Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 January 1895 — Page 6

THE REVIEW.

S UPPLEMENT.

CRAWFORDSVILLE INDIANA

THOSE jolly old settlers aged eighty-three, or thereabouts, who never rode on a railroad train, arq itying ofT at an alarming rate thi^ winter. There certainly cannot bej many of them left.

A NEW Cabinet officer is talked o| and Hon. Nathan Frank, of St. Louis, formerly a member of Congress from that oitv, claims tha honor of having invented the proposition. The new official, if the measure materializes, will be known as the Secretary of Commerce. Mr. McEtriek, of Massachusetts, has charge of the bill in the House, and is said to be hopeful of its linal passa^o.

A ND Isaac went out to meditatf in the field at the eventide and he fifted up his eyes, and saw, and behold the. camels were coming." This Scriptural text might possibly have ^een the foundation for the Scotch melody, "The Campbells Are Coming. oh ho! oh ho!" but the probability is that it was not. Wo mention it in this connection merely as a passing thought.

IIARI.ES II of En gland.following the downfall of the house of Stuart In the time of Cromwell, fled to the royal palace of \\ondstock and was hiding in that va.-t building for a considerable time as an outlawed personage, finally escaping to the continent, After the death of Cromwell, in the course of events Charlei was restored to tiie throne. Euge?iu' Debs has just retired to W'oodstoeli jail, a temporary exile, by order ot Judge Wood.-,. There be those who will tind in this coincidence a happ\ omen for th- noted labor leader.

CiiU'.uio.s lanious merchants, Sei eel, Cooper A: Co., who operate tin ereat department store oil State street, have secured leases on Sixtl avenve. New York, and will at once erect an eight,-story block, 200 )i feet, at a cost of $1.2f0,00o, for a similar establishment in the grea! metropolis. They will purchase the iand on which the building wiij Stand, as soon as the negotiations ran be completed, at a cost of $2.t."0,000, making the total investment fn the enterprise, $-4,000,000. When rompleted Seigel. Cooper & Co. wiL rent, the building, by departments, nnd they propose to make the establishment the most complete in the world.

A DECISION from the Indiana Supreme Court, in the ease of Joseph Sliney vs. Louis Gauss, a saloonkeeper, from Huntington county, is of general interest, and establishes a precedent that is likely to prove a valuable check upon the liquor traffic in the future

A minor son ol

Kliney obtained liquor from Gauss, became intoxicated and was drowned while in that condition. Judgment against Gauss was given for §1170. and the Court declares that the ''wrong charged against Gauss is hot mere negligence or non-feasance [n failing to discharge a duty imposed on him by law, but it consists of an active, aggressive wrong, a violation of the criminal law. He made the deceased intoxicated. He Bet in motion a dangerous force and must, answer for the immediate results (lowing therefrom."

HE ablest lawyer, the most consistent Christian, the best citizen, the most perfect man, the possessor of every attribute that goes to make "the noblest, work of God, ah honest man," did live in Georgia, but died at the age of thirty-eight, and was buried at Athens, Jan. U. He was the Hon. Geo. D. Thomas, and the above extravagant estimate was placed upon his character some 3'ears ago by the late Henry Grady, himself a most able and eloquent man. Strange to say, the people of Georgia almost universally held the same opinion concerning Mr. Thomas. For r'r.K years, previous to the illneSP which ended his life, Mr. Thomas was Professor of the I/aw Department of the State University. He never took part in politics. It is pleasant to note amid the rush fng tide of modern life, that the rat a is still capable, once in awhile, ol producing such a character, a man BO perfect that all agree upon liia superior merits, whose benignant (spirits casts such a glamour about bis daily life that all are led to claim: "He is an Israelite indeed, Hi

whom there

no guile

When a woman fancies to herself the liushami she would like to have, lie is generally ditl'erent in important re-' specls lroin the husband that she lius ulrcaeh. Xuiiierrtlk •Journal.

When is a man not a man?—Whoa le is a-tsbuviug.

"FOISTS OF COMPASS."

East, "West, North, South—All Shall Be Brought to Christ.

A Geographical Dlncourso at tlio New York Academy of Mutlc by Dr. Talmage.

Rev. Dr. Tahnage preached at the New York Academy of Music at 4 p. m., last Sunday, from the subject, "Points of Compass." Text—Luke xiii, 2i, "They shall come from the East, and from the "West, and from the North, and from#the South, and shall sit down."

The man who wrote this was at one time a practicing physican, at another time a talented painter, at another time a powerful preacher, at anothe

time a reporter, an inspired

reporter. God bless and help and inspire all reporters! From their pen drops the health or poison of nations. The name of this reporter was Lucanus. for short he was called Luke, and in my text, although stenography had not yet been born, lie reports verbatim a sermon of Christ which in one paragraph bowls the round world into the light of the millennium. "They shall come from the East, and from the West, and from the North and from the South, and shall sit down."

Nothing more interested me in mv recent journey around the world than to see the shin captain about noon, whether on the Pacific, or the Indian or Bengal or Mediterranean or Red sea, looking through a nautical instrument to find just, where we were sailing, and it is well to know that, though the captain tells you there are thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the marine's! compass, there are only four cardinal points, and my text hails them th." north, the south, the east, the west, The har 'est part of the field

to be iai-:en is the north, because our gospel is an emotional gospel, and the nations of the far north are a' cold-blooded race. Thev dwell amid icebergs and eternal -mows and everlasting winter. Greenlanders. Laplanders, Icelanders. Siberians —their vehicle is the sledge drawn bv reindeer, their apparel the thickest, furs at al! seasons, their evi-.'cnce a lifetime battle with the coid. I

But already the huts of the Arctic hear the songs of divine worship. I Already the snows fall on open new testaments. Already the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness begins to be felt through the bodies and minds and souls of the hyperboreans. The inhabitants of Hudson bay are gathering to the cross. The Church missionary society in those polar I [•limes has been grandly successful in establishing twenty-four gospei stations, and over 12,000 natives have believed and been baptized. The Moravians have kindled the light of the gospel all up and down Labrador. The Danish mission has gathered disciples from among the shivering inhabitants of Greenland,

Alaska, called at, its annexation William H. Seward's folly, turns out to be W llliam II. Seward's triumph. and it is hearing the voice of Cod through the American missionaries men and women as defiant of arctic hardships as the old Scottish chief who. when camping out in a winter's I night, knocked from under his son's head a pillow of snow, saying that such indulgence in luxury would weaken and disgrace the clan.

Hut my text takes in the opposite point of the compass. The far south lias, through high temperature, temptations to lethargy and indolence and hot blood which tend to multiform evil. We have through mv text got the north in, notwithstanding its frosts, and the same text brings in the south, notwithstanding its torriditv. The. fields of cactus.the orange grove and thickets nf magnolia are to be surendered to the Lord Almighty. The south! That means Mexico and all the regions that W

illiam II. Prescott and

Lord Kingsborough made familiar to literature—Mexico in the strange dialect of the AzLees Mexico conquered by Hen-nan Cortez to be more gloriously conquered Mexico with its capital more than seven thousand feet above, the sea level, looking down upon the entrancement of lake and valley and plain Mexico the ionic of nations yet to be born—all tor Christ. The south! That means Africa, which David Livingstone consecrated to God when he died on his knees in his tent of exploration. Already about seven hundred and fifty thousand converts to Christianity in Africa.

Hut 1 must not forget, that my text, takes in another cardinal point of the compass. It takes in the east. 1 have to report that in a journey around the world there is nothing so much impresses one as the fact, that the missionaries, divinely blessed, are taking the world for God. The horrible war between Japan and China will leave the last wall of opposition fiat in the dust. War is barbarism always and everywhere. We hold up our hands in amazement at the massacre at Port Arthur as though Christian nations could never go into such diabolism. \Y forget I* t, Pillow. We forget that during the war both North and South rejoiced when there were 10.1)00 more wounded and slain on the opposite side. War. whether in China or the United States, is hell let loose. But, one good result, will come from the Japanese-Chinese conflict—those regions will be more open to civilization and Christianity than ever before.

The Christ who carne from the east will yet bring all the cast with him. Of course there are high ob

stacles to be overcome, and great ordeals must be passed througli before the consummation, as witness the Armenians under the butchery of theTnrks. May that throne on the banks of the Bosporus soon crumble! The time has already come when the United States government and Great Britain and Germany ought to intone the indignation of all civilized nations. While it is not requisite that arms be sent there to avenge the wholesale massacre of Armenians, it is requisite that by cable under the seas and by protest that shall thrill the wires from Washington and London and Berlin to Constantinople the nations anathematize the diabolism for which the Sultan of Turkey is responsible. Mohammedanism is a curse, whether in Turkey or New York. "They shall come from the east.''

There is another point of the compass that my text includes. "They shall come from the west." That means America redeemed. Everything between Atlantic and Pacific oceans to be brought within the circle of holiness and rapture. Will it be done by wordlv reform or evangelism? Will it be law or gospel? I am glad that a wave of reform has swept across the land, and all cities are feeling the advantage of the mighty movement.. Let the good work go on until the last municipal evil is extirpated.

But a movement which ends with crime exposed and law executed stops half way.' The law never yet saved anybody, never yet changed anybody. Break up. all the houses of iniquity in this city, and you only send the occupants to other cities. Break down all the policemen in New ork, and while it, changes their worldly fortunes it does not change their heart or life. The greatest want in New York today Is the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to change the heart and the life and uplift the tone of moral sentiment and make men do right. not because they are afraid of Ludlow street jail or Sing Sing, but because they love Cod and hate un righteousness 1 have never hoard, nor have you heard, of anything except the gospel that proposes to regenerate the heart and by the influence of' that regenerated heart rectify the

The work is not so difficult as many suppose. You say, "There are the foreign populations."' Yes, but many of them are Hollanders, and they were brought up to love and worship God, and it will take but little to persuade the Hollanders to adopt the religion of their forefathers. Then there are among these foreigners so many of the Scotch. They or their ancestors heard Thomas Chalmers thunder and Robert. McCheyne oray. The breath of God so often swept through the heather of the highlands and the voice of God has so often sounded' through the Trosaehs, and they all

Then there are among these foreigners so many of the English. They inherited the same language as ive inherited —the English in which Shakspeare dramatized, and Milton claimed his cantos, and Henry Melville gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell prorogued parliament-, and Wellington commanded his eager hosts. Among these foreigners are the Swiss, and they were rocked in a cradle under the shadow of the Alps, that cathedral of the Almighty in which al! the elements, snow and hail and tempest and hurricane, worship. Among these foreigners area vast host of Germans, and t.liey feel centuries afterward the power of that, unparalleled spirit who shook the earth when he trod it, and the heavens when he prayed—Martin Luther! From all nations our foreign populations have come, and they are homesick, far away from the place of their childhood and the graves of their ancestors, and our glorious religion presented to them aright will meet, their needs and fill their souls and kindle their enthusiasm.

But, what will they do after they come? Here is something gloriously consolatory that you have never noticed. "They shall come from the East and the West, and the North, and the South, and shall sit down." Oh, this is a tired world! The most of people are. kept on the run all their lifetime. Business keeps them on the run. Trouble keeps them on the run. Rivalries keep them on thi! run. They are running from disaster. They are running for reward. And those who run the fastest and run the longest seem best to succeed. But my text suggests a restful posture for all God's children, for all those who for a lifetime have been on the run. "Tiiev shall sit down!'' Why run any longer? When a man gcrs heaven, what more can he get? "They shall sit down!" Not alone, but in picked companionship of the. universe notembarassed. though a seraph should sit down on one side of you and an archangel on the other.

I notic that the most of the styles of toil require an erect attitude. There are the thousands of girls behind counters, many such persons through the inhumanity of employers compelled to stand, even when because of a lack of customers there is no need that they stand. Then there are all the carpenters, and the stonemasons, and the blacksmiths, and the farmers, and the engineers, and the ticket agents, and the con ductors. In most trades, jn most occupations they must stapd. But

ahead of all those who love and ser\ the Lord is a resting place, a coir plete relaxation of fatigued muscle somethingcushioned and upholstere and embroidered with the very eas of heaven. "They shall sit down." Rest fror toil. Rest from pain. Rest fror persecution. Rest from uncertainty Beuatiful,joyous,transporting, ever lasting rest! Oh, men and womei of the frozen north, and the bloom ing south, and from the realms the rising and setting sun, throug Christ get your sins forgiven an start for the place where you may a last sit down in blissful recover from the fatigues of earth whil there roll over you the raptures heaven. Many of you have had sue! a rough tussle in this world that your faculties were not perfect i: heaven you would some time forge yourself and say, "It is time for in' to start on that journey, or "I must be time for me to count ou the drops of that medicine," or wonder what new attack there is oi me through the newspapers?" "Do you think I will save any thin of those crops from the grasshop pers, or locusts, or the droughts? or "I wonder how much I have lo» in that last bargaiu?" or "I mus hurry lest I miss the train." No, no The last volume of direful earthb experience will be finished. Yea the last chapter, the last paragraph the last sentence, the last word Finis.

Frede rlic Great, notwit-h-ing the mighty domain over whicl he reigned, was so depressed a' times he could not speak withou' crying and carried a small bottle quick poison with which to end hi: misery when he could stand it in longer. But I give you this smai vial of good anodyne" one drop which, not hurting either body o: soul, ought, to soothe all unrest anc put your pulses into an eternal calm. "They shall come from the east, am from the west, and from the north and the south, and shall sit down.-'

Indiana's Thousand akcs, Brooklyn Ei'.frlo "New Yorkers rejoice in th oi

life. Execute the law. most, certainlv, but preach the gospel bv all means—in churches, in theaters, in homes, in prisons, on the land and cn the sea.

know how to sing "Dundee." so that they will not have often to be invited to accept the God of John Knox and Bothwell Bridge.

of the small area in

which the system is situated, is unaware of its existence. It is entirelv separate from the river system oi Indiana and corresponds in character with that famous group of lake in Orange nnd Sullivan counties, N. Y., and Wayne and Pike counties, I'a.—literal!} great springs of crystal water, with bottoms of tlu whitest sand. The wild charm o' mountain environment that is the characteristic of their eastern conn terparts is lacking, however, in tin Indiana lakes, although they oceiupy the highest situation in Indiana, Nowhere else in Imliana is there lake of any size whatever. Thesrsheets of water are the natura homes of the small mouth black bass anel ex-Fish Commissioner Dennis, of Indiana, declares that the small mouth black bass that inhabit the waters of every part of the countn came from that group of lakes."

In oerforating postage stamps die plate is placed below the needlei of a machine carrying 300 needles As about 180,000,000 holes are now punched adav, the wear on the die plate is excessive brass plates weai out. in a day, and even steel platei are rapidly destroyed.

A Boston manufacturing company recently celebrated half a century o: existence by making a distribution of $H3,000 among its ennploves on a basis of $5 for each year of service. Some of the employes have been it the service so long that their share* reached $lf0 each.

How She Knew.

Texas Sittings. Wife (listening)—There comes Dick now.

Wife's Sister—I don't see how yot can tell him from other men. Vv ifei—He has such an e-lastic st.eq —always wears rubbers at this sea son of the year.

Mamma—You were a long time saying yemr prayers tonight. Whj was it.

Teddy—'Cause I had everything wanteel for dinner, an' 1 most wa.' certain I'd dream."

Alta had heard some ef her elder.*talking about the possibility of the Wilson bill passing the House-. A' dinner, one windy day, a newspapci blew past the window. "Oh," she.' exclaimed, "isn't thai the Wilson bill?"

A Cynical Surest ion.

Detroit Free Press. "You will remember." said Snork ins, "that geese once saved Rome.' "Yes," replied Barkins, "but tha' is no excuse for so many geese cae kling nowadays under the impressior that they are saving ibe.country."

•NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL

INDIANATOUS, Jan. 21, 1895. The celebrated case of the State vs. Winnifred Smith for the murder

of Western B. Thomas, as has been noted, resulted in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter and a sentence of eighteen years imprisonment. Perhaps no verdict rendered in this city in recent years is so universally satisfactory. Public opinion was for once a unit, aud .the iuterest that was manifested throughout the trial, if there is anything in the theoi'yof thought transference, must have affected the jury. They could hardly escape the influence of the facial expression from the throng that filled the court room. Outside of immediate relatives and family friends and the defendant's counsel", I

have yet to hear of a single ucrson who thought the punishment, too severe, while it was a common expression that the criminal should at least be imprisenied for life It is confidently predicted that a new trial, if granted, will result in a still more severe punishment. The bulk of the testimony seemed to very clearly establish the fact that Thomas was killed in the midst of a drunken row between 4 and a. m., and that all parties present, were either drunk or under the influence, and very naturally at that hour of the day, having spent the night, in drunken carousal, were

Thousand Islands,but Indiana boast? of her thousand lakes." Is thai sentence justified, in fact, in thi State of Indiana?

Answer—A dispatch in one of tin morning papers not very long ag\ was, perhaps, the foundation upot which the author of the sentence quoted built his assertion in regan to Indiana's 1,000 lakes. From thai dispatch it appears that "huddlec together in the northeastern cornel of Indiana are more than 1.000 natural lakes, ranging in size from ter In one hundred acres. They are a'i within the boundaries of Steuben, DeKalb, Lagrange, Noble and Kos ciusko counties, Ul2of them being ii: Noble county alone. Such is

tiro

isolation of this extraordinary grou| of hikes that the average. Indian citizen, outside

sleepy ami too stupid

to be capable of any clear recoltectums of the. event. The theory of "self defence" set. up by Smith's at.tornevs was untenable from the fact that it was a clear impossibility for Smith to have drawn the pocket knife and opem-d it while Thomas, as he claimed, was making a eleadly assault, upon his person. 'The murderer wi!I undoubteiy fare worse at the hands e,f another jury if he' sue--ceeds in getting a new trial.

The new bu.l lo.g which will be erected by ilijii.v.•-Indianapolis Gas Company at .Maryland and Pennsylvania streets the coining sea.son is to be a genuine- "sky-scraper" of the meist approved pattern—the plans ?alling f-.r tea stories and a basermMit. There will be ll!2 (Vices above the' first lloor, tlnve elevators, the whole to be fire proof. The iloejrs of the hail aiul stairways will be marble anel the entire structure will be lire proof. It will be the first building '.vest of New York e-ity to have cement floors in cilice reioms.

Leading Democrats are, of course

watching eicvchipme-nts with a lce-en eye for future possibilities, anel 'very point that e-an be made: against the party in power will be scored as a matter of eeuirse. Anont, the pn-pe-sed creation of the e.-fliee of beuler inspeeitor a pmmincnt, Democratic me'inber said to a well-known Republican friend

Your felleiws have made :v great noisi' about retrenchment, but oneyeu has offered a bill to create: the ofiie'e eif boiler inspe-ctor anel assistant, boile-r inspector. This is your first bid, is it? Two offices, at {52,000 for one $1,000 for the other, and travelingcxpenses. means$4,000 a year. What can they do? There are 20,000 boilers in Imliana. Does any eine: suppose: that, these 1 wo men can inspe'et them all? The most dangereius benle-rs are those use-d with threshing machines—will thev inspect, these? "Of course: you will vet,e against, the measure." said tinRepublican. "No. sir: we are disposed to oblige yem by helping to enable you te break your pledges."

The legislative mill is beginning t-o grind. It is not to be supposed that this mill is at all similar te that of the gods—nothing as yet having been ''ground exceedingly fine"— though its reputation for slowness may yet, be eclipsed. The amount of time that the average American legislative body can manage te dt^•vot.o to the consieleration of immaterial and totally unimportant matters has always puzzled the average' citizen. The Kift.y-ninth Indiana Assembly, from pmsent indications, will not prove an exception to the general rule.

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Temperance people, and people inte:re'Steel in or fa\orable to the traffic in intoxicating liquors as well, will watch with interest the various "signs" anel inelications of legislation that may atTeet the saie- of alcoholic beverages. Republie'an managers are said t.o he, disposevl to ael--rsely crilie:ise Speaker Adams fe»r hiving recognized the radical t,em perance men in the party by placing so many ardent temper,.nice reformers on the temperane'c committee. It is said that.a ma jority of the- members are: in favor of the strict e-n forcemcnt ef the laws against liquor selling. The chairman, Representative. Nicholson, of Howard, is a promii.e-'t member of the Friends' church. ,md has ahvavs maintained that the Republican party should not bo afraid to speak out on the subject of temperance. The sentiment of

the committor i* first of all th present laws should be so amended as to make their enforcement po.ssi" ble. One of the members of the5 committee said "It is easier convict a man or murder than to con. vict a saloon keeper of selling aft„. hours in this State. First of ail,

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must so change the laws as to it possible for the officers to convict the saloon keepers who violate tne»iu, 1 believe that our laws wil be

right if we will ouly make it possible"t for officers to enforce them to tiitfr letter."

Joshua Spears is a colored pohesinan. Mr. Spears "got religion" la^ winter and his first paaver i3 saiel tj have been as follows: "O Lawd," he said, "l's want to be a good man, in fact, lis agmd man, but make me better. Lawd, make me better. Make eber bodv better, and,0 Lawd, soften de heart's of de members of de bot'd of public safety so dey will gib me my plaop back on de1 police force again."

Spears was one of the first men appointed, but whether the members, of the board ever heard of the praver' is unknown,

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WITII A FKW r.u.s.

Mr. Adams, of Parke, has introduced a bill that will be rather hard deaf people should it become law. The bill provides that, a per- I son driving may have tlm privilege of passing a team en- vehicle ahead ef i, hirn by crying out "'lay over." The' driver or rider in advance shall drive to the left, so aslo allow th* man behind to pass. 'The party nf the first, part must then drive far enough ahead. seas not to interfere with the- man whe has graciously complied with the request, to "lay over.'' 11 is made a misdemeanor not to "lav over."

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It. is not especially eoniplimontarv to our lawmakers that a scene, such as the' Indianapolis* Ne\vs recently. de'scriiK'd. should result from tlu-ir presence in the city. Thirty Legislators and Legislative employes, ina body, made the rounds of thereseirts. Some put item the ground that they were "slumming" anel sight seein others regareled it as a lark. At the Denisem House bar. on another night, seventy-five politie-ians, in c'.ueiing many Legislators, werelineei up at the bar. At 11 o'clock a police e-aptain went, in and announ -eel that the hour for closing hael arriveel. "I want, a glass eif be'er. anvhow saiel a mayor ef a ne-ighboring town, and several legislators crie-ei, "me\ too." "You are 'awmakers." the Captain said, "and ought not to become lawbreakers.- My instructions are- to e-nforce the law. It calls for stopping of liepior sales at 11 o'clock at night,. It is that hour now."

Legislators who suppose that tlicy arc free from arrest may find themselves mistaken. The police h:o legal advice that the statute protect.lawmakers only in going to and coining from the scssiems anel not, continuously during the s-xty-eiavs'' session. ..........

I am ind"hteel to the Tndianape "i News tor the accompanying iiiutr, tions. Tiie'y add to the "gavely nations" and graphically portrav n. |S present legislative situation.

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An old man of 76 was sent, to for three: days by the Maryelb.ii' Knglaneljpoiiee magistrate recent as lie: was unabie: to pay a line nf

cents for not, seeing that his tweh' vear old grandchild went to srli|

lie was a perfee-tly

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inginan. his wife is bedridden, chilel's parents wore deael an1', could not go after the truant lit' self.

liltorally True'

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"What do you think of the dearest.?' asked the: young the breakfast table. "The coffee. my ejaruti^', sweivei the young husband. »s(|) finished his cup, "the coll'cc i-soU sight."