Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 December 1894 — Page 8

THE REVIEW.

SUPPLEMENT.

CRAWFOIiDSYILLE INDIANA

"FOR HO

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shall deliver the needy

irhen he crieth the poor also, and iim that hath no helper."

single issue of the Indianapo-

is News of November 21 contained she accounts of no less than six sui:ides in Indiana alone.

"GENKIIM.' FKY.

of industrial

amp, is now chief lecturer to a new 'church at St. Louis, whose creed loos not require a belief in the Deity, ihe Divinity of Christ, or in a future itate of exislonco. It- avowed delign is to meet the the social, inlustrial, moral and spiritual denandsof liberal minds who do not iiul congenial surroundings in the ixisting orthodox denominations.

Minuesota Relief Commission,

irganized to aid the unfortunate rictims of the forest tires in that. State lust summer, has closed up its vork for this year, as the treasury is low empty. The Legislature will be isked for an appropriation to conlinue the work. The commission las built 275 houses, and complete mtfits of household goods have been •varnished to over 450 families. Reief has been given to '2.4H0 persons. I'here is now no actual suffering.

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times have been ''awful hard"

or quite a spell. There is no doubt iboutit.. Still,some people have maniged to get along quite comfortably, for instance, there is that lonesome irphan known oflluiallv as the 'American Type Foundry Company." The total assets of this "inant" aggregate ?'.),(i(!l,S^S. 18. A •eport filed at the session of the ofli:ials at Newark, N. J., Oct. 24, ihowed that during the last year '.lie running expenses of the business unounted to 153, r71.

The profits

luring that period reached the very iandsome figure of £184,004. The ivpe foundry men do not appear to bo in the business "for their healt.ii."

Or it readers who may occasionaliy read the alleged war news from China and Japan, for lack of better sntertainment must not be misled by words whose meaning they fail to :omprohond. The dispatches are "mostly Greek" to us. but. we have ananaged to grasp a few facts. For Instance the Chinese tael and the Chinese tail are very different arti- lar anonymity it jles. The Chinese tael is a silver

roin valued at about 75 cents. The 3hino.se tail—pig tail, so to speak— the elongated hirsute extension which is the Chinese mark of inanJood, and its value cannot be estimated in coin or bullion. This distinction is reasonably clear to us. 5ut we confess to being a little nixed on the true status and past ietails oi' the conflict.

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sary. We are not an expert on such matters, but our impression is that our farmers might find it very profitable to figure ou the possibilities in this direction.

MEDICAL

onf

out the old ring in the new"

the order of the day. Mr. Blancliird, of Clinton, believes in a variation of the old custom. He was "'rung in"—in jail—with the old iheriiV of Vermillion count}- and 'rung out"—or run out—with the ulvent, of the new official. Mr. Blanehard, so far as heard from, is sntirely entirely satisfied with the •esult of the election. He "wanted change and got it." Mr. B'anchird is "wanted" on a charge of 'orgery. The responsibility for his

practitioners can hardly

be said to have as yet reduced their art to an exact science. One school says that meat must not be taken into the human stomach.. Another school says that an excess of vegetable food tends to impoverish the blood. One school says that whisky of all poisons is the most deadlyruining body and soul. Another school prescribes whisky for every ill in general and for consumption in particular. One school says tobacco is ruining the rising generation and ignores the fact that octogenarians continue to die in peace after a lifetime of devotion to the weed. The latest fad. or discovery, is that of a down-east D.. who has promulgated the rule "To breathe again I the human breath is poison and ruinous to health." From this source has sprung the manufacture of I "twin beds" for married people, so that they need no longer run this awful ri Those old-fashioned couples who have lately been celebrating their golden weddings will be astonished to learn what great risks they have been exposed to during every night of the past fifty years. The "twin bed" edict is not likely to prove popular with newly married people at least.

Iiiloiar.y Notc.-i.

The announcement that Harpers will print during l^'.Ci the "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," written by "the most popular of living magazine writers." has set curious persons wondering who this author is. Tt, ought not io be very difficult to tind "the most popular magazine writer." In order to attain this distinction. he or she must have written stories that were afterwards reprinted in book form, and the statistics of the circulating libraries would give some valuable hints on this point. Resides, the number ol American'popular magazine writers who would undertake to put into a novel the most romantic series ol events in all history is not large.

The authorship of "The Breadwinners," we believe, has never been divulged.—Plenty of men and women have claimed to know who wrote it. and several interesting persons have said modestly that they were the authors, but the public does not yet know whether anybody has told the truth. It remains to be seen whether the "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" will provoke as long a search for the writer us "The Breadwinners" did. At present "The Bread winners" has n: rival in popuhardlv has a sec-

KO JAS IN FOL'lt YEA

lisappearance has not been defi- centre the wells show only a presure jitelv located, as he failed to notify '.he retiring and incoming sheriffs of the exact moment of his departure. He probably did not like to interrupt the ceremony, being of a bashful turn, and therefore "stepped out to $ee a man" while the transfer wa being made. The old sheriff said to the new sheriff, "Well, I'm blanked." The new sheriff said. "Me, too!"

prevailing low prices for all

kinds of farm animals, and especially horses, has been generally regarded is a misfortune to the agriculturalist. Vet, as with most questions, there ire two sides to the matter. A compotent authority has recently made some experiments which seem to prove that the farmer, can, if he will, reap a very great advantage from this condition of the horse marfeet. This authority states that a three-horse team will accomplish very much more than one-third more work than a two-horse team, in almost any branch of heavy farm work. T'iie animals will remain in in far better condition also. Where the work is always considered so heavy for two horses that frequent rests are necessary, time is lost by (he "hired man," which is extremely bad economy, the man's time being too valuable to waste in allowing an animal to rest. By the addition of a third horse this waste is at once stopped, or at least made unnecces-

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Inspector Jordan's (iloony View ol Com! it ions in

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Indianapolis Sentinel. Gas Inspector Jordan is in the city conferring with W. S. Rlatchley. the recently elected State Geologis', Inspector Jordan is fresh from tie gas fields where he lias been looking up additional facts for his report, which he will make to the Legisla ture. "Natural .s is failing rapidly,"he said in reply to an inquiry, "I am more confident of it now than I was when I submitted my last repot Tt is only a question of a few years when there will be a general suspension of the luxury. I should not be surprised if in four years from now there will be no gas for the factories in the gas belt. People who live in the belt know this as well as 1 do, but they will not admit it. Tn many sections of the gas

of 2 to pounds. The highest presure that can be found is li'i'.l pounds. In many of Ihe gas belt towns lliere can be found weils at, this time that are almost entirely exhausted. I refer to the wells in towns of course. There has been a reckless waste of gas in the last fewyears. It doesn't seem possible, but, I will guarantee that since the first gas well was sunk in this district there has been $25.000,0 )0 worth of gas wasted,est imating it, at the price that people are now paying for it. Of course, there are some cities in the belt more liable to lose their supply in the near future than others. I don't care to particularize. because it would injure Uncommercial interests of these cities, but mark mv word for it, the supply is rapid!v closing out."

How Sherman Got Into Coiifjresa. St. Louis lilolju-Uotnocral. "These are days of tidal waves," said Senator Sherman. "We had a marked change in 1.SD2, and have just witnessed another. Do I recollect anything equal to the last one? Oh, yes we had the same thing happen in !!•%!. Ohio elected a solid Republican delegation to Congress. The election then turned on the slavery question. The tidal wave carried me into congress. I was a young lawyer, and was nominated in a district with 3,000 democratic ma jority. hoped, of course, to be elected, but I had no reason to feel confident. Few expected it, Yet I went in with three thousand more than enough to elect me."

A (ITV OF BLOOD.

Oriental Fanaticism and Its Bloody Deeds.

The ItorriMc ^Innsnrru of Cawnpur tho Natural Smjuonre of Hindoo atil Mohammedan Croods—lr.

TulitiaK«**rt Sermon.."

Dr. Talmage, last Sunday, delivered through the press the second |Ot his round the world series of sermons, the subject, being "The Citv •of Blood." and the text selected being Psalms cxii. 7: "Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth as •when one cutteth and cieaveth wood upon the earth. But mine eyes are unto thee. O God, the Lord."

Though you may read this text from the liible. 1 read it as cut by chisel into the p-'destal of a cross beneath which lie many of the massacred at Cawnpur. India. To show you what Hindooism and Mohammedanism really are. where they have full swing, and not as they represent themselves in a "parliament of religions," and to demonstrate to what extent of cruelty and abomination human nature may go when fully let loose, and to illustiate the hardening process of sin, and to remind you how our glorious Christianity may utter its triumph over death and the grave, 1 preach this, my sec— ond sermon, in the round the world series, and 1 shall speak of "The City of Blood," or Cawnpur, India.

Two hours and ten minutes after its occurrence Joseph Lee. of the Shropshire regiment of fo.t, rode in upon the Cawnpur massacre. He was the first man 1 met at Cawnpur. It seems that all the worst, passions of the century were to be impersonated by one man,and he Nana Sahib, and our escort at Cawnpur. Joseph Lee. knew the man personally. Unfortunately, there is no correct picture of Nana Sahib in existence.

From what Mr. Lee told me and from ali 1 could learn in India. Nana Sahib ordered the massacre in that city from sheer revenge. His father abdicated the throne, an 1 the Fnglish paid him annually a nsion of four hundred thousand dollars. I When the father died, the English I government declined to pay the same pension to the son, Nana Sahib. but the poor fellow was not in any sulTering for the la-k of funds. His father left him £80.000 in gold ornamenfs, £5i0.0iin in jewels, $800,000 in bonds and other resources! amounting to at least i'l.5110,000.

Mr. Lee explained all this to me by the fact that Gen. Wheeler had married a native, and he naturally toolc her story and thought there

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give onlv an extract:

"As by the kindness of God, and the good fortune of the emperor, all the Christians who were at Delhi, Poonah. Sattara and other places, and even those 5,uni) European soldiers who went, in disguise into the' former city and were discovered, arc destroyed and sent to hell by the! pious and sagacious troops who are lirm to their religion, and as they have all been conquered by the present government, and as no trace of the in is left in these places it. is the duty of all the subjects and servants of '.lie government to rejoice at the delightful intelligence and carry on their respective work with comfort and ease."

Nana Sahib resolved to celebrate an aniversarv. The 2.'d of June. 1K"7, would be 100 years since the battle of Plassv, when, under Lord C'iivc, India surrendered to England.

ture a boy twelve years of age hoisted on top of the Hindoo temple on the banks two flags—a Hindoo and a Mohammedan tiag—at which signal the boatmen and armed natives jumped from the boats aud swam for the shore, and from itinumberable guns the natives on the banks lired on the boats, and masked batteries above and below roared with destruction, and the boats sank with their precious cargo, and all went down save three strong swimmers, who got to the opposite shore. Nana Sahib and his staff, with their swords, slashed to pieces Gen. Wheeler and his staff, who had not got well away from the shore.

I said that the young and attractive women were not allowed to get into the boat. These were marched away under the guard of the sepoys. "Which way?" inquired. "I will show you," said Mr. Lee. Again we took scats in the carriage and started for the climax of desperation and diabolism. Now we are on the way to a summer house called the assembly rooms, which had been built for recreation and pleasure. It had two rooms, each 20 by 10. and some windowless closets, and here were imprisoned 20t helpless people. It was to become the prison of these women and children. Some of these sepoys got permission of Nana Sahib to take one or more of these ladies to their own place on the promise they should be1 brought bade to the summer garden next morning. A daughter of Gen. Wheeler was so taken and did not return. She afterward married the Mohammedan who had taken her to his tent.

Then Nana Sahib heard' that Haveloek was coming, and his name was a terror to the sepoys. Lost the women and children imprisoned in the summer house, or assembly room should be liberated, he ordered that their throats should be cut. The officers were commanded to do the work and attempted it. but failed because the law of caste would not allow the Hindoo to hold the vic tims while they were being slain. Then Nana Sahib was in a vago and ordered professional butchers from among the lowest of the gypsies to go at the work. Five of them with hatchets and swords and knives began the work, but three of them collapsed and fainted under the ghastliness. aud it was left to two butchers to complete the slaughter.

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was no peril. But the time for the! proclamation from Nana Sahib had come, and such a document went forth as never before had seen the I light of day.

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That day the la^t European in Cawnpur was to be slaughtered. Other anniversaries have been .adorned with garlands, this with drawn swords. Others have been kept with songs, this with execration.

Standing in a field, not far from the intrenchment. of the English,was a native Christian woman. Jacobec bv name, holding high up in her hand a let ter. It was evidently a communication from the enemy, and Gen. Wheeler ordered the woman brought in. She handed him a proposed treaty. If (Jen. Wheeler and men would give up their weapons, Nana Sahib would conduct them into safety. They could march out unmolested, the men, women and children they could go down tomorrow to the Ganges, where they would find boats to take them in peace to Allahabad.

There was some opposition to signing this treaty, but (Jen. Wheeler's wife told him he could trust, the natives, and so he signed the treat}'. There was great joy in the intrenchment that night. Without molestation they went, out. and got, plenty of water to drink and water for a good wa-li. "Now," said Mr. Lee. "here i^ the place to which Gen. Wheeler a: his people came under the escort of Nana Sahib." I went down the steps to the margin of the river. Down these steps went Gen. Wheeler and the men, women and children under his care. They stood on one side of the steps, and Nana Sahib and his stall' stood on the other side. As the women were getting into the boats Nana Sahib objected that only the aged and infirm women and children should go on board the boats. The young and attractive women were kept out. Twentyeight boats were filled with men, women and children and tloated out into the river. Each boat contained ten armed natives. Then three boats fastened together, were brought up, and Gen. Wheeler and his stall' got in. Although orders were given to start, the three boats were somehow detained. At this junc­

The butchers came out exhausted, thinking they had done their work. and the doors were closed. But when they were again opened three women and three boys were still alive. All these were soon disHatched, and not a Christian or a European was left in Cawnpur. The murderers were paid 5H cents for each lady slain. The Mohammedan assassins dragged by the hair the dead bodies out of the summer house and threw them into the well, by which 1 stood with such feelings as |. you cannot imagine. The well was not only fuil of human bodies, but corpses piled ou the outside. The soldiers v. re for man} hours en-' gaged in covering the dead. It was about o'clock in the evening when I came upon this place in Cawnpur. The building i:i which the massacre took place has been torn down, and a garden of exquisite and fragrant, flowers surrounds the scene. A circular wall of white marble incloses this well. The wall is about twenty

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a marble pavement. In the center of this inclosure and immediately above the well of the dead is a sculptured angel of resurrection, with illuminated face and two palm branches. meaning victory. "No emperor, unless it was NapoIcon, ever had more glories around his pillow of dust, and no queen, un-:f less it were the one of Taj Mahal, had reared for her grander cenotaph than crowns the resting places of the martyrs at Cawnpur." But where rest the bones of the Herod of the nineteenth century. Nana Sahib? No one can tell. Two men sent out to find the whereabouts of the daughter of Gen. Wheeler tracked Nana Sahib during a week's ride into the wilderness, and they were told that for a while after the mutiny Nana Sahib set up a little pomp in the jungles. Among a few thousand

Hindoos and Mohammedans he took for himself the only two touts the neighbors had, while theylived in the rain and mud. Nana Sahib, with one servant carrying an umbrella, would go every day to bathe, and people would go and stare. For some reason after awhile he forsook even that small attention and disappeared among the ravines of Himalayan mountains. He took with him in his flight that which he always took with him—a rubv of vast value. Tie wore it as some wear an amulet. He wore it, as some wear a life preserver. The Hindoo priest told him as long as he wore that ruby his fortune would be good. but both the ruby and the prince who wore it have vanished.

These natives are at peace now, but give them a chance, and they will re-enact the scenes of 1756 and and 1S57. They look upon the English as conquerors and themselves as conquered. The mutiny of 1857 occurred because the British government was too lenient and put in places of trust and in command of forts too many of the natives. I call upon England to stop the present attempt to palliate the natives by allowing .them to hold positions of trust. ,•

I am ho alarmist, but the only way that these Asiatics can be kept from another mutiny is to put them out of power, and I say beware, or the Lucknow and Cawnpur and Delhi martyrdoms over which the hemispheres have wept will be eclipsed by the Lucknow and Cawnpur and Delhi martyrdoms yet to be enacted,

speak of what h&TS seen ant? heard. I give the opinion, of every intelligent Englishman and Scotchman and Irishman and American whom 1 met in India. Prevention is better than cure. I do not say that if is bettor that, England rule India. 1 say nothing against the right of India to rule herself. But. I do say that the moment the native population of India think there is a possibility of driving back Europeans from India they will make the attempt, and that they have enough cruelties, for the time suppressed, which if let loose would submerge with carnage everything from Calcutta to Bombay and from the Himalayas to Coromandel.

Now. my friends, go homo after what 1 have said to see the beauties of the Mohammedanism and Hindooism which many think it will be well to have introduced into America, and to dwell upon what natural evolution will do where it has had its unhindered way for thousands of years, and to think upon the won ders of martyrdom for Christ's sake, and to pray more earnest prayers for the. missionaries, and to contribute more largely for the world's evangelization, and to be more assured than ever that the overthrow of the idolatries of nation's is such a stupendous work that nothing but an omnipotent !od through the gospel of Jesus Christ can ever achieve it. Amen!

latorary Notes.

Since the close of the civil war Harvard University has more than quadrupled its resources in the sum of its endowments and the number of its teachers,and its list of students has increased in something like the same proportion. The libraries of the university include •!!-!.").000 volumes, an aggregate surpassed in this country only by the library of Congress and the Boston Public Li brary. The principal reason for the lack of success of Harvard men in intercollegiate games is the fact that there no longer exists in the university the social pressure which may compel an able bodied student, against his better judgment, to devote overmuch of his time to acquiring professional skillvin atli' letics. It is further observed by Prof. N. S. Slialer. from whose article in Harper's Weekly for November 2-1 the foregoing statements are drawn, that the need of highly differentiated instruction has become so great that the university has Ijoon compelled to rapidly increase the number of its instructors until the list of last, year included the names of three hundred and twentytwo such persons, or about, ons teacher to each ten st udents.

HO£" Cliolera and Diphtheria, Huntin^ton iKmorrut.

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This morning a physician of this city, in speaking to a reporter about, diphtheria, said that he had noticed for years that when hog cholera was prevalent, as it now is, over the country, that epidemics, such as diphtheria, always follow. Ho said that, he did not. know whether other doctors had paid any special attention to it oi- not. but he said for years he has not known it to fail and he has come to the conclusion that eating pork is largely responsible for it. He says he shall correspond with several doctors in Chicago and get. their views on the subject. In the meantime he regards it as a constitutional disease and is opposed to swabbing the throat with caustics.

lie l-'or^ol llimscll'.

Linston Traveler. Having been out late last, night. Jack seemed rather silent at breakfast this morning, and Mrs. Jack ever anxious to please, especially in his moments of absent-mindedness, said, "Jack, dear, will you have some chops?" "Yep, gimme ten blue." "What did you say, dear?" "Oh, I said, give me a few?''

Division ol" Ii.ihor.

Detroit Tribune. "When it comes to traveling," exclaimed the head of the family, "a man has to do all the real work. Mv wife has only packed the trunks, presses the children, spread clothes over the furniture, and a few things like that while every bit of information that, has been got from the time table I had to attend to mvself."

Dinner For Two.

New Yorli Weekly. Mr. Newedd—How is that, my love? Nothing in the house to eat? I gave you money this morning.

Mrs. Newedd Yes, 1 know but, I ran across the most exquisitely charming London dinner gong—awfully fashionable, you know—and I couldn't resist the temptation to buy

"But what shall wedo for dinner?" "We can listen to the gong.''

To Counteract tlii K.I"j jt• Tammany Times. "Why did vou run away frotn vour first wife?" "Because she poisoned my very existence." "If your first wife poisoned your verv existence, why did you get married a second ime?" "Well, you see, I took the second a a so a

AVIlort: ,.-lV M. t.,1 Plll'li. Jifll American Student— You have foot ball in Germany?

don't

German Student—No the professors draw the line at dueling.

OUR PLEASURE CLUB.

"I wonder you women never learr bow to get off a street car." "limp! If we got off the right iv it wouldn't belong before they'f quit stopping the cars for us,"

Husband—Another milliner bill! Why, I paid one only day befon yesterday!

Wife Day before yesterday! Goodness, how time Hies!

"Have you over loved another Tom?" said Miss Gush to her intended "Certainly." replied he. "D( you wish written testimonials froir my previous sweethearts?"

First Convict—Do Gcvrnor ain'i keepin' de promise he made befon the election.

Second Convict—Which promises! First Convic—Why to turn tin rascals out.

A man will unblushingly comb hij hair over a bald spot on the top his head, and yet expect a fruiterei to put his smallest in the top layei of a box. "So your youngest daughter imarried?" "Yes." "Was it. a love match?" "Oh, dear. yes. She was perfectly infatuated with the ring he gavt her."

Teacher What important even* has recently occurred in Russia? Miss Sixteen—-The Princess Ali.i has had dozens of beautiful new gowns made.

A teacher of a Virginia district school recently asked one of her colored pupils to go to the blackboard anil write a sentence thereon containing the word "delight." G-eorgfi Washington Jackson went promptly to the front, of the room and wrotu in a large scrawling hand these words: "De wind blowed so hard :lat it put out de light."—Harper's Young People.

Woman Lawyer—What, is your iige? Woman Witness—T was born in the same year as yourself.

Woman Lawyer—Witness excused.

Mrs. MeCauber—Here's a notice saying that, if the bill is not paid tha q-as will be shut otT.

Mr. MeCauber—Let 'em shut il iff. Who cares? "But what will wo do?" "Put in electric lights." "But in time the bills for them ivill come in."' "Oh, well, perhaps something:' ?lse will be invented by that time."

\nd notr the winiry winds do moan 1 roar.' The sky at eve uro-.vs dim and murky From o'er the fields «e hear the plaintive cry

Of some forlorn Thanksgiving turkey.

"Mildred, did you'work any Halloween charms to ascertain who your future husband will be?" "No, Blanche, 1 didn't." "Why, you never told me you were engaged. Who is the lucky* mau?"

"Lycrsbv was telling me that he had a dream that an angel appeared ami told him that he would go to heaven when he died. Now, what do you think of that?" "Oh, that's just like him—he couldn't even dream the truth."

George—I wonder why it is sn ?asy to get engaged to a girl in the summer.

Jack—I just tell you what, George, r. after .a girl see- herself in a summer boarding house looking glass she'll accept most anybody.

"WEARY WA(i(JLKS'S" STOKY.

How thf Tramp Cnme To Sl«?ep iii tlie Astor Mansion.

N'ew Vork 'Special Nov. Si. There was an amusing side to tin arrest of the tramp who went sleep the other night in Mrs. Wrn, As tor's mansion. When "Wean Waggles" was asked how he got int the house, he said very soberly

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"Come to the door, and tin door was open and walked in. Didn't do nothing, but came to the kitchen and walked in. No one it the kitchen and walked through. Come to the stairs and didn't see n« one, and walked up. Didn't dc nothing, but kept on. Kept

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climbing till I gotup-stairs and went to bed." When asked by Justici Voorhis why he took the liberty o! using Mrs. Astor's house and bedj the trainp replied: "Well, if I doei wrong, 1 suppose I must sulTer for it but, th' poor is got to sleep like th rich, and seem' as how I didn't havi a bed for th' night or th' price of one takes the liberty, dat's all. See?' The judge fined him $5.

The coroners' inquests for Londoi show eighty deaths yearly frori hunger without counting personi who commit suicide in extremi want.

Weeks vs. Vuaru.

New York Weekly. Tie (five weeks after marriage)— "I have brought you a birthda] present, my angel—a diamond neck lace, which, however, will pale before the brightness of your eyes."

He (five years after marriage)—"1 have brought you a birthday present—an ash-receiver."

She—"But, my dear, I do no. smoke cigars." He—"N-o,-but if you have an ash receiver for me to put cigar ashes ii it will save you the trouble of sweep ing them up you know."