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

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TTKSDAY, SKPTKMHKK 1394.

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street is now duly

and Councilman Myers now realizes more fully than ever before, perhaps, the value of persistence, lie has been at ork on Vance street for two vears

Tin-, week Chicago there will be a convention composed of mothers, teachers of younger children, and. fact, all who are interested in the needs of infancy. It is under the auspices of the Chicago Kirdergarten College and the purpose is to arouse a widespread interest in what Froebe! calls the science of motherhood. It is to be hoped that someone in this city who is interested in the agitation of kindergartens for Crawfordsville will attend this convention. The inspiration received there would give the movement here a great impetus. The good influence of a free kindergarten system would be apparent at the end of the first year. At the end of generation we might be able to dispense with the two (Joose Nibble policemen.

ilKOOKSHiKK made the assertion

in his speech last Saturday that the I'nited States has the cheapest labor on earth, and that labor is not so well paid in our manufacturing establishments as in the old world, lie produces statistics ti prove his assertion. All the twisting of figures that Mr. Brookshire can make cannot convince any American workman that t.'i cents a day in Italy is more than Sl.'iO in the I'nited States. It is not a question what a workman is able to produce, but what he gets for what he produces. The American workman knows that S.147 will buy more of the necessaries of life in the I'nited States than the S204, which he says the British workman receives, will buy in Kngland. or the SlT.l that the French workman receives in Franee, or the 8155 that the German workman receives in German, or the Sl-0 that the Russian workman receives in Russia, or the Sir.

that the Italian workman receives in Italy. The average workinginan is not interested in ratios and per cents He knows from Mr. Hrookshire's own figures that he gets more money for his day's work than the workingman of anv other country on the earth. If labor was not so well paid in our manufacturing establishments as it is in the old world as Mr. Urookshire asserts the tide of immigration would have ceased years ago and emigration would have taken its place. The fact is that juggling with statistics is not Mr.

Hrookshire's forte. He should let that job out to experts.

J'UAYI'U AND VOT1NI. Mr. Yoorhees in his Terre speech .last Saturday said:

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and hope for the day and hour sugar." Hut he voted for a tariff of 40 per cent on sugar. Sugar was on the free list, under the McKinley bill and Mr. Yoorhees and his Democratic associates in Congress put it back on the taxable list. Now. why does he pray for "the day and the hour of free sugar" when the "day and the hour of free sugar" came long ago, under Republican rule'.' Sugar would be free this day but for a Democratic Con gress. Not even the prayers of the poor man who must pay out of his reduced wages, this tariff of 40 per cent on sugar will avail anything against the will of a Democratic President and the votes of a Democratic Congress Mr. Yoorhees should remember that even the prayers of the righteou count for nothing against votes. No protectionist will care if every man woman and child inthe country sho ild pray for Mr. Yoorhees to be returned to the Senate, if the voters will only vote for him to stay at him.

TIIE DIPPKKKNTK.

The Democratic party says to go at to in The Republican party says bu tilings at home.

The Democratic party says foreigi commerce is what makes a nation prosperous.

The Republican party savs it is liomi production that makes a peopletpro perous.

The Democratic policy builds up for eign factories and gives employment to foreign labor.

The Republican party builds up factories at home and gives employnien to our own people.

The Democratic party depresse business at home and makes it livel abroad.

The Republican policy makes time lively at home. The Democratic policy feeds foreigi workmen.

The Republican policy feeds work men at home. The Democratic policy makes wage low.

The Republican policy makes wages high. Democracy makes soup houses for the support of idle workmen.

The Republican party makes wor for idle workmen and enables them to live in independence.

The Democratic party seeks to in crease foreign importations. The Republican party seeks to increase home production.

THOU ART A LIGHT.

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That Miiues upou my w.iy ..And guides me. through (he lonesome atctu Unto a sweeter dajfc

An ansel pure. O l.ove thou art. Kor when 1 seu thy face 1 fool an Influence on uiy heart

Of sweet aud heavenly yraee

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No stained thoucht the son! can soil, When thou, niy l.o\e. art tve.tr— No low desire, no word of guile, j'/-

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O stay with mo and be my lo\ e. My light, my anfret p-ire' Anil 1 to thee will faithful prove

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While earthly days endure.

1\ J. In Sprtngileld (Mass Republican

A TIMELY 8HUT.

opened Boy's Advonturo in of Africa.

tho Wilds

The anxiety and I Ralph Campbell, a youthful master's mate from the survey gun ship IVtrel, were beyond description when, on awakening one morning in his quarters- an African hut on a bank of the Senegal river, up which he had been sent a long distance on government business —he discovered that his little brother. Frank, was missing.

Frank was a bright, clever boy of twelve, who had accompanied his brother from the ship, which was anchored outside the bar. He was the captain's nephevv, and was a general pet and favorite aboard tlie vessel, where he had been receiving instructions to fit him for naval duties.

Ralph, who now had all his eutter's crew looking for the lost lad, worried much over the perils to which the little fellow might be exposed from venomous serpeuts and wild beasts.

At length, while searching in the thick shrubbery on the river's bank, the youth reached a cove where, on the night before, he had left a small canoe which he had bought of one of the natives.

He had intended to use it for navigating some of the shallow creeks further up the river, as the cutter he had charge of was too deep and wide for that purpose. Startled to perceive that the canoe was missing, a suspiion of the truth broke all at once upon his mind. lie remembered having remarked to sailor, in Frank's hearing, that the little craft must be brought up and made fast to the latter the first thing in the morning. The boy, eager to please his brother, had probably risen and gone, before any of the rest of the party were awake, to fetch, the canoe but if so, what had become of him? Ralph, shuddering, thought of the hideous crocodile* that infested this river, bile he vainly scanned it for some sign of the lad.

Then, having resolved not to wait for the return of his men. but to take the cutter and

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off alone in search

of his lost brother, he hurried back to the bank in front of the hut. alongside of which the boat lay.

This boat was a light, swift one, which could be easily sculled by an oar. There was a small, loaded swivel ready for use, taxed in the bow, but its weight would not interfere, with the speed of the craft.

The young otlicer was soon vigor ously sculling the vessel on its way going with the tide, as lie thought that Frank would have been apt to take this course. Past lofty elevations covered with shrubbery and tlowersglided the cutter, often shadowed by the far extending branches of huge baobab trees that formed broad green arches above it.

It had rounded a peninsula full of bloom and foliage, when the watchful youth saw ahead of him an over turned, broken canoe. He soon reached it, and, by the peculiar carving on the bow, he recognized it as the missing canoe.

It had been partly crushed—most likely, he thought, by the,..teeth of a crocodile,

In dismay, he pulled Frank's little cap from a jagged projection of the broken wood on which it was caught. The dreadful truth forced itself on his mind.

The lad had been pursued by the monster that had destroyed the canoe. Had he already met his fate? The young officer tried to shake off his despondency—to hope, in spite of appearances, that his brother might, in some wav, have escaped and still be alive.

He looked toward the peninsula from which the canoe seemed to have drifted. This peninsula, consisting of two high, projecting banks composed of soft rock and earth, opposite each other, about fifteen feet apart, was roofed by the branches of slender trees that flourished in wild luxuriance on both banks

The trunks of these trees slanted so that their boughs intermingled and were so thickly interwoven with vines that the}* formed a dense canopy of leaves and blossoms over the open space beneath, which thus resembled a sort of long water cavern.

Ralph directed the cutter to this cavern, and. looking through the green archway into the partial obscurity beyond, he beheld a sight well calculated to arouse apprehension.

In the back part of the cavern, lving in a shallow, among sandbanks that par^ally concealed it, was a lartre crocodile, with its head raised and thrown back and its horrible jaws wide open, while its eyes were strained, as if turned up toward some elevated point.

Gazing in the same direction, Ralph was startled to see, about ten feet above those hideous jaws, the form of his little brother, lying, with pale face and closed eyes, ou the narrow shelf of a rock. The rock was under the branches of slender trees, which rose on each side of it from low banks on the right and left, about two yards from the elevation. One of the overhanging branches, broken off, explained the boy's situation.

He had evidently climbed the tree to escape the crocodile, had crept out on the slender branch, it had given way, and he had fallen on the rock, his head striking it with force enough to render him unconscious. There he now lay, so perilously near the edge of the rock-shelf Chat the slightest movement on his part would cause him to roll off and fall into the jaws of the monster below. As he was probably but temporarily stunned, he was liable to move at any moment. It was, therefore, of the utmost importance, in order to insure his nnfety, that he •hould be speedily conveyed from his dangerous position.

Ralph feared that a discharge of the swivel or of anv firearm at, tho croco­

dile, would only be attended with fatal results to Frank. The sandbanks might hinder the shot from striking the tierce voptile, while \he shock wouldj^o pretty sure to dislodge the useless lad from the shelf, and thus briug him down into the power of his voracious enc my.

The youth lost no time in heading his boat toward the rook. Rut the cutter was some fathoms from it, when the keel caught in a submerged sandbank. Drawing his sword, Ralph sprang out, and quickly waded toward the rock. Slight ledges aud protruding spurs ou its front would enable him, he thought, to climb up to his brother in fact, there was no other way of reaching him. Tho young officer held bis sword ready for use, in case tho crocodile, close to which he would be obliged to pass, should venture to attack him.

Ralph, however, kept his eyes fastened upon tlie crocodile. The monster turned its head when he was near it anil snapped at him. lie avoided uy stepping sideways then he commenced to strike and thrust vigorously at its jaws with his sword. It retreated a few yards but broke his blade in two with its teeth as it twisted its body around. Thinking it. would leave him, Ralph sprang to the rock. Just then little Frank, recovering his senses, gave a slight cry and fell from the ledge above. The young officer saw him in time to catch him in his arms. As he turned to convey him to the cutter, he perceived that the crocodile, now between him and the boat, with open jaws, was prepared to renew the attack.

He set his confused brother upon his feet in the shallow water, and drawing the single-bnrrelled navy pistol which he carried in his belt, he fired at the creature's big. yawning mouth. Rut, owing to the animal's sheering a little to seize the boy, now on one side of his protector, it received the hot on tho edge of its jaw.

Twisting itself away from the twain, it commenced, as if in blended rage and pain, to thrash the shallows with its hard, bony tail.

As Ralph was convej*ing his brother past the reptile, toward the boat, his left ankle caught between two small under-water rocks, and was temporarily sprained. "Never mind," said Frank, as the hurt youth dragged himself along with difficult}*, "1 am now able to walk. You need ln»t carry me. I will help vou."

He disengaged himself from Ralph's arms, seized his hand and tried to assist him. The crocodile had turned by this time toward the two, for another attack. Hut they were now within a yard of the cutter, aud though suffering excruciating pain, the young officer caught up his brother's light form and tossed him into tho boat. The crocodile was close to Ralph, but ho contrived to escape it with a forward movement and to roll himself across the gunwale of the cutter. He went over on his back, with his head on the edge of the bow. While he was trying to turn and right himself, which his sprain would hinder his doing quickly, the hideous open jaws of the monster appeared over the bow. They were very near the head of the prostrate youth. He would not be able to move it in time to elude those horrible fangs. Rut at this critical moment his young brother, who had notie that the crocodile's jaws were on a 1'U'Vwith the swivel, sprang forward with ready decision and discharged the piece-

Never was a shot more effective. It plowed its way nearly through the full length of the huge reptile's body, killing the animal almost instantly. Ralph praised his brother for the quick judgment and swift action winch had thus been the means of saving him from a terrible fate.

In fact, the presence of mind and promptitude shown by the little fellow on this occasion won the admiration and applause of all the seamen aboard the ship, when, in time, it was made known to them.

Not long after the gun had been fired, the rising of the tide floated the cutter clear of the sandbank, enabling Ralph, with Frank's assistance, to get back to the landing-place fronting tho hut, where some of the sailors who had returned from their vain search for the lad joyfully hailed his appearance. Frank's explanations about the canoe, as well as of his situation on the rock, verified his brother's previous conjectures on the subject. The boy had gone to the canoe to convey it to the cutter, had been pursued by the crocodile, and by vigorous paddling had reached the water cavern. So close to him then was the reptile that, as he sprang out of the canoe to climb the tree, the jaws of the monster closed over the frail vessel, partly crushing it. Rottom up, and with Frank's cap, which had fallen from his head, caught on the broken wood, the little craft had drifted off with the currcnt, to be afterward found by Ralph as described. Rufus Hall, in N. V. Ledger.

Somfl Named Not Allowable. A workingman of Dresden lately proposed to register his new-born child as Robespierre Danton. The registrar declined to put down so revolutionary a name, and the father refused to register the child at all, except by number. The matter was taken before tho courts, the workman was fined, and the decision given that in raonarchial states such names are not allowable.

(iootl Thlnir to Keep At Hand.

Krom the Troy, (Kansas) Chic/: Some years ago we were very much subject to severe spells of cholera morbus and now when we feel anv of the symptoms ihat usually proceed that ailment such as sickness at the stomach, diarrhoea, etc.. we become scary. We have found Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the very thing to straighten out one in such eases and always keep it about. We are not writing this for a pay testimonial, but to let our readers know what is a good think to keep handy in the house. For sale by Nye Iiooe. Ill North Washington street, opposite court house.

Try It.

For a lame back or for a pain in the side or chest, try saturating a piece of llannel with Chamberlain's I'ain Ralm and binding it onto the affected parts. This treatment will cure any ordinary case in one or two days. I'ain Balm also cures rheumatism. ."»() cent bottles for sale by Nye Hooe. Ill North Washington street, opposite court house

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the hot weather impurities

in the blood may seriously annoy you ftxpel them by taking Mood's Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier.

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A RETIRED BUSINESS WOMAN,

A Page From Her History. The Important experience* of others nrc interesting. The following In no exemption: "1 had been troubled with heart, disease "Jo years, much of that time very seriously. I'or live years I wast reuted by otic phylrh't 11 continuously. 1 wa- iis business, but obliged to retire on account, of my bcalih. A physician told my friend* that 1 could not !i\o a month. My feet and Ji:i: .»s were badly s»vu{lea, and 1 was Indeed in a serious condition when a pentleman directed jny attention to lr. Minis' New Heart Cure, and said that his siter. who had been uiHicted 1 heart dKe*M\ had been cured by 1 he. remedy, a ml was atrain a strong, healthy woman. [uwchaM-d a hot le of he Heart Cure, and in h^s-then an hour after lakimr the ir.st. ihr-e-l could .-el a decided Improvement in the ci.vubaion of my bh»d. When 1 had tal.eu thre«» do e\ I, could move my ankle*, something I had

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done for monies,and my limbs had been :vr,Jlen so lon.sthat they seemed ahao-! put--riJk'-d.' ih f..re hail taken one bottle of the New Ilea rl Cure the swelling had all vouo down, ami 1 was so much better thai 1 did my on work, on niy recommendation six others are a !«in.r his valuable remcd v."— Mi\. Mori: a a.

W. Harrison St., Chicago', III. 1 r. ilex' New Ilea rtt ure, a discover1.*of an eminent, specialist in heart (iisea-e. is"oid bv nil drupjiists on positive puaranlco.or setft by th.» Or, Miles Medical ro.,K(khart, 'Iml..on receipt of price. $1 per bottle, six bottles for fo, express prepaid. Il is nositivelv free from all opiates or uangeroua dru^s.

Sold by all druggists.

THEO. McMEOHAM,

DENTIST.

CKAW b'OHDSVTLLK, INDIANA. Tenders hip scrviec to the public. Motto Kood work aud moderate nrlces

Harvest Excursions

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BIG FOUR ROUTE

AT

VERY LOW RATES

SOUTH.

September \!."th. October Od.October Utb, November Oth and Ieeember It.h. Tickets will be sold from points on the Itip Four Route to points In Alabama. Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carciiiia, South Carolina and Tennessee.

West, Northwest and Southwest.

Oil September 2."»th and October Oth. To point* In Arizona. Arkansas. Colorado, Indian Territory, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas Manitoba, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana.Nebraska, NewMexico, North Imkota. South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming and Oklahoma Territory.

On Oct. 2d. Nov. oth and Dec. Uh. To points In Kentucky and Virginia On Sept. 1Sth, Oct. 17th and Nov. nth.

To points in Michigan.

Tickets good returninir twenty (lavs from date of sale.

For tickets and full information as in Hates, Routes, and Stop-Over.

v- Privileges, call on •, (,KolU!E R. ROISIXSON, Ag-eut I tiff Four Route..

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GRAHAM & MORTON

TRANSPORTATION CO.

Lake and Rail Route to St. Joseph.

Chicago via

The favorite passenger steamers "City of Chicago" and "Chlcora" make double dally trips between Benton Harlor, St. Joseph and Chicago, connecting at St. Joseph with the Vandalia Ky. Equipment and service the best and time less thau by any other lake route. The folkrwinKSChedule will beobscrved on and after June 10:

Between fct. Joseph and Chicago:—heave St. Joseph (Vandalla Dock) at 3 p.m., dally except Sunday (Sunday leave at 0 n. m.) and at!' p. m., daily Including Sunday. Leave Chicago from dock foot of W»ba6h avenue at!:3oa. m. and 1Xp. m.. dally Sunday Included: also leave Chicago at 2 p. n., Saturday only.

Milwaukee Division:—'The Steamer Held will make triweekly trips between St. Joseph and Milwaukee, leavlmr St.

Joseph (Vandalia Dock'

at 8 p. m., Monday, Wednesday ami Friday. Leave Milwaukee from Vandalia I.)oek,'foot of Broadway, Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday at 7 p. in.

For information as to through rates of frcisrht or passage via these routes, apply to agentf Vandalia Ky.

J. If. GRAHAM. President, Benton Harbor. Mich,

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In the rush for Bargains in Our Great Discount Sale.

There remains but a few more

days to get the

Linen Bargains, Handkerchief Bargains, Wash Goods

Domestic

Lot,

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Lot, ioc Lot, 15c

Will be packed away after fhe selling is over Saturday

from past and present indications there will be but

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Bargains, Bargains,

Dress Goods Bargains.

We must ha^e the room our Wash Goods occupy, so all

that remains of the

cause they are melting away like snow belore a warm sunshine. Some of the best styles yet remain and are uorthy your inspection.

It Pays to Trade at the Big Store.

LOUIS BISCHOF.

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

P. S. New Fall and Winter Goods are arriving daily in every department.

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few left, be-

Spring