Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 June 1897 — Page 2

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

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FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1897.

Cl'ha continues to cost Spain SLL,* 000,000 a month.

This weather is good for corn but hard on humanity.

Last month 1,500,000 new silver dollars were added to the currency.

The United States last year produced SO3,00S,000 in gold and STI,0G!»,230 in silver.

And now comes the news that the Argentine Republic is preparing to adopt the gold standard.

Tukhk is an undoubted activity in the steel and iron business, and that is indicative of returning prosperity.

A syndicate of Chicago capitalists have bought 25,000 acres of land in Colorado and will plant it in beets. It is proposed to erect the largest sugar factory in the world. The sugar beet is marching on.

All indications lead to the belief that there will be an early annexation of the territory of Hawaii. For the sake of the people at large who do not know how to pronounce it a territory by any other name would be in the line of euphony and beauty. Until this is done pronounce it Uaw-wi-yee, accent on last syllable.

The Republicans in the Senate are pushing the tariff bill at the greatest possible speed, considering the fool rules under which they are handicapped. They are occupying no time in its consideration except to answer the criticisms from the free trade wing of tke Democratic side. If it fails to pass during the month of June the fault will rest with Jones, Vest A: Co.

J. O. llicNDEHSON, ex-Auclitor of State, has worked over one of his Koliomo Dispatch editorials on the abdication of the Hawaiian queen and palmed it off on the Indianapolis Journal in the form of an interview, all of which is discredited history. Notwithstanding Oscar has been to Honolulu yet what he says concerning the revolution is nothing but ancient rot.

Pkksent indications warrant the belief that the gold production of the world in the present year will reach the enormous sum of 250 million dollars. Not only are the mines of the United States turning out greater quantities of gold than last vear, but recent reports from the wonderful mines in Africa, from those of South and Central America and Australia, all bring the same information. It is perfectly apparent that the gold production of the year will by far exceed that of any other year in history.

Tur. recent reports to the Comptroller of the Currency from national banks of the leadiDg cities of the country show an increased activity in loans and discounts and other branches of their business. This is an additional evidence that the promised return of business activity has begun and is go ing to continue. There is no more accurate test of business conditions than these bank statements, and ths evidence which is thus being received of a revival of business prosperity is unmistakable.

It is sometimes possible, upon subjects which have no party bearing and do not involve vast consequences, to obtain speed in consideration by the Senate. But that a body not controlled by the Republican party, or by any other single party, indeed having no rules by which debate can be controlled, should be able to take up and make the progress upon a purely party measure, such as a protective tariff bill, that has been made by the Senate since it begiii work upon this measure, is an entirely unheard ofnthing. That this should have happened within a few months of the close of one of the most bitterly fought campaigns that the country has ever seen, is the more remarkable. And that people should go on complaining because still greater speed is not made under these reinarkable circumstances can scarcely be accounted for, except upon the theory that the state of .nervous prostration to which the Cleveland administration brought tie country has rendered the people to some degree irresponsible and unwilling to measure things expected by those that have happed in the past,

A TA151FK COMMISSION. Representative Fowler, of New Jersey, has introduced a bill in Congress to establish a tariff commission of seven members to be appointed by the President, to serve for periods ranging from three to twenty-one years. The obiect of the bill is to do away with tariff tinkering and the disturbance to business that attends the agitation of the question every two and four years. Mr. Fowler thinks that the American people of all sections, of all parties, of every calling, and of all classes, are tired and heartily sick of tariff tinkering and the consequent disturbance, if not actual distruction of all lines of business. What they need and most earnestly desire is an opportunity to engage in business witli assurance that there will be no such radical changes as will destroy, or even crip pie any department of trade or commerce. Any tariff measure that will produce sullicient revenue to support the government under present conditions will, with the natural increase of population and the greater consumption incident to prosperity, bring us in a few years a hundred millions more revenue than will be required tc tiest expenses. How, then, shall we adjust our revenues to our actual needs'.' Shall it be by overhauling the whole subject again—every schedule down to the very last item.' Certainly business prudence would require that our taxes be lowered gradually and removed from such articles as an intelligent and skilled commission would recommend. The changes should be so made as to result in an evolution, and not in a revolution. The taxes should be abated from year to year and taken from one schedule at a time. Hence the President, who is responsible for the proper administration of the government, with the recommendation of the tariff commission, ought to h^vo the power to suspend any portion of the taxes, and the country not be compelled to wait until the Executive, the House of Representatives, and the Senate were in political conjunction, which might not happen for several years. The duty of the commission to investigate all Federal taxation ami domestic and foreign conditions, and annually recommend changes calling for legislation, 'will make it a most valuable adjunct to a wise administration of our national affairs. Its establishment cannot do any harm while it may prove the greatest possible blessing to the American people in securing stability to our varied business interests, and continued and equal prosperity to all sections of our common countr'.

Co education' in Wabash Colli'. belongs to the dim, distant future While neighboring colleges are forging to the front with from live hundred to one thousand students, Wabash will still continue to hover around the two hundred number. However much Wabash may be in need of mci'e students it is safe to say that she will never have them until its trustees fall in line with up-to-date Western colleges and admit women to its halls. On this point, speaking of, large and small colleges. the New York Tribune forcefully says: "Whichever side one may take in the old dispute over the comparative merits of the small and large college, he must admit that large resources are essential to modern higher education. It is also true that there must be a teaching body and a student bony numerous enough to create a a college atmosphere—something so entirely different from the atmosphere of even the most scholarly and enthusiastic school that the general experience has been that they rarely can be made to exist together. A college which graduates only a handful of men each year cannot, in the nature of things, however high its examination standard, give them the same advantages which students have in a college of larger equipment."

Dkmoi hatic leaders who have borne the heat and burden of the day during many years and many campaigns must experience a strange sensation on finding themselves read out of the party by new comers in that organization. William Jennings liryan, who voted for the Populist condidate for President in and who was nominated on a free silver platform in iwOii, calmly announced through his representatives in the various States that only men who had supported him and his platlorm last year can be admitted to participate in Democratic conventions or primaries in any State in the campaign of ISO" The following extract from the call for the Ohio Democratic convention is a sample of the way Mr Bryan and those who do his bidding lay down the law. That call an nounces that "the following persons and none other" are eligible to participate in the State convention. "First, all persons who voted for William J. Bryan for President at the November election of 10S6: second, all other persons who are in accord with the position of the Democratic party as set forth in the Chicago platform adopted in Chicago, July 9, LS'JG.

Tjie real sugar question in this country is the time required to produce our own supply.

CO JVE£ E COM.ME CE ME TS. Speaking of college commencements and the paucity of anything new or startlingly profound in the various baccalaureate addresses the Chicago Times Herald editorially observes:

A hasty survey of this year's contribution of baccalaureate wisdom will convey two significant impressions to the casual observer—one is the growing tendency toward technical and scientific education and the increasing favor with wuich the institutions of technology are regarded by the public the other is the splendid showing made by the small colleges which are numerous in the West and middle west, nearly all of which had a religious denominational origin and are maintained under church auspices. The drift toward institutions of technology has been very marked in the last decade. The greatest increase in the popularity of such colleges has been coincident with the marvelous development of electrical science. Thousands of young men, disregarding the allurements of law, medicine and theology. are studying to be electrical engineers. The mechanical engineering departments of the State universities are crowded and there is unprecedented interest in metallurgy, chemistry and mechanics. Indeed, the State university that is not supplied with a foundry and a machine shop cannot claim to be fully abreast of modern ideas in education. It is high time the colleges were turning out something besides lawyers and doctors. The country has more of these now than the people can decently support. The newereducation must teach young men to do more things skillfully with their hands, and thus the highest kind of handcraft must be supplemented with the broadest education

"WwKly Crop Mullet in.

The weather during the earlier part of the week continued cool, and frosts formed on the 7th and sth. and ice in some localities. Rains fell on few days in most localities, and warmer and more favorable weather during the latter part of the week caused belated crops to advance more rapidly, especially corn and oats, which assumed a better and healthier color. Corn is under good cultivation: in the northern portion planting is not all done, and much corn is being replanted. Oats are doing better, but they are still backward. Rye is in a most excellent condition and heading well. Wheat lias headed and is iu bloom the heads are filling out well, but weeds and cheat are abundant in many fields, and the fly is doing injury in some. Timothy and clover are blooming in good condition and promise well: clover cutting has begun in the southern portion, and in other portions it is nearly ready to cut: meadows in most localities promise a heavy hay crop, and pasturage is in good cond tion. Tabacco plants are nearly all set out in hio county. Potatoes are blooming: they are iu fine condition ami promise a good crop. Vegetables advanced, and gardens are iu good condition. All berries promise a large crop strawberries are ripe in the central and southern portions, and the crop is large and of good quality. Apples, although falling off much, still promise a good crop. Stock is in very good condition. Bees are gathering much honey. Moles are unusually numerous and doing damage.

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Saturday night, June 20, the V. P. S. C. E. will hold an ice cream festival at Walnut Chapel. Perhaps a few lines in regard to this organization would be of interest. Including associate members it has a total of over one hundred names on its roll, and it has done and is still doing an immense good in its locality. It is the pioneer society in that part of the county and most of the members of what is now the Presbyterian C. E. and the Methodist E. L. at Mace began as workers in the Walnut Chapel societv. the separate meetings being organized for greater convenience. Union meetings are held occasionally where all join hands in the good work. It is a work that merits the encouragement of all good citizens, whether church members or not, and we trust that the effort will be properly appreciated by young and old, and the supper will prove a success. Remember the time, Saturday, June 20. and piac-_\ Walnut Chapel. L.

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Certain citizens are asking the council of Crawfordsville to adopt a curfew ordinance similar to that now existing iu many ster cities. The best and only thoroughly successful curfew ordinance, says an exchange, is the one. passed by the mothers and fathers of girls and boys. It needs nothing more than a short, executive session, without debate, to get one passed that will keep 1" year old youths and misses from parading the street at unseeming hours. With such an ordinance in force in every home the danger of increasing the number of wayward girls and reckless sons would be reduced far more than could be expected irom governmental interference. Besides, it is written, "He that looketh not after his own household is worse than an infidel." There is scripture for you and, besides, it is good common sense.

T'iue Cattle.

B. A. Archey has returned from Niagara Falls where he went with a load of hogs. He brought back with him a car of exceptionally fine Canadian cattle.

v.... tan cattie. ff.***v vwuu \ui nru»uc rrimers, is conceded by all.

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ABOUT TYPHOID FEVER.

A i'Utli Disease Caused liy ^peoilic.' Or^atiisiu t'nuii Drinking Water.

Dr. J. N. Hurty, Secretary of the State Board of Health, sends the Jounxai, the following concerning typhoid fever and its causes. It should be read by every family in Montgomery county:

Typhoid is a filth disease It is caused by a specific organism which is almost always introduced into the body through drinking water. The organism gets into the water from the discharges of thot-e sick witn the disease, or possibly by the development of an usually harmless germ which occurs in the intestines, into a harmful one. Typhoid is called a rural disea:«e, because about two cases occur iu the country to one in the city. This is probably not true in Indiana. In Massachusetts, New York and especially iu Europe such is the condition. If Indiana cities were, furnished with pure public water supplies and proper sewage disposal, as are most cities in the regions named, the condition would also undoubtedly exist with us. To banish typhoid fever we must drink pure water.

So long as we have two holes in each yard, one to receive tilth and the other to supply us with water, we may expect to have this terribly destructive filth disease. Iu any city or town where the vault and well system has been in use for a period of years there is no way but to abandon the wells and seek a pure public water supply.

The usual condition existent on farms is about as follows: The farmer at sometime purchased a farm, selected a site for his house, built it. and at the same time in close proximity dug a well and a vault. He also constructed not far away a barn for his cattle. Liviug at this place now commenced, and very probably within six, ten, fifteen perhaps twenty years, the family began having various ailments. One of the members may have complained of indigestion and sometimes aiarrhu'a, or all might have beeu so affected. Again, nausea and vomiting after meals might be experienced, or frequent coated tongues, ascribed to biliousness, might appear, and lastly the awful typhoid fever might make its unwelcome visits. Why was all this'.' The doctor was probably called and his medicine faithfully taken, yet little or no abatement was experienced. The problem has been solved. The sanitarian—sometimes called the microbe crank—has studied and investigated until the secret was discovered. Here it is: At first, the ground furnisheu pure water. Neither the surface of the earth nor to anv distance below the surface wa filth to be found. Finally the vault became full ana the barn yard deep in manure. The vault was filled up and another one dug. It. in time, was also filled, abandoned, and a third one provided. The purifying powers of mother earth was fiually overtaxed. The rains filled the vault, covered the barn yard, and sunk into the earth at every point. As the water percolated down it carried to the underground seams filth in solution, and at last, although clear and tasteless, polluted water got into the well. Sow, the troubles detailed above began to appear. This is not speculation or theory, it is actual, practical investigation. Hundreds of times has this been proved. Thousands of experiments with years of study by a great many scientists, have absolutely established the fact that, typhoid is a tilth disease proceeding in almost every instance from water polluted with our own excrement.

Specific instructions how to overcome the present conditions, possibly productive of typhoid, and to secure practical immunity from the disease will be given in the near future.

Tlir-e .Soldiers Have Charge. The State Hoard of Charities filed its report of the investigation of the State Soldiers' Home at Lafayette with the Governor Monday morning. The conclusion of the board is that but one of the ten largely anonymous charges against the conduct of the institution be sustained. This was the charge that certain employes of the home smuggled quantities of intoxicating liquor into the grounds and there consumed it. The board suggests that the rule of the home providing for the discharge of employes guilty of such an act be rigidly enforced. The board's report finds that the commandant uses no intoxicating liquors and that the discipline is not unduly severe, that the home is in a clean and sanitary condition, and that such dishonorable discharges as were made were for cause, that none of the employes are interested in contracts, and that the food is good and well served.

General AVallaee at ISattle Cionnd. Next Sunday Memorial Day will "be celebrated at Battle Uround. General Wallace will deliver the principle address. Other speakers of national reputation will be present. The Monon route will run a special train from Crawfordsville to Battle Ground in the morning returning in the evening. The fare for the round trip will be only 60 cents. Time of train's departure will be announced to-morrow.

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Bernhardt is to-day as enthusiastic in her profession as though her career were before her. She works a assiduously during rehearsals as though each performance were her "first night

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Farm uf a mile southeast of depot, rigs large and growtby with good style, quality and gilt edge pedigrees, for sale at all times. Prices as low as Is consistent lor good stock. Visitors aud old-time customers always welcome. If you Ican't cull and see my stock write me for particulars. Address DAVID CItOffK, Thorntown. Ind.

CLOSING OUT MY BREEDERS Having-over 30 promising young- chickens 011 hands 1 now oiler my breeding stock for sale at SI per head. Among them are some 'Jo and 95y, point. I.ang!haus. Tills is a bargain for anyone wanting some llrst class stock at, less than half price. Kggs are now 11 per 15. Give me a trial and you will gel a bargain. Address,

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She knows the incalculable value of cates harmful humor from the blood. health, strength and high spirits as thoroughly as she comprehends the terms of her contracts, and no one. knows better than she how essential to her artistic success is a vigorous nervous system.

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TVottfrig Stallion

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Record 2:30. Trial 2:21%

Sired by Champion Medium, 2:221_'. by the great Happy Medium, he by llainbletonion 10.

Dam by Sirocco, thoroughbred: 2nd dam by a son of Old Fearnought. Will make the season of ISO"' at the Crawfordsville fairgrounds from April 1st to August 1st.

Tkisms —Note for S10, with 25 per cent discount for cash. Return privilege.

CHESTER J. BRITTON, Owner.

GEORGE W. FULLER,

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White Guineas and Fan Tall Pigeons. Stock and Eggs for sale. Eggs 11.25

oor 15. Write your wants.

Baptist Young Peoples' Union of America. Chattanooga, Tenn., from July 15 to 18, 1S97.—For the above occasion tUe Big Four will sell excursion tickets at one fare for the round trip. Fare from Crawfordsville 813.70. Date of sale July 13, 14 and 15. Return limit good until August 15, 1807.

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