Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 May 1890 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL.

PRINTED EVERT SATURDAY. T. 11. B. McCAIN, Kdltor. (OneTear, Inmdvanco $1.36 IKBIISW One Year, ontslde county.. 1.35 (.Six Months, in advitnce .78

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1890.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Judge—E. C. SNYDER. For Prosecutor— W. T. WHITTINGTON. For .Representative—T. J. ARMSTRONG. For Auditor—JOHN C. WINGATE. Fer Treasurer—A. F. RAMSEY. For Sheriff—FRED C. BANDEL. For Surveyor—JAMES M. WAUGH. For Coroner—GEORGE W. TUCKER. For Commissioners— 2d District—MICH AEL PHTCTC. 3d District—AOU1LLA. W. GXtOVES.

This Date in History—May 17.

1CS0—Williatu of OranRo declares war on France. 1727 Dwith of Catherine of Russia, widow of Peter the Great born 1632. 1749—Discoverer of vaccination, Dr. Edward Jenner, born died 1823. 1756—Great Britain declares "war against France

American colonies involved, and Canadu eventually become* a part of the British possessions. 1800—Bonaparte crosses the Alps. 1809—Papal states annexed to France by Napoleon. 3849—Fire iu St. Louis destroys 15 blocks of houses and 23 steamboats loss S3,000,(XX). 3855—Dr. Kane, of Franklin search expedition, abandoned ship and traveled over the ico 1,300 uiiies, arriving in New York Oct. 11, 1855. .1863—Yieksburjf campaign battle of Big Black river. Miss Confederates defeated and Pernberton enters the fortifications of Vicksburg. 3864—Atlanta campaign battle at Adairsviile

Confederates fall back Rome, Qa„ captured by Gen. Jeff C. Davis, of the Union army. 38C8—Rebels iu Japan defeat the troops of the mikado. 1875—Steamship Schiller wrecked off Sicily 311 lives lost. 1875—Death of John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, aged 54.

Ib is a pity, after Stanley twice saved the life of Etnin Pasha, and both have obtained no end of glory as explorers, that theso two distinguished gentlemen must now fly into each other's hair.

We shall have half a crop of peaches, according to the latest estimate. Half a crop to the producer, double the price. Farmers ought to find coi»3olation iu the peach crop, anyhow, as far as it goes.

An unfriendly feeling towards England on the part of United States citizens would be very poor business policy, considering that there ave hundreds of millions of British cash invested in this country.

Forty-live years ago one yacht club was all there was in this country. Now there are 100, and the capital invested in this style of craft amounts to $50,000,000. Nothing could show more completely the growth of wealth and luxury in the United States in the last half century than this.

Hon. Jesse Spalding, oI the government board of directors of Pacific railroads, has presented a lengthy report to Secretary of the Interior Noble on the "Union Pacific railroad question. The road asks a lower rate of interest and a longer time to pay its indebtedness) to the United States. Mr. Spalding is of opinion that the request should be granted.

It is said that an English syndicate lias bought a thousand acres of phosphate lands in Marion county, Florida. There is always a place to draw the line, and hers it is. When it comes to actual ownership of land in this republic hy subjects of monarchical governments it ought not to bo permitted to any extent A United States law to this effect, strictly enforced, would only be such a protective measure as other nations have already adopted.

TIIE balance of trade does not indicate depression under a Republican administration. On the 31st of March, 1888 there was an excess of $11,113,940 in imports over exports, after three years of Democratic rule. The three quarters ending March 31, 1889, not only reversed this balance but showed an excess of $02,452,863 in exports over imports, and for the nine months eudiug March 31j, 1890, the excess of exports amounted up to $127,179,447.

The Illinois Steel company, of Joliet, have contributed their idea to the solution of the labor problem. On the last Saturday night of April they called their employes, numbering 2/XX) men, together, and informed them that hereafter the company would adopt the system of profit sharing with the workmen oil the following basis: Each man who stayB with the firm one year will receive at the end of that time 1 per cent, of his wages as profit, increasing the amount 1 per cent, each year up to five years, when 5 per cent, of his wages will be added to the pay of each five year man. By that time the company will be paying in profits to employes $00,000 a year. The proposition was received by the workmen with cheers, It is the Illinois Steel company that built for its workmen that magnificent club house that has been so frequently described.

THERE are some unpleasant facts con neoted with taxation in England that the free trader manages to keep in the background. For instance one-tenth of the gross proceeds of land goes to the church as tithes there are road rates, poor rates, and a dozen local rates to be paid before national taxes are reached. National taxes are laid on every horse, on every wagon, on every carriage of every description, on every farm house

is a duty of 12 cents on every $100 of value the agent who rents houses pays a further duty, a tax of $11 per year is paid for every servant kept there is scarcely anything that the farmer o^-ns or does which is not taxed. How would the Montgomery county farmer like a taste of free trade taxation?

THE TYPICAL AMERICAN.

-anarew Luing and Max present in The North American Review respectively the English rad French view of the typical American. Mr. Lang has the candor to confess at the outeet that that monstrosity, the British stage Yankee, does not exist. He says of the American as he Iniows him:

He is not very like an Englishman he is rather more like a Frenchman, but still more like an American. You cannot say where he differs in appearance from a Briton it may be in his necktie, his boots, or the way in which he brushes his hair. Ho seldom looks ns if he lived much in the open air or was fond of field sports. Me is much more vivacious than an Englishman, more original in manner, more fertile In ideas, more modern in every way. He is almost too good company too effervescent for some natives of a slow, foggy climate. lie is onvlably detached from our infernal politics and social confusions.

These arc all pretty Indifferent to the nativo of a country which has elbow room, a militia which shoots, and practically no neitfh tiors I lo is usually rather fond of the Irish and their cause, but ho never goes to Ireland. He very seldom talks with an English accent, and even when he does his idioms betray him. Ho takes a Platonic Interest ia poker, but is no gambler. He is much too familiar with Unglish life to be very keenly curious about it, and he never dreams of noing to see the lions. He is kind, courteous, ingenious, obliging, a good fellow, and wolcome because ho is infinite-' ly more olive than most of us. To bring him Into a room full of dejected Britons is like pouring fresh water among the fish in a pail.

Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell) reminds us that all mankind are divided into two classes, those who are gentlemen and those who are not. Gentlemen are the same the world over, therefore Max attempts to describe the Amorican who is not a gentleman:

I have said that inquisitiveness was the chief American trait, and that it arose from the childish character of a man who belongs to a great, successful, but young, nation. Are there not othor traits, more or less typical of American manners, arising from the same cause? I believe there are. Generosity, impulsiveness, forgiveness and—excuse the word—cheek are aniQtig them. The American runs wildly after the dollar, but he Is lavish of it lie does not love he likes it for what it procures and avarice, whish you so commonly find in England and in France, is a vice-an ugly vice—that you seldom find in an American.

Ho will resent an insult, but very quickly forgets it and there Is no man in the world that nu ntand good humored chaffing as well as ho doias. Ho is audacious, simply because he has done si marvelous things in such a short time that hu simply believes nothing Is impossible to him. tis ideas are eccentric, but eccentricity is only an exaggerated form of the activity of mind. He Uvea on a continent so vast that he can hardly see limit to it. He has thA word "big" carved on fch-0 cranium, and is it a wonder that sometimes vii* word Is ao deeply carved that it makes a hole tt crack In it?

A REMARKABLE CONVENTION

One oi inn most notable gatherings ever witnessed in this or auy other country was the National Association of Working Girls that met iu New York city. From all parts of the Union they came, even from a point as far distant as San Francisco. There were also delegates present from Canada.

The convention was the first of its kind that over assembled in this country, certainly. The fact that such an assembly comes together, attended by 400 delegates, shows that the woman wage worker lias settled down to serious business, and has come to stay. The woman wage worker is a development of the Nineteenth century.

The working girls' club owes its origin chiefly to the efforts of Miss Grace Dodge, of New York, one of the first women to serve on the school board of that city. Miss Dodge brought together factory girls and clerks, and started club rooms, where they could have not only instruction, but, what was better still under the circumstances, entertainment of a social nature. Each girl paid a small amount of dues, so that she could accept both the entertainment and instruction with self respect. Next came more serious matters. The girls were awakened to a sense of deficiency in education. Early they had to enter on the struggle for life, mostly without learning.

They joined hands, and by each paying what she could afford, secured competent instructors, such as might serve the richest in the land, and put themselves under the tuition of these. There is something pathetic in all this. The girls, many oi them, worked uutil 0 o'clock. Then they hurried homo to their cheap boarding houses, quickly ate the little dinner and hurried off to the evening school. Practical things are taught, too. The instruction includes sourses in physical development, embroidery, cooking, German, millinery and stenography.

Two grand results are flowing from these clubs of working girls already. They are destroying that stupid and fatal caste spirit which has chilled sisterly sympathy among women. They also are teaching rich and poor that the person most thoroughly to be respected is he or she who adds something to the world's useful work. This was a lesson women particularly needed to learn.

A FARMER ON FREE TRArE. A Democratic Free—trade organ and

calamity-shiieker in Iowa recently published an editorial on the usual line, stating that our farmers were compelled to buy in an artifical market and sell in a free market that they were being impoverished by protection, and asked, "Will the farmer ever lift his nose from the grindstone?" An intelligent farmer who read the artiole furnishes the following reply:

The imputation that the farmer does not know enough to vote intelligently is an insult to every honegt tiller of the soil. By reading such rot one would be led to believe that the farmers are ao-

tuully in waut, did they not know better by observation and experience. Twelve years ago this Spring I landed in Brooklyn from Ireland, country that is cursed with the same free trade that it is proposed to fasten upon tiiis country if such fools as the writer of the above Dould have their way. Free trade ruined us. The poor tenants of the richest island in the world as regards soil contribute their products to help sustain the English lords, who in turn supply the people with English goods at exorbitant prices. They would like awful well to mako this country strictly an agricultural one, and they would manufacture all the goods we ueed over here. Gladstone practically said as much in Ins controversy with Blaine. Whtu I lauded in Brooklyn, Iowa, I had just fifty cents in money. I had no trouble in getting work among the fanners at good wugt-s. made more clear money the first year I was here than I ever had before. After workiug four years for different farmers, I went into business for myself. I rented a small farm and worked it for all it was worth. To day I own 160 acres of as tine land as there is in Scott township, and it is all paid for, too, and I am perfectly willing to show up any day with that Grinnell editor who has so much sympathy for the farmer with his "nose to the grindstone." My own experience is that of scores of others here on the "Ridge." No other country in the world gives us such a chance as this one. I know corn is low in price, but it fattens hogs like blazes, and they are selling for a good price. I sold mine two weeks ago for $3.85, and considering the price of everything else, that is good. I sold a horse the other day, for $140, and invested the money in yearling calves, for which I had to pay from $14 to $17 per head. I do hope that Grinnell editor will not lose any sleep over the condition of us poor farmers, and I ?ou't waut auy free trade iu mine not even a tariff for revenue. If I had my way about it I would increase the tariff on everything that can be produced in this country, and admit free the articles that we cannot raise or manufacture here.

A COLORED MAN'S WORK. ...•:

In 1881 B. T. Washington, a youngcolored graduate of the manual training school at Hampton, Va., founded a similar school for his own raoe at Tuskegee, Ala. He began on a very humble scale, for his means were 6mall. He had thirty students, an old church building, and the state appropriation of $2,000 a year.

Washington's experiment was successful from the start. In eighteen months the state increased its appropriation to $3,000 annually, and a farm of 100 acres had beon gained and a small building erected. Washington's efforts have been crowned -with such success as to prove conclusively that for blacks, if not for whites, the education most needed is the preaching and teaching of the new gospel of manual training.

The school at Tuskegee now owns a farm of G80 acres, free of debt. On this land aro fourteen buildings, for shops, etc. Besides the home farm another, a few miles away, has been leased and is put under tillage. Fruit, grain and vegetables aro cultivated in the best maimer. Among the products of the farm this year will be 20,000 cabbage heads. The school has now 400 students.

In shops of various lrinds the mechanical trades are taught. All the brick used in the school buildings was made by the pupils, and a quantity has been sold besides. Carriages and wagons of excellent construction are mado and sold in the vicinity. The students make their own furniture. A saw mill is in constant operation. So area steam printing establishment, a shoe shop, blacksmith shop, etc.

The school costs $30,000 a year. Of tills Alabama grants $3,000, the pupils earn $-3,000, and the rest is contributed in the form of donations by friends in the north and west. The instructors and managers of this splendid center of missionary work are all colored, every one. The property of the institution is worth $100,000. Two sisters in Boston give annually $0,000 to $7,000 to the establishment. And never was money more worthily bestowed.

The service pension bill which passed the senate, and then, with an amendment, the house, is one which will interest veterans of all parties. Its provisions, as the house amended it, are that every person who served as much as ninety days in the army or navy sluill, on rwidling the age of GO years, receive a pension of $8 a month the rest of his life. His widow and minor children will also roceivo a pension. Besides those of 60 years and over, all persons of any age who are dependent and served in the army or navy as aforesaid, -will be placed upon the pension rolls at the same rate. The amount necessary to meet this added expenditure will not be lees than $40,000,000 a year,

The Chicago Tribune calls for the establishment in that city of great central plants which shall furnish steain to manufacturing establishments through pipes under the streets and thus abolish "the awful smoke nuisance," But the steam pipes burst once in a while.

Enthusiastic silver men prophesy that when the silver bill passes it will bring up the price of wheat and cotton abroad and force European to return to silver coinage.

No sounding fhrasos or ioolish boasting are needed to draw attention to Van Werts' Balsam for the lungs. A claim is made for it that it is the best cough medicine on the market, every bottle is guaranteed to do all that it is claimed and everyone is invited to mako a free test of its merits. Volumes of phrase could hot do more to recomm6nd it than this Trial sire fre«. For sale by Low Wisher. S

BURL.INUTON ROUTE

BUT ONE NIGHT CHICAGO TO DENVER. "The Burlington Number One" daily re a a go a m. and arriveE in Denver at 5:30 p. in. the next day. Quicker time than by any other route. Direct connection with this train from Peoria. Additional express trains, making as quick time as those of any other road, from Chicago St.Louis and Peoria to St. Paul, Minno apolis,Council Bluff*,Omaha, Chevenne Denver, Atchison,Kansas City,Houston and all points West, Northwest and Southwest. 2G.

Notice-

Notice is hereby given that the members' the Christian church at Young's Chapel, Montgomery county, Indiana, will meet at Young's Chapel church house, their usual place of worship, on the 31st day of May. 1880, at!) o'elqpk a. m., for the purpose of electing three Trustees for said chun-h to serve until their successors are elected and qualified. By order of the officers, Board.

GEORGE HUTTON, SAMUEL BUTTON, "WILLIS JACKMAN,

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Elders.

People fail in many ways. In business, in morality, in religion, happiness, and in health. A weak heart is often an unsuspected cause of failure in life. If the blood does not circulate properly in the lungs, there is shortness of breath, astma, etc. in the brain, dizziness, headache, etc. in the stomach, wind, pain, indigestion, taint spells, etc,, in the liver, torpidity, congestion, etc, pain in the left side, shoulder, and stomach is caused by heart strain. For all these maladies Dr. Miles' New Cure for the heart and lungs is the best remedy. Sold, guaranteed and recommended by Nye & Co.

Shlloh's Cu.-e will immediately relieve Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis For sale by Moffett, Morgan A: Co. Iff

Is Consumption Incurable? Read the following: Mr. C. H. Morris, Noware, Ark., says: "Was down with abscess of Lungs, and friends and physicians pronounced me as an incurable consumptive. LJegan taking Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, am now

my third bottle, and able to

oversee the work on my farm. It is the liiicst medicine-evermade." Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, OI'in, says: "Had it not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, I would have died of Lung troubles. Was given up by doctors. Am now in b3st of liealth." Try it. Sanm'.e bottles free at Nye & Co's. drug store.

CROUP. WHOOPING OOUGH aud Bronchitis Immediately r«Ueveil by riiiiloh'o cult Jloffntt, -Monti'.'! t. Go.

A dose of Simmon's Liver Regulator, taken dailv, will relieve and prevent indigestion.

Cold In the head? or Chilblains? or Chafing? or a Burn? or any Old Soreb'r The beat thing in th" world for It is Colman't Petroleum Balm. Got a.free sample at the dru« «-tore of Nye & Co.

From Geo. H. Thayer, of Bourbon Ind.: "Both myself and wife owes our life to Shlloh's Consumption Cure." For sale by MofToU. Morgan\fc Co.

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BIck He&d&cho and relieve all tbo trouble* lncfr dent to a bilious etato of the system, auoh as DixdxiMi, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress after Mtlog, Pain in tbe Bide, &o. Whllo their most Remarkable BUCCGSS has been shown la oaxtog

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Headache, yet Carter's little Liver Pffla eue equally valaable in Constipation, curing and pra« Tenting this annoying complaint, while they also correct all disorders oft ho stomach^tlmulate tha liver and regulate the bowels. Even if they nniy

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FAcba they wonld bo almoatprioeless to those who Buffer from this distressing complaint but fortunately their goodness does notend here,and those who once try them will find theee little pills valu. Able In so many ways that they will not be willing to do without thom. But after all sick hea4

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(lathebane of so many Uvea that here la when I we make our groat boaat. Oar pills cure it whilo 'Others do not. I Carter's Little Liver Mia are very small and very easy to take. One or two pills mako a dose.

Thoy are striotly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please all who use them. In Tlals at 25 cents five for $1. Sold hy druggists everywhere, or sent by ^CARTER MEDICINE CO., New York

SMALLPILL SMALL DOSE. SMALLPRICE

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Stand by Those Who Stand by You

We have now completed arrangements for a sale of Popular New Goods at Prices which will make us

The Friend of every Economical Buyer

We keep the best Qualities, Styles and Assortments.

For Ladies' Gents' and Children's Wear.

OUR SPBOILTY. To Please Our Customers. OUR AIM. To Save Money For Our Patrons. OUR INTENTION. To Do Better By You than Anyone Else. Stand Up and Tell Us if you can Where Goods can be Bought Cheaper for

None are Allowed to Undersell

fks. 105 and 107 North Washington Street

Meritorious Successful Opening

OF THE

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-A-nd IRijLToToer C3roods

This sale started Saturday last and from the time the doors were

thrown open in the morning till they were closed at night one

uninterrupted rush of bargain seekers crowded the store,

118 East Mam Street,

To its utmost capacity, notwitnslanding the preparations we had

made to accommodate the expected rush, our store room was

not large enough to admit the large throng. Six sales­

men were kept busy throughout the day dishing out

Quarters and Dollars in Shoes For Nickels and Dimes in Cash

In short footwear was almost given away. Just think!

A nice kid button shoe for babies, only 15 cents, worth $ .60 A Lady's good house slipper for 5 50 A Ladies'nice Kid Button Shoe for. 80 200 A Man's Nice Dress Shoe for 90 2.50

The above are but samples of how cheap footwear is slaughtered

at this sale We call attention to the fact that

This Stock is Complete

Throughout in all its branches. Everything fresh and clean. In it

you will find from the very finest grade of a Ladies' hand turned French kid shoe down to a women's cheap work boot, and by order of the court of Cook county, Ills., the entire stock

mustbesoldat once for less than

50 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR

To satisfy the claims of judgment creditors. Those wishing to profit by this, the Biggest Gigantic Sacrifice Sale of Booti, Shoes, Slippers,

Rubber Goods, etc., in the history of the city must not fail to pay us an early visit. Come early while the assortment is complete and sizes and widths unbroken.

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Chattel Mortgage Sale,

118 East Main Street.

1st Door East of Court House.

M. McDONALD, Receiver.