiked.'! JsJLike Uanquo's ghost the Cleveland policy will not down,

AT least 32.000,000 has been invested in machinery in Louisiana since the McKiniey bill was passed, upon the supposition that the bounty was going to continue, and the beet sugar lias grown from nothing to an important industrv.

CojfOKEKHMAN* BHOOKBIIIRK will have occasion to rememder Representative Johnson, of Richmond, so long as he remains a member of Congress, which will be one year from the 4th of next March.

TUB Chicago TrUtunc, which is a pro teetive and free trade paper by turns, says to be blistered by the Wilson bill and bled liy the income tax is a little more than the body politic will stand.

SUPI'HESSI.VO petitions from constitu ents is not a good method to obtain votes, as Mr. Hrookshire will discover when the time rolls around for the people to have their say.

THE income tax measure proposed will be unnecessary. If the Wilson bill passes there will be no incomes to tax.

MB. BROOKSIIIRE has discovered that Henry U. Johnson is not tongue-tied.

Change In School Teachers.

Miss Clara Calvin has resigned her position in the New Market schools and takes the new room for beginners in the Crawfordsville schools. Miss Or* Kennedy takes the position.

TRACED IN BLOOD

The Little Old Han ot the Batignolles.

BY ENIIL QABORIAll.

CHAPTER I.

When I was finishing my medical studies—it was high time, for 1 was twentythree years old—I lived In the Rue Mou-sieur-le-Prince,almost at the corner of the Hue Racine. There, at thirty francs a month, attendance in. aided, I had a furnished room which would now be well worth a hundred it was so large that I could easily put my arms through the sleeves of my overcoat without opening the window.

Leaving early in the morning to go to my hospital, and returning very late, because the Cafe Leroy possessed irresistible attractions for me, scarcely knew by sight the lodgers in the house, who were all quiet people of independent property, or small tradesmen. There was one,however, with whom I gradually became intimate.

M. Mechinet was a man of middle height, with a commonplace countenance, always scrupulously well shaved. The concierge treated him with marked consideration, and never failed to hastily raise his cap whenever he passed his room.

As M. Mechinet's door opened upon a landing directly opposite to the door of my room, we often met, and on these occasions were in the habit of bowing t« each other. One evening he came in to ask for some matches one night I borrowed some tobacco of him one morning we happened to go out at the same time and walk some distance talking together.

Such were our first relations. Without being either curious or suspicious—people are not at the age I was bhen—one likes to know something about the persons with whom one is acquaiuted.

Therefore, I naturally began—not to watch my neighbor's life, but to think of bis acts and movements.

He was married, and Muie. Caroline Mechinet, a fair, plump, merry little iroinan, seemed to worship her husband.

But this husband's mode of life was not very regular. He often left the house before dawn, and the sun had frequently risen when I heard him return to his domicile. Sometimes he disappeared for weeks.

How pretty little Mme. Mechinet oould tolerate this was what I could not under stand.

In my perplexity, I thought our concierge, who was usually as talkative as a magpie, might enlighten me.

Wrong! I had scarcely uttered the name of Mechinet when he sent me about my business, saying he was not in the habit of being a spy upon his lodgers.

This reception so increased my curiosity, that, banishing all shame, 1 set about watching my neighbor.

Then I discovered things that seemed abominable. Once I saw him come home dressed in the latest fashion, his buttonhole adorned with five or six orders. The next day but one I met him on the stairs attired in a dirty blouse and with a ragged cloth, which gave him a most sinister expression, wrapped round his head.

This isn't all. One beautiful afternoon, as he went out, I saw his wife follow him to the threshold, and passionately embracing him, say: "I beseech you, Mechinet, be careful remember your little wife."

Be careful! Why? For what reason? What did this mean? Was the wife an accomplice?

My astonishment was soon redoubled. I was sleeping soundly one night, when some one snddenly knocked hurriedly at the door.

I rose and opened it. M. Mechinet entered, or rather rushed into the apartment, his clothes t-orn and disordered, his cravat and shirt crushed, his head bare,his face covered with blood. "What has happened?" I exclaimed In terror.

He signed to me to be silent. "Lower," he said, "somebody "might hear you. It may be nothing, though I am suffering terribly. I thought, as you were a medical student, you could doubtless attend to me!"

Without saying a word, I made him sit down, hastily examined the injury, and gave him the necessary assistance.

The wound, although it had bled freely, was very slight. In fact, it was only a scratch, commencing at the left ear and stopping at the lips. "Well, I'm safe and sound this timei said M. Mechinet, when the dressing was finished. "A thousand thanks, my dear Monsieur Godeuil. Pleaso say nothing about thU little accident to anybody, and good night."

Good night! I was very likely to sleep! When I remember all the absurd ideAs and romantic fancies that passed through my brain, I can't help laughing.

M. Mechinet assumed fantastic proportions In my mind. The next morning he quietly came in to thank me again, and Invited me to dinner.

It may be supposed that I was all eyes and ears when I entered my neighbor's home. But it was in vain that my attention was on the alert. I detected nothing calculated to dispel the mystery that so greatly perplexed me. From the time of this dinner, however, our relations became more intimate. M. Mechinet had evidently taken a fancy to me. A week rarely passed without an invitation to eat his soup, as he expressed it, and almost every day he Joined me at the Cafe Leroy, and we played a game of dominoes together.

So on a certain evening In the month of July—one Friday about five o'clock—he was on the point of beating me, when a man of very shabby appearance, it must be confessed, entered and whispered In his ear a few words I did not understand.

M. Mechinet started UD with a troubled face. "I'll go," said he "run and say I'll go."

The man set off at full speed, aud my old neighbor held out his hand to me,saying— "Excuse me duty first—we'll contluue our game to-morrow."

And as, burning with curiosity, I showed greatannoyance,saying how much I regretted that I could not accompany him: "Well," he muttered, "why not? Do you want to come? Perhaps it will be in teresting."

My only reply was to seire my hat and ws went out.

CHAPTER II.

Twas certaimy iar irom suspectingthat 1 was taking one of those apparently in•IgniflcHnt steps which have a decided Influence on the whols life. "Now," I thought, "I shall get the key to the puzzle."

And full of foolish satisfaction, I trotted like a lean cat by M. Mechinet's side. I say trotted, because I really had some difficulty in keeping up with the worthy man.

Hs walked on and on, along the Rue Racine, elbowing the passers-by as if his fortune had depended:on his speed.

Luckily a fiacre passed us at the Place de l'Odeon. M. Mschlnet stopped it, and opening ths door, said, "Get in, Monsieur Godeuil."

I obeyed, and he took his seat beside

m» "after ciTIThg To The driver Tn an Imperative tone—"Rue Lecluse, 39 mix Batignolles—and be quick!"

The distance drew a volley of oaths from the driver. No matter, ho gave his horses a violent blow, and the carriage rolled on. "Ah! so we're going to the Batigdolles?" I asked, with the smile of acourtier.

But M. Mechinet made no reply. I boubt whether he heard ine. A complete metamorphosis was taking place in him. He did not seem exactly agitated, but his compressed lips and the contraction of his large, bushy eyebrows detrayed Intense preoccupation ot mind. His eyes, fixed on a vacancy, seemed to be studying the terms of some insoluble problem.

He had drawn oat his snuff-box, and was constantly taking finmense pinohes, which he kneaded between his finger and thumb and raised to his tiose, but did not inhale.

This was a trick I had noticed, and which greatly amused me. The worthy man, who had a horror of tobacoo, was always provided with a snuff-box worthy of stage financier.

If anything unforeseen occurred, whether pleasant or disagreeable, he pulled it out of his pocket aud began to take snuff furiously. The box was often empty, but bis gestures remained the same.

I afterwards knew it was a trick of his to conceal his impressions and divert the attention of bis questioners.

Meani Ime we drove on. The 1 core asoended, not without difficulty, the Rue de Clinchy, crossed the outer boulevard, turned into the Rue de Lecluse, and ere long stopped at some distance from the address given.

To go further was impossible, the street was so blocked by a dense crowd. Before the house, bearing the number 99, two or three hundred persons were stauding with outstretched necks and sparkling eyes, panting with ouriosit-y, and with difficulty kept back by a halfdozen policemen, who vainly shouted In their harshest tones, "Pass on, gentlemen, pass on!"

Alighting from the carriage, we approached the house, forcing our way through the loungers with great difficulty.

We had already reached the door of No. 89, when a policeman rudely thrust us back. "Stand back! No admittance here!"

My companion eyed him from head to foot, and drawing himself up, said: "So you don't recognize me. I am Mechinet, and this young man" hs pointed to me—"Is with me." "Pardon mel Excuse me!" stammered the man, raising his hand to his hat. "I didn't know—walk in."

We entered. In the vestibule a stout woman, evidently the concierge, redder than a peony, was talking and gesticulating amid a group of lodgers. "Where is it?" M. Mechinet asked roughly. "On the third floor, my dear monsieur/' she answered "third floor, right-hand door! Oh Lord, what a misfortune! In a house like oursl Such a good maul"

I heard no more. M. Mechinet had darted up the stairs, and 1 followed, my heart beating as if it would stifle me.

The right-hand door on the third floor •tood open. We entered, crossed an antechamber, dining-room, drawing-room, and at last reached a bed-chamber.

If I could live a thousand yearslsbould never forget the spectacle that mat my eyes. As 1 write, after so many years, I can see the smallest details.

Two men were leaning on the mantelpiece opposite the door: a commissary of police, with his Bcarf round his waist, and an examiuing magistrate.

On the right, seated nt a table, a young man, the clerk, was writing. In the centre of the room, on the floor, amid a pool of black, coagulated blood, lay the body of an old man with white hair. He was stretched oil liis back, with his arms extended. Terrified, I stood rooted to the threshold, so near fainting, that to save myself from falling I was obliged to lean against the door.

My profession had familiarized me with death 1 had long since conquered the terrors of the hospital, but this was the first time I found myself confronted with crime. For it was evident that an abominable crime had been committed.

My neighbor, less impressionable than I, had entered with a firm step. "Oh! it's you, Mechinet.'' said the commissary of police. "I'm very sotry to have troubled you." "Why?" "Because we sha'n't need your wits. We know the criminal. I have gifen my orders, and he must be already arested."

Strange! From M. Mechinet's gesture, one would have supposed this assurance annoyed him. He drew out his snuffbox, took two or three of his imaginary pinchcs, aud said: "Ab! the criminal Is known."

The examining magistrate answered: "And known in a very certaiu and positive fashion yes. Monsieur Mechinet. The crime having been committed, the assassin fled, believing that, his victim had expired. He was mistaken. Providence watched the deed. The unfortunate man still breathed. Summoning all his strength, he dipped one of his fingers in the blood that was flowing in streams from the wound, and wrote on the floor his murderer's name, thus denouncing him to human justice. Look."

Thus informed, I perceived what I had not noticed at first. Oil the floor, in large, ill-shaped, scarcely legible letters, was written with blood: MON'IS. "Well?" said M. Mechinet. "That," replied the commissary of police, "is the beginning of the name of the poor old man's nephew—a nephew of whom lie was very fond, and who is named Monistrol." "The devil!" said my neighbor "I don't suppose." continued the magistrate, "that the scoundrel will try to deny It. The five letters are an overwhelming charge against him. Besides, who profits by this cowardly crime? He alone, ths

What Will Ilo Itl

Medical writers claim that the successful remedy for nasal catarrh must be non-irritating, easy of application, ami one that will reach the remote sores and ulcerated surfaces. The history of the efforts to treat catarrh is proof positive that only one remedy has completely met these conditions, and that is Ely's Cream Balm. This safe and pleasant remedy has mastered catarrh as- nothing else has ever done, and both physicians and patients freely concede this fact. Our druggists keep it.

THE persistent cough, which usually follows an attack of the .grip, can be permanently cured by taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. W. A. McGuire of McKay, Ohio, says: "l.a grippe left me with a severe cough. After using several different medicines without relief, 1 tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which affected a permanent cure. 1 have also found it to be without an equal for children, when troubled with colds or croup. 25 and 50 cent bottles a N & is north Washington street, opposite court house.

actly as advertised.

LINENS,

1,200 Linen Doilevs' worth 5c Discount Price r............

100 Dozen All Linen (large size Napkins, worth 81.00 Discount Price .•: .:-.

20 Bolts Turkey Red Damask worth 25c yd Discount Price

2.r Bolts Bate's Best Turkey Red and Fancy Damask. 58 inches wide, worth SO and OTJC yd Discount Price .*

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

4.000 yds. Checked Linen, Glass Crash, 16 inches wide, fast colored stripes, worth 10c yd Discount Price

25,000 yds. 18-incli Linsn Checked Glass Crash, fast colors, very fine, worth l'il4c Discount Price :. ...

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

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

MUSLINS,

Lonsdale, Masonvill and Fruit of the Loom, 36inch Bleached Muslins, worth 10c yd

Discount Price Dg

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

KID GLOVES,

250 doz. Ladies' Kid Gloves, all sizes and colors, including black, that have been returned to manufacturer on account of slight imperfections, some so sliplitas to be-scarcely noticeable, worth 91.00, SI.25, $1.50 and 82.00 perpair

Discount Price

Outing and Domet Flannels.

50 pieces 2,500 yards Domet Flannels, good patterns and colors. Worth HJfc to 12KC Discount price OC VQ

THE BIG STORE

LOUIS BISCHOF

127-129 EAST MAIN 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 accumu

lated experience have been enlisted to make this The Greatest of All Clearing

S^les. Read the list and depend upon it that you will find everything just ex

FURS,

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69c doz

17a„ yard

29c yd

37c yd

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300 Black Hare Muffs, worth 75c...v., Discouutprice All other furs 33K per cent. off.

DRESS GOODS,

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 Discount price

A grand bargain.

Fine 30 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, 33X, and 50 per cent, off on all fancy styles.

SPECIAL.

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

PRINTS,

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Discount price, choice...... :..... .....,

100 Bolts Dress Style Prints, nice dark grounds, good colors, worth 5c yd A Discount Price...'. 2*0

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

Discount price

NOTICE.

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

LOUIS BISCHOF,

NOTE: During the last two months we disposed of $2o,ooo worth of merchandise to one party, which included every undesirable article in our stock, and left us only goods

months. We have no old goods to offer. In addition, have just purchased for spot cash $8,000 worth of new, desirable goods at 50 per cent, of their value, which will be included in this sale.

hvery article in our stock will be offered at discount prices of 25, 33K and 50 per cent. This means %, %, and of the original price will be chopped off, making this the grandest bargain sale ever inaugurated. This includes Hosierv, I nderwear. Gloves, Linens, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Curtains, bilks, Trimmings, Laces, Embroideries and Staples. This sale will go down in the Dry Goods history of this city as the climax of merchandising.

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