Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 December 1899 — Page 1

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watches, silverware and clocks our stock is unequaled.

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Are the designs in jewt'lry shown in our superb htock of laee pins, pendauts, necklaces, ear screws and drops, finger rings and bracelets. We have the finest stock of rare jewels, gold and silver diamond diamond jewelry that has ever been seen .in Crawfordsville in articles of personal adornment. In

M. C. KLINE.

Jeweler and Optician. Opp. Court House.

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A FEW LEFT

I have a few Buggies and Surries left after my "Clearance Sale" last Saturday. I do not want to carry anj buggies over, and will make very low prices to close them out within the next thirty days. Dou't miss this opportunity as you will pay more in the spring.

Remember we have a fine line of Plush aud Fur Robes aud Horse Blankets.

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The most complete Harness and Buggy Store in Montgomery rounty. Remember that

"Fisher's Harness are Good Harness. Eisher's Buggies are G-ood Buggies.

JOE E. FISHER

SEASONABLE NOW

Felt Boots

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Hubber Goods.

And we are Leaders in these lines.

Ed. Vim (a nip & Co.

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Broken Lot ©ale

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Regardless of Cost is Still Going on at the

STAR SHOE HOUSE

"A FAIR FACE CANNOT ATONE FOR AN UNTIDY HOUSE." TRY

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Pertinently Ask the Montgomery

County Teachers of Them-

"selves.

ROM the Lafayette Sunday Times we take the following pertinent review of the resolutions passed by the Montgomery County Teachers' Association. We do not feel like apologizing for the publication of a good thing, even though it be a little lengthy. It should be read and pondered by every teacher and school patron in the county: "That the public school system of the state is not giving value received for the money expended on it is only too apparent. It is not turning out educated people. It is not thorough in the work done, or attempted to be done. It is attempting too much, and the result is that it is accomplishing nothing, except to deceive the pupils entrusted to it. It has become the rule that everything must be done according to rule, the child must take up certain studies at a certain age, without regard to whether he is ready for them or not. It is well knpwn that children do not all mature at the same rate—some are longer about it than are others, and the system drops them into certain classes without regard to mental or physical development, many before they are ready, they cannot grasp the subject, become disgusted, and are forever spoiled as students. Perhaps they would take readily to the same subject if it were not placed before them before they were ready for it. The common school course now covers nearly every branch taught in the colleges ._and universities, and with the limited time allowed each, the immature minds of the pupils, the result that they learn of the existence of such subjects, but all other ideas concerning them are confused and indistinct. A few years ago it was thought advisable to hold exercises and graduate the pupils from the common schools, thus encouraging them to work for the honor. It was a sad mistake. The next thing was that pupils were recommended for graduation by teachers who wanted to stand well with the parents, trustees desired the same, superintendents wished the support of the trustees, and the children were "graduated" without regard to qualifications or fitness. It was necessary on the part of teachers, trustees and superintendents or lose their jobs. One well known aud successful teacher in Tippecanoe county last year refused to be a party to this farce, and this year is out of a job. The pupil who receives the "diploma" is luined, and looks upon himself as the intellectual equal of the alumnus of Yale or Harvard, for has he not "graduated?" Why, only a few days ago, a gentleman overheard a conversation in which great stress was placed upon the fact that some little school girls who had "graduated" from the common schools last spring and who are now attending a graded school in their township, are now studying Latin, aud one of the speakers insisted that they have made such progress as to be able to 'talk Latin.' Shades of Cicero aDd Horace! That these children, after a few weeks study, should hold conversations in the language of the Caesars. How easily are we deceived, and how we love to deceive ourselves. The whole system is a farce it does the pupil an absolute injury. It results only in a bad case of cranial inflation, and makes cranks of people who might have been intelligent. They are not even pedants.

We are told through the Associated Press, that the teachers of Montgomery county, at the regular annual session of their association last week, passed resolutions auent this trouble, some of which are worthy of comment, all as showing that they see the need of something, some that they are groping in darkness, others that some worthy ideas are in process of formation. "One of the resolutions declared them in favor of Governor Mount's proposition to teach the elements of agriculture in the higher schools of the county. This is a hobby with the Farmer Governor, and, of course, will have to be ridden, in turn, by each of his playmates. The "elements of agriculture" are not what is needed to lie taught, if anything, is indeed, needed. No pupil of ordinary intelligence and powers of observation but can and will, by the time he reaches the high school, be possessed of these "elements'' in sufficiency. Don't introduce into the co.mmon school curriculum another study, only to give a smattering of it, and then stop.- The ~pe3agogue who inserted that resolution certainly never stopped to consider to what he would lead his brethren, neither the great wrong it would entail on the pupil. Cut out some things which already cumber the course, but do not insert more to increase the difficulties. "It was suggested, also, 'that teachers should devote more time to developing personal and civic virtue in their pupils.' There is a world of good thought in that resolution. In these days when virtue of any kind is only too rare, when personal virtue is principally a dream and civic virtue

Crawfordsville, Indiana, Saturday, December 16,1899.

is notorious for its habits of seclusion in the closing hours of the nineteenth century when corruption is rank on every hand, when public trust is no longer a sacred thing when public officers daily prostitute their positions to their own personal ends, when manhood and citizenship are so lightly esteemed, and when society itself is fairly plastered with mire, notwithstanding its glittering appearance, truly can teachers afford to devote more time to instruct their pupils in the virtues. Yes, by all means, let the teachers to drop from the course some of the thing1? of which the pupil cannot possibly get enough information to be of any practical service, some of those things of which a mere smattering must prove an absolute injury, aud do not waste time giving him elementary instruction in agriculture and devote the time to telling him that the seeds must be planted before they will grow and produce a crop, for he knows these elementary facts, but teach him a love of truth, honor and integrity, set his patriotism on fire by telling him of the world's greatest patriots, hold them up to him as an example while teaching him to love aud reverence their memories, for the deeds they have done. The boy who learns this lesson, will make a better citizen, if he learns nothing else, than if he had a smattering of everything included iu the present day course, and had neglected the first.

The teachers of Montgomery county are not of those who are able to discover the motes of their ueighbors optical organs, and yet miss the beams of their own, for they were not backward in in giving their own shortcomings a notice, resolving that teachers should not use tobacco in any form It is quite a sacrifice on the part of a teacher to abstain from the use of his "twofer" or his navy, aud this should be duly appreciated. The resolution might also have stated that ydung gentlemen teachers should leave their flask of rock and rye at home, and that young lad)T teachers would refrain from swearing at unruly pupils.

But it was further resolved that an afternoon each week, known as "Mothers' day," be "devoted to developing a better understanding and apprecia tion of the family ties." Good God! Has it come to this? Have the mothers of to-day been neglecting their ofsprings to such an extent that they are obliged to go to the school-room once a week and tell their own children that they love them, and explain to them their own family relationship aud the consequent reciprocal duties? What have these mothers been doing in the past? Is it possible that they have been so enthuistic aud energetic iu their attendance at the W. F. M. S. as to absent themselves from the family circle, so industrious in making clothes to send to the heathen in lands where the weather is so hot that clothes are uut endurable, only to awake some morning to a realization of the fact, that while they were worrying about the heathen their own children have started on the highway to destruction, and heathen are growing up at their own fireside? Can it be that mothers have sent their own infants to these human incubators, or "brooders," the kindergartens, in order to relieve themselves of the annoyance and care of the little ones, leaving their time at their disposal for "afternoon clubs," card parties, socalled literary ciubs and pink teas, until it has come to pass that an afternoon of each week must be taken from the school hours of the pupils that they may have an introduction to their own mothers? Remember, she is not going there to use the slipper or the rod to keep the little urchin in the path of rectitude, but to make him better appreciate his home and family ties! The very thing that should have come to him with his earliest breath: he should have drank it iu with his mothers's milk he should have been made to realize and appreciate it when, helpless and impotent, clasped iu her arms, rocked upon her bosom, he was lulled to sleep by the music of her voice. It should have been hia hourly lesson as he lay in the crad le, or as he took his first tottering step. But no. He was a constant care, and as soon as be could walk, he, with others was taken from his mother and placed in the "kindergarten" school just as chickens, when hatched, are taken away, that the hen may again go her ways. His instruction left to strangers during the day. so servants until bed-time, no wonder that he forgets his mother, even as does the calf when weaned, and that he has no appieciation of the family tie his mother is no more to him than any other woman he chances to meet, his brothers and sisters as the other children at the school. Poor child. He has no idea of home, and can never have, for the years when this knowledge is acquired and when this influence is sweetest and most indelible, are gone forever. An afternoon each week for "Mothers' day." Well, well. "And then as a kind of suinmum bonum resolution it was declared that "professional interest and success, educational and moral qualifications, and experience should be the only basis for determining the wage of the teacher.' And what else, pray, does enter into the question? Surely neither politics nor religion can cut any figure in the schools down in Montgomery county. Sometimes rumors are heard that the trustee will refuse to employ a teacher who does

not vote as he does, or who belongs to another religious denomination, but surely this caunot be the case in Montgomery county. And sometimes the trustee "fixes" it with the county superintendent and the applicant fails to secure a license. Has that ever happened down there? And sometimes the applicant does not care to pay the trustee the "commission" demanded and so fails, but that rumor did not come from Montgomery county. The resolution should be more specific, as those on the outside are at a loss to understand what is being hinted at by the pedagogues."

The Growing Curse.

ON

the last Sunday night in December, Rev. Wallace Tharp will preach on the subject of Spiritualism, necromancy, and communion with familiar spirits. This is a question of much importance as it has been growing in this city for years. Ever since, and for ages before King Saul trudged in the night time up the side of Mount Gilboa to consult the Witch of Endor, men have run after these things. It has been constantly growing for years, until in our midst is a large number of christian scientists, spiritualists and those who are utterly lost in the presence of natural phenomena. It is a timely subject, and will be handled with the wellknown ability of Mr. Tharp.: He announced that it would be a meeting for grown people, not children.

They Want Brookshlre.

HON.

WM. D. BYNUM lately appointed by the President as the Democratic member of the Customs Appraisers Board, failed to meet the approval of Democrats. They have long since ceased to regaul him as having anything in common with the party. They were generally very sore at the attempt of the President to cut them out of a representative on the Board by the appointment of one whom they regard as an out and out Republican. The Democratic and Silver Senators held a meeting and entered a protest to Bynum's appointment, and will fight his confirmation to a finish. They all united in an appeal to the President to withdraw the name of Bynurn and appoint in his stead Hon. E. V. Brookshire. This is more like it.

(lot Off Easy.

^[OMETIME since Bert Julian took a shot gun and went into a saloon at Colfax and deliberately blew the head off of Mike Houlehan, the bartender of the place. His enmity was aroused because Houlehan refused to sell him whisky. The ease was tried at Frankfort and the jury fixed the name of the crime as murder in the second degree and the punishment at life imprisonment. Julian may congratulate himself on the fact that Clinton county jurors place so little value on human life. Iu some places such crimes as he committed would have brought the death penalty.

For Sheriff.

REPUBLICAN oracle announces that ex-sheriff John P. Bible is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for sheriff in 1900. Mr. Bible has not yet announced his intentions publicly, should he have such, but he made a good officer when he held the position before, and should he succeed in getting the nomination he will hustle the Republican candidate, whoever he may be.

Another Free Woman.

O^ATURDAY morning iu the circuit court Mrs. Lena Hays was [J handed a decree of divorce from her recreant lord and master, William Hays. The charge was treatment of a cruel and inhuman brand, and she evidently convinced the court of the justice of her cause, as the decree was forthcoming.

A Warm Contest.

THE

contest is now on for the piano to be given away by the business men, between the boys of the P.O. S. of A. and the ladies of the Christian church. Each organization is urging its friends to turn their coupons over to it. The contest will be a warm one as both are working hard to secure the prize.

Got the Divorce.

AT

Lebanon on Monday last, the case of Flavius J. Booher, of New Ross, for divorce from his wife was tried. Mr. Booher was granted the divorce and the custody of the two children, and fl,20Q alimony was granted the wife. The case was venued from this county.

59th Year, No. 18

MADISON

Another Damage Case.

township comes to the

front with a damage case. This time it is Francis M. Stevenson^ demanding $1,500 from John Hollin of Linden. He complains that a short time since he traded a farm in Owen county to Hollin for a stock of goods in Linden. In view of the trade he paid off a mortgage on the land, and had gone to much other expense he would not have done, and in the end Hollin backed out of the trade. He feels that he has been damaged to the extent of $1,500 and asks that justice be meted out to the fickle Mr. Hollin.

done West.

WWONDAY morning J. L. Williams

and

and Milt Williams,

I place, in company with Robert Wilson, of Indianapolis, left for Colorado, where they will in the future reside. J. L. Williams will go to Colorado Springs for awhile in the hope of benefitting his health. They will go into the lumber business at Denver. We are sorry to lose the Williamses from Crawfordsville. They were good citizens and have long been connected with the business interests of the city.

Creston Clarke.

T^HE engagement of Creston Clarke I for Music Hall for Friday and 1 Saturday nights of this week, is one of more than usual interest to lover.s of the legitimate drama. Last night he played "Hamlet" to a large audience and his characterization of the gloomy Dane was up to the standard iu every way. To-night be will present "The Ragged Cavalier." Mr. Clarke is one of the celebrated Booth family, and has imbibed his art through generations. Don't fail to see him.

Fatal Accident.

LASTFriday

afternoon, at her home

near New Ross, Mrs. Meakin Hurt was engaged in rendering lard in an open kettle swinging over a fire, as is the usual country method. She got too near the fire^ and in a moment she was a mass of flames. Her husband ran to her as" sistauce and was badly burned in his attempt to put out the blaze. The ilesh was literally roasted on her body, aud her ears were burned off. JSverjr »id is being given ber but no hop& whatever is entertained for her recovery.

Real Estate Deal.

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M. SCHULTZ has become the owner of all the real estate owned by the late A. H. Braden in the portion of the city. It includes the room occupied by Mat Kline, the building on Green street occupied by the Wilhite cigar store the block on Washington street occupied by D. J. Woodward and the, Crawfordsville Feed Co. The consideration was 520,000.

New Fair Officers.

AT

a meeting of the directors of the Agricultural Association the following officers were elected: John L. Davis, President M. B. Waugh, vice president W. F. Hulet, secretary John S. Brown, treasurer Arch Martin, superintendent Asher Wert, marshal R. C. Smith, floral hall Paul Hughes, privileges.

Ben-Hur Denounced.

THE

play of "Ben-Hur" has been vigorously denounced from the pulpit of a Jewish synagogue in New York by Rabbi Silverman, of the Emanuel Temple. Rabbi Silverman also took a turn at Zangwill's "Children of the Ghetto." He thinks both productions are libels on the Hebrew peple and their religion.

Gouged tils Eyes.

I AST Friday evening J. P. Wirt

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walked out into his back yard jfcj and iu the dark walked into a plum tree. A thorn on one of the limbs penetrated his left eye, inflicting a painful wound. It was thought the sight was' destroyed, but such was not the case.

Appointments Made.

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the ensuing year Dr. Barcus will act as county physician and Finley P. Mount as pauper attorney for the county. These appointments were made by the commissioners at their last session.

Bond Filed.

THE

bond of Treasurer-elect Bazil T. Merrill, has been filed and accepted by the Board of Commisioners. Mr. Merrill takes the office January 1.