Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 October 1899 — Page 4
The Review.
PETER PORCUPINE.
SEQUITURQUE PATREM HAUD
PASS1BUS /EQUIS.
The Grandson of his Grandfather
Finds the Old flan's Pen and Polishes it Up.
me Impunt Laces sit.
"Once there iced a man, a satirist and in the natural vourse\of time his friends slew him and he died. 'Mj
The people came and stood about his corpse. 'He treated th- whole round world us his football' they said, 'and'Jie (ekit
The dead mail opened his eyes. "But always toward the goal" he said.—Schwartz.
T^HE wav in which Oom Paul or:»J dered .John Bull to keep off the South African grasspateh is truly refreshing. It probably took •John's breath away for the time being.
The nerve of the Dutchman is simply astonishing, but he will now need it all to carry him through.
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FUNSTON has reached
home and is now the great man in Kansas. Unless he has opportunity to achieve new honors it will not be many months until people who now honor him will be asking who is, when his name is mentioned. Such is the fickleness of a republic's love for its heroes. If he would be remembered beyond the proverbial nine days he must carve his name wide and deep.
EX-SPEAKERout
ceal the fact that he resigned because he is of harmony with the expansion views of the administration. It would then have been more courageous and patriotic to remain in public life and use his utmost efforts to prevent the adoption of a revolutionary and destructive policy. It is neither brave nor patriotic to abandon the ship of state when one believes it is driving upon the rocks. Mr. Reed is open to severe censure upon this ground.
THE
attention of JosephB. Foraker of Ohio, is respectfully called to the fact that southern battle flags are being returned to their owners by their northern captors. It is time for more lurid literature on the subject of those sacred symbols of northern valor. The festive Joseph was a perfect fountain of verbal fire-works when it came to putting down Grover Cleveland's suggestion that the flags be returned. It seems now, however, that we have discovered that it is best to forgive, and that friendship is better than hatred.
returning captured flags, attending Detective conventions, crushing trusts, wiping out white cappers, visiting agricultural exhibits and keeping a weather eye on the political situation in several states. Governor Mount is a busy man these
days.
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number of men who have in recent times broken the bonds of their creeds is startling and instructive.
IFIndiauapolis,
half that is told in regard to corruption practiced by all parties in the recent municipal campaign in is true, it is indeed time for a sweeping reform. But it would be well for the would-be re formers to remember that true reform does not mean the mere substitution of one I corrupt man for another, or fighting corruption by means of corruption.
The devil may sometimes be successfully combatted by means of fire, but the individual applying the fire brand is very liable to suffer from burned fingers. The fire and brimstone method seems to have been the one exclusively employed, and the injured are now nursing their wounds and bewailing the wickedness of the opposition. No such method need exist. If the people choose to adopt others they could never be effective in carrying elections. If good citizenship is not iu the majority, then is the republic doomed, and we are in a sorry state, indeed. Why does the majority suffer corruption of the ballot? The reason is not appareut.
IT
zealous individuals who
would have the President offer mediation between British and Boer would do well to remember that good seldom comes frotn thrusting one's proboscis into the affairs of others. Many people have grown rich minding their own business.
is healthful to note that as the crisis approached, war's grim visage wore a more repulsive aspect to the English than to the Boers. While the former have not a doubt of the issue, and the latter are staking their national life oif the game, yet the hesitation was on the side of the English. A decided feeling of reluctance to engage in hostilities un. less as a last resort, pervades all the most civilized nations. The better sentiment is always against war. so long as other honorable means remain untried. It is a hideous relic of barbarism that, in this nineteenth century, has grown to be a monster of most frightful mien. When surrounded by all the mitigating circumstances which science can devise aud Christian sentiment may furnish, it is still a thing born of the pit, and foetered in its sulphurous flames. It is a destroyer more dreadful than famine, more terrible than pestilence, a veritable scourge of God. Happy the people whose annals written in blood are brief.
THE
REED OES
not con
has resigned from
the priesthood of the Episcopal because of the admission of Dr. Briggs thereto. He pictures a rather dark future for that denomination, and says many other clergymen would leave it if they could, but "the hard struggle for self, blunts the moral sense, inducing mental inaction and spiritual asphyxia." Rather severe reflections upon his fellow clergymenjfrom which it might not be far amiss to draw the conclusion that Dr. Briggs as a heretic is now in excellent company. If some philanthropistjwould found a refuge for heretics who have been discovered, he ought be a benefactor to a very large number'ofjhis^race. The
specter of the empire again haunts the Frenchman's dreams. Like Banquo's ghost it will not down, but ever returns in its issue to claim the throne. The ghost can never'be laid until the French people become something more than republican merely in name. So long as it is dominated by a rotten military system, France will be threatened by the royal specter that comes to seize the fallen scepter.
WHEN
he was a candidate they called him Napoleon. His public speeches now indicate that it was not a misnomer in
one sense at least. He has ths desire of a Napoleon if he does lack the ability of one. During his vote hunting, swing-arouud-the-circle our president has forgotten that old back-num-ber known as the Declaration of Independence, and poses as an emperor. He seems to forget that the American people love liberty themselves, and are not disposed to take it away from others. He jeeringly remarked the other day up in Wisconsin, "We've expanded, now who is going to contract?" William McKinley is of caliber too small for a king, but his swelling has made him too expansive for a president. With the Emperor
William he will soon be saying "ME
Consumption
is robbed of its terrors by CP the fact that the best medical authorities state that it is a curable disease and one of the happy things about it is, that its victims rarely ever lose hope.
You know there are all sorts of S secret nostrums advertised to cure $ consumption. Some make absurd & claims. We only say that if taken in time and the laws of health are fproperly observed,
SCOTT'S I EMULSION $
will heal the inflammation of the throat and lungs and nourish and strengthen the body so that it can 0 throw off the disease. (I We have thousands of testimonials where people claim they have been permanently cured or this malady. ft
50c. and $i.no, alt druggists.
I SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. A
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and God." As King of Bulgaria he would be all right as chief of a tribe of Tartars his ideas would answer the purpose, but in this couutry they will not, and the people will take him down in 1900 from his topioftical roosting place.
UP.in
at Goshen, a small boy in the public schools when asked to define perpetual motion went at it this way: "Rags makes paper, paper makes money, money makes bankers make loans, loans make poverty, poverty makes rags, rags makes paper, paper makes money, money, money makes bankers," «!cc. Here is certainly perpetual motion for the definition can be run on and on to the millenium, and the same results will be produced. That boy is a philosopher.
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EV. Z. SWEENEY, the vigilant watcher over the fortunes of the minnows and sun fish, mud cats and water dogs which abide in the streams of Indiana, is also going to try to stock the woods with pheasants. He has bargained for 100 pairs of Chinese pheasants. These birds will be placed in 50 counties of the State, during the month of October. They were purchased from a fancier at Cincinnati. They will be sent in pairs in wire cages to men who will promise to care for them and their broods. The eggs will be hatched uuder a common domestic hen, and when the little ones are able to hustle they will be turned loose in the woods to become the prey of the fellow with the shot gun. These birds are hardy as our quail, and some larger than the American pheasant, which has been almost anhilated for years, only an occasional one being seen of late. It is to be hoped that laws will be passed which will successfully protect these birds from the ravages of destructive sportsmen until they become numerous. Mr. Sweeney's effort should be encouraged by the farmers, who should also encourage the sportsmen to well-doing by applying the game laws to them vigorously.
THE
season of the hero of the gridiron is now upon us—the man with the chrysanthemum hair, the split lips and the hoarse-col-lege yell, the skinned nose, the bloodyi bruised and blackened eye, the gashed cheek and forehead, the sprained ankle, dislocated shoulder and broken finger, the fractured knee, the disjointed elbow and caved ribs, the bursted blood vessel, the mangled muscle and the cracked cranium, the earless, eyeless, irresponsible idiot of the foot ball field, with the odor of arnica and the air of a hero, bandaged in court plaster, arrayed in the trappings of a two minute trotter, and a green sweater, he goes up and down the land from Dan to Beersheba plying his disfiguriog trade, to conquer,, or be conquered, to kill or be killed. If he escapes from the maiming, mangling, merciless melee alive, some day he may become a useful citizen or an object of charity. Let us begin with the charity now and be kiud and forgive him his folly, in the hope that he may sometime be older and know more. In the meantime let us say, "Behold our young barbarians all at play.
R-EPORTS
coming from the British-
Boer war would indicate from the number of Boers the British were slaughtering it would only be a few days until there would not be a Dutchman left in South Africa. They slaughter the poor Dutch by the hundred—according to the press report—while the British have no losses, and only a few wounded. These things sound very much like some of the reports which come to us from the Philippines. One day Otis has driven the insurgents from a town with frightful slaughter, several hundred killed American losses, none killed, several slightly wounded. In twenty-four hours the town is again occupied by the thrifty Filipinos courting death by the way of Otis' typewriter. Otis is gaining more battles and slaughtering more men with his typewriter than Weyler ever did in Cuba, and from his own figures he slaughtered more men while he was Governor General than had lived on the Island in half a century. England is surely using pointers gained from Otis and Weyler, the two greatest paper fighters in history, and is trying to whistle to keep her courage up, as she knows the world remembers Majuba Hill. The Boers are the best marksmen in the world, save the American frontiersman, and while England was butchering so many of them, a few British would certainly fall with them. When we read these great slaughter stories we must remember that England's press censor is located with his blue pencil at Cape Town, and that England controls the cable. .4
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UT in Missouri in the heart of the Ozark mountains lives one Skinch Painter, who is now 70 years of age, and wheu a boy of ten made a solemn vow that he never would work. He had a theology of his own and declared that he believed the world owed a living to everyone brought iuto it, and set about to prove the truth of his proposition. For sixty years he ha9 never done a lick of work aud has lived. He has hunted, fished and fiddled his way so far through life. The Chicago Record has discovered this man and parades him before its readers as a curiosity. If the discoverer will come to Crawfordsville we can show him a few fellows who toil not, neither spin, yet who eat aud dress and all that, equal to the average citizen. They have never taken any oaths not to work, yet made it a point never to do so, even when necessity chases them the hardest. The world has no use for such creatures. There is a sort of sentiment which says give them buriai when they die because they bear the human form, but useless in life. If fertilizing material could be made of their carcassses wheu they pass off the stage, they might be made to do a little something for human kind iu mauuring a bean patch. This may be wicked, but it is the way every man who works feels toward these lazy "cusses" if he would tell what he feels.
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AGAIN
Crawfordsville is to be
stormed by the perepatetic evangelist, as it has beeu done often before. "What will the harvest be?-' Harvests of this sort are never very productive of solid grain. It is reaped with great haste and iu the midst of great excitement, bound iuto bundles under the glare of electric lights, aud thrown at the various pastors of the city churches untaught, aud told that at the feet of another Gamaliel they must learn the way of salvation. Strange it has not been taught by the evangelist. What is the trouble? The pastors of Crawfordsville are all men far above the average in intelligence: well-educated, polished men, who have made the Bible a study all their lives: men who are quick to see the necessities of the hour and to grasp opportunity. They are men who can eloquently and pathetically tell the story of the cross and impress duty on the hearts of men as well as any set of men on earth. I consider Crawfordsville especially blessed in the men who now occupy her pulpits. Are they failures? Do their congregations look upon their ability and labors lightly, and think that the crop for which these tireless workers for God have sown the seed can only be reaped by other hands? I would not lay a straw in the way of the success of the coming revival meetings, but I would like to know just a few things. Why is it that congregations of people withhold their support and enthusiasm and zeal from their regular pastors and pour it out in unstinted measure on an occasion like a union revival? Why is it that souls are not just as dear to them all the time as they seem to be on the occasion of the evangelist's bienuial visit?
Does it take a strange preacher and siuger to awake the fires of Christian love in the breasts of those who claim to follow the Nazarine? Why do not altar fires blaze just as brightly the mouth after the big revival as they do during its continuance? Would not the same amount of energy. zeal, earnestness, time, prayer, enthusiasm, song and mohey. judiciously distributed and given in aid of the hard-worked pastor, all the time, bring forth fruits of better grain, than expended in from two to six wreks of high pressure? These are questions which bother me, and I wish they would bother others. But the way of the revival enthusiast is inscrutable, and I have given up trying to diagnose the case. I hope the coming meeting may be productive of great results and those which will not be ephemeral, but lasting.
HEabsquatulated.
has gone and left us, that valiant old Indian fighter and long bow shooter. He has silently
He has folded
his tent like the Arab and stole quietly hence, and his creditors are gnashing their teeth in rage. He was slow pay everybody knew, but they thought he was safe because he smiled so sweetly and talked so low. His voice was keyed to just the right sort of pitch to deceive the ear and to warm the cockles of the heart. "I am sorry," Major Boatwright would say to the man with the little bill for groceries, beef, vegetables, or printing, "but you have caught me without a cent. I assure you it hurts me worse not to be able to pay this, now, than it dees you not to get it. I'll
Vermont Frieze, worth $5 00 for Black and blue beavers well worth $6 00 for Heavy Chinchillas, in blue worth $6 00 for Extra heavy beaver, in blue and bla^k, worth ST 00 for.. Fine Covert eioth, made up in extra wide facing,satin bound fancy check black, sells every whece for SS 00 for Kersey beaxer in black, blue, and brown, satin bound,good value at $10 00 for Raw edged English Kersey. worth $12 00 for Extra tine English Kersey, elegantly tailored, worth $14 00 for r. Fine Kersey beaver in blue and black, wide faciog,satin yoke and sleeves, worth $15 00 for Extra fine quality Kt-rsev Beaver, equal to finest merchaot tailored garment, worth 820 .for ...
The people of Crawfordsville, Montgomery County and surrounding counties will be interested in learning that Mr. Edward Warner has decided to go out of the Cloihing business. They will be vitally interested because it will effect their poeketbooks—because, before retiring, Mr. Warner intends to conduct the
Ever known in the history of Crawfordsville. A $35,000 stock of the finest
Clothing, Hats, Caps, Gents' Furnishings, Etc.,
"Will positively be placed on the altar of low prices and sacrificed at absolute cost. Everything goes—counters, fixtures, etc.
HERE AREA FEW OF THE PRICES:
Overcoats.
3.50
4.00
5.00
5.00
700
8.00
10 00
1-2.00
15.00
have .some money Thursday and will pay you sure." and one could almost see the tears start from the corners of his eagle eyes, so sad he appeared at being unable to pay. He would sing this song over and over until cur collector, who had a little bill of three dollars, had learned it so well that he chanted it at church instead of the hymn—our collector goes to church. The Major had the same song and the same injured tone, the same tear duct was opened for every one of the stream of collectors which visited him daih\ and they all believed implicitly in what he told them, but Now he has gone, that good old man We ne'er shall see him more. The accounts will be due and payable on the day of judgment. We'll all be there on Nov. 2G, 191,r, and will see that he fixes these matters up or is turned out into the goat pasture.^
HE death of Mrs. Elma C. Whitehead takes from earth forever I the last actor in one 6f the most -noted of Indiana tragedies. The widow of a Methodist minister, she became the self-confessed paramour of another minister, her pastor, and this led to a tragedy which is one of the most awful in the history of Indiana crime. Mrs. Petit, wife of Mrs. Whitehead's paramour, died of strychniue poisoning. Petit and Mrs. Whitehead were indicted for the murder. The case against the woman was dismissed in order that Petit might be tried first. Before she could be re-arrested she disappeared as completely as though the ground bad swallowed her up. Petit was tried in the Crawfordsville court and sentenced to the state prison for life. There he died after serving about two years of his sentence, and a day after a new trial had been granted. Guilty or not guilty of being accessory to the murder of Mrs. Petit, this woman has borne the shame and ignomy which attached. She fell from her high position as society and church leader through the power of lust, and the remainder of her days following the awful tragedy were spent apart from friends and associates. Their
Underwear.
A large lot of odds and ends wall worth 50c at 25 Regular 50c Camel's Hair at .25 Best fleced lined 16-lbgoods in blue and natural at .40 Balbriggats in blue and brown, worth 75c, ut 45 Sheard' all wool health underwear. $1 25, at 80 very best Australian wool in blue, tan and natural,
SI 50 goods, at 100
Men's Suits.
Men's Union, GO per cent. wool suits, uheapat $5,go at S 2.50 Men's blue and black cheviots and clay worsted patterns, well worth $6, at.. 3,00 Regular all wool cassimeres
Darville and South Beud woolen mill goode, worth $S to $10, at 5,00 Wendel's celebrates cassimeres, all wool, elfgantly made and trimmed, worth
SO, $12 and $14, at 7.00
We "Want Your Trade.
One Price Clothier and Hatter."
story is a sealed book. How much she repented will only be known when tifne unveils eternity. She has gone to a higher bar than earth affords. If innocent she has suffered as a martyr if guilty, no one can picture the shadows which enfolded her. The hand of God has been laid ttpon her now. and may we not hope that the flames of these years have burned lust to ashes, aud purified and made clean. We are not her judges now, and silence is golden in the presence of her new made grave.
TTITR- DILKS, superintendent of the Natural Gas Company, tells us JL" I 'deed an' double, 'cross his heart, honor bright, not a lyin', that gas will be sent iu such quantities to Crawfordsville this winter that we will think we are in the tropics. He admits that the wells in the Sheridan fields are gone, but the company has some of the best ever drilled in the El wood fields, and that they have now ready for work five engines, of 125 horse power each, to pump the gas towards this city. The committee appointed by the council went Thursday to feast their eyes oti these big pumps, and to look at the wells, and when they come back we will know how it is for sure that is, we will know if we knew that the committee knew any more about gas wells than a Hottentot does about an ice cream freezer. They can run hotels, colleges, and banks all right, but as experts on gas wells they will be lost. We will believe their report, but won't sell the wood and coal we'vo layed in store.
Yours Observantly,' PETER PORCUPINE, JR.
The Ladies Aid Societyjof the Elmdale M. E. church willjgive a church fair and supper on Saturday afternoon and evening, Oct. 21st, at the same time and place thejchurch quilt and furniture of the old|house will be sold. No admission. 2t
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