Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 October 1893 — Page 3

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A DUNKARD POUT WASHING.

Strauee Oustoms of This Most Hospitable

Sect at Their Oommunion Service.

/Through the kindness of Sheriff Davis representatives of the Crawfordsville papers were enabled to attend a Dunkard meeting near Ladoga last Thursday. It was the occasion of their annual foot washing and from past experience they deemed it necessary to have police protection. Consequently Sheriff Davis was requested to be present and took with him, besides press representatives, Marshal Brothers. The foot washing always attracts a crowd of curious persons, some of whom haven't the common decency to behave themselves in an orderly manner. These rowdies, however, only needed the sight of the Marshal's brass buttons to quiet them and there was only one slight disturbance. The churoh stands a pretty grove, a mile this side of Ladoga, and is a substantial but plain, brick struoture, about 50x100 feet. There is no tower or bell but there is a large basement below the main auditorium and an attio above it. The basement is used as a dining room with a stove and a large open fire place, and a cook stove at one end where the food is prepared. The attic is used for sleeping purposes by those who come from a long distance. They bring their bedding with them and live in the church for days, being furnished with food by their brethren in the neighborhood.

The meetings have been in session for the past two weeks, and practically closed last night with the peculiar services which mark the Dunkards from other Christian denominations.

There were several Crawfordsville parties in attendance, but they all arrived too late for the foot washing service which had been held earlier than usual. The sight on entering the churoh was primitive and quaint, but the earnest and devout faces of the worshippers soon changed the feelings of curiosity to into those of respect and reverence. The communicants, numbering about one hundred and thirty-five, occupied the middle section of the church, seated on plain wooden benches around long tables, the men in one place and the women in another, although there was no sharp dividing line between them. At either end of the church were the spectators, several hundred of them, on benches arranged one row above the other so that all could easily see the various parts of the ceremony. After opening the meeting in the usual manner, with prayer, song and Scriptural reading, one of the ministers preached. At the close the annual observation of the communion service began with the foot washing. The communicants first removed shoes and stockings, boots and socks, and with a p:m of water heated to be comfortable to the feet, the preacher washed the feet of the man at the head of the first table and carefully wiped them. He in turn did likewise to his neighbor and so on around. The women did the same. Throughout the entire performance there was the utmost solemnity, begot, on the part of the Dunkards, of deep religious conviction and on the part of the spectators of respect for the honest opinions of others. After an intermission of a few minutes, during which there were short exhortations, hymn» and the like, the Lord's Supper was observed. The tables were well filled with substantial viando, such as bread, meat, butter, pickles and also beef soup which was filled up with

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the supper was the manner of eating the soup, which probably represents the "sop" of the Bible. It is served in large tin pans and several persons ate from the same pan, not taking the trouble to put it oil thiiir own private plates. After supper is over there is the salutation, or handshake, and the kiss of love, holy kiss or kiss of charity as it is variously called. The men kiss each other and the women do the same turn about as in the foot washing. Then comes the taking of the sacrament just as observed in all evangelioal churches. This practically closes the services but before adjourning the men clear off the tables, the women remaining seated. After a few announcements the audience was dismissed without the benediction. The men also prepare the food for the Lord's table but as good old brother Bonsack remarked, "we let the women do the eeasoninc." Duringjthe preparation for home going the kiss of love was frequently exchanged and in every action could be seen the results of that brotherly love which the Dunkards so emphasize. In appearance the Dunkards are plain, earnest and honest people. The prevailing Btyle of whiskers among the men is full beard minus the mustache, while the women all wore a quaint looking cap of white gauzy material, called the "prayer cap." As in nearly all churches the women are in a majority and the men hold all the offioes. For that section of country including Montgomery, Fountain, Putnam, Boone and Hendricks counties, the elders or bishops are W. R. Harshbarger, L. T. Holsinger, and Mathias Frantz (superannuated). The ministers are Howard H. Keim, S. G. Stoner, Thomas Evereon and M. J. Holsinger the detfcons, David Pefliy, Abram Peffly, Wilfred Harshbarger, Frank Bose, Joseph Himes, Jesse D. Bonk and John R. Peffly. The minister in charge of the two weeks' meetings just closed was Geo. W. Cripe, of Cerro Gordo, Ills.,

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and associated with him were D.D. Eby, of \Vestfield, and Ira Fisher, a student of DePauw University. Sessions were held day and night, frequently beginning as early as half past six in the morning. Last May it was decided to establish a Dunkard college at Ladoga with a capital of $50,000. Owing to the financial depression Mr. L. T. Holsinger, who is at the head of the institution, said the work of soliciting stock had not been pressed very hard and still considerably over half the required amount has been subscribed. A public meeting will take place at Ladoga on Saturday, October 21, for the purpose of raising more money. The college will be open for students in September, 1894, and while it will be denominational it will not be strictly sectarian and all respectable persons will be welcomed.

Although the Dunkards originated in Germany in 1708 the sect is now almost wholly confined to America and particularly to the States of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and Illinois. It has over 500 churchos and over 50,000 members. Their church government is similar to that of the Baptists. Like the Friends they neither take oaths nor fight. It is their purpose to live as near according to the literal meaning of the New Testament as possible and hence their strange customs which other churches disregard as non-essential. They emphasize brotherly love and have no desire for great riches. Their hospitality is proverbial and if all strangers are treated as were the representatives of the press last night surely everyone who knows them will wish them well.

Excursion to St. Louis.

Excursion tickets to St. Louis for nothing! Thursday sometime between the going down of the sun and the coming up thereof some evil minded person or persons played hob out at the Vandalia station. They broke open the window of the ticket office and then went through the place like a circus rider through a paper hoop. Dispatches, private papers and tickets were strewn over the floor in a plenteous profusion calculated to make Agent Hutchinson ask for his church letter in order that he might "indulge." Twenty tickets to St. Louis ware carried off and were presumably stamped by the thieves in order to render them of value. Agent Hutchinson has their numbers, however, and they were sent to headquurters at once in order that the conductor may be warned. The miscreants also broke open the baggage room and bursting open some trunks belonging to traveling men rifled them at leisure. The police are endeavoring to discover who the thieves were. The Vandalia station is burglarized just about once a month.

Th3 Perris Wheel Inventor a floosier. It is not generally known that the projector of the wonderful Ferris wheel, which is a great center of attraction at the World's Fair, the removal of which to New York city as a permanency was contracted for this week,—was the conception of Luther Bice, a young man resident of our neighboring town of Ladoga. Rice is buttwenty-seven years of age, but from childhood has evinced the elements of uncommon ingenuity, an important outlet for which has been afforded him by the great World's Fair. On consummating his plans for the wheel, he Gubmitted them to a number of Chicago capitalists, when Mr. FerriB became the lucky taker. Financially, Mr. Rice was unable to carry out his project. He had acquired a good English education, and taken a collegiate course in engineering, and last, with natural endowments, proved the lucky number. He is now the superintending engineer of the wheel at a salary of 81,500 per week. He is a brainy Hoosier, whose invention has afforded untold pleasure to millions of visitors.— Lafayette Courier.

R. B. 1'. Pierce in Luck.

B. B, F. Pierce and J. C. Shaffer, of Indianapolis, last March purchased the water works of LosAngelos, Cal., for $2,500,000, the stockholders being frightened into a sale by the fact that the city had voted $4,000,000 to put in a plant of her own. A law suit resulted in preventing the oity doing anything of the kind, and now Messrs. Pierce and Shaffer have sold out, clearing $500,000. in view of Mr. Pierce's great loss last winter by the failure of Haughey's bank, his friends will rejoice all the more in his good fortune.

Por the Defendant.

The suit of John Stlngley against Mrs. Lydia Hamilton for $2,500 damages, claimed to have been incurred by the defendant's dog sampling the plaintiff's leg, came to an end in the court Thursday. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. It took five ballots to settle the business, the first standing 8 to 4 in favor of the defense. The venerable dog of Mrs. Hamilton stands before the world with a dark cloud lifted from his character and his mouth for business and trousers' legs as usual.

Tapp U&se Ended.

The snit brought by Mrs. Margaret Petro and Thomas and Preston Paxton to break the will of the late Mary Tapp came up in the circuit court to-day. After the evidence was in the jury was dismissed by agreement and the case given to the court. He found for the defendants, who will, however, pay the costs.

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A VISIT TO LEW WALLACE.

It was a raw November day, and a 'number of traveling men sat shivering about the stove in the office of the Nutt

Chi (ffrafoforitelnllc louriutl.

Three Buckeye Traveling Men Take a Walk Around Town. The St. Louis Globe Democrat has a department devoted to stories told by commercial travelers. Ira L. Sharp, a tourist from Cleveland, tells the following:

House, at Crawfordsville, Ind., when the conversation turned on "Ben Hur" and the fact that we were in the town where lives its author, Gen. Lew Wallace. We learned that his residence was not far away, and some one proposed a pilgrimage to that noted place. The hotel clerk gave us directions and three of us, all Buckeyes, started on the expedition. It was understood that the General was away from home—in Washington, I believe—and the only hope we entertained was to see the home of the famous sol-dier-author, that we might be able to so report to friends at home. After traveling several blocks it became painfully evident that we had missed our way. While we were holding a council as to the direction we should take, we were accosted by a much inebriated individual who hailed us: "Whur zhu fellers (hie) wazzer go?" "We want to find the home of the hero of Fort Donelson and the author of 'Ben Hur,' said one of our party. "I (hie) dunno that Mieher DoTson (hie) nur Be—(hie) Ben eizher," said the Hoosier with drunken gravity, trying to steady the lamp post to keep it from wabbling over onto him. "The gentleman means Gen. Lew Wallace," I explained. "Why'n'ell (hie) didn't he say so?" was the disgusted reply. "I (hie) 'no 'im like a b—(hie) book." "Well, will you tell us in which direction to go to find his residence?" I asked. "Ye—(hie) yes. I'm going (hie) that way myself (hie). Zhentlemen followme."

Our guide, in spite of th^ load he had on, soon brought us to a gate opening into a large lawn, and, bracing himself against a hitching-post, pointed to a two-storv frame house of plain, unpretentious exterior, and said: "There she is. Gen'e'l (bic) Wal'se lives zher. Make yer (hie) selves ter hum, zhe .'l'meus. Sorry (hie) yer so drunk. See yer la—(bic)—later."

The home of Gen. Wallace we found to stand far back from the street and might pass for the home of some prosperous farmer, except that the lawn was better kept and the surroundings more cozy and artistic. Altogethere it was a typical, non aristrocratic Amrican home. While we were noting all these points, a stately, elderly gentleman came out on the veranda and, with erect form and military step, came down the walk to the gate where we were standing. As he was about to pass, I stepped forward, hat in hand, and accosted him. "Have I the honor of speaking to Gen. Wallace?" "That is my name," he said, bowing. "Well, here are three Ohio traveling men who have made a trip out here to see the home of the author of 'Ben Hur.' "Gentlemen, you do me great honor, I assure you," said he in a courtly manner that captured us immediately. "I often think that of all meD in this great country traveling men are the most wide awake, the quickest to approciate, and (with a twinkle in his eye) the least backward about expressing an opinion, favorable or otherwise, on all matters that come under their observation. I am glad you are interested in anything pertaining to my work. I am just about taking my evening 6troll and would be glad to have you join me."

You may well believe we accepted the invitation with alacrity, and for an hour we listened to stories of life at home and abroad, interspersed with funny tales, and laughable anecdotes, one of which I reproduce: "When I first went as Minister to Turkey," said the General, "a very funny thing happened me. One of the first and most important duties I had to fulfill was a call of State which I had to the Sultan. As first impressions are most lasting, I took particalar pains to agreeably impress the Sultan, and though somewhat perturbed in mind over the unaccustomed duty I acquitted myself very well, so much so that it led to one of the most embarrassing and laughable experiences of my whole life. Great was my astonishment, shortly after arriving at home, to receive a visit from one of the great functionaries of the Sultan's court, bearing a token of his high esteem in the shape of an elegant present. It was a beautiful young lady from the Sultan's harem. You may imagine, if yoa can, the predicament I was in. if I should refuse to accept the present it might seriously offend his Majesty and cause serious international complication. On the other hand, if I accepted the beauty, how could I ever explain to the American people? And where was Mrs. Wallace? The short of it was that I sent her back, and next day I succeeded in explaining to the Sultan the position it would place me in before my people at home, and convinced him that it would not be wise for me to accept such a present. He eventually replaced the gift with one more satisfactory—to Mrs. Wallace, at least."

RAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 20,1893.

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FA0TS VS. THEORIES.

Palline: Prices and Palling Oost Do Not Kaep Pace With Each Other. Totho Editor 1 IIK .IOUKKAI,.

The attempt is made to account for the practically continuous decline of prices during the last twenty years upon ihe theory that improvements in machinery and in methods of production have cheapened the cost of producing commodities. This is true to an extent, just sufficient to deceive unthinking people but it is untrue as applied to the whole range of articles in common use. When a loom is invented which will produce three yards of cloth in the same time and with the same expenditure of fuel and of human effort which previously was required to produce two yards, there is clear gain to everybody. The same cost produces more wealth, and all classes of persons benefited in one way or another. But if a farmer must produce three bushels of wheat to pay a debt which could have been paid with two bushels when the debt was contracted, everybody but the creditor is injured. In this case the same effort produces a less result whereas, in the former case, the same effort produces a greater result. The distinction, ordinarily confused in the minds of careless observers, is indeed clear, sharp and distinct. The improved loom makes the world richer. The enlarged debt makes the world poorer. The steady appreciation of gold which increases debt is, therefore, truly a destructive force. It is true there have been Bome improvements in late years in the methods of harvesting wheat but the saviig from this source is inconsiuerable when it is compared with the fall of the price of wheat. Five per cent, will cover the gain from improved farming processes introduced since 1873 but within that period the price of wheat has declined nearly 60 per cent. No invention has done for the cotton planter during that time anything of large importance. HiB cost is about as large as it ever was, but the staple sells for little less than half the price it brought twenty years ago. That which is true of these articles is true of others, in one degree or another. The men who produce agricultural and other raw materials, and who compose about one-half of the population of the country, bear the burden imposed by this heavy depreciation, and they are being impoverished by it to such an extent that they regard the tuture with feelings of despair. The Populist movement obtains all its force from their sufferings.

The people of the East cannot afford to regard this fact with indifference. We pay our debts to Europe in the staple commodities, and careful calculation will show that, if measure the existing national debt in wheat for example, it will be found to be almost as large as it was at the close of the war. We have paid more than half of it, counted in dollars. But we do not pay it in dollars and estimated in commodities it remains almost without diminution. Furthermore, a period of continuously declining prices can never be a period of continuous or genuine prosperity. Business is buoyant and active, and men are eager and hopeful when prices are rising. When a manufacturer cannot tell if the loss of value in his pig iron or his wool will not wipe out his profits before he can get his product to market, he does not proceed excepting upon the narrowest basis of caution. All honest business in like manner. Upon a falling market men purchase only for pressing needs. Wise men wait if they can, for the lower price which is promised in the early future. Doubt, harrassment, loss, gloom, even despair attend persistent decline of values, and when that deoline continues through successive decades the total hart done by the extinction of wealth reaches to figures so vast as to be appalling.

These are the conditions that confront the American people at the present moment. They have never suffered, and they never will suffer, from improved processes of creating wealth. But now, while the manufacturers of the EaBt are having their mills closed by the menace ot Britiish free trade, our fellow oitizens in the West are being urged ^toward ruin by the depreciation of values caused by British gold monometalism.

Third State Oonf

Jos. A. SMITH.

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Oorrection.

The third conference will be held in the city of Terre Haute, Feb. 20, 21 and 22, 1894. Among the subjeots to be discussed are: "Managementof county poor asylums," ''The township trustee as overseer of the poor," "The relation between intemperance, vice and crime," "Reform schools and their management," "Orphans' homes and placed out children," "Organized charities in cities and towns." Every siibject will be introduced by practical speakers. Discussion will be full and free. Everybody interested is invited, especially county commissioners, township trustees, superintendent of oounty asylums, matrons and boards of managers of orphans' Homes, members and managers of relief societies, and all workers in State charitable and correctionable invitations. County commissioners should send the superintendents of their asylums and defray their expenses. No diana worker in any of the lines suggested above can afford to miss the conference.

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KILLED NEAR NEW ROSS.

A Worn Out Trainman Goes to Sleep With Patal Results. Special to Tin1 Journal.

Nuw Boss, Oct. 13.—This morning the east bound freight, due here at 4 a. m., WHS blocked by a car leaving the track. E. Lawler, a train hand, with headquarters at Arkann, 111., was sent back a mile west of town to Hag ihe following train at the crossing. Before going he stated to a friend that he was worn out and sleepy, having been up all night. The west bound train which he was to Hag struck him some time later as he lay asleep at his post and killed him. A Miss Vannice residing near by saw the accident and gave the notice to her father who gathered up the remains.

The Brakeman Killed. .•

The following from the New Ross correspondent of THE JOURNAL gives further particulars of the killing of George Lawler, of which the above account appeared in our daily of last Friday.

NEW ROSS, Oct. 14.—George Lawler, a brakeman on the Big Four met his death yesterday one and a half miles west of here. A freight crew had pulled into the station, and found they had loBtpart of their train. Then putting the cars they had upon the siding, as they supposed, they started back at a rapid speed. When they came to the west end of the siding they felt a crash and in an instant discovered that all the train was not upon the siding. Things were badly mixed up. The rear end of the tender was smashed and a car load of oats were scattered all over the traok. Lawler was ordered back a mile to flag an incoming train. He walked down the track worn out and half asleep. When li6 came to the Vannice crossing he sat down upon a tie of the cattle guard. Mr. Vannice soon came along and during a conversation with Lawler earned that he had been working very hard for over 36 hours, Mr. Vannice went on, while his little girl sat upon the fence not fifty yards away. She noticed the man sitting there and soon the mail train came dashing along. Did they see him, or did they not? On they came at thundering speed and a moment the crash came. George Lawler lay a bleeding corpse upon the track. The train went on and the little girl called her father. Mr. Vanice found the dead man with a horrible cut over his right eye and extending back over his head. He had evidently died instantly. Mr. Vannice llaged the train that Lawler was to have stopped, and they took the dead man to the station. Later he was removed to the undertaking establishment of F. D. Hankins. They have been telegraphing all day and night for information concerning the^ relatives of the deceased, but up to 8 o'clock this morning nothing has been learned. It was a sad affair.

Has His Commission.

Ed Vorie received his commission aB postmaster Monday morning and entered upon his official duties Wednesday morning, Postmaster Bounell being able to turn things over in ship shape at that time. With Mr. Voris will enter the office W. E. Henkel, as assistant postmaster, and Sam Johnson, as mailing clerk. The balance of tlie employes of the office are under civil servioe protection and will remain. The best of feeling exists between them and the incoming administration, however, and will doubtless continue to. It shall be the endeavor of Mr. Voris to maintain the office at its present high standing and those who know him know that he will do so. Crawfordsville has been peculiarly blessed in her present postmaster and he will give place on Wednesday to a gentleman in every way worthy to BUCoeed him,

Must Post a Forfeit.

The managers of the Blair & Failey heading factory have poBted a notice that all joiners, pinners and matchers who have been in the employ of the company for the past six months would receive in addition to the regular price, 1 cent for each 100 pieces of heading turned out. In addition to this the men who quit the service of the company were notified that they could not return to its employ without agreeing to post a forfeit of $5 that they will give a week's notice before quitting. When the agreement is broken the $5 goes to the company. Several of the men who were on a strike have acceded to the agreement.—Terre Haute Rxpress.

Married.

At the home of the bride, 6 miles north of the city, Thursday,Oct.l2, at 11 o'clock, Mr. Samuel Davidson and Miss Mary E. Willson were united in marriage by Rev. T. J. Shuey. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Alex. Willson, while the groom is a prosperous young farmer, from near Cherry Grove. The happy couple took the morning train for Chicago, where they will spend a few days seeing the sights, after which they will be at home to all their friends.

Death of Henry Lewallen Siaergs. Henry Lewallen Skaggs, formerly of this city, died last Thursday in Chicago. He was injured some nine days ago bv falling from a third story window but it was thought at the time that he would reoover. He grew worse, however, with the result stated. His mother was with him at the time of his death.

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A MONON SMASH-DP.

Thirteen Coal Oars Piled Uu in a Heap at Whitesville. The regular northbound freight left Ladoga on timo last Friday afternoo about 2 o'clock, but the afternoon passed quietly on without its reporting at Crawfordsville, the next telegraph station on the line. It had not ohown up when the accommodation train due here at f:.$0 p. in. left Ladoga, so the engineer was instructed to look out for the freight in some of the ditches along the road. When Whitesville was reached torpedoes be^an to explodo along the track warning the passenger train that there was trouble ahead. It was pretty serious trouble, too. Just this side of Whitesville the draw bars of a freight oar had fallen and played havoc with the traok. The first car that jumped went along over the ties for 200 yards, and for that distanoe the track was systematically torn up. Thirteen coal cars were laid across the ties in a jumbled mass as high as a meeting house. No one was injuied but a more complete wreck of oars and track has not occurred on the Monon for a long time. The train crew took thing very coolly and did not send messengers either way except to place the warning torpedoes. Consequently the wrecker did not arrive for hours after the smash-up. The gang worked all night long and a greater part of Saturday olearing away debris and relaying the track. The night trains were all forced to go around by the way of Indianapolis to Lafayette.

On the accommodation Friday night was the I. U. football team from Bloomington on its way to Lafayette to play Purdue Saturday. The^luBty young athletes had to go without their suppers and were howling vigorously over the delay. They probably got into Lafayette at some time Saturday morning.

Sunday's Temperance Meeting. The temperance meeting at the Y. M. C. A. hall Monday afternoon was well attended, there being three times as many present as on the Sunday previous. Excellent music was provided and good addresses made by Rev. W. G. Howe, of the Christian church, and Mr. Clark, agent of the Monon road. Mr. Clark in the course of his remarks stated what steps he had taken to alter the condition of morals about the Monon station and declared that he would yet succeed in driving out the swarm of terrible wild beasts that make their lairs in that disreputable quarter of the town. T1 petition for the new screen ordinance was circulated and there were numerous signatures affixed.

On next Sunday Hon. P. S. Kennedy will address a meeting at the Bame place and Harry Maxwell will lead the singi°g-

Elder Jacobs to the Pront.

An Oklahoma paper has been received which recounts the doings of Elder Jacobs at Guthrie. The good elder has entered the ministry again and is exhorting the corrupt multitudes of Oklahoma to repentance. The paper declares that the elder is a great evangelist. The elder has evidently struck his class at last.

May Be Deputy.

The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal states that if" Jump is appointed to the ColleotorBhip it will be with the understanding that Walter Hulett be his chief deputy. It is hoped in thio way to Bettle the row between the hostile factions.

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