Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 August 1889 — Page 5

'TOO LATE.''

"There was nothing in the story I" Thus tho people said But they load her name with glory.

Now that she is dead I

"Were tho verses worth tho readingf** Hush! she wrote for bread. Every lino seems full of pleading

Now that Rhe is dead!

Weary Angers, temples throbbing. Heart that weighed as leol, Eyelids used to slumber robbing,

Ail! and now she's dead!

O yo |)eoplo, how your scorning Filled her soul with dread! "Let me sleep," she moaned and morning

Came, and found her dead:

Kindly judge, then, those who, living. In her footsteps truad. Praises, too late in tho giving,

Como but to the dead! —Chambers' Journal.

THE RUNAWAY.

""Would thoy put her in the asylum," she wondered, "if they caught her." Folks would surely think she was crazy.

She stopped at the stone wall to rest, and looked back timorously at the old familiar scone.

Far behind her stretched the meadow, a symphony of olive and green in the late fall. Hero and there by a sunken bowlder stood soldiery golden rod, or berry bushes clothed now in scarlet and gold. At intervals in tho long slopo stood solitary trees, where fluttering, brittle leaves fell in the gentle chill air. In summer time she remembered well tho hay makers rested in tho shade, and the jug with ginger water she made for the men was kept there to be cool.

She seemed, as she sat there, to remember everything. The house was all right, she was sure of that the key was under the kitchen door mat, the fire was out in the stove, and tho cat locked in the barn.

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Sho held her work hardened hand to her side, panting a little, for it was a good bit of a walk across tho meadow, and she was 80 years old on hi.r last birthday. The cows feeding looked homelike and pleasant. "Good-by, critters," sho said, aloud "meny's the time I'vo druv yo home an' milked ye, an' I alius let yo eat by the way, uor never hurried yeas tho boys done."

With a farewell glance she went on again, smoothing as she walked the scattered locks of. gray hair falling under tho pumpkin hood, and keeping her scant black gown out of tho reach of briers. Across another field, then on through a leafy lane where the wood was hauled in winter, thou out through a gap in a stump fence, with its great branching arms liko a petrified octopus, to the dusty high road.

Not a soul in sight iu tho coming twilight. John, tho children, and the scolding wife who made her so unhappy would not be home for an hour yet, for East Mills was a long drive.

Down the steep hill went the brave little figure, followed by an odd shadow of itself in tho waning light, and by tiny stones that rolled so swiftly they passed her often and made her look behind with a start to see if a pursuer wero coining. "They'd put mo in tho asylum, sure," sho muttered wildly as she trudged along.

At. the foot of tho hill she sat down upon an old log and waited for the train. Across the road, guarded by a big sign, I "Look out for the engine," ran two parallel iron rails, that were to be her road when the big monster should come p'siting around the curve.

At last the dull rumble sounded, a shrill whistle and sho hurried to the track, waving her shawl to signal..

This, in the conductor's vernacular, was a cross roads station, where ho was used to watch for people waving articles frantically. The train stopped, and this passenger was helped nboard. Ho noticed she was a bright eyed old lady, very neat and precise "How fur?" he asked. "Bostin." "Git there in tho mornin'," ho said kindly, waiting for the money, as she opened a queer little reticule, whore, under her knitting, wrapped in a clean cotton handkerchief, was her purse with her savings of long years—tho little sums Sam had sent her when lie first began to prosper in the west, and some money she had earned herseif by knitting and berry picking.

At across roads, as they went swiftly on. she saw the old sorrel horse, tho rattling wagon and John with his family driving .homeward. She drew back with a little cry, ifearing he might seo her and stop tho train, l)Ut they went on so fast that could not be, and the old horse jogged into the woods, and John never thought his old Aunt Hannah, Siis charge for twenty long years, was runaiing away.

At Boston a kindlj' conductor bought her a through ticket for Denver. "It's long journey for an old lady like •you," ho said. "But I'm peart for my age," she said anxiously "I never hed a days sickuess since I, was a pal."

grew communicative, for she was always a chatty old ludy, and sho had possessed her soul in silenco so long, and it was a relief to tell thii story of her weary years of waiting to a kindly listener.

She told him all the relations she had were two grandnephows and their families. That twenty years ago Sam (for she had brought them up whon their parents died ai consumption, that kills so many of our /oiks) went out west. Ho was always adventurous, and for ten years sho did not hear from him but John was different and steady, anil whon he came of ago sho had given him her farm, with tho provision sho should always havo a home, otherwise he would havo gone away, too. Well, for five years they wero happy, then John married, and his wife Lad grown to think her a burden as the years went on, and the children when thoy grew big did not care for her, sho felt she had lived too long. "I growed so lonesome," she said pathetically, "it seems 1 couldn't take up heart to live day by day, 411' yit I knowed our folks was long lived. Ton years back, when Sain wrote ho was a doin' fair an' sent me money, 1 begun to thiuk of him fur he was alius generous an' kind, an' tho gratefulest boy, an' so I begun to save to go to him, fur 1 knowed I could work my board fur a good meuy years to come. Fur three year ho ain't hardly wrote, but 1 laid that to tho wild kentry he lived in. I said b'ars an' Injuns don't skeer 1110 nono, fur whon I was a gal up in Aroostuk Uentry there was plenty of both, an' as fur buffnlers them horned cattle don't skeoY" mo none, fur Tvo been used to a farm alius. But tho lonesumness of these tnedders has sorter upsot mo ail' made 1110 think ovory day Sam was father off than I over calc'lated 011." "But what will you do if Sam ain't in Denver isked the farmer. "I hev put my faith in Providence," sho answered simply, aud tho stranger could not mar that trust by any word of warning.

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"Going all the way alone' "With Providence," she answered brightly, :alert and eager to help herself, but silent and thoughtful as the train took her into strange •landscapes where tho miles went so swiftly it seemed liko the past years of her life as sho •looked back 011 them. "Thy work is marvelous," she murmured •often, sitting with her bauds folded, and few 'idle days had there been in her world where .she had sat and rested so long.

In tho day coach tho people wero kind and generous, sharing their baskets with her and seeing sho changed cars right aud her carpet bag was safe. She was liko any one of the •dear old graudmas iu eastern homes, or to grizzled men and weary women, like the memory of a dead mother as faint and fa£ away as the scent of wild roses in a hillside country ground. She tended babies for tired women aud talked to tho men off ir »ing and •crops, or told tho children Bible stories but never a word sho said of herself, not one.'

On again, guided by kindly hands through the great bewildering city by tho lake, and now through yet a stranger land. Tired and a worn by nights in the uncomfortable seats, her brave spirit began to fail a little. As the wide, level plains, lonely aud drear, dawned on her sight sho sighed often. "It's a dre'ful big wurld," she said to a gray bearded old farmer near her "so big I feel e'enmost lost in it, but," hopefully, "across them deserts like this long ago Providence sent a star to guide them wise men of tho east, an' I haint't lost my faith."

But as tho day wore on, and still the long, monotonous land showed 110 human habitation, no oasis of green, her eyes dimmed, something like a sob rose under the black kerchief 011 tho bowed shoulders, and the spectacles wero taken off with trembling a hand and put away carefully in the worn tin case. "Bo ye goin' fur, mother?" said tha old farmer.

He had brought her a cup of coffee at the last station, and had pointed out on the waythings ho thought might interest her. "To Denver." "Wal, wal you're from Jfcw England, I'll be bound!" "Front Maine," she answered, aud then ah?

But many of tho passengers had listened to her story and wero interested, and they catne to sit with her.

Ono pale little lad in tho seat in front turned round to look at her now and then and to answer hor smile. He was going to the new country for health and wealth, poor lad, only to find eternal rest in the sunny laud, but his last days brightened by tho reward for his thoughtful act of kindness. "Sho probably brought thoso boys up," he thought, "and denied her life for them. Is she to die unrewarded, I wonder? There cannot be any good in the world if that bo so." He thought of her and took out his poor purso there was so little money in it, too, every cent made a big hole in his store but the consciousness of a good deed was worth something. "I mayn't have the chance to do many more," thought tho lad, buttoning his worn overcoat.

He slipjjod off without a word at a station and sent a telegram to Denver. "To Samuel Blair"—for ho had caught the name from her talk—"Your Aunt Hannah Blair, of Maiue, is on tho W. and W. train coming to you."

It was only a straw, but a kindly wind might blow it to the right ono after all. When he was sitting there after his message had gone on its way, she leaned y\ er and handed him a pepjermint drop fro'j. a package in her poclc. :. "You don't look strong, dearie," sho said "hain't ye no folks with

N on a S S "We're both lone ones," sho smiled "an' how sad it be there nin't no one to fuss over ye. An" be keerful of tho drafts, and keep flannel alius on your chist that is good iur tho luugs.'' "You are very kind to take nn interest in me," he smiled "but I am afraid it is too late."

Another uight of weary slumber in tho cramped seats, and then tho plain began to bo dotted with villages, and soon appeared the straggling outskirts of a city, the smoke of mills, tho gleain of tho Platte river, aud a network of iron rails, bright and shining, as the train ran shrieking into the labyrinth of its destination. "This is Denver," said tho lad to her, "and I'll look after you as well as 1 can." "It wuu't be no burden," sho said brightly. "I've $20 dollars yet, an' that's a sight of money."

Tho train halted to let the eastward bound express pass, there was an air of excitement in tho car, passengers were getting ready to depart, gathering up luggage and wraps, aud somo watching tho new comers and tho rows of strange faces on the outward bound.

The door of tho car slammed suddenly, and

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY" MvlEW

STATE BALL IN ENGLAND.

THE ROYAL ENTERTAINMENTS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

A Lively Description of the Cerotnoniea

Which Are Necessary Before Pvrlnces and Princesses Can Huve a Good! Tfutf—Orrfy

the Very Elect Are Present.

Invitations to state functions are eagerly coveted and are distributed with eccentricity. Foreign ambassadors and representatives are bidden to all state festivities, viz., to two balls and two concerts every season. These invitations include the ministers in office, with their wives aud daughters, and the higher nobility Then there are less exalted dignitaries who are invited to ono ball and one conoert only, and smaller personages still who are only bidden to one ball or even to only one ball iu every two seasons. Tho humblest of those, however, must be comparatively high on the social ladder. To be of old family, a land owner, wealthy, of irreproachable character, possessed of a seat in parliament, diligent in attendance at levees and drawing rooms—all of these may not qualify for entrance into the magic circle. Yet many with fewer qualifications step in.

HOW QUESTS ARK INVITED.

What exactly is required is undefined and practically unknown. How the blanks obtain a card, and why the dashers are systematically ignored, affords an inexhaustible 6ubjectof conversation. Those who are fortunate enough to be on the list of guests which is submitted to her majesty for approval receive a plain card on which the lord chamberlain intimates that he is "commanded by the queen to invite Mr. So and So to a ball"

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Ho gave her his address as ho got off at the Nebraska line, uud told her to send him word if sho needed help. With a warm hand clasp ho parted from her to join tho phantoms in her memory of "folks tliet had bin kind to hor, God bless 'em," and then tho train went rumbling on.

a given date at 10 o'clock. At most social entertainments it is fashionable to be late, or to be hurrying to and from some smarter or more select assembly. At the state ball, on the contrary, it is oorrect to appear before the time specified, that you may yourself receive your royal hosts when they deign to shed upon you tho light of their august presence. The longer you elect to wait the greater is presumed to be your loyalty. If at a quarter past 10 you arrive at Buckingham palace you find already a brilliant throng assembled. At the palace door servants rcceive you who combine the utmost brilliance of raiment with the utmost deference of manner—a combination too rarely seen. No cards are asked for, no inquiries are made. For the queen's invited guests tho state rooms are lavishly deoorated and lighted. There is no dragoon to guard the portal, and all you have to do is to euter and enjoy. This is delightfuL

SCENE IN THE BALLROOM.

It is in tho ballroom that life centers. Imagine an immense gilded hall, along the sides of which run four rows of seats, covered with re4 satin, and rising tier above tier. At the bottom oif the hall is a high gallery for the musicians at the top is a dais raised a foot above the floor, on which gold chairs are ready for tho princesses and potentates. Within the walls of that room are collected the rank, the beauty and the fashion of the "smartest" cupital in Europe. The light of electric lamps is flashed back, soft, yet bright by glittering jewels, and shows tho sheen of satin robes.

About 11 o'clock tho band strikes up the national anthem, and tho royalties outer in solemn procession. The queen is rarely present. The Princess of Wales fills hor place aud is the center of all oyes as she glides in under her tall diamond crown, and takes her seat in the center of tho dais. The Prince of Wales throws an air of jollity over all this splendor. His children follow him, with such other royalties as happen to be in London. Tho ballroom never looks so well as when three royal princesses sit alone upon the dais with three diamond crowns, like tho fairy tales of childhood. The princess and young princesses do not sit in state, but hover round, and chat and joko with each other while the ladies in waiting form a long, dull row behind, without a spark of interest in their faces.

In tho ballroom two circles aro formed for dancing—one in front of tho royalties, and the other lower down. In the former only those aro supposed to dance who are in the prince's set, or who claim his acquaintance. Before each dance the royalties hold a family consultation to select their partners, and literally lay their heads together as they glance round tho favored circle. When the choice has been mado, the lord chamberlain comes down with a message to tho honored guest tho partners selected for the princesses come up and wait upon the floor till the royal ladles descend and accept their guidance. Tho princes step down and approach their partners, who await their coming near at hand. Royalties, however, danco very much with each other. The square dances are much curtailed in these

a big bearded man with eager blue eyes came I the Princess of Wales never walks backward, down tJje aisle looking sharply from right to but merely pauses until the music sounds left. Ho had loft. Denver on the express to another advance. Round dances ha\ a meet this train. His glance fell on tho tiny bftck figure. "Why, Aunt Hannah!" ho cried, with a break in his voice, and she—sho put out her trembling hands and fell into the big arms, tears streaming down the wrinkled face. "I knowed Providence would let mo find ye, Sam," sho said brokenly, and no one smiled when tho big man sat down beside her and with gentle hand wiped her tears away. "Why, I've sent John $30 a month for five years for you," he said augrily, us sho told him why sho ran away, "and ho said you could not write, for you had a stroko aud was helploss, and I have written to you often and sent you money, It'3 hard for a man to call his own brother a villain." "Wo wun't, S.itn," sho said gently, "but just furgit an' I wun't beaburden to ye, fur I can wurk yit, an' for years to come." "Work, indeedl don't I owe you everything?" he cried. "And my wife has longed for you to come. There are so few dear old aunts in this country, they're prized, I tell you. Why, it's as good as a royal coat-of-arms to have a dear handsome old woman liko you for a relation."

Then he found out who sent the telegram and paid tho lad, who blushed and stammered like a girl and did not want to take it. "I suppose you want a job," said tho big man. "Well, I can give you ono I'm in the food commission business. Give you something light. Lots of your sort, poor lad, out here. All the reference I want is that little kindness of yours to Aunt Hannah." "Here's tho depot. Aunt Hannah, and you won't see 'bars und Injuns,' nor tho buffaloes you were talking about, but the prettiest and suuniest city you ever set your dear eyes on."

Ho picked up tho big carpet bag, faded and old fashioned, not a bit ashamed of it., though it looked like Noah might have carried it to tho ark.

They said good-by, and the last seen of her was hor happy old face beaming from a carriage window as sho rolled away to what all knew would bo a pleasant home for all her waning vears.—

Week

Patience Stapleton in Once a

A Contented ChiUl.

Fond Mother—How do you like your new governess, Johnny? Johnny—Oh, I like her ever so much. "I'm so glad my little boy has a nice teacher at last." "Oh, she's awful nice. She says she dont caro whether I lear.ii anything or not, dp long as pop pays her salary. —New York Weekly.

charming effect. When the royal personages join in the valse all the other airy whirling figures melt suddenly away, while the princes and princesses circle round alone with their partners in the cleared space. Should you know a royal personage it is necessary to be on the alert lest they should look your way, when the lady must at once bend tho knee with a swift ducking gesture. A man merely bows. The effect of this ducking as a prince passes on reminds one of a gust of wind bending a field of flowers. ...

REFRESHMENTS FOR GUESTS.*

All this time refreshments are served to guests in out of the way corners. But soon after 13 o'clock the doors of the great supper room are thrown open, and the Princess of Wales rises to head a procession of royalties, which flies down the ballroom between two lines of bowing guests. If you havo been overlooked by royal eyes now is your opportunity. Watch closely as they pass, and you may yet touch a royal band. Loyal souls accompany the princes and princesses into supper, and stand at a respectful distance to see them eat. It is not etiquette to touch food until the greater personages ar.e satisfied. These are very merry, particularly the Prince and Princess of Wales, who seem full of talk and airy jokes with their children around them they give a pretty family feeling to the scene. The supper room is an interesting sight in itself, with solid gold plate of immense value arranged on and ovor the sideboard. When the royalties havo returned to the ballroom the guests fall to upon the supper, which is excellent. After supper dancing continues, but elderly people begin to long for bed, and slink away unperceived.

THE DEATH OF JOHN ADAMS.

He Passes Away July 4 Listening to the Sounds of Bcjolclng. After a long and brilliant career John Adams retired to his home in Quincy, Mass., intending to complete a history of his times before his deatlu He was then nearly 70 yefers old, and did not hope to live many years. Indeed, be predicted that his vanity and bad temper wotild throw hica into a fit of apoplexy from which he expected never to recover, and it is a wonder he did not, for his florid, corpulent frame was little calculated to resist such an attack. Yet he lived nearly another quarter of a century, dying iu his 02d year, on tho Fourth of July, 183(5, the fiftieth anniversary of American independence. The animosities of hi9 public life were forgotten, and nothing is more beautiful thau the friendship, embittered by many years of political opposition, that was revived between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in old age.

As the Fourth of July approached the whole nation prepared to celebrate the event, and invitatious poured in 011 the two ex-presi-dents who had borne so conspicuous apart in tho establishment of independence to graoe this occasion with their presence. But it became manifest before the day arrived that John Adams would not even bo able to attend the celebration in Quincy. Ho was failing gradually in body, but he was alive to all that passed about him. June SO a delegation wus sent to ask him for a toast to be proposed iu his name. "Independence forever 1" he replied. "Nothing else!" 111 astonishment from thoso who remembered his old timo florid style of oratory. "Not another word. Would you gild refined gold?"

The same day he said: "1 desire 110 other inscription over my gravestone than this: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself tho responsibility of the peace with France in the year 1800.'"

Tho morning of July 4 he lay listening to all the sounds of rejoicing, with his immediate family about him. About 4 o'clock iu tho afternoon he took leave of them and, saying "Jefferson still survives," expired. Jefferson Had died three hours before at Monticello. Tho news of John Adams' death reached his fellow townsmen as they wero leaving tho hall after tho celebration. They immediately stopped their rejoicing, and forming a procession, marched with muffled drumbeats past tho house where be lay.—Chicago Tribune.

Persian Pleas for Fleas.

At a village near Kermansliah I begged tou minutes' leave from a curious crowd for the purpose of bathing in an irrigation channel Before I could dress the villagers were upon mo, and, the headman noticing that I was covered with bites and stings, the result of sleeping or, rather, of sleepless vigils, on the floors of filthy caravansaries, I sorrowfully remarked that there was no country like Persia for insect tortures. "How else?" said he "it is tho country of Nasr-ud-din-Shah." "Was this meant in compliment to his majesty!" I asked. "How else?" said he "could aught be said in any other spirit of the center of the world's adoration?" "No, of course uot," but I did not understand. He fixed tho audience with his eye, and while I tried to struggle into my clothing, said: "Those insects are as good as a daily bleeding. No man can be bled daily. Praise be to God, who devised this substitute in the land of Irani"—The Nineteenth Century.

"As tho Boys Say."

One day a learned clergyman, conversing in the waiting room of a Boston railway station, made the remark: "And they got away, as the boys say, by the skin of their teeth."

At this a small boy who was standing near stepped up to the clergyman, and, taking off his hat pjlitely, asked: "Did I understand you to say, sir, that the boys say that?" "Why, yes," said the clergyman, a little puzzled "they do, don't they, sometimes?" "May be, sir," said the boy "but they had to read it in the Bible first." "Why, so they did, really 1" said the clergyman, laughing.

He had remembered, all at once, that tho phrase, "With tho skin of my teeth," is found in the book of Job. "As the boys say" is a very common phraso, but thoso who use it generally forget that tho boys learn most of their sayingsj from jtheir elders.—Youth's Companion.

Diuijier of Drinking Ice Water, 1.% Water for drinking purposes should never bo below 50 degrees. We can almost always get it even in the hottest weather as cool as this by lotting it run for a minute or two from any household faucet, or drawing it from fany country welL If not, there is no objection to cooling it to the point mentioned. The East India "monkey," which can now be had almost anywhere in this country, and by means of which tho contained water is cooled by its own evaporation, answers the purpose admirably. I am quite sure that if ice water should lie generally discarded as a drink, the average duration of life wonld be lengthened and existence rendered more tolerable. —Dr. William A. Hammond. «»,•

Water Cress.

Tho water cress is a weed, pure and simple. It can never be anything else. Efforts to cultivate it and produce a better and moro delicate species havo been made, and signally failed. Under artificial treatment it losesthe faint, piquant, mustard flavor that is its especial charm, aud assumes much of tho hot, pungent taste of the horse radish. It flourishes for nearly nine months in the year, and, as it is constantly renewing itself, the large, coarse leaves of the old plants may b» left to wither, and only the young delicate stems picked. It will not bear cooking of any kind, but eaten raw with a little salt, and fresh bread and butter, it is—well, try it.—New York Sun.

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Eyes tire of all this brilliance, but it is not etiquette to leave whilo royalty remains. At the last the rush for carriages is fearful. How long it seems to wait in tho dreamy vestibule, hearing everybody's carriage called except one's own. Ere you drive away day has broken and bathes a sleeping city in its calm, clear light.—London News.

Forgetful.

The emptiness 9f our common every daysalutations was never more neatly illustrated, perhaps, that In this little dialoguo:

Brown—Have you seen Robinson lately, Dumleyi I hear ho has been sick. Dumley—Yes, 1 saw him this morning.

Brown—How is he! Dumley—Well, I declare 1 1 forgot to ask him. I just said, "How are you, old manf* and passed on.—Youth's Companion.

The Trust Principle.

A curious case of the application of the principlo of trusts is found on Staten Island and the ferries of the East river iu New York. An Italian has gradually outbid other competitors and secured control of all boot blacking privileges. These ho works by means of smaH Italian boys. Hero is the way individualism and natural competition are collapsing before concentration. The socialists, nationalists and individualists all use such facts in a different way but it really looks as though the Twentieth century would try some social experiments not much in favor as yet.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Invention of Omnibuses.

The invention of omnibuses is due to the Philosopher Pascal, who, in February, 1607, obtained a "privilege" or a patent for publio carriages to travel through certain streets of Paris. They held eight passengers, who paid six sous each, and were very successful, although an act of the parliament of Paris forbade them being used by lackeys, soldiers and other humble folks. Pascal died in 1607, and his useful invention did not long survive him. The omnibus reappeared in London about the beginning of the century, and was adopted in several French provincial towns beforo Paris accepted it again.—New York Telegram.

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MADE A BIO HAUL*.

8T. LOUIS, Aug. l'J.—When tne fast-mail train from New i.'ork arrived about 2 o'clock Bunday morning over tho Vandalia road the head mail clerk, Charted Deshlelds, notified Thomas Culkin, superintendent of mails at tho post-otlico, of a robbery of his car at Terre Haute, Ind. The first intimation he had of the robbery was when the train reached Effingham, sixty milos this side of Torre Haute. lie there received a telegam from the station agent at Torre Haute, asking him if ho hud not lost a mall-pouch. He made an examination and found his Albany pouch missing, and when the train reached Vandalia, 111., lie so telegraphed tho agent at Terre Haute.

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The pouch had been out open and rifled, all the registered letters having been secured by the thieves. The pouch contained principally checks and money for cattle-dealers of this city, but the amount is known only in Albany. It is known, however, that the amount will reach |10,000 and possibly a much larger figure. The. Government detectives are hard at

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Remember that Crawfordsville is one of the finest cities in the State and one of the most pleasant places to live, that we have free gravel roads' and whether or NOT we strike gas or oil, the properties offered above are bargains at the prices asked for them..

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CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.

Office Above Moflfrtt, Morgan & Oo/8 Drug Ston,. Back.

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It la Reported In I'arilument That It Will. Certainly lie Commuted. LONDON*, Aug. 21.—It was reported in tho House of Commons Tuesday that the sentenoe of Mrs. Maybrlck was certain to be commuted.

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 21.—Michael Maybriok, brother of the man for wb«se murder Mra. Maybrlck lies under sentence of death, in an interview yesterday said that nothing would please him better thau to

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Matthews, Home Secrotary, liberate Mrs. Maybrlck. He very emphatically denies that he placed Alice Yapp in his brother's house to act as a spy upon his brother's wife. He was on the best of terms with the prisoner. He never thought she would be convicted nor had tho prosecution desired a conviction.

Called to a Higher Court.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 21.—Judge Henry 0. Whitman died Tuesday at his home iij this city. Judgo Whitman was distinguished for his legal attainments and was widely known. He was a personal acquaintance and admirer of Henry Clay and had a legal acquaintance with Edwin M. Stanton and was the Intimate friend of Judge Allan G. Thurman. He was a little ovor 70 years old.

.Silver In the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The Treasury reports show that only 20,000,000 of the 834,000,000 standard silver dollars coined now remain in the Treasury unrepresented by silver certificates. Kational bank uoteB are being retired at the rate of about $3,000,000 per month and silver certificates issued at nearly he same same rate. bly make but few Appointments until he is through with tho work on his message.

The President has made' the following appointments: Robert B. Bentfro, to be collector of customs for the district ot Brazos de Santiago, Texas Daniel R. Collier, to be surveyor of customs for the port of Louisville, Ky. Robert A. M'. seloy, Jr., to be collector of internal revenue for tha district of Alabama Louis W. Einstein, to be collector of internal revenue for the Fourth district of Iowa

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the case. Postmaster Hyde said that the packages possibly might contain large sums of money. Many of thom probably had remittances covering several car-loads of cattle and this would swell the total amount up to a considerable figure. Checks were doubtlosB sent on some, and ln those caBos no loss would be sustained aside from the inconvenience, and delay.

VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 19.—J. C. Lyons was killed outright, C. W. Pauly fatally mangled, an ongiuo and eight oars wrecked and a largo number of cattle killed in an accident Sunday at Montgomery, twenty-five miles from here. While a frefgnt train of tho Ohio & Mississippi railwajy was running at speed it struck a cow, and the enfi£ue vid olght cars were thrown into ditch

Every Woman Should Have... The book on diseases of women ami children, published by the Zoa-Phora Medicine Company Kalamazoo, Mich. Price only lOo. mailed sealed. For Sale by Lew Fisher. O-27-ly.

To Cure Heart Disease.

Use "lr. Kilmer's Ocean-Week (Heart Remedy." It regulates, corrects and relieves the most distressing cases. Price 50c, and pamphlet free. Binghaintou, N. Y. £old recommended and guaranteed by Lew Fisher druggist. D-29-3ui

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about the head and bruised on the body. There is no clew to the miscreants.

THE PRESIDENT'S t»LANS.

After 111.4 Trip to IniUauapolia He Will Settle Down to Work on His Message to tlie Proposed Extra Session of Congress.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The President, accompanied by Private Secretary Halford, left at 8 o'clock Saturday aftornoon for beer Park. Mr& Harrison arrived at the Baltimore & Ohio depot just in time to meet tho President thero and accompany him. On Tuesday the President will go to Indianapolis and will remain there two or three daya Ho will then roturn to^Deer Park, and it will be Bome time beforo he 1B seen in Washington again. With the extra session in contemplation, possibly aB early as the 21st of October, he has a great deal of work before him in the preparation of his first message. He expected before this time to have had a chance to do some of this work, but at Deer Park and Bar Harbor alike the publio have demanded his time. Ha proposes on his return from Indianapolis to accept no Invitations of any sort, but to rotlre to his cottage at Deer Park and work. He will not return to Washington before the middle of September, and will Dtoba-

Zoa-Pliora is compounded solely for diseases of women. In its sphere it has no equal. For testimonials and advice, address H. G. Colman, secretary of the Zoa-Phora Medicine Company, Kalamazoo, Mich. ju 127-1

You will iind all kinds of clothing at a great reduction at Con Cunningham's. tf.

Monon Route Excursion Schedule. Harvest Excursions, to northwest and south, Aug. 20, Sept. 10, 21, aud Oct. 8, to various points in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Iowa, Indian Ter., Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Texas aud Utah at one fare for the round trip. Excursion points aud rates to points in Tennessee from Crawfordsville are as follows: To Sunbright, $13.56 to ^Rockwood, $15.15 to Lookout Mountain, (Chattanooga) $18.t5. G. A. B. National Encampment at Milwaukee, Aug. 2tt to 31, inclusive. Excursion tickets on sale via Monon route Aug. 21 to 28, returning good Aug. 17 to Sept. 5, inclusive. Rate, Crawfordsville to Milwaukee and return, $0.95. For particulars concerning above excursions call on or address

H. S. WATSON, JAMES BABKKB, Monon Agent, Gen. Pass. AgL, 171 tn^ Crawfordsville. Chicago. "4.. ...