Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 January 1894 — Page 2

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MONDAY, JANT' SRY 29, 1894.

MALICE IS SOT STATESMANSHIP. The wise statesman is the one who seeks to build up and not to strike down great industrial enterprises in his country. The foundation of ail prosperity in any country is constant and profitable employment for labor. The rich, who do not need to labor, will always thrive. It is the poor who must live by labor, whose interests need the watchful care of the legislator. Such have been the notions of our most prominent statesmen from Washington and Hamilton down to Lincoln and Garfield. They were all the steadfast and unfaltering advocates of a national policy that would develop our agricultural resources, our mines, our manufacturing enterprises, in short, a policy that would make the nation a very beehive of industry and self-support. These great men recognized the actual fact that most men are born to no inheritance of wealth, and must rely on their labor for the support of themselves and their families, and that whatever policy would afford useful employment for the hands of man, would improve his condition and fill his home with plenty. The old Republican party of 1801, led by Jefferson, the old Democratic party of 1S30 led by Jackson, the Whig party of 1S40, led by Clay and Webster, all adhered to these tenets and gave them their constant support. Mr. Jefferson said that our national prosperity demanded that we should manufacture our own supplies of everything we used, so far as we could and this without any regard to whether homemade goods cost more or less than foreign ones. Jackson urged that our independence required that we should not be compelled to look to foreign nations for anything we could make or raise at home that in case of war and the cessation of commerce, we should be badly crippled if we could not secure supplies at home. So argued Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster, and the almost divinely inspired Lincoln. It was not until Mr. Calhoun became crazed with his State rights hobby that any lead ing statesman of this country had a different opinion. And Mr. Calhoun's theories all grew out of his dislike of the national government. After his loss of the'-public confidence, and his abandonment of all idea of reaching the Presidency, he sought only to destroy. And the Democratic party of to-day is but following in the footsteps of Mr. Calhoun.

Take for instance their course with regard to some of our important enterprises. They insist on putting salt on, the free list. There can be no earthly motive for this but to cripple a great industry in this country. The idea that their object is to make salt cheaper is the veriest pretense. Salt cannot be made cheaper than it is now, if anything at all is to be paid for the labor that makes it. There is not a bit of complaint from any quarter or from any individual in all the country about the price of salt. Is it not unaccountable then that there should be a party in Congress insisting on removing the tariff from salt? What motive prompts this action? Can it be anything else than a malicious purpose to cripple our great salt industry?

Take, again, the attempts that are now being made to build up a sugar industry here. It is no longer a matter of doubt that we have both soil and climate as well adapted to the production of beet sugar as either Germany or France, and that the manufacture of our own supply of sugar would afford labor for hundreds of thousands of people, and that such a vast addition to the sugar production of the world would greatly cheapen sugar to the consumer. Hut, notwithstanding all these advantages, we find the Democratic party trying to withdraw every vestige of encouragement to this great enterprise.

So with regard to tin-plate. We have already Btarted forty odd tin-plate factories and tin is just as cheap as ever but the Democratic party is not satisfied to see tin-pit ce factories succeed in this country. They propose to withdraw all encouragement and aid and let them '-sink or swim." Whoever mistakes all this for statesmanship is too dull to distinguish between wisdom and malice. The old Calhoun hatred of northern industries and northern enterprise has taken possession of the Democratic party, and it is useless to longer deny it.

Another twelve months' experience with the little man and the picayune ideas that dominate the country today and they will be forever swept into oblivion. The masses will learn that it is the mission of statesmanship to preserve and build up the industries of the country and that only malice can wish to tear them down and turn our laborers into the streets to beg their daily bread from the hands of charity.

Skxatob Cullom's characterization •f Blount'* eourse in Hawaii as that of "ABMiMB apjr" la grapkic.

TRACED IN BLOOD

OR,

Tlii Little Old Man of tie BatlgnoQes.

BY INIIi. CABORIAU. ClUI-MB XI, COS-TIJiCEU

Ob! the conclusion was reduced to a formula. The assassin could ouly be a miserable hypocrite, who had abused the iiusband's affection and coufideuee to win the love of the wife.

In short, Mme. Mouistrol, belying her reputation, uudoubtedly had a lover, and this lover was necessarily the cr: annul.

Full of this certainty, I racked my brains to discover soma infallible stratagem that would enable us to reach the scoundrel. "This is the way we ought to operate, I think," I said to M. Mechinet. "Madame Monistrol and the murderer must have agreed that after the crime they would not see each other for some t'me this is the most elementary prudtace. But ere long the woman will grow impatient and want to see her accomplice. Let as station a spy near her to follow her everywhere, and before forty-eight hours the affair will be settled."

M. Mechinet paused a moment before replying, mumbling a few unintelligible words. "You haven't hit it. You have the genius of the profession, that I don't deny, but you lack experience. Fortunately I have U. What! A remark about the crime puts you on the scent, and you don't follow it up." "How so?" "This faithful dog must he utilized." "I don't understand." "Then learn to wait. Madame Mociitrol will go out about two o'clock, to reach the Palais do Justice about three the little servant willbealoue in the shop —you'll see, that's all I shall tell you."

In fact, my entreaties were useless he would say nothing more, avenging himself for his defeat hy this very innocent bit of malioe. Willing or not, I had to accompany him to the nearest cafe, where he made me play dominoes.

I played badly, being absorbed in thought, and .lie was shamefully taking advantage of it. to beat me, when the clock struck two. "Up to our postBl" besaid, dropping the dominoes.

He paid the bill, we went out, and the Instant afler were again standing like sentinels in the doorway, from which we had watched the approaches to Monistrol's •hop.

We had not been there ten minutes when Mme. Monistrol appeared on the threshold, dressed in black, with a large crepe veil, like a widow. "A beautiful toilette in which to appear before the magistrate," grumbled M. Meohlnet.

She gave her little servant a few orders aud walked rapidly away. My companion waited patiently five minutes, aud when hesupposed the young wife was a long distance off, said: "It is time."

We again entered the jewelry shop. The little servant was there alone, sitting behind the counter, nibbling apiece of candy stolen from her mistress.

As we entered, she recognized us, and started up, blushing and terrified. But M. Mechinet, without giving her time to open her lips, asked: "Where is Madame Monistrol?" "She has gone out, sir." "You are deceiving me. She's in the back shop." "Iassure you she isn't, Kentlemen. Look for yourselves."

M. Mechinet, with an air of the greatest aauoyance, struck his forehead, exclaiming: "How unfortunate It isl how sorry that poor Madame Mouistrol will be!"

Then, as the little servant stared at him with open mouth and eyes dilated with astonishment, he oontinued: "But perhaps you can take your mistress's place, my pretty girl. I came baok because I have lost the address of the gentleman she a:ked me to visit." "What gentleman?" "Yon know very well Monsieur—there now. I've forgotten his name! Monsieur —zounds, you know him! The gentleman your confounded dog obeys so well." "Oh, Monsieur Victor?" "Yes that's it. What does the geutleman do?" "He's a journeyman jeweler—a great friend of my master. They worked together when Monsieur Monistrol was a journeyman jeweler, and that'* why he can do anything be likes with Pluto." "Then you can tell me where Monsieur Victor lives?" "Certainly. He lives in the Rue du Roi-Dore, No. 23."

The poor girl seemed delighted to be so well Informed, and I could not help feeling sorry to hear her so unsuspiciously denounce her stress.

M. Mechinet, who was more hardened, had no Such scruples, and even closed the scene with a sorry j-st.

Jt.£t as I opened tiie door for us to retire "Thank you," he said to the younptgirl, "thank you. Yon have justdoue Madhme Monistrol a great service, and she will be delighted."

CHAPTKR XII.

As soon as we were on the sidewalk, I had but one idea. To rush to the Hue du Roi Dore and arrest this Victor, the real criminal, was evidently the first thing to be done.

A few words from M. Mechinet fell upon my enthusiasm like a Bliower bath. And the law," said he. "Without a warrant from the examining magistrate, can do nothing. We must go to the Palais do Justice." "Bnt we shall meet Madame Monistrol, and if she sees us sne will warn her accompllcc." "Be it so," replied M. Mechinet, with ill-disguised bitterness, "be it so. The criminal will escape, and the forms of law will b» satis-fled. But I can avert the danger. Walk on, walk faster."

And, in fact, the hope of success gave him the speed of a deer. On reaching the Palais de Justice, he went up the steep stalrcane leading to the magistrate's rooms four steps at a time, and speaking to the bead sheriff, asked if the magistrate who had charge of the littleohlman of the Ball(pwllcx was in his office. "\es," replied the officer, "with witness—a young lady dressed in black." "That's undoubtedly she,"said inycompanlon.

Then, turning to the officer, he continued: "ion know me. Give me some materials to write a few words for you to take to the magistrate."

The officer went away with the note, and soon returned to tell us that the magistrate would see us in No. 9.

To receive M. Mechinet he had borrowed the office of one of his colleagues, leaving Mme. Monistrol in his own room under the care of his clerk. "What is it?" he asked, in a tone that enabled me to measure the gulf that separated a magistrate from a poor detective.

M. Mechinet briefly and clearly related the steps we had taken, their results and our hopes.

Need I say that the magistrate did not appear to share our belief? "But since Mouistrol confesses," he reputed with an obstinatf that exasperated

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However, after numerous explanations, he said: "I will sign a warrant."

Ouce in po.-session of this indispensable document, M. Mechinet went away so fast that 1 nearly fell as I rushed down the staircase after him. A fiacre horsecouldn't have kept up with us. I doubt if we were fifteen minutes in going to the Rue du Roi-Dore.

But when we were once there, "Be careful," said M. Mechinet. Aud with th» calmest air in the world, he entered th« narrow hall of the house bearing the number 23. "Monsieur Victor?" he said to the concierge. "Fourth f.oor, right hand door." "Is he at home?" "Yes."

M. Mechinet took a step toward the staircase, then seeming to change his mind, turned again to the concierge, saying: "I must treat this worthy Victor to a bottle of good wine. Do you know to what shop he goes?" "The one opposite."

We rushed across the street, and M. Mechinet with the air of a customer, ordered "One bottle, if you please, of the best the green seal."

Upon my honor, that idea had never occurred to me during all this timel And yet it was very simple.

The bottle having been brought, my companion produced the cork found on M. Pigoreau's floor, and it was easy for us to prove the identity of the wax.

Positive certainty was now added to moral conviction, and M. Mechinet knocked at Victor's door with a firm hand. "Come in," called a pleasant voice.

The key was in the door. We entered, and in a very neat room I saw a man about thirty years old, with a slight figure, pale complexion and fair hair, who was working at a bench.

Our presence didn't seem to disturb him. M. Mechinet advanced, and, seizing him by the arm, said: "I arrest you in the name of the law."

The man turned livid, but did not lower his eyes. "Are you playing a trick on me?" he said insclently. "What have I done?"

M. Mechinet shrugged his shoulders. "Don't act like a child," said ho, "your account is settled. You were seen to leave Pere Antenor's rooms, and I have in my pocket the cork you used to prevent the point of your dagger from breaking."

This was like a blow to the rascal's neck. He sank into his chair, stammering: "I am innocent." "Tell that to the magistrate," said M. Mechinet, coolly, "but I am afraid he wou't believe you. Your accomplice, Monistrol's wife, lias confessed all."

Victor started up as if he had been moved by a spring. "Impossible!" he exclaimed." She knew nothing" "Then you did it alone? Very well. That's so much confessed."

Then addressing himself to me, like a man sure of his facts, he continued: "Search the drawers, my dear M. Godeuil, you'll probably find this fine fellow's dagger, and undoubtedly his Duloinea's love-letters."

The murderer's eyes gleamed with rage and he ground his teeth, but M. Mechinet's broad shoulders and iron grasp extinguished all desire to resist.

I found in a bureau-drawer everything my companion had told me to expect. Twenty minutes after Victor, "neatly packed," that is the expression, in a fiacre, between my companion and rayBelf, was rolling towards tho prefecture of police. "What!" said I ,to myself, bewildered by the simplicity of the scene, "is the arrest of an assassin, a man doomed to the scaffold, so easy as this?" I was to learn afterwards, to my cost, that there wore more terrible criminals.

Victor, when he found himself in a cell, broke down and related all the particulars of his crime.

He had known Pere I'igoreau a long time, lie said. His principal object in murdering him was to bring the punishment for the crime upon Monistrol. That was why he had dressed like him and been followed by Pluto. When the old man was once assassinated, he had had the horrible courng»lo dip the finger of the corpse in the blood to trace the five letters, Moulx, which had nearly destroyed an innobent man. "It was cleverly arranged," he said, with cynical boasting. "If I had succeeded I should have killed two bird* with one stone—got rid of my friend Monistrol, whom I hate, and of whom I am jealous, and enriched the woman 1 love."

It was simple and terrible, certainly. "Unfortunately, my lad," observed M. Mechinet, "you lost your wits at the last moment. People are never thorough. It was the left hand of the body that you dipped in the blood."

Victor started up. '•What:" he cried, "is that what betrayed me?" "Precisely."

The scoundrel raised his heaven, with a gesture of an ciattd genius. "That comes of being a real artist! cried.

Tho criminal's prompt detection was owing to an error in the examination.This lesson was not lost upon me. 1 fortunately remembered it in other very dramat Ic circumstances.

Monistrol was set at liberty the next day. When the magistrate reproached him for the false coufession that had exposed justice to a terrible error, he could get nc answer except: "I love my wife I wanted to sacrificc myself for her believed tier guilty."

Was she guilty? I would swear it. Sfie was arrested, but acquitted by the same court that sentenced Victor t» th« galleys for life.

M. and Mme. Monistrol now keep a wine-shop of by no means good repute at Vincennes. Their uncle's fortune is squandered, aud they are in abject poverty.

THE END.

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WAIT FOR THE AMERICAN.

Itr.Aij iiisehofs discount adv.

RF.AD Hischof's discount adv.

ATTKN'I) Uischof's discount sale.

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Hi Hi Hi

actly as advertised.

LINENS,

1,200 Linen Doileys' worth 5c Discount I'rice

250

Ui tft

arms to unappre-

Then, eyeing us from head to foot with a pitying air, he added: "Pere Pigoreau was left-handed."

Itl

Children Cry for

Pltoh*r'» OMCorta

100 Dozen All Linen (large size Napkins, worth SI.00 Discount Price

20 Bolts Turkey Red Damask worth 25c yd Discount Price

25 Bolts 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, 16 inches wide, fast colored stripes, worth 10c yd Discount Price......

25,000 yds. 18-inch Linen Checked Glass Crash,fast colors, very fine, worth 12Xc 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,

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

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

KID GLOVES,

doz. Ladies' Kid Gloves, all sizes and colors including black, that have been returned' to manufacturer on account of slight imperfections, some so slight as to be-scarcely noticeable worth

si.00, 81.25, si.50

and

S2.00

Discount Price

new, desirable goods at

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

Sales, Read the list and depend upon it that you will find everything just ex

FURS,

lc each

69c doz

17 2c. yirtl

29c yd

37c yd

5c yd

4 yard

23c

16L

per pair

Outing and Domet Flannels.

50 pieces 2,500 yards Domet Flannels, good patterns and colors. Worth S%c to 12Kc Discount price yd

yard

49 c'

NOTE: During the last two months we dispc ised of

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

LOUIS BISCHOF,

300 Black Hare Muffs, worth 75e Discount price All other furs 333^ per cant. 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

AVe never carry over novelty Dress Goods if price will sell them. We have marked a discount of 25, 33K, and 50 per cent, off on all, fancy styles.

SPECIAL.

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

Discount price, choice

PRINTS,

100 Bolts Dress Style Prints, nice dark grounds, good colors, worth 5c yd Discount Price

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

NOTICE.

Every article in our stock will be offered at discount prices of 25, 33£ and 50 per cent. This means 14, and 14 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, Embroideries and Staples. This sale, will go down in the Dry Goods history of this city as the climax of merchandising.

$20,000

"Mrliich 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 additi an, have just purchased for spot cash

per cent, of their value, w' Inch will be included in this sale.

19c

7 l-2c

29c yd

19c yd

23c

ML! He yard

4 3-4c

worth of merchandise to one party,

$8,000

worth