Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 January 1897 — Page 10
WEEKLY JOURNAL.
ESTABLISHED IN 1848.
Successor to Thf. Uccorth l-lio lirsi paper in Crawfordvillo. established in 1881. and to he People'* Pvct*t osU»blitlK(l in 1M4.
PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
THE JOURNAL COMPANY. T. H. B. McCAlN. President:J. A. GKEKNK. Secretary,
THE Republicans can not be expected to restore the prosperity of the country before tbey take charge of the machinery by which the result is to be produced.
THE consensus of opinion both in the Legislature and on the outside is that the quart shop is doomed. With the enactment of this law Indiana will have about all the temperace legislation that will be required for some time.
UT the Congressional apportionment bill introduced by Representative Babcock Montgomery county is placed in a district to be known as the Eighth, and is composed of the counties of Johnson, Morgan, Hendricks, Putnam, Parke, Uoone, Montgomery and Fountain. It is pretty safe to predict that this bill will not pass.
TUF. Township Trustees'Association, now in session at Indianapolis, has a unique ass in its body who wants the Legislature to amend the libel law so as to make it a misdemeanor for any newspaper to print the name of any person without his knowledge and consent. Instead of electing Morgan to the trubteeship the people of his township should have had a commission to inquire into his sanity.
TIIE necessity of bringing the primary elections within the operation of the general election laws is strongly presented by John E. Milholland in the January number of the North American Review. The vicious practices, no longer possible ut the polls, are now, Mr. Milholland declares, employed w?th astounding success in thf caucus. The party caucus is to day "The Danger Point in American Politics As it is the fountain head of power, so it i.s the fountain head of corruption. Its evil inll'ience makes unworthy nominations habitual, the machine possible, and bossism inevitable. •••.:•
THE distinguished Senator from Ohio has been offered and has accepted the Secretaryship of State. LI is term as Senator would .expire March 4, lb'J'J, and it is believed Gov. Kushnell will appoint Mark Iianna to the vacancy when Sherman goes into the Cabinet. As Secretary of State Mr. Sherman will round out a brilliant public career, which began forty-two yeare ago in the Houso of Representatives, and brings to that exalted position a ripe experience which covers four terms in the lower branch of Congress and 6ix terms in the upper House, besides four years at the head of the Treasury Department under the Bayes administration.
The monetary conference, before its adjournmeo*, ."•..•ritcr. that tl«* .'.•.•trr«».Cy oil Oil 1Q bo luuJitjLU Oli the principles: 1. That the present yold standard should be maintained. a. That steps should be taken to insure the ultimate retirement of all classes of tlie United States notes by a gradual and steady process and so as to avoid ii jurious contraction of the currency or disturbance of the business in this our country, and until such retirement, provision 1ms been made for a separation of the revenue and note issue depavUnouts of thi treasury. 3. TliBt n. bin: i?i r-g f.-t.ein be provided thai s. or.'.'I ].irioj. "l-.vil ''Vj.-jl-ties to every portion of the country and an eiastic circulation, especially with a view of securing such a distribution of the loanable capital of the countrv as will tend to equalize the rates of interest- in all parts thereof.
SENATOR GOAU has introduced a bill •which provides tnnt the board of county commissioners shall appoint, bi-eu-nially, three persons, who shall constitute aboard of supervisors of elections. These supervisors are to be paid an annual salary. On or before August 1, of each year, the board of supervisors is to elect two judges of elections, two clerks and an inspector for each election precinct. The names of the appointees are to be published in the newspapers. It is inade the duty of the oflicers having charge of the vital statistics of the city or county to furnish the board of supervisors monthly with a report of the names and previous residence of every male person over the age of twenty-one who died in the preceding month. The bill provides for the swearing in and registering of all citizens entitled to a vote at the coming election, and for the selection of places of registration in each precinct.
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FRIDAY. A N A 2 2 I
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NOMINALLY the regular session of the Legislature sits sixty days. This includes the Sundays embraced in the time, which leaves only about fifty working days. From these Gftv working
there should be deducted an
other day each week on account of the adjournment from Saturday to Monday. This reduces the time, to forty days. Of these forty days the lir.st ten are devoted to politics,—the organization of the two houses, looking after petty places for friends, electing a United States Senator and soon. So there really are about thirty days left tj mature legislation. As our average legislatures are composed of inexperienced men the wonder is that our laws are no worse than they are. When our constitution was adopted there were but few railroads. It was not so easy to run home. It was contemplated that when a Senator or Representative reached Indianapolis he wouid remain there until the close of the session. The multiplicity of rail roads and the ease with which mem bers can go and return have changed the conditions. The State has increased in population, and with it has come increased demands for legislation. Either the number of legislative days should be extended or there should be some method adopted tA compel members to stick to the busi ness for which they are chosen to perform. The only hope of any reform is in a constitutional convention Such a body might inject some business methods into the transaction of State, county, township and municipal business which would vastly expedite matters for the public good.
DON. ALISKKT WILLIS, Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, died at Honolulu on January Mr. Willis was appointed by President Cleveland to this post lie bore in one hand the olive branch of peace and in the other a demand that President Dole of the new Republic should surrender and turn over the reins of the government to the dusky queen who had been dethroned. That the queen was not restored was no fault of President Cleveland nor of Minister Willis, but to the firm though diplomatic refusal of President Dole backed as he was by the liberty loving, intelligent people of the islands. Since that discreditable episode Minister Willis has made himself agreeable to the people of the new Republic and his death was universally mourned.
A .JOINT resolution to amend Section 2 of Article 7 of the consitution of the State has been introduced by Senator O'Brien. This resolution was passed by the ast session of the (Jeneral Assembly, and has to be passed at this session before it may be submitted to the people. The amendment provides that the Supreme Court shall consist of not less than seven, nor more than sixteen judges, but the number must be seven, ten, thirteen or sixteen. It provides that the State shall be divided into as many districts as there are judges, and that the districts shall be formed as contiguous territory as nearly equal in population as they can be made without dividing a county, and that one of the judges shall be elected by each district, and shall reside therein.
BY the provisions of Representative Smith's apportionment bill Montgomery and Putnam counties are given a Senator and Montgomery one Representative. The true number of votes for a Senator is 12,540, and for a Representative is 0,270. Montgomery and Putnam together 'have 14,151 votes, or 1,011 more than enough for a Senator Montjfom'jrv has 453 votes, or 2,18^ mo. Ui.i.i i.nsot a l!.i-p!'.'so'.ta-tire. This, assignment of Montgomery is not lair, neither will it be satisfac tory.
Tni inaugural address of the Populist Governor of Kansas contained ^0,000 words, which were iua nly devoted to a defense of the State, but without a suggestion of any practical value. Governor Mount's address contained ouly 3,000 words and they wece i»s full of suggestion of a practical natu.'I: a a da -'r ia of 'IILAL.
Wiiv not change the law and elect the county superintendent of schools by the people, as other county oflicers are elected, instead of by the votes of the township trustees'? The people are capable of choosing a competent rear., and why not permit them to do SO? v-"y.
FROM the number of -bills that have been introduced to wipe them out of existence it looks as though that trusts, cigarettes and noxious weeds will have to go. The people are "ferninst" all of the evils and will say amen if our solons succeed.
BY the apportionment bill which Senator Hogate has introduced, Montgomery and Fountain are made a Senatorial district with one Senator. Montgomery is given one Representative and a Joint Representative with Tippecanoe.
MI CLUI:I 'S MAOAZINE for February will contain some Kansas stories by William Allen White, the young editor of the Emporia (Jiizaic whose reccnt editorial "What's the Matter with Kansas'.' attracted 60 rnuch attention.
ABOUT the only change that is needin the election law at this time is a provision which will prohibit the name of any candidate being printed on the ballot more than once. This should be done to prevent corrupt fusions between different Dartie^ such as we had at the last election. Several other changes have been proposed but for the most part they are of minor importance, and it wouid be a waste of time to consider them. With the change suggested the law will answer all purposes to secure fair elections until the method of voting by machines is introduced, which is not far away. Inventors are at work now, and by and bv a machine will be produced that will meet all the require ments. both as to perfection in its work and cost, that will supplant the present cumbersome and expensive methods. Until then the present law with a few amendments will answer all purposes
HAMLIN GARLAND'S next year paper on Grant in McC lure's Maynzine will tell the story of Grant's part in the Mexican war It was in its way a most efficient and heroic part, and had an important influence on Grant's subsequent career. The paper will embrace recollections of Grant by men who fought by his side- through the war, and two long letters written from the lifld by Grant himself and never before published. It will be fully illustrated.
TIIK estimated surplus earnings of the American Sugar Refining Company (Sugar Trust) for IS'JG equal 25.31 per cent, on the common stock, in addition to 7 per cent, paid on the preferred stock. As 12 per cent, was paid on the common, 13 31 per cent, was carried over. The total surplus of the trust is now probably 530,000,000, of which 825,000,000 is in cash.
TRIALS OF A TRUSTEE.
What Mic Township Giiiirdimi Has to Contend With in l.ookins After the Needs of tlie I'oorofllis
District.
Very few people have the least idea of what a Township Trustee has to contend with in seeing after the poor. It is a very easy matter to straighten up and say, "If 1 was a trusteo, I would do so and so," when the fact is such a person is in absolute ignorance of the true condition of affairs. A trustee has a complete history of the persons aided, and besides this the the fact of coming iti contact with them, hearing their tales of woe, going and seeing the conditions of things in their homes, is a very good array of evidence to gather up as a basis for giving aid. The idea is preposterous that aid is extended in a promiscous manner, without anj* knowledge of the condition of things, just like throwing feed to chickens. It is true that there are imposters in all the conditions of life, and so among the poor there are found persons who could do better by themselves, which in some cases is the result of ignorance as to how to manage, while in other cases it is sheer negligence and wastefulness. There is a class of people who depend upon a day's labor for a livelihood. Now, these people could scarcely scrape enough together to live on during the summer on account of the scarcity of work. No one will deny this, yet these same men can get very little if any thing to do during the winter and they and their families suffer from the actual necessities of life, and would starve without some aid. Yet these men are honest, willing to work but failing to find work are forced to ask aid in order to save their families from starvation. Not a third of the people of this city luvvo an idea of the wnd'i.ion 1the. jioov«r fc.f.rsei.- i-it-ht :i Our midst. It is safe to say that thnr^ are a hundred families in this city dependent upon the daily labor of the head* of the family /or something to eat arul wear. The men are mainly persons who haul or do out door work, and even a blind man knows that there is a very little work for this class of laborers. Yet they and their families must live and having no income, the only hope is through the trustee.
There arc m?a npplyir. for uid who are '.iiov«n to bi_- goad l'iborers avd stand ready and willing to work yet. not having anything to do, they are are force to ask for aid. A person who has plenty, is hardly ever
huDgry
does
not know what it is to be hungry and see the children cry for something to eat, and have 110 means to satisfy the hunger. There are men in our midst with families of four of live, who have not averaged a day's work per week for three months, who are struggling along with what they can get for thenwork and one dollar per week from the trustee. It does not take much calculation to soon see that this is a very scant living, and the fact is that hunger stays in the house twenty-four hours in the day, and for day after day for months.
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The putting in of the Bewer by the city will surely be of vast benefit to this class of people, and the council should use all honorable means to begin the work at once, because if something does riot come around to create some work for these people very soon the poor will very nearly double itself during the present quarter at the present rate of increase. People must not suffer in a land of plenty,
and while using all known means of discrimination as to the actual want of those applying, there may be some aided who, though now in want, could have been in better circumstances had they been more economical when they were at work. Still, even this class have wives and children who are now in want—nothinp to wear nor eat, and hardly enough tire to keep from freezing. People are being put out of houses for non-pay-ment of rent, and their only hope of having a shelter is through the trustee. There are people applying for aid now who have always been considered as being in good circumstances, and there are many others just on the verge of coming to the trustee for aid Columns could be written describing the actual pitable condition of the "poor" classes in our city, and even some in the country. Montgomery county is known to be a good agricultural county, and the day laborer naturally goes to such a county rather than to a county where the ground is broken and the soil so poor that it takes a fertilizer to grow grass. They are here and the majority of them have large families, with from five to eight children. Children must not be allowed to, suffer, under any circumstances, and very often help is given to keep the children and wives from hunger. There are some men, some, times, who are not worthy of help because their own acts have been the cause cf their woes—yet it would be inhuman to allow the children to be in want, and still when the childreu are aided the father will come in for a share of such help.
During the week ending last Saturday night aid was given to 48 men with wives aad 110 children 55 widows with 83 children 13 men and wives who have no children and three orphaus.,' With work plenty, OS of these men could get along without aid. It is generally conceded that the contemplated sewer would benefit the city, but if the main sewer with all the branches throughout the city would be put in by general taxation it would probably be more satisfactory.. But whatever way it would be put in it would certainly be of a benefit to our laboring classes, and even if the taxes might be raised it would cost the taxpayer no more than it would to give aid to these men and at the same time not get any work in return for the taxes paid.
People who desire aid will get it sooner from the trustee if they would come to the cilice themselves and not send the children. While children are honest, still it is not their place to ask aid for the faini^', and at the same time it gets the child in the way of coming for aid and when he grows old it will not depart from him. No less than a dozen children were sent from the office last week, with instructions to have their parents come down, and this fact should serve as an indication of what will be the outcome of sending children to ask for aid. If the aid is actually needed, the parents are the persons to attend to getting it, and the sooner they come just that sooner the aid will be given. No child i6 given an order unless on 'account of sickness of parents or some other good cause, and under no consideration will a family receive aid for tho first time by sending a child—the parent must be seen. M.
To the Asylum.
Saturday depuy sheriff Brothers took Mrs. Sarah C. Netherly to the hospital for the insaue at Indianapolis.
"Your Wants and Welfare. Prices advertised ia the JOURNAL sneak rour wuuts and opueiil. to your vi t.'jir.i.
MIDWAY.
Mrs. John Beck has been bad sick but is improving. M. E Barton is staying with A. J. Stone this winter.
George Smith is talking of going to Florida to spend the balance of the winter.
Win. Beck has been very low for some time but has taken a turn for the the better.
Frank Epperson has gone to Illinois to see his mother who is very low with t_. 01, 'i'-. xtvrt.1*.
It seems that John Beck has tai 11 a contract to rid the commuiiiny of rabbits this winter.
Jefferson Jones, George Redenbaugh and Edward McCarty spent the afternoon with A. J. Stone Sunday.
A. J. Stone left three hog's heads hanging out until dark and when lie went to get them he found but two.
Rebecca Immel has gone to Boone county to stay a while with her daughter whose children are bad sick with diphtheria.
M. E. Barton went to Whitesville, killed a rabbit on the way and sold it to J. A. Laymon for two cents and a half and took it out in salt.
Isom ftverson and little John Gobel seeing the success of Walker and Byers with theia hound got the coon fever and purchased a hound but have not caught anything yet but bad colds.
Walker and Byers are having splendid luck coon hunting this winter. Byers and some more of the small boys went out the other night and not finding anything had made up their minds to go home and the dog being disgusted with their behavior went by himself and caught a 'possum and brought it to his fond master.
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IS NO FAD.
Some
Figures
Which flo To Show What a
l'iffiirn the Festive lJieyeie Is Cutting In the llusincss of .the Co 11111 l-y.
The bicycle craze reached its highest point during the past twelvemonth and is apparently on the increase. It has wrought a revolution in the business, rehabilitating many industries and causing the downfall of others, while travel is diverted into new channels. It is estimated that at present there are 4,000,000 bicycle riders in the United States, while Now York City alone possesses 200,000 riders.
There are at least 250 reputable wheel manufacturers in the United States, besides a host of smaller concerns that cannot be strictly galled manufacturers. Over 360,000,000 is invested in the plants, which give employment to more than 70,000 person*-. It is estimated that the whels turned out last season exceeded 1,000,000 A whole army of wortunen are engaged in making bicycle sundries and in repairing. The wheel has brought prosperity to numberless country hotels and road houses which had become almost extinct 6ince the decline of coaching. Telegraph messengers, postmen, lamp-lighters, building and street inspectors, walking delegates, policemen, firemen, coast patrollers, express messengers, doctors and others are all using the bicycle in their respective vocations.
SMARTSBURG.
Joe Faust sold a tine horse last week Elijah Kennedy 6old horse last week.
Horses in this community bring good prices. Peter Byrd has sold his handsome buggy mare.
Our little town of Smartsburg has a population of 10S. Mr. McNutt, of Benton county, is visiting the McCulloughs.
Frank Pittenger, of Elmdale, visited James Shelton and family Thurday. Peter Barley sold two of his tine horses to Lon Young for a 3100 each.
Miss Ida Cox returned home from Lebanou Tuesday for a visit with relatives here.
Rev. Kelley will preach here the fourth Sunday in this month both morning and evening.
Miss Anna Fenton, of Crawfordsville, spent Wednesday evening with Charles Miller and family.
The school at this place had an enrollment for the third montn of 48 who were neither tardy nor absent.
Meeting held here at the Baptist church Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 11 o'clock by Rev. Drobly was attended by a-large crowd.
The social given Wednesday night at the home of Chas. Miller in honor of .Miss Mamie Long was attended by a small but appreciative crowd, and all report a good time.
UOW TO FIN I OUT.
Fill a bottle or common water glass with urine and let it stand twenty-lour hours a sediment or settling indicates a diseased condition of the kianeys. When urine stains linen it is positive evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate or pain iu the back, is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order
What to Do.
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New Route to IndiHnrtpolm mill Cleveland. Tho Monon Route has opened up a new through car route between Crawfordsville and Indianapolis and Cincinnati. A througu coacli Cincinnati to On lev go via India rm^jolio i'nd r.onch-
dale Icavor. vJlUC-iU^ati tiilijy Cm
1x1., pausing Crawfordsville at 1:15 p. m. The Indianapolis and Cincinnati through coach passes Crawfordsville at 1:15 p. m., arriving at Indianapolis at 2:40 and Cincinnati at 6 m. This new through car route shortens the time, between Crawfordsville aud Indianapolis. daw-tf
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SOI.D liV ALL DUrGGISTS.
"SHE DRESSES WELL." But Her Clothes Often Cover a Living Death.
Beauty tho Shrinn of .Mon'K Worship, and Women Vic With IJach Other to Make Tlic: isclvcs Attractive
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The remark, ''She dresses elegantly," is a very common one in this age of wealth and progress.
Women vie with each other in malting themselves at-
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tractive, for men admire a stylishly dressed woman.
Good clothes add to the charms oi the woman in perfect health, but are ill-befitting those who through ignorance or carelessness have suffered the inroads of female diseases to stamp them-* as physical wrecks. It ia unfortunate, but true, that some pliysicians allow women to suffer needlessly, because man can
only work from theory, and at best only patch up, without removing the cause. Proof is abundant that Lydia E. Pinlcham's Vegetable Compound removes the cause, gives strength, to the weakened organs, vigorous health to the system, and therefore beauty to the face and form.
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., gladly answers, free of charge all letters. Here is one of the results
Three months ago, I wrote you a letter describing my troubles, which were inflammat ion of the womb and bladder. .1 had not seen a well day since the birth of my second child, 16 years ago. I had spent hundreds of dollars for doctors and medicines.
Such pains as 1. endured. My back aclied, my feet and limbs were swollen, and it was almost impossible for mo to stand I could not walk any distance. I received your answer to my letter, and followed closely all your advice, and I have been using Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound for tlireo months. Now I can work all day without pain. I have recommended the Compound to many of my frienas, and gladly recommend it to all women in any way afllicted with female troubles."—LYDIA BATJE, 227 Spring St., Greensburg. Pa.
A slice of mince pio made of tho right niinco incut i.s a lunch in Itself—an epicure's lunch.
MINCE MEAT
is tlio right mlnco meat. Wholo- 1 some, fresh and delicious. l«'or pics, fruit cake und fruit, pudding. Sold everywhere. Take no substitute.
Scnil witno and atldrcei for booklet. Mri. Popkius' Thaokfglviug," a humorous story.
MERRELL-SOULE CO., SYRACUSE, N
Albert W. Perkins AUCTIONEER.
Stock Sales a Specialty.
All inquiries by mail or telephone 357 will receive prompt attention. Office with
A. S. CLEMENTS,
107 N. Green St. Crawfordsqille, Ind. P. S.—Mr. Clements will receive orders and arrange for sales.
Hay, Corn, Oats.
havo noiic- of these t.« s-:1), but for a first-clatis Haircut or shavi don't fail to call at
THE POPULAR BARBER SHOP.
Farmers are Invited to call and uscurtiim he worth of theso statements.
SIM ELDRIDGE,
105-North Or cot St., First Door -South of A. S. Clements' Insurance Otllce.
KOCK.RIVER
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Poland Chinas
HERD
Farm of a mile southeast of dopot. I'ltfs lai'j/e and Kiowtljy wllli (rood style, quality and siilt odjre periiprrees, for sale at all times. Prices as low as is consistent for good stock. Visitors and old-time customers always welcome. If you can't call and see my stock write mo for particulars. Address DAVID CKOHE, Thorntown. Jnd.
KeepYour Eye on This.
Don't lot transcient people
spoil your Sewing«|Machines.
Bring them to the old reliable
and get good work. Sewing
,• Machines and Musical Instru
ments sold and repaired. Bald
win Music Room 1
G. W. Anderson.