Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 October 1899 — Page 5

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A FAIR PROPOSITION.

Made by an "Interested Citizen" on

the School Question.

answer to the request priuted in tliQ communication below

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ED. REVIEW.

EDITOR REVIEW:

It occurred to me that the charges made through the correspondents of the

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against the County Super

intendent should not remain unanswered. Tho good of the schools and the rights of the public, both demand that the truth or falsity of these charges be made known. The law intends that the county superintendent shall be leader, director and overseer or the schoolsvof his eoiiuy. This is the reason he is given so much power. Teachers, particularly young teachers, are apt to accept the superintendent as their model, fiis excelencies and defects will, alike, be reproduced in the school room. For this reason if the superintendent is incompetent the public has the right to know it. If he is competent it is but simple justice to Mr. Walkup that the fact be known. The manuscripts he made while teaching must still be in existence. A movement is now on foot to have them published if the

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would permit the use of its columns and the manuscripts can be obtained. At least publish the last one. The questions from which the manuscript was made can be obtained easily, as they are invariably published by the educational papers of the state. Almost all teachers have copies on file. Also, answers to these questions can be had from the same source, giving the opinions of the prominent educators of the State.

While it is charged that Mr. Walkup's English is extremely faulty, and though it is a patent fact to all educated people that he is unable to use good language, yet this may be the result of long continued carelessness. He may not be so devoid of a knowl edge of grammar as his language seems to indicate. It is aTso charged in many quarters against Mr. Walkup a. that he habitually uses profane lan-

guage and repeats vulgar stories unbecoming a gentleman. I do not speak from personal knowledge, but I do plead for a spirit of fairness which will not condemn without a hearing. It is even said that he closed his institute with prayer, leading himself, and swore at one of the teachers, in his office, a few minutes afterward. Is it possible that this is true? If untrue, and I hope it is, the one who started it should be run down. If true, the superintendent should be deposed at once, if he is a Dr. Jeykell and Mr.' Hyde. It is further charged that he used his first term of office insure his

School teachers whose bread and butter depends upon a license can not be expected to take the lead, but the public owes it to itself that the facts should be knowu.

AN INTERESTED CITIZEN.

Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 2, 1899.

PICTURESQUE MANILA.

Cstainconfessional

THE

will say that it knows of no

better way of determining the qualification of county Superintendent Walkup for the position he holds than to settle it the way our correspondent suggests. This will be fair to both accusers and accused. We are informed that the manuscripts in question are the property of ex-superiu-tendent Zuck, and a committee of teachers has been appointed to wait upon him and get his consent to its publication. If he consents to let them have the manuscript it will be published verbatim et literatum, and everybody can then know whether the charges of incompetency so freely made are true. Bring on your manuscript.—

Paul

beacriptlve Blta From a St. Man's Letters Home. These letters, as they trickle in froa the Philippines, ate giving an idea, gradually clearer, of the life and conditions of the American soldiers in the Pacific islands. The following extract* are from letters to his family at Fort Snelling, Minn., by G. A. Conrtrifht, chief clerk to Captain Jones, quartermaster of the poet. One describes a visit to the cathedral. "It is the finest church I ever saw and one of the largest. It has magnifloent oil paintings and statues of real gold, some with precious gems. In th« one I visited there are several domes, me nearly as high as the one at Washington. But, after all, what do you •Uppose the church is used for? Barmoks for the Spanish. One had his bed

front of the altar, another slept and their blankets,

•re spread all around the edifice. Guardi are placed at all the valuable paintingi and images. In one church there is an Image of Jesus valued at $176,000 in our money. It is abont three feet higli. The display of gilt, gold and silver fur•l«hings is very rich and costly. "While I was waiting for a shower to pass I watched some native childr playing. One boy had on a derby ha' I

don't knero where he got It, but I do know that that was everything he had on. Another little boy was dressed just (n a coat, but they were as happy as anybody and played jast like the boys and you and Ruthie. In our yard here we have several cocoanut trees, two olive trees, one quite large banyan and several others that we do not EM at home. Flowers are in profusion, eoaw of the finest orchids, rare liliee, ferns as tall as the top of our porch at hom&, but none so sweet to me as our rose ot the old fashioned pink. The animals they have for heavy loads are the but* faloes you have seen in the menageries as rare and wonderful beasts. They ace generally fat and sleek. The musk oxen plow the ricefields and draw the carts. I have 40 come every morning. "I huve two large warehouses and a paved court full of stores, and it 10 come and .go all the time, everything from a steam engine to a tack. I have five storekeepers, six teamsters and 40 laborers and do the clerical work for the whole boodle myself. 1 dou't think 1 oould get home on the 6 o'clock car b? a long shot.

GLEANINGS.

Four Chinese laundrymon in PhlladeK phia are frequently seen riding a quad ruplet.

A man walking day and night without resting would take 438 days to journey round the world.

Of Shakespeare's famous characters It to said that Hamlet speaks 1,589 lines, Iago 1,067, Othello 850 and Lear 770

Tho income of the prinoipal charitable Institutions having their headquarters 1b London amounts to over £7,000,000 per annum.

There are quite 100 roads of one kind and anothor over the Pyrenees between I Franoe and Spain, but only three of theae are passable lor carriagos.

re-election, giving out licenses to those who had political power, without reference to their litness, even go-1 ing so far as to grant licenses to aplicants to teach subjects they had never even studied. He also stands charged with using his present term of office to punish his enemies, who worked against his reelection. He is said to have boasted that he now had them on their knees. Let these matters be investigated and the truth be known.

The Christians in Korea display whlta banners in front of their homes on Sunday in ordor to impress the paprans with the solemnity of tho Lord's day.

Vienna telephone girls are required to change their dresses and wear a uniform when on duty, as the dirt they brought in from tho streets affected the instruments Their costume is a dark skirt and wais^ with sleeves i»t-iped black and yellow, the Austrian national colors.

In X81A a British warship on Lake Erie fired a sho:' which failed to explode. It was troasured as a rello in Ashtabula for fears, Liut accidentally It got into a pile of •crap iron dkMvered to the Pheniz Iron Works foundry and performed its functions so well hat the furnace doors wen blown to smithereens.

By order of the Berlin Barbers, Hairdressers and Wigutakers' union,apprenttMi are forbidden to wear their hair cut short, because tha practice is unprofessional. The union decided that "the apprentices' hair should bo tastefully and carefully dressed in order to act as inspiration fw the business and for customers.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

It doesn't hurt a nickel when the stred ear conductor knocks it down A woman with a low, sweet voice always wears low hat at the (heater.

The good measures of the vegetable dealer should always come out on top.

OASTORXA. Bears the Signature

We are living in a house formerJj

occupied by the commander of theopan isli barracks. We have two carriages to take us back and forth. It is near .'he bead of the botanical gardens, once called the finest in the world, but now ii ruins. There are still 6ome very yretty palms left and flowers without number. Bread is 20 cents a loaf, eggs 10 cents a dozen, fresh beef 25 cents a poun'i If it was not for the commissary, we would faro poorly. I have got so I iion't care for ice would ratlior drin.^ I he filtered water without it, anil know that it is bettor lor UE."—St Paul Pioneer Press.

A Coincidence.

"So that young limn wain* tu marrj you?" said Mabel's father. "Yes," was tho reply. "Do you know how much his salary is?' "No. But it's-- an awfully strange o» Incidouce.1 "What do you moan?*' 'Herbert askod me tho very same question about you"—Tit-Bits.

V. Blanco'i Soliloquy.

Blanco ^sitting holt upright tn bed)— I cannot sleep-^ The air is he«vy and my breath comes thlok. Grim specter.i haunt the curtained room N roost Upon my bed and glvo to me the laugh. I know them not, and yet I muchly fear 0»* is tiapphira with her ancient spouse, Waile trooping in their rear do swiftly com* The liars famed In days that are no mora. Me thinks they batckon as thoy bid me com*. Why should I tremble at these lying spookai Our fleet Ilea low In far Manila bay. Our fleet Ilea low beside the Cuban strand— A ad I lie hew—

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What was that

Kethinks it called- me with a rude heehawl Again, ye gods, and yet, and yet, again)

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Tea, yea, I octne—heehaw, I come, I eomal (Falla in a dull stupor. A cannon from the eastle. In a neighboring roan WpewatUr aliaka on.) —OereUsd Plain Dealer.

The Kind You Have Always Bought

Public Sale.

The undersigned will sell at public auction and outcry at his place, four miles south of W^aynetown, on the Perrysville road, and four miles west of Yyuntsville, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. on Thursday, October 19, 1899, the following property towit: Five head of good work mules, 60 head breeding ewes, all bred to good bucks 20 head of stock hogs, two brood sows with young pigs, 60 head of good feeding steers, one and two years old and all in good shape. Any one desring good feeding cattle should not miss this sale, as they are first-class two milk cows pith young calves, 1 two horse wagon, 1 spring wagon good as new, two mowers, hay ladder and hay loader, two riding breakiug plows, two corn cultivators, and other fanning utensils, about 10 tons of good timothy hay, in barn, lot of household and kitchen furniture, with other things too numerous to mention.

N. B.—This sale will be a bona fide one, as

am going out of the business

of fanning and stock raising. TERMS:—A credit of

months will

be given on all sums over $5, purchaser giving his note with approved freehold security, waiving valuation and I appraisement laws. A discount of 6 per cent, on all cash payments on day

of sale. Sale will begin promptly. ANDREW W. HERRON. TI.DE HAMILTON,

Auctioneer.

NOTICE OF

Construction ot Bridges

Notice Is hereby Riven that tho board of commissioners u! Montgomery county have caused to be prepared ana placed on (lie iu tho office ot the auditor of Montgomery count? iu tho court house in the city of Crawfordsville, Indiana, complete and detailed plans'and speoilloii.tions Including full and complete drawings with strain and dimension sheets for an iron bridge at ea :h of tho following places in Montgomery county. Indiana, viz:

Ouosteol britlge 20x18 foet, about :{mressouth (if Crawfordsville, Indiana, over Offleld Creek, on Torre Haute road.

One steel bridge 30 feot span Iu section 33, township 17, north rango, 8 west, stone abutments.

Tho board of commissioners of Montpomory county hereby advertise and ask for a aled proposals lor each of said bridges separately to be filed in the office of said Audltoi lu tho court house ia the city of Crawfordsville, Indiana, en or before 9 o'clock a. m. of Saturday, Oct. 14, 1899. Said bridges are to be fully constructed and completed according to said plans, (spoclBcations and drawings on or beforo January 1, 1900, or the time stated In the proposal, not later than that date.

The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids for each and every one or all of said bridgos and to select either an iron or concrete arched bridge for the site over Oflleld Creek.

Each bridge shall be constructed and all the wot and material therefor shall be done ai.d furnished under the supervision of James A. Llarrilng, the county surveyor.

It is hereby ordered that this notice shall be publlsaed twice In tho Crawfordsville Journal and the Crawfordsville RBVIBW.

By order of the Board of Commissioners of Montgomery county, Indiana. WIMiIAMM. WHITE,

Auditor Montgomery County.

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BEAUTIFUL S O E

Is the remaik every one makes when they see The Big Store's new home. We are thankful for all sush expressions and we pledge ourselves to mrke it as complete and as efficient for the public good as it is beautiful. We hope you will all give us a chance to prove it. We are now ready for business in all deportments.

THE BIG STORE

Louis Bischof,

127-129}East MainlSt. Crawfordsville, Indiana-'

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