Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 July 1897 — Page 2

THE REVIEW.

BY

F". T. L.USE.

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The cotton factories of New Hampshire have in the past usually shut down for a few weeks during the summer, but this year the proprietors find that they will be obliged to dispense with the customary vacation. There will be no shutdown in 1897.

Indiana will have a larger and better wheat crop this year than last. The crop for the United States for '97 is estimated at 25,000,000 bushels above the crop of '96. Reports from foreign countries indicate a general shortage in the Argentine and other countries whose competition in European ports has so disastrously affected the demand for this cereal in the past.

The Reichstag has positively refused to make appropriations for improvement and increase of the German navy. Nevertheless, Emperor "Bill" has resolved to have ten battleships and sixteen cruisers built at once on his individual responsibility. A clash is expected between the Kaiser and his "Congress." The French Chamber of Deputies has approved of official estimates for an increase of the French navy to the extent of $52,000,000, of which $40,000,000 will be expended 011 new ships. Evidently European statesmen do not have much faith in a continued peace.

Colorado mine operators at the recent international gold-mining convention at Denver acknowledged their mistake in attempting to develop the silver deposits of the State on a falling market. One speaker said: "I have been mining in Colorado for twenty years: have spent $150,000 in it, and can pledge my honor that I have never had a dollar of it back." The roars of laughter that followed this statement indicated that many of thoee present had had much the same experience. The speaker added: "I am not in the least discouraged, however, for I am now convinced that I made a mistake by digging for silver instead of for gold."

The "Human Ostrich" is dead. His right name was Harry Whallen. Mr. Whallen's demise was not induced by reason of the hardware of which hi?

diet had bfifill chiefly coruposedf (or years, but was the result of a very successful surgical operation -to relieve his overloaded stomach. The bill of fare last swallowed by Mr. W„ consisting of pocket knivos, nails, screws, glass, harrow teeth, 'etc., failed to set right, and not having been properly masticated would not respond to the stomach pump. Hence heroic Lreatment, which was entirely successful, was resorted to. .The stomach was unloaded and the patient died with comparative ease.

The town of Salem, lnd., is strictly "white," having a population of 2,500. and not a colored person in the place The fact is probably due to the reputation which the town and the county of Washington, in which it is situated, got before the war for hostility to negroes. Old inhabitants say that nearly fifty years ago there were quite a number of colored persons living in the county, but after several had been killed the survivors migrated, and for many years past there has not been a negro in Salem except to pass through. Probably there is not in the United States another town with 2,500 inhabitants and not a single colored person.

Latest advices from the land of the Czar indicate a poor crop season in some sections of that vast domain. It is not stated that it affects the wheat crop. If it should it would tend to sustain prices, since India and Argentine have no wheat this year for the inarkets of the world. All the reports from Indiana indicate a good wheat crop of the best quality.* If the supply should not be beyond the demand, so that good prices can be realized, Indiana may expect from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 for wheat, where it got very little the past ii two years. This would give an impetus to business that would lift the gloom from many an anxious man and suffering family.

The civil-service law provides that, in addition to general examinations the commission may hold special examinations for appointments to positions in the classified service requiring special or technical qualifications. Such an examination will be held at Washington on July 28 for' establishing a register from which appointments may be made to to the position of assistant chief of the division of soils in the Agricultural Department. The salary of the position is $1,800 per annum. The department gives h- notice that it is especially anxious to secure for the position a person possess-

Ing good executive ability, as well as a thorough knowledge of the several subjects of the examination. All intending applicants are, therefore, required to submit to the commission, an original essay, either printed or in manuscript form, consisting of not less than five thousand words, and containing a thorough treatment of the subject of "Environment as affecting the yield, quality and time of ripening of crops." This paper should fully cover che relation cf climate, soil and other

conditions to the functions of plants, with special reference to the commercial aspect of the subject. Citations should be given of authors or works referred to. together with a brief bibliography of the more important works pertaining to the subject.

The Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Correction for the quarter which ended April 30, 1897, contains the proceedings of the last State conference of those engaged and interested in the Indiana reformatory and charitable institutions. If there are those who are laboring under the delusion that topics of no practical value are discussed at these meetings, they should become subscribers to the Bulletin, which they can do for 25 cents, and thus learn their error. All those who have an interest in nothing more than the economy of public charity will find much in the proceedings to interest and inform. One subject considered, ."Public Relief of the Poor," is of first importance, because, to the great expense of the taxpayer, it has been done in most of the counties in a haphazard manner. During the months of April and May the act of the last Legislature creating an agent to place orphans in asylums in proper homes has been in operation. Applications were made during those months by forty families who desired to take such children. The agent has made inquiry regarding twenty-six of the applicants, approving of twentyfour.

The recent reports of unparalleled discoveries of gold and petroleum in Alaska may be all the work of the "fake" newspaper correspondent, but if true will demonstrate the wisdom of Secretary Seward in purchasing that remote territory from the Czar. Gen. Cassius M. Clay claims that the negotiations between the United States and Russia were brought to a successful termination solely through his efforts while Minister to the Court of St. Petersburg, but Secretary Seward has always been given the credit by historians—possibly unjustly so. However this may be, it will not affect the' value of the mountains of gold and lakes of petroleum now supposed to exist there. As a real estate transaction the purchase of Alaska has in any event proved to be a "bargain."

The beer-garden resorts in the suburbs of our large cities have become a menace to the peace and quiet of the neighborhood in which they are located at iga4, If not to the morals of the cominunity at large. Rev. Milburn, a prominent Indianapolis div.ne, in a recent sermon, took occasion to specially designate a lately opened place of this kind, which has proved uncommonly popular and attractive, as a place that Christians should avoid. In the same sermon Pastor Milburn stated that his remarks were not to be copsidercd in the light of a temperance sermon, and disclaimed the idea of denouncing liquor-drinking as an unpardonable sin. The Pope, Mr. Gladstone. Pastor Dale of John Bright's great church at Birmingham and other distinguished religious luminaries were all moderate drinkers. Public drinking,

Mr. Milburn thought, was the greatest evil of our time, and he held that the summer beer gardens led to this practice more directly than any other influence now molding the characters

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A "MISSING LINK."

The Illinois Legislature killed the bill drafted by Chicigo retail merchants to regulate and curtail the trade of the great department stores. The evolution of trade has developed these great establishments in the large cities into monsters of avarice that practically absorb the bulk of the triJe in the various lines—and that means nearly all lines— of merchandise. The corner drug store and the green grocery eke out a precarious existence, where a few years ago their proprietors would have grown wealthy. Even the meat market has to compete with these great aggregations 01* capital. The beer saloon is about the only line of trar'.e in Chicago not injuriously affected by the transactions of such firms as Seigel, Cooper & Co. Naturally the retail merchants throughout Cook county would like to see something done to give them a chance to exist, but it seems they are doomed to fail—right or wrong. In the end the result must be disastrous to many worthy merchants and their landlords. Great inconvenience to the people at large is also likely to be an indirect result of the further development of these great emporiums. While they will no doubt supply to the people a great variety of goods at a surprisinly low figure, they cannot altogether fill the place of the retail merchant. Of the latter a few will be able to continue business, but must of necessity realize a greater percentage of profit on what they do sell. The legislative episode at Springfield last winter is only one sympto of the great industrial revolution now in progress in the business world. Contending interests will continue to clash and there will be suffering and distress. Modern methods and machinery seem to be capable of supplying the wants of the whole human race at phenomenally low rates, but it yet remains for some genius to devise a method whereby the human race—thrown out of employment by these methods and machinery—can acquire the aforesaid p. 1. wherewith to pay their tribute tp the gormandizing coffers that must needs be fed by electric cash railways. There is a "missing link" in this "endless chain" that must be found or the "old thing won't work."

A NOTED CONVICT.

WIIiLIAM W. KENNEDY PA HO MO I) AFTER SERVING TWELVE YEARS OF HIS SENTENCE.

A Bicycle Motor—Fish Yarn From Fortvllle—Mrs. Gelgor Indicted—State News From All Quarters.

Kennedy Paroled.

The case of William W. Kennedy, the man who has spent twelve years in the penitentiary for the murder of David Baker at Greensburg In 1884—a crime which it nas now been conclusively proved that he did not commit—has recently excited much Interest because of the persevering efforts of his sister to secure his pardon. Through all the years of his imprisonment Miss Kate Kennedy has unremittingly worked to secure not only his pardon but also to find evidence to establish her brother's innocence. Her efforts have at last been partially successful. Two women, residents of Greensburg, have come forward voluntarily and testify that they saw the. murder of Baker and that he was killed by a large, heavy man, who escaped. Kennedy is a small man. The women state that they were not summoned at the trial of Kennedy and did not then know but that the right man had been captured. Wishing to avoid notoriety they remained silent until their knowledge of the affair was discovered by Kate Kennedy. Governor Mount at last yielded to this testimony and to numerous petitions and sent for the prisoner. Kennedy is in consumption. He reached Indianapolis alone over the Monon Tuesday and at once hunted up District Attorney Wishard, who has been an urgent worker for his pardon and at 10:30 o'clock Mr. Wishard accompanied him to the Governors office. The Gover- examination of the stomach and liver nor accompanied him ijito the big parlors and there the two sat and talked over the crime for some time. When the time came to go the Governor, breaking silence, said: "Mr. Kennedy, you are paroled."

The tears came into the ex-convlot's eyes and flowed down his cheeks. The Governor told him the conditions of the parole. It is a six months' parole and

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(The line between Chicago and Hammond is also the Indiana-Illinois boundary.)

the Governor can cancel It at any time. Kennedy must abstain from intoxicants and conduct himself in every way as becomes a law-abiding citizen. At the end of the six months he must present the certificates of good citizens as to his conduct meantime .as well as the certificate of a physioian as to his health. Mr. Kennedy was glad to accept the conditions, and thanked the Governor warmly. To the newspaper reporters he again declared that he is innocent of the crime and that he was in Indianapolis on the night it was committed. He at first debated as to whether he would go to his old home in Cincinnati unannounced and take his mother and devoted sister by surprise or would telegraph ahead and finally decided to do the latter. He left on an afternoon train for Cincinnati. Kennedy, during his long prison life, haB been a model prisoner, always ranking as a "trusty." Once he was paroled to go home for several days and at the end of the time he showed up promptly at the prison gates.

A. Fortvllle Flsli Tarn.

Here's a fish story what is a fish story, from Fortville: Logan Shaffer made a wager that he could take the fish from the hooks and string them as fast as Robert Likins, Joseph Gwlnn and George Likins could catch them. Logan did pretty well at the task but now and then one of the fishermen had time to try his skill with a rifle, making targets of turtles and frogs. In two hours and 40 minutes the trio had caught 324 fish, 17 frogs and one turtle. The score was: Robert Likins, 112 fish, one frog and one turtle Joseph Gwlnn, 109 fish and 15 frogs George Likins, 118 fish and one frog. Fortvllle can now venture into the sea serpent line with a reputation that cannot be seriously affected, and an airship story1 or so Is certainly due.

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A 1) cycle Motor,

Shelbyville special: Abe Teeters will, he thinks 'be ready by next season to revolutionize the bicycle business. He Is working on a motor bicycle. The device consists of a minute double compound engine, fastened on the rear part of the bicycle. The tubing of the wheel' furnishes the reservoir for the gasoline. The motor works on the same pqrlnciple as the gas engine, but there are four explosions to each stroke of the piston rods. The explosion tube hangs low and points down so th-re Is no odor from the gasoline. It is so arranged that without dismounting the "motor can be turned off or on at the pleasure of the rider. The machine has developed sufficient power to carry the inventor without his using the pedals. It is not supposed that this machine will do away entirely with the use of the pedals, but with it long rests can be taken, steep hills can be climbed, and the work of riding against strong winds will be .reduced. The motor weighs only seven and one-half pounds. The speed which can be obtained with this machine will depend on the use the rider has of his legs, but speed is not the desired end it is ease and comfort. The most work the rider will have to do will oe to maintain an equilibrium, keep his leet on the pedals when he wants to go faster than the motor will carry him, and assist it.

Mrs. Geiger Indicted.

Evansville special: After an investigation .of nearly two weeks the grand jury returned an indictment of murder in the first degree against Bedealyea Geiger. Mrs. Geiger is charged with poisoning the infant son of Mrs. Eugenie Moor-o, who died May 6 last. A grain of arsenic was found in the child's stomach at the post mortem examination. Mrs. Geiger is also suspected by the authorities of being implicated in the death of her husband, who died three years ago. Ilis body was exhumed two weeks ago, and a chemical is now in progress, pleted.

but has not been com-

Suicide of a Love-S'ck Boy.

Columbia City special to Chicago Record: Because Miss Artie Phillips refused longer to receive the attentions of Clarence Davis, a seventeen-year-old boy, the latter ended his life this morning by throwing himself in front of a moving

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passenger train. The train was slowing up for the station, but Davis was hurled a distance of twenty feet, and received injuries from which he died. The young man had told several persons that he and Miss Phillips were to be married in three months, but for some reason they afterward became estranged. The young woman says Davis had 'threatened to kill himself If she refused to go with him. but she thought he was jesting. Early this morning Davis called at her home again. She refused to receive him, and he departed. He went to the track, and when the train was within twelve feet of him, he deliberately stepped in front of the engine. 'Ay-

Burned by X-Rayx.

George F. McCulloch, of Muncle, chairman of the r?publlcan State Committee, is at Dr. Sterne's sanitarium at Indianapolis,' suffering severely from a burn inflicted by the X-ray. Several years ago Mr. McCulloch injured his left knee, and in time he was compelled to assume a crutch. He did not pay a great deal of attention to the matter, but had it treated from time to time. Last summer

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he was in the East he had the knee exposed to the X-ray and photographed, showing a formation of the bone that interfered with the use of his leg. Upon returning home he showed this to his physicians, Drs. Marsee and Sterne. Last February these surgeons made another photograph of the injured knee by means of the* X-ray, making an exposure of twenty minutes. He suffered no pain at the time, but later his knee became swollen, and it was then found that he had been severely burned by the operation. Since then he has suffered not a little from it, his trouble being aggravated by the active life he leads. Last Thursday he came to the sanitarium for rest and treatment, and the burn is gradually healing under a treatment of oxygen and electricity..

THE LOST TRIBES,

Since my freindship and association with Houston I have never been in the company of white men long enough to tell my story until I was so unexpectedly discovered by your party, and had I not been thus thrown in your pathway it is probable that this narrative would have remained a secret and have perished with me. Now that I have had an opportunity to relate it in detail to intelligent ears I would request that Mr. Carter write out what I have said at his leisure, and if possible publish the story, that the world may know of the wonderful country, and no less remarkable'race of men, that existed in such close proximity to our shores for so many centuries, undiscovered and unknown. That those people were indeed the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel, whose fate has been the unsolvable mystery of the ages, I have not the slightest doubt. When I have finished 1 will show you the remaining page of the patriarch's story, and will draw a map of the Land of Nod that you may better understand the story to which you have so attentively listened. [Pausing, the venerable man cast his eyes upward, looking into the breaking dawn as if some vision held his spellbound gaze, and concluded his remarkable narrative as follows:] "Oh, Land of Nod, I see thee still— thy craggy shores and sunlit peaks, thy graveless plains and toinbless hills, thy cooling springs and laughing rills, thy balmy airs and azure skies, thy lucious fruits and sparkling wines, thy winding ways and flaring lamps, they hopeful morns and silent eves—and I long for •thee, that I might pass my few remaining years, beneath thy mystic shades, cheered by the presence of thy simple, untaught tribes. But alas! It cannot be! Still must I wander in untrodden wiHs, still live alone as is my chosen lot.

Freedom I have sought and found—the boundless plams and mountain solitudes shall be my home until my time shall come. No grave shall shield my withered frame, 110 requiem sung over my remains, no tear of sorrow wrung from tender hearts, 110 marble shaft shall tell where I will rest, but my withered flesh shall sate the coyotes' hungry pangs, and my bleaching bones shall be my only monument.

PART IV.

THE SURVEYOR'S STORY CONTINUED. So astonished were we,and so interested did our entire party become as he proceeded with his narration, that none had retired, or scarcely moved from their positions except to replenish the fire from time to time, and to place water close to the trapper on a camp-table, to which, however, he paid not the slightest attention. After he had once begun the old man seemed entirely oblivious to his surroundings, and apparently was in reality living over the events of his past life as his narration recalled the circumstances to his mental vision. As he concluded his story he drew from his bosom a roll wrapped in a piece of very fine fur, from which he extracted a small piece of very coarse blue woolen cloth on One corner of which was a star of gold the size of a silver foliar, somewhat tarnished, and a piece of parchment about 6x8 inches, upon which there had evidently at one time been writing, but what marks still remained were entirely illegible. Drawing his clftiir to the table and picking up one of my record books in which I had made a record of our surveys, he drew a map, a copy of which is attached to this work.

I can not say 'that any of us believed the trapper's story, but he had related it with so much earnestness, and at times with so much feeling and pathos, that we were at a loss to form an intelligfient opinion of the narrative. That he believed it himself was clear. And it was equally clear^that he was not insane. Not a man of our party but would have earnestly defended his intelligence and sanity, and all felt for him a friendship that would have led them to seriously discommode themselves to serve lym. Such being the case I have refrained from expressing any opinioa concerning the narration, and have given it to the public substantially as it was related, with but slight embellishment.

As our preparations for breaking camp had mostly been completed on the day previous, a hurried breakfast was prepared and eaten, in which the trap­

AND THE LAND OF NOD.

A N O I IN A N A A A S S O

BY A. P. KERR.

(The Trapper's Story Concluded.) When I was a young man, a pioneer could take an ax and a rifle, and go into the wilderness, and hew out a hofne, erect a simple cabin, take thereto his family, and provide them with every needful comfort. And they were happy—happy because of the absence of unsatisfied wants. Money they had riot, and needed not—it was an unknown quantity—as in the Land of Nod, whose mountains teemed with gold that never felt a coiners stamp. Fashion was to them a goddess of whose realm they had never heard. Luxury was as unattainable, cither in food or raiment, as would have been Golconda's gems but health, the greatest blessing yet vouchsafed to man, unostentatious hospitality and true happiness were theirs to a degree unknown by the people of this latter day. But those simple times have passed into oblivion—are memories of the vanished years that never can return—and life has become a ceaseless struggle, a blind and maddening rush by a constantly increasing population— each striving to gain an advantage over his fellowman, rather than to aid them —and 011 the part of the great majority an unending battle for a mere existence, with scarce a gleam of joy to relieve the somber clouds of poverty that ever hover o'er them.

"And Gain-went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden.'' "Giarasis iv Ms

per joined us, the camp cauin™ were loaded into the wagons was in readiness for the com,

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journey. Again, and more c-1? we urged ,h« old but it was useless. So all

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around him ancfgTasping his'lnm/*5?! "U, with U1 lUlXICt comfort and safety, we took" our l« of this rover of the plains who ri»' not to ask aid or sympathy from Ipwman. though longP past the 1 the years allotted to the human rac/

As we reached a bend in the along which our course lav we tyhn^ back, and the old man was'still sfami' upon the site of our dismantled rani? standing as a statue in the ruin, ', we all felt a sorrow which we could n« express, as we thought of his Ioneli„S Pasing around the bend, he was los7, our sight and we never saw him again On reaching our new camp, 1 notes of- the story, and as time passed other cares pressed upon me and1 neglected for years and at last nearl forgot the entire circumstance, or onU thought of it in a dim, uncertain that failed to impress me with the inter est that might attach to the story in tlx light of reccnt discoveries in our west ern country. I had carefully preserved the notest I had made at the time but not until the winter of 1888 did 1 be come sufficiently interested to umlertab to edit them for publication. Picking up the morning paper in my comfortable city home one morning in January, 1888 I began to read the accounts of the terrible blizzards which were sweepins over the entire Northwest. Reading on one account after another, of the terri ble suffering, caused me to draw closei to the fire and pity the unfortunate' whom I could not help.

Down at the bottom of the column the following dispatch fixed mv attention with a strange interest—an'interesl which was as if one of my own relatives had perished in the awful storm: "Helena, Mont., Jan. 18, 1888: A party of hunters, returning from a bear hunt in the Big Horn country report the finding of the dead body oi an aged man, evidently a trapper, who had doubtless perished in the blizzard that swept over this section on the joth. Near at hand, perhaps not more than a hundred feet from the place of finding the body, was a rude hut of logs and brush, which it is thought was the shelter which the unfortunate man was trying to reach when overtaken by the icy blast haf overcame him. A scarch oi the hut revealed but little. By the side ol the man's body was his gun and hatchet, and he had a few rounds of ammunition. On his bosom tjnder his clothing was found a roll in which was enclosed

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piece of coarse blue woolen cloth, on one corner of which was a gold star, and a piece of parchment on which were some illegible marks. Nothing was found to disclose his n'amc, or any information as to who he might be. From some Indians it was learned that the aged trapper had lived in the liul for years, but he was unknown to the whites .who hunt in that couiflry. The body had been somewhat mutilated by wolves or coyotes, but the face was uninjured, and was that of a very finelooking man—though very aged. He was buried in as secure a manner as the frozen condition of the earth and the tools at command would permit."

MISCELLANEOUS.

I President 'McKinley's mail averages from 1,000 to 1,300 letters a day, and several sacks of newspapers.

Greater Glasgow, with a population ol1 853,000, has only 494 medical men. or one doctor to every 1.726 of the population.

About thirty thousand families make their living in Paris* in connection with the cab industry and taking care ol horses.

The gossamer iron made at Swansea, England, is so thin that 4,800 plates are needed to make an inch in thickness.

A Greenwood (Me.) farmer lotind a sheep and a lamb in his pasture the other day with their noses so full porcupine quills that they were unable to graze.

One of the latest appliances for use in a bake-shop oven consists of a machine which takes the whole wheat and grinds it, mixes water with it and kneads it into dough ready for the oven.

The oldest wooden building in world is believed to be the church if Borgund, in Norway. It was built if the eleventh century and

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tected by frequent coatings of pitch. is built of pine and in fantastic Roman esque desig

A girl went to a neighboring di^im^ school, intending to study for istry. Now she says that she thinks "studies have perhaps fitted her

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The theological graduate who is to become her husband believes education.—Boston Transcript.

The New Haven police nuthont^ have detailed a policeman who is a bicycle rider to run down and a "scorchers." He intends to Ret a and some iron balls, such as the York policemen use. to throw im vho refuse to wheels of ''scorchers" wno

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stop when ordered to do so. also have a speed indicator,

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tell when "scorchers" are exccecli limit allowed them. Of Bavaria's 7.275 pubHc 4.8 per cent, are in the citics. 113 teachers 74-13 per

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