Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 November 1896 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 180(5.

Tnr Galveston Xctcs tersely states a fact when it says: "The vote of Novern ber voted SI,000,000,000 of value into American property.

THE St."Louis Olol/c Democrat arises to remark that ninety-two cities in which Bryan spoke, and which gave Mr. Cleveland a plurality of 155,7(r in 1892, pave Major Mclvinley this year a plurality of 4.10,052. Again do we wonder at the marvelous power of the human voice.

CdXGRKSSMAN GltOSVENO)!,

Of Ohio,

may be set down as the great fin de siecle mathematician and politicial prophet.lie came within one of estimating the votes cast for Mclvinley at St. Louis, and a month before the election he stated that Mclvinley would have 278 electoral votes, lie only missed it by six votes. The way in which his predictions were fulfilled is certainly remarkable.

The action of the Indiana Republican Congressmen-elect in deciding to refer all applications for post office appointments to the patrons of the offices, and to be governed by the result of such election, finds favor in this State. Thus does Civil Sei vice Reform go forward upon its conquering way.— New York Tribune.

But unfortunately for the Tn7 it?ie'.sobservation the Indiana Congressman deny that they have taken any such action.

THE farmers of the United States will have over 5100,000,000 more money to spend next year than this. Nearly one-half of this years crop is still in the hands of the farmers. Last week nineteen big ships, laden to the water's edge, left Baltimore with wheat. San Francisco harbor is full of busy ships. Boston harbor presents a scene of wonderful activity. The tramp vessels are all busy and dozens are hastening across the water.

THOSE Kansas Populists who are proposing to make Mexican dollars legal tender in that State seem to have overlooked the United States laws on the Bubject of foreign coin. Section 3584 of the laws relating to coinage says: '•No foreign gold or silver coin shall "be legal tender in payment of debts." The Sunflower Populists who evolved this brilliant scheme may think he is a bigger man -than Uncle Sam but he will know more later on.

THE Vicksburg Past, a paper that supported Bryan, since the election has become wrathy. It says: "The agitation set on foot twenty years ago by corrupt and selfish owners of silver mines, has been nearly as harmful as the great war. The miserable humbug and frau I upon which many incompetent men rode into oflice was killed 'for good and all'on Nov. 3. Its hideous memory is all that now remains to disturb or annoy the patriotic people of the Nation."

LAST week the Chicago Tribune wired all the Republican editors of Indiana asking their first and second preference for United^ States Senator. Replies were received from eighty-eight •paperB and they

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urday's paper. Of this number C. W. Fairbanks has 45, ex-President Harrison 10, \V. R. McKeen 9, J. Frank Hanley 5, lliram Brownlee 3, Judge R. S. Taylor 3, Henry U. Johnson 2, Judge J. H. Baker 2. Gen. Lew Wallace 2, Frank B. Posey 1, and 5 were non-com-mittal. Mr. Fairbanks is also second •choice of six of the editors who gave their first preference 10 a favorite son.

THE following is the otficial vote for Governor: Benjamin F. Shlvely (Oein.204,855 James A. Mount (Itep.) 321,034 .Leonard M. Crist (Pro.) 2,906 .Thomas Wadsworth (Pop.). 8,525 James G. Kingsbury (Nat.) 2,500

Philip H. Moore (Soc.). 283

Plurality for Mount......:. 20.177

The great difference between Mount and McICinley in their pluralities is explained by the fact that the Democrats and Populists fused on the elee toral ticket, while there were 8,525 Populists who voted for their own can didate for Governor thus reducing Shively's vote. .Uad there been complete fusion the McKinley plurality would nearly equal that of Mount. Our candidate lor Governor received more votes than any other candidate on the State ticket with the exception *of Scholz for Treasurer and Ketcbam for Attorney General, each of whom ran about 800 votes more than Mount. The latter led all the rest by about Jioo.

TIIE I'EJJDING AMENDMENT. There is a constitutional amendment pending before the Legislature which proposes to change the wording of Article 13 in such a manner as to permit the ,use of machines in voting. This resolution was introduced by Judge Cardwell, of Floyd, and is known as Joint Resolution, No. 3. According to the usual method this resolution must again be passed by both houses this winter and then submitted to the voters of the State for ratification. If the people approve it then becomes apart of the constitution. If this step is necessary machines cannot be introduced in this State before 1900. It is believed that the Legislature this winter will pass the resolution and if so there can be no possibility of doubt but it will be ratified by the people. They are reaoy and willing to declare in favor of any method that will absolutely prevent the possiVility of corrupt voting. The adoption of the Australian ballot is a Jong step in this direction, and there could -be no more unpopular proposition made than to suggest its repeal. The introduction of machines will be but additional safeguards thrown around the present ballot law.

SENATOR JOHN L. WILSON, of Washington. does not take a very sanguine view of the prospect of the passage of a revenue bill at the approaching short session of Congress. In an interview the other day lie said: "What the policy of the Republican party will be cannot be decided until we have met and had a caucus, but from a superficial view of the situation I do not see how we can do more at the coming short session than to pass the appropriation bills. The session beginning on December 7 will be as short a session as can be held at the closing of Congress. What we want in the way of tariff legislation is an equitable measure which will be permanent That cannot be had by the adoption of the Dingley bill, or any such measure that might be passed at the coming session. We do not want a horizontal increase of the Wilson tariff rates. That would benefit the Eastern interests, which already have protection, but would do very little good to us in the West, who are practically without any protection at present. We in the West want protection for our wool, our lumber, our coal and our lead, and feel that a bill should lie constructed so as to give fair treatment to our section. Moreover, the business interests of our country are entitled to repose, and we should not make two bites at a cherry by passing a temporary measure, to be followed by further agitation. In my judgment, there should be an extra session of the LVth Congress called on March 5, and the tariff bill should be framed and become a law in June."

THE vote of the State for Presidestian electors, as canvassed Monday afternoon, shows that Henry B. Thayer, the first Republican candidate, received 323,710 votes, and that John B. Stoll, the first Democratic candidate, received 305,771 votes, thus giviDg to the McKinley elector a plurality of 17,04S. The official figures show that there were more than 2,000 Republicans thought they were voting a straight ticket when they stamped the square opposite the name of the first elector, when as a matter of fact, they were voting for that man and no one else, and that more than 2,500 Democrats made the tame mistake. It is thereby made manifest that there should be but one way of voting, and that is to stamp the square opposite each candidate for whom the voter desires to vote. In some quarters there have been made suggestions that the law should be amended so as to abolish the emblems. It is not necessary to do away with the emblems, but the square could be removed and prohibit stamping the head of the tieket. The method of voting should be made as simple as possible, so that college professors and all those who are too dignified to attend schools of instruction may not lose their votes.

THE future of free silver in the South is not very encouraging to Bryan and his Western followers. Many of the newspapers which supported the cause in the late campaign Bhow signs of hostility to the proposition to make it the issue in 1900. One of these journals, the Mobile licijlstcr, explicitly condemns every plank in the Chicago platform. Another, the Atlanta Journal, Hoke Smith's paper, in effect does the same thing. Another, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, says the silver question is dead. The Macon Telegraph thanks Heaven that its candidate was beaten and the San Antonio Express says it has had enough of Bryanism. It is already evident that the Democrats are tnotigoing to hold the South unless they repudiate free sil-

Suoulcl BE CMKUII.

Dave McCloud, the drunken old rip of Walnut township, who sued Messrs. Routh and Miller on the"cbarge that they induced him to Imove out of the precinct before&the election, is in danger of the pen. He came around through an agent the other day and otlerred to compromise the case for S10. His blackmailing effort should! be severely punished.

AT THE FAMILY BOARD.

Though summer has gone with Its verdure and flowers And mute uro tlie birds that made vocal the bowers, Though loaves of tho autumn are scattered and sonr, Tfe hail this as hnppiest day of the year. For onco more wo aro met beneath tho rooftree, •Whore wo sported in childhood's innocont glee. But, alas, there are some that joined in tho piny Can nover more meet us on Thanksgiving day. But smiles for tho living, a sigh for tho dead. 'Tis useless repining for pleasuro that's fled So let 11s bo happy, foregathered onco moro. Thank God for his bounty and ceaso to deplore.

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Though our lives havo been checkered like April day, With sunshine and shadow in fitful display, The blessings remaining are more than wo lost, Should wo valuo our griefs at their greatest cost. At our family board then lot joy only reign. Where, parents and children, we're mot once

Let us live o'er tho past, forgot all our sorrow, Be joyous today, o'en though grief come tomorrow. For peace, love and health and a bountiful store, Whilo thanking the the wr'.1 at our door With us will rejoice that it's'inanksgiving day And feel as if sorrow had faded away.

N. MACDONALD.

THIRTEEN AT DINNER,

ANEW ENGLAND REMIXISCEXCE.

[•Copyright, 1S90, by tho Author.] Everybody in Misery Cove knew Aunt Mary 'Lisher, relict for 60 years and moro of Elislui Dcwbery and who lived with her daughter Hitty in the old liouso on tho Glostor road. The Cove was very full of old folks, but not all of them were thus made appcllatively distinctive—only tho salt of the earth. Thttt'c, for instance, were Aunt Nancy Ben, Aunt Betsey Isrul, Aunt Mary Sam, Aunt Abigail Richard, and so on, every one a relict of some good man long since departed, for tho "Covers" did not belicvo in a surplusago of words in their daily speech, and so, instead ot' saying, "Mary, the widow of Elisha," they referred to her as plain Mary 'Lislier, affixing to her own prconomen that of her deceased husband. Those good people who were still blessed with conjugal partners were addressed without tho distinguishing prefix of aunt or uncle.

It seemed to ine, when I becamo old enough to reason, that I had been born into a community composed entirely of relations, more or less remote, but when I had at last successfully wrestled with tho problem I found that our family was not connected by marriage with any other in the village. I mention this in passing merely that the reader may not bo plunged into the genealogical slough in which I wallowed until extricated. Aunt Mary 'Lislier, then, was not my aunt at all, but an adoptive relative, as it were. However, that made no difference in the eyt-s of childhood, which accepts things as it finds them and asks 110 impertinent questions of the gods who bring gifts in their hands.

Aunt Mary 'Lislier was a little, worn and wrinkled old woman, with a kindly face, from which peered two bright black eyes, and a form bent nearly double with the infirmities of years. She was somewhere between 70 and 80 years of age when I first knew her, but if I had been asked at that time I should have said slio was at least 150.

My first acquaintance with Aunt Mary 'Lisher was, you may say, a sympathetic one, dating from a certain day when I saw her in my father's shop. It was the ordinal country store, in which, besides tin common groceries, was carried a smail stock of bottled medicines, essences and such like "notions." Itseems that Aunt Mary'Lisher had ono or two infirmities in addition to those which people of her age generally carry—she was addicted to the uso of opium and tobacco. And, as her blood relations bad decided antipathies against tho drug and tho weed (in a vicarious way), they had forbidden all stores and shops in tho township to supply the old lady with her tipple and her smoke. The shifts she was driven to in obtaining them—for get them she did— were sometimes pitiful to witness, and from perhaps an innate sympathy with the "under dog" in a fight I took sides with her as against her relatives and my worthy parent. So it happened that whenever I was on duty in tho shop, and Aunt Mary 'Lislier would come (as she always did twice a week) ostensibly to purchase an ounce of tea, or half a pound of sugar, she went homo much happier than if my father had been behind the counter.

It may not seem, then, at all unreasonable that she should hold a reciprocal

AUNT MART 'USHER'S HOME.

affection for one who ministered to a cherished though depraved appetite and that I was a welcome guest at the old house on tho Gloster road. It still stands, with its paneled chimney and "overhang" second story, as guiltless of paint or whitewash as when first erected, over 200 years ago. In tho cowyard adjacent its living contemporary, an elm tree with spreading branches and as graceful as in youth, protects the ancient well sweep which supplies the house with water.

The "living room" was, as it should have been, the brightest and the sun­

niest. It seems to me that I have never seen such a cheerful, sunny room since in all my wanderings about tho earth. The son illumined every corner and lighted every nook. In the southwest corner was the "bowfat," where the dishes, mainly of china and brought from "over sea" by tho sturdy Elisha on his various voyages, were arranged with scrupulous care. They were dusted every day and polished twice a week, and each piece had its history, which to repeat in this conncctiou would absorb a deal of time and space. In tho southeast corner of the room always sat tho daughter, Hittv. whom I invariably ad-

T1IE BUFFET.

ciresscii as Miss Mehitable, she was so prim and severe even, and upon whom her 55 years or so sat none too lightly. I had also a guilty sense of sin at my heart's depths for conniving to furnish her mother with forbidden luxuries. Not that Hitty ever spoke of it, but she looked it, screwing her cold, gimlet eyes into me, as much as to say, "I can see right through you, deceitful hoy!" She was ever engaged in bindiug shoes, at which work her mother assisted, for the house and old fashioned garden wero all the dead Elisha had left them when he went away on that last: voyage, from which he never returned, and their utmost endeavor sufficed only to keep the wolf from the door.

But their table, even if it wero sparsely doited with eatables, when they took their frugal moals, always had a snow white cloth and "chany" enps and saucers, plates and silver, polished until they mirrored everything in the room. It was a delight to sit at that little table, and I felt highly honored whenever I was invited to do so. 'Twan't always like this, Benny," chirped Aunt Mary 'Lisher, as I dre%v up my chair to the cheerful tea table one evening. 'Twan't always sich a little table as this. When poor 'Lisher was alive, we used to eat in the big room, t'other side tho chimblv. Ye ain't never seen that big room, havo ye? No, an p'raps ye never will, for it's only open for weddin's an funerals. There won't be no more weddin's, I'mafeard, in my family, for Ilitty don't seem to be of the marry in kind, an I feel, somehow, as, though I'm goin to live forever. "Lor, mother, what talk!" said Hitty, with severe countenance. "I sh'd think ye'd be afraid to make light of serious things. Tho Lord gave, an tho Lord takoth away." "An blessed bo the name of tho Lord," rejoined Aunt Mary 'Lisher reverently. 'I ain't makin light of serious things, Hitty. Of courso I'll go, in his good time, but it ain't nothin to worry over. Better laugh an make merry whilo wo live, Benny that's my motto. When I was yer age, now—but how old are ye, boy?" "I'm 1H next month." "Thirteen. Well, that ain't so very old just in yer teens, an tho whole world before ye. Dear me! Thirteen that's the number that set down to tho big m'hog'ny table in the room t'other sido tho chimbly, tho very last time your poor father was with us, Hitty. It's au unlucky number, they say, an I know 'tis." "Yes, indeedy," she muttered, drawing out and filling her pipe, which lay concealed behind tho lamb. Then there was silence for a few minutes, while she stuck her head up tho chimney and refreshed herself with a few whiffs of the weed. That was the ono thing that Hitty insisted on—that her mother should not send the smoke out into tho room. "It's bad enough to smoke," she complained, 'thout smellin up a whole house. If ye must do it, mother, theu smoke up the chimbly." And so the poor old soul thrust her head up the flue, whore the draft was sometimes strong enough to set her few remaining hairs all afluttor, and extracted consolation from her beloved pipe. Daring this interval of quiet she was collecting her thoughts, which took the trend of reminiscence suggested by the number 13. "That ain't tlae only time neither," she insisted, shaking the ashes out of tho pipe. "What makes me think so is that air Thanksgivin dinner that I was invited to up to Cousin Izry's. I ain't never be'n up there sence, but I'm 'minded of it an what follered. Set up hero by the fireplace, Benny, an I'll tell ye all about it Then ye can do as ye're a mind to about believin in unlucky signs an numbers. Ye see, my cousin, Izry Hodges, ho lived up at Hambleton, where he had ono of the best farms in the county. He married young, an ho sot to work like all possessed to mako a livin at farmin. An he made it, too, an he raised as likely a fambly as any in that town." "Laws sake, mother, do go on with yer story. What was it 'bout that Thanksgivin dinner, anyway?" "Now, Hitty, don't ye interrupt me. If ye don't want to listen, why jest go out an set 011 tho back step. Well, as I was sayin, Cousin Izry ho sent down the old carryall for us, an we went up to Hambleton to spend the day. 'Twas cool an crisp, but there wan't no snow on tho ground that Thanksgivin, sos't we had good wheelin all tho way.

When we got there, Cousin Sally, she run right out an seemed like she'd jest

devour us, sne was so glad to see us. 'Come right in an set down,' said she 'make yerselves right to hum, Cousin Mary we ain't goin to make 110 strangers of ye.' I wanted to take hold an help, for I was straight an strong them days, but she wouldn't hear nothin of it. So I sot down by the old open Franklin stove (which was tho first improvement 011 the fireplace wo ever had, an didn't consume so much wood) an give myself up to a good solid rest. Sally, she bustled about to git dinner, an I knew it would bo a good one, for she was the best housekeeper in the town of Hambleton. Well, along about noon, 'Liz'beth Ann, their only darter, come in an invited us out to the big dinin room, where the table was sot. Now, 'Liz'beth Ann was what yo might call au old maid, bein then about 50 or thereabouts, an was fidgcttier'n a sottin hen—aliers liavin some sort of a lieadacho, or crick in her back, or somethin of that kind—but she was as good as the av'rago old maid anywhere, an real sympathizin, ailers goin round askiu ye what ailed ye, an if yo wouldn't havo a little catnip tea, or peppermint, takin it for granted that ye must have somethin the matter with ye. "But thero was the big table, all a-shiuin with silver au dee'ratod with green stuff with red berries (some of 'Liz'beth Ann's work, who aliers had a sort of liankerin arter nater, as she called it) an with a big gobbler turkey at both ends. In tho center was such a strappin big roast (for Cousin Izry did a little butcherin on his own account, an knew what good meat was) au side dishes till ye'd 'a' thought there wan't nothin in the way of veg'tables an sich left 011 airtli. Cousin Izrv, lie sot at tho head of tho table, an Cousin Sally at the foot betwixt 'em, 011 ono side, the major's fanilily, consistin of himself an Aunt Mary Ann, their darter Samarint.liy Jane and her husband, an on the other, four of us, includin 'Lislier an me an two neighbors. "Well, what with the visitors an all, thero was 13 of us to the table. An Cousin Izry's oldest son Dan'l, ho up an said: 'Ma, wo won't Have 110 sort of luck this year. Thcy's jist 13 of us here. I'll git up au eat in tho kitchen.' I seo 'Liz'beth Ann lidgetin with her napkin, an Cousin Sally turn kinder palo like, but the major, he up an roared out with a voice you could 'a' heard a utile: 'Pshaw, Dan'l, don't be a fool. Thero ain't 110 bait luck in odd numbers. Set down, ye numskull, or I'll trounce ye.' So there wan't nothin to do but keep light 011 a-eatin, an I must confess that I didn't let no fear of bad luck interfere with my appertite. lor them turkeys was (loue to a turn, an the chickens was «o tender they a'most foil to pieces when you p'inted at 'em. An as for the Injun puddin—my! It does beat all what an eddicated cook can turn out of a brick oven! Yo can't cook an Injun puddin 110 other way to savo yer neck 'n to let it set in a brick oven heated overnight with ,»ood hemlock wood. Then there was the punkin pies, yaller as gold an two inches thick, an the custards, an the pandowdy, an thedewdups (peaches an pears of Cousin Sally's own preservin)—why, it was well nigh 4 o'clock when we got through an went into the settin room to crack walnuts an butternuts on the andirons. "Well, mother, after ye've said an done all, I don't see's ye've proved anything. Whatever happened, anyway?" "Happened, Hitty? Why, everything happened. There was Samwell, he was run away with an broke his neck Dan'l ho up an had fever an died 'Liz'hetli went to the 'sylum: Cousin Izry ai Cousin Kally arc dead tho major's gone, too, an Mary Ann, 's well'sSainarinthy Jane an tliera ain't, inore'n threo of us left out of the hull 13 that sot down to that dinner at Cousin Izry's. If that ain't onlucky, theu what is, I'd like to know?" "But weren't thero any young folks at the dinner?" I asked, availing myself of the. silenco that ensued to say a word. "No, Benny not what, yo might call reel young. SainwelJ, I s'poso, was the youngest, an he was clus 011 to 'Liz'beth Ann's age. p'raps about '15." "And how long ago was it, auntie?" "How long? Lemme see. It was threo year before Hitty was born, an that would make it"— "Mother! Ye do beat the Dutch! As if this boy'd care how long 'twas! Here, Benny, take a cooky and run along it's gettin late, an your folks will want ye. I declare, mother, I'm ashamed of ye, fillin his head with such notions. As I said when ye begin, that long rigmarole, there ain't no enmbor onluckier 'u anot her. So there 1" .'v.-•••'••'" •. BEN BOWDOIN.

Gus Freeman, shot while resisting arrest during the Flora (Ind.) fair some months ago, is lying at the point of death, the result of the wound.

A convention of the "Old Maids" societies of Randolph county. Ind., will be held at Ridgeville, on the 27 inst. At that meeting a county organisation will be perfected. |The blast furnace of the Cleveland (O.) Rolling Mill company, which has been idle since July 1, resumed operation yesterday. Employment will be given to 150 men.

The Franciscan order has contracted for the erection of a monastery at Evansville, Ind., the building to cost 160,000. It will be a branch of the mother house which 1B located at Omaha.

The Odd Fellows of Illinois have determined to purchase SCO acres and build cottages thereon and place worthy Odd Fellows there who are unable to support themselves.

lleware of OlntmentH for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, its mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange tho whole system when "entering It through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should uevor be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they do is tenfold to tho good you can possibly derivo from them, llaii's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by I\ J, Cheney «t Co Toledo, O., contains no mercury. and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, O., by F. J. Cheney & '0. Testimonials free.

Sold by druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall's Family 1'ills aro the best.

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Dated Nov. 17. 1896.—12.4

OTICE OF SALE OF HEAL ESTATE.

State of Indiana, Montgomery County, ss. Montgomery Circuit Court, In the matter of the estate of-Nathaniel Harnett, deceased.

Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of the Montgomery Circuit Court of State of Indiana, the undersigned, as administrator of the estate of Nathaniel Barnett, deceasod, will offer for sale at private sale, at the otlice of Crane & Anderson, attorneys-at-law. No. 101H east Main street. Crawfordsville, Indlaua, on the 15th day of December, 1K9G, the following described real estate situated in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, to-wit: The east half of the northwest quarter of section six in township eighteen (18) north, of range five (5) west.

TKit.Ms: One-third cash 011 day of sale, onethird in six months and the remaining onethird in twelve months' from date of sale, the purchaser to execute his notes for the deferred payments with 6 per cent, interest from date, waiving valuation and appraisement laws, and secured by mortgage on the real estate sold. Bids will be received at said Crane it Anderson's oflice until 2 o'clock m. of said December 15, 1896, and in case a satisfactory bid shall not be received 011 said day said sale will be continued from day to day until a satisfactory bid has been received.

Dated his 13th day of November. 1R110. MILTON HENDERSON, 11-13 It «. Administrator.