Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 July 1894 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1894.

CiiARftKs of incompetency and deceit liave been made against the Democratic party. Mr. Cleveland's letter simply puts in a plea of guilty.

TIIK question of protection is one of wages. If the Old World wants free trade with us, let it elevate its labor to a:i equality with ours. I'ntil this is done let us protect our own.

THKKK were fifty-three strikes in .•Pennsylvania las year. Not one of tliem was successful. Seventeen thousand workmen were engaged in them and they lost in wages nearly §14,000,000.

Tins is a truth and worthy of all acceptation: The workinginen who have been prosperous are those who have had the least to do with strikes.— .JOI'K.NAI..

And you might just as well added that the strikes have occurred at the big protected industries.—Anjws .Ycics.

The reply of the .1 njnx XCWK is just as apropos as if it had said that the king of I a omey is a white man and dresses in the height of French fashions. Kailroads are no more of a protected indnstry than the printing establishment of the Arju« Xcirx. Nowhere in the McKinley law can a rate be found placing a duty on railroads. The biggest strikes of which the world Iris any knowledge have occurred in England and in the industries in which there is absolute free trade.

TIIK President wants free coal. Of course he does. Is he not in the Nova Scotia .syndicate associated with Win. C. Whitney. Daniel Lamont and other distinguished Democrats which proposes to furnish all New England with its product to the detriment of the two irginias. Maryland and Pennyslvania? This American industry is to be swept from New England by this Nova Scotia trust.. And what does the United Suites get iti return for this concession to Canada'.' Nothing. As was stated by Senator liorman in his celebrated speech last Monday the very last act of the Canadian Parliament on this subject imposed a duty of tiT cents a ton on i'.210 pounds or 00 cents a ton on 2.000 pounds of coal.

If the free coal howlers bad demanded reciprocity and said to Canada that .••coal would be admitted free to this country on condition that our coal from Illinois. Ohio and Indiana is admitted free to your country, it would have relieved the proposition of much injustice. And the Senator well said: "Why should we give up the American interests'.' Who can find in it a principle'.' The Canadian interest is a great one. but 1 prefer to take care of American interests."

A Jt:KSTIO' or WAGES. TIN

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favors free sugar.

Why does it not favor free coal, free iron ore. free wool, free lumber, etc? TIIK .loruxAi. is not consistent in drawing the line on sugar. It is

Democratic as far as it goes but it don't go far enough.—Ari/vs-Xcira. TIIK .IOIHNAI. is in favor of a protective larilT. Such a tariff provides not only revenue for the Government, but also discriminates its duties that they are levied principally upon imported articles that come into direct competition with home industries, and so adjusts the rates that such competing foreign productions cannot be placed upon the home markets at prices less than the fair and reasonable home mark"t price. I5y this means the high wages of our home laborers are maintained. and need not be reduced to the low level of foreign labor. Under this tariff, articles of necessity for the commou people in their household economy, and which cannot be raised or produced profitably at home, are admitted free of duty, such as tea, coffee, sugar and many such articles. Coal, iron ore. wool and lumber are articles that we can produce in sufficient qvantities to supply the people of the United States, and as 05 per cent, of the cost of these articles is represented by labor a tariff sufficient to cover the difference in wages between this country and other countries which produce them is necessary in order that the wages of the workingman in the United States may be maintained. It is a fact that cannot be refuted nor truthfully denied, that under'protection, wages in the United states have always been high and increasing. especially during the last thirty years, and have also had a greater purchasing power while under a free trade tariff, such as we had for years prior to the war,they have always been lower and decreasing, and have had a smaller purchasing power. In all the many changes, or threatened changes of our tariff policy since the foundation of the Government, this rule has been absolutely invariable. Under a low tariff importations are made larger than when duties are high, consequently the demand for home productions falls off, the manufacture is decreased, the workmen are either discharged or their wages reduced, while the exact reverse of this happens under a high tariff. TJIE JouitNAi. knows where to draw the line.

By CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.

[Copyright, 1SSH, by the J. B. Lippincott Co.]

CHAPTER VI.

A lovely morning it was that beamed on Sibley and the broad and beautiful valley of the Cloudwater when once the sun got fairly above the moist horizon. Mist and vapor and heavy cloud all seemed swallowed up in the gathering, glowing warmth, as though the king of day had risen athirst and drained the welcoming cup of nature. It must have rained at least a little during the darkness of the uight, for dew there could have been none with skies so heavily overcast, and yet the short, smooth turf on the parade, the leaves upon the little shade trees around the quadrangle and all the beautiful vines here on the trelliswork of the colonel's veranda shone and sparkled in the radiant light. The roses in the little garden and the old fashioned morning glory vines over at the east side were all nglittor in the flooding sunshine when the bugler came out from a glance at the clock in the adjutant's office and sounded "sick call" to the indifferent ear of the garrison.

Once each day at 7:30 a m. the doctor trudged across to the hospital and looked over the half dozen "hopelessly healthy" but would lie invalids who wanted to gel off guard duty or a morning at the range. Thanks to the search| ing examination to which every soldier must be subjected before he can enter the service of Uucle Sam and to the disciplined order of the lives of the men at Sibley, maladies of any serious nature were almost unknown. It was a gloriously healthy post, as evej-ybody admitted, and, to judge from the specimen of young womanhood that came singing "blithe and low" out among the roses this same joyous morning, exuberant well being was not restricted to the men.

A fairer picture never did dark beauty present than Alice Renwick as she bent among the bushes or reached high among the vines in search of her favorite flowers—tall, slender, willowy, yet with exquisitely rounded form slim, dainty little hands and feet graceful arms and wrists, all revealed in the flowing sleeves of her snowy, weblike gown, fitting her and displaying her sinuous grace of form as gowns so seldom do today. And then her faco—a glorious pictnro of rich, ripe, tropical beauty, with its great soulful, sunliteyes, heavily shaded though they wero with those wondrous laahesi beautiful, too, in contour, as was the lithe body, and beautiful in every feature, oven to the rare and dewy curve of her red lips, half opened as she sang. She was smiling to herself as she crooned her soft, murmuring melody, and every little while the great dark eyes glanced over toward the shaded doors of bachelors' row. There was no one up to watch and tell. Why should she not look thither and even stand one moment- peering under the veranda at a darkened window half way down the row, as though impatient at the nonappearance of some familiar signal? How came the laggard late? How slept the knight while here his lady stood impatient! She twined the leaves and roses In a fragrant knot, ran lightly within and laid them on the snowy cloth beside tbo colonel's seat at table, came forth and plucked some more and fastened them, blushing, blissful, in the lace fringed opening of her gown, through which, soft and creamy, shone the perfect neck. •"Daisy, tell my fortune, pray:

He loves mo not—he loves me,"

she blithely sang, then, hurrying to the gate, shaded her eyes with the shapelv liand and gazed intently. 'Twas nearing 8—nearing breakfast time. But some one was coming. Horrid! Captain Chester, of all menl Coming, of course, to see papa, and papa not down yet, and mamma had a headache and had decided not to come down at all—she would breakfast in her room. What girl on earth, when looking and longing and waiting for the coming of a graceful youth of 20, would be anything but dismayed at th6 substitution therefor of a bulky, heavy hearted captain of 40, no matter if he were still unmarried? And yet her smile was sweet and cordial. "Why, good morning, Captain ('liester. I'm so glad to see you this bright day. Do come in and let me give you a rose. Papa will soon be down.And

"Do come in and let me gl'jc yuu rune." she opened the gate and held forth one long, Blim hand. He took it slowly, as though in a dream, raising his forage cap at the same time, yet making uo reply. Ho was looking at her far more closely tluiu he imagined. How fresh, how radiant, how fair and gracious and winning! Every item of her attire was so pure and white and spotless every fold and curve of her gown seemed

charged with subtle, delicate fragrance, as faint and sweet as the shy and modest wood violet's. She noted his silence and his haggard eyes. She noted the intent gaze, and the color mounted straightway to her forehead "And have you no word of greeting for me?" she blithely laughed, striving to break through the awkwardness of his reserve, 'or are you worn out with your night watch as officer of the day?"

He fairly started. Had she seen him then? Did she k^pw it was ho who stood beneath her window he who leaped in chaso of that scoundrel he who stole away with that heavy telltale ladder? And knowing all this, could she stand there smiling in his faoe, tho incarnation of maiden innocence and, beauty? Impossible! Yet what could she mean? "How did you know I had so long a vigil?" he ."viked, and the cold, strained tone, tho half averted eyes, the pallor of his faco, all Btruck her at once. Instantly her manner changed. "Oh, forgive me, captain. I see you are all worn out, and I'm keeping you here at tho gate. Come to the piazza and sit down. I'll tell papa you are here, for I know you waut ro see liiia." And she tripped lightly away before he could iply and rustled up tho stairs. He could hear her light tap at the colonel's door aud hi* soft .cleat, fl«telike voice,

"Pupa, Captain Chester Is hero to peo you." Pap:i, indeed! She spoke to him and of him as though ho wore her own. Ho treated her us though she ware his flesh and blood—as though lie loved her devotedly. Even before she came had not they been prepared for this? Did not Mrs. Maynard tell him that Alice had become enthusiastically devoted to her stepfather atid considered him the most knightly anil chivah ic hero she had ever seen? He could hear the colonel's hearty and loving tone in reply, and then she came fluttering down again. "Papa will be with you in five minutes, captain. But won't you let me give you soiuo coffee? It's all ready, mid yon look so tired, even ill. I "I have had a bad night, heanswered, "but I'm growing old and cannot stand sleeplessness as you young people seem to."

Was she faltering? Ho watched her eagerly, narrowly, almost wonderingly. I Not a trace of confusion, not a sign of fear, and yet had he not seen her and that other figure? "I wish yon could sleep as I do," was tho prompt reply. "I was in the land of dreams 10 minutes after my head touched the pillow, and mamma made me come homo early last night because of our journey today. You know we are going down to visit Aunt Grace, I Colonel May nurd's sister, at Lake Sab-

Ion, and uiiimiua wanted me to bo looking my freshest and best," she said, I "and 1 never heard a thing till reveille."

His eyes, sad, penetrating, doubting, yet self doubting, too, searched her very soul. Unflinchingly the dark orbs looked into his, even pityingly, for she quickly spoke again: "Captain, do eomo into the breakfast room and have some coffee. You havenot breakfasted, I'm sure." lie raised his hand as though to repel her otter, men to put 1#T aside. Ho must understand her. He could not he hoodwinked in this way. "Pardon me, Miss Renwick, but did you hear nothing strange last night or early this morning? Wen? you not disturbed at all?" "1? No, indeed!" True, her face had changed now, but there was no fear in her eyes. It was a look of apprehension, perhaps of concern and curiosity mingled, for his tone betrayed that something had happened which caused him agitation. "And you heard uo shots fired?" "Shots! No! Oh, Captain Chester, what does it mean? Who was shot? Tell me!"

Then what was there for him to say?: The colonel's footsteps were upon the stair, and the colonel, with extended1 hand and beaming face and cheery welcome, came forth from the open doorway. "Welcome, Chester! I'm glad you've come just in time for breakfast. Mrs. Maynard won't be down. She slept: badly last night and is sleeping now. What was the firing last night? I did not hear it at the time, but the orderly and ob.i Maria, tie* eook, were discussing it as I was shaving. "It is that I came to see you about, colonel. I am the man to hold responsible. "No prisoners got away, I hope?" "No, sir. Nothing. 1 fear, that would seem to justify mv action.. I ordered No. to (ire. "Why, what on earth could have happeued around there—almost back of US?" said the colonel in surprise. "I do not know what had happened

or what was going to happen." And Chester paused a moment tuid glanced toward the door, through which Miss Renwick had retired as soon as tho colonel arrived. The old soldier seemed to understand the glance. "She would not listen," he said proudly. "I know," explained Chester. "I think it liest that no one but you should hear anything of tho matter for tho present until I have investigated further. It was nearly half past 3 this! morning as I got around here on u's post, insjii-cting sentinels, and came suddenly :i the darkness upon a man I carrying a ladder on his shoulder. I or- I dered him to halt. The reply was a violent blow, and the ladder and I wore dropped ut tho same instant, while the man sprung into space and darted or? in the direction of No. 5. I followed quick as I could, heard tho challenge and the cries of halt and shouted to Lean- to fire. He did, but missed his aim in tho haste and darkness, and the man got safely away. Of course there is much talk and speculation about it around the post this morning, for sevoral people heard the shots besides tho guard, and, although I told Learv and others to siy nothing, I know it "is al- I ready generally known." "Oh, well, como in to breakfast," said the colonel. "We'll talk it over there.'' "Pardon me, sir, I cannot. I must get back home before guard mount, and Rollins is probably waiting to see mo now. I—I could not discuss it at the table, for there are sonic, singular features about tho matter." "Why, in God's name, what?" asked the colonel, with a sudden and deep anxiety. "Well, sir, :ni oflicer of tho garrison is placed in a compromising position by this affair and cannot or will not explain. "Who?" "Mr. Jerrold, sir." "Jerrold! Why, I got a note from him not 10 minutes ago snyiuK he had ail engagement in town and asking permission to go before guard mounting, if Mr. Hall was. ready. Hall wanted to go with him, .Ten-old wrote, but Hail luus not applied for permission to leavo the post" "It is Jerrold who is compromised, colonel. I may be all wrong in my suspicions, all wrong in reporting the matter to you at all, but in my perplexity and distress I see no other way. Frankly, the moment I caught sight of the man he looked like Jerrold, and two minutes after the shots wero fired I inspected Jerrold's quarters. He was not there, though/the lamps were burning very

low to the ncrtroom, and his tied had not been occupied it all. When you see Learv,'sir, he will tell you that he also thought it must bo Mr. Jerrold." "The youug scapegrace! Been off to town, I suppose.'' "Colonel," said Chester quickly, "you—not I—must decide that. I went to his quarters after reveille, and he was then there and resented my visit and questions, admitted that he had been out during the night, but refused to make any statement to me. "Well, Chester, I will haul him up after breakfast. Possibly ho had been up to the rifle camp or had driven to town after tho doctor's party. Of course that must be stopped, but I'm glad you missed him. It of course staggers a man's judgment to be knocked down, but if you had killed him it might have been as serious for you as this knockdown blow will be for him. That is tho worst phase of the matter. What could ho have been thinking of? llo must have been either drunk or mad, and he I rarely drank. Oh, dear, dear, dear, but that's very bad—very bad—striking the officer of the dav! Why, Chester, that's the worst thing that's happened in the I regiment since I took command of it

It's about the worst thing that could have hapjwned to us. Of course ho must go in arrest. I'll see the adjutant right after breakfast. I'll bo over early, Chester. And with gravo and worried face the colonel bade him adieu.

As he turned away Chester hoard him saying again to himself, "About the worst thing ho could have done—tho worst thing ho could have done!" And tho captain's heart sank within him. What would the colonel say when he knew how far, far worse was the foul wrong Mr. Jerrold had done to him and his?

CHAPTER V1L

Before guard mounting, almost half an hour before his usual time for appearing at the oflico, Colonel Maynard hurried into his desk, sent tho orderly for Captain Chester, and then the clerks in tho sergeant major's room

And now, with paling face and wild apprehension in lxTeves, she turned and gazed beyond him, past the vines and tho shady veranda, across the sunshine of the parade and under tho old piazza, searching that still closed and darkened window. "Who?" she implored, her hands clasping nervously, her eyes returning eagerly to his face. "It was not JVIr. Jerrold, he answered coldly. "He is unhurt, so far as shot is concerned.'' "Then how is he hurt? Is ho hurt at all?" she persisted, and then as she met his gaze her eyes fell, and the burning blush of maiden shame surged up to her forehead. Sho sank \ipun a seat, and covered her face with her hands. "I thought of Mr. Jerrold naturally. He said he would be over early this morning, was all she could find to say. "I have seen him and presume lie will come. To all appearances, lie is the last man to suffer from last night's affair," he went on relentlessly, almost brutally, but she never winced. "It is odd you did not hear tho shots. I thought yours was the northwest room—this one," he! indicated, pointing overhead. "So it is, and 1 slept there all lastnight and heard nothing—not- a thing. Do toll mo what the trouble was.

heard him closo and lock the door. As the subject of the shooting was already under discussion among tho men there assembled, this action on the part of

the chief was considered highiv significant. It was hardly five minutes before Chester came, looked surprised at fiuding the door locked, knocked and was admitted.

The look on the haggard face at tho desk, the dumb misery in the eyes, tlie wrath and horror in it all, carried him back 20 years to that gloomy morning in the cacmatos when the story was passeil around that Captain Maynard had lost a wife and an intimate friend during the previous night. Chester saw at a glance that, despite his precau-

tions, the blow had come, the truth been revealed at one fell swoop. "Lock the door again, Chester, and come here. I have some questions to ask you.''

The captain silently took the chair which was indicated by a wave of the colonel's hand and waited. For a moment no word more was spoken. The old soldier, white and trembling strangely, reseated himself at the desk and covered his face with his hands. Twice he drew them with feebly stroking movement over his eves as though to rally the stunned faculties and face tho trying ordeal. Then a shiver passed tlirough his frame, and with sudden lift of the head ho fixed his gaze on Chester's face and launched the question:

"Chester, is there any kindness to a man who has been through what I havo in telling only half a talc, as vou have done?"

Tho captain colored red. "I am at a loss to answer you, colonel," ho said after brief reflection. "You know far more than you did half an hour ago, and what I knew I could not bear to tell you as yet.'' "My God, my God! Tell mo all and toll mo at once. Here, man, if you need itimulant to your indignation and cannot speak without it, read this. I found it, open, among the rosebushes in the garden, where sho must have dropped it when out there with you. Read it. Tell me what it means, for, God knows, 1 can't believe such a thing of her."

He handed Chester a sheet of note paper. It was moist and blurred on tho first page, but the inner pages, though damp, wero in good condition. The first, second and third pages were closely covered in a bold, nervous hand that Chester knew well. It was Jcrrold's writing beyond a doubt, and Chester's face grew hot as lie read, and his heart turned cold as stone when ha finished tho last hurried line:

MY DAHI.IXC-I must see you, if only for a moment, before you leave. I)o not let this alarm you, for the more I think the more I am convinced it is only a IjintT, but Captain Chester discovered my absence early this morning when spyiiiK around as usual, and now ho claims to have knowledge of our secret. Even if he was on tiie terrace when I KOt back it was too dark for him to recognize me, and it seems inqxtssible that he cr.n have got any real clew. He suspects, iterhaps, and thinks to force me to confession, hut 1 would cuanl your name with my life. Be wary. Act as thouiih there were nothing on earth between us, and if we cannot meet until then I will be al the dejiot witli the others to see you off, and will then have a letter ready with full particulars and Instruclions. It will lie In the first thing 1 hand to you. Hide it until you can safely read it. Your mother must not. be allowed a Khmmerof suspicion, and then you are safe. As for me. even Chester cannot make the colonel turn against me now. My jealous one, my tlery sweetheart, do you not realize now that I was wise in showing her so much attention? A thvisand kisses. Como what may, they cannot roll us of the past.

IIOWAUO.

I fear you beard and were alarmed by the shots Just after 1 left you. All was quiet when I got home.

It was some seconds before Chester could control himself sufficiently to speak. "I wish to God the bullet had gone tlirough his heart!" lie said. "It has gone through mine—through mine! This will kill her mother. Chester," cried the colonel, springing suddenly to his feet, "she must not know it. She must not dream of it. I tell you it would stretch her in the dust, dead, for she loves that child with all her strength, with all her being, I believe, for it is two mother loves in one. She had a son, older than Alice by several years, her firstborn—her glory ho was —but the boy inherited tho father's passionate and impulsive nature. He loved a girl utterly beneath him and would have married her when he was only 20. There is no question that ho loved her well, for he refused to give her up, no matter what his father threatened. Tliey tried to buy her off, and sho scorned them. Then they had a letter written, while he was sent abroad under protonso that lie should have his will if lie c.vnc back in a year unchanged. By Jove, it seems she tvas as much in love as he, and it broke her heart. She went off and (lied somewhere, and lie came back ahead of time because her letters had ceased and found it all out. There was an awful scene. He cursed (hem both— father and mother—and left her senseless at his foot, and from that day to this they never heard of him, never could get the faintest report. It broke Renwick—killed him, I guess, for he died in two years, and, as'for the mother, you would not think that a woman so apparently full of life and health was in desperate danger. Sho had some organic trouble with the heart years ago, they tell her, and this experience has developed it so that now any great emotion or sudden shock is perilous. Do you not see how doiffely fearful thiB comes

to us? Chaster, havo ^veathorort ono awful storm, but I'm old and broken now. This—this beats me. Tell me what to do."

The captain was silent a few moments. He was thitaking intently. "Does she know you havo that letter?" he asked.

Maynard shook his head. "I looked back as I came away. She was in the parlor singing softly to herself at tho very moment I pioked it up, lying opon as it was right there among the roses, tho first words staring mo in the face I meant not to read it—'nover dreamed it was for her—and had turnod over tho page to look for the superscription. There was none, but there I saw tho signature and that postscript about tho shots. That startled me, and I read it hero just before you camo and then could account for your conduct—somethiug I could not do before. God of heaven, would any man believe it of her? It is incredible! Chester, tell mo everything you know now—oven everything you suspect. I must see my way clear.''

And then the captain, with halting and reluctant tongue, told his story— how he had stumbled on tho ladder back of tho colonel's quarters and learned from No. 6 that some ono had been prowling back of bachelors' row how ho returned there afterward, found tho ladder at the side wall and Baw the tall form issue from her window! how he had given, ohase and been knockod breathless, and of his suspicions and Leary's as to the identity of the stranger.

The colonel bowed his head still deeper and groaned aloud. But ho had still other questions to ask. "Did you see—anyone olse at tho window?" "Not while he was there.'' "At any time, then—before or after?" And tho colonel's eyes would take no denial. "I saw," faltered Chester, "nobody. The shade was pulled up, while I was standing there, after I had tripped on the ladder. I supposed the noise of my •tumble had awakened her.'' "And was that all? Did you see nothing more?''

"Colonel, I did see afterward a woman's hand and arm olosing tho shade. "My God I And she told mo she slept the night through nover wakid or heard a sound!" "Did you hear nothing yourself, colonel?" "Nothing. When she came homo from tho party, sho stopped a moment, saying something to him at tho door, then came into tho library and kissed mo good night. I shut up tlie house and went to bed about half past 12, and her door was closed when I wont to our room." "So there were two closcxl doors, yours and hers, and tho broad hall between you?" "Certainly. Wo have the doors open all night that lead into the roar rooms and their windows. This gives us abundant air. Alice always has tho liall door closed at night." "And Mrs. Maynard, was sho asleep?" "No. Mrs. Maynard was lying awake and seemed a liitle restless and disturbed. Some of the women had been giving her some hints about Jerrold andrfretting her. "V on know she took a strange fancj to him at the start.. It was simply bo

at re a ha os iibout the nhots."

cause ho reminded her so strongly of tho boy sho had lost. She told mo so. But after a little sho began to discover traits in liim she did not like, and then his growing intimacy with Alice worried her. She would havo put a stop to the doctor's pa-ty, to her going with him, I mean, but tho engagement was made some days ago. Two or three days since sho warned Alice not to trust him, sho says, and it is really as much 011 this as any other account that wo deoided to get her away, off to see her Aunt Grace. Oh, God! How blind wo are 1 How blind wo are!" And poor old Maynard bowed his head and almost groaned aloud.

Chester rose, and in bis characteristic way began tramping nervously up and down. There was a knock at the door. "Thondjuttuit'K compliments, and 'twas time for guard mount. Would the colonel wish to see him before ho went out?'' asked the orderly. "I ought to go, sir," said 'liester. "I am old cifliecr of the day, and there will be just time ft.r me to get into full uniform. "Let tlv on without yon," said Maynard. "1 cannot spare you now. Send word to th effect. Now—now about lliis mail—this Jcrrohl. What Is the best thi: we can do? Of course I know what lie jn.ist deserves, but what is the best thing under all the circumstances? Of eoar: my wifo and Alice will leave today. Hhu was still sleeping when I left, and, pray God, is not dreaming of this. It was nearly 3 before sho closed her eyes hist night, and I, too, slept badly. You havo seen him. What does ho say?"

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50 pes Pr neess Cashmeres for tennis and (l/ outing costumes, worth 15c, per yd. ..1Vv 10 pes dark grouud one-half wool Chal- 70f lies iJC-ln. wide, worth 25c, per yd 50 pes of our best Scotch /ephjrsand Freuch

Novelty ginghams all good values at I Zp 25c, this sale, per yd

25 pes beautiful designs Satin black grounds 32 inches wide, worth 12V6 ceuts, this llo sale, per yd 2^

Friut Department.

100 pes white ground lawns with black and browu figures, the usual 5 cents kind, ?)1p this sale, per yd "2L 25 pes good calico like some »ur neigh- Jlp bors ask 5 cents for, In this sale, per yd^2^ 100 pes tlie haudsomest designs cotton ehallies wo have ever sold, worth 04, this 4/» .sale, per yd 50 pes fancy prints 2(H)

pes good Indigo blue

prints worth 5 to 7 cents, this sale, per

yard

Head the Print Pnoes.

500 pi'S tbo bost. pr.uts made iu America, lu" cluilluir Simpson black and gray wouin-^f lugs, worth In any store, price per yd

Domestics.

The ready response of hundreds of shrewdest shopiers wilt be noticed lu our domestic department* Here is the reason why: IlenvjMirown cotton tlannel, good value Olp at per yard nine and brown Denims worth l.'ic, In this sale, per yd

Stnpie check ginghams, tiilssale

Extra heavy blue and white atrine fe±tlier ttcklug worth lU»,c, this sale per yd

,'i-l inch wool cassimeres in gray and browu mixed, worth S0c, in tnis sale... ''i

SO pes blue and brown plaid shirting 24 pea staple check apron gingham worth I 5c, In tills sale 50 pes rast color plaid shirting worLli GV4 20 pes good style domets 160 pes best

worth K^c, in

10U pes 30-in. heavy shirting plaid, fast /. 1 colors, worth SMc.ln this sale

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Johnson Book-fold gingham, staple check, extra tine, worth 1214c, lu this 7„1 sale '*-8 9 4 wide brown sheeting- worth lti" in til's sale .f '-1* I'epperrell brown and excellent bleach muslin worth TVS, in tills sa'e. per yd Full yard wide brown muslin worth 5c, Ql„ at this sale "2^ Lawrence I. 36 Inch brown muslin, 11„ worth OMc, at Cabot and liopo bleached muslin, worth 8Mc. at "4*T,on.sdaIe,Mosonvllle and Fruit.bleached worth 10c "Mi Lonrtdjtlocambric worth l'-Hc at (J

Read the Domestio Prices.

1-000 cotton batts for comforts worth KMc. Ill this sale 1,000 lbs. carpet wrap, all colors, 15c, 71|^ white, this sale

White Goods and Linens.

The busiest corner in tho store will lie this department while this sale lasts. The wherefore rests in these clearing sale prices: 20 pes extra tine dotted Swisses In pure white and solid shades, white with colored dots, the same goods we have sold at 25c, tills sale, per yard

10 dozen extra large brown Turkish towels 23 dozen assorted linen towels

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worth 15c to 20c at "'2 50 dozen Turkey red napkins worth uc \r goat '7 100 pcslO ln. plaid glass crash red amlf. l„ blue check worth 12)4, go at "41* 10 pes plaid and striped white goods. very proper for aprons and dresses all ftp tho 15c and 20c styles go at

Promptness

In Plumbing

5 dozen flee and large bleach and brown Turkish towels 20 dozen flne linen towels with colored borders, knotted) Qr fringe, worth 25c to 35c

20 pes 18-ln Harnsley crash worth 12fcio at»H 20 pes 10-Inch Barnsley craah7lr worth 10c at

Bead the White Goods and Linen Prices. 10 pes fanoy plaid Turkey Hod table lin-l'lp en 58-in, worth 31c, at pes extra heavy 50c unbioacbed tableQ 0r linen 58 Inches wldein 3 designs at... Best 5-4 table oil cloth worth 20c, 0

In this sale *"2^

ONLY. We sell too cheap to charge to any one.

Is a rare virtue, But we have it.

WILLIAMS BROS.

121 South Gram Street.

Next to THE JOURNAJ, Building.

LOUIS BISCHOF

A few more weeks and the Spring and Summer business ot '94 will be history—its most important event—our Great Clearing Sale. We won't speak of the weather, but of the highest grade Dry Goods, in many instances less than cost.

Successful Storekeeping

Does not mean gigantic profit—it means doing business—continually—constantly—selling

seasonable goods—even at a loss—before holding them over for many months. We

are successful storekeepers and will sell thousands of dollars worth of sea

sonable stuff at even less than cost, while you most want them.

This is the argument for the great

DISCOUNT CLEARING SALE-

Dress Goods.

In this sale we will offer some ot tho bost values ever shown In this cltv. Our word us successful storekeepers backs this statement.. lOpcsJJH-in wide all wool strge, good shades 10 pes fancy novelty suiting forroery sold at 50c, In this sale. per2()c

50 pes English worsted cashmeres In all shades in hiding black, regular priceKL* 25c, In this sale per yard 5 pes 50-tn wide black silk warp glorias worth 0"c, In this sale per yard

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10 pes black silk grenadlue worth i*1.0OiQ,-» lu this sale per yard "t /t,

Bead the Dress Goods Prices.

10 pes t4-ln fancy mixed suitings In grey and browu ciTects worth 15c, In (W.1 thls*ala,per yard UU4IGood yard wldeselesia and percallnes in all sh-dos, worth 15c, in tills saleper|Qc

Louis Bischof.

Only two ways to run a business—a right and a wrong way—years of success, of progress, convinces us that this is the right way. Every department manager has his orders, every salesman aud saleslady will be alert, every price is a trade winner.

"Make flay While the San Shines." Is a maxim to be applied with peculiar force to the dry goods business. Hut "hay malting'" time is passed— now is Clearing Out time—and for the balance of the season 15 per cent, 20 per cent, 25 per cent and even 50 per cent will drop from the prices of every article in all our departments. Our patrons will buy cheaply. Our stock will be reduced. The object desired— turning merchandise into cash—will be accomplished.

Bead the ftotion Prioss.

Good stockinet dre?s shields worth 15c, at 7c. Horn dress stays, all lengths, worth 10c a dozen, at 4c.

Good quality spring curllug irons worth lOo, ut 0c. Adamantine pins, 200 lu paper, 2 papers for lc.

Good quality safety pins, large size 2c a doz, small size lc. Pure castllc soap, iloats on water, 2 cakce for 5c.

Nice white pearl button, all sizes, worth K'c a dozen at 5c. Large size satteeu ties, all shades, worth 10c at 5c.

Your smallest wlsn is as much thought of here asyour greatest desire—we neglect nothing. 200 good quality- all bristle bone handle tooth brushes worth 15c, at 8c.

Large papers brass mourning plus or steel with jet heads., worth 5c at 2c. 500 yards spools basting thread worth 5c, 3 spools for 5a

Best darning cotton, all colors and black, worth lOcadozen at 5c.

Don't forget the above are only a few items selected at random and only a sample of

our bargain prices. Every item in our store will be sold at a discount price. Come to us for

your wants and save money. During this great discount sale all goods will be sold FOR CASH

"The Big St re." 127-129 E. Main St.

C.M.SCOTT,

Fire, Life and Accident

INSURANCE,

Real Estate and Loan Agent.

Agent for the Bartlett Hmdery. Any weekly newspapers desired. Agent for tlie State Building and Loan Association of Indiana. Call on me for rubber stamps, stencils, seals, house numbers, accident tickets. Office over Keeney's drug store, south Washington st., Crawfordsville, Ind.

liadies' Waists.

All of our beautiful waists—of percales, of lawns, of zephyrs, they all go at the discount prices. 10 do/, ladles waists In satin and perct'le pattern, prints light and dark styles.OH^ worth 40c, at /C lOdoz ladles'waists uiado of best percales and Scotch lawns, elotrant stylesCO^ at 75c, go at 00C

Hosiery*

nischof's way of doing the hosiery business Is decidedly original. Hosiery is supposed to be staple st ck, perhaps it Is, nevertheless superior hosiery gets a severe marr down at the clearing sale. 100 doz. ladles' fancy stripe and boot pattern hosiery, extra flne guage In all shades and black boot worth 20c «ndf t)l~ 25c per pair go at 1 500 doz. ladies'. Misses' and children's hose In black, solid colors and fancy stripes 100'doz. men's mix half hosiery

worth 8c to 10c, tills sale.. VuC 25 doz. ladles' Lisle thread hoslery.every shado and black neatly omhroidered, regular 35c and GOciiuallty in thls sa^j^

50 doz. ladh s'Misses'aud Infants' hosei In black and colors worth 25c lu this 01^ sale at 1 25 doz. odds aud ends children's fast

Muck hose worth 20e and 25c per palrl In this sale IUC. Bead the Hosiery Prices. 10 box. ladies' silk plaited hose in allto,, colors worth 11.00 at 5(i doz. ladles'and Misses'fast black liosc|Q„ worth 25c at* I7C 5 doz. mou's half hoBe In Uslo anil Unef)Q„ cotton worth 40e and 50cat

Gloves and Mitts.

0 doz. damaged kid gloves like we have offered so many times before, and you were so glad get, of the 11.00 U)((U 12.00 (]uiuity at 50 doz. ladies', pure silk mlt»s, black, our')Q/, regular 35c qualitv In this sale at .... £i)C

Bead the Glove Prices.

Ladies' silk gloves. 75c qualitv at 50e 0»„ 50o quality at 35c 35c quality at......

fans, Bib bona and Hosiery.

1,000 yds Jaconet embrolderv. 8 Inches wide, iu 20 patterns, worth 20c at 500 Japanese paper fans in Tall shades.AC,* worth 10c at "0C 1,ono yds Jaconet embroidery. 12 to 151 iuches wide, the 25c and 30c kinds at..1 500 Jap paper folding fans in beautifuiftU,, grays anu light shades, 15c gcods at...."^

Bead the Prices.

About 500 vsall 6llk ribbons, Nos. 4, 5.All^

and 0, worth 5c to 15c a yd at

Underwear.

The high quality ot our underwear does not exempt them from clearing sale prices, so here you are: 3 styles ladles gauze vests, short sleeves, low necks, fancy silk embroidery arounil()„ neck,worth 12^c to 15c, In this sale 2 stylos ladles gauze vests, short sleeves, low neck, beautitully finished, worth 20c, I in this sale 1L?

Bead the Underwear Prioes.

Ladles gauze vest«,good quality, worth 101, at *C 4 style ladles vests, low necks, short sleev also long sleeves gcods, either are good9S„ value at 35c, at.... tiJC Men's gauze underwear the same excellent quality we have Deen selling at 35c, lniK„ this sale iJC

Umbrellas.1

Also parasols—a very considerable throughout tho line—and those umbrellas the neatest made in allCrawfordsville. 100 extra quality gloria umbrellas with paragon trameand natural stick handles, an excellent article well wortbtf (k $1.50, aud we sell them at J)1.1 100 best English gloria silk umbrellas last color, natural stick handles with gold trimmings. You would think thoinlT

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cheap at£2.0tj, go at ^1.47 Bead the Umbrella Prices. 50 English gloria silk umbrellas with fancy bone, celluloid and metal hand-ff 4 7(1 les, beautiful 12.50 umbrellas at 4II.1

lso parasols at cost and less.

Special for this department. 25 ladles' mackintoshes with caps, odds andffl Oil ends of goods that were »3 to 13.5(1 atj)"'""

Some Specials.

10 do/, men's dotnet shirts, light color and weight, all sizes, that were 25e,arel now L1C All our men's shins In douiet, percale, madras aud oxfords that were 50t*,aroin_ now tvt

Bead the Prices.

10 dozen ladles' all leather belts that aref 11„ worth 25c and 35c go at I vC

Curtains and Draperies.

25 prs Chenille portiers with wide dados and heavy Jringe,all shades,that wercffQ $5,00, are now $)•£) 25 pes assorted curtain SwissesembrolU- ZZZZ2 ered in various designs and sold foHA^ 25c to 35c at "C 100 4-4andO-4 Chenille table covers, |(L the regular 75c and $1.00 goods goat*'^ 1(K) pes best dctous worth 15c, and 10 pes lancv colors drapery satlnes 3G-in.4 A,, worth 1076c, are now vt

Bead the Drapery Prices.

30 Inch slikolines that were 15c are lie 91,, 30 inch in 10%arenow *^2^ :t0 inch all silk draperies that have sold*)Q„ for 75c are u7t 100 large size Bates bread spread thatUC„ are worth 11.25 at OvC

ABSTRACT BOOKS,

A. C. Jennlson'a abstraot books oont*ln copy of every deed of record to every. tract at luiid In tho oouiity, ua well to avary. ixuatlsUcxl mortgage or lien. Ills twenty- yean expurlonoe, aided by these unrivaled furtllMes In tracing titles enable him to claim ttiat hto oflico Is tho best plaoe to have Deeds, Mortgage! I .eases and Contracts prepared, as well as reliable Abstracts of Title. MONEY TO LOAN BBAfc BSTATB AND

INSUHANCB AGENT.

O. U. PERRIN,

LAWYER

Will practice in Federal or State courts. Office," Suite 2, Crawford lllulldlng, aoutli Green Street.