Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 April 1893 — Page 7

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PROMPT RELIEF

For biliousness. diarrhoea, nausea, and dizziness, take

Aybr's Pills

the best family medicine, purely vegetable, /lEvery Dose Effective

will save liio dyspeptic from many days of misery, nnci enable Itlm to «at nhatever lie wiskus. Xliey prevent

Sick Headache?

canse the food to assimilato ami nourish the li'.jdy, give keen si|e|4jtite, and

GIT ©Isp Flesh

and solid innncle. Fiogantly iHJgar coated, I'ricc, 23cts. per box. SOUD EVERYWHERE.

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remarkable

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Pt^nresColas.Coughs,Sore Throat,CroupJnfluea ta,Whooping Cough, Bronchitis stud Asthma. Acer t&ia cure for Consumption iu first suges, and a sure rclie in advanced stages. I'so at ouce. You will see tho excellent effect after taking the first dose. Bold fcj dealers every u,ii._rc. Large Willed, t/j ccutf aud $1.00.

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•NESS a, HEAD NOISES CBRESbr l-ock'a INVISIBLE TUBULAR

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Ceaxisos Mis Nasa Passages, Allays Pain and

Inflammation,

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CUSHIONS. Whispers heard. Com-

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CATARRH

CREAM BALM

mam

Heals the Sores.

Restores tlie Senses of Taste and Smell.

HAY-FEVER

A. particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable. Price 50c at drug-gists by mail, registered (10c—Ei^Y BROS., 5U Warren street, New York.

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SCIENTISTS

THE

PHYSICIANS

noii

ORIGINAL MALT.

RECOMMEND

MEREDITH'S

PURE MALT!

FOB ALL

Pulmonary and Bronchial Complaints.

A stimulant nnd tonic without equal. War* ranted Chemically Pure. Sold by uJi Dru^jrista. G. W. MEREDITH & CO., Sole Props.

EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO.

KAILROADS.

[Copyright Reserved. 1

No invention of modern times, or perhaps of either ancient or modern times, has added, or is capable of adding to the sum of human happiness as railroads have done and may do. By this invention man can outstrip in rapidity of motion the swiftest animal that lives. Tbe most distant parts of continents are in closer practical relation with each other than the distant parts of small nationalities were to each other, prior to the advent of railroads. What it took days, and even weeks to accomplish before railroads were brought into use. can now be accomplished in as many hours by their aid. But wonderful an aid as it may be to promote the welfare and happiness of mankind its primary use is to minister to r.nd foster the selfishness' of ver3- 6mall part of the people. What it is, os a benefit to mankind, it is in spite of its owner.

The prime object of those who control and own the railways of the country is private gain, and not the promotion of the public benefit. In the management of the postal system of the country the object is to give the most eilicient service at the least cost. In the management of the railroads the msin object is to charge all the traffic will bear, and if the public protest railway kings will reply, "The public be damned." But the injury done to the public by the selfish management of the railways is not confiued to their unjust charges for the services they perform. Stock gambling in raiiroad stocks and bonds has begotten a general and wide spread tendency to gamble in almost every line of business. What virtue is there in a people who suppress gambling in lotteries, by which the public lose one dollar, and are indifferent to other forms by which the people lose a thousand dollars for every dollar lost by lotteries. Those who control the railroads are among the most earnest supporters of specie payment and of the gold standard not because either is necessary to the operation of them in moving freights and passengers and doing what is necessary to the legitimate business of railroads. But is is very convenient to the gambling side of railway operations to have the government committed to a financial policy that will relieve thetn in case of a collapse in their gambling operations and put the loss on the people. The system under private control has also made us a great tribute paying people to foreigners. The latest statistics of railways, and a general knowledge of the cost of things will enable us to get some idea of the cost of the roads of the country. 'Lhe valuation of the railways of the country as given by the owners of them is §9,829,475,015 according to the report of the Inter State Commerce Commission the cost per mile is $60,942.

The length of single track is given at 21(5,149.14 miles, on 168,402.74 miles of line of railway. If we assume that iron is used weighing GO pounds to the yard tho amount of iron required to lav a mile of track would be 10") 3 5 tons. Multiplying this sum by the number of miles of single track gives the number of tons of rails used to lay the track on 216,149 miles of line at 22,095 645, the cost of the iron at S30 per ton would amount to £048.759,9(10. The number of cars is given at 1,215,(ill. Assuming thit 29,000 were other than freight cars, would leave the latter at I,ISO.611.

The cost of these at the figures as given by the Pennsylvania Central $540 per car would make the cost of freight cars $040,769,940 29,000 passenger, baggage and mail cars at $3,000 per car would amount to $87,000,000 32,129 locomotives at $8,000 eneh on the average would amount to $257,032,000. Here we have the cost of rails, locomotives and cars—which constitute much more than half the cost and equipment of the railroads of the country—at $1,633,5(51,900, one billion, six hundred and thirty-three million, five hundred and sixty one thousand, nine hundred dollars. The items above enumerated amount to $9,759.15 per mile, and assuming that they cover only one-half the cost of the roads, including everything properly chargeable to their cost and equipment, the cost per mile would be $19,518.30 per mile. Under the present management they are made to pay over 11 per cent on a capital of $19,218 30 per mile, which is not quite one-third of the amount of capital per mile as given by the owners.

Whit the actual cost of the railroads is, to those who own them, is not in reach of the people. We can only make such general estimates as carry a probable certainty of their correctness and according to the estimates made the whole system cost $3,267,123,800. If we deduct from that sum what has been donated by the nation, States, counties, townships, cities and private citizens, the cost of the system will not be mucti above $2,000,000,000,and deducting from that what was supplied from the earnings of the roads towards their construction there are probably not over $1,000,000,000 that were drawn from other sources for the construction of the entire system of the country.

If the same principle governed the management of the railroads that governs the management of the postoffice department, or that the city of Paris applies to corporations of that city, the cost of the whole system on bonds and debts outstanding would probably not amount to $750,000,000 to-da^.

The amount of revenue drawn from the people by the railroads in seven months' time will buy the iron now in use on the 216,000 miles of trackage, the revenue of seven months will pay for all the freight cars in use by all the railroads of the country, and six months' revenues will pay for all the locomotives and cars other than freight on the entire system. It will not be admitted by the roads that such an estimate will cover the cost of rails and equipment, but it seems to me it approximates very nearly the cost of them, and if nearly correct it shows that the revenues of the roads for forty months will build the entire

system or equal the cost of the entire system. The railroads, as now conducted, will become an intolerable burden to the people, when their m'ethods of extortion become a leading political question, as they will sooner or later.

The method by which the railroads have secured such a vast capitalization is outlined, to some extent, in an article in the Nurih American Revieic, iu the February, 3888, number, headed "A Chapter of Wabash.

The whole of the article would not be inapt in this connection but only a few extracts will be given: "I't will be seen at this j:oint that this receivership was ordered by Judge Brewer upon the application of the debtor company iteelf, before a default had taken place, and without notice to any creditor, and that one of the receivers had in 1880 been the president of the company, and from 1879 to 1883 continuously a director. It is also tin undoubted fact that Mr. Humphrey had been a large stockholder, as well as an influential director during nil these years. Mr. Tutt, who was the president of a bank in St. Louis, was at the time of his appointment a director of the Wabash, as well as a stockholder. Neither of these receivers was in any proper sense a railroad man, and neither of them had any practical experience in the management of railroad properties." "Ttnib this immense property called the Wabash system was instantly thrown into the hands of receivers, upon an application made solely by the Wabash company itself, before default, without the knowledge or notice of any one except the immediate actors." "Subsequently Gen. Swayne, at the hearing before Judge Gresham, avowed his sole responsibility for these ordere, virtually acquitting both court and clients of all complicity therein. These orders were characterized by one of the counsel for the dissenting bond holders at the time of hearing as 'the highwayman's clutch' on our throat the robbers demand 'jour money or your life' and Judge Gresham felt constr.-iined to say of them that 'the boldness of this scheme to aid the purchasing committee by denying equal rights to all the land holders secured by the same mortgages is equalled only by its injustice." "Such is the rise and fall of W abash.

The story now told needs only brief epitomizing, thus: The Wabash system arose from the absorption and consolidation of 68 separate original corporations. When thus consolidated the system owned and controlled in 1883 about 4,814 miles of railroad in the six States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. Its capital stock was increased between 1877 and 18S3 from $40,000,000 to $50,174,700. Its funded or mortgage debt was increased during the same period from $20,311,560 to $76,394.075. Three qarterly dividends were paid on the entire preferred stock in 1881—the year after the general mortgage in 1880—amounting to'$1,036,639. Within two years and a half after these "dividends" the company made default on the interest of all its mortgage debt. In May, 1884, the entire property was, on the application of the debtor company alone, secretly placed in the hands of Humphreys and Tutt, two of its former directors and otiicers, men without any special qualifications for raiiroad management and who had been part of the directorate which had brought the system to bankruptcy.

The struggle here it will be noticed was not to squeeze about $06,000,000 of watered bonds and stocks out of the Wabash system in the interest of the public, but of one part of the wreckers to over-reach a part of their fellow wreckeis and it shows how a capitalization of over $10,000,000,000 has been accomplished of the railroads when they have cost less than $4,000,000,000 and a large part of that has been furnished from the earnings of the roads.

Now let us see what the whole railroad system cost, taking the 4,814 miles of roads before they were united iu the Wabash system.

The capital stock and mortgage debt of the system am.-.unted to $00,311,570 before the separate roads were consolidated, which was about $12,525 per mile. The thir rate the 168,402 miles would have cost $2,109,235,050.

equipped with an increase of slock and mortgage bonds to the amount of 866,257,205. At. this capitalization the cost of the Kvst.em was $26,292 per mile, or more than double what it was before the

I wreckers got hold of it. sis the 168.402 miles of

Why

Upon this baroad would cost

$4,433,025,384 This enormous increase in the capitalization of the Wabash sys t.em did probably not add a dollar to its capacity for business.

Whatever was done to increase its capacity for business, if anything

Why is Strictly

Pure

White Lead the best paint Because it

will outlast all other paints, ^ive a handsomer finish, better protection to the wood, and the first cost will be less.

If Barytes and other adulterants of white lead are "just as rood" as Strictly Pure White Lead, \Yliy are all the adulterated white leads always branded Pure, or

..." Strictly Pure White Lead?"

This Barytes is a heavy white powder tground stone), having the appearance of white lead, worthless as a paint, costing only about a cent a pound, and is only used to cheapen the mixture. What shoddy is to cloth, Barytes is to paint. Be careful to use only old aud standard brands of white lead.

"Armstrong & McKelvy" "Beymer-Bauxnan" "Eckstein" "Fahnestock" "Anchor" "Kentucky" "Morley" "Southern" "Shipman" "Red Seal" "Collier" "Davis-Chambers"

are strictly pure, Old Dutch" process brands, established by a lifetime of use. For colors use National Lead Co.'s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors with Strictly Pure White Lead.

For sale by the most reliable dealers in paints everywhere. If you are going to paint, it will pay you to send to

lor a book containing informa

tion that may save you many a dollar it will only cost you a postal card to do so.

NATIONAL LEAD CO.,

Cincinnati Branch. Cincinnati, ... Ohio.

For Sale.

A good mare and colt, mare 7 years old, gentle and can be driven by women and children. Perfectly safe and reliable. For further information call on or address John Hugeliiei,m d-lt w-2t Mace, Indiana.

Farm For Sale or Trade. A farm of 400 acres, 160 acres of timber, 240 under fence and in cultivation, about 170 acres of river bottom land good house, barn, orchard and excellent water, clear of incumbrance, in Whitfield county, Georgia. "Will sell or trade for a farm in Montgomery county. Call at office of PAUL BRUNKR.

Xotice.

If your name is on our books please call at the mill and settle. J. L. THURSTON. 4 8w4t Sperry Mills.

note's lour Complexion? Most toilet preparations ruin the face. Ro/.odorodoes not. It is guaranteed toremove i'racltles, tan, sunburn and blotches of all kinds, leaving the face a natural white, and imparling a youthI'ul delicacy and soft uess to the skin. Thousands of ladses have used it- for years and would t'Ot. be without it. If there is no agent, yc-ur locality, send 75 cts. to the Rozodoro Co., South Bend, Ind., for a lurtre buttle sent in plain .vraupea. xYgents wanted.

Children Cry for

Pitcher'® Qastoria.

After Jav (iouiil and his fellow opt»ra- I sale at. Moileu Morjran s, exclusive intents I :JH Mam street, ruwlordsville, md, where a tore bait jomed those bb separate cor-! tree treatment is io\«'n. A invited. .v.'! porations into one system thev were ..

WUB

done, was by the application of its surplus earnings. S. B. HOEFGEN.

Deafness Cannot be Cured.. by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion ot the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inilammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing.will be destroyed forever nine casc« out. of ten are caused by catarrh which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.

We will give One Hundred Dollars for an case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.

F. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 75c.

A Romance In a Sutshell She went to a ball wore too thin clothitij.': caught cold: was very ill tor many days: a devoted admirer brought a remedy, when her life seemed to hang by a thread: her took it: recovered, and finally married the man who had saved her life. And. the remedy he brought her was Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which is a certain cure for all throat and lung diseases and scrofulous complaints, of which consumption is one.

A Free TrfalforYou:

Wo will send any reader of this notiei who will write and ask for it

NOW.

500

SAM C. SCOTT is with us.

J'lt won

"rub*

a trial

package of our Heart (Jure Tabules. which have eureu thousands of the various forms of heart trouble, dyspepsia, with palpitatnie and constriction, rheumatism, stiffness of joints, Fluttering pulse, dropsy, biliousness, etc. Write for 1 rial package, or if suffering from any disease send symptoms. Address,

TAKCLKS MEDICINE CO.,

South

liend, Ind. Our remedies for nervousness and consumption are becoming very popu lar.

When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When the had Children, she gave them Castoria.

Fx-(•or. f'ha*e tip en ks.

MH.UIKV A: Co., 1. hiciigo. TtiMitK. Dear Sirs.—1 wisli lo recoiiiiiieiul ynni- catarrh ejre with medicine to all alllietcd with cnliin-h or throat, tioable. as I, lx-mir out ol' lit.-:i.i 11. found such immediate relief thai. I know a cure must follow and I will not Travel without it. Respectfully yours.

1 KA .1. I'11 ASK.

Indianapolis. Iiid.

H.amey's Great. l)i.-eover.\ For Catarrh is for

I ft'el it 111.- duty to s-tv a lew wonts regard to 12 y's Cream Uaim, ami I do -o entirely without solicitation. I have used

it. more or less half a year, ami liave found it to be most admirable. 1 h.ice suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever since I was a little hoy and 1 never hoped for a cure, but Crtam Halm seems to do even that. M«n.v of mv acquaintances have used it wilh excellent results —Oscar Os4 5 W a re A a II I

Children Cry for

Pitchers Castoria.

.1 Life Saved.

In many instances where pure and nutritive tonics were used. The greatest system builder for invalids, convalescents, week and aged people is the "Old Gibralter Tokay Wine." Bold only in quart bottles. This wine is the vintage 1881, bright and clear, has a marvelous boquet, very invigorating and strength ening, very apetizing, good also in dyspepsia. lleconimended b)' tho medical faculty on account of itf strength-giving qualities, this being a pure and unadulterated wine, well matured, is truly the wine of life. Be sure to specify "Old Gibralter Tokay." Only $1.00 per quart. Sold by Moft'ett & Morgan and Nye & Booe. 3-153 4-24

Would You He Attractive? You must be healthy. Would you be healthy, always keep within roach, ready for any emerirency. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the perfection of physic! Headache, billiousness, constipation, a coated tongue, always indicate a torpid liver These magical pellets act directly upon the liver—the fountain-head of many ills -correcting all disorders, driving out all 1m purities, stimulating healthy action. The best Liver Pills mildly giving all the benefit and none of the discomfort of other pills,

A Few Special Bargains

Our new Spring Dress (i Silks.

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1 nro:ihvay, Kcw York,

Send for Alabastine Rock for Souvenir, Free also Tint Card.

Mention this paper.

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FOR THIS WEEK.

Straw itiinjr Rugs at

r,KV.AK.i "•ft 01? enprszs CQru.M-. sot.-!

Manufactured on Heiont'ifio P-i knov. nil over tho civili-

10 els.

250 Ladies Light alico Skirls at. .25 cts. each

'5° I^oz. Ladies Jersey Ribbed Vests. 5 cts. each

1OOCIS

Our Stock of Ilosierv has liever been surpassed. New Spring Jackets and Capes at one-third less than others ask for same goods.

Our Millinery Opening was a grand success. Beautiful Styles. Lxquisite trimmings. Artistic workmanship and moderate prices prevail with us.

Respect full v.

Goods New and Strictly First-class. Call and see us.

each

are lovely..- lOveryth

ABE LEV IN SON.

MSM

105 South Washington Street.

NEW GROCERY STORE,

X. 11.—It is not claimed tliat. all who live within papered walls die iiiiirli before their time, l)ut tiiey will enjoy better health with wall coatings (t't'l'l'j I'm., 'eriiuiiient, I'orous aud I'retty,

For Salo by 1'alnt. dealers everywhere.

ALABASTJME CO,,, GRAND RAPIDS, SVhcn.

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BEST r.n-

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A. J. McMl'LLKN & SON.

OUTnoDT knows lint, wall paper, wIMi its vegetable pnsto and its colorlngg In

animal p-luc, Is unsanitary, 11 nd that to apply ropcutod layers of sucli Is a very "nasty practice," ns well as dangerous. Kalsoinino

temporary, rots, rulis off und scales paint slop# wall roNplral.lon" needed to purify walls. Send toiw for a paper from Michigan State ltourd of Health ro-

Tin: Pof-Ton.—" One layer port oil tills siilijecf, rec-

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Church's Ala-

may recover bin caiinut iMistine mid phistlco only for walls of dwellings. Alahaslino forms pure, permanent and porous coatings, 11 ltd does not require lo lio taken off to renew from 1 into to 1 line 5 Is a drj powder, ready for uso by adding- water (the latest mako Is used in C()M water and Is never sold 111 bulk) ran be easily brushed 011 by any one made in wlilto mid twclvo fashionable tints, and In tlirvo shades, from -nlilcli decorators ir.nko the balance of forty shades nltown on their caul.

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'R-fKES'T)-"My Iti-^epl.ililo :uid Nutritious, i.lic Poor of all Cocoas.

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