Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 December 1892 — Page 10

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CRAW FORDS VILLTC INDIANA

DEPARTMENT REPORTS. The

Secretaries ot the Interioi and

War Submit their Annuals-

Work of tho liilorlor Dcpartmenti

unci Kecommrndatlons of tho

War Department.

TriE INTKr.IOIl DEI'AItTJIKMT.

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Tho annual roport of Secretary Nobl' shows that tho Interior Department lias accomplished moro during tho present administration than during any other period Tho General Land Office has worked oil the vast uccumulalioji of former years, and is now on current business, greatly tc tho advantage of Western sottlcrs the Indian Bureau has uiado groat progress in elevating tho various Indian tribes in tho work of allotment of land In seyoralty to individual Indians, the consequent disintegration of tlioir tribal rotations, and tho development ot schools, Great reform has been uc :omulisho.u in tho purchasu of Indian Supplies. Tho Pension Otiico has disposed of an immonse volume of work, and lias exceeded all former records in the iimnbiii' of iinai adjudications, both original and upon appeals,executing tho hi nuficent laws for tho soldiers ot tho Union. Tho Census Othce lias linished nearly all of its immense and highly scientliic work, and what romains is rapidly nearing completion. Tho geological survey has progressed greatly in its topographical survey of the Maio3 and Territories in locating resorvoir:i for tho irrigation^ of arid lauds, und in its other usolul divisions. The Railroad Bureau has kept constant supervision of tho condition of the roadbeds and appurtcnaucos and given careful consideration to tho ijuostion of the maturing debts of tho subBidizod railroads and tho future conditions Which should govern thoin. Tho Patent Office lias kept up with current work and Introduced soveral important rofornis. Tho Bureau of Education has greatly oxtended its operations In Europe and our own couutrv, and the-distribution of funds for agricultural colleges, a difficult prob-

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am, lias boon satisfactorily and otliciently

Tho Sccrotary'9 roport discusses tho reports mado by his subordinate oilicers, and tho conditions of the various territories. Tho government of Utah, It explains, is now in a satisfactory condition, With polygamy about stamped out. The population of Oklahoma is shown to bo 1B3.0.X), not including tho Indians who still maintain their tribal relations. Eighty"ve per cent, of tho population are whites, and onl" about 5 per cent, foreign born. It Is thought that a conservative estimate of the valuo of tho property, real and personal, in Cheyenne and Arrapahoo coiinties is 540,f (W.000 excluding these coil ntios tho assessors' roturns'show a valuation of lil,485,16-. Tliero aro five national banks

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the Torritory, with an average deposit fcecount of £1"(),OCO oach, and there aro fourteen private hanks with a deposit account of naif a million dollars. Tliroo railroads aro now In operation through the Territory.

Tho Secretary discusses at length tho Nicaragua canal scheme, showing its present status, and oxprosses the opinion that thi3 eutorpriso Is of the utmost important to tho welfare of our country, in either peace or war, and ihiuld have most favorable recognition by Congress.

THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The annual report of the War Department, which has boen submitted to the President by Secretary Elklns/pontains

many

recommendations. "It is gratifying tobo able to state," tho Secretary .... thy amy has maintained

RIZPAH ON THE ROCK.

Is the Subject of Dr. Talmage Sunday's Sermon-

The Cr tin a of Saul Do*troyel Ills Prosper ity a* Well a» lilinself—Asonles of

JJeriiaved Mothers.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached st Brooklyn Sunday. Text II. Samiel xxi. 10. lie said:

Tragedy that beats anythiig Shakespearc-au of Victor Hugoian. After returning from the Holy Laid I briefly touched upou it, but I mist have a vrbole sermon for that scene.

The explosion aud Hash of gunpowder have driven nearly all the beasts

whistic whioR

clear Palestine of cruel claw and bralc.

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But in the tirna of the text those regions worn populous with multitudes of jnckuls ard lions. Seven sons of Saul had been crucified on a hill. Rizpr.h was mother to two and relative to five of tho boys. What lad sheso boj d-me that they should be crucified'? Nothing except to have a bad father and grandfather. But now that the boys wero c.ead why not take tb?m down from the gibbets? T'O. They are sentenced to luing there. So Rizpah takes the sarkeicti'i, r-v rough shawl with which in iijanrr.'uig for her dead she had wra ipfd herself, and spreads that 6aciiciol.ii upon the rocks near the gibbets, ami acts the part of a sentinel, watching and defending the dead. Yet every other sentinel is relieved, and after being on guard for a few hours some one else takes his place. But Rizpah is on guard both day and nijht for half years. One hundred ana eighty days aud nights'of obsequies. "What nerves she must have had to stand that! Ah, do you not know that a mother can stand anything.

Oh, if she might be allowed to hollow a place in the side of the hill and lay the bodies of her thildren to quiet rest! If in some cavern of tho mountains she might find for them Christian sepulture! Oh, if she might take them from the gibbet of disgrace and carry them still farther awav from the haunts of men. and then lie beside them iu the last long sleep! Exhausted nature ever and anon falls into slumber, but in a mordent she breaks the snare, and chides herseli as though she had been

cruel,and leaps up ou the

storv of

rock,shout-

ing at wiid beast glaring from the

thickets and at vulturous brood wheeling in the sky. The thrilling

Rizpah reaches David, and

he comes forth to hide tho indecency.

Gall is not less bitter when taken from the pewter mug. Sorrow is often attended by running footmen anil laced lackeys mounted behind. Queen Anne Bolcyn is desolate in the palace of Henry ill.

Adolphus wept in German castlcs over the hypocrisy of friends. Pedro I. among Brazilian diamonds shivered with fear of massacre. Stephen of England sat on a rocking throne. And every mast of pride has bent in the storm, and the highest mountains of honor and fame aro covered with perpetual snow. Sickness will frost the rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest brow aud .stiflen the bpright'iest step. Rizpah quits the courtly circle and sits on the roclc. .Perhaps you look back upon scenes different from those in which now from day to day you mingle. You

ltulil UUJ

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and bird* of prey from the rogioas, iiave exchanged the plenty and luxand now the filu iek of the locomotive

uriance

is daily heard at J&'u-I prjv{ltion

salerc will for many miles around

0f

A 41 +/M/f 1 An n!M

of your father's house for

aii(l

nfe

trials known to God

umj your own

heart. The morning

was

Hushed with promise.

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Troops of calamites since then have made desperate charge upon you. Darkness has come. Sorrows have swooped like carrion birds from tho sky and barked like jackals from tho thicket. You stand amid your slain anguished and woe struck. Rizpah on the rock.

So it has been in all ages. Vashti mustdo'T the spangled robes of the Persian court and go forth blasted from tho palace gate. Hagar exchanges oriental comfort for the wilderness of Ceersheba. Mary, Queen of Scots, must pass out from flattery and pomp to sutler ignominious death in the castle of bYothingay. The wheel of fortune keeps turning and mansions and huts exchange, aud he who rode the chariot pushes the barrow, and instca of the glare of festal lights is the simmering of the peat lire, End in the place of Saul palace is the roalc—the cold rock, I he desolate rock.

Again the tragedy of the text dis plays the courage of woman amid ereat emergencies. What mother or sister or daughter would dare to go out

to

ne comes iortu muu mu luu^vuv, principle or aireciiuu iuuau up uui The corpses had bt.en chained to the

trees. The chains aro unlocked with

out. What .• tiara thing that those

Yes. But i' is always so'. Let every one who do.es wrong know that he wars not .only, as-in this case.^gaiust

fight the cormorant and jackal?

Rizpah did it. And so would you if an emergency demanded. Woman is naturally timid and shrinks from exposure and depends on stronger arms for tlie achievement of great|euterprises. And she is often troubled lest there might be occasions demanding fortitude when she would fail. Not so. Some of those who are afraid to look out of doors after night fall, aud who quake in the darkness at the least uncertain sound, and who start at the slam of the door and

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turn

a

si„mbering

Lorrid clank, and the skeletons are |losts

Sage

thunderstorm, it the

(lilV 0f trjai catr.e

would be heroic and

day of trial cam? would be heroic and invulnerable. God has arranged it so that woman needs the trumpet of great contest of principle or affection to rouse up her

courage. Then she will

st inj under

the cross fire of oppos-

at

'.et down. A'l the seven are buried, wounded. Then she will carry and tho fitory ends. into prison and dark lane the mesB. it hardlv ends before you cry

Chalons and givo wine

of salvation. Then she will

brave

60ven boys should suffer .for the out to souud terror id to the hearts of crimes of a father and grandfather I God's enemies. Abigail throws hersel between a raiding party of infuriated men and her hhsband's vineyards. Rizpah fights back the vul.tures from the rock.

tho pestilence. Deborah goet

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the expense of providing for her now. 1 wonder what, your financial income was from one year to ten years of age. Do not begrudge what you do for the old folks. 1 care not how much you did for tlieji they have done more for you.

But from this weird text of the morning comes rushing in upon my soul a thought that overpowers me. This watching by Rizpah was an after death watching. I wonder if now there is an utter death watching. I think there is. There are Rizpahs who have passed death, and who are still watching. They look down from thSir supernal and glorified state upon us, and is uot that an after death watching? 1 cannot believe that those who before their death were interested in us have since their death bocome indifferent as tohappines to us.

Ynung man, better look out what you do and where you go, for your glorified mother is looking at you. You sometimes say to yourself,

What would mother say if she knew this She does know. \ou might cheat, her once, but you can not cheat her now. Docs it embarrass us to thick she knows all about us now If she had to put up with so much when she was here, surely she will not be the less patient und excusatory now.

Oh, this tremendous thought of my text—this after death watching! What an upl'.iting consideration! And what a comforting thought! Younsr mother, yon who have just lost your babe, and who feel.-? the need of a nearer solace than that Avhich comes from ordinary sympathy your mother ltoows all about it. ou cannot run in and talk it all over with her as vou would.if she were still a terrestrial resident, but it will comfort you 1 think—yea it will comfort you a good deal—to know that she understands it all. Yousee tha the velocities of the heavenly condi tions arc so great that it would take her a half second to come to your bereft heart.

Oh, these mothers in heaven! They can do more for us now tjhan before they went away. The bridge between this world and the next is not broken down. They approach the bridge from both ways, departing spirits and coming spirits, difdm prisoned spirits and sympathising spirits. And so let us walk as to be worthy of the supernal companionships/and if to any of us lifeon earth is iv hard grind, let us understand that if we watch faithfully and trust fully our blessed Lord there will be a corresponding reward in the land of peace, and that Rizpah, who once wept on a rock, how reigns oa a throne.

Greek Ijcuriiinj

No observant tourist can have visited Greece, writes a correspondent, without being struck with the vast number of so-called intelligent proletarians who are to bo niet with at every street corner—men who know their "Illiad" and "Odyssey" off by 'heart, men who have mastered the secrets of astronomy and. metaphysics, have a doctor's diploma in their pockets, and know every art science conceivable, except the art of making au honest dinner. The fact is that .education of all kinds is gratuitous in Greece—-elementary, nil

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart has anew banlf. Waterloo is roller-skating. Shelbvvillo has free mail delivery. 2 ("ireensburg is short on dwellings.

Seymonro wants a now P. O. building. Evansvillo has numerous sandbaggers Ell Uouewits—Wabash—penltontiary— forgory.

Richmond's court houso will cost a million dollars, Decatur county tho 20th voted to purchaso all its toll roads. llonryville schools have been closed on account of the prevalence of diptheria.

Redkey has doubled its population in a year. It now has three glass factories. Sixteen pots liavo boon put in operation in tho new Dol'auw glass factory at Alexandria.

James \V, Anderson, tho richest man of Kusli county, is dead, llo owned 0,'0) acres ot land.

Benjamin Murphy, of Wabash county, was kicked in tho lace by a horse, bursting his eyo ball.

Mrs. Mary Frame, prophetess of Richmond,'prophecies that tho world will come to an end in 18ro.

Tin: feasibility of establishing an aluminum factory at Noblcsvillo is being toriously considered.

A liorso belonging to Max Munty. of Cambridge City, recently died at an ago in exccss of forty-three years.

Tho Hammond oleomargarine factory turns out 40,000 pounds daily, and tho product sells readily at 18 cents a pound'.

An official of tho New Ross Fair Association contradicts tho report that tho association has concluded to hold 110 moro mcotings.

There aro twenty "quart houses'1 and •speak-casics" doing business at Anderson. against which, tho Liquor Lcaguo has declared war.

Tho resldcnco occupied by Josie Springer, at Mt. Vernon, was badly wrecked by dynamite, ono end of tho building being torn to pieces.

Tho groat sink holo noar Wostvillo, ip which the Wabash railway has dumped many hundreds of tons of earth and piling is at last permanently filled.

James Lambcrton. of Goshen, attempted to steal a rido to Elkhart, but fell under tho train. Roth feet wore crushed, and ono leg was amputated near the knee.

Miss Clara Paxton, a beautiful girl o' Richmond, is looked upon as hopclossly Insane, tho result of religious excitement during tho Woodworth revival four yoars ago.

James Rhodes, a prominent citizen of Andrews, six miles south of Huntington, committed suicide Wednesday night by cutting his throat. Poor health is tho assigned cause

Ed Jonos, colored, of Clark county, who headed a crowd of five negroes and assaulted John Hodgocock on tho night the election, has been sentenced to live years' Imprisonment.

Mrs. C. Holier, of Ft. Wayno, placed her child, cloven months old, in tho crib, rock ing tho littlo ono to sleep, and then busied horsolf with other cares. An hour later tho child was found dead.

The deer which was first seen in Hendricks county was chased through Boone into Delaware county, and was iinally captured alivo by men and boys noar Cadiz iu Henry couuty. It is a line buck

Lyman 13cck, seventeen years old, of New Buffalo, pointed a rovolvorat Josoph Beck, his brother, ono year his senior, and thinking tho weapon unloaded, pulled the trigger. Tho bullet took effect in Joseph's kiduoys!andhewiUdie.

dull and dobts accrued, and in a Oto! '. dospondoncy, Sunday, he kissed his wifo' farewell and committed suicide by shooting himself through the broast. Ho was forty-ono years old and tliofuthor of three children.

George W. Reed, press agent forth®, Leslie Davis Dramatic Company, while at Ft. Wayno indulged in a general spreo. Then ho retired to his room at tho Hotel Rich and indicted two notes, ono of them leading: "God bless ono that I .love. Keep her pure and good." Tho other: "Ft. Wayno is a den ot thieves and no good." After this he retired to hod'and turned on the gas. Ho was found in an unconscious condition and died soon after removal to tho hospital, llo had but four cents left.

KokouK' is in the midst of a natural ga9row of prodigious proportions. The rival companies? which havo been warring, among themselves and supplying frcofuel to consumers all summer, havo mado up and aro now trying to colloct rates in oxcess of thoso named in tho ordinance embodying thoir franchise. This has aroused a storm of indignation and moro than lifty suits havo beon tiled against.

tho

companies for violation of tho ordinance. City Attorney Shirley fs proceeding by nrindmniis injunction, and otherwiso against

the

gas

gas companies, and Is contl-

dent of defoating the extortion.

Kokomo,

which lies In tho heart of tho

gas belt, and which has been enjoying freo

for tho past six months, owing to tho light between tho rival gas companies, hereafter will havo to danco to lively rates, which go into offcct on tho 1st. Tho rates for winter include SI.50 per month for cook stove. $l..r0 for tho first heater, 81 for tho second and sovonty-fivo cents for tho tiiird. Each additional licator seven-ty-live cents. Grates are supplied at $4.50 per month, and factories at live cents per 1,030 foot.

The great continuous tank system was introduced in tho big window glass works of Maring, HartA Co., at Muncio, at a cost of §100 0)0, Tho workors, however, aro dissatllied with tho system, which is comparatively now, and have furnished a new sohedulo of wages, pattorned aftor tho Jeanotto (Pa,) factory. Tho management offered to guarantee wages ranging from $l-0,0ti to 5270 every four weeks, working six and two-thirds hours dally with tho workmen at liberty to make as much more as they desired. This offor was refused and workors quit. Nearly 30") aro out. The management claims to have been mistreated by its employes and a compromise will bo hard to reach.

An attempt was made to assassinate the Rev. W. H. Tomes, tho venerable pastorof the Congregational church at Lake Station, the only religious organization in that village. Whilo Mr. Tomes was seated by his tiresido a shot was fired through the window, barely missing both himsel* and wife, and Mr. Tomes hurried to the door in time to soo two men running away. Mr. Tomos is known as a vigorous proacli. or, and his pulpit utterances havo given offense to the lawless. Tho attempt to kill him lias resulted in the formation or a vigilancecommittco to protect tho pastor and his family.

There arc some roomy theaters in this country, but none that comes up to the old theater of iEmilius Seavrius, at Rome, which comfortably seated eighty thousand persons. It was built 1.950 years ago.

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THE MARKETS.

iNurANAPOWS,

Dec. P. 1S93.

nanolis when uot specified