Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 September 1874 — Page 3

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Tlio bird's parsistont hum. And the moan of the hnnoy-bco Always i. h'.'ftrd hy t.hoo.

Geranium

-Lured ly thy tender bloom.

The ronr of the fulling llnmo And t.ho swash nf the brook shall b« Fashioned to comfort, th«f. (icniniiim Rolled through the valloy'S

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The delicate purplo foam Of thy rich lips shall be Washed with the famo of thoe.

Geranium!

Whorevor the wild winds rcnitii.

When life crows burdensome Oh flower, and love shall be Weary with loving thoe.

Geranium

That no love answers from.

And when tho sad days come. And my younc lifo shall bn Dropped leaf by leaf like iheo.

Geranium

And tn) lips cold and dumb.

The brown »nd fertile loam Shall feed and freshon thee Kvcr, and thou shalt be—

Geranium!

The flower of my low home. I.tirkc's Xntujunl Mvnlhhi.

"WEST POINT CADETS Mil'.

Comnrtilive

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Hon. T. J. Cason has addressed the following to the Lebanon Patriot: I have received notice from the Secretary of War that this Congressional District is entitled to a cadet appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, State of New York, to succeed Erasmus M. Weaver, expected to graduate June next, the candidate appointed to report for examination at West Point June 10, 1875. The War Department has advised me to hold a preliminary examination as soon as possible, at some point in the District,

where all applicants tor the appointment

A sound body and constitution, a fixed degree of preparation, good natural capacity, an aptitude for study, industrious habits, perseverance, an obedient and orderly disposition, and correct moral deportment, are such essential qualifications, that candidates knowingly deficient in any of these respects should not as many do subject themselves and their friends to the chances of future mortification and disappointments to the Academy by entering upon a career which they cannot successfully pursue.

PHYSICAL QUALIFICATIONS.

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Candidates are admitted into the Academy only between the ages of 17 and 22 years but those who have served at least one year in the regular or volunteer army, during the late war, and have been honorably discharged, are, by special provision of law, eligible up to the age of 24 years. No candidate less than five feet in hight can be admitted. Candidates must be free from any infectious or immoral disorder, and generally, from any deformity, disease, or infirmity which may render them unfit for arduous military service.

MENTAL QUALIFICATIONS.,

The candidate is required by law to be proficient in reading and writing, in the elements of English grammar, in descriptive geography, particularly of our own country, and in the history of the United States. In arithmetic the various operations in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reduction, simple and cempound proportion, and vulgar and decimal fractions, must be thoroughly understood and readily performed.

DISQUALIFICATIONS.

The following are the leading physical disqualifications: 1. Feeble constitution and muscular tenuity, unsound health from whatever cause, indications of former disease, glandular swellings, or other symptoms of scrofula. 2. Chronic cutaneous affections, especially of the scalp. 3. Severe injuries of the bones of the head, convulsions. 4. Impaired vision, from whatever cause. inflammatory affections of the eyelids, immobility or irregularity of the iris, fistnla, lachrymalis, &c. 5. Deatness, copious discharges from the ears. 6. Loss of many teeth, or the teeth generally unsound. 7. Impediment of speech. 8. Want of due capacity of the chest, and any other indicatiens of a liability to a pulmonic disease. 9. Impaired or inadequate efficiency of one or both of the superior extremities °u accouut of fractures, especially of the clivacfe, contraction of a joint, deformity, xc. 10. An unusual excurvature or incurvature of the spine. 11. Hernia. 12. A varicose state of the veins of the scrotum or spermatic cord (when large) sarcocele, hydrocele, hemorrhoids, fistulas. 13. Impaired or inadequate efficiency "f one or both of the inferior extremities on account of varicose veins, fractures,

contraction, unequal length, bunions, overlaying supernumerary toes, &c. 14. Ulcers or unsound cicatrices of ulcers likely to break out afresh. 15. No person who has served in any capacity in the army or navy of the soculled Confederate States can be pointed. 10. As a genera rule no person who "as had a brother educated at the Acad-

cmy will be appointed. 17. 'J lie newly .•ippointc

examined at the Academy prior to iidmission, and those not properly qualified are rejected."

The foregoing summary of qualifications have been copied verbatim from I the instructions sent me by the War De-1 partment.

Applicants for app 11 tmcnt are in-

vited to be present lor examination at the time inuntinm-d above, sis the deciI sion of the committee, under the above rules, will settle the appointment.

Papers of the District please copy. I T. .1. CASON*.

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can appear before a committee of not less than three persons, one of whom shall be a physician, and undergo an examination as to their mental acd physical requirements and qualifications. The appointment will be given to the person reported by the committee as having the best qualifications and requirements. In obedience to this request, I have selected Ford's High School Building, in the city ofLaFayette, as the place where the examination will be held, on the 20th day of October, 1874, the committee to be hereafter selected and made known. The War Department ha* prescribed the following "SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS. TS

Demcratic party.

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County Superintendents. (Krom tlu? Indianapolis N«*\v.J The acrimony with which the Convention of the lfltli of July assails the system of County .Superintendents of schools is at first view, inexplicable. The late Dem-' oeratic Superintendent ol Public Insiruction evidently advocated it, and was really the author of it. The present Democratic candidate for that ollieesupported it. All those practically familiar with educational affairs and the conduct of free schools are its warm friends. Yet the Democracy denounce it. It looks queer. But when we remember two or thiee things in the history of that party, the puzzle ceases to he puzzling. A good many can remember that leading men of! the party appropriated by what Dr. Norman Eddy called "fraud," the whole of a donation of lands given to the schools,' worth fully $2,000,0(10. These leading! men managed, by what that same Dr. I Eddy,|late Democratic Secretary of State, described as "advance certificates,"which were simply frauds, assurances that the work had been done -which was only promised to be done,and never was done, in draining the land—to get every acre of them without paying a cent to the I school system. Another, a little later, I sent out to the different counties a large amount of the money obtained from the I sinking fund, and belonging, by the charter of the old State Bank, to the school-*, and there it has been pretty much lost, as every sensible man in the State knew it would be. It ought to have been in-

legislature could al

ways see it and know its condition, and then it would vield a sure revenue and never be lost. In 1871 the same party, I then in control of the Legislature, sent out in the same way, to be lost by the carelessness or peculation of county offi- I cers, who are paid nothing to attend to it, and of course will pay attention just in proportion to the pay they get in most cases. Another blow at the school system. In 1858 the Supreme Court, composed of men of the same party, ruined the schools for years by a decision which was afterwards reversed as unsound and unwarranted by the constitution. Now keeping these four little operations against free schools in mind, and putting beside them the fact that a large portion of foreign voters are guided by their religious instructors, their bishops and priests, to oppose the schools, we can begin to see how the "milk gets into that Count} Superintendent'scocoanut." Our! puplic schools are our just pride, the best I evidence of our morals and intelligence, and to oppose them to conciliate a class of voters notoriously the least intelligent in the town, is about as mean a thing as a party can do.

The Opposition.

I'romlthe Logansport Journal.]

The world over criticism is easy. To the untempted and untried, nothing so simple as to take the right course. To be wise after the event and when safely in the rear of danger is a pleasant and safe occupation. And so in politics and public life. Thousands can criticise vehemently and forcibly a measure which not, one of them could originate. The fair way is to compare the article or event produced by the critic. The Republican party has been in power four-: teen years. Let Democrats criticising it produce fourteen years of Democratic administration that can begin to compare with it, in any respect. Democrats cry out when Republicans expose and expel official rascality. When was there ever an investigation by the Democratic party into one of its} office holder's corruption? The administration of Buchanan w«s honey combined with fraud. Did any man ever lose his office on that account? Republicans are criticised for their negro legislation, what did the Democratic party ever do for the negro except to fasten his chains tighter Republicans are criticised for their financial policy. We have only to recall the time when we had to carry round a quarto Thompson's bank note, reporter, and search for a 'ozen wild cat bills for every $25 ol currency, to see how much superior ours was to Democratic financiering. No communities are so heavily taxed as these governed by the Democratic officials. No States or municipalities are so ill governed as those governed by the

The 15-Ccnt Tax. rl-roiii the Valparaiso Videtto.] Democrats say they ran the State Government on a tax of five cents to the §100. Republicansanswer that the Democrats ran the State Government in debt on that five cent tax, for their Republican successors to pay, which required the present 15 cent tax, and that the Democrats knew it must be so, and designed it should, hoping to make political capital out of their low tax. Voters however are not quite so easily misled in such ways as many suppose.

On Saturday a confidence man approached a stranger in Park Row, addressing him as Mr. Wardell. "My name is not Wardell." said the stranger. "Is it possible

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am mistaken Are you

not Mr. Wardell, of New Haven?" "I am not," answered the stranger "I am Tom Collins."

A Cane May youth used the deeds of his father's farm for gun wads. The

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wasn't anything like the old man made on the same part of the lad's anatomy.

A new game called "Granger seven up" is announced. Three persons play for a can of oysters. The first man out gets the oysters, the last man out gets the oyster can, and the "middle man" gets left.

•1 Cadet* r.ro Fnrag'Hl fur every set —:i hen.

THE CRAWyORDSVILLE SATURDAY EVENING JOURNAL.

IOO Pieoes Fruit of the Loom. IOO Pieoes Lonsdale Kuilint.

I. P. WAI»E

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DRY GOODS.

Campbell & Harter

Call attention to their

JfEW BRAND BLACK ALPACAS,

Mohairs and Turkish Brilliantines.

WeHiiini tlyii fhivo yonils uro superior to any on th« market. Th«*v Are morn perfectly made, with purer and hotter material worked into ihem. They are colored bv a new prooi^n, which tfives iu T^'. Instronn h|ju that is retained and IOPH not chanqe into brownish hue as in other Alpacas. nave marked prices leas, making thorn tho host bargains on the market.

CAMPBELL & HARTER.

YOUNG GENTLEMEN! Your Attention

FOR ONE M03IENT

We shall receive during August and September nearly

WORTH OF

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English, German and American

AND

Fancy Cassimere Suitings

Embracing some of the handsomest styles ever offered in this market. Reserve your orders for something line.

NEW DRXJGr STORE.

SMITH & HAMRICK,

DEALERS I1V PURE

Drugs and Chemicals

PAINTS, OILS, PUTTY, WINDOW GLASS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES,

&£*«£

CAMPBELL & HARTER.

NEW DRUG STORE

PERFUMERY, SOAPS, COMBS, LAMPS, SPONGES, RUBBER GOODS, Etc., Etc.

ESMEKELDl, the BEST 5 CEST CIGiR in the City.

NO. 5, NATIONAL BLOCK, Crawfordsville, Ind.

DRY GOODS.

Grand Display of New Goods

AT

A A S & A S

Our dress Making

MUSLINS.

IOO Pieces Wamautta Muslin. I IOO Pieces Casco Muslin.

Tnble Linens, Nankins and Towel* in great abundance. all of which we are offering at New \ork quotations:

give satisfaction every time, in regard to lit and price.

and Merchant Tailoring Departments are in full blast, and we caD

CAPT. NICHOLSON, formerly of Crawfordsville, will be pleased to see all his friend* andcnsJom. ers anil offer them bargains.

Remember 66 E. Washington St., Indianapolis. Jan22-1y

MABLE WORKS.

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MARBLE WORKS,

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TVO. 13 GREEN STREET,

CRAWFORDSYILLEj IND.

American and Italian Marble Monuments, Tombs, Headstones, Tablets, &c., Of Latest Designs.

Also Scotch Granite Direct from the Quarries in Scotland.

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When po«Mler«

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I'MI tin*

ADAMS & HATCH

Wild

ANIMALS

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Rare

BIRDS!

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fin or ln liotter work, or at lower price*,

:«tv :»ft» psml lor their talk. Come mill

AdmiNsion

CIRCUS AND MENACERIE.

At Crawfordsville

HII11T, SEPT. 14

THE

Leviathan Shows!

WARNER & HENDERSON'S

MAMMOTH

DOUBLE GIGANTIC CIRCUS, Great Bom Hipbone aril Equestrian Anais, TEN TIMES ITS FORMER SIZE!

Introducing the Grandest and Greatest Combination of the Age

21 Grand Performances Daily 2 At 2 and 8 P. M.

Bring all the little folks from both town and country to see the animals and have a good time.

Children mirier jeurs »rugt»

ELEPHANTS,

KAFERE

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BABY

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GRAND ORIENTAL PROCESSION

At 10 A. M., followed by a long line of Golden Palace Cages, Chariots, Camels, etc.

LIONS!

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