Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 July 1894 — Page 2

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30, 1S94.

Tin Dallas (Texas) Heirs, a Democratic paper, hits the nail ou the head when it says: "The Democratic party is apparently down with a chronic case of disintegration.''

LL signs point to another disagreement in the conference on the tariff bill between the two Houses. The Mouse members will stand by the 1 "resident and the Senators will support Senator Gorman. Whichever wins the measure will reek with scandal.

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l'rankfort Crcsroi/ says the

House will surrender to the Senate, the conference committee will agree, their report will be adopted, President Cleveland will sign the bill, aud that will be the beginning of what will ultimately be the end—free tnulc mul .cct Uixntiun. The Democracy should be honest enough to put this in their vdatfurm.

I'MKSIIIK.NT CI.EVKI.AND

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out such fellows as (Jurman and giving the country a chance to see just what kind of Democrats they are.— Artjus-yctcs.

The smoking out process seems to be a two handed game, anil the country will get to see what kind of Democrats botli the President and Gorman are. It will be the Senate bill or nothing.

the long and verbose letter which Congressman Brookshire wrote to the Covington Convention lie could name but one tiling which this Congress had done aud that was the repeal of the Federal election law, a law that was practically a dead letter before it was repealed. Why he steered clear of the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the the Sherman law it is vain to imagine unless it was for the reason that about three-fourths of the Demo-1 cratie constituents and all of the Populists were opposed to repeal. This is a lender subject with many of his followers and no person was better aware of it than Vorv.

A T11HEATKXE1) lil.M.IIT. Jlr. ISrookshire, in his letter to the Covington convention, says

I think that within the next twenty days we will rid the statutes of our country of some of the most objectionable legislation ever enacted by any political party in this country. •./•This of course refers to the McKinIcy tariff law. That act as it stands on the statute books represents the broadest statesmanship. It extended the free list, reducing the average ad valorem rate on all imported mercliandise to a tritie over 'JO per cent, it gave the masses of the people the great bxirn of free sugar. It reduced the duties wherever it was possible to do BO

without injury to American manufactures. It fearlessly increased duties wherever by so doing it was possible to establish on this side of the Atlantic an industry employing American labor and American capital. It strengthened the administration of the custom laws by substituting specific for ad valorem duties, thereby decreasing the possibilities of fraud. It adjusted rates of duties to the needs of business with the one patriotic aim'of employing the largest amount of American capital or the greatest number of American I artisans for the benefit of .the home market. No sooner was this iaw enacted, which Mr. ISrookshire is I pleased to term "most objectionable I legislation." than the cnrrerit began to run in our direction—the direction of the United States. Mills, factories and workshops began to spring up all over the country. Many large industries moved their entire plant to the United States. The manufacture of tin plate, of various other inetals. of pearl buttons, of lace, of plush aud a hundred other commodities was established. Wages stiffened. Additional hands were employed. New factories were built. The country as everybody knows was prosperous. The working classes were employed. To say that the McKinley law increased the cost of anything cannot for an instant be sustained, for it is admitted that never in the history of the country has the American workman been able to purchase so much for a given sum of money as during this period. Had the Melvinley law been allowed to stand, with no threat hanging over the country for its repeal, this prosperity would have continued. The present depression and industrial ruin would have been averted. Instead of McKinleyism, with its prosperity, its high wages and abundant work, the Nation is now threatened with the blight of lirookshireism. The very heart's core—its industries—are to be destroyed. The wages of labor, so free trade organs coldly announce, must be reduced. They are too high, they proclaim. If ridding the statutes of this "most objectionable legislation" and the passage of either the Senate or the House bill means ruin, why ruin it must be. The wiping out of this legislation means shrinkage of values, reduced \vage£, men and women out of employment, ruined manufactures, closed workshops. If Mr. Brookshire is "proud of the record of the Democratic party" during the past year and a half his -pride is easily satiated.

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I would not climb the mountain high. Ah, nol Those dizzy steps let others try Lot swift ami strong both iiass me by In vales of calm humility

Content I'll no.

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Love Above All.

Whether climbing life's hill by a stony path Or calmly treading the vale below. With cheerful content she will meet her lot ll a true heart loves her aud tells her so.

You may give her your houses, your lauds, your gold Failing the Jewel of love to bestow, She'll envy the poorest woman she knows

Who has some one to love her and tells lierso. Adown her life stream she may peacefully glide

Or against the winds be forced to row Whatever befalls her she'll fearlessly face Beside one who loves her and tells her so.

Harriet Newell Swnuwick.

Sightseeing at Home.

He who wanders widest Lifts no more of Nature's jealous veil Than he who from his doorway sees The mysteries of flowers and trees. S" -Whittier.

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She looked suddenly in his face. Something in the very tone in which he spoke startled her—something deeper, more fervent, than she had ever heard before—and the expression iu the steady, deep blue eyes was another revelation. Alice ltenwick had a woman's intuition, and yet she had not known this nuui a day. The color again mounted to her temples, and her eyes fell after one quick glance. "I heard yuu joining in the Te Deurn," he urged, "fcing once more, I love it There, they are just beginning again. Do you know the words?"

She nodded, then raised her head, and her glad young voice caroled through the listening woods: "Holy, holy, holy! All

Heaven's triumphant choir shall sing, When the ransomed nations fall At the footstool of their King. Then shall saints and seraphim. Hearts and voices, swell one hymn Around the throne with full accord, Holy, holy, holy Lord:" There was silence when the music ceased. She had turned her face tuward the church, and as the melody died away in one prolonged, triumphant chord she still stood in reverent attjtilde, as though listening for the words of benediction. He, too, was silent, but his eyes were fixed on her. Ho was 85, she not SO. He had lived his soldier life wifeless but, like other soldiers, his heart had had its rubs and aches in the days gone by. Years before he had thought life a black void when the girl I be fancied while yet he wore the academic gray calmly told him she preferred I another. Nor had the intervening years I been devoid of their occasional yearnings for a mate of his own in the isola- I tioa of the frontier, of the monotony of I garrison life, but flitting fancies had left no trace upon his strong heart. The love of his life only dawned upon him I at this late day when he looked into her glorious eyes, and his whole soul went out in passionate worship of the fair girl whose presence made that sunlit lane a heaven. Were he to live a thousand years, no scene on earth could rival in his eyes the love haunted woodland pathway wiierein, like forest queen, she stood, the sunshine and leafy shadows ianeing over her graceful form, tho goldenrod enhancing her dark and glowing heautv, thesaered influences of tho day throwing their mystic charm about her as though angels guarded and shielded her from harm. His life had reached its climax. His fate was sealed. His heart and soul were centered in one sweet girl, aud all in one brief hour in the woodland lane at Sablon.

She could not fail to see the deep emotion in his eyes as at last she turned to break the silence. '"Shall we go?" she said simply. "It is time, but I wish we could remain." "You do not go to church very often at Sibley, do you?" "I have not heretofore, but you would teach me to worship." "You have taught me," lie muttered below his breath as ho extended a hand to assist her down the sloping bank toward the avenue. She looked up quickly once more, pleased, yet shy, and shifted her great bum.h of goldenrod so that she could lay her hand iu his and lean upon its steady strength down tho incline, and so, hand in hand, with old Dobbin ambling placidly l^hind, they passed ont from the shaded pathway to tho glow and radiance of tho sunlit road.

CHAPTER XII.

''Colonel Mayuard, I admit everything you say as to the weight of the evidence," said Frank Armitage 20 minutes later, "but it is my faith— understand me, my faith, I say—that she is utterly innocent.. As for that damnable letter, I do not believe it was ever written to her. It is some other woman." "What other is there, or was there?" was the colonel's simple reply. "That is what I mean to find out. Will you have my baggage sent after me tonight? I am going at once to the station, and thence to Sibley. I will write you from there. If the midnight visitor should prove to have been Jerrold, he can be made to explain. I have always held him to lie a conceited fop, but never either crack brained or devoid of principle. There is no time for explanation now. Goodby and keep a good lookout. That fellow may be here again."

And in an hour moro Armitage was skimming along the winding river^ide en route to Sibley. Ho had searched the train from pilot to rear platform, and no man who in the faintest degreo rosembled Mr. Jerroid was on board. Ho had wired to Chester that he wonld reach the fort that evening, but would not resume duty for a few days. He made another search through tho train as they neared the city, and still there was nono who in stature or appearanco corresponded with the descriptions given of tho sinewy visitor.

parade always at trnctcfl -a swarm OT visitors. A corporal ol tho guard, with a couple of n.en. was on hand to keep vigilant- eyes on the arrivals ami to persuade certain proscribed parties to reenter the cars and go on, should they attempt to revisit the post, and the faces of these were lighted up as thev saw their old adjutant, but none others of the garrison appeared. "Let us wait a moment and get these people out of the way," said Armitage. ?"I want to talk with vou. Is Jerroid Sbaek?" "Yes. He came in just 10 minutes after telegraphed to you, was present at inspection, mid.if it had not been for your dispatch this morning I should not have known he had remained out of quarters. Ho appeared to resent my having been to his quarters. Calls it spying, 1 presume." "What permission had he to be away?'' "I gave him leave to visit town on personal business yesterday afternoon.

Ho merely asked to bo nwny a few hours to meet friends in town, and Mr. Hall took tattoo roll call for him. As I do not require any other officer to report the time of his return, 1 did not exact it of him, but of course no man can be away after midnight without special permission, and he was gone all night. What is it, Armitage? Has lie followed her down there?" "Somebody was there last night aud capsized the colonel pretty much as he did you tho night of the bidder episode, said Armitage coolly. "By heaven, and I let him go!" "How do you know 'twas lie?" "Who else could it be, Armitage?" "That's what the colonel asks, but it isn't clear to me yet awhile." 'I wish it were less clear to me,'' said Chester gloomily. "Tho worst, is that tho story is spreading like a pestilcnoe all over tho post. The women have got hold of it. and there is nil manner of talk. I shouldn't bo surprised if JIi's. Hoyt had to bo taken violently ill. She has written to invito Miss Renwick to visit her, as it is certain that Colonel and Mrs. Mavnard cannot come, and Hoyt came to me in a horror of lynajc yesterday to know if there were tuiy, truth in the rumor tlrat- I had caught if man coming out of Mrs. Mgycard'? window tho other night. I W'juld tel| him nothing, and lie says the ladies declare they won't go to tho german if she does. Heavens! I'm thankful you are come. Tho tiling has been driving me wild these last 13 hours. I wanted to go away myself. Is she coming up?" "No, sho isn't, but let me say this, Chester—that whenever she is ready to return I shall be ready to escort her.

Chester looked at his friend in amazement and without speaking. "Yes, I see yon are astonished, but you may as well understand the situation. I have heard all the colonel could toll aud have even seen the letter, and since she left hero a mysterious stranger has appeared by night at Sablon, at the tottago window, though it happened to lie her mother's this time, and 1 don't believe Alice Renwick knows the first thing about it." "Armitage, are you in love?" "Chester, Iain iu my sound senses. Now come and show me tho ladder and where you found it and tell me the whole story over again. I think it grows interesting. One moment. Has he that picture yet?" "I suppose so. I don't know. In these last few days everybody is lighting shy of him. He thinks it is my doing and looks black and sulky at me, but is too proud or too much afraid of consequences to ask the reason of tlu cold shoulders and averted looks. Gray has taken seven days' leave and gone off with that little girl of his to place her with relatives in the east. He has heard tho stories, aud it is presumed that some of the women have told her. She was down sick here a day or two. "Well, now for tho window and the ladder. I want to see lie outside through your eyes, ai.d then 1 will view the interior with my own. The colonel bids me do so.''

Together they slowly climbed the long stairway leading up the face of the cliff. Chester stopped for a breathing spell more than oi'ce. "Y" on 're all out .of condition, man," 6aiil the younger captain, pausing impatiently. '.'What lias undone you?" "This trouble and nothing else. By gad, it has unstrung the whole garrison, 1 believe. You never saw our people fall off so in their shooting. Of course we expected Jerroid to go to pieces, but nobody else. "There were others that seemed to fall away too. Where was that- cavalry team that was expected to take the skirmish medal "away from us?" "Sound as a dollar, every man, with the single exception of their big sergeant. I don't like to make ugly comparisons with a man whom I believe to be I more than half interested in a woman, but. it makes me think of the old story about Medusa. One look at her face is I too much for a man. That Sergeant Mc-

Leod went to grass the instant he caught sight of her and never lias {ticked up since." "Consider me considerably more than half interesi.eu in me woman iu this case, (.'heater. Make all the comparisons that you like, provided they illumine matters as you are doing now, joid tell me more of this Serjeant McLeo l. What do you mean by ids catching sight of Iter and going to grass?" "I mean lie fell flat on his face tho moment he saw her and hasn't been in good form from that moment to this, The doctor says it's heart disease. "That's what the colonel says'troubles Mrs. Maynard. She was senseless and I almost pulseless wnne minutes last night. What, manner of man is Me-

Leod?" "A tall, slim, dark eyed, swarthy fellow, a man with a history anil a mystery, "I judge." "A man with a history, a mystery, who is tall, slim, has dark eyes and swarthy complexion and faints away at sight of Mi.-s Renwick might be said to possess peculiar characteristics, family traits, some of them. Of course you've kept an eye on McLeod. Where is he?"

Chester stood leaning on the rail, breathing slowly and heavily. His eyes dilated as ho gazed at Armitage, who was surveying him coolly, though tho tone in which he spoke betrayed a new interest and a vivid one. "I confess I never thought of him in connection with this affair, said Chester. "There's the one essential point of difference between us," was the reply. "Yon go in on the supposition tlTht, there is only one solution to this thing, and that a woman must, lit*, dishonored to bogin with. I believe there can be several solutions, and that there is only one

Late in the afternoon Chester received him as ho alighted from the train at the little station under the cliff. It was a beautiful day, aud numbers of people were driving or riding out to the fort, and the high bridge over the gorge was constantly resounding to the thunder of hoofs. Many others, too, had come pot on tfe3 trflip, fyr the evening dress

thing in tlw lot that is at all impossijble." "What's that?" "Miss Renwick's knowledge of that night's visitor or of any other secret or *iu. I mean to work other theories first, and the McLeod trail is a good one to «tart on. Where can I get, a look at him?" "Somewhere out in the Rockies by this time. He was ordered back to his troop five days ago, and they are out econting at this moment unless I'm yaijtly igistaken. Ypu have seen tho

morning dispatches?" "About tho Indians? es. Looks squally at tho Spirit Rock reservation. Do you mean that McLeod is there?" "That's where his troop ought to be by this time. There is too small a forco on the trail now, and more will have to go if a big outbreak is to be prevented. "Then ho has one, and 1 cannot see him. Let me look at the window then.

A few steps brought them to tho terrace, and there, standing by tho west wall and looking up at tho closed slats of the dormer window, Captain Chester retold the story of his night adventure. Armitage listened attentively, asking few questions. When it was finished, the latter turned and walked to the rear door, which opened on tho tcrraco. It was looked. "The servants are having a holiday, I presume,'' ho said. 'So much tho better Ask tho quartermaster for the key of the front door, and I'll go in while everybody is out looking at dress parade. Tliero goes first call now. Lot your orderly bring it to mo hero, will you?"

Ten minutes later, with beating heart, he stood and uncovered his handsome" head and gazed silently, reverently around him. He was in her room.

It was dainty ns her own dainty self. The dressing table, tho windows, tho

pretty white bed, the broad, inviting lounge, the work table and basket, the very wnshstand, wore all trimmed and decked alike, white and yellow prevailing. White lace curtains draped the window on tho west—that fateful window—and the two that opened out- on the roof of the piazza. White lnce curtains draped the bed, the dressing tablo and the waslistand. White lace or sonio equally flimsy aud fominino material hung about her bookshelves and Vorktablo aud over tho lounge, and bows of bright yellow ribbon wore everywhere, yellow pincushions and wall pockets hung about tho toilet table, soft yellow rugs lay at the bed and lounge side, and a sunshiny tone was given to the whole apartment by the shades of yellow silk that hung close to tho windows.

On the wall were some choice etchings aud a few foreign photographs. On tho bookshelves were a few volumes of poetry and the prose of George Eliot and our own Hawthorne. Hanging on pegs in the corner of tho simple army room, covered by a curtain, were some heavy outer garments, an ulster, a traveling coat and cape of English make aud one or two dresses that were apparently too thick to be used at this season of the year. He drew aside tho curtain one moment, took a brief glance at the garments, raised tho hem of a skirt to his lips and turned quickly away. A door led from the room to the one behind if, a spare bedroom evidently, that was lighted only from tho back of the house and had no side window at all. Another door led to the ball, a broad, old fashioned affair, and crossing this lie stood in. the big front room occupied by the colonel and his wife This was furnished almost as luxuriously, from an army point of view, as that, of Miss Renwick, but not in white and yellow.

Armitage smiled to sec the evidences of Mrs. Maynard's taste and handiwork on every side. In the years he had been the old soldier's adjutant nothing could have exceeded the simplicity with which the colonel surrounded himself. Now it was something akin to Sybaritisli elegance, thought the captain, but all the fame he made his deliberate survey. There was the big dressing tablo and bureau on which had stood that ravished picture, that photograph of the girl he loved which others wore able to speak of and one man to appropriate feloniously, while yet. he had never seen it. His impulse was to go to JorroM's quarters and take him by the throat and demand it of him, but what right had he? How knew he even that it was now there? In view of the words that Chester had used toward him, Jerroid must know of the grievous danger iu which lie stood. That photograph would prove most damaging evidence if discovered. Very probably, after yielding to his vanity, and showing it to Sloat, he meant to get it. hack. Very certainly, after hearing Chester's words, ho must have determined to lose no time in getting rid of it. He was iio fool if he was a coxcomb.

Looking around the half darkened room, Armitage lingered long over tho photographs which hung about tho dressing tablo and over tho mantel, several prettily framed duplicates of thoso already described as appearing in tho album. One after another lie took them in his hands, bore them to the window and studied them attentively. Somo I were not replaced without a long, lingering kiss. He had not ventured to disturb an item iti her room. He would not touch the knob of a drawer or at-: tempt to open anything she had closed, but here in quarters whore his colonel could claim joint partnership he felt less I sentiment, or delicacy. Ho closed the liftll door and tried tho lock, turning the knob to and fro. Then he reopened the door and swung it. upon its hinges. For a wonder neither lock nor hinges creaked. 'Die door worked smoothly and with little noise. Then he similarly tried the door of her n#m. It was in I equally good working order, quite free from squeak and complaint with which '. quartermasters' locks aud hingesaro apt to do their reluctant duty. The discoverv pleased him. It was possible for ono to open and close these portals noiseI lessly, if need be, and without disturbing sleepers in either room. 1 Returning to the east chamber, ho opened tho shades, so as to get more I light, and his eye fell upon an old album lying on a little table that stood by the bedside. There, was a night lamp upon the. table, too, a little affair that could hold only a thimbleful of oil and was intended evidently to keep merely a faint glow during the night hours.

Other volumes—a Bible, some, devotional books, like "The Changed Cross,'' and a hymnal or two—were also there, but the album stood most prominent, and Armitage curiously took it up and opened it.

There were only half a dozen photographs in the affair. It was rather a case than an album and was intended apparently for only a few family pictures. There was but one that interested him, aiid this lie examined intently, almost excitedly. It represented a little girl of !l or 10 years—Alice undoubtedly—with her arms clasped about the neck of a magnificent St. Bernard dog and looking up into the handsome feaI ttires of a tall, slender, dark 'ved, black haired boy of It! or thereabouts, and tho two were enough alike to be brother aud sister. Who, then, was this boy?

Armitage took the photograph to tho window and studied it carefullv. Parade was over, and the troops were marching back lo their quarters. Tho band was playing gloriously as it came tramping into the quadrangle, and tho captain cciuld not but glance out at his own old company as in compact column of fours it entered tho grassy diamond and swung off' toward the barracks. He saw a knot of officers, too, turning tho corner by the adjutant's office, and for a moment ho lowered the album to look.

Mr. Jerroid was not. of tho number that camo sauntering up tho walk-, dropping away by ones or twos as thoy rcached their/loors and unbuokled their beltB or removed their hclmetB in eager

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haste to get out of tho constraint of full dress. But in another moment Jerroid, too, appeared all alone, walking rapidly aud nervously. Armitage watohed him and could not but see how other men turned away or gave him the coolest possible nod as he passed. Tho tall, lender lieutenant was handsomer even than when ho last saw him, and yot there were gloom and worry on tho dark beauty of his faco. Nearer and nearer lie camo and had passed tho quarters of tho other officers and was almost at the door of his own when Arinitago saw a little, wiry soldier in full dress uniform running across the parade as though in pursuit. Ho recognized Merrick, one of tho scapegraces of his company, and wondered why he should be chasiug after his temporary commander. Just as Jerroid was turning under the piazza the soldier seemed to make himself heard, and the lieutenant, with an angry frown on his face, stopped and confronted him. ''I told you not to come to me again," ho said, so loud that every word was audihlo to the captain standing by tho open window above. "What do you mean, sir, by following me in this way?"

The reply was inaudible. Arinitago could see tho little soldier standing in tho respectful position of "attention," looking up and evidently pleading. "I won't do it until I'm ready," was again heard in Jerrold's angry tones, though this time tho lieutenant glanced about, as though to see if others wero within earshot. There was no ono apparently, and ho grew more confident. "You'vo been drinking again today, Merrick. You're not sober now, and I Won't give you money to get maudlin and go to blabbing secrets. No, sirl Go back to your quarters and stay there."

Tho little soldier must indeed have been drinking, as the lieutenant declared, Armitage saw that ho hesitated, instead of obeying at once, aud that his flushed face was angrily working, then that he was arguing with his superior and talking louder. This was contrary to all the captain's ideas of proper discipline, even though he was indignant at the officer for permitting himself to be placed in so false aud undignified a position. Jerrold's words, too, had acquired a wide significance, but they were feeble as compared with the sudden outburst that camo from tho soldier's lips: "By God, lieutenant, you bribed me to silence to cover your tracks, and then you refuse to pay. If you don't want mo to tell what I know, the sooner you pay that money the better."

This was more than Arinitago could stand. Ho went down stairs threo at a jump and out through tho colonel's garden with quick, impetuous steps. Jerrold's furious faco turned ashen at

Armitmjc t/tc phutfKjrnpli to the iclniloir mul ytiHlial it carcfully. tho sight, and Merrick, with one amazed and frightened look at his captain, faced about and slunk silently away. To him Armitage paid

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tion. It was to the officer he addressed himself "Mr. Jerroid, I have heard pretty much all this conversation. It simply adds to the, evil report with which you have managed to surround yourself. Stop into your quarters. I must seo you alone."

Jerroid hesitated. Ho was thunderstruck by the sudden appearanco of tho captain, whom he had believed to bo hundreds of miles away. Ho connected his return unerringly with tho web of trouble which had been weaving about him of late. Ho conceived himself to havo been most unjustly spied upon and suspected and was full of rosentnieut at the conduct of Captain Chester. Cut Chester was an old granny, who sometimes mado blunders and had to back down. It was a different thing when Armitage took hold. Jerroid looked sulkily into the clear, stern, bluo eyes a moment, and tho first impulse of rebellion wilted. He gave ono irresoluto glance around tho quadrangle, then motioned with his hand to the open door. Something of tlio old, jaunty,

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Wash Goods.

With hundreds of yards of these worthy wash goods leaving tho house daily—down go the pricesone-ijuarter aud more. 100 pes dross stylo glughams, plaids, stripes and plalu colors, all good styles, worth 8V 'j, and they go iu this sale, per yard dt 10 pes 3(Mi). Pampas cloth, very line pes fine wool CuallieR, light colors, worth lOrii to 00 cents, In this sale, por yd J2^0

50 pes long cloth 15 pes beautiful Thibet cloth for wrappers 100 pes dress style glng* hams: 20 pes good stylo ducks, worth 71 1 0 to 1 a In is a S 25 pes French Challies 20 pes best Swivel silks: 25 pes best French Organdies, all worth 50c and 00c, all go iu this sale, Q71/ per yd 12^

Bead the Wash Goods Prices.

50 pcslVneess Cashmeres for tennis and {Hp outing costumes, worth 15c, per vd.... 10 pes dark ground one-half wool Chal- Oftp lies JtO-ln. wide, worth 25c, per yd 50 pes of our best Scotch zephyrs and French

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

'.'5 pes beautiful designs Satin black grounds 32 inches wide, worth 12K ceuU, this 71p sale, per yd 2^

Print Department.

100 pes white ground lawns with black and brown figures, the usual 5 cents kind, Olf this sale, per yd ^2^ 25 pos good calico like some ®ur neigh- lle bors ask 5 cents for, In this sale, per yd^2^ 100 pes the handsomest designs cotton challies we have ever sold, worth 0V4. this ^o sale, per yd 50 pes fnucy prints 200 pes good indigo blue prints worth 5 to 7 cents, this sale, per ip yard

Kead the Print Prices.

",00 pes the brat pr nts made In Amcrlca, lu" cludinjf Simpson black aud grav inourn-Ir liitrs. worth 7c iu any store, prico per yd

Domeatios.

The ready response of hundreds of shrewdest 6hoppers will bo noticed In our domestic department. Here is the reasou whv: Heavy brown cotton llannel, good value (Hp at 12J*je, per yard ^3^ Blue and brown Denims worth 15c, In this sale, per yd

Extra heavy blue aud white stripe feathertlcklug worth 16*sc, this sale per yd 34 inch wool cassimeres In gray and brown mixed, worth 50c. in tills sale... 50 pes blue and brown plaid shirting 24 pes staple check apron gingham worth

DC. In tills sale 50 pes fast color plaid shirting worth 014 20 pes good style domets 150 pes best staple check ginghams, worth ftj^c. In Zr this sale 10u pes 30-ln. heavy shirting plaid, fast f,l« colors, worth SMe.ln thts sale

U4V,

Johnson Book-l'oUl gingham, staplu check, extra fine, worth 124c, In this sale '^2 0-4 wide brown sheeting worth IG'i, In 0^ this sale

Pepperrell brown and excellent bleach muslin worth 1%, In this sale, per yd Full yard wide brown muslin worth 5c, Qlr at this sale "2^ Lawrence 30 Inch brown muslin. 4 lp worth Okie, at *2^ Cabot and Hope bleached muslin, worth tl^ 8»4c. at

u4^

Iionsdale.Miisonvillc and Fruit bleached Ln7

worth 10c ^8 Lousdalc cambric worth 12H»e at

Read the Domestio Prices.

1,000 cotton liatts for comforts worth S'ic, in this sale 1,000 Ilia, carpet wrap, all colors, 15c, 191** whlti, this sale '^2^

W kite Goods and Linens.

The busiest corner in the store will be this department while this sale lasts. The where-, ton rests lu these clearing sale prices: 20 pes extra line dotted

SWISBCS

In pure

white aud solid shades, white with colored dots, the same goods we have sold at 25c, this sale, per yard 10 dozen extra large brown Turkish towels 25 dozen assorted lluen towels worth 15c to 20c at.

"2^

50 dozen Turkey red napkins worth 5c go at 100 pes 10-in. plaid glass crash red andf.lr blue check worth 12H». go at 10 pes plaid and striped white goods. very proper for aprons and drcsscB all the 15c and 20c styles goat 5 dozen line and large bleach and brown

Turkish towels 20 dozen tine linen towels with colored borders, knotted fringe, worth 25c to 35c

In this sale

lightness of man

ner reasserted itself. "After you, captain," ho said.

Promptness

20 pes 18-ln Iiarnsley crash worth 12}jc at 8^ 20 pes 10-lnch Uarnsley crash?!^ worth 10c at '2^

Bead the White Goods and Linen Prices. lo pes fancy plaid Turkey Red table lln-Tl^ en 58-ln, worth 31c, at tnjt* 5 pes extra heavy 50c unbleached tableQU^ linen 5H Inches wide In 3deslgus at. ...dOv» Itcst table oil cloth worth 20c, 1

ONI.Y. We sell too cheap to charge to any one.

In Plumbing-

Is a rare virtue, But we have it.

WILLIAMS BROS.,

121 South Oreen Street.

Next to HE

JOURNAL

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 oirer some of the b«st values ever shown In this city. Our word as successful storekeepers backs this statement. 10 pes 38-ln wide all wool serge, good shades 10 pes fancy novelty suiting formery sold at 50c, lu this sale,

50 pes English worsted cashmeres in all shades Including black, regular prieefQ^ 25e, In this sale per yard

5 pes 50-ln wide black silk warp glorias K.-, worth 05c, in this sale per yard TUU 10 pes black silk grenadine worth S#1.0tMQ^ in tlds sale per yard

Read the Dress Goods Prices.

lOpcs 34-in fancy mixed suitings In grey and brown ellects worth 15e. In this sale per yard Good yard wideselesla and pereallnes In all sli«des, worth 15c, In this sale

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 and saleslady will be alert, every price is a trade winner.

"Make Hay While the Sun Shines," Is a maxim to be applied with peculiar force to the dry goods business. But ''hay making" time is passed— now is Clearing Out time—and for the balance of the season IS per cent, 20 per cent, 25 per cent and even 50 per cent will drop from the prices of every a in a a O patrons will buy cheaply. Our stock will be reduced. The object desired— turning merchandise into cash—wilt be accomplished.

Bead the Notion Prices.

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

Good quality spring curling irons worth 10c, at 0c. Adainantlue pins, 200 in paper, 2 papers for lc.

Good quality safety plus, large size 2c a doz, small size lc. Pure castlle soap, floats on water, 2 cakes for 5c.

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

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

Large pupers brass mourning plus or steel witli jet beads, worth 5c at 2c. 600 yards spools basting thread worth 5c, 3 spools for 5c.

Best darning cotton, all colors and black, worth 10c a dozen 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

LOUIS BISCHOF.

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

Ladies' Waists.

All of our beautiful wulsts—of percales, of lawns, of zephyrs, tliey all go at the discount prices. 10 do/, ladles waists in satin and pores1 lo pattern, prints light and dark stylcs.f)n„ worth 40o, at InC 10 do/, ladles'waists made of best poreales and Scotch lawns, eleirant stylesCOat 15c, (to at 0 0C

Hosiery-

Iiischof's way of dolus: the hosiery business is decidodly original. Hosiery Is supposed to be staple Bt-ck, perhaps It Is, nevertheless superior hosiery gets a severe mark down at the clearing sale. 100 doz. ladles' fancy stripe and boot pattern hosiery, extra tine guage In all shades and black boot worth 20c audi 01.-. 25c per pair go at 1 ijC 500 doz. Indies', Misses' and children's hose In black, solid oolors and fancy stripes 100 doz. men's mix half hoslorylK worth He to 10e, this sale VDC doz. ladles' Lisle thread hosiery.evory shade and blaok neatly embroidered, regular 35c and 50c quality In tills sale2 jjc 50 doz. ladles'Misses'and Infants'liosei

In black and colors worth 25c inthls(Ql„ sale at 1 L-\ 25 doz. odds and ends children's fast black hose worth 20c and 26e per pair!

In this sale IIH,

Bead the Hosiery Prices.

10 lioz. ladles1 silk plaited hose In all.l()„ colors worth II .00at 'C, 5ii doz. ladles' and Misses'fast black hose! 0^ worth 25c at« I /C. 5 do/., men's half hose In lisle and &nei)0~ eotton worth 40c and 50c at

Gloves and Mitts.

50 (loz. damaged kid gloves like we have ottered so many times before, and you wero so glad to get, of the 11.00 to HI., *2.00 quality at 4/C 50 do/., ladles' pure silk mitts, black, ouri)1)™ regular 35c quality in thlssale at

Bead the Glove Prices.

Ladies'silk gloves, 75o quality at ri0e 0:„ 50c quality at :15c 35c quality at

fans, Bibbons and Hosiery.

1,000 yds Jaconet embroidery, 8 Inchest wide. In 20 patterns, worth 20o at 1II. 500 Japanese paier fans iu 'all sliades.Aw^ worth 10c at... UJC 1,000 yds Jaconet embroidery. 1210154(1-. inches wide, the 25c and 30t kinds at..' 500 Jap paper folding fans In beautlful(l(),, grays aud light shades, 16e goods at...."

Read the Prices.

About 500 yds all silk ribbous, Nos. 4, 5.117! 7 anil SI, worth 5e to 15c a yd at

Underwear.

The high quality of our underwear does not exempt theui from clearing sale prices, so here you are: 3 styles ladles gauze vests, short sleeves, low necks, fancy silk embroidery arouudQ^, neck,worth 12»-ic to 15c, in this sale 2 styles ladles gauze vests, short sleeves, low neck, beautUully finished, worth 20c, 10^

In this sale....* «r

Bead the Underwear Prices.

Ladles gauze vest«,good quality. Worth 101. at 4 style ladles vests, low neeks, short sleev also long Mecves goods, cither aregood7s^% value at 35c, at bOl* Men's gauze underwear the same excellent quality we have been selling at 35c, tuis sale uuv

Umbrellas.1

Also parasols—a very considerable throughout the line—and these umbrellas the neatest made lu all Crawfordsvllle. 100 extra quality gloria nuibrellas with paragon l'rauie and natural stick handles, au excellent article well worthff

81.50, and we sell them at 4) 1 1 100 best English gloria silk umbrellas fast color, natural stick haudlcs with gold trimmings. You would think theniffl 1(1 cheap at $2.00, go at.

Bead the Umbrella Prices.

50 English gloria silk umbrellas with fancy bone, celluloid and metal haud-(Ti 7Q les, beautiful #2.50 umbrellas at

Also parasols at cost and less.

Special for this department. 25 ladles' mackintoshes with caps, odds and(T9

(\i\

ends of goods that were 13 to 13.50 attj)"'""

Some Specials.

10 doz men's doinet shirts, light color and weight, all sizes, that wore 25c,ar«9 now All our men's shins in domet, percale, madras aud oxfords that were 50c,areJ|kr» now

Read the Prices.

10 dozen ladles' all leather belts that arc! worth 25c and 35c go at

Curtains and Draperies.

25 prs Chenille portlers with wide dados and heavy fringe,all Bhades,that wered 7s 85.00, aro now 25 pes assorted curtain Swisses euibroldered in various designs and sold fori 25c to 35c at I/C 100 4-4 and 0-4 Chenille table covers, tho regular 75c and $1.00 goods goat'*'^' 100 pes best cretons worth 15c, and 10 pes fancy colors drapery satlnes 30-ln.f worth 1 u*r»c, are now

Bead the Drapery Prices.

30 Inch silkolines that were 15c are 11c 4 71/* 30 inch In 10% are now "2^ 30 inch all silk draperies that have soldQU^ for 75c are JC 100 large size Dates bread apread that are worth $1.25 at ,0*H-

ABSTRACT BOOKS,

A. C. Jennlson's abstract books contain a copy of every deed of rocord to every traot of land In the county, a* well *s to every unsatisfied mortgage or lion. His twenty years experience, aided by these unrivaled facilities In tracing titles enable him to claim that his office Is tho best place to have Deeds, Mortgages Leases and Contracts prepared, as well as rallablo Abstracts of Title. MONEY' TO LOAN URAL BSTATB AND 1NSUHANCBAGENT.

O. U. PERRIN,

LAWYER

Will practice in Federal or State courts. t»~Oillce,:8ulto21 Crawford |llulldlng, south Green Street.