Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 March 1893 — Page 7

The Baby.

Tho little, tottering baby feet. With tailoring steps and slow, Willi paltering cchoes soft and sweet.

Into my heart they go They also no in grimy plays, .: In muddy pools and dusty ways Then through the house in irackful maze

They wander to :uil fro. The baby hands that cla.sp my neck With touches dear to me Are lie

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hands that smash and wreck

The ii.l.stand, foul to see They pound the mirror with a cane They rend the manuscript in tvnin Widespread destruction they ordain.

In wasteful jubilee.

The dreamy, nuiriiuirimc voice That cooes it.4 little tune, That makes the listening heart rejoico.

Like birds in leafy June, Can wake in midnight dark and still, And all the air with howling till. That splits the ear with echoes shrill,

Liko cornets out of tune. -li. J. Burdctte.

A WONDEK IN OUR MIDST

The North Washington Street Gullies Command the Attention of the Scientific World.

In the current issue of the Scientific American is tin extended article on the erosions at the foot of Washington Btreet,. The article is by Dr. H. C. Hovey and as it ia very interesting is reproduced as follows

A formidable ravine has been created by erosion, at Crawfordsville, Indiana, within the memory of many living witnesses. In order to understand its poouliar features we must first recall some salient facts concerning the geology of the region. The tertiary rocks are altogether wanting. Limestones, rich in marine fossils of the lower carboniferous age, lie in nearly horizontal strata, with few signs of seismic disturbance. The soil is fertile and used to be clothed with magnificent forests, now mostly felled The general surface is fiat, or gently tin dr.lating, except as broken by glacial and post glacial action, in the form of moraines and ravines of drainage. In other words, there are no hills caused by upheaval. Cutting through the loam and subsoil, we usually find but a few yards of gravelly clay before striking the underlying rocks.

Here and there, however, and without any marked change of the surface, the drift is found to have an extraordinary depth. Could the soil and drift of middle Indiana be wholly removed, we should find the denuded rocks carved into numerous basins, which must have been full to the brim when the great glacier of the ice age came down from the north. These pre-glacial lakes must have been frozen solid by the intense oold that heralded the glacier's ap proach. The advance and retreat of the ice would override the frozen basins, as well as the limestone edgee, spreading over the entire region its burden of de bris brought down from the highlands of Canada. This load was made np of primitive rocks rounded into bowlders, crushed into sand, or decomposed into clay. In many cases, as we may suppose, the drift would gradually displace the contents of the basins. But in other cases the basin ice would lie for a long time buried under an arch of stratified drift, and when it finally thawed it would exist as a masB of water-bearing clay or as a subterranean lake.

Aft6r a while more influential voices sounded the alarm and a sturdy fight was begun, to prevent the ruin of the northern part of the city. Strong dame were built but the water seemed to delight in undermining the logs and rocks, and in setting human ingenuity at defiance. The two ravines, from the two streets named, united at a bluff, leaving a kind of island on which was a cottage and a garden as recently as recently as ten years ago. The island is now reduced to a singular peak, sixty feet high, with a flat top only a few feet/ square.

As the erosion, progressed it finally tapped the subterranean lake to which reference has been made. A powerful stream burst forth from the wall of the ravine, and hundreds of people went to Bee the alarming phenomenon. NumerOUB adjacent wells went dry. The stream thus suddenly created continues to flow, but with diminished volume, owing partly to the caving in of the wallB of the ravine, and partly, perhaps to the draining of the reservoir. This matters lees than it might have done formerly, for now the city obtains an admirable supply of water from artesian wells. By means of suitable sewer pipes the drainage is now conveyed to the river in a manner to obviate further washing from that cause. Washington street has also been carried down through the lower ravine to the level of the stream.

By dint of persevering efforts and incessant vigilance, the work of erosion is finally under control, so that no further idjury need be feared for the beautiful and growing city on the bluffs. But the existing ravines, formed within a period of about forty-seven years, within their canyons, peaks, cliffs and terraces, look more like some region in Arizona than any portion of the Hoosier State.

The city of Crawfordsville is built direotly over such a hidden reservoir. The citizens found to their surprise that while one man might sink a well fifty feet or less and find an inexhaustible supply of the purest water, his neighbor's well would be dry at a depth of a hundred feet, or else would reach some scanty vein of water impregnated with mineral impurities. The sulphur springs of the valleys also must have had a different source from the wells of limpid water. The fact that the latter were limited to a definite area led us to conclude that these shafts touched a subterranean lake, or its equivalent bed of saturated clay or sand. The plateau, or what may be described as such, on which the city stands, is broken along its northern boundary by abrupt bluffa of stratified drift, at whose base flows tho river known aB Sugar Creek. Both above and below these bluffs the stream cuts through the solid limestone walls of the pre-glacial lake. Similar walls are found by going a mile or so in other directions. The depth of the ancient

basin may be inferred from the fact that the bluffs now rise to the height of 60 or 80 feet above the river, Trhile recent borings just across the'stream have been made through drift to the depth of 150 feet below water level, without reaching the underlying rock. Mr. Charles Beechler is making a special study of this old lake basin, with promise ot interesting results

In my boyhood I

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those bluffs in

their natural condition,as they had been kept from erosion, probably for ages, by the roots of dense thickets and great trees. But in 1845 the local aut liorities, ignoring the warning given to those on a sandy foundation, turned the drainage of the city in the direction of the bluffs. Porallel ditches were plowed from Green and Washington streets to the edge of tho bluffa, and the trees and briars were cleared away. The result WHS a rapid and wonderful transformation. The ditches became pullies, and the gullies became ravines, while men went about their daily business unconcerned. As early as 1850 the writer surveyed the ravages already wrought, and noted the broad acres that had even then been swept into the river to such extent as to modify its channel materially. He went on a fruitless errand to the authorities, who only laughed at his boyish fears.

SHE WAS SURPRISED.

So I ill You Be When You It.

IT CERTAINLY IJAS BEEN A SOURCE OF WONDER AND COMMENT.

But the Lady is Ready to Substantiate

Everything.

CHARI/ESTOWN, MASS. There has been in this place much wonder and comment of late in regard to a cvrliuu liidyMrs. Agnes S. Morton, who resides at 388 Main street, Charlestown, Mass. She was seen at her home and explained the whole interesting matter as follows: "I do not know how to express myself to you and the public at large about this matter," she said, "but 1 feel it my bounden duty to say something. "Everybody knows that I have been a great sufferer from dyspepsia for twen ty-five years and that tried most every thing and different doctors, but all were failures. I became so weak that I was unable to walk steadily, had no appetite and what I did eat was the most simple kind of food but my stomach was un able to retain even that. "I could not sleep at night, had no ambition for anything, and was a total wreck. I knew I would have to do something as I could not 6tand it many weeks longer. "Why could not go up stairs without Bitting down, and my heart would beat and I would be all of a tremble. I got a bottle of Dr. Greene's

Nervura blood and nerve remedy and had taken scarcely one-half of it when I began to have an appetite and when I finished the remainder the trembling had left me, the palpitation was better and I could sleep nights. I took four bottles and then left off to see if the great benefit I had received was permanent for everything I had taken before had proved only temporary.

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MRS. AGNES S. MORTON.

"But I found that it was not so in this case. I have not taken it now for some time and its results are just as good and permanent. "I must tell you I am like a new person. I have an excellent appeti'e, can eat anything and everything, and I feel buoyant and ambitious. "I can't express half I want to, and all this is perfectly true, as all my friends and acquaintances are knowing tb all the facts. "I never expected to be cured as my case had been of so loDg standing. I hoped for nothing more than relief for a while but I am cured, perfectly cured. Yes, I do not hesitate to Bay that through the blessing of God and Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy I am completely cured."

Such is the lady's remarkable story, and we doubt if such wonderful cureB have ever before been made as are effect ed by this truly valuable discovery, Dr. Greene's blood and nerve remedy.

It is a fact that everybody needs a Bpring medicine, something to tone up and strengthen the nerves, invigorate the blood and start up a healthy action of the organs and no medicine in the world so perfectly and completely does this as Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It is the ideal spring invigorant and restorative.

All can secure its great benefits as it is for Bale by druggists for SI. It is, too, a purely vegetable and harmless medicine, the prescription in fact of the well-known, successful specialist,in nervous and chronic diseases, Dr. Greene, of 35 W. 14th Street, New York who can be consulted free of charge, personally or by letter.

"Home, Sweet Home,"

When all the battles are lost and are won, The last word spoken, tho argument done. Which, which is the best land under the sun? The question is pondered by you and mo As our barks are sailing life's mystic sea, But as to the answer we disagree.

"Oh, tho very best land," says tho German, "is mine!" And his heart beats quick and his moist eyes shino As he loudly sings "I)io Waoht am Rhine."

But the Frenchman jeers at the German's raise. While a tribute to France you hear him raise In the fervent strains of tho "Marseillaise." At the Frenchman's boasting tho Scotchman crier..

What land so bonny beneath the skies As tho land whero the great Sir Waller lies?"

Then a Muscovite voice is heard to declare, Were my fellow creatures but wise and fair They'd dote to a man on the Russian bear."

Tho Irishman answers, with a scornful smile. Go over the universe, mile by mile, And you'll liml no land like the Kmcra'.d Isle."

Tho Englishman comments in accents bland, I'm thinking there's only one civilized laud, And Britain's its name, you

must

understand.'

The Yankee, rising, with deep emotion Exclaims, "I'm firmly si in tl.e notion My eagle's the gem of tho land or tho ocean!" So after the battles aro lost and won. The last word spoken, the nrgumcnt dono. Which, which is the best land under the sun?

Tho question is pondered by you and me Asour barks aru Bailini life's mystic sea. And, on second thinking, we all agreel

We are not divided, saving in name In essence each choice is really tho sameIt springs from a common, inetTablo tlame.

Whatever our race, wherever we roam. The spot that is dearest to each is home, Tlio toastdriuik deepestis"IIoin",s\veet home.1'

Brandon liaiuier.

WIPED OUT.

Gov. McKinley's Debts Are About All Paid.

HIS ADMIRERS Fl'R5lSH THE CASH.

Trustee Kohlsaat Say* That Funds Sufficient to Pay I'p All of Ilia gabions by April 1 lluvt

Keen Received.

CHICAGO, March 13.—In less than three weeks every dollar of the obligations which fell upon Gov. McKinley through tlie failure of Mr. Walker will have been paid, for Trustee Kohlsaat has received nearly 895, 000 by popular contributions ranging from 81 to §5,000. Ever since the trouble occurred the generous public has been individually trying to help McKinley out by sending in small amounts. The governor's pride caused him to return the money. But those who were of like political faith with the governor, and even those who disagreed with him, were anxious to pay tribute to his sterling worth.

When it was found that Mr. Kohlsaat was receiving donations to help Ohio's governor out of financial straits the contributions came in a deluge. Tcf prevent a second refusal the trustee has gone quietly to work and has taken up the Walker paper as it has matured and by the first of April will have all of the indebtedness incurred by McKinley's indorsements paid up, which will save both the governor's and his wife's property intact, and there will be no necessity for McKinley's withdrawal from politics. Many touching tributes were contained in some of the letters.

Will Start Up Apaln.

YOUSOSTOWN, O., March 13.—Application was made in court Saturday afternoon in the suit of the Second national bank against the Youngston Stamping company, of which Robert L. Walker was president, for an order authorizing Receiver lline to operate the plant until further notice. A committee representing the creditors joined in the application and Judge Johnson granted the order, and the works will resume operations this morning. It was through the failure of this institution that Gov. McKinley became financially involved.

SMITH CANCELS PERMITS.

Acts Promptly on News of Fraud In Tlm-ber-Cuttinic 1'rivlleges. WASHINGTON, March 13.—Secretary Hoke Smith has revoked and canceled the permits which were issued February 13 last to the lilackfoot Milling company and the Bitter Root Development company, of Missoula county, Mont., to cut 50 per cent. of the timber on the public lands in that county. The permit to the Blackfoot Milling company embraced about 15,000 acres scattered through twelve townships, and that to the Bitter Root company embraced about 12,000 acres. Secretary Jjmith holds strongly to the opinion that the granting of such extensive timber cutting privileges is against public interest and would,if continued, speedily result in the total destruction of the forests of the west. His action in this matter, however, was hastened by the information that fraud was practiced in obtaining the permits.

GOLD FOR THE TREASURY.

Offerings Are Such That Coin Will Now Ho Kecelved Only sit Kubtreasurics. WASHINGTON, March 13.—The treasury situation continues to improve from day to day, and from this time on the treasury department will be in position to take the more advantageous oilers of gold only. The numerous offers of gold from out of the way places caused Secretary Carlisle to notify all interested parties that "gold coin can be received only at the subtreasury offices in exchange for notes." In other words, the govern ment will not pay the expense of send ing money by express to individuals The subtreasury cities are: New York

Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cin cinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, New Or leans and San Francisco.

Henatnr Allen Ilia Own SucecsHor. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 11.--The governor has appointed John B. Allen United States senator to succeed him self, the legislature having adjourned without choosing a senator.

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CURRENT EVENTS.

The Oklahoma legislature has enacted a law exempting mortgages from taxation.

Uoston fire underwriters will advance the rate in the "conflagration district" SI per §100 worth of insurance.

John L. Sullivan atul company wore arrested n,t Cincinnati, Sunday night for violating the Sunday laws.

Edward Moore has been convicted at Chadrun, Neb., of the murder of his partner, Thomas Taltou. Hoth were ninlatoes.

The four Scotch whalers which started last year for the Antarctic are reported homeward bound with {M0,000 worth of oil.

In a lire at Selyville, Pa., Thomas Kane was burned to death. Mrs. Ilvati was also burned in making her escape from the house.

James L. Hamilton, sentenced to die by electricity at Sing Sing this week, has been granted .a respite of one week by Gov. Flower.

The young women of Esthcrville, la., have, decided at a public meetiug to ostracize anybody who appears on the streets wearing crinoline.

Gottlieb Hampp, of St. Louis, was killed while trying to relight ail aro lamp, lie caught the wire in his hand to shake it and fell back dead.

A freight train ou the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. l'aul was wrecked in the Otranto station, Iowa, yards. Engineer George Iliiv.cn was killed

Negroes at Rolling Fork, Miss., took Lee Walton (colored) from jail and hanged him. He had murdered Rufus Haywood, a negro, without cause.

The post olliee at Manitowoc, Wis., has been admitted to the second class and will have a free delivery system. Throe carriers have been appointed.

Lewis L. Doster, aged 02 years, a wealthy lumber dealer of Philadelphia, has committed suicide. Temporary insanity is the supposed cause.

William M. Grinnell has tendered his resignation as third assistant secretary of state. He has arranged to enter the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co., of New York.

Gov. Flower has respited James L. Hamilton, the colored ex-preacher sentenced to be executed at Sing Sing in the week beginning March 13, till further notice.

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Edward Moore has been found guilty of the murder of Tom Talton at Craw ford, Neb., last December. They were soldiers, and the murder resulted from a dispute at cards.

Impeachment proceedings have been begun to oust Judge J. J. Dubose, of the Memphis criminal court. The charges include malfeasance in office and failure to enforco the law against gambling.

In a quarrel over dice at Newcastle, Col., John Winterbottom attempted to shoot another man but missed him and fatally wounded Mrs Little, proprietress of a restaurant. Winterbottom barely escaped being lynched.

Adjutant General Neudorlt will ask the legislature to appropriate $240,000 for the expensee of the Illinois militia for the next two years. A four days encampment at the world's fair will probably he substituted this year for the usual summer camp at Springfield

No Extra MCKSIOII of Congress. WASHINGTON, March 13.—President Cleveland, in conversation Saturday, is reported to have said that he would not call an extra session uf Congress, as the only object—the repeal of the silver purchase act—could not be effected this year. Close times in money matters might make congressmen more reasonable by December, and local theories and sentiments be lost sight of.

INFERIOR GOODS.

The only safe way for purchasers is to insist on having tho genuine article, and not allow themselves to be swindled bv having plasters said to be "just as good" or '-containing superior inpredients," imposed upon them. These are only tricks to sell inferior poods that no more compare with AI.IX'OCK S POIIOCS PLASTEIIS than copper does with ijold One trial of Allcock's Porous Piasters will convince the most skeptical of their merits.

The eminent Henry A. Mott, Jr., Ph. D., C. S., late Government Chemist, certifies:

My investigation of Allcock's Porous Plaster shows it to contain valuable and essential ingredients not found in anv other plaster, and I flml it superior to and more efficient tnan any otlior plaster."

Ask for allcock's and let no solicitation or explanation induce you to accept a substitute.

I have used Aycr's Hair Vigor for a number of years, audit has always given me satisfaction It is an excellent dressing, prevents the hair from turning gray, insures its vigorous growth, and keeps the scalp white and clean."- Maiy A. Jackson, Salem, Muss.

IAtlle, Hat Lively. •'Little drops ol water, Little grains of sand, •J Make the mighty ocean,

And the pleasaut land.

And droppiug into prose, we would say, that Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets aro mild, but prompt in relieving constipation, sick headache, btllious attacks, pain in the region of kidneys, torpid liver, and in restoring a healthl.v, natural action to tho stomach and boweis 25 cents a vial. One Pellet a dose. Little but lively. The use of the old style, drastic pills is an outrage to the human system.

IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS. Tho cream of tho country papers is found in Remington's County Seat Lists. Shrewd advertisers avail themselves of theso lists, a copy of which can bo had of Remington Bros., of Now York & Pittsburg.

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List of Chairmen of the Several Senate Committee*. WASIIINGTOX, March 14.—The senatorial steering committee has practically completed its labors. The positions democratic senators will occupy on the various committees during the democratic ascendency in the senate liavo been decided 1141011. Senator

Voorhees (Ind.) will be chairman of the committeo on finance. Senator Coekrcll (Mo.) is made chairman of the committee on appropriations. S011ator Gorman (Md.) is chairman 01' the I committee 011 printing. Senator Hill (N. Y.) lias been given the chairman ship of the committee on immigration.

Senator Murphy (N. Y. 1 lias been made chairman of the committee 011 elections. All the populist senators have been given chairmanships of lesser importance. The democratic senatorial steering committee have not disturbed the republican assignments 011 committees. It is assumed that tho republican senators will keep the places they now have on committees, and by the addition of a democrat, or the removal of a republicau place the democratic members iof each committee in the majority.

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Senator Hrico (O.) has been added to the appropriations committeo. A new committee has been formed out of the old committee on the president's mes sage transmitting the report of the Pacific railway commission. This com inittee is now officially known as tho committee 011 Pacific railways, and Senator Brico is named as its chair-

man. Tha chairmen of the other committees arc given as follows:

Agriculture un(l forestry, Gnome: claims, Pasco: commerce, Ruusoirr. education atul labor, Kyle civil service, Pertcr llslierins, Coke: lorelun relations, MOI-KIUI improvement of tlio Mississippi, Bate: Indian affairs, Jones: interstate commerce, Uutler: judiciary, Pnnh manufactures, Gibson: mljltary affairs, Walthall naval affairs, MePhersori: pensions, Palmer post ofllces uml post roads, Colquitt: privileges and elections, Vance: public buildiiiRS and grounds, Vest public lands, Berry railroads, Camden revision of tho laws of the United Slates, -Daniel: rules, Blackburn terri tories, Faulkner: transportation routes to tho seaboard, Irby: forest reservations, Allen civil service, ItocUwitli enrolled bills, Caffrey civil service appropriations, Call coast defenses, Gordon District of Columbia, Harris

University of tlio United States, Hun ton Indian depredations, I-ilmlsuy: geological survey, Martin library, Mills national batiks, Mitchell relations with Canada, Murphy Investigation of trespasses on Indian reservations, Roach expenditures in the departments, Smith mines and mining. Stewart census, Turple: quadro-ceiitennial, Vilas Irrigation, White (Cal.) contingent expenses of tho sonate, White (La.).

SWITCHMEN YIELD.

Tho Threatened Trouble at Chicago la Over for tlie I'reHeut* CHICAGO, March 14. —Vice Grand Master Downey, of the Switchmen's association, has presented to the general managers of the railroads running- into this city the official declaration of the switchmen accepting the answer of tho general managers refusing an increase of pay and stating that no further action would he taken in the matter by the switchmen without sufficient notice being given to everybody concerned.

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State of Indiana, Fountain county. Notice Is hereby (riven to all parties not to purchase or trade lor a certain contract noto dated at Voedorsbtirg, Ind..Oct. 5th, 1802 and signed by W. N. Walter and Hobeeoa A. Walter for the sum ot $7i.00. payable to the Sutherlln Institute (Kcelcu Cure) at Crawfordsville, Ind., and that wo never Intend to pay said note unless said Institute compiles with tlio conditions and considerations tor which said note was obtained. W.N. WAI.TKK, llKllKCCA A. WALTER.

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