Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 February 1894 — Page 2

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Entered at the Postoflice at Crawfordsvllle Indiana, as second-cla.se matter.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1894.

NO A PR II ELKCTIOXS. By the act of March 2, 1893, April elections were abolished and provision made for electing township officers in the fall, the first election to occur on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Consequently there will be no election this year in April. The following' are the sections of the law:

Section 1. That the time of holding the election of .township trustees, justices of the peace, assessors, constables, road supervisors, and such other officers of township as may be provided for by law shall be changed from the April election, and all such township ollicers shall be elected at the general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1S94. and every four years thereafter, and which election shall be conducted by the provisions-of the law governing said general election.

Sec. 2. The names of the different candidates for said township offices shall be printed on separate ballots of a yellow color, and deposited in separate ballot boxes from that of the State and county ballots said ballot boxes shall be painted yellow and said ballots shall be prepared in conformity with the law governing said general election.

UK.VKKAI, LEW WALLACE, author of "Ben llur," was recently interview in New York. The General has turned critic himself. Here is one of his remarkable statements: 'Ben-Hur' has been growing in popularity since the nature of the treatment of the character became known. No book or picture can live—that is: live for centuries, which deals with light, trifling characters. The works of Dickens will not outlive the centuries, because they deal for the most part with trifling, frivolous, or bad, cheap people. The greatest and most enduring of his books, it seems to me, will be the "Tale of Two Cities.'"

Commenting on the above statements of Gen. Wallace the Cincinnati Post says: "With all deference to the bril liant author, there are many people who will not coincide with his view, lie seems to forget that when speaking of "trifling, frivolous, or bad, cheap people," he is speaking of human nature, and so long as human nature is depicted by the hand of the true artist these works will live in the litfraies of the world. Don Quixote and Falstaff will live for centuries Gargantua and Tartuffe show signB of a long, long life while Iiecky Sharp, Micawber, Mrs. Malaprop and a host of others are many, many years removed from the literary catacombs. There's a suggestion of dilettanteism in this criticism of General Wallace."

IK the Democratic party means to repeal all class legislation it should forthwith abolish the whole department of Agrioulture, dismiss Secretary Morton and keep in the Treasury the millions of dollars that aro yearly spent to foster this brancli of industry. And then it should cut off all appropriations for local improvements su-'h as harbors, and the clearing out'of rivers of purely local consequence. What right has a party that is opposed to expending money for one class of people at the expense of another class, to expend hundreds of thousands of dollars to construct and maintain a harbor at Charleston, S. C., or to clean out the Mississippi river? What inter est have the people of New England In the Mississippi river that they should be taxed to keep that stream navagable? Why should commerce and agriculture be fostered by the government and manufactures, destroyed by hos tile legislation? Is the motive that old contempt at the South for the "mudsills" and "greasy mechanics of the North?"

IN one respect 1894 will resemble 1874. There will be a political tidal wave in the Congressional elections this year as there was then, but the Republicans will be at the top of the wave this time. The strength of the wave is likely to be as great, too, as it •was then. That is, the majority of about GO which the Democrats secured twenty years ago will probably be equaled by the lead which the Republicans will gain next November.

TIIK Democratic expectation that the tariff bill will be reported to the Senate around the middle of the month may come true, but the Impression that it will be ready to send to the President by March or 5 will certainly turn out to be illusory. The Democrats may consider themselves exceedingly fortunate if they get the bill in' the President's hands by April 1.

BEFORE voting for a candidate lor Councilman, find out his position on the sewerage question.

HAD Abraham lincoln lived until today he would have bee •ighty-flv* year* old.

ENGLAND'S PARCEL POST.

A Byetem That Has Grown with Amazing Rapidity.

Whit Vai an Unknown Convenience Tea Te«rt Ago la Now an Almott Indlapenaable Adjunct to

Dally Life.

The act authorizing the parcel post was passed in 1883. But It may well be Imagined that time was necessary to mount an entirely new postal service without disorganizing the ordinary mails, and it was not until August 1, 1683, that the post was actually placed at the disposal of the public, says the London Times.

May 1, 1880, a new scale of weights and charges was issued. The scale, which still jtvtains, ascended by single instead of doable pounds, and thus represented a charge of 3d for ths first pound and l%d for each succeeding pound. At the same time the maximum weight was raised to eleven pounds, a parcel of that weight being carried for 18d. Compensation was promised for the loss or damage of any parcel In the post to the sum of £1, while further sums of £5 and £10 might be secured by the payment of 1 penny and 2d respectively.

The original scale of weights and charges was for a parcel not exceeding one pound, 8d up to three pounds, Sd up to five pounds, 9d, and up to seven pounds, Is. At seven pounds the post stopped. The maximum dimensions allowed were three and one-half feet in length and six feet in length and girth combined, and these dimensions have been found throughout to be sufficient to meet the public demand.

The effect of these changes at oncc became visible. From June, 1886, onwards, the number of parcels increased by more than twenty percent, over the number for the corresponding months of the previous year, and the total number of .parcels carried in the year 1886 rose to 81,000,000. In the meantime parcel posts had been established with many colonies and foreign states. The admirably managed post office of India and the post bfflse of Egypt (organized by the oountry) were the first to respond to the invitation of the postmaster general, and the interchange of paicels with India, Burmah, Aden and Egypt oommenced July 1, 1885.

At. the end of another six months Germany and Belgium, forerunners of this oountry in parcel post enterprise, had entered in similar relations, and from the commencement of 1880 the work of connecting this oountry with the rest of the world for the purpose of interchanging parcels by post proceeded apace.

The next ohange of importance took place June 1, 1891, when the system of registration was for the first time extended to inland parcels, together with compensation on a liberal soale. For the ordinary registration, a fee of 2d, compensation up to £3 was promised, while for every additional Id another £3 could be seoured up to a maximum of £23. At the same time the compensation payable on an unregistered parcel was raised from £1 to £9. Finally, December last, a scale of payment rising to £30 (which had previously been applied to the post to India and the West Indies) was adopted and it is now possible to obtain compensation up to that amount by payment of-the registration fee of 2d and additional fee of 9d, or lid In all. It is not surprising that under the influence of these Improvements the number of parcels sent per head of the population has more than doubled since tha post was instituted. 8o completely has the parcel post now become an adjunct of dally life that It is almost difficult to realize that ten years ago anyone wishing to send a parcel, even between two center* of population, had no certainty when It would be dispatched, when it would be delivered, and how much he would have to pay while rural districts were, for such purposes, practically out of reach.

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by Mea—roar Mentha t* D* Sevea laches. One day we went to town to visit a manufactory of Cashmere shawls, says

a writer In the Cornhlll Magazine, After a terribly unattractive approach, we again olambered up some stairs and emerged into a large room full of looms, with about forty men all hard at work. One we especially watched. He had In front of him nearly a thousand shuttles of different shades, and out of these he would select one p.nd thread it through as many of the fine strands stretched tightly before him as his pattern directed, and after so doing he pulled toward him a heavy bar which pushed the last little thread quite tight, before putting in the next.

In old days one man used to read out the pattern to all the reBt, but now each has his own design on a slip of paper in front of him. It is said that the wavy line, so often seen In these shawls, was originally taken from the curves of the Jhelum. It took four months, we are told, for four men to do seven inches of this work, one yard wide, working from five in the morning till five in .the evening every day, •o it was hardly to be wondered at that two yards should cost nearly one hundred pounds.

As we left the workroom, so glad to exchange Its heated atmosphere for a cooler breath of air, it was impossible tooheck the obvious thought of the contrast such lives are to our own. We mingled with' the gayly dressed crowd gathered to see a polo tournament, and our thoughts strayed back to that stifling room, with its ceaseless monotony and perpetual grind, where men, more like machines, wove hour after hour varying hues of color into one harmonious whole. And yet the old simile would also assert itself, that we too, in one sense, are hour by hour working tiny threads that go to make up the pattern and color of our lives. The whole design, however, does not lie open before us, but is mercifully withheld by an all-wise master hand.

N HARD-TIMES REMEDY

No man ean afford to have a sick Wife or &ugbter, nor, in such times aa these, big Doctor bilL Zoa Phora cures th«

A RETIRED BUSINESS WOMAN.

A Page From Her History.

Th# Important experiences of others are Interesting. The following Is no excoption: "I had been troubled with heart disease 25 years, much of that time very seriously. For live years 1 was treated by one physician continuously. I was in business, but obliged to retire on account of my health* A physician told my friends that 1 could not. live a month. My feet and Ilmb9 were badly swollen, and I was tndeed In a serious condition when a gentleman directed my attention to Dr. Miles* Mew Heart Cure, aua said that his sister, who had been afflicted with heart disease, had been cured by the remedy, and was again a strong, healthy woman. I purchased a bottle of the Heart Cure, and In less than an hour after taking the first dose I could feel a decided Improvement in the circulation of my blood. When I had taken three doses I could move my ankles, something I had not done for months,and my limbs had been swollen so long that they seemed almost putrltied. Before I had taken one bottle of the New Heart Cure the swelling had all gone down, and I was so much better that 1 did my own worfc On my recommendation six others aro taking this valuable remedy."—Mrs. Morgan. 600 W. Harrison St., Chicago, III.

Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure, adlscoveryof an eminent specialist in heart disease, is sold by all druggfete on a positive guarantee,or sent by the Dr. Miles Medical Oo..Elkhart, tnd.,on receipt of price, II per bottle, six bottles for 96, express prepaid. It Is positively free from all opiates or dangerous drugs.

Sold by all druggists.

CREAM BALM CATAWHH

IB quickly absorbed, Cleanses the Nasal Passages, Allays Pain and lnttamatlon

Heals the Sores, Protects tbe Membrane from Additional Cold,

Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell,

IT W1LL0UKE A particle is applied Into each nostril and Is agreeable. Price 60 cents, at.Druggists or by mall. KLY BROTHERS, b6 Warren Street New York

Ttnd.U. Line Excursion

To south, southeast and southwest will run on various dates from now until June 5, 1894, inclusive, at one fare for the round trip. Call on or address anjVandttlia line agent and ask for information contained in circular No. 327 of January 20th, 1894.

TAKE Uncle Sam's Cough Syrup. It contains no chloroform, is safe and effective for all. Sold by Cotton & Rife, the progressive druggists, for 25 cents a bottle. 3-25'94

THE usual treatment of catarrh is very unsatisfactory, as thousands can testify. Proper local treatment is positively necessary to success, but many, if not most, of the remedies in general use afford but temporary relief. A cure certainly cannot be expected from snuffs, powders, douches and washes. Ely's Cream lialin, which is so highly recommended, is a remedy which combines tlie important requisites of quick action, specific curative power, with perfect safety and pleasantness to the patient. The druggists all sell it.

A K»n«»j III'I Expeneaee.

Mr. Albert Favorite, of Arkansas Citv, Kan., wishes to give our readers the benefit of his experience with colds. He says: "1 contracted a cold early last spring that settled on my lungs, and had hardly recovered from it when I caught another that hung on all summer and left me'with a hacking cough which 1 thought I would never get rid of. I had used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy some fourteen years ago with much success, and concluded to try it again. When I had got through with one bottle my cough had left me, and I have not suffered with a cough or cold since. I have recommended it to others, and all speak well of it." 50 cent bottles for sale by Nye & Booe, 111 north Washington street, opposite court house.

A New Cure for Rheamatlam.

Joseph V. Dory, of Warsaw, 111., was troubled with rheumatism and tried a number of different remedies, but says none of them seemed to do him any good but finally he got hold of one that speedily cured him. He was much pleased with it, and felt sure that others similarly afflicted would like to know what cured him. He states for the benefit of the public that it is called Chamberlain's Pain Balm. For sale by Nye & Booe, 111 north Washington street, opposite court house.

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Casteria*

F.conemjr and Streagtk.

Valuable vegetable remedies are used in the preparation of "Hood's Sarsaparilla in such a peculiar manner as to retain the full medicinal value of every ingredient. Thus Hood's Sarsaparilla combines economy and strength and is the only remedy of which "100 Doses One Dollar" is true. Be sure to get nood's.

HOOD'S PILLS do not purge, pain or gripe, but act promptly, easily ond efficiently.

An Editor'. SmnwiMloi,

Mr. C. F. Davis, editor of the Blooinfleld, Iowa, Farmer says: "I can recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to all sufferers with colds and croup. I have used it in my family for the past two years and have found it the best I ever used for the purposes for which it is intended." SO cent bottles for sale by Nye & Booe. Ill north Washington street, opposite the court-house.

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Reactionary storms will be central on the .2d and 3d, and the moon will be new on the 5th. This will cause a continuation of cloudiness, with rain, sleet and snow, through most of tho intervening time from the 7th to 11th. Heavy rains with thunder and lightning, turning to. destructive sleet and snow storms, may be expected during these disturbances. The reactionary disturbances, due on the 2d and 3d, will not likely be reached until about the 5th. A sweeping cold wave will separate these perturbations from the disturbances of the period beginning about the 7th, but it will soon give place to storm conditions, and during the 7th to 11th, storms of rain and snow will visit all parts of the coun-

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In Consideration of Weather Prospects We Have Decided to Continue

Dress Goods.

31 bolts fancy mixed suitings, 33 inches wide, worth 15c per yard at 7Jfc. Fine 36 inch Henriettas, all colors and black, worth 25 cents per yard at 7Xc. 22 pieces plain and fancy goods, worth 50 cents per vard at 29c. 60 pieces fine, all wool novelty weaves, worth 60 and 65 cents per yard, at 39c. 38 pieces highest novelty weaves, beautiful shades, worth 81.25 to 81.50 at 75c. 16 pieces Keochlin's best French Satines, worth 35 and 40 cents per yard, at 25c. 40 pieces Fancy Wash Goods. Gingh&ms, Satines, Pongees, printed Swiss, etc., 12 to 18c., at 9c. 50 pieces dress style Ginghams, worth 8c and 10c per yard, at 5c. 8 pieoes black, all wool and silk Henriettas, worth SI per yard, at 54c.

Flannels.

75 all wool skirt patterns worth 81, at 65c. 100 all wool Bkirt patterns, fancy colors, worth 81.50 at 75c. 100 yards heavy all wool skirting, 2J yards wide, worth 81.25 per yard, at 75c. 10 pieces Lowell Medicated red twill flannel, worth 25c per yard, at 17c. We have 23 pairs fine, all wool blankets, worth from 85 to 89.50 per pair, some slightly soiled, which we will offer very cheap. See them at once. Special values in bed spreads at 69c, 79c and 87c.

Linens.

1,800 Doileys' worth 5c each at lc. 100 dozen all linen large size napkins, worth 81 per dozen at 69c. 30 bolts Turkey red Damask, worth 25c per yard at 17Kc. 35 bolts best Turkey red and fancy Damask, worth 50c per yard, at 29c. 35 bolts all Linen half bleached Damask, worth 50c at 37c. 4,000 yards checked Linen, glass brash, worth 10c per yard, at 5c. 5,000 yards Linen checked, glass crash, worth, 12kc per yard, at 6 Kc. 100 dozen extra large all linen, knotted frings towels worth 35c each, at 23c. riZl 100 dozen extra large all linen towels, worth 25c each at 16J£c. About 590 items in fancy Linens stamped and plain in all sizes and shapes, at half price. 40 pieces checked and striped White Goods, worth 25 cents per yard, at 15c. We have marked low prices on all Muslin Underwear to close them quick. Lots are too Bmall to enumerate.

Prints.

35 pieces dark color prints worth 5 cents per yard at 2Vc. Best blue, red, black, grey and fancy prints worth 7 centsat4Jic.

Silks.

12 pieces China Silks, 22 incites wide, fancy colors, worth

cents per yard at 25c.

8 pieces Suran Silks, 27 inches wide, worth 78 cents at 49c. 8 pieces black Khadamer and Faille Silk worth 85 cents per yard at 59c. 3 pieces black Gros Grain, 24 inches wide, worth 81.25 per yard at 90c.

Underwear and Hosiery.

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men's wool underwear worth 81 at 69c.

Children Jersey ribbed underwear worth 25 cents at 19c. 50 dozen ladies', men's and children's wool hose wor'th 25 cents at 12%. 5d dozen ladies', men's and children's wool hose ivorth 35 cents at 10c.

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127-129 EAST WAIN STREET

THE BIG STORE

Hicks' Weather Prediction

17th Grand Annual Discount Sale

For a short time in order to close out the entire stack of Cloaks and Winter Goods* Bargains will be offered in every department, in all kinds of goods. Read the list. Bring it with you and see that we sell just as we advertise it.

Curtains

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try. Another cold wave will sweep behind the storms of this period, .insuring cold weather until the temperature rises for reactionary storms, duo on the 13th and 14tli. Blizzards wilt result in the north at both the periods above mentioned and very cold weather at the close of each period. About ther 19th to 21st inclusive, the disturbanceswill reach their crisis in all central andi eastern sections. Meantime it will have turned very cold in the west and northwest, and by the 22d the cold* clearing wave will have been felt far into the south and the Atlantic coast. The last disturbances for the month will be central on the 24th and 25th. February will end, to most parts of the continent, in cold winter weather.

Domestics.

25 pieces Domets, light colors, worth 8c per yard, at 5c. 50 pieces Indigo blue shirtings, good weight, fast color, worth 7c per yard, at 5c. 8 pieces staple and fancy stripe Tickings, worth 15c, per pard, at 10c, 10 pieces 9-4 brown sheeting, worth 18 cents per yard, at 12c. 1 case heavy brown Canton flannel, worth 12K cents per yard, at 9c. Pepperell "R't fine brown 36 inch cotton, worth 7c at 5c. Lonsdale Masonville and Fruit bleached cotton, at 6%c.

Kid Gloves.

Ten more dozen of those damaged kids worth 81 to 82 per pair at 4!c. 10 dozen Suede M'onsquetairs black and colors worth 81.50 at 89c. 20 dozen ladies' and children's black mittens worth 15 to 20 cents per pair at 9c. 85 ladies' and gents' umbrellas worth 81.75 to 82'.25 at 81.23. 28 ladies' Mackintoshes worth 83 to 83.50 at 82.10. 95 boys' waists worth 25 cents at 15c. 120 boys' waists worth 40 and 50 cents at 25c. 20 ice wool shawls, white and black, worth 85 cents: 4# 55c. 16 ice wool shawls, white and black, worth 83 at 81.87. 10 dozen hand-knit Fascinators, black and colors, worths 40 and 50 cents, at 25c. 8 dozen hand-knit Fascinators worth 75 cents to 81 at 45c.

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Embroideries

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15 pieces black Silk Lace, 6 to 12 inches wide, w6rth 50 cents per yard, at 25c. 25 pieces of Embroidery, worth 50c per yard, at 25c. iLu i? Embroidery, worth 5 to 10 cents per yard, at 4c. 100 bolts trimming Lace, 12 yards, worth 12 and 15 cents, at 8c. S5 pieces hand made Torchon Lace, worth 12W to 20 cts per yard, at 9c. No. 5, 7, 9 and 12 all silk Uibbou, worth 65i to 15 cents per yard at 5c. No. 16 and 22 all silk ribbon, worth 20 to 30 cents per vd, at 9c.

30 pieces chenille dotted veiling, all shades, worth 10 and 15 cents per yard at 5c. 50 dozen ladies embroidered Handkerchiefs, worth 15 and 20 cents at 10c.

Curtains and Draperies.

phenille Table Covers, worth 81.75, at 81.13. 100 pairs Lace Curtains, 10 styles, worth 81.75 at 97c. 50 pair fine Lace Curtains, beautiful patterns, worth 84 to 85 at 82.75.

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Screen Frames worth 82.150, at 81.59. Same filled at 82.25.

Notions.

50 purses and shopping bajfs worth 50 cents to 81.75 at -00

mirrors worth 25 and 35 cents at 19c.

500 tooth brushes worth 15 and 20 cents at 10c. 100 cakes toilet soap worth 10 cents at 5c. 100 bottles of co.iogne and perfumes worth 10 to 25 cents at 5c. D'ace power w»rth 10 cents at 5c. 75 gross Pearl Buttons all sizes, worth lO cents per dozen at 5c. 100' boxes writing'paper worth 10 to 20 cents at 7c. We have collected remnants of all kinds, dress goods, velvets, cotton wash gxods, domestics, prints, linenR, crashes, laces, embroideries, etc., in our back room and marked them at very low prices. Don't fail to visit this department.. It will well repay you. Don't forget every item 5»u our store will be offered at'reduced prices for a few days log*er. No goods charged.