Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 December 1892 — Page 3

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throul. „ts„ S discipline and efficiency. Looking to the

uture and the possible necessity ol raoidtransforming a large number of citizens Into effective soldiers, it is a matter of vital importance that the regular army la organization and porsonnol. should represent as nearly as may be a perfect model."

The Secretary strongly recommends that the grade of Lieutenant-Geueral be •revived as a permanent grade of army rank. Regarding somo general features of the service, ho says:

The general conclusion, gathered from ftll sources, is to the effect that while the enlisted porsonnol of tho army is, as a whole, very much better thau at any time previous, much remains to bo accomplished In this connection beforo wo can rost entiroly satisfied. Every possible effort has beon made to secure tho enlistment of desirablo men. Tho recruitine service has b^en administered with exceptional vigor and success during the past two years, and the standard of qualifications has been raised until the test at rocruiting rendezvous Is so critical that only 23 per cent, of the applicants for enlistment were acceptad during tho fiscal year ending Jane 30, 18'J2. It seems that almost everything has been accomplished that is possible under existing laws. Notwithstanding all this, however, many men succecd In entering tho army whoso character and antecedents are such as to render their presence detrimental to tho service, and the complaint is general as to a scarcity of material for non-commissioned officers. Improvements in administrative method!: may correct some of theso evils but it is thought that the best remedy lies through a small increase in Compensation. If good men are wanted for the army they must be paid something near what wage-earners reccive in ordinary pursuits ofocivil life. Under the urossureof National prosperity topresentative men command good pay.

Under presentconditions thorn is scarcely any pecuniary benefit to attract a man to tho ranks. Promotions to commissioned grades are necessarily few, and the difference between th'e pay of a private and a non-commissioned oflicor Is hardly appreciable, when considered In tho light of an inducement to eni'stprent. is, therefore, recommended that at least the pay of all non commissioned

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trades bo increased to the extent of makpromotion thereto tho object of legitimate ambition, thereby inducing the enlistment df the very best material to compete for the advantages of promotion to tho grade of both commissioned and non-commissioned officers. Considering that there aro 1,831 sergeants of all grades, and 1,011 corporals, it is apparent that the Inducement should bo ample enough to justify young men of character and capacity in Indulging the expectation of ultimately securing adequate compensation and recognition.

Tho Secretary urges the reorganization of tho infantry and artillery arms of tho service upon lines laid down in previous reports: and devotes considerable space to th? Military Academy at West Point, post-graduate Infantry, cavalrv, artillery aud onglneer schools. Tho reports of the various subordinate departments aro given and their roctynmeudationo Indorsed.

He Prefers "Pinafore.

The Hon. William Tecumseh Sherman regards "Pinafore'' as one of the best operas of theso time. "Pinafore1' has ono excellent musical merit. It doesn't contain "Marching Through Georgia," a work which has been so much heard and overheard by tho longrluffering ears of mankind.—N.

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children, buta#am! tions of coming, time. That is what makes dissipation and uncleanness so awful. It reverberates in other times. It may skir one generation, but it is apt to come up in the third generation, as is suggested in tho Ten Commandments, which say,

Visitiug tho iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.'*

Mtnd you, it says nothiug about the second generation, but mentions the third and the fourth. That accounts for what you sometimes see —very good parents with very bad children. Go far enough back in the ancestral line and you find the source of all the turpitude. "Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto tho third and fourth generation. If when Saul died the consequences of his iniquity could have died with him it would not have been so bad. Alas, no! Look on that hill, a few miles out from Jerusalem. and see the ghastly burdens of those seven gibbets anii the wan and wasted Rbpah watching them.

Go to-day through the wards and almshouses and the reformatory institutions where jnforturiate children are kept and you v/iil find that nine out of ten had drunken or vicious parents. Yea, day by day on the streets of our cities you lind men and women wi cckcd of evil parentage. They are moral corpses. Like the seven sous of *aul, though dead, unburied. Alas for Rizpah, who not for six months, but for 3'ears and years, has watched them She can not keep the vultures aud the jackals off.

Furthermore, this strange incident in Bible story shows that attractiveness of person and elevation of position are no security against lro\ble.

Who is this Rizpah sitting in desolution? One of Saul's favorites. Her personal attractions had woi. his heart. She had be.'n caressed of fortune. With a mother's pride she looked on her princely children. But the sceue changes.' Behold her in banishment and bereavement— Rizpah on the rock!

Some of the worst distresses have come to scenes of royalty and wealth. What porter at tho mansion's gate has not let in champing and lathered steed bringing evil dispatch? On what tessellated hall has there not stood the solemn bier? Under what exquisite fresco has there not been enacted a tragedy of disaster? What curtained couch hath heard no cry of pain? What harp hath never trilled with sorrow? What lordly nature hath never leaned against carved pillar and made utteranco of woe?

presses upon ternul attachment. Not many men would have had courage or eniluranco for the awful mission of Rizpah. To dare the rage of wild beasts, and sit from May to October unsheltered, and to watch the corpses of unburied children, was a work that nothing but the maternal heart could have accomplished. It needed more courage than to stand before opened batteries or to walk in calmness the deck of a foundering steamer.

There is uo emotion so completely unselfish as maternal affection. Conjugal love expects the return of many kindnesses and attentions, Filial love expects parental care or is helped by the memory of past watchfulness. But the strength of a mother's love is entirely independent of the past and the future, and is. of all emotions, the purest. The child has done nothing in the past to earn kindness, aud in the future it may grow up to maltreat its parent but still from tho mother's heart there goes forth inconsumable affection.

Abuse cannot offend it neglect cannot chill it time cannot efface it death cannot destroy it. For harsh words it has gentle chiding for the blow it has beneficent ministrj- for neglect it has increasing watchfulness. It weeps at the prison door over the incarcerated prodigal, and pleads for pardon at the Governor's feet, and is forced away by compassionate frieuds from witnessing the I struggles of the gallows. Other lights go out, but this burns on without extinguishment, as in a gloom-struck night you may see a single star—one of God's pickets— with gleaming bayonet of light keeping guard over tho outposts of lieaveu.

Oh. despise not a mothers love! If heretofore you have''been negligent of such an one and .you still have op portunity for reparation, make haste. 1 If you could only just look in for an I hour's visit to her, you would rouse up in the aged one a whole world of blissful memories. What if sho does sit without talking much? She watches you for months when you knew not how to talk at all. What if she has many ailments to tell about? During fifteen years you ran to her with every little scratch or bruise, and she doctored j'our little fiuyer as carefully as a surgeon would bind the worst fracture.

You say sho is childish now. I wonder if she ever saw you when you were childish. You have no patience to walk with her on the street, she moves so slowly. You complain at

i" welcome all wlio eater. The sity of Athens numbers about 2,000 students, the bulk of whom are as poor as church mice,for every family —even "that of the indigent peasant, whose larder is lean and whose root leaks lamentably—considers it the proper thing to send at least one son to tho Universitj'. This is ono of the cheapest luxuries the kingdom affords—quite as clicap as the comedies of Parliament. Fees there are none and as for tho problem of keeping soul and body together and paying the mercenary huckster for the midnight oil, it is much more easily solved than in any other country pn this side ot the Atlantic. The student who aspires to be a doctor simply takes service as garduer, waiter, messenger, runner—in a word, crawls into any crevice in the social edifice.in the hope that there's a gude time comin' for him yet. A triumph over the difficulties of science against enormous odds is not a whit more difficult to the sanguine Greek than are victories—prospective for the nonce—over Turk, Tartar and Bulgarian. Every year the University of Athens lets loose about GOO full-fledged '-doctors" upon society. who stalk about the highways and byways of life, like the sophists of old, ready to lend themselves to auy cause or enterprise, however risky, seeking what they can devour, and "rarely linding enough to still their cravings. Now, M. Tricoupis feels that this is a serious evil, and he means to end it or mend it at once by bringing in a bill to tax intermediate and higher education. Tho pupil of the preparatory grammar school will, when this bill becomcs a law, have to pay 'Jf drachmas a year (l£), when he advances to the gram mar school twice that sum, and at the University from 100 to 150 drachmas a year, in addition to fees for examination and promotion. This is killing two birds with one stone, if we can trust the roseate views of the minister,who anticipatean addition to the revenue of 1,500,000 drachmas a year from this tax—not a very considerable sum, it is true, but a very welcome addition to a State purse which, like the Irishman's coat, seems made chiefly of holes aud fresh air.

The Emperor of Annam, who lias been mentioned so often in the foreign papers recently, has 200 wives, each of whom, with her servants, live in a house in tho palace garden, which is surrounded by a great rail.

Indianapolis & Vlnceunos train and wore* carried thrco quarters ot a mile boyond tho station, sued the company for damages, and compromised for $100 and $75 respectively.

While Mrs. Thomas Knickerbocker was standing in the corridor of the court houso at Frankfort, talking with a daughter and holding a grandchild in her ainu, sho sud donly fell heavily to the floor aud expired of heart disoaso. The child was bruised in the fall.

Several months ago Katie Hood, a girl of Counersville, was murdered, and her body was found floating in tho canal reservoir. It is now claimed that her spirit can bo seen floating over the water almost nightly, and there is great alarm among tho superstitious.

John N. Girton, of Putnam county voted for Jackson in 1820 and for Cleveland in 1S02, and tho votes wore cast not ono mile from each other. He lias voted for every Democratic candidate for President from Jackson to tho present, time. Recently himself and wife celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary.

Mrs. Martha llanncs, of Porter county, dismantcled a house which Bert Harris erected on a farm adjoining her own, aud she also tried to shoot Harris. Arrest followed, and on lior failure to give bonds to keep tho peace she wus committed. She swears she will kill Harris when released-

James L. Gibson, near Muncie, found a coppercolored stouo of peculiar formation lying in his chicken coop, aud besido it mangled chicken, which the stouo had evidently struck in its descent. He claims that the fragment was a piece of thecome1which was wandering around loose some days ago. It weighs sis ounces. 0 A robber shot and killed a soloon keeper at Greencastle, Thursday night. Tho saloon keeper was counting his money when tho robber entered aud ordered a drink when tho saloon kecLor turn to wait on him, his money was demanded at the muz zle of a revolvor. Ho reached for his own revolver, when the robber fired, making a mortal wouud.

At a pumpkin and corn sho.v held a^ Martinsvillo Friday the prize pumpkin weighed 71 pounds and 7 ounces the sec ond 2 pounds 0 ounces. In the corn con test t.ho dozen ears receiving the first prizo weighed 10 pounds 1 ounce the second 15 pounds 1 ounce. Tho prizes wero a five dollar pair of shoes to oach of tho iirst and a two dollur and ono half pair to the second,

James T. Young, defeated in his application to ostabiish a saloon at Valionia. duo to tha temperance sentiment, started a restaurant atlSeymour. Business was

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Bran $11.50 per ton. "Wheat. Corn. Chicago j'J r'd 72 Cincinnati— ii rd 7U',i St. Louis. .. 2 r'd New York 3 r'd

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Good to choice Fair to medium Common to medium Lambs, good to choice

POV I/fRY A Nn OTHEK l'liODUCE. Poultry—llens.jTc ijp lb younif chickens Sc if lb: turkeys, fat choice hens, t)clb. ducks, 7c ij? lb geose,5.40 for choice.

Eggs—Shippers paying 2 c. Butter—Choico country bntter. 14(31ie common, 6@10c croamery, retailing from store at 35c.

Cheeso—Now York full cream, 12(®12§C skims, :Vrc7c t&. (Jobbingprices.)

Feathers--Prime geese 40c $ lb mixed"- .: duck, 20c 13 B. Beeswax—Dark, 15c yellow,20c (selling)

Wool--Fino merino.

No. 2 tallow. 3sc. Horse Hides—[email protected]. Tallow—No. 1, 4c No. 2.3^c.

Grease—White, 4c yellw, S^Xc 3c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

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Potatoes—S2.50§2.65 $ brl. riweet Potatoes— Jerseys, $i.50. Lemons—Clioicc, S6.50

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Pears—Kiofer, S2 1} bfishel. Onions—53 brl Spanish, cr? to.

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Cabbage—Michigan,[email protected]

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