Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 November 1894 — Page 7

E REVIEW.

8UI'PLKMKNT.

HAW FORDS VILLE INDIANA

THE melancholy days have come, fche saddest of the year, 'vlien candidates say to the bum, ''Come to rae arms, my dear."

"HE who steals my go 1 steals f,rasli but he who filches my good name steals that which naught enriches him and makes me poor indeed."

fro

"THE earth shall reel to and like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgressions thereof shall be heavy up on it and it shall fall and not rise again.

Tim pension question is a living jssucin Germany, also, and there is said to be great discontent at the rapidly increasing number of officers who are retired on a stipend. Since the Kaiser ascended the throne In. 1S3S more than 4,00(1 officers have been forced to resign in this way

TKMI-KRANCE people will be gratified to know that the number of brewing licenses during the past twelve years, in old England, long supposed tn be a very citadel for brewing interests, has fallen oil to the extent of 111,fills. This statistical information mav very misleading, liowevrr, as the annual output ol the brewries still in business may have been so largely increased that this large reduction in the number of establishments would be mure than counterbalanced.

NKW JKHSKV "hired gals are a queer lot, if the enterprising specimen :ti the employ of Senator Mc Pherson is a fair sample It is claimed for the Senator now that he did not intend to withdraw from the race for re-election and only wrote the letter committing himself to that course to see how it would look. The enterprising cook summarily sent it off as she had done with the Senator's telegrams buying sugar stock .':a.st summer, while he slumbered. That cook might retire from the "range" and go on the staire with pro lit.

NOTWITHSTANDING the numerous accidents that have resulted from carelessness in handling dynamite and other high explosives, people will continue to handle them with the utmost carelessness. For in sfancc, Joseph Kasmiski, of Buffalo, I knew very well that he could not impose on a dynamite cartridge in safety, yet he deliberately punched it with a crowbar. Mr. Kasmiski proceeded "skyward" promptly, and was fortunate enough to come down 5n one chunk, although every bone in his body was broken. Me left a large family to mourn his loss and wonder at his stupidity.

OTm capture of Cant. Ilowgate, the defaulting chief of the United States Signal Corps, who disappeared from "Washington many years ago. was not, an achievement of which "Sherlock Holmes" would have been at all vain. In fact the stupidity'of the detectives and special secret service officers intrusted with the ease might be said to have been monumental, iu view of the final denouement. The prisoner stated that he had done business openly in New York for eight years and made no efforts to conceal his identity. Hardly a day or a night passed that he did not lands, invention: recognize—and was recognized bv~- investments, and

people lie had known in the days of bis innocence and prosperity at Washington. The only reasonable Inference is that there has been "a nigger in the wood-pile'' and that for some reason Ihc Government has not been anxious to push the case

Interesting devciexpeclcd, although

Jo a final issue opiricnts may be

they may not materialize. Tiie average detective is not an especially brilliant person, as is demonstrated by the numberless escapes of criminals in all parts of the country and the, countless crimes that are annually dismissed as inexplicable, and ajx-cataiogued and pass into oblivion with the simple words, "no eiew."

"CKNTI.XMAN JIM" has evidently •vrot his "dander'" up to a great alti "tiidc. He was greatly averse to the meeting with Fit/.simmons at the beginning of the negotiations, but Slaving accepted the challenge. does not appear to have any intention of permitting "Fit/." to sneak awav .£ri:uri the agreement on men* technicalities. Doubts having been expr3ssed as to the pos.-dbility of the meeting being successfully carried to a finish in Florida, Fit/, in an interview intimated that, the fight might not come off. Corbett put a damper 011 the proposition at once,

ID an interview at Buffalo, in which -iiosaid he would agree to every pro-

[UUJIpange in the articles, exuapt fi«ht must be for tho Police '..cue championship belt, which he

IJUS already won twice. If Corbett wins this fight the belt will be his personal property, and he will not need to defend it a fourth time. Corbett positively announced that he would meet Fit/.simmons anywhere that a fight could be conducted without interference, even if the stake was but-fc), after which he will permanently retire from the pugilistic profession.

THK majority of our people sup pose that Newfoundland is a part the Dominion of Canada. Such however, is not the case- It is British colony of itself with a gov ernment of its own, an executivi council, legislative council, and House of Assembly. A reportei recently interviewed Sir Join O Brien, the Governor of Newfound land, who is now in England Governor O'Brien stated that tin people of his colony were not it favor of joining with Canada, an although the question had not beei agitated, he gave it as his opinioi that they would prefer annexation to the United States rather than tc Canada. Canadian annexation has been agitated for many years. S( far as known there is no practical prospect of any such event taking place in the near future. Newfoundland may possibly join the Union, It. is ours by natural right.and com mercial interests would seem to favot such a movement.

AN AFFElTINt STOKY.

'I'llO I'OWOP of I-'ilial TJOVC and It.' Great. Howard.

"I have a little, story to tell yon, boys." our old neighbor said to tin young peopie the other evening. "One day—a long, hoi day it hac been, too—1 met my father on tlu road to town '1 wish you would take this package to the village tor me. .Inn. he said hesitating. "Now, I was a boy of twelve, nol fond of work, and just out of tlu hay field, where had been at worl since day-break. I was tired, dusty and hungry. It. was two miles ink town. 1 wanted to get my supper and dress for singing class. "My first impulse was to refuse, and to do it, harshly for I was vexed that he should ask me after my long day's work. If 1 did refuse, he would go himself. He was a gentle, patient old man. But something stopped me—one of God's good angels, I think. 'Of course, father, I'll take it," I said, heartily, giving mv scythe tc one of the men. He gave me the package. "'Thank you. Jim," he said, "1 was going myself, but somehow 1 don't feel very strong to-day." "He walked with me to the road that turned ofT to the town, and as he left me he put his hand on mv arm, saving again, 'Thank you. mv son. You've always been a good boy to me, .rim. 'I hurried into town and back again. When I came near the house 1 saw a crowd of the farm hands at the door. One of them came to nie, I the tears rolling down his face. "'Your father," he said. 'He fell I dead just as lie reached the house.

The last words bespoke were to you. "1 am an old man now, but I have thanked God over again in all the years that have parsed since thai hour, that those last words were. 'You've always been a good boy tc me. .Jim.'

A Htimiliutinn Confession. "We have heard men confess in public that they never read advertisements. says the Midland. We thought of them in this wise: That is a most humiliating confession, for there is often much information tc be gleaned from the advertising pages concerning new books, papers,

routes of travel, many useful arti

cles for the home. tho. ofiice. the far.11 and the church. Then we mar' clod also at their lack of fairness. If ui vertisers help patrons to pay for their papers by inserting advertisements. llien patrons are uin'or some obligation to return Ihe favor by noticing what their boii"i'aeiors say. We are never proud of '.he man who boasts that henever reads advertisements.

MISI'KMJAN'KOIJS NOTES.

Twenty Slates cultivate silk. America has 28.0i)i Hour mills. Country roads in China ar.c not bounded by fences.

Electricity will pass along a cop1 per wire 28'.),IKK) miles a second. Kentucky utilizes her convict la1 bor by building good turnpikes. I Electric irons for laundries ami shirt factories are becoming popular.

Alaska has fifty volcanoes that have been active within one hundred years.

A regular organization of onelcged beggars exists in Springfield, Mo? I A wave of thought would require about a minute tc traverse a mile of nerve. 1 The Western Union Telegraph

Company consumes lU0,UUU,l)t)U en velopes a year. The Persians gave names to everv day in the month, just as we givv

them to davs of the week.

HEAVENLY JOYS.

"There Is Rest for the Weary, There Is Rest for You."

immortal Aw *lt the Knlttiful UeHwvrr—Ir. T.ilmn^b's Sormou lor th«) 1'ressi,

The Rev, Dr. Talmage, who is now nearing the close of his globe circling tour and will shortly reach American shores, selected as the subject of last Sunday's sermon through the press, "Victory Over Pain," the text chosen being Revelations xxi, 4, "Neither shall there be any more pain."

The first questions you ask when you are about to change your residence to any city is: "What is the health of the place? Is it shaken of terrible disorders? What are the bills of mortality? What is the death rate? How high rises the thermometer?" And am I "not reasonable in asking, What are the sanitary conditions (if the heave.* lv city to which we all hope to move? My text answers it by saying, "Neither shall there be any more pain."

First, 1 remark, there will be no pain of disappointment in heaven. If 1 could put the picture of what you anticipated of life when you began it beside the picture of what you have realized, 1 would find a great difference. You have stumbled upon •jreat disappointments. Perhaps you expected riches, and '•011 have worked hard enough to gain them. You have planned and worried and persisted until your hands were worn and your brain was racked and your heart fainted, and at the end of this long strife with misfortune yuti lind that, if you have not been positively defeated it has been a drawn battle. It is still tug and tussle, this year losing what you gained last, financial uncertainties nulling :lown faster than you liuild. For perhaps twenty or thirty years you have been running your craft straight into the teeth of the wind.

Perhaps you have had domestic disappointment. Your children, upon whose education you lavished your hard earned dollars, have not turned out as expected. Notwithstanding all your counsels and prayers and painstaking they will not do right. Many a good father has had a bad boy. Absalom trod on David's heart.

Furiiier, 1 remark, there will be •AO pain of weariness. It may be many hours since you quit work, but many of you are unrested. some from •.lverwork. and some from dullness of trade, the latter more exhausting than the former. Your ankles ache your spirits flag you want rest. Are these wheels always to turn, these shuttles to fly. these axes to '.lew, these shovels to delve, these pens to fly, tliest books to be posted, these goods to be sold?

Further, there will be 110 more pain or poverty. It is a hard thing to be really poor, to have your coat wear out and no money to get another, to have your flour barrel ?mpty and nothing to buy bread with for your children, to live iu an unhealthy row and 110 means to change vour habitation, to have your child sick wilh line mysterious disease and not be able to secure eminent medical ability, to have son or daughter begin the world and you not, anything to help them in starting. with a mind capable of research and high contemplation to be perpetually fixed on questions of m'-relive-

liliood. Poets rv to throw a romance about tho poor man's cot. but there is no romance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel, unrelenting.

Further, there will be no pain of parting. All these associations must, some time break up. We clasp our hands and walk together and talk and laugh and weep together, but wc must after awhile separate. Your grave will be in one place, mine in •another. We look each other full in the face for the last, time. We will be sitting tog"ther some evening or walking together some day, and nothing will be unusual in our ap•i.'i.r.ince or our con versa! ion but God know* it is for the last, time, and me .eiigers from, eternity on their e'-rn\d to take us awav know in heaven, for our dethev know it is the

it, is thi last time, and where thev make ready

pa'Mir.g spirits last time. On every street, at every doorstep. iv every couch, there have been wrtings. But once past the lieavenlv portals, and you are through wi'.li such scenes forever. In that !an 1 there are many hand elaspings ami cmbraciugs. but, only in recognition. The great home circle never break's. Once lind your comrades there and you have them forever. No crape floats from the door of that blissful residence. No cleft hillside where the dead sleep. Ail awake, wide awake, and forever No push many waters! ing ou:, of emigrant ship for foreign shore. No toliing of bells as the funeral passes. Whole generations iu gloay. Hand to hand, heart to heart, joy to joy. No creeping up the iimbs of the death chill, the feet colli until hot-flannels cannot warm them. No rattle of sepulchral gates.

No parting, no pain. Further, the heavenly city will have 110 pain of body. The race, is pierced with sharp distresses. The surgeon's knife must, cut. The dentist's pinchers must pull. Pain is fought, with pain. The world is a hospital. Scores of diseases, like vultures contending for a carcass, st niggle as to which shall have it. Our natures are infinitely susceptible to sulTering. The eye, the foot, the hand, with immense, capacity of anguish.

Pain has gone through every self.

street and up every ladder and down every shaft. It is on the wave, on the mast, on the beach. Wounds from clip of elephant's tusk and adder's sting and crocodile's tooth and horse's hoofs and wheel's revolution. We gather up the infirmities of our parents and transmit to our children the inheritance augmented by our own sicknesses, and they add to them their own disorders, to pass the inheritance to other generations. In A. .D. 262 the plague in Home smote into the dust [i.OOO citizens daily. In 541. iu Constantinople, 1,000 grave diggers were not enough to bury the dead. In ]81.J opthalmia seized the whole Prussian army. At times the earth has sweltered with sufTering. .7

Count up the pains of Austerlitz. where HO,00!) fell of Fontenoy,where 100,000 fell of Chalons, where 300,000 fell of Marius's tight, in which 200,000 fell of the tragedy at Herat, where Genghis Ivhan massacred 1,00.000 men, and of Misliar, where he slew 1,747,000 people of the 18,000,000 this monster sacrificed in fourteen years, as he went forth to do. as he declared, to exterminate the entire Chinese nation, and make the empire a pasture for cattle. Think of the death throes of the 5,000,000 men sacrificed in one campaign of Xerxes. Think of the 120,000 that perished in the siege of Ostend, of 300,000 dead at Acre, of 1,100,000 dead in the siege of Jerusalem, of of 1,8Hi,00') of tiie dead at Troy, and then complete the review by considering the stupendous estimate of Edmund Burke that the loss by war had been thirty-live times the entire then present population of the globe.

Ah. the world has writhed in 6,000 years of sulTering. Why doubt the possibility of a future, world of suffering when we see the tortures that have been inflicted in thi*? A desorter from Savastopol coming over to the armies of the allies pointed back the, fortress and said, "That place is a perfect hell."

But 1 have a glad sound for every sick room, for every lifelong invalid, for every broken heart. "Thorn shall be 110 more pain."' Thank God! Thank God! No malarias float it! that street. No weary arm. No painful respiration. No beet in Hush. No out! can drink of tha'i healthy fountain and keep faint' hearted and faint headed. l.L| whose foot touches that pavementi beeometh an athlete. The first kis-i of that summer air will take tin* wrinkles from the old man's cheek Amid the multitude of songsters no one diseased throat. The first flash of the throne will scatter the dark 11 ess of those who were born blind. See. the lame man leaps as a hart and the dumb sing. From that bath of infinite delight we shall stej forth, our weariness forgotten. Wh are those radiant ones? Why, tha one had his jaw shot oil at Freder ieksburg that one lost his eyes in powder blast-: that one had his bacij broken by a fall from the ship's hal yards that one died of gangrene ii the hospital. No more pain

Sure enough, here is Robert Hal! who never before saw a well day and Edward Payson, whose body was ever torn of distress, and Rich I ard Baxter, who passed through 1111 told physical torture. All well. Noj more pain. Here. too. are tho The ban legion, a great, host of (i,(i(ilj put-'

to the sword for Christ's sake. No distortion on their countenance. No tires to hurt them, or floods to drown 1 them, or rack's to tear them. All well. Here are the Scotch Covenantors none to hunt, them now. The I darlc cave and imprecations of Lord

Claverhou.se exchanged for temple service, and the presence of liini who lioipod Hugh Latimer out of tho fire. All well. No more pain 1 set open the door of heaven until there blows 011 you this refreshing breeze. The fountains of God have made it, cool, and the gardens have made it sweet-. I do not know that Solomon ever heard 011 a hot day the ice click in an ice pitcher, but he wrote as if he did when he said. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from afar country."

Clambering among the Green mountains 1 was tireil and hot and thirsty, and 1 shall not forget how refreshing it was when after a while I heard the mountain brook tumbling over Ihe rocks, had 110 cup, no chalice, so 1 got down on my knees and face to drink. Oh, ye climbers on the journey, with cut feet and parched tongues and fevered temples, listen to th rumbling of sapphire brooks, amid flowered banks, over golden shelvings! Listen! "The lamb which is in the midst of the 'throne shall lead then unto living fountains of water." 1 do not oil' it to you in a chalice. To take tjiis you mu-t bend. Get down 011 your knees and on your face and drink out of this great, fountain of Co consolation. "And, lo, I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice ol

Missouri's li'iu'.

It is a misdemeanor for non-resi dents to bunt in Missouri at an\ season. The law is very explicit, and provides that any non-residents who shall kill any deer, wild turkey, grouse, quail, woodcock, goose, duck snipe, mink, otter, beaver 'possum, boar, musk rat or oilier furred animal, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

All Men l.jikud L'p 10 Her, Toxiis

SIHtii'-'S.

Gus De Smith (to giantess sevec feet, tea inches tall) -You have on* "ivat advantage over most women, j" Giantess—What is that, if I ma} ask?

Gus De Smith—You are about t! only woman I ever saw who was ic no danger of marrying beneath her-

A CONDONS© NOVEL

ames Knupp Keove, iu Democrat.

New Orleans Times-

Twas a ""first night" and the curtain was about to rise upon the third act. At the end of the second act the situation was this: The hero of the play had been accused of a great crime. The officers

were close upon his track, and disgrace and imprisonment, were hand hand with them. At this point he was alone with the woman he loved. He had told her of all the evils that ?.ompassed him and in the. same instant had told her of his love. Would she risk all for him, fl}' with him, give up all else for love of him, or would she choose safety, comfort, an honorable name and home—all of which awaited her acceptance at the hands of another? The curtain had fallen upon the, lover appealing, the woman debating. The house remained silent, hushed, almost like a house of death.

There were two persons in the orchestra chairs who were watching the play with an intensity of feeling that could hardly be veiled. One was a woman, young, handsome, bearing in every line of her face and figure testimony that she had never known other than the ease and comfort and security that wealth begets. By her side was a man of apparently the same social rank. This was IDavid Osborne, cashier of the —th National Bank. The woman was Eleanor Wheelright, whom many supposed to be his affianced wife. I11 this, however, they were wrong, as no word of love had yet passed between the two.

At, tho end of the second act Osborne had turned to his companion questionably. "It- is rather emotional."' he said. "Are you ready to guess the outcome of all this passion? Will the girl bo a fool and yield to his persuasion?" "1 hope so," Miss Wheelright replied. her tone gentle and sympathetic, "but, I shall not call it 'being a fool.' Unless she can give up much for him she does not truly love him." "Even if he is a criminal?" "That does not alter the fact,."'

After this they were silent for a little. At last he spoke again. "If you were put to such a test, Eleanor, for the man yon loved?" "If I loved him 1 think 1 should be equal to it."

Osborne's face grew a shade more pale as he asked the next question: "Have vou seen the evening papers?" "Yes." "Then you know our bank is in trouble?" "Yes 1 road all the account." "But that did not tell you all. It, did not tell you that I am suspected of embezzling the funds."

She sat very still and waited for him to go on. "I ought- not to have brought you out to-night, but I could not resist the temptation of spending one more delightful evening with you. 1 knew there would be no public accusation until to-morrow. I could not deny :myself these few hours." He, spoke very low, so that his words came to her oar in a mere whisper. "You now that I love you, that I had hoped to make you mv wife. 1 ought to have come out strong enough not,

SI 10 had risen borne rose also. -training hand. Yon may repent. as he spoke hi her toward tin

"No, nol" she cried, waving bim away "go I don't lore you. I was about to yield all for you. It w»9 madness, for you are. not worthy of it. It is past now!"

At the words of the officer, "He has stolen- the money of widows and orphans, and with this had thought to pave a golden road to indulgence with you," Eleanor Wheelright had looked upon Osborne's face and read the truth there.

And when the girl cried out, "It was madness it is past now," Osborne had looked upon her face and had seen that her own madness also was past. ^Seeing this, he put out his arm to her calmly, "Shall I take you to your carriage?" he asked.

She bowed, and they went out together. A moment later Osborne shut the carriage door between them and went alone up the road of a fugitive—the road that he bad carefull}' paved with stolen gold.

O'CONNOR'S PRECIOUS NEEDLES.

They Were Used in Sewing the Shroud of Col. lOlldworth,

A New York dispatch says: John O'Connor, fifty-three years old, of 425 Tenth street, was found lying in an area in Nineteenth street, near Fourth avenue, with a severe cut on the back of his head, at 8 o'clock last evening. At, the West Thirtieth street police station his wound was dressed, and he was locked up on a charge of intoxication.

When the ambulance surgeon said he would have to sew up the wound O'Connor remarked that he had some needles, and pulled a little case out of his pocket. In it were two needles. O'Connor said that he had treasured them for years as sacred relics. They were needles, he explained, that, were used in sewing up the burial shroud of Col. Eliner E. Ellsworth, of ihe Fire Zouaves.

O'Connor was one of Ellsworth's-. Zouaves, and was one of the five men whom Ellsworth took with him to pull down the. Confederate Hag on the Marshall house, at Alexandria, at the outbreak of the war. They hauled down the flag, but a man named .TacUson, who was the propritor of the hotel, shot and mortally wounded Col. Ellsworth. Frank Browned, of Washington, who died recently, avenged his death by shooting Jackson. O'Connor enlisted in the navy after the war and served, with the Mediterranean squadron. Of late he has been working in a picture frame factory.

Harrison's Broad View.

VVaHhinnton l'osl. The Republic has had no President or ex-President so gifted in speechmaking as General H-irrisou. HE demonstrated great ability as a debater during his term in the Senate. In the campaign of 1888 he as-y tonished the country by his reaai.yness and tact in scores of short addresses. In his trip to California while President,, he again surprised the people b}' a series of short speeches that were unprecedented, and altogether admirable. One ol the best utterances was this, at Clayton, last week: "I do not doubl lhatthe great mass of our fellowcitizens, of all political parties, desire the general good of the country and the prosperity of the people." This is the spirit which should domi nate in all campaign oratory. Wfl have no party that is lacking in patriotism All parties aim at the

to tell you this now. 1 ought to have same end—the good of the country. General Harrison has set a wholesome example In this profession ol faith in 1 he honesty and patriotism of his opponents.

waited, but could not. Miss Wheel right made no answer, but she put out her hand and touched the sleeve of his coat. It gave him courage.

By morning 1 may bo arrested," lie said, "imprisoned. The amount tf tho defalcation is very great. If 1 start soon and at once I may be in Canada by morning, and at least afo from arrest. The train leaves in an hour."

Miss Whoelright's agitation had been shown only by a nervous plucking at her gloves. One of those had lieon drawn half off. to draw if on again hand out to him that he might but ton it. Then ^he drew her wraps about, her. "Come." she said, '"we shall

to her foot. Osmd put out a re"Eleanor, think! he said but even began to move with exit. As they did

Weifjhin, Silk.

New York Sun. One of the methods used for weighing silks is by an ingenious uso of tin salts, hi carrying out this process the bichloride is reduced by water to ol) degrees Bauine, this being tin1 strongest solution of the kind that can be employed with safety, stronger being likely to injure

She began now tho fiber. At 3-f degrees the silk She held the I becomes rough and valueless and at

1!) the liber is dissolved. The silk is well worked in the solution until perfectly saturated, left to hang two

no time to lo.-o. Let us go at hours in ttie liquor, taken out and avi once. "Eleanor— whore? Homo?" skod. not understanding her. "No where you said. There time."

washed. One dip in this way adds about, S per cent, to its weight, and three treatments give an increase o! some 2," per cent,. The si 1 ic is washed in a thorough manner before it is I soaped, as any of tho tin solution left remaining would decompose the soap. Bare hands are, of course, not used in working the goods ill bichloride of tin at ii() degrees Bauine,

this ihe curtain came upon the third act,of tho play, and almost involun-I tarilv they paused to see the conclu--ion of the story which was so much like their own.

The ollieers had just appeared, armed with a warrant for their arrest, and tin* lover had lurned to confront thorn. The heroine interposed between him and them, and one of the ollieers spoke to her: "Do not make our task any harder

ny girl, W« have com" in time to ave you wasting yourself on this eoundrei. lie has stolen the money widows and orphans who have rusted him, and with this had -nought to have a golden road to comfort, to wealth and luxury, and indulgence with you. The man will not deny his crime,—you can see that rom'his face. Do not believe that, his hoar! can be good, or his love pure, when he has so wronged others."

The girl had sunk down, sobbing and covering he face with her hands, after one long, searching look upon her lover. At, this he came toward her appeaiingly.

its acidity acting injuriously to the skin. Very Abseiit-JM imlcd. liiOiantipolis SonIlin-1.

A young gentleman of N. Delaware street is ve: bashful, and is more used to the world of business than the world of society. Recently he was invited to a large recption and went with fear and trembling. Ho got along very well until he went out to the highlv-decorated diningroom and was served ices by a colored waiter, lie tried to hold h.ia plate, ice cup and eat gracefully while he chatted with his lady companion. However the. strain told on him mentally, and when the waiter appeared to take his empty plate, he absent-mindedly pulled a dollar out of his pocket and said: "Where in the thunder is ray check?"

Ho apologized profusely to the young lady and left as soon as he could afterward.

The average man will scuss baseball and tariff reform with equal volubility.—Philadelphia Record.