Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 April 1895 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1895.

ACTIVITY in trade at the importer's shops means activity in works of charity among all our unemployed laboring classes.

IT is estimated that foreign agricultural products have been imported to the value of §7,000,000, displacing just that amount of the product of American farms.

THE Madison Courier has appeared in a new and becoming spring dress. The Courier is one of the old reliable Republican newspapers of Southern Indiana and improves with age.

BONDHOLDERS, rich landlords and colossal land owners pay no income tj.x, but the manufacturer and active business man, upon whom the people mainly depend for employment, must pay their additional two per cent.

THE world's gold production last year, with all the returns in, stands at $170,000,000, an increase of §20,000,000 over 1893, and of $00,000,000 over the average between 1885 and 1890. More than a fourth of the gold mined in the world is credited to the United States.

THE Harrison Telephone Construction Company for Kentucky and Tennessee has filed articles of incorporation at Louisville. The capital stock is placed at §100,000. The business is the construction of telephone lines and the operation of telephones, and the principal office is to be in Louisville.

THE President has now taken care of a number of the "lame ducks" of the unlamented Fifty-first Congress, and others or some of them ought to fefi encouraged. Brooksliire would rejoice to be remembered as his more .fortunate colleagues have been, ^(i he no doubt naturally feels tha^ 'he is equally deserving.

NEW YORK Trihyfnc: The Treasury deficit for tli£"monthof March is about §240,000. &£<! for the first nine months o£Vhe fiscal year it is more than §30,000,000. Measured by the Cleveland-Carlisle-Wilson theory that the way to make a nation rich is to increase its interest-bearing debt, this country would appear to be fairly wallowing in prosperity.

DESIIA BRECKINRIDGE, the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Lexington, Kv., District, has .decided that winnings from gaming of all sorts, including money won on horse-racing, come within the provisions of the incometax law, and that losses incurred in gambling cannot be deducted. This ruling also applies to prizes won in lotteries.

THE Wabash avenue bridge may cost a good deal of money, and no doubt will, but there is this to be said, it will not have to be replaced during the next century. The City Council in the year 2000 will probably have under discussion the project of a new bridge, but it is safe to say that the next two or three generations will be exempt from a tax to replace this structure.

THE new revenue law has now produced a deficiency of over §50,000,000. The law went into efftct on August 38, 1894, and at once began its deadly work of producing a deficit. It has kept this up month after month, until on April 11 it passed the §50,000,000 line. The deficiency from August 28 to the close of business last Saturday amounted to §51,047,3(57 or an average of over §250,000 for each business day during that time.

CINCINNATI Commercial Gazette: It is now said that ex-Congressman Brookshire, of Indiana, is endeavoring to be appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office. We thought Brookshire would be heard from, sooner or later. He is too important a personage to keep himself hid from the public gaze, for was he not named for the great Dan Voorhees? __If a time ever comes when a defeated Democratic Congressman does not want an office, the millenium will rush in like a cyclone.

TBOUBLEB'for the income-tax law are just beginning. A suit has been brought in New York to enjoin the collection of the income tax on that portion of the profits of a railroad •which are derived from real estate. The courts have generally held that railroads are real estate, except as to their rolling stock, and the contention in this cate is that a tax on income from that part of their {income which is from real estate comes within the Supreme Court's recent definition of a direct tax.

IXTKRXATIOXAL BIMEXTALLISM. Hon. Charles Emory Smith, editor of the Philadelphia Press, delivered a speech on the financial question in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last week, in which he strongly takes the ground that the way to a true bimetallism is through an international agreement. In the course of his speech he says:

The uniformity in the relative value of gold and silver prior to 1873 was maintained by the bimetallic system it was broken by the general abandonment of that policy and it can only be maintained by a general return. The restoration of silver mustcome through the concurrent action of the commercial nations. The enlightened opinion of the world realizes these truths. The entire twelve members of the British Gold and Silver Commission agreed that it was the bimetallic system which preserved the ratio between gold and silver down to 1873. The six gold monometallist members agreed that bimetallism is not practicable and desirable for other nations though they hesitated to recommend it for England. The remaining six members declared themselves unreservedly for bimetallism by international agreement. Germany, perceiving the great mistake she made in 1871, lias declared for an international conference. England, impelled by the distress among lier producing classes, is advancing towards this policy France has been for it from the beginning. The depression of Europe urges it.

The palpable advantages of bimetallism are gaining ground for it every day. It broadens the monetary basis of credit and enlarges the stock of available sound money. It establishes monetary unity, it makes an approximately fixed par of exchange between gold and silver countries. It promotes stability of values. It minimizes the evils of an appreciating metal on the other. The restoration of this system is the restoration of silver, and as its collapse was international so its rehabiliation must be international.

And now what is our true American policy? We do not want to rest upon gold alone or upon silver alone. We want the joint use of the two metals upon conditions which will make every dollar as good as every other dollar in the pockets of the people, and in the markets of the world. We want the re-establishment on a broader scale of that bimetallic system which for sev-

enty

years, through^ ths severest

strains, through periods when the silver output was th.F'ee times as great in value as the golJ and through periods when the gol.i output was nearly five times as^^gveat as the silver, still kept them at a stable ratio and maintained the nftfonetary equilibrium of the nations. To accomplish this result it is or,f duty to set our faces like adamant against the independent free coinage which would indefinitely postpone bimetallism ana simply plunge us upon the silver basis. We ought to learn from our own own experience.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, in his platitudinous letter to the business men of Chicago, declares himself in favor of sound money. It may be taken for granted that there is not a citizen in the Unitpd States but who is in favor of the same thing, so on that score the people will agree with him. So far as THE JOURNAL is able to discern there is not a dollar in circulation in this country but is a sound dollar, whether that dollar be gold, silver or paper. The President speaks of the dangers of silver monometallism. The question may be asked, are not the dangers of gold monometallism equally as great? Aside from its glittering generalities and its reference to the "forces of a safe currency and those of a silver monometallism" at its close there is nothing in the letter to command attention. To the general proposition in favor of sound money the people of all parties will give assent.

SPEAKING of sound money sentiments abroad in the land President Cleveland in his letter says:

It is time for the American people to reason together as members of a great nation, which can promise them a continuance of protection and safety only so long as its solvency is unsuspected and honor unsullied and the soundness of its money unquestioned.

True, but speaking of protection, are not the industries and the labor equally as much interested in being guaranteed safety as is the money of the country? The muscle that produces the wealth should be alike protected with the money. Both are necessary.

CINCINNATI Commcrckil-Oazcttc: Commissioner of Pensions Lochren is talking again. He cannot resist the temptation to let his tongue way every time a newspaper correspondent attacks him. He is very much enraged at the proposition to raise a fund to test his ruilings before the courts. Lochren is one of the many weak members of the present Administration, and is the weakest of the lot. He had but one quality to recommend him for the position he occupies, and that was his intense hatred for the pension system. It would be well if Cleveland would muzzle him.

IN the first four months under the new tariff Cuba took from the United States 12,995 sacks of flour, against 105,045 sacks in the corresponding four months of 1893. This is what the revocation of the reciprocity treaty has cost one industry in the United States. The greater part of this profitable trade was lost to St. Louis, Minneapolis and other milling centers in the Mississippi Valley.

AND now the Democrats are accusing Grover Cleveland with having taken another ride with John Sherman.

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CHICAGO Rccord: England stopped the free coinage of silver in 1816. Germany followed in 1871 and 1873. Then came Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the United States, between 1872 and 1875. Holland followed in 1875. The Latin union fell into line in 187S. Russia suspended silver coinage in 187G and Austra in 3 879. The dominance of the gold-standard idea was regarded as permanent in all Europe as any financial policy could be. But within the last year and a half there has risen in each of the European countries mentioned a strong faction demanding the rehabilitation of silver. Even in England men of high position in finance declare that the attitude of Great Britain as to silver is financially untenable. It is to be noted that each of these countries has a large amount of silver in circulation. Great Britain has §112,000,000. Germany has §215,000,000. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have §12,000,000. Holland has §56,000,000. France has §500,000,000. Russia has §51,000,000. All this silver has declined in commercial value, which is for the interest of none of them. It is time to reassemble the international monetary conference preparatory to the establishing international bimetalism.

THE Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eiujle is Democratic but not dough-faced nor mealymouthed. In a recent editorial it gave utterance to these scathing words:

The concentrated effort of the South to fasten an income tax on the government had its motive in Southern resentment against national pensions for Northern soldiers, who put down Southern rebels. The South is where these soldiers won their pensions. The The North is where the property is which an income tax would reach. The scheme to tax the section which furnished the beneficiaries of patriotism was agreeable to the section against which those beneficiaries contended. The North took it out in pensions. The South would retaliate on property. The South liad few or no federal -pensioners. The North had n?£riy all but the South had little or no property subject to income tax, while the North had much. The chance to get even or more than even was attractive. It was improved by making the exemption rate just high enough to let the South effectually out-.

Coming from a Democratic paper the above is strong language to use against a section but for which there would be no Democratic party worthy of memtion.

OIL has advanced from 50 cents a barrel to §2 and over and may go up to S3. The recent rise has created a great flurry and one is reminded of the days of thirty years ago when the question was on everybody's lips, '"Have you struck oil?" It is now accounted for on the ground that the production does not equal the demand. It is said that two years ago oil in sight was over sixteen million barrels. Last year it was nearly ten million barrels. This year it is rather less than five millions. This may be true, but the most popular theory is that the Standard Oil Company is manipulating the ticker. This great monopoly is able to say, thumbs up or thumbs down.

NORTH MACK.

II. E. Dice is painting Beecher Dice's house. Jasper Weaver is quite poorly at this writing.

J. S. Williams is located on the W. W. Ward farm. J. Ward has been appointed guardian of B. F. Cornell. JjjJThe Epworth League at Mace has been re-organized.

Mrs. Annie Linn, who has been quite poorly with inflammation, is better.

The measles are as thick in this community as Hies around a molasses barrel.

W. B. "Walkup is building an addition to his house and \V. VV. Ward will erect a barn in the near future.

Mace Lodge K. of P. has bought five and one-half acres of land of Curtis Edwards which will be converted into a beautiful cemetery as soon as time will permit. Along felt want will be realized. May Mace lodge be blessed with prosperity.

The exercises at Mace Sunday school last Sunday were somewhat interfered with on account of the measles but the exercises were good. Some splendid singing was rendered and some good declamations spoken. The missionary collection amounted to something over §io.,

LIBERTY HALL.

Miss Minnie Armstrong is sick. Samuel Linn bought a fine horse last week.

Wm. Myers has moved to the Arch Martin house. There are several new cases of the measles in Mace.

Miss Rena Edwards visited Miss Nellie Hipes over Sunday. Miss Julia Crain is working for Wm. Simpson at Crawfordsville.

Charley Hunt bought a fine driving horse of Arthus Davidson last week. Wm. Harlan's well does not afford both cats and water as abundantly as it did for a while.

Don't forget the meeting at the chapel on Saturday night, and Sunday morning and night by Rev. Mosteller.

The scholars of our school who stood examination on March 16, and passed, are as follows: Mark and Mabel VanScoyoc, Roy Galey, Wallace Linn, Nellie Hipes, and Mabel Galey.

What they say: That Albert Linn has a new buggy and horse Harley Moudy has boots for sale: Wm. Baker and Henry Lee have sold their pet cranes to Fred Myers and Warner Galey.

OLD ELI'S FAVORITE SON

A Eeveiation of,the Bomantio and Remarkable Uareer of Lawrence Bangs, the Famous Yale Athlete.

CHAPTER VIII. GROWING APART.

"Larry," said his brother one morning, "we'll have to do something for you. You're falling behind." "Falling behind whom?" asked Lawrence. "The other half of you the half that is good for something." "You mean Patrick." "Of course."

Lawrence struggled to be calm. "Granting for the sake of argument," he said at last, "that it is possible to be inferior to such a creature, I will ask you in what respect you think me to be deficient." "Why, you're out of condition. You look overtrained. You're ten pounds under weight, and it shows in your face. You're pale as a ghost, my boy." *'I fear," said Lawrence, thoughtfully, "that there is some truth in what you say. The difference in our ways of life has done much to decrease that unfortunate resemblance which—" "Unfortunate," echoed his brother. "It was the greatest piece of luck that ever happened to Yale. What do you think of the Harvard game?" •'I am trying not to think of it at all," sighed Lawrence. "Well, I tell you it's worth thinking about. The Harvard team was made up of nine sluggers from Slugtown, and if anybody but Paddy had been in the box they'd have batted the ball all over the state of Connecticut. You ought to be proud of that game, Larry. It was a big thing for Yale, and it couldn't have been done without you. Now, we can't take any risks. At any cost of money or comfort we must preserve your resmblanee to Paddy. I've thought that all out, and I'll tell you \vhat you must do."

He proceeded to outline his plan. In the first place Lawrence was to study in future on the roof of the house during the day time. "I've found a nice hot corner up there for you," said Harry. "You'll have a southern exposure and a chimney behind you that gets pretty warm, I believe, in the middle of the dayavhen the sun's on it. Nobody can see you up there and you can lay on all the color you need."

Lawrence groaned. "Then you mast take a lot of exercise," continued Harry. "Paddy is filling out a good deal, and you'll have to keep up with him." "But my dear brother," Lawrence

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replied, "I can't find time for all this. The over-indulgence in physical exercise which you recommend will encroach upon my hours of study." "Can't you study and exercise at the same time? Get some light dumb bells and swing them while you're grinding Greek. Then you won't be wasting your time altogether with the blasted stuff. And, besides, you may develop. There's no telling. If you were a little heavier you'd be an ideal man for football."

Lawrence brightened at this last remark and Harry took it for a hopeful sign. "By Jove." he cried, "it would be a great thing if I could got both of you into shape for the game. We could play it on Harvard in great shape. We'd have one of you half killed in practice just before the Harvard game. Probably it would have to be you, because Paddy would be the better man. Then I'd put you in the hospital and let everybody know that you were there. We'd have reliable doctor's certificates to snow that you couldn't possibly play again during the season. There'd be a jubilee in Cambridge and Harvard money would come out at odds on. Then, at the last minute, I'd get you out of the hospital and hide you, and Paddy could go into the game. All Harvard would walk back from Springfield and Yale would have money to burn after the game. It would beat the trick we played the first year I rowed on the crew. We got an artist to paint boils on the backs of our necks, and the papers came out with a story that we had been poisoned. The odds on Harvard jumped to three to one and then we won the raoe by about a quarter of a mile. As a matter of fact they hadn't been in it from the first of May to the day of the race."

Lawrence faithfully observed his brother's directions. He had noticed that outdoor life and exercise were improving Paddy's appearance, and he had Florence's word that the Irishman was the better looking of the two. tt must not be supposed that he was uniffected by this criticism or that be was so much wrapped up in bis studies as to oe entirely oblivious to the consideration of his personal appearance. He lecided that a little color in the cheeks would improve him, and so he mounted io the roof the next day with the anticipation of securing great benefit. It tfas very hot in the corner which Harry tiad selected for him, but Lawrence ituck to it all day with the exception his hours of recitation. By evening tii face was burned to_ a blister, and he

oaa to remain tne nouse two or three days until the color moderated to i. shade which matched Paddy's.

He was equally faithful with the exjrcise which Harry had recommended. Se entered into this with an enthusiasm which delighted his brother. In reality Lawrence had conceived a fierce jealousy of Paddy, and had befun to long to surpass him physically. He had no love for athletic sports, and iid not, at this time, hope to supplant Paddy in that line of life. But he tvould have liked to be able to take the poung Irishman to a remote corner of some deserted region, and there inflict upon him a. corporal chastisement which would settle forever the question of physical superiority. Probably his jealousy would never have led him to such an extreme, but he felt that it would be a great satisfaction to him to know that he' could do it any time he desired.

It was about this time that the name of Larry Bangs began to be conspicuous ijo. the newspapers. His singular taciturnity on the athletic field had already been noted, and he had come to

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be spoken of as the "Speechless Wonder." Lawrence had been interviewed three or four times, and his views on baseball—of which, despite his patient study of full scores, he was profoundly ignorant—were given at great length. Paddy had read these articles and had expressed the utmost contempt for them. "You ought to try to learn something," he said to Lawrence. "What's the matter with you, anyway? Can't you get it through your head? It's easy enough."

Once Paddy was caught by a reporter, and lie gave a first-rate interview. As he said nothing but yes and no, the representative of the press was able to talk all he pleased without interruption. He was an expert in baseball, and his views, credited to Paddy, seemed wonderfully sound.

Lawrence was greatly disappointed with his own first interview. On that occasion he had skillfully led the conversation away from sport, and had spent an hour or more discussing educational topics in a manner which he believed would win him recognition from the authorities of the college. He had an idea that the publication of these views would excite considerable eommcnt throughout the country, and he told the reporter that such would be the result. The reporter replied "Yes," in a tone eo oracular that it might have come from Paddy himself. As a matter of fact the able journalist knew that there was a gentleman with a blue pencil in the editorial room of his newspaper, and that it would be easier for a rich man to enter the kingdom than for a column of stuff about the best method of instilling the classics into a freshman to get into print. He took down what Lawrence said because Lawrence was looking, but he did not make the mistake of tinning it in as copy.

When the article appeared the absence of all reference to educational subjects was the most conspicuous thing about it—to Lawrence. But it is safe to say that nobody else noticed it.

The reporter was a very polite young man. and did not wish to offend an3Tbody who would be good for so much space in the future as Larry Bangs would. So he wrote a nice note to the subject of the interview, explaining that he had faithfully recorded all that Lawrence had said, but, unhappily, "space" was short in that particular Sunday's paper, and so the educational matters, as being of less interest to the public were crowded out.

Laurence had a considerable respect for the profession of journalism, which he had some thought of entering after

his college course was over. He did not intend to reform it. On the contrary he thought it quite good enough as it was to engage his most serious efforts. He was not nearly so much inclined to question the judgment of the editor who had omitted the educational part of his interview, as one acquainted with his studious disposition might have expected that he would be. On the contrary he was led to wonder whether education had not ceased to be of any importance in the world. Evidently that was the view of the editor, and such a man should be in touch with public sentiment. The experiences of his first year at college had naturally prepared him to take such a view. Therefore on the occasion of the second reporter's visit he devoted all hit. time to a serious discussion of baseball and its probable effect on the destiny of mankind, interspersed—at the reporter's request—with stories illustrating the roost advanced methods of bulldozing an umpire as that science was taught at Yale.

The whole of this Interview was printed. Most of it was unintelligible to Paddy, but such parts as he understood—to use his own expression-— "gave him a pain." "It's no use, Larry," he said, "you haven't got the head for it."

And Lawrence was inclined to agree with him in secret, though openly he affected to despise advice from such a quarter. "Is it possible," he said to himself afterwards, "that in regard to certain important branches of human knowledge I am what Patrick would call 'thick.'"

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CHAPTER IX.

A PLOT AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY. Lawrence Bangs had been reading from the works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a gentleman for whom he entertained, in his customary state of mind, the most cordial sentiments. On this occasion, however, he laid down the monument more lasting than brass, and scowled at it in a dark and menacing fashion.

It was eleven o'clock, and that was a very early hour for Lawrence to cease studying but he had less appetite for study on this night than any other that he could remember. The truth is that he had reached a crisis which usually comes much later in the college life of a thoughtful man, that period, to put it plainly, when he first realizes that ha does not know as much as a cow. The information of a cow, regarding that sphere of life to which she is called, is apparently exhaustive, and eminently satisfactory to herself. She has learned to chew the cud, an operation which yields greater contentment with less visible result, than anything else in the world. To the college professor is often granted an almost identical blessing, but it is different with the student. He will certainly feel, now and then, a desire to do more than chew the cud he will wish to swallow it. In other words, he will desire to make an end of something, not merely by laying it aside, but by getting the whole of it. And he can't do it, in his line of life. Not one educated man in a thousand really knows very much about the alphabet. ne cannot give its full history, nor suggest a truly valuable improvement upon it, nor even say it backwards without makftig a mistake. When the student finds that this is true of every thing which he had previously thought that he knew, he may very naturally feel a desire to turn to some other pursuit in which the triumphs are speedy and final. He will find such a pursuit right under his nose. He will see that the mau who makes a home run with the bases full, exhausts the possibilities of the situation, so that anything which he or anybody else may do afterwards, will be, at best, no more than a repetition. And though the finest player in the world may scarcely hope for so much glory as that, there are lesser achievements which have the same agreeable quality of completeness, aad are nearly sure to come.

Lawrence's thoughts took such a course as this while he sat scowling at his book, and when he had reached the point to which the reader has been brought, he lifted his gloomy eyes from good old Horace and fixed them upon Paddy O'Toole. The hour which was early for Lawrence wasjlate for Paddy, who was ordinarily asleep by ten. The sight of liiin at that moment would naturally have led one to believe that tlie youth had been kept from his bed by a multitude of the most agreeable thoughts, lie sat in a big arm chair with his head thrown back, and smiled at the ceiling. ''What are you thinking about, Patrick?" asked Lawrence. "Nothing," answered Paddy, with the utmost cheerfulness. "But, great heavens, man. Your mind couldn't have been an absolute blank." "Don't you fool yourself about my mind," rejoined Paddy. "It seems to worry you a big lot, but it never bothers me any." "You were thinking of something agreeable," said Lawrence, positively. "Your face showed it."

Paddy rubbed his head doubtfully. "Well," he admitted at last, "I was feeling pretty good." "I perceive the distinction," said Lawrence. "The point is well taken. I would like to feel better and think less myself. I would like to change places with you, Patrick." "Do you mean that you'd like to play ball?" "Well, if it comes to that, I would though that was only a small part of my thought on the matter."

Paddy slowly and gently pitched an imaginary outenrve. "You can't," he said. "It isn't in you." "You might teach me." "Not in a thousand years," said Paddy, promptly. "I don't believe it. It is incredible thiit you should know anything that I can't learn."

Paddy did not respond. The idea failed to appeal to him. Lawrence tried another line of approach.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

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