Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 August 1899 — Page 4

The Review.

PETER PORCUPINE.

SEQUITURQUE PATREM

HAL'D

PASS1BUS /EQU1S.

The Grandson of His Grandfather

Finds the Old Han's Pen and

Polishes it Up.

f/w impnnc I,.iccssit.

"Owe tla-re lion I a man, a satirist ait/ in the natural course]"/ tiint his frh wis sit /r him uui he died.

Tin jit'jj'It came and stood about his corpse. 'll noted tin- cho1e} round world an hi* footballthey said, 'and he kicked it."

The dead man opmid\his eyes. '•But always toward the goal"I he said.—Schwartz.

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rON. S. E. NICHOLSON, the author of the nou enforced temperance law which bears his name, has joined the anti-saloon league and much to the disgust of his partj friends is making some speeches which are calculated to be harmful to some extent to the grand old party of Dudley and Hauna. His desire now is to mobilize the anti saloon element of both parties and thus hold the balance of power. This is one way he sees of being nominated for Governor by the Republican convention. He made a speech at Amboy not long since and invited the audience to put him through a "quiz" on the league question, and the invitation was accepted with the result that the discovery was made that Mr. Nicholson did not stand as pat as he might on this particular issue, but was out for anything that was likely to produce him a few votes. The truth, if it must be told, is that Mr.

Nicholson is a demagogue. He is a Republican first, last and all the time. He has the Governor's itch and has it bad, and to gain his point he makes fish out of everything which comes to his net, and with him the anti-saloon league is a side show to the big Republican circus.

RUNO KIRVES, a murderer, was electrocuted at the Ohio state prison last week. He had filled himself up with fighting whisky and chased the family away from home. He had done this thing frequently and had threatened to kill them. On this occasion his daughter •was the last to leave the house. He procured a shot guu at a saloon, and thus armed he drove the girl, aged 18, away. Just as she stepped from the .. front door he fired and the heavy charge tore her head from her shoulders. Just before he was placed in the death chair he said to someone 'present: "I will hunt Emma up in heaven, and tell her I did not mean to kill her." An apology like that will certainly be appreciated by the headless girl, if Bruno is ever allowed to make it. There is a deep mystery to me about the theology which opens the gates of the pearly city to such a fellow as this, and closes them to a man who has never harmed a living being of his own kind, nor would tread upon a worm on the earth, just bemuse he refused to accept some dogma, in which eternal life was supposed to lurk. "Why open the gates of Paradise to a man whose hands are dyed crimson with the blood of his own blood, and close them to a man who refused to believe the story of

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Jonah and the whale? Why open them wide to the blasphemous wretch who drunk and mad drove his family into the nightand storm at the muzzle of a shot gun, and close them to the man who loves, tends and educates his family, makes of them good citi'1 zens, and teaches them to live accordingto the theology of Jesus Christ, "Do unto all men as you would have them do unto you," and refuses to believe in the dogmas of church builders? I cannot make the character of the God of the Bible and of nature, incarnate love and nothing else. I believe he is incarnate justice as well.

I cannot find anywhere in that Boob that God is a petty tyrant, who will abuse his authority because of a failure in some little particular to keep the letter, no matter how we keep the spirit of the law. The theology of murderer Kirves is the popular theology, it. is true. But it is not the Bible sort it is not the the Christ sort it is not the common sense'sort. I do believe in the justice of God, and so believing I do not believe that murderer Kirves will for aeons have an opportunity to apologize to his murdered daughter. In fact I|believe in a hell for the future, just as I believe in a penitentiary, a jail and a gal-

lows' for the present. They are ugly but necessary things, and at no time in the future will come a time when God's justice shall fail.

N his account of the bloody and disgraceful mill between Snyder and Hemlrickson, which took place one night last week in a Wayne township school yard the astute editor of the Covington Republican saw lit to jab a javelin into Montgomery county and Sheriff Canine, as follows: "The fair name of Montgomery is trailed iu the dust and the bright record of Sheriff Canine lias upon it one more blot, as it is claimed he could easily have prevented the light had he taken the trouble to do so

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hastens to hide the disgrace of Fountain county by flinging mud at somebody else. The horde of rowdies was driven across the Montgomery line and then, it is said, the Sheriff of Fountain county became an interested spectator of the "show." Sheriff Canine "could easily have prevented the fight," and he would have done so had anyone of those good Fountain county citizens or Fountain county's sheriff "taken the trouble" to inform him that it was going on. Very few sheriffs are either omniscient or omnipresent, and unless previously informed of tne intent can scarcely be expected to prevent the commission of offenses against the law. It would appear from the facts in this case that the sheriff of Fountain having driven the offenders from his bailiwick, washed his hands of the affair and proceeded to enjoy the edifying and instructive spectacle iu his capacity of private citizen. There is no room whatever for the insinuations of the Republican.

ND when will good citizens rise up and put an end to these contests of human brutes? Only last week at San Francisco, Jim Franey was killed in the ring by Frank McConnell. Fourteen rounds were fought, and in the last, three blows iu the face were necessary to "quiet" Franey. Then he was "quiet," indeed. Simply murder in the name of sport! If the perpetrators of the crime were given a punishment commensurate with the offense, prizefighting would soon be relegated to a past reeking with barbarism long outgrown.

friend, Major Boatwright, has 7' hi

his unlucky days, just likeother foug" dians on the Plains, and Cannibals in the South Seas, and quered, but once in his life he ran up against the real old thing simplicity and gall, an unconquered and unconquerable combination, and he went down before it. Last Wednesday morning a man who signed the register "Rev. accompanied by his wife and four kids of various sizes, ar rived on the Vandaliafrom the north* and struck for the Major's hotel. They took possession of the parlor, and held it against all comers, while the Major licked his chops in anticipation of the fees for feed. When dinner was announced they informed him that they had theirs with them and proceeded to spread it out on the parlor chairs and sofas, much to the disgust of the Major, but the eye which never quailed before Sioux, Apache or Arappahoe in full war paint and full as ticks of government beef, went down before the mild blue eye of the preacher, and the broad smile of his better half, and while he wanted to swear he didn't. He was touched by the rural simplicity of the pair, and they stayed until evening, and when they were gone he sent a man in to gather up the chick.en bones and pie from the floor and rub the grease spots out of the carpet and upholstering. They departed without saying "much obliged," and the Major can only utter the one little expletive, "d—n."

NCE in a while we find some girls who are smart enough to take care of themselves. Notably the girls of Hoopeston, Illinois, are among this kind. They have organized a union and resolved to boycot every young freak of the masculine gender who smokes cigarettes. They refuse to keep company with them, and as to marrying one of them, they would as soon tie themselves to the

Is BabyThin

this summer? Then add a little SCOTT'S EMULSION to his milk three times a day.

It is astonishing how fast he will improve. If he nurses, let the mother take the Emulsion.

50c.-and alldranfets.

meanest Tagal of the Philippine Islands. The girls of Hoopeston may be web-footed and can wade prairie mud with the ease and grace of sand hill cranes, but the fact cannot be denied that iu this one thing they are showing sense, good, solid common sense. It is to be hoped that the Crawfordsville girls will adopt just such a constitution and by-laws, and see what they can do with the callow smokers of coffin nails and puffers of insanity, here.

HE new pension law, I understand, provides that one half of the pension money may be set aside for the support of the family, upon the application of the wiiu of the pensioner to a justice of the peace or other authorized court. In a great mauy instances this will be a godsend to wife and children but woefully rough on the saloon keeper, who has been in the habit of having the pension of the unfortunate soldier all "pinched" by the time he receives his check from the government. This law is the right thing. By means of its canteen, the government was the indirect means of teaching many a soldier the habit of drinking to excess. It now ought to proteet his family in the living the pension gives them. I know a great many instances where, if this law is invoked, it will work a blessing

ICKING out the props from under the administration on its imperialistic policy seems to be a favorite diversion with some of erstwhile leaders of the Republican party, here of late. Edward Atkinson was the chief dervish in the crowd which howled for the election of McKinley,and now he is turned down, and denied the use of the mails for his alleged "treasonable" pamphlets. I read in a Republican paper, published not a thousand miles from Crawfordsville, that "Old Edward Atkinson was a copperhead, as bad as any Indiana produced in I860.'' George F. Hoar is sentenced to be "shot at sunrise" because he holds opinions different from Mr. McKinley and the pro-trust crowd. H. U. Johnson is lost to sight under the abuse of the "carry-the-old flag-to-the-ends-of the-earth-and-plant-her-there-to-stay-at-any-price" crowd, who would like to "shoot him at sundown." and now ex-President Benjamin Harrison has declared that he is utterly and absolutely opposed to the policy of the

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President in the Philippines. Mr. Harrison is surely the chief of sinners to say such a thing. How dare he oppose a measure advocated, nursed and slept with by Emperor William I, of Canton, Ohio, and King of the Tagals. His offense is heinous and no punishment is too severe. The base ingratitude of Harrison causes the ultra patriotic of his party to shriek in the language of the mad Lear, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is." The young editor who has been the Robespierre, or punishment fixer for the "traitors" to the cause of imperialism, will have to revise his code and enlarge his torture chamber. Even his favorite prescription, "100 lashes on the bare back," will not reach the case of the ex-President. He is the "traitor" extraordinary. But all the same the brilliant Harrison knows his business thoroughly, and he will see to it that he is on the right side when the expansion bubble bursts.

OHN CALVIN'S ghost still walks the aisles aud pounds the pulpits of some churches, I discover.

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John Calvin was all right in his day. The world, perhaps, needed just such a man as he was, and God raised him up to fit the environment which he placed him. The religious world was mad when the old iron-handed theologian came to it, and out of the furnace of hate he took the material and forged five fetters for the human mind, and so strong are they that the spirit of Jesus Christ has wrestled with them for 390 years without getting rid of them entirely. In fact, it is only within the last five decades that any material progress has been made upon the manacles he placed on the hearts and brains of men. His doctrine may have been the best for his day and age, but it seems to me that it was good and wholesome at no time since the world began. At any rate it is badly out of date now, as the nineteenth century is about to give up the ghost. Last Sunday Dr. Torrence, pastor of the Central Presbyterian church at Terre Haute, gave his hearers the following joyful piece of information: "Why do not all men develop into citizens of the Kingdom of God and

Him of the perfect state? Simply because all men have not the germ of what the Bible calls eternal life. The germ of eternal life is the principle of regeneration planted in men by the

spirit of God. What is called in theological language "progressive sanctification," is this principle developing itself according to the nature and per feet holiness is its perfect development."

Isn't that a gem that sparkles bewilderiugly beautiful to the poor devil who has his eye on a star and is struggling to reach it j^There is not one atom of the Christ spirit iujthe above utterance. It is full of the intolerance of the author of of the "five points." It is the essence of bigotry. It is the echo of the prayer of "Holy Willie:"

Hut I.OIHI remember me an' miuN Wi" mercies temp'ral an' divine, at we for cear nu' grace may ahluo

Excelled by uane:

An' a' the glory ahull be tliiuo, Ameu! Ameu:''

This wont do. God' never sends "ain to heaven and ten to hell a' for his glorv." Dr. Torreuce is not preaching in the dark ages to ignorant men, but to an intelligent, open-eyed, wide-awake, up-to-date congregation) not a single one of whom believes any such doctrine as he preached to them last Sunday. He has to believe it in order to preach, but he ought to take that cheerful, joy-crea-ting doctrine of foreordinatiou, particularfedemption,and total depravity, and preach it to some savage race which knows no better. It wont do among an educated people, a Bible reading and progressive people. Such ideas as this make the church nonevangelical and will at last be its death. Look up and forward not down and backward.

LETTER was delivered here a f«rw days ago which, by an oversight of the sender, was misdirected. It was addressed to Editor Weekly, Crawfordsville, Ind.," and was opened as a circular. It contained a hectograph copy of a Washington Letter, and a lot of Democratic editorials, real shaqi, snappy affairs, pungent pointed paragraphs, evidently written by a bright man. The hectograph letter accompanying the same, indicates that some poor, weary editor, without brains, in order to fill a want long felt, had made an advertising contract with a publisher through which the man with brains was to furnish the man without brains with editorials for his paper. I have no use for cut and dried editorials, but probably "Editor Weekly" has. My sympathy goes out to him, groping in darkness, and wondering in heaven's name what he'll do next. I cannot imagine how the sender could have made such an egregious and inexcusable blunder as to send his simultaneous, back-action, double reversible, indestructible, patent adjustable editorials to Crawfordsville. Everybody knows that every star in the

Crawfordsville journalistic galaxy, and editorial sunWrst, shines by its own inherent luminosity. Far be it from them to palm off patent editorials on their trusting readers. They have fixed, rock-ribbed, and immovable opinions and they are not afraid to express them. It is greatly regretted that the letter with its precious freight of tongue lubricant, pen ointment, heart's ease, and idea propagator, should have gone astray. It has been returned to the postoffice with the sincere hope that it may reach its proper destination, and bring relief to one honest, throbing heart. I shall watch with interest to see whether I may recognize some of those editorials in some exchange, perhaps from far, faraway. ,-v.

HE Ladoga Leader slightly irritated by what it chooses to construe into an insinuation that it does not circulate over the greater portion of the United States, essays the difficult task of being "wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in a moment." By a "next" friend, it offers to lay a wager as to its circulation. Hoot, mon! dinna be sae rash! Ye maun confess o'er muckle a puir body hae been swindled.

ARLINGTON, in a spasm of righteous indignation, had all her saloon keepers fined, the other day, for violatons of the liquor law. They also thought, and correctly, no doubt, that there was too much promiscuous swearing going on in the town, and concluded to add additional pressure on Ira Stout, fco they made an example of him, and had him fined for swearing. Stout paid it, and in a card to the Echo he calls at" tention to the fact that there are others who are guilty, who are as well known as he, but who are not disturbed, and never will be, in their use of profanity. He says he is "loath to admit" his fault, and is ashamed of it, but objects to being made a scapegoat for all tbe sins of Darlington. He concludes his letter with the following: "I am sure there are many good people in Darlington, but there are not a few like the Pharisee of old, who thanked God that he was 'not as oth-

er men or even as this poor publican, and the only difference between us is, they pray and I swear, but neither of us mean anything by it." ™I do not know how it is in Darlington, but in many other places I do. I knew a man once who swore great oaths, and a moment afterwards would deny that he had used them. The habit had become so fixed that he used profanity unconsciously. I am of the opinion that a few good healthy fines would have served to breali his habit off short though it was never tried. Mr. Stout will not be so likely to spout off profanity when he is satisfied that it will cost him $10.40 a spout, as when he could use it freely, aud was not molested. Hereafter he will "mean" it, perhaps, when he lets go his mouth. On the other hand, I have heard a man make along prayer, asking to be made clean and to be made able to do the will of the Lord more perfectly, thank the Almighty for his grace in saving such a wretch, who was so lost, but now on the way to the pure and stainless regions of everlasting bliss, and then go out and do the meanest sort of a trick, possibly break three or four commandments at one fell swoop. I saw a man once get up before a congregation on Sunday morning and proceed to expel an old man from the body, who was alleged to have committed a breach of the seventh commandment, and with eyes rolling and a sanctified smile upon his lips, he thanked God that the church was purified by this act that the holy place had been purged, and no unclean thing had an abiding place there, when at the same time he was reeking with]J[corruptiou, most vile, and which afterward caused his summary ejection from the same congregation. They meant no more by their prayers than Stout alleges he did by his profanity. The law, however, can reach the profane man, and it ought to be used. The moral sense of the community ought to reach the hypocrite. If it does not, the community is in a bad way. The civil law can get Stout, but he will have to wait a long time, perhaps, to see justice done the other fellow who "don't mean anything by it." The law is at this end of the road to chastise the violator of it, while the devil with his

A Picnic

FOR

IS HAIR TURNING GRAY?

What does your mirror say? Does it tell you of some little streaks of gray? Are you pleased? Do your friends of the same age show this loss of power also?

Just remember that gray hair never becomes darker without help, while dark hair

will bring back to your hatr the color of youth. It never fails. It is just as sure as that heat melts snow, or that water quenches fire.

It cleanses the scalp also and prevents the formation of dandruff. It feeds and nourishes the bulbs of the hair making them produce a luxuriant growth. It stops the hair from falling out and gives a fine soft finish to the hair as well.

We hare a book on tbe Hair and Scalp which you may obtain Irae upon request.

If you do not obtain all the benefits you expected fnm (ho use of the Vliior, write tbe Doctor about It.

Clothing Buyers

This is picnic, weather and we have determined to give our friends and patrons one continuous picnic of low prices and bargains from now until September 1. We do this for the purpose of closing oyt our eutiro line of Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing so that we may begin tbe full season with an absolutely new line of goods. It is impossible to give prices on everything in tbe 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 So 82.79 Unfinished Worsted, all wool, worth $7 3.98 A full lioe 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 S7 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, II quality 69

Boys' Suits-

(16 to 21 years)

$5.00 Suits at ..$2.59 6.00 3.98 8.00 4.98

Overcoats

For next winter at Summer prices. Overcoats worth frim $5 to $22, will be sold at from $2.79 to 810.98, and" we expect to sell them, to.i. You can easily afford to borrow money at a high rate of interest and invest it in one of these coats.

Address, DR. J. C. AVER,

pitchfork and barrel of sizzling tar, is waiting for the hypocrite at the other end of the lane.

Yours Observantly. PETER PORCUPINE, JR.

Children's Suits.

(Knee pants, 3 to 14 years.)

$1.00 Su'ts at S .79 1.50 1.19 2.50 1.79 3.00 1.9S 4.C0 2.C9 Limited number of knee pant worth 25c 09 50c knee parts at 29 75c koee pants at 39

Furnishing Goods.

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

School Suits.

THIS SALE LASTS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1ST,

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 should bring this paper to the store and compare prices.

We Want Your Trade.

One Price Clothier and Hatter.

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^Ooat, Vest, Long Pants.) $2.50 Suits at $1.98 3.50- 2.39 5 00 3.98