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The Review.

The Argus News is not a party organ-Argus News Tuesday, June 6, '99.

PETER PORCUPINE.

SEQUITURQUE PATREM MAUD

PASSIBUS /EQUIS.

The Grandson of Mis Grandfather

Finds the Ola flan's Pen and

Polishes it Up.

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he re 1 a a a at is ih the natural course of time his 7.v slew him and he died. people 'tame and stood about his

•v?ated the whole round world iotbal/,' they said, 'and he ki:k-

id man-opened his eye-s. I ways toward the goal" icurtz.

TEW who vr wood emafciz* of -tradition, said farmer wv up a city Bia ... rob him, if present itself Strong languagbecause the fart the town at a a figure, taking adv-« bor's necessity. 1 that I had seen sir. the press for sever* thereupon I meditate^ fchings that "seem verj the light of facts. I' farmer is more of a "r^ sells "high" when he' merchant who is so f* "corner" some article of thereby make a hand

His cheer has become commercialized Arcadian simplicity is no more. In common with my city brethren, I regret the passing of the "honest old farmer." His was a grand character, in its rugged strength and stern simplicity in sterling worth and inflexible honesty. I prefer him. infinitely to his up-to-date son- We shall not see his like again. Who Isto blame if that son buys "cheap and sells dear?' if he can? Where- was he taught that lesson? I do not hold that one

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days since I heard a man. as a victim of last winter's "famine in this city, anath'ngr the honest old farmer

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asserting that the aforeould not hesitate to hold with a shot gun and ie opportunity should ithout fear of the law. e, I thought, and all ner had sold wood in uperlatively exalted outage of his neigh"hen I remembered uilar statements in al years past, and el, I found some very strange in wondered why a jbber" when he can, than the

That which in the me "shrewd business deal" it is "robbery." The fact is, as a class are no better nc than the rest of their fel

The burden of fleshly weak. u{on them too. There is nothi farmer's life which gives hit nity from temptation. As ot\ ne is beset bv the lust of gain

suing1 the same business methods current in the commercial world? Isn't it the unexpected turning of the worm, that hurts? Never mind! To all that, you will grow accustomed. But when you go out to do business with the farmer, remember that the ''honest old farmer" is no more, and his son is quite a different individual. If you seek a victim, you may wake to find yourself victimized. The farmer is honorable and "upright as other men, but he is now doing business on business principles. "The honest old farmer," the kindly, simple old patnarch of the field, is a tradition.

With the coming of new things he has passed away. ''May the earth lie lightly on his remains."

UDGE HARNEY a few days since remarking upon the reference of Bryan in his recent speech to the declaration of the principle of individual rights and of self government, as enunciated in Jefferson's immortal document, said: "It is a fact not generally observed or considered, that the constitution of Indiana has incorporated in it almost the very words of the Declaration of Independence. Here it is not only a principle. it is apart of the supreme law of the state. Every citizen is bound to support it so long as it remains unaltered. He who takes an oath to support the constitution of Indiana is bound by this article. In the light of present events it is worth considering. It is as follows:

NATCRAL RIGHTS

Drtunate as to necessity and some profit. I •rchant is a J* the farmer the farmers no worse low men, ness rests nginthe immuler men

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farmer is becoming educated in mercial methods." Experience great teacher, and the tiller o\ soil has had experience. The "ho old farmer," "in whose mansion to be free-hearted hospitality" i\ tradition, for his sons, who have si\ ceeded him, have been taught far di ferent lessons from those conned b\ their fathers. He used to welcom every stranger to his board with the* heartiest good will, and gave .o him freely the best his bounty afforded. He dwelt in the land of corn and wine, and he scattered its blessings with a bounteous hand. But kiss-betrayed by scheming sharpers, who found "rural simplicity" an easy prey, he has mightily changed. The gold-brick man, the lightning-rod peddler, the sewing machine swindler, the mining claim agent, the wind-mill and patentright representatives, have all "worked" him to a finish, and with all his getting, he has begun to gather wis3om. He blows out the gas no more. He is up to date. In the struggle of the survival of the fittest, he has svoluted somewhat.—and he will evolute still more. The process is not yet complete. A few of the antique order yet remain, but they are rapidly passing beyond the pale. Go to the trusting farmer, sleek-tongued swindler. Your honeyed words will fall on inattentive ears. He will not welcome you to his home heartily and freely as in "the brave days of old," but if you find a roof to shelter you, it will be with much difficulty and for a price

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other's necessity or sells a thing for more than it is worth, ia adhering strictly to the principles of Christianity. But to how great an extent are the principles of Christianity applied in trade? The farmer is like his city brethren—no better, and no worse. "Why should he be condemned for pur-

1.—We declare

that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their ^.Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happinsss that all power is inherent in the people, and that all free governments are, and of right ought to be, founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and wellbeing. For the advancement of these ends, the people have at all times, an indefeasible right to alter and reform their government.

Every man holding an office has sworn to support this article of the constitution.

RS. STROUSE, who writes "Squibs and Sayings" for the Rockville Tribune in a recent number takes a view of the

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proceedings of the International Council of Women which meets with my heartiest approbation. She assumes a unique and original attitude toward things which is captivating in the extreme. Her insight into the problems of life is deep, and she has a pleasant, wholesoiiie philosophy, which she expresses in a fresh and vigorous style. I always read her articles with interest and pleasure. She does not take much stock in the "new woman," nor iu faith, do I. She believes that her highest mission is found in the home, and all tnat pertains thereto, and so do I. It is useless to beat against the bars of nature, and the happy woman is she who has not sold her birthright for a mess of pottage.

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woman's rights, advocates conantly iterate that the "new woman1 becoming common. "For the sake womanhood let it not be believed, ik, we had mothers!" Our mothers not new women and we are glad ink they were not. No "new n" could ever take the place of ld" women such as our mothers

ox thib wer to t: woma, the were seem at The "oil ideal wo\ hold, she, low, a gui the rule oi are the geri^ bound bj\ youthful he^ living, and TO belie the siK cheek and b: of time. He: hemmed in by kith and kin, bu nesses to all me: busy active life, interests of its time to share her extend her aid to thereof. She went' tered angel doing pathway of flowers,'1

What splendid creatures they we look back upon them* 1" woman seems to me the man, the queen of the houseof the voice soft, gentle and

I ding spirit, whose rule is love, and whose commands tlest ever obeyed by vassel silken bonds whose vrt, filled with the joys of *ith love for all humanity, •ered hair and furrow on •w, defying the passing great soul was not the narrow bounds of it extended its kind i. In the midst of a filled with cares and wn she yet found sympathy with, and \11 who had need

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was shed into many lives that had she else been barren, colorless and wholly lacking in the joys of being, but pleutifvlly sprinkled with its miseries. Crooning the lullaby at the cradle of babyhood, gently guiding little feet painfully climbing life's rugged steeps drying the tears of those who wept comforting those who mourned strengthening the weak, lifting the fallen bringing sunshine into the chamber of siekuess, with voice of liquid music and hand whose touch was healing, smoothing the pillow about aching heads, laving burning brows softly gliding into the house of death, lovingly closing eyes that were sealed in darkness, gently folding waxen hands across pulseless breast, she seems little less than something divine. Who can say that hers was not a life well lived

Could she have found a higher destiny? After along and useful life she went to her eternal rest followed by the blessings of all who knew her, for she seemed like a part of, the lives of all. She performed the duties that came to hand and preserved the unities of her nature,—"die ewige weibliche,"—the eternal feminine that is the crown of womanhood. And if it were given to me to inscribe upon her tomb the highest eulogy. I should write thereon as the highest praise. "She was a womanly woman."

HE electric street car is going to countrify the city and citify the country, Which will perhaps be advantageous if the country is not too much citified. Since the introduction of the electric car cities have shown a decided tendency to spread out. Men fiud it desirable to have a space wide enough to breathe in and not touch elbows with their neighbors. If a man's house is his castle, it ought to be larger than a suite of rented rooms or a little cottage jammed in among many others. He can now live ten miles from his business and have a home with a reasonable plot of ground attached. He is able to own a few' trees and have vegetable and fruits grown by his own hand on his own land, all at an expense less than his little cottage cost in the heart of the city. There is room, wide room for the enjoyment of all these. "God made the country, and man made the town,"and the average individual prefers that which was made by God. The advantages of both are now within reach.

HE ubiquitous canine is occupying the usual dog-day amount of space in the papers. He is either going mad and running a muck as a promiscuous distributor of hydrophobia, and thus gratifying his enemies who forthwith demand his extinction, or he is rescuing children from drowning, saving trains etc, and so causing his praises to be sung in many keys. The latest story is of a dog which after vainly trying to stop a little child walking toward a rattlesnake, deliberately lay down on the snake, was bitten and died, to save the child—which is either a snake or a dog story. I am not quite sure. At any rate no dog is so worthless but he has his friends, like men. If you know him well enough you will find some good truits in him which can also be truly said of men. If all the worthless dogs could be killed off, possibly it would be a good thing, which could also be said of men. We should then no longer need legislatures.

HE evil men do lives after them, and sometimes longer, as a son of Erin would remark. Congressman Landie' celebrated civil service speech has returned to piague the inventor. When it was made it "split the ear of the groundlings" in a manner to amaze and gratify to a degree. The spoilsmen hailedit with one universal, simultaneous yawp of approval. They hailed Landis as the Moses who should lead them out of the wilderness and across the desert of competitive appointment, and land them safely in the valley of the river of public patronage, where they might feast and grow fat on the spoils of office, forever and forever. But now comes the other side of the picture. The people who for long looked askance at the spoils system and wondered why a hail of fire and brimstone did not sweep it into Gehenna, did not regard the speech as a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to lead them to freedom, but rather as a snare to plunge them into bondage. So when Mr. Landis' ambition to sit in the chair of the chief executive of the great state of Indiana became known and bruited about and noised abroad as it were, many frowned and others threw cold water upon the proposition in such large and unlimited quantities that he forthwith vowed that the gubernatorial grape vine bore only sour fruit,

and that the congressional currant bush bore berries fitted exactly to his taste, and there only would he sit and be filled. And the people said "It is well, but it is also well to be sure of your bush."

USHVILLE is a rushing town, and its name is characteristic of the enterprise of its citizens.

They had a street fair there last week and it was a howling success they say. I was not there and IJ do not know whether Satan held high carnival or the approved process of the Sunday sehool picnic prevailed. But whether saint or sinner triumphed is aside from the question. Doubtless there was the usual mixture of all grades of men who contend with the world, the flesh and the devil. But one fact stands out like a full moon in a cloudless sky, and that is this: The business men raised $5,000 for that fair and it was a success. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise."

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G. YOUNG, of Indianapolis, was before the city council on Monday night asking for an electric railway franchise. He purposes to put in a line here and extend it to Yountsville. The enterprise is one which should receive all possible and reasonable encourage ment. It would not be building cas ties in Spain to say that it would be of immense advantage to the city and connecting the suburbs would cause expansion in every direction. The travel to Yountsville during the summer season would be very heavy, and that place would soon become a popular summer resort. Electric cars and rural delivery of mail will bring the farmer into close touch with the world and render farm life attractive. Montgomery county has splendid roads and a number of thriving towns. If connected by electric lines a very complete system would be formed. Of course this could be only when Linden's cellulose dream is realized, and the canning factories flourish and die not. It would seem queer at first perhaps to see electric cars plunging along through corn fields and ragweeds, but both horses and men would soon become used to it and would not scare at the cars.

Let them come.

NCE more the council is in correspondence with a man who desires to purchase a gold-brick— but, alas, he is a professional purchaser of gold bricks. More than this, he comes from Chicago, and it is extremely doubtful whether any good thing can come from Chicago. He desires to purchase our Trilby, that celebrated monument of municipal financering. What he will do with it, should he get it, is unknown. But the sucker crop is one which never fails. He buys up such things, he says. Possibly he may find another city council which will buy. Doubtless there are people who want it— until they get it. Then a change may come over the spirit of the dream. There is 110 good reason why it should not be sold, if the Chicago man will give what it is worth. We really do not need it now, and yet we hate to part with it. Mere sentiment—but it is an old friend.

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HE effort of some newspapers to lionize General Alger now that he has retired, is rather amusing in view of the fact that these same papers have been exhausting their viturperative vocabulary in denouncing him for more than a year. Evidently they do not believe in a foolish consistency. Perhaps their action can be explained on the principle that we are to speak only good of the dead.

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SEE that Lieutenant-Governor Haggard is still wet-nursing his gubernatorial boom, and it is not likely it will ever get beyond the wet-nurse stage, but will die in its mewling and puking infancy. He stoutly maintains that he is receiving all sorts of encouragement, and that is probably true. The average American is fond of his joke, and will humor the fancy of any deluded candidate who may consult him. He will smile inwardly while he confidently assures a half dozen fellows that each of them is "it,," while he pities their gullibility. This is sad but true. It is only in newspapers that men dare to tell the truth, even part of the time. Even the Lafayette Sunday Times, which sometimes is an ardent supporter of Haggard and sometimes isn't, concedes that if certain things are true "Haggard's name is Dennis." Still, where the political thunderbolt will fall, is one of the things which cannot with certainty be predicted. Lightning does not always strike the highest tree. In this state it has sometimes fallen upon

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Everybody in Immediate or Prospective want of Clothing of any description for Man or Boy should make it a point to take advantage of our Great Mid-Summer Sale.

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NEW dental law has been catching the dentists in a sad state of unpreparedness. The dentists of Crawfordsville are not companionless in their misery. There are many others in this broad commonwealth who have rendered themselves subject to the corrective measure of the late legislature. How the man with an aching molar is going to allay his agony, until somebody can lawfully extract the offending tooth is not clear. The all-powerful and all-wise body of law makers should have provided for such a contingency. Whether he may poultice his pain, and treat his torment with such "simples" as may be at hand, without

A Knock Down MidSummer Sale...

Lies in having Garments that

leave this store correct in Style,' Trimmings, General Workmanship and Fit. We fully realize this and govern ourselves accordingly.

We Want Your Trade.

One Price Clothier and Hatter.

pitifully small timber. "'Tis true 'tis pity, and pity'tis,'tis true,"

deadly, dangerous celluloid collar has been getting in its fatal graft again. Its record will soon be little inferior to that of the toy pistol. At an ice cream supper a few days ago, a collar worn by an Ohio man was struck by a Roman candle and exploded, burning him so badly that he may die. Had he also worn a celluloid shirt bosom his doom had been sealed. Fortunately he had compromised with this symbol of civilization, and drew the line at a stiff shirt front and swallow tailed coat. The celluloid collar has its virtues, but it has its vices also. It stands serenely erect in sunshine and in storm. It may blister the neck and cause death, but it sternly refuses to wilt. It is alike impervious to perspiration and to sunbeam. It is as unyielding as adamant, and as immaculate as Dian's cheek. But it is a vanity and a vexation of spirit. It insinuates itself into the graces of the guileless and impecunious youth only to betray him- It will break at the most inopportune moment and embarrass him with its sham respectability, or it will explode and kill him when he is least prepared to die, either metaphorically or literally. It is a sunshine friend and a storm time enemy. Death may lurk in the graceful but graceless celluloid collar.

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giving offense and becoming a crim| inal in the eye of the law nobody ha! yet discovered. The acts of the leg lature of '99 is the most comical voll ume among the humerous literature of Indiana.

Yours Observantly. PETER PORCUPINE, JR.

.Wedding Invitations. NEW REVIEW.

OMMISSIONER'S SALE,

Notice Is hereby given that by virtue o( aH cree of the circuit court of Montgomery count) Indiana, entered at the April term thereof,1 the cause Of Quinoy M. Uutton vs. Mary Huttou et al., the undersigned anoommlSrioni named in Bald decree, will offer for sale nt south door of the court house of Moutgomei county, Indiana, in the city of CrawfordsvlHM

SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1899,

between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock in tlie alte noon of said day, the following described r# estate situated in said county and State, to-*]

The northeast quarter of section ulM township nineteen (19) nortb, range four west, except eight (8) acres in the south** corner and one (1) acre in the southeast corn#

Also 44.5 acres off the north end of tho eai half of the northwest quarter of said 8e™oj township and range, bounded as follows, to-*' Beginning at the northeast corner of said half, and running thence south eighty-nine rods, thence west eighty (80) rods, thence uori elghty-niue (89) rods, thence eist eight/ rods to the place of beginning, containing! all 195.5 acros.

TERMS: One-third cash, one-third in year, and one-third in two years deferred p». ments to be secured by mortgage on the pri® ses so sold and to draw interest at six per ceo per annum.

Said land is known as the George W.Hp'» farm, and is about six milea north of w»" fordsvllle, Indiana. IIENKY M. FERRit

Aug. 4, 1899. I louimisaione'-

APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.

Notice is hereby given te the citizens of tj first ward of the city of Crawfordsville, gomery county, Indiana, and the citizen" Union township, said county, thm J, iwoer Allen, a male inhabitant of the state of lna over the age of twenty-one years, ana aw uous resident of said Union township for than ninety days next preceding th« this notice, will apply to the Board oi own sloners of the county of Montgomery, regular September Bess ion, 1899, for a lice sell spirituous, vinous, malt and ,h,n toxicating liquors In a le«s quantity quart at a time, and allow the

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sime is known and designated 'Lonj,,vUl plat of the town, now city, Indiana, bounded as follows: H0?1''"1 ilrte( south-west corner of said lot

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[181, running thence nortn thirty• I*J thence east forty [40] feet, uiepW [80] feet, thence west forty [40] feet to of beginning. In the front roomoftbetwo brick building situated on said P[®":ntT_tiii« numbered SI0. Said room being

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cigar# and tobacco.

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H. ALLEN

Hurley & Vancleave, Att'f'B

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August 5,1899.

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