Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 September 1898 — Page 5

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Great Clearance Sale

.OP SHOES.

Everything must be sold regardless of price. Oxford ties and slippers, sizes 2J4, 3. 3j4

cents per pair. Former price was $1, $1.25 ar* Summer Shoes in Mens', Ladies' and Clildrens discount. Ci. 11 and see us l.efore purchasing elsewhere as we surely will

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CRAWFOUnSTILKK, INDIANA.

Make our store headquarters* dining the County Fair. We will make no "Fair Display" but can be found at the store with a nice line of goods. Let us show you these goods. They will please you.

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Go to the New Mill at Crawferdsville for your Hour. It's a farmer's 3 mill. Built to please the farmer and everyone possible. All

of Feed Grinding done to suit everjone.

I buy all kinds of grain and make the finest brand of Flour on earth, called

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DON'T BORROW TROUBLE." BUY

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JINGLES AND JESTS.

A Hope of Dawn.

When this battln din is ended and the smoke is cleared away, Who knows but we will bid farewell forever to the frny? For in spite of all the figlitin there is lots that shows ub clear How humanity sits closer an more kindly every year.

The hands 'gainst brethren raised are clasped in friendliness once more, An old tiniB taunts are silent that were hurled from shore to shore. Of course all prophesy in with a heap of risk is fraught, But there ain't no limitations on a "maybe1" line of thought.

There's never any tellin what the morrow may unfold. I whisper it most gently, 'cause it seems uncommon bold, An 1 wouldn't undertake to argu« close down to the text Vet who knows but the millennium'U ba .. a-startin next? 1 —Washington Star.

How We Are Deceived.

"Truly it is a sad and disappointing world,'' said tho redheaded philosopher thoughtfully.

Thereupon thoy all stopped smoking lonn enough to look at him inquiringly. "I was thinking," he said, that the sweet voieo that comes to you over the telephone very often is about the only stock in trade of a wall eyed girl who is homely enough to scare the chickens out of a barnyard, and that the pretty and petite little thing that you admiro on the street or in a tableau somewhere may turn out to have a voice and a temper that are both closely allied to a lmzzsaw trying to cut its way through a railroad spike imbedded in a log of wood."—Chicago Post.

A Sailor's School of Manners. On one occasion years ago the president visited one of the ships informally, dig flensing with the usual salute and cera inony, when one of the men rather indignantly asked another who that lubber was on the quarterdeck that didn't "douse hia peak" to the commodore. "Choke your luff, will you?" was tlio reply. That's Mie president of the Unitod States.'' '•Well, ain't he got manners enough to salute the quarter deck if ho is?" "Manners! What does he know about manners? I don't suppose he was ever out of sight ot land in his life."—"On a of-War."

Mr. Melon's Talk.

Mr. Melon up en say "Dis yer is a swingin day! Wisht day'd ring de dinner boll. Take en cool me in de well!" tDat whut Mr. Melon say When I gwine 'long his way.)

Den I rings de dinner bell, Takes en cools him in de well. When he cool, I makes a call, Slice him, eat him, heart and all] (Nuttin mo' dem melons say When I passin 'long dat way.) —Atlanta Constitution

Take No Kinks.

He had with him one small Gatling gun, two army rifles and a keg of dynamite. "Why, my dear fellow," said a friend. "Where on earth are you going?" "I am going," ho replied, "to spond the summer at a defenseless seasido roeort."— Atlanta Constitution.

His Title.

Mrs. Wiggles—I didn't know that Mr. Binks had a title. Mrs. Waggles—Neither did I. What la It? "Well, his servant, says that everything comes addressed 'JamesBinks, C. O. D.' —Sonierville Journal.

Height of Laziness.

Said Weary haggles to his friend, Whose name was Sandy BloW "Why does yer use a pipe so shuft

Whene'er you want to smoke?"

"Well," saul Sandy in reply As lie jugpleil a piece of tripe, "It seems too much like work ter me

Drawin smoke from a longer pipe!" —Princeton Tiger.

No 111 Luck.

"Do you think that there is ill luck in the number 13.-1" inquired the superstitious citizen. •'No, sir," answered the baseball enthusiast. "Not when the homo team get the 10 and the others fellows the 8."— Washington Star.

Along the Wabaali.

Poets rave about the beauty of the Wabash, But the facts are as I give them to you now: Awful fogs come up so thick along the Wabash

That each railroad train is forceC to wear a plow. —Cblcaco Record.

Kxeess Fare* Discoutineiu! The North-Weetem line has discontinued excess fares on the "Colorado Special," which leaves Chicago daily 10:00 a. m.. /caching Omaha ll:5."i p. m. and Denver 2:55 next afternoon. It has further improved its service by perfecting through sleeping car arrangements on the "Colorado Special" to Colorado Springs. Train leaving Chicago 10:150 p, m. daily also has through sleeping and chair cars. Tourists' tickets via the Chicago and North-Western on

Bale

THE BLACK DEATH.

THAT FEARFUL PLAGUE THAT FOLLOWS IN THE WAKE OF WAR.

In the Fourteenth Century It Swept the Whole of Europe, Killing Twenty-flve Millions «f people In Three Years—The

Pegtileufe In London. •.

Tho plague, or pestilence, that mysterious and fearful visitation which has moved its hosts in the wake of armies to slay more than war itself, is supposed to have first originated among the dense masses of people who crowded together in the great cities of Asia and Egypt, or who formed the encampment of Xerxes, Cyrus and Tamerlane the Tartar. It probably sprang from the impurity which must have existed in the midst of such viist gatherings and in part also from leaving the unburied dead upon the field of battle. At any rate the germs of this fearful human poison have always been most actii-e where conditions siirilar to those have prevailed. It has always been war and the march of armies that has spread it broadcast over the world from time to time, and as war becanio less frequent and less worldwide the frequency and extent of these ravages have lessened also.

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Veterinarians say that gray horses live longer than others.

The first recorded outbreak of the plague in Europe occurred in the sixteenth century. It camo from lower Egypt. This was the first lapping of the wave that reached into the east again, there to stay its movement so far as the west was concerned until 544 A. D., when the returning legions of the Emperor Justinian brought it again into the western world from the battlefields of Persia. Constantinople was the first place it attacked. Here in a single day as many as 10,000 persons are said to have fallen victims to it. But the plague did not stop with Constantinople. It had found a too congenial soil in Enrope, which was little else than one great battlefield at the time. It was carried into Gaul, where it followed close in the wake of the Frankish Armies, and from Gaul it moved into Italy, with the Lombards, and so devastated the country as to leave it entirely at the mercy of the invaders.

The various crusades, which extended over a space of about 200 years, no doubt did much to hold the pestilence in Europe, for tbey served to keep open the channels of intercourse between the east and the west. Periodic epidemics were common during their continuance, and these seem to have culminated in the fourteenth century with what is known in history as the black death. The black death was more fatal to human life than any other single cause since the world began. The havoc of war was nothing in comparison to it. It swept the whole of Europe, leaving in its path such misery and destitution as the world had never known. It killed in three years some 35,000,000 of people. Such figures stagger the comprehension, but the records of the time caimot be doubted. The entire population of Europe is estimated to have been about 100,000,000—kept down a? it was by the constant warfare—and of these 100,000,000 at least a fourth perished.

The ravages of the plague in Italy, where it came in the track of the war of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, was particularly disastrous to mankind. It raged with terrible fury in Naples, where CO, 000 persons are said to have died. It fell upon Pisa and seven out of every ten perished. It utterly and forever destroyed tho prosperity of Siena. Florence also suffered severely, while 100,000 of the inhabitants of Venice were literally wiped off the face of the earth. From Italy it moved into France, where the mortality was almost as great in Paris alone 50,000 people died from it. One of the worst features presented by the, history of the black death was the cruel persecution it aroused against the Jews. They were supposed to have infected the air in some mysterious manner, and they were accused of having poisoned the wells and springs. In Strassburg 2,000 of tlieui were buried alive in their own burial ground.

The order of the Flagellanto arose at this time, coming from the belief that the sins of the world had at last brought down the wrath of heaven. It was the beginning of tho so called Hundred Years' war that carried the black death into England, where in Loudon its victims numbered 100,000. When at last the plague had worked its ravages, it doubled back over its course, to disappear in the east. In 1S45 it appeared again in England, first among the soldiers of Richmond after the battle of Bosworth Field, and when the victorious army marched to London the plague went with them to work its havoc there. As long as it lasted the mortality was as great as that caused by the black death half a century before. Five thousand people died in five weeks, and then the plague left London as suddenly as it had appeared there, to sweep over the rest of England.

In Scotland the plague of 1568 came immediately after the battle of Langside, when Queen Mary was dethroned, but no records of the mortality it occasioned seem to have been preserved. The plague visited London in 1675. This followed after the civil war which ended with the death of Charles II, but so many years intervened that it is impossible to trace any connection between the two events. In modern wars danger from the plague seems gradually to have lessened, perhaps as a result of better sanitary conditions maintained by the armies of today.—Philadelphia Press.

I'olitics by the Forelock.

The Denver Post takes time by the forelock and launches tho following: For President,

Teddy Roosevelt of the Texas Terrors. For Vice President, Colonel Torrey of the Wyoming Wildcats.

Platform,

Tighten yer cinches, hit 'em with the spurt nod git therel

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Every now and then you hear that one of them has been hit. Occasionally a soldier on watch fires back at the distant flash and for a moment you have peace. Past another ford you keep ou your way, leaving behind you the hill of El Po/.o, where Captain Grimes' field gnus opened the action in the morning. As you go on the road grows worse and more weird. Up hill and down again it runs, with mud a foot deep in places. The feet of tho wounded wayfarers sink into the mire until some of them are helpless. They are grateful when you help them, and you push on. it is more lonely now. There is no one within sight or sound either ahead yr behind, and the road is once more open. You look across the nearby stubbleat the woods beyond, and you wonder if here, too, there are Spanish sharpshooters waiting and watching. You hurry, and on either sido through tho palms there conies a crackling as of branches being trodden underfoot.

Your blood grows cold, and then you 6iuile to yourself in a sickly sort of way as you realize that the land crabs sire running from you. They are plainly tc bo seen in tho road now, big follows, blue and black and red and yellow. They hurl themselves hurriedly from danger in their peculiar awkward way, and you hate them, for you know that were you dead on that spot within an hour theso vermin would have picked your skull as clean as vultures.

Tho never ending road still winds on through the wood with the wounded once more dotting it. Three of them are sitting on a bowlder. Jwo of them havl been shot in the arm the other both in the shoulder and tho thigh. He is weafc ening fast and the others are trying t* cheer him up. "It ain't the pain," he says, "it's the loss of blood that's killing me. How far is it now? Have we come to the hill where the rough riders fought?" "Not yet, "answers one of the soldiers, "but it is very near." "Well, I'll get that far, anyway," is the man's response, and he struggles to his tired feet.

In the distance there can be heard the jingle of a bell. It comes closer and closer, and soon around a bend appears the head of a mule train carrying ammunition to the tront. They will need it on the morrow. Behind come lumbering a half dozen wagons, carrying suj* plies, each with eight powerful mnl# hauling it through the miry road. The drivers curse and crack their whips. The mules struggle into a gallop and plungf down a hill. Soon the tinkle of the pack train's bell and then the thunder of th« tvagon wheels are lost. It is as peaceful as though war did not exist. The land crabs flee in their fiendish way from before your feet and with half an hour ol 6teady marching you stand on the rough riders' hill. To the right, just on the crown overlooking the valley to the south, are seven wooden slabs stuck into the earth side by sido to mark where fell the first heroes in the campaign against Santiago. A wounded man is lying near the graves. He lifts his head at tho approaching sounds. "Played out," he says laconically. "Shot in the shoulder. Finish the trij tomorrow.''

No complaint, no regret, just grit. From this hill the road leads down into a thicket through which the suu never shines. The moon is drowned. It is as black as a cavern. Rocks, loose and jagged, fill the roadway and rendei the footing unsafe. Branches reach oul from the brush and whip your face. It is uncanny. Strange insects are singing here ami there, and far oft' you hear the call of the cuckoo which so often betokens tho presence of Spaniards lyinj in wait for the invaders. Then there comes the answering cry still farthei on, and you wonder what is going happen to you. Your imagination grows vivid. Dark figures appear dowr the road. They look like men crouch ing. A dash of moonlight through rift in the overhanging clouds of trop ical foliage falls on the dewy blade of palm and changes it into the glcaniinp bayonet of a Spanish soldier. The scene.' of the bloody day just^ done have beer such as unstring nerves, and while yoi: chide yourself for your foolish fancies you hurry along, hurry along, hoping for the end.

And by and by it comes. You have reached the level sandy 6treteh beliinc the ridge on which sits Siboney, anr rounding tho end through the ravine which cuts down to the sea you have before you the tents and campfires oi the soldiers at the base and the cottagei of the Cubans. It lias not been a pleas ant journey, but you have seen one o1 the phases of warfare, and that is much.

A Resolution of the American People. The American people have resolvec that henceforth Spanish oppression shall be confined to Spaniards, and nothing in the wide world will swerve then one hairbreadth from that most jus and necessary conclusion. New Or leans Times-Democrat

No Call For Music.

Possibly there may be a concert o1 European powers after the Spanish American war is over, but hardly be fore. There is no call for music as yet —New York Mail and Express.

Cuban Hammock Song. See us softly swaying 'Neath the shady trees, Leaves above us playing

In the gentle breeze. Cuba, Cuba librel That's the song we sing \9hile the shadows come and go And the breezes softly blow.

Cuba, Cuba librel Singing as we swing.

Bless us, this is pleasant, Neither thought nor carel Let's enjoy the present

In the drowsy air. Yanks can do the scrapping (Hear 'em bang awayl) We prefer our napping

Through the drowsy day. Cuba, Cuba librel That's the song we sing. sWj Eating while we swing in line Yankee rations—they are flnel

Cuba. Cuba librel Singing as we swing. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A Painful Humor

On the Ankle Spread to the Knee and Developed Into Boils No Trouble Since Taking Hood's.

"I was troubled with a disagreeable itching on one of my ankles. In time it developed into boils of which 1 had five or six at a time. The humor spread from my ankle to my kneeand was very painful. It bafiied the skill of physicians. For weeks I could not bear my weight ou this foot. An abscess formed and was lanced and the humor broke out on my other ankle and threatened to repeat my former experience. Hood's Sarsaparilla attracted my attention and I began taking it. In six weeks I was better, and began to hope for a permanent cure. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla six months and was entirely cured. I have had no trouble with humor sinco that time." Mus. M. B. MACINTOSH, Barrington, Illinois. Remember

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Driving Is Pleasant

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