Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 October 1899 — Page 4

The Review.

PETER PORCUPINE.

SEQUITURQUE PATREM HAUD

PASS1BUS /EQUIS.

The Grandson of His Grandfather

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

Nemo »f Imp une Laces sit."

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

The people came and stood about his corpse. •He treated the whole round'world as his football,' they said, 'and'Jie kicked it."

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

IN

the wreck of the Burgogne last year, 560 lives were lost when the sailors, bereft of reason in the moment of peril, gave way to their brutal impulses and beating back the helpless passengers from the boats, saved themselves^ A perfect storm of indignation was aroused by this exhibition of cowardice, and universal reprobation was visited not only upon the sailors but the French people. This sweeping condemnation was too hastily given, as now appears. From the wreck of the Scotsman, beating on the rocks of Change I&land comes a tale more horrible. The crew of the wrecked vessel gave way to all evil passions and systematically held up the passengers and robbed them. No manner of evil thing was avoided by some of the brutes iu human form. The French sailors were only craven cowards, they did not add piracy to their crime. The English sailors were not only cowards, but thieves as well, and thieves among whom was no honor. It is uujust and narrow to censure an entire people for the evil deeds of some individuals. A brute is a brute, regardless of his nationality, and it is no^v in order for the French and English to take a mantle, aud. walking backwards, as did the sons of Noah, cover their common shame.

EADING the speeches and books of Governor Roosevelt, one is naturally led from admiration to wonder. The brass used in the composition of the man would build a new Colossus of Rhodes to straddle the entrance of New York harbor: and we wonder if there is anything which the mind of man can conceive of daring deed, or wisdom that "Teddy" has not perpetrated. If there is anything yet which he has not done, which would add to his glory, as he sees glory, just let him lay claim to it and the American people will quietly let him walk off with it. Teddy is certainly the most cheeky chap that ever came down the pike, and we have not forgotten H. N. Motsinger, of Shoals, Ind., either, in this estimate.

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ANVILLE, ILLINOIS,

MAKING

the

Mecca of all tender fledglings from Indiana, who untangle themselves their mother's apron strings aud pull out *iuto the deep sea of matrimony, and in a little while come back to mother with a bundle in their arms, the occupant of which is hungry, and demands something for the inner man. Danville, as a Gretna Green, has a wide reputation. Her mode of marrying young fools in haste has caused various repentances at leisure in Indiana poor houses, divorce courts and so forth. In ordtr to keep up her reputation, in one line, she must drink the waters of Marah in another. In one day last week there were 23 divorce cases disposed of in one way and another in the circuit vourt in that city, and it wrs only the first divorce day of the term.. This is going it pretty strong. A radical reform is needed over there, in both marriage and divorce laws.

a newspaper is no small

job for an editor, though the uninitiated may think he has a very soft berth. Some mathe­

matically inclined individual has figured out that a rapid writer can write thirty words a minute. To do

this he must draw his pen the a space of 16$ feet, or one rod. In forty minutes his pen travels a furlong and in five and a half hours, a full mile. He makes on an average, sixteen curves or turns of the pen for each word written. Writingat the rate of thirty words per minute, he must make eight to each second in an hoar 28,000, iu five hours, 144,000, and in 300 days working only five' hours a day, he makes not less than 43,200,000 curves and turns of the pen. Yet there are some people who think it an easy matter to fill p, newspaper. Let them try it.

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keeps running through my head that a few years ago when the closets were put in the Central School building, that they were said to be the only thing. That if the School Board was looking for something sanitary, thedry closet was all that would fill the bill. They were recommended by the Board of Health, and put in at a large expense to the taxpayers. Now they have to be removed, on account of being unsatisfactory and unsanitary, and an extra expense of some $2,000 entailed, in addition to the rental of rooms for the schools for a month or two. The auestion of what is sanitary, and what is unsanitary is very doubtful indeedThese dry closets, they claim have permeated the entire building with deadly microbes, and even the floors have to be taken up and the joints washed with bichloride of murcury and given a dose of formaldehyde, that the microbes bred from the "only sanitary closet" may be annihilated. There is abroad smile iu the face of the taxpayer.

THEREoverworked.

area great many people

who believe that the microbe business in school houses is being How many closets in homes where these children eome from, are sanitary from the Board's point of view? How many strictly sanitary homes is there in Crawfordsville, for that matter? No one would object to tearing out the closets in the building: they should never have had a place there at all but why is it necessary to tear out good floors, wash joists and go through so much maneuvering? The children are at school a few hours they are at home IS hours out of tha 24. Would it not be well for the Boord of Health to see to the sanitation of the places where the children stay the most kill the microbes in the wells, cisterns, cellars, vaults, slop buckets and other things too numerous to mention about every home in this city? The population is never very materially decreased from pestilence bred in school houses. Dirt about private houses, filthy water in wells, breeds, typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever etc, and these diseases are carried to school.- Just how new floors, paint, lime, bichloride of mercury, formaldehyde vapor, will prevent the Dinglebury kids from taking scarlet fever, from the dirt about the house or water in the well is more than the average man can see. The high kicking any man would do were the Board of Health to compel him to lay new floors in his house to kill a few supposed nests of microbes would be astonishing, but the public pays for this, so be satisfied, everybody. Again I arise to remark, that while I am convinced of the deadly character of the microbe, yet I think the persecution of him by Boards of

Health is being carried too far, as they never catch him. If the average Board of Health had been sent out

You

need not lose flesh in summer if you use the proper means to prevent it. You think you can't take SCOTT'S EMULSION in hot weather, but you can take it and di- $ gest it as well in summer as in winter. It is not like the $ plain cod-liver oil, which is difficult to take at any time. $. If you are losing flesh, you are losing ground and you need

I Scott's Emulsion

and must have it to keep up yeur flesh and strength. If $ you have been taking it and prospering on it, don't fail to continue until you are thor $ oughly strong and well.

50c. and $1.00, all druggists.

SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.

to search for the Holy Grail they would have found it no doubt,—just as they fiud the microbe.

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WOULD not for one instant question the sincerity of Rev, Wallace Tharp in his discussion of the question ofthecoming millennium. I believe him to be sincere in his view. I have heard him accused of being a sensationalist. I deny that for him. I believe that he honestly thinks what he preaches. Neither is he a fanatic, nor a bigot, but a genial, wholesouled, live, wide awake man. He does not claim to be a prophet, but is basing what he says in regard to the millennium on Scriptural statements, and he arrives at his conclusions by logical deductions and the facts of history, together with the signs of the times. Mr. Tharp invited the public to study carefully his propositions, and to discuss them in the light of historic fact, Scripture statement and common sense, and he was willing that they stand or fall when tried by this evidence at the bar of individual judgment. This is fair. I will not say he is right, nor will I on the other hand say that he is wrong. I am confronted at the very start of the controversy with the statement of Christ himself, that of the time of his coming, the day or the hour, no man knows nor could tell that that was a secret locked in the breast of God himself. In tixing a definite time or even a period in which Christ shall come agaiu, there is mere speculation. Certain data and criteria we have to be sure, but we are warned not to tamper with those things which God has seen fit to hide from our eyes, and this is one of the things most deeply hidden. It is well to make the period a flexible one, for in the very nature of things we cannot know when it will come. That it will come, however, no man who believes the truths of the Bible, and in the Divine birth aud mission of Christ, will deny. The fact is proven beyond question by Scriptural assertion, and by that in the hearts of all men which says "these things shall pass away."

I IHAT difference can it make

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JlJI .arrive to-day or to-morrow or the day after? Whether it will come in 1915 or in a million years from now? The promise is alone to him who is ready: who has his liglit trimmed and burning. The world wil^have its evil and its good then as .now. The seats of the scornful will always be occupied. The antedeluvianslaughed at Noah Ahab and Jezebel laughed at Elijah the inhabitants, of Sodom and Gomorrah laughed at Lot's flight the people of Nineveh laughed at Jonah until awed by his earnestness. The scoffers at Jerusalem laughed at the woes of Jeremiah, and said: "Prophecy unto us smooth things." The dancing of Salome took off the head of John the Baptist, and the dwellers iu Nazareth drove Christ from among them. Such has been the fate of the prophet always. People are so constituted that they must see a thing before they will believe it. When the trumpet of the archangel shall echo over laud aud sea to awake the dead, then, and then only will some believe that Christ has come again. There was marriage and giving in marriage until the very hour Noah entered the ark, aud theu those Godless antedeluvians stood in water up to their chins and" called

Noah a fool. It always has been a dangerous thing for a man, no matter how high he had lifted the curtain and peered into the future, to tell what he saw revealed no matter how he had read the stars, to tell the story written there. I have seen noth ing out of the ordinary myself, which would lead Jme to believe that we were near the end, although we may be. To be sure there are commotions iu the world to-day, but these commotions have been doubly discounted in the past. From 400 to 600 A. D. we have the Goths, Huns and Vandals, led by Alaric and others like him destroying, pillaging and burning over all southern Europe. Then the formation of the Justinian code which exercised its unhallowed power for 1260 years, or to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and during which the whole world was in turmoil. Idolatry of a specious character reigned in the world from 780 to 960. Then until 1140 we had the darkest period of the dark ages,

are living to-day in the most peaceful epoch that the world has ever seen. Invention has made it dangerous to go to war. The spirit is nat dead, but fear of results has quelled it. There is no reason why Jehovah should desire to bring to an end a regime wherein He and his Christ, are being exalted far above all things else. The victories Christianity is gaining are certainly a sweet savor to the Almighty. Will he cut down the standard in the midst of battle? I certainly think not.

It AGAIN we are reminded by Dr. II Tharp of the famines and pes(H tilences which are sweeping over the earth. Yes, we have a famine threatened in India, and another in Egypt, but that is no new thing to these desert-bordered lands. Poor Ireland has been periodically famine cursed for centuries. We have had famine in our own land of plenty and promise when the hearts of all were stirred iu pity thousands have starved on the steppes of Russia for want of bread. Famines are old. Israel had one and the sous of Jacob went down to Egypt to buy corn. Famines come, have always come, and will still come. Pestilences are no' new thing. Far back in history we find them. When the quails were sent to the wandering Hebrews, pestilence came with them, as Kibroth-Hataahva testifies. The flies, lice, frogs, murrain, boils, locusts, hail, blood, aud the death of the first born came to ancient Egypt. The black death came, leprosy came, cholera sweeps over the Hindostauic peninsula every year. Yellow fever squats ou the banks of the Mississippi aud Arkansas rivers and the coast of Florida waiting for victims so the bubonic plague of India does not stand alone. That pestilence stalks.the earth is no sign of a speedy millenium.

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Aether the millennium will

friend may be entirely right in his conjectures on this matter, I will only say that I do not see it as he does. I do believe

that when the 2,000 year period shall end that we will see a change of some kind. I believe that the leaven is working which will gradually leaven the mass,and that there will be a general turning to the doctrines of Christianity all over the world. The great heart of the world is not cold. It only needs to be touched to give forth the electric spark, which will light eternity. We are not ready for the end. "Every knee must bow and every tongue utter praise." I do believe that the end of the'period will put an end to all sectarian strife that there will be no more warring of denominations, but unity underone Head of the church, which will be but the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah "Ami in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach." That will be millennium euough. I will not figure on the approaching eud for the reason that I believe the advice of the ancient painter to his critic is good "Ne sutor ultra crepidam."

WE

%when

men

and women were persecuted beyond all measure. During the period from 590 to 622 we h^d the rise of Mahomet and the spread of his religion over the east, spreading over southern and western Europe where Christians were massacred by the tens of thousands. Then we had the Crusades, the religious wars, commotions and conquests to which the world has been a stranger for hundreds of years. We

have taken it home. We have shown the Texan Rangers that we wasn't afraid of them, and carried back the old moth eat-

e:i flag of secession, and shook it in their faces and told them we didn't want it any longer. The thing is uow in possession of the Lone Star State. The dove of peace scared from her roosting place in the Transvaal and searching for some f-pot where she might rest the sole of her weary foot, has found it. Governor Mount, iu a burst of inspired eloquence, said to the Texans: "We come to plant the tree of peace by the rivers of water. We bridge the once bloody chasm with flowers of affection." That is nice. For several decades we have been waiting to see this tree of peace planted, and this bridge of affection builded, and are now happy in the Governor's assurance that the cap sheaf is on, and the business done. It was thought that when the blue and the gray mingled their tears above the form of the Silent Soldier, and vied in doi^ng honors at his grave that the breach had been healed. We thought again when the body of the great Captain of the Army of Northern Virginia was laid to rest, mourned by lovers of the brave, North and South alike, that the chasm had been closed. Again we thought that when thought that when the Yankee lad bore back across Mason and Dixon's line as his bride the fair daughter of Georgia or Louisiana, and the young men from those states bore to those states the fair haired daughters of the north, that the work was done, and that there was no power on earth which could pull a cradle in twain.

FALL ARRIVALS...

To be held at my farm, one-half mile southeast of Thorntown,

Thursday, Oct. 19

I will sell at the above named time and place, 26 male and 31 sow pigs also 15 head of yearlings, consisting of 4 boars and 11 sows.

-OF-

Suits, Liglit Overcoats, Furnishing Goods, Hats And Neckwear of the Latest Fad.

Come and See Us

We Can Please You.

We Want Your Trade,

One Price Clothier and Hatter!

Tenth Annuat Sale

OF

POLAND CHINA SWINE.

terest on approvod note. Eight por bout, off for cash.

We thought that when Lee and Wheeler sought the fields of El Caney, San Juan and Manila and commanded the armies of a united country that the"end has come, and that the tommahawk had been buried the swords of Grant and Lee had been beaten into the utensils of peace. We thought when President McKinley allowed the Confederate veteran to pin on his breast the badge of the defunct Lost Cauqp, that henceforth peace was an assured thing. But it was left for Governor Mount to fix the thing up solid, and build the bridge of flowers, across which the spirits of peace and good will may pass and repass with none to shoo them away. At last we have the assurance that we have kissed and made up that the raven of discord has hunted a new roosting place that the white-cowled Ku Klux Klan will no longer terrorize the carpet-bagger that the Solid South is a thing of the past that the bloody shirt has been carefully put away among the moth balls only to be displayed as the Green Shawl of Mahomet, when the Republican party desires to inaugurate a "holy war" on the "copperheads," "traitors" "Knights of the Golden Circle', and other mythical monsters which in the opinion of the average Republican makes up the Democratic party. The idol of the G. O. P. has been broken by the iconoclastic hand of our own Jimmy. What will Hanna aay? He had better look well to the

DAVID CROSE.

rivets of that glue pot. If one with a copper head should be found the thiii# is all off, and the chasm is liable to open at auy time. The Texans were no doubt dazzled and will see double for weeks an account of the glitter and pomp and circumstance of our James and his resplendent staff gold-laced, bullion-fringed, plumebedecked, belted, sworded, baldricked, epauletted staff—and the Governor, that swooped down like a sand storm on the Soudan, on the Texans. Fair ladies and stalwart knights from Hoosierdom traveling toward the setting sun, bearing back an old flag which the original owners say was never captured, but lost on the road and picked up by a scouting party, was a glimpse of oriental splendor to the sons of the victims of *the Alamo. As train sped over the plains the longhorned Texas steers switched their tails high in the air, giving a Chautauqua salute and bawled a welcome to bricklayers union coming to fix up the break in the wall. The herds of mustangs kicked up their heels in joy as the Governor and his cavalcade swept across the prairie bearing the glue pot, which is now historic. How cheaply it has all been done too. The legislature appropriated $250 to pay for the glue. It should have been done long ago. If the legislature had appropriated express charges on the flag, and sent a graphophone record of the Governors speech, to split with its fife like notes the ambient air, and a photograph of his splendiferous staff, it would have been cheaper, but we would have lacked the Governor's assurance that the bridge had been builded and the tree planted. To the average man it looks like the cheapest sort of sentiment, gush, buncombe and rot.

PBTBB POBOOPIWE, Jr.