Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 November 1868 — Page 7

"Father, Come Home."

Music has drawn many a heart liaclc from yielding to a temptation it was upon the point of doing, and binds the world together in stronger bonds of brotherhood than anything else of humanizing tendency. But how much more effective when aided by a little dramatic effect. A London corrcspondent gives an alfocting description of the singing of the pathetic ballad of '-Father, Come Home,'' in one of the London theatres, which left but few dry eyes in the house, and must have nerved to stronger resolution any present who were in the hab it of giving away to the weakness and wickedness of indulging is intoxicating drinks to excess* This correspondent, describing the scene, says that the lady singer came in frorit of the curtain, amidst great applause, and commenced, "Father, dear father," &c. Every word was distinct, and she sang the ballad with great feeling. In order, however, to fully describe the scene which followed each verse, it is necessary to give little Mary's song: "Father, dear father, come home -with me now.

The clock is the steeple strikea.one! .You promised, dear father, that you would eome home

At loon as your day's work was done. Our fire has gone out—our home is all dark, And mother's been watching since tea, With poor little Benny so sick in her arms,

And no one to help her but inc. Come home, come home, Please, father, dear father, come homo. At the conclusion of the last line the drop-scene drew up, disclosing the father sitting at the door of a public house, in a drunken, bemuddled state, with pipe and pot before him. Little Mary was trying to drag him from his seat, at the same time pointing to a curtain behind, as she took up the refrain from the lady, and touchingly sang, "Come home," &c.

This other curtain was now drawn aside, disclosing a wretched room, with the poor mother sitting on the ground with a sickly-looking boy in her lap, and in the act of feeding him with a spoon. Simultaneously with the drawing of the curtain the limelight was brought to bear upon the tableaux, giving them a truly startling effect. After a moment or two the act-drop came down, dnd the lady proceeded: '•Father, dear lather, come liomc witli me now,

The clock in the steeple strikes two! The niirht has grown colder, and Benny is worse,

Hut he has been calling for you. Indeed lie is worse, mother says he will die, Perhaps before morning shall dawn And this was the message she sent me to bring—

Come quickly, or he will bo gone. Come home, come home, Please, father, dear father, come home."

The act-drop rises again, and now the child has hold of the pewter pot, trying to take it from the drunken parent, and as she continues the last two lines, "Come home/' &c., the oth er curtain is drawn aside, and we next see the child stretched out on its mother's lap, and as it just raises its little head and falls back with a gasp, with the lime-light reflecting strongly upon it, there is a reality about the whole terrible to view. Sobs were heard from all parts of the hall, coming from the female portion of the audience, while tears trickled down many a male cheek. Even the lady who sang the song was affected, and could scarcely proceed with the third verse: "Father, dear lather, conic home with inc now,

The clock in the steeple strikes three! The house is so lonely, the hours arc so long,

For poor weeping mother and me. Yes, we are alone—poor Benny is dead, And gone with the angels of light.! And these were the very last words that he said— 'J want to kiss papa—good night!'

Come home, come home, Please, father, dear father, como home." Again the drop rose, disclosing little Mary on her knees appealing to her father, who, with pot elevated, is in the act of striking her with it, as she sings, "Come home," and then the back curtain draws aside, showing the mother praying over a child's coffin. But now the sobs burst out more freely, and two females were carried out fainting. The: scene was truly harrowing.

An additional verse was sung about "Poor Bennie" being with the angels above. The drop rose the father, sober now, is weeping over the coflin with the mother, and little Mary, on her knees, singing, "Home, home, lather, dear father's come home!" At this moment the curtain is drawn aside, and little Benny is suspended over the coflin with wings, smiling •down upon them and pointing upwards. The father falls forward on Ins face, the act-drop descends, and -lor a moment all is hushed save the sobs of the a-ucjienee.

Somebody lias recently invented a '••"carriage bed' invalids.. Vvro have .slept in a huqtji! bed. It was nearly a perpetual-motion machine.

TOMBSTONES, AC.

GREAT WESTEM

MARBLE WORKS!

CRAWFORDSVILLE.

HAVING

purchased the above estab

lishment of D. Pyke, I will say to tho citizens of Montgomery and adjoining counties that I will furnish

All kind$ of Marble-Work, It

Such 8S'

Headstones, Tombstones, •Monuments,

Tablets, Se,

If you will call at the

SHOP ON GREEK ST.,

OPPOSITE ELSTON'S BANK,

THE OLD POST OFFICE ROOM, You can there sec my style of work, and I will show you as fine specimens of work as is to be seen in this part,of the State.

BSTAll work delivered at the grave-yards and warranted to give satisfaction. I will canvass the county soliciting orders, and will say that you can purchase your work as cheap at home as you can at the shop. ®3f*I want it distinctly understood that I "WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD by any shop.

Building Stone

Of the best quality furnished at low prices. iv2 C. T. BRUNDAGE.

HOTEL AND STABLE.

Clifton cmse,

Corner Market aud Washington Sts.,

CKAWFOHDSVILLE. INDIANA.

THIS

House has recently been enlarged and refitted, and is now the largest and most conveniently arranged in the city. The House is well furnished, and terms moderate. j. G. A. HUFF, Proprietor.

Livery, Sale & Feed Stable,

MAltKKT ST.,

CRAWFOItDS VILLE, IND r'

FINE STOCK, FINE BUGGIES, REASONABLE PRICES.

(Igr Special attention to taking ca*e of other people's Horses."'

G. A. HUFF, Proprietor* aug27

PLANING MILL.

Crawfordsville Planing Mill and Sash Factory.

We have recently put. in operation a complete set of NEW" MACHINERY for the manufacturing of

Boors, Sash, Blinds,

Together with all kindsof Planing and Lumber used for Building Purposes, Fencing, Pickets, &c., all of which we will agree to furnish in as good order and at as reasonable prices as any establishment in the country.

Call at our

Always on hand, for sale either dressed or in the rough. (USTParticular attention given to parties who furnish their own lumbar to be worked.

MILL ON DRY BRANCH,

(iREEXCASTLK KOAD,

South-West part of Crawford^'ville,

Or on A. W. LEMON, who has charge of the Books of the firm, at our

OFFICE ON GREEN ST..

Adjoining' J. H. Benefteld's Grocery,

where Doors, bush, Blinds. Mouldings, Dressed Lumber, TEE., AWII

Canine,

bo kept for salej

and all orders-received .inid promptly attended to.

Willi!c

R. M. OAninh is agent fur Groenlcaf/s Patent SUAl'TiNG Bid HANGINGS.' aurxGv •_

Bry Goods, Cloths and Cassimeres,

'ii't !ti« i•

Violins,

Bows

Strings

Having opened out

Manufacturers of

BU Q-

CBAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL: NOVEMBER'26, 1868. 1.7

DRY GOODS, CLOTHS AND CASSIWIERES.

W-A-SS0 3Sr~& ELMOBE,

No. 3, Commercial Block, Crawfordsville.

Dress Goods,

Gloves, White Goods,

ALSO, A WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF DOMESTICS.'

-~A FULL LINE OF—

Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps, Queens' and Glassware,

WATCHES, JEWELRY AND BOOKS.

New Jewelry and Book Store, No. 1, Empire Block. SHEPHERD & VA.N"SICKLE,'

DEALEBS IN

WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY.

A FINE ASSORTMENT OF

American Watches and Setli Thomas (locks.

Avitli

nation of our stock before purchasing elsewhere.

FINE AMERICAN WATCHES, ROGERS' PLATED WARE, SPOONS am) FORKS,

an entire new stock ol Goods, we earnestly

IHSTAII kinds of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry REPAIRED on short, notice, and wara

SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY.

We shall keep constantly the very host, of Letter Paper, Commercial Note. Legal Cap, Envelopes, etc. COME AND SEE.

I IBS,

Sulkies,

Carriages, Spring Wagons,

SzC., cScC.,

Market Street, north of Court House,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

HAVING

Flooring, m)Holdings, Sc., Sc.

recently purchased, enlarged

and improved the premises we occupy, thereby saving expense of rent, and giving increased facilities for manufacturing

Carriages, Buggies, Spring Wagons,

Sulkies, Sleighs, Sc., Sc.

we would respectfully announce to the public that we are now in a position to

DEFY ALL COMPETITION.

in our line in this State, as regards prices style and workmanship, and invite an in spection of our Carriages, Buggies, &c\, a tine assortment of which is kept constantly on hand. Being all practical workmen, and employing none but the most skillful, and using the VERY BEST OF MATERIAL, together with our long acquaintance with the wants of this scction of country, we can not help giving satisfaction, as we confidently assert that bur work and prices cannot be excelled by any other establishment in Indiana. Old Buggies taken in Exchange. All our work warranted one year.

E A I E I N

Blacksmithing, Triunniiig, Painting, 'tc., with neatness"and dispatch.

SUPERIOR FARM WAGONS,

Our Farm Wagon are built (ixp»sly 1 or t.hi.j market by Studebaker Bros, of South Bend. Ind., of llie very best timber, and more with the' view of giving entire satiiaettm to purchasers than profit, to the inamilai'turers or to us. We warrant them 111 ev-1 cry particular l'or one year. ./» april "2!) J* S. JVlILLLlv CwO.

Flannels^ Balmoral and

.. Hoop Skirts

at the lowest market priced» HENRY WASSON,

April23, 1868. -aw. ELMORE.

SHEPUERB 3? VAJYSICKLE.

S27"WHEELER & WILSON'S SEWING MACHINES, together with Needles, Oil, &c., always on hand. B£tfTIANOS and MELODEOXS rented so as the rent will apply to payment for Instrument.

CARRIAGE-MAKERS. .1.8. MILLER & CO.

(t'l ,/•

t- Pr'-bl Revolvers,

Cartridges,

Lii

Gold Pens.

solicit

an exami

FINE SWISS WATCHES, FINE POCKET CUTLERY, POCKET BOOKS.

RINC'S VEGETABLE AMBROSIA. RING'S

RINGS

rr.dltit

GRAY HAIR.

This isthe A3iBEOSiAthatKiDginadc.

This is the Cure that lay In the

Ai&brosia

that King ma^ie.

This is the Parson, who, by the way, Married the maiden, handsome and

To tinman once bald and gray, But who now has raven locks, they say, Because he used the Cure that la In the AMBROSIA that Iiing ma

&S. TU3BS&G0,.

lay lade.

This is the T.oll that rings away ... To arouse the people sad and gay Unto this irt, which here does lay— If you would not be bald or gray, Use the AsWROSIA tlwt IiiiiQ made.

PraPRitTORS,

Fnr sale bv

PETERSORO',N.H.

T. W. Fry &'Co,

€rfm&f&rdsviMe,

-May I l,'lSG8-ia(

NJ3VEE

Ind. ...

do up a. package of Goods

without'piacina within it au adVerllsement of jpur business. Oall and see iJu* way •wedoPrjiitiiizaat the

JOnilNAi.. .TOI! OFFIOTJI

FOUHPRY.

Foundry & Machine Shop

IN CBAWFORDSVILLE.

BLAIR, LYLE & €0. HAVE

now in operation a Foundry and Machine Shop in this pkice, and ihvitc all interested in

MACHINERY OF ANY KIND,

to give them a call. They arc making all kinds of

CASTHsTQS,

SUCH AS

Mill Gearing, of every description. Sorghum Mills, Furnace Fronts, ru.

SuSar

Kettles, at a

Making patterns for and replacing STOVE PLATES, OVENS, DOG IRONS, &e., &o.

They" are piepaied t« icfiair

Tubular Boilers, Steain Engines, Threshing Machines,

Reapers, Mowers,

V1 Drag Saws,

......

And to make and lit up

Brass Casting and Blacksmitliiag ol every description.

All work done by this firm is warranted to perform as represented.

CaBh paid for old

IRON, COPPER, BRASS.

Shonon Green street, near the Depot. april'28%] BLAIR, LYLE & CO.

MEDICAL.

^OBJJSE

A Positive Remedy for all kinds of Humors,

Scrofula, Scurvy, Salt-Rheum, Carbunles and Boils, Ulcers and all obstinate iffections of the Skin, Inflammatory »r Chronic Rheumatism, Piles, Chronic )iarrhoea, Mercurial Diseases, and every aint of the System Dyspepsia, and those Iffections originating in the Derangement if the Digestive Organs viz., BiSious Complaints, Neuralgia, and Nervous Afections, Headache, Languor, and Depresion of Spirits, |.oss of Appetite, Constiiation.

rHIS

This is the Man who was bald and gray, Who now has raven locks, they 6ay. He used the Cure lay In the ASIBBOSIAthat

that Ring made.

This is the Maiden, handsome and

Who married the man once bald and rrray, Who now has raven locks, tliey say. He used the AMBKOSIA that Eing made.

Excellent mediciifiil compound

whs

first

jirepared by Dr. J. W. TOLAXL*, in ls47, nd was then employed with great success in spelling humors from the blood but in )K)S a ledical friend who was quite celebrated as a l:vsiian, esjjeciallv in the treatment of liumors, suggested some important improvements, which were, dopted, and which has made it (so the* people say) lie veryt)est remedy for all kindsof humors known a

This preparation is composed entirely of vr^cl files, among which are Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock, foble I'ine, Mandrake, and Bloodroot.

When the originator lived in New Hampshire, at ioffstown Centre, for tlie space of thirr^ or .riy oiles around, and in Jluncliester particularly, the lumor Doctor was well known aud highly valued or the numerous and wonderful cures which it effected. Though manufactured in large qaanir.ie*, he supply was frequently exhausted, and pircii *.-- •r,s hail to wait for more to be juadc. In. thui

re-

{ion, some very severe cases of Kr.rMpelr-s were reated with, aud they were curoli ores, or cnrbunclw,—tl»o»c ugly« painJai -were enlirely removed wherever this medicim vas faithfully used. So it was with Scrofula and ialt-Kheum. The Humor Doctor cured thorn. 11 is free, Irom any dangerous urugs, »s plea-ant to he taste, safe, y« suit' and effective in its action.

riSEL'AKE" AT Till^

BOTAHIC DJSPOT,

And for sde*V

in Medic,inr.

e. DAZfOX €i CO., JProprtciorz.

T..^XLUU'-y&Go.h/jWsaleFor

d.t

CIUW:'OM.HVI11}».

and J. T. Fm% iyuoU'salo

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