Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 September 1899 — Page 4

The Review. PETER PORCUPINE.

SEQUITURQUE PATREM

HAUD

PASSIBUS /CQUIS.

The Orandson of His Grandfather

Finds the Old nan's Pen and

Polishes it Up.

Arcmi me Impunc Luce ait."

*'Once tltf-re Heed a man, a satirist and in tin natural course of time hU friend* siw him and he did.

The people came and stood a to tit his coiyse. 'He treated the whole round world as his football,' they raid, 'and'Jie kick­

The dead man opened his ys. But always toward the goal" he mid.—Schwartz.

CENSORSHIP

of the press by Gen.

Weyler, while Governor General of Cuba, was one of the things most bitterly complained of by our people just before the outbreak of hostilities with Spain. Our own government, it would seem, has been taking lessons from him whom we so earnestly denounced as "Butcher

Wevler," and Gen. Otis has been performing his duties in this line with more gratifying success than in putting down the Philippine insurrection. In this he seems to be ably seconded by the War Department. The honesty and sincerity of the administration may be questioned when it will mutilate dispatches sent from the seat of war to cover a failure. Gen. Otis sent a cablegram to the department as follows: ''Volunteers unwilling to re-enlist, but willing to remain till transports arrive." This despatch was mutilated and given to the press reading this way: "Volunteers willing to remain ." Congressman Lentz, of Ohio, has been examining the official records and discovered this and other things. This looks too Spanish to suit the average

American.

WOMEN'S

She neglected her children and her church. She ought never to have been married. She had 110 appreciation of home but longed to lie a "new woman." Instead of becoming a woman of any sort she was a complete failure. I believe in the culture of woman, I believe injher advance, and God forbid that I shoul throw a straw in her way, but IJhave discovered that the club is the poorest school in the world for anvjreal woman. Anything which takes the time and energy of either man or woman from where it of right belongs is a fraud and delusion. If the average woman will attend to the job God put her to doing, she will have her hands full.

ONE

church has been^ found whose managers refused 5 to sacrifice sentiment for cold cagh. It is owned by the Danish Methodists of Evanston, 111. They were going to build anew house and the old one

W'

CLUBS maybe great

things on paper .aid in theory. They may .be jut the thing for women who have no homes

to attend to nor children to look after. I have talked to a good many men whose wives are club fiends and they each and all express 1 very devout wish that the clubs might be sunk in the bottom of the sea. I know one poor fellow vho has a club fiend for a wife. She belongs to the Chatauqua club, to the Century club, to the Missionary Society, and to the church, all meeting ouce a week, and the last time I saw her she was making desperate endeavors to break into the Daughters of the Revolution. But .. the page in the herd book had been lost and she couldn't make it. So she was tearfully consoling herself hoping that as her hueband was a Mason and a K. of P.. sometime she could be a full fledged Pythian Sister and an Eastern Star. This woman had two children and they hardly ever got to see her in daylight. Her husband bought the meals at a restaurant and carri-fd them home to feed the deserted nestlings, noon and evening, and patched his clothes and thought.

was sold to a man named Leiber, who. Jji tie diversion, or a little extra

after the sale was made, annouced he would playfully threaten to kill that he would move it to the river 'her until she complied with his wishes, front, remodel it and use it for a sa- Finally he rose up in his wrath and

the right sort of ring to it. Somehow,

I have always believed your professions and no issues.

HEN, on Labor Day, the "slide for life" man fell from his wire, the majority of the crowd that saw him fall laughed. They simply thought that was an unauthorized part of the performance. That a man could turn a summersault thirty feet in the air aud land in the hard street without injuring himself, did not seem very wonderful. In this age marvels are no longer marvellous. This one little incident shows at what a swift pace we are traveling. A wonder is no longer entitled to nine days of celebrity, but must be extraordinary, indeed, to be accorded its passing moment. If some fortunate individual should discover the secret of aerial navigation aud take wings and fly, we should not pause to gape in astonishment for a moment, but would jbeg to cast about for a pair of pinions for ourselves, and in a few weeks would all be living as a matter of course. It has been often said that the American people are living under a greater pressure than any people in the world, aud it looks that way.

The board and congregation left her, because she re usei ur and declared that that house aish him money to

loon. arose hallowed by the presence of Francis E. Willard, and others like her, should never be used for such purpose, and refused to ratify the contract. Other bids were made, but the people were afraid, so they decided to keep the house, tear it down, and sell the salv- ing stone for an indefinite period, age. This seems to me to have about!

til

EKRE HAUTE has one woman resident who knows how to deal with a lazy husband. This delectable gentleman toiled not and considered spinning'way beneath his dignity. His wife took in wash ing and therefore lie felt asindiflerent as the proverbial hog on ice, or a man who had a sure thing in a government job. When he felt that he needed

How To Gain Flesh

Persons have been known

gain a

pound

he is

in sticking to dodging of

HIS is what we are proposing to do. Capture the Philippines conquer its people start up a system of colonies make our flag tell a lie make ourselves believe we are Christians, all for the sake of trade. For the sake of trade the first thing we propose to do is to kill off a few hundred thousand Malays. In this work we will be aiding our infant industries to get on their feet that is our powder mills. It will keep our lead and copper mines in full blast already the price of copper has advanced 50 per cent, in the open market. We are thus extending trade. We are also getting rid of a couple of hundred thousand of our own people—our "common people"—of whom we have an over production. We will acquire sugar, banana and pineapple plantations, orange, lemon and fig orchards, gieat fields of Manila hemp, all of which can only be operated by capitalists, aud with black labor, but we will do it what a terrible cost!

This is the policy of the present administration. It was also the policy of Caesar, and Napoleon. The verdict of the world and of God on such business has been writ in blood. I can see no difference in our own proposition and that of Napoleon. He had Moscow and Elba, Waterloo and St. Helena, as a tyrant's reward. It is well for us American people to '•hasten slowly."

0'

mo"ey

attend a comiuer

thoroughly

no

is

a

day

by taking

an ounce of SCOTT'S EMULSION. It is strange, but it often happens.

Somehow the ounce produces the pound it seems to start the digestive machinery going properly, so that the patient is able to digest dhd absorb his ordinary food, which he could not do before, and that is the way the gain is made.

A certain amount of flesh is necessary for health if you have not got it you can get it by taking

ftcotrs FmMsien

You will find it just as useful in summer as In winter, and if you are thriving upon it don't stop because the weather !s warn 50c. and $x.oo, all druggists.

SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yori

cial school. After repeated threats to and his action set the match to the powkill her she concluded that the place der train already laved. From a particularly appropriate for his resi- Kansas raider he became an inspiradence was the jail, and accordingly had him there landed. If some system can be di: vised to keep him cracktin-

made over and

S taught the value and dignity of labor,

his wife will have done more for him and the public than all his lifetime before has accomplished. The method is recommended to all wives who have similar problems confronting them. Try the jail before some fool carries his threat into execution. A good and true wife will not allow a face framed in grey locks aud worthless husband to either work her

into an untimely grave nor to send her tomb at the point of a shot gun. Send him to jail, rather.

HIO is filled to overflowing with the eloquence of the friends of gold, expansion and trusts. The

Republican doctrine dispensers from everywhere are making Ohio their Mecca. Indiana has sent two spellbinders to do their part. She should have sent more, but Beveridge is tongue-tied, Haggard is looking out for himself, so is Hanley, and we can ouly spare Governor Mount aud Charlie Laudis. The former will take to the woods and beat the bushes for fanner votes, while the latter with his specially prepared civil service ixicteria destroyer will work among the spoilsmen, urging them to rally 'round the "barl"' or everything is gone.

LAGS are

I?

longer worthy of rev­

erence and respect when they 110 longer are m.aue sacred by that which they represent. Its form aud color, its stripes and stars, so long as they represent liberty wherever they are displayed, are things to be loved aud respected, guarded and died for. but when they are made to represent militarism and tyranny, they are unworthy of reverence. Mr. McKinley should learu these things before he attempts to wave the flag of freedom over the heads of a people who want liberty, aud back it up with the military. Such doings are not written in the bask laws of republics.

FTER years of official corruption which it seemed impossible to end, the people of Tippecanoe county welcomed the county reform law, as a light in the wilderness. The county council cut the commissions' estimate down over -520,000. The estimate of the county surveyor was for $3, 245, and it allowed him nothing. The coroner estimated that it would take $3,88fi,10 to run his office next yaar, the council thought $647,68 was about the correct amount. They cut off just S3.239 from the amount he hoped to get. He will probably resign, as he cannot keep up his present style of living 011 that amount. Neither will he hold inquests on persons who die quietly in bed with a reputable physician in attendance aud charge S40. for it, as he is accused of doing in the past. He is a man to feel sorry for. It is very sad indeed to let go a snap because one has to do it. They raised the estimate of the sheriff $-'500, and cut the clerk's SI,500. the recorder SI,000. The law was inado to use and the Tippecaupe council used it. At last reports none of the officers had resigned, though there were fears expressed that the coroner and surveyor might do so. No Republican of Tippecanoe county however was ever known to resign an office, and such rumors are possibly false alarms.

E bodies of seven of the men who took part in the John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry and were executed for treason at Charlestown, Virginia, in 1859, were reburied at North Elba, New York, a few weeks ago, by the side of their chief. Time has mellowed much of the antagonism engendered by the raid of the greyhaired Kansan, and men are inclined now to look upon another phase of his character. When we attempt to pass judgement on Brown by any. system of logic, we must apply to his death the words spoken by David of Abner. Alone he led his little band of men to battle against the State government of Virginia, and the penalty was his life and the lives of his bellows. The logical conclusion is, John Brown was insane. He was a man of many schemes. But all of them centered about the deliberate sacrifice of himself and death devoted band, which would kindle civil war and end human slavery. Freedom was his religion, and he became a martyr. The fanatical old chief surrounded by his now silent, but once desperate men, sleeps the last sleep.

Tim» has rusted the manacles of the hair told htm that he was makffiig a slave and broken is the slave driver's fool of himself by so much talk, and whip, but it has also placed the he is going to the other extreme to' wreath of forgiveness on the grave of bring forth alike result. I have heard the old raider. He would not try to escape, but deliberately chose death,

tion. Had he escaped to Canada history would have recorded in blackest letters that he was a traitor aud worthy of death but he died, and a few years later, t(X),0()0 soldiers as they marched through the southland chanted his name in their battle hymns. The picture he presents to the world to day is not the bloodyhanded raider with white hair and beard floating upon the wind attacking the gates of a guarded arsenal, but it sees the old man. his kindly beard, stooping as he ascended the gallows stairs to kiss the little negro child in the arms of its slave mother. Only this and nothing more. Let us thank the Almighty for time, which allows onlv that which is holy to continue, but whose fires buru hate to ashes.

EN ERA], LAWTON has been interviewed, aud what he has to sav should be read and pondered well by every American. We can have confidence iu Gen. Lawton, and what he says needs no comment. Here it is: "What we want is to stop this war. It is time for diplomacy, time for mutual understandings. At Bacoor bridge they waited till the Americans brought their caunou within thirtynine yards of their trenches. Such men have the right to be heard. All they want is a little justice. I established a civil government at Belinag. with the government entirely iu the hands of the natives. It worked to perfection. All these people need for self-government is the protection of our troops till affairs have quieted, aud they will, I have no doubt, advance as rapidly as the Japanese, perhaps more rapidly. I am well impressed with the Filipinos."

PEAKING of what it will cost us to occupy the Philippines, in such a way that we can call them ours, we can say that there are some fellows living iu America whose voices are raised at all times in high notes for war for the honor of the flag trade: for the administration policy, etc., whom it will cost nothing. I mean the yawping editors of a certain class of partisan newspapers. I clip the following from one of them: "When the anti-expansionists legan the policy of presenting difficulties as an argument for withdrawing from the Philippines, they simply broke ground for their own graves. Difficulty aud danger are what Young America feeds and thrives upon, ana eagerly courts.

This editor is about the right age to be a good soldier. He is strong, hearty, a good feeder, and all that, but "difficulty and danger" are not the sort of fodder he feeds 011. they are not what he "courts as evidenced by the fact that he has not shouldered his musket loug ago and marched away to help put down Aguiualdo and his nigger contingent. Like Arteuias Ward he is willing to urge everyone of his wife's relations to go. and the relations of everybody else, and give them his favorite prescription of "100 lashes 011 the bare back" if they refuse, but it is more to his taste to write flapdoodle patriotic editorials by an electric light. The martial music of war does not charm him like the rag-time music of the street band. Fire crackers are more to his taste than the crack of the Krag Jorgeuseu or Mauser, for he stands a chance to live and fight some other day. An able bodied man who believes as heartily in expansion and war, should not hesitate aud wait for some oue else to go and get killed. Johnny should get his gun, and hie himself away to the seat of trouble, and come back a Major General or a pensioner. I don't believe in wars of canquest, and I am not going until sent for and urged to go by authority. I'll fight, but never to conquer a people whose crime is desiring to be free. I hope tosee myeditoiial friend either shut up, or enlist.

W

R. BEVERIDGE, the talkative young Senator from Indiana, is now so silent that one, by listening closely when near him, can hear his mighty brain at work, forging thunderbolts which will shake the earth and perhaps a few stars when congress meets. He has been to the Philippines. He has been on the '"fiahing line" and has seen actual "wah." He left us with his mouth going like a whirligig, and dropping from his tongue platitudes and generalities, as honey drops from a broken comb, but now he comes home wrapin silence so peculiar that it is awful. The young man who was so full of noise is as silent as a graveyard at midnight. It cannot be that sombody

a story of a very talkative boy whose father sen# him to town instructing him to be careful and not talk too much to keep still aud people would not know he was a fool. The

A

1K

did

as he was biudeir, and to all questions he maintained a atolid silence. One man asked: "What is your uarne. sou?"

No reply. "Where do you live?" No reply. "What did you couie to town for?" No reply. "That boy must be a fool," said the man to a bystauder, and significantly tapped his head.

At that the boy broke into a run aud never stopped until he reached home aud the presence of his father, when he roared out: "Pap, Pap, they found it out, and I never said ad- word."

Mr. Beveridge is making fully as big a fool of himself by his silence now, as did by his noise a few mouths ago. Oh, if Pap McKinley would only pull the string and let the young man loose! What he saw must have been dreadful to awe him into silence, and the world waits anxiously for Mr. Beverage to enlighteu it. At present McKinley and himself hold it all. This may be only a shrewd way to get advertising. If he should tell what he knows it would ouly be a nine day's wonder, when by keeping it to himself he can extend the time into weeks. He wants to keep in the papers.

PROPOSto the Christian' Science agitation comes Dr. Nehemiah Nickersou, of Meridan. Conn, and declares that he believes that a person suffering from an incurable disease, who desires to die, should be assisted iu his wish by the attending physician. He thinks it is inhuman not to do so. He then cites the case of a woman dyiug of consumption who requested him to assist her to die. and he did so by the administration of chloroform another dying of heart trouble who requested him to end her sufferings was treated in a similar manner. He continues, and declares that duriug the war he frequently administered chloroform when there was 110 hope for recovery, aud thought he was doing the humane thing. "'More than that," he'says, "I believe that if a person has no'obligatious, is tired of this life and wants to see the one beyond,he has the perfect right to end his life." This gives a fellow a perfectly clear track to consult a Christian Science leader, or a poison bottle, whichever is the handiest. The doctor is evidently a Roman in theory, and believes iu the survival of the fittest. The theory is a good one when we apply it to live stock, but most people have some qualms of conscience about using it on the human familv.

FRIEND of mine came into the office the other day aud we drifted into a conversation 011 the

Philippine question aud he made this remark: "Any spot of ground anywhere on earth that costs one single drop of American blood is too costly for us to own." Under the present circumstauces this is the truth. With our millions of acres of unfilled lands here at home: with our mines of gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, zinc, and coal, ourquarries of granite, limestone, onyx and marble, all undeveloped, our rivers unuavigable because of choked channels, our harbors undefended and undredged, the needed public buildings all over the country, we will have our hands full for the next hundred years without going into a never ending war with the Malay race iu order to give speculators a chance to prey 011 the resourses of the natives under the shadow of the flag. If we owned every Island in the South Pacific we would be worse off for it. They would afford no open door for the poor man of the temperate zone. He could'nt live there, and black, yellow and brown coolie labor will as a matter of course come into competition with him under the protection of his own flag. It is a distorted greed which sees trade follow a flag under such circumstances as it is following ours in the Philippines. American mothers are burying their boys over there, and over their graves capital will build sugar factories, where coolie labor can compete with free American labor at home. It is an outrage. Tet such is Csesarism. This is the way tyranical governments are built up. This is the way the life blood of Republics is let out. It is the legitimate fruits of a nation with a big N. Are the islands of the Philippine archepelago worth one good American citizen? Are they worth one single mother's tears? Are we to

Put Your Finger on Yovpnise

You feel the blood rushine along.

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But what kind of blood? That is the question. Is it pure blood or impure blood?

If the blood is impure then you are weak and languid your appetite is poor and your digestion is weak. You cannot sleep well and the morning finds you unprepared for the work of the day. Your cheeks are pale and your complexion is sallow. You are troubled with pimples, boils, or some eruption of the skin. Wby not purify your blood

will do it. Taks it a few day3 and then put your finger on your pulse again. You can feel the difference. It is stronger and your circulation better. Send for our book on Impure Blood.

If you are bilious, take Ayer's Pills. They greatly aid the Sarsaparilla, They cure constipation also.

Wrlto to our Doctor*. Write thera freely all tbo partlcalari 1 In your case. \ou will receive a prompt reply, -without cost.

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Address, DR. J. C. AVER. Lowell, Uus.

measure patriotism by greed? Are we to substitu dollar marks for the stars on the

CAPTAINflagFrenchten

DREYFUS has been

fouud guilty of treasou a se'eond time by a military court and sentenced to years penal servitude. This verdict is the monumental crime of the century. The men who condemned Joan of Arc to the flames were angels compared with the court which condemned Dreyfus. That was in the age of darkness aud superstition: this in the light of nineteenth century enlightenment. Dreyfus was innocent, the world knows it, France knows it. but the army was placed above justice. His accusers high in the councils of France aud the head of the army, by their own confessions as witnesses, are such characters as call forth White Caps and lynchers iu America. They are moral criminals according to their own stories, aud the conviction of Dryfus is a greater crime than any which disgraced the old regime under Louis XV. Dreyfus was not on trial at Renues. He was only an incident, and was a vicarious sacrifice for the army. The army has been the bane of France for centuries and will at last be her death. "Oh! ulinmc to theo. land of the Gaul,

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Oh! shame ti) thy children and Ihee, Unwiso iu thy glory, aud base iu thy fail, Now wretched thy portion shall !.-! Dm isiou shall strike thee forlorn,

A mockery that never shall dl e, Aud the curses of luito and the liissesof aciira Shall burden the winds of thy sky. While loud o'er thy ruins forerer arehurloJ The laughter of triumph, the Jeers of the world."

Yours Observantly, PETER PORCUPINE, JR.

Tlie Kink Barn.

Taylor Thompson aud Mort Beck* ner have opened up a first class burn at the old rink, on North Green street. They make a specialty of boarding and caring for stock left in their care, and rigs left with them are safe and will be looked after. George Russell and William Hardacre, both with long time experience, have been secured by the firm. W. H. Hardacre has had fifteen years experience in barns aud is a good and competent man for any part of the work required. Mr. Russell has had twenty years experience in the same line, and in addition has made a specialty of teaching, breaking and training horses. He is a very competent man in his line. H® has made a specialty of breaking and training family horses, makiug them safe for women and children to handle and drive on the streets. He will continue to do this sort of work for the firm at the barn, and horses left there to be trained will be

graduated

in his school to your satisfaction. Give us a call. We will treat you right.

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