Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 August 1899 — Page 4

The Review.

PETER PORCUPINE

'•SEQUITURQL'E PATREM HAUD PASSIBUS vCQUIS.

Yhe Grandson of His Grandfather

Finds the Old nan's Pen and Polishes it Up.

me Impune Laces sit."

"Once there lioed a man, a satirist and in the natural course\of time his friends slew him and he died.

The people :ame and stood about his corpse. 'He treated 4he whole round [world as hi* football,' they said, 'and he kinked it"

The dead man opened his eyes. "But always toward the goal" he said.—Schwartz.

WHAT

an observant little girl that was who said to her mother in a burst of childish enthusiasm. "Mamma, if I should die, would I go to heaven?'' "Why, yes, darling of course you would." "And if you should die, would you go to heaven, toot" "I hope so." "I hope so, too because it would be very embarrassing and awkward for me to.be known in heaven as the little girl whose mother was in hell."

This is a serious matter though placed in the form of a joke in the columns of a funny paper. There is a vast amount of room along this line for solid reflection on the part of parents in general, and many parents in particular. I am very much afraid that there will be many children placed in just such embarrassing and awkward situations when the "great day'' shall come. An honest and candid looking into the inward self on the part of parents, would certainly bring about many reforms, and save many an embarrassment like that of which the little girl spoke.

WUSTRIA is up to the chin in the II pension business. The rotten l/l old empire has been forced to recognize polygamy in the army. Austria has occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina, and even has a lot of •Mohammedans in the army, and when one of them gets killed, from two to forty widows bob up serenely and ask for a "widow's pension. The United States bids fair to be in the same boat if the McKinley expansion policy continues. The Sultan of SuJu has a large number of wives, and we have promised to let the greasy old pagan alone in the enjoyment of all his rights and privileges, harem and all. It will only be a short time when we will recognizing everything that comes along. If anything worse than McKinleyism ever struck this country our historians have lost sight of it.

CHIEF

ARTHUR, of the Brother­

hood of Locomotive Engineers, living at Cleveland, Ohio, has been discovered riding on boycotted cars of the Big Consolidated. He says he does not propose to walk three miles down town when empty cars are passing his door every ten minutes. He says. "This agitation and boycott are utterly ridiculous, and the strikers have gone entirely too far." For these words and actions, Mr. Arthur is decidedly in disrepute. He is denounced as a "scab," a "sweetscented skate," "Secretary of Slavery to the General Manager's Association," "fossilized tool of plutocracy," etc., etc., and the B. of L. E. has been warned that if the Grand Chief does not walk, that the aforesaid organization will lose the respect and assistance of every labor organization in the world. Let's see. Did not everyone of these street railroad men whoop it up for McKinley and prosperity? Bid not great processions of them tramp through the streets of Ohio cities in 1896, yelling for the gold single standard, and shorter hours and higher wages? They bet on another man's game and lost. Now they are blowing up cars with dynamite, shooting and killing, clubbing and pounding, cursing and boycotting everything in sight just because a few street car line owners failed to keep political promises made. Perhaps they will not bite like gudgeons at the old prosperity bait which will be thrown at them again in 1900, quite so voraciously as they did in 1896. They will vote for Bryan next time, and the prosperity which comes from a greater volume of bimetalic cur. rency, the death of the trusts, and a tariff for revenue. A sky-high prohibitive protective tariff, Bepublican trusts, and expansion, they have surely discovered by thifi time is not

the thing. Mr. Arthur was no doubt very naughty to ride on a car boycotted by these strikers. But why go after him so hard The average striker never sees anything until it strikes him and then his first impulse is to get out his little red flag and his stick of dynamite, and see how badly he can hurt someone, or how much property he can destroy, and how he can hurt the business of somebody. If these Cleveland strikers had voted right in 1896, there would have been no trouble. They did not, and are themselves to blame. But that will not save Chief Arthur from the axe.

TJARPER'S WEEKLY, called a "journal of civilization," has come out in favor of the army 1 canteen, for the reason that 600 officers of the army have responded in favor of it to inquiries sent out by the war department, and lays all the opposition to it to the ultra-temper-ance people, at the same time expressing the hope that congress will not listen to the agitation against the canteen. This may all be true about what the army officers say, but do they know of the wide spread devastation of this institution? I had a talk with a man not long since whose city had furnished a company of volunteers to the Spanish war. The company was composed of young men from the best families, none of whom were addicted to the use of liquor. These boys were in camp at Chicamauga and Tampa several months and were discharged. They came home, not the same boys who went away, and nine-tenths of them had learned to drink through patronage of the canteen, and several of them, he said, were sure of filling drunkard's graves. Does this sort of work speak well of the canteen, or prove that it is a good thing for the army, for the country, the home or the individual? The "journal of civilization" by the advocacy of such an arrangement as the army canteen, should change its motto to "a journal of retrogression."

ITH many grains of salt some things have to be taken. While I have the greatest respect for the editor of the Peru News and do not believe that he would knowingly and wilfully misrepresent things, yet I cannot help but feel that his innocence is at times imposed upon. He sends forth a story of a certain grape vine in that city which has a crop each of grapes and apples on it this year. The Peru scientists^tell him that the pollen from the apple blossoms had fallen on the grape vine and thus caused the freak. These Peru scientists are surely wonders, and as soon as their ability becomes known they will be whisked away from that smoky village and be put to work in some great university to develop to its fullest extent the Schenck baby theory, or how to raise Short Horn cattle from frog sprawn. If these Peru scientists keep on the way they are going now, it will not be long until they will have knocked into a cocked hat the Scriptural proposition that "men do not gather grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles."

rj^TRAW voting as a rule counts for but little, but a result highIJ ly interesting to some expan-sion-never- take down the flag people, has been procured by the Farm and Home, an agricultural pa per of Boston. It sent out cards to its farmer subscribers during May and June asking their attitude on the independence or subjection of the Philippines. The replies received numbered 20,936, of which 12,530 were in favor of giving the Filipinos independence and withdrawing the army from the islands, and 8,416 were in favor of making them subjects of the United States. More than 50 per cent, of the farmers voting favor independence, than subjection. These votes come from every section of the United States, and the imperialists are in the minority everywhere. The report shows them to be more numerous in the central west than elsewhere, yet still in a small minority. The vote on the question of the annexation or independence of

SCROFULA

thin blood, weak lungs and paleness. You have them in hot weather as well as in cold.

SCOTT'S EMULSION cures them in summer as in winter. It is creamy looking and pleasant tasting. goc. and

$T JK

«1! druggists.

Cuba was even more decided. The vote said: Independence, 13,199 annexation, 7,362. In every section the majority stands in favor of keeping the nation's pledgee to Cuba and to the world as embodied in the declaration of war against Spain. Porto Rico is willing to be annexed and the vote was almost unanimous for it, but all desired it to be a territory and not a colony. The vote on the question, "Should the United States adhere to, or depart from, her traditional policy of non-interference with nations beyond either ocean?'' resulted in a vote of 15,524 to adhere to our old policy, and 3,887 to depart from it. This vote has a great deal of significance. The farmers are the bone and sinew of the land. They are against McKinley's policy. Thinking Republicans are against him, organized labor does not desire to come into competition with the coolie labor of the orient. If McKinleyism wins in 1900 it will win through boodle only, for the patriotic, true American people are opposed to it.

OR the meanest man in Indiana ,we have a township assessor in Miami county, who, when he started out on his rounds, took his trained bird dog with him. The dog ran about the premises and located the concealed and tied up dogs thereabout?, and as a result there are more dogs listed for taxation in his township than all the rest of the county. He found one man who had S15 worth of personal property, and had seven dogs of various breeds concealed about the place. Things are in a very bad state when an assessor is allowed to employ bird dogs as detectives to rob men of the pleasure of keeping a pack of holmds free of taxation. This idea would have lightened the labors of our distinguished colored assessor, Gabriel Drake, onehalf had it only dawned upon him.

Tils SATANIC'MAJESTY has carried on business for an exceedIX long time, and from present I indications is not likely to go into bankruptoy very soon, and doing it with everybody throwing stones at him, and some of the throwers have been giants, too. In this respect he is not unlike poor "Brick" Smith and "Pompy" Nolan. They do not seem to be paying much attention to the pop gun discharges which are made at them through the medium of a half dozen quires of wood pulp paper printed on anti-deluvian and much battered shoe pegs daubed over in an unartistic manner with a poor quality of printer's ink. Nolan repeats over to himself after each attack of tea box slang the old story of the lion and the skunk, while Smith only whistles softly to himself and says to his good right foot: "Be still, old toe, be still.' I wish the Democratic members of the council would get together and cure this case of rabies. It can be done. You know it can. With the proper use of means you can cause the Li Hung Chang of the opposition to take off his yellow jacket and peacock feather and be good. He is not grinding the "awgun" properly now. Cure the discord by greasing the wheels, and it will be well with you until the grease runs low again. In the interest of harmony, gentlemen, please grease the pesky thing.

WWARION COUNTY'S board of Ivl commissioners has estimated JLTI that it will take §22,661.45

I worth of stationery to run that county next year. The Sentinel estimates that $10,000 will pay the stationery bill for 1899, and it has some very stringent remarks to make about the unslakable thirst of the Marion county official for stationery. The Sentinal figures the average cost of stationery in that county for the past ten yeats at $12,000 per aunum. This year they want $22,661 45 worth a large difference surely, and the Sentinel thinks it can detect the scent of a large sized Ethiopian in the wood pile. Most likely if the thing was examined he would be found there, too. An estimate which gives twice and a litttle more than the average for the ten years past is certainly wrong, and the county council of Marion county should investigate. That's what it is for just to spoil schemes and stop jobbery. ...4

DANVILLE,there.saloon

easy" drug stores which now operate in that town, the majority of the people declare the saloon shall never come among them. They have the courage of their convictions at least. They, however, lack courage in one essential. They could smash the "blind tigers" which are operating there if they would go about it in dead earnest. But the truth is the drug store in politics in Hendricks county has the same sort of grip that the saloon has in some other places. It gets in its work in the same way there that the saloon does elsewhere, and is just as dangerous to the community. But men who have political aspirations are in the power of the drug store just the same, and it holds them. All the Danville people lack is the necessary backbone to rise up and go after the drug stores regardless of consequences, and clear the moral atmosphere which is reeking with the smell of the stuff which is sold without regard to law or decency. As things now stand Danville's drug stores are as disgraceful to her as a saloon would be. A stiffening of backbones over there is one of the things needful.

THE

ancient and delusive railroad free pass has been accused by the general public with almost every crime in the calendar, and the official who has one concealed about his person, be he constable, legislator or councilman, is looked upon with suspicion by every fellow who fails to have one and has to "cough up" the fare when he rides on the "covered cars." One man has been found and in Indiana, too, who has promptly returned to the railroads the passessent him, giving as a reason for so doing that he wants to be entirely free from all sense of obligation to any railroad, when called upon to sit in judgment where railroad interests are involved. This judge presides over the Pulaski county court. The custom of officials accepting passes is not a good one. The railroads call it by the high sounding name of "courtesy," but the railroad giving anything away expects value received, and if it fails it is disappointed. There is no good reason why railroads should carrv free a member of the city council or State legislature, or any official, and turn down a tramp. These fellows draw good salaries and are able to pay. Wrhen a railroad gives some fellow a hundred dollars worth of transportation, it has an object in it. It may sometimes be fooled, often is, in fact, but it generally hits the bull's eye. The Winamac judge has the right idea.

CRAFTY

our neighboring coun­

ty seat town, seems dpad set on not allowing a to take up its abode The people of Center township have had a hard time for the past few months, as they have had to remonstrate every month against some fellow who desired to turn his snakes loose in that community. The people of Danville are to be admired for their pluck in this matter. While it is an open question as to whether an open saloon would be better or worse than the "speak

old Louis XIV, King of

France, long casting greedy eyes upon the fair provines of Spain, when his grandson, Philip of Anjou ascended the Spanish throne cried in exultation. "There are no longer any Pyrenees." By this significant epigrans, he told the world that France and Spain were one, and he would in reality rule as supreme monarch. But Louis blundered fatally in forgetting that far greater barriers than the rugged Pyrenees separated the two nations,— the stream of blood that could not be mingled. History has written a far different story, and the dream of Louis dissolved in a dew of blood, a dream and nothing more. The Pyrenees still stand guarding the boundary between two nations. The race barrier was insurmountable, and Spain and France could not be made one.

The dream of world supremacy is not new. It was dreamed by the Persian and the somber Pharaohs by, Greek and Macedonian in turn by Carthaginian, and Rome's men of iron by Briton and by Celt and Gaul. In all lands and climes it has cast a spell of fascination potent as the Circean voice that lured Lucifer to choice of power or abed in hell. Ever has it ended in national disgrace and national disaster.

Are we in our day to dream it too? Has the Pacific been taken away by a victory in the Philippines? History proclaims in trumpet tones that peoples diverse in language and in blood cannot be bound together by one government in justice to each. The bounds set by nature may not be overleaped. A stream wider and deeper than the Pacific runs between the American and the Filipino.

Unity of thought and interest give birth to the only true national life, —one blood and one tongue, one code of laws, one country,—that is a nation. Such we are to-day, but we are standing at the critical point where all great nations of the past have stood. We have to choose between a concentration of national life and the glittering prize of conquest. May we see our danger and avoid the snare that has caused the downfall of many a

A Picnic

FOR

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THE

Clothing Buyers

This is picnic weather and we have determined to give our frieDds and patrons one continuous picnic of low prices and bargains from now until September 1. We do this for the purpose of closing out our entire line of Men's, Boys'and Cnildren's lothing so that we may begin the fall season with an absolutely new line of goods. It is impossible to give prices on everything in the store, but we quote below enough figures to show that this sale is going to be a money saver for the people of Montgomery county who are shrewd enough to take advantage of it.

Men's Suits.

Black Clay Worsted, not strictly all wool, well worth S5 $2.79 Unfinished Worsted,- all wool, worth $7 3.98 A full line of Cassimeres and

Worsted suits, small sizes only slightly smoked, worth 8, 10, 12 and S14 at 4.98 Blue Grand Army suits, regulation quality,, worth 57 3.98 Flannellette coats and vests, summer goods, ?2 quality 50 Blue linen broken plaid pants, 50c quality .29 Plain linen pants, 75c quality... .49 Plain linen pants, $1 quality.... ,69

Boys' Suits-

(16 to 21 years)

$5.00 Suits at $2.59 6.00 3.98 8.00 ci 4.98

Overcoats

For next winter at Summer prices. Overcoats worth fr-m $5 to 322, will be sold at from $2.79 to $10.98, and we expect to sell them, ton. You can easily afford to borrow money at a high rate of interest and invest it in one of these coats.

Children's Suits.

(Knee pants, 3 to 14 years.)

$1.00 Suits at

Nothing Charged In This Sale.

Our regular patrons know that we do exactly as we advertise. Those who are not so well acquainted with our methods Bhould briug this paper to the store and compare prices.

We Want Your Trade.

One Price Clothier and Hatter.

people in the past. We are making history to-day and surely tve shall find that wide and deep still runs a Pacific between the American and the Filipino. The record of the demon dream of power that has ended in rout and ruin well may "give us pause."

OVER

in Philadelphia the other day Nellis Martin was convicted of the high crime and misdemeanor of stealing fifteen cents. The court was so impressed with the heinousness of the offense and the necessity for meting out justice with an even hand, that he was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. After three years of hard labor he will doubtless be so impressed with the deep wickedness of his crime that he will be thoroughly reformed. He will never allow himself to be guilty of so insignificant a peccadillo again. Thieving is a bad business unless one can steal like a gentleman, and capture a lordly sum. Such may .wear the princely livery instead of the convicts' stripes. The punishment is too often in an inverse ratio to the crime. Such abortive acts of justice, tend to bring courts into contempt, and those bearing the Pennsylvania brand to be held in light esteem.

drummer cut his own throat when he whooped it up for McKinley, and got scared out of his wits at the free silver proposition. Hundreds of them are now off the road and are looking for workI find a disgusted Louisville drummer registering a kick as follows, in the New Orleans Times-Democrat: "Have you heard of th6 new automatic drummer? Well it's a great scheme. The trusts have made brains absolutely useless in the business, and when a merchant has to buy at one place or go without, an idiot can take his order just as well as a man of superior intelligence like myself. So to cut down expenses some genius has gotten up this automaton, made of papier mache, representing a drummer sitting on a trunk. The thing is about eight inches high and is sent to the retailers by express. When it arrives the man sets it on his desk touches a spring which releases a phonographic cylinder and the drum­

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1-50 l.io 2-f.O ltd 3.00 1.98 4.C0 o.C9 Limited number of knee pant worth 25c 09 50c knee pants at 29 75c koee pants at

39

Furnishing Goods.

Best overalls worth 50c 33 25 dozen Jersey ribbed balbriggan underwear, worth 75c .30 Best 4-ply linen collar, 15c kind 10 Celluloid collars, 15c kind... .5 Suspenders worth 20c 13 25c 10 Caps worth 25c and 50c.. 9,19, 39 Neckwear, an elegant line of 25, 35 and 50c values, your choice for 13

School Suits.

(Coat, Vest, Long Pants.) $2.50 Suits at J] .93 3.50 2.39 5 00 3.98

THIS SALE LASTS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1ST,

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mer begins to talk. 'Good day, sir, the following are our list prices, and the machine reels off the latest quotations of whatever trust it may happen to represent. At the other end of the trunk is a hole connecting with a receiver, and the merchant speaks his order into it. 'Thank you,' says the manikin. 'I will now tell you two comic stories and sing you a selection from the latest opera.' Then the automation is expressed to the house C. O. D. There the order record is taken out, afresh one put in and the machine sent to another customer. Its a wonderful device, and its advantages over a live drummer are too numerous to mention.

THE

morbid desire of would bo sports to witness something1 really bloody which finds expression in the Spanish bull fight, but in this civilized country ba3 to tickle the palate with the joys of ^he cock pit and the aesthetic hilarity of the prize ring, was treated to a very entertaining exhibition in Wayne township on Tuesday morning. The notorious Ellsworth Snyder, of Covington, thirsting for gore arranged a "mill" with an "innocent" named Hendrickson for a purse of $100. The fight was to have been pulled off neac the coal chutes in Fountain county, but the sheriff was strictly onto his duty, and drove the whole crowd oveC into Montgomery county. A howl-" ing mob of four hundred gathered in. a Wayne township school yard and. watched Snyder convert his opponent into a wreck of bones, blood and flesh. Three rounds sufficed to convert the ring into a veritable slaughter house, and the purse was turned over into the bloody hands of Snyder. It is said that many

good

people cania

out and stood gaping and gasping & horror at the spectacle, but neveff thought of summoning the sheriff* Strange fit of forgetfulness! Ana now not one of them can be found who witnessed the bull baiting. "Thef say" such is the case, and the rumof taking wings is spread abroad anft no man knows whence it. came not whither it goes, and down in Wayne township all is silence. It is a cas where silence is golden.

Yours Observantly. PETEB PoBOUPOfB/