Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 February 1898 — Page 6

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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 189S.

URTWEKN Leiter's corner and the biscuit trust the corndodger is bound to have a big boom.

Actoh Ratci.iftKj is arranged in court so often that he has very little time to spend in jail.

Dk. Mahv Wai.kkr's plea that she wears bloomers because this is a free country is the hardest blow liberty over received.

The hardest money to get in touch with this winter is the reward offered for the discovery of the whereabouts and present condition of Mrs. Luetgert.

Soutijkkn California is shipping east ninety car loads of oranges a day. No American cares for the scale insect if ll he has the mint scale to exchange for the golden fruit.

A kicii gold find is reported on Amercan territory on the Upper Yukon. That many gold mines will be discovered or our own territory in Alaska can hardly be questioned.

Thk Luetgert jury»was not prepared to inflict the extreme penalty, but thought it well to do what was possible to prevent the prisoner from going back into the sauBage business.

The State school gang is a victim of that vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls in the mud. The next Legislature, be it Democratic or Republican, will demonstrate this fact.

With the farm products advancing and the value of farm animals increased 8150,000,000 in the past year, the •ilver orators are going to have difficulty ia their campaign among th§ farmers this fall.

JAran has under construction four immense battle-ships, ten large cruisers and twenty-three torpedo-boats, which will make her navy the third largest in the world. The Japanese fleets will have something to say about future affairs on the Pacific.

Some funny physicians' certificates occasionally reach the Pension Bureau. Here is a specimen: "I surtify I treated the said sojer fum 18888 to Date— foarmerly his stumick tube was jined to his nervous systim but now it are rotted off cosing grate expectorating and hard of breath."

The response to the call for Ameri can aid for the starving Cubans has been neither substantial nor enthusiastic, but a Government call for men and treasure to settle any little difference with Spain would set the woods afire from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande.

One reason for the rapid growth of protection in the South iB found in the recent statements which show that the cotton spindles of that section have increased from 000,000 in 1880 to over 4,000,000 in 189S, while those of the north have increased but slightly meantime.

WHAT has become of the "report" of those silver missionaries who went to Japan seven or eight months ago to either induce the benighted statesmen of that country to return to the silver standard or bring back information as to the horrible schemes by which the gold standard was forced upon them?

Gen. Gkant said in his first inaugural address. March ), 1809: "Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted with a public place, and it will go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world." The advice is still perfectly good.

Bank clearings, that accurate barometer of business conditions, were 4S per cent, greater in January, 1898, than in January, 1S94, and nearly 34 per cent, greater than in January,1897. Does this look as though there had been no improvement in business conditions since the election of President McKinleyV

THE burning of 30,000 tons of corn stalks in Kentucky is said to have caused a loss of $80,000. In former days the boys on the farm would have considered it money saved. Nowhere iB thiB changed condition more fully appreciated than in northern Montgomery county.

llEALLYBHETTEIJ TIMES. Figuresi do not lie and in spite of calamity cries it is an indisputable fact that times are growing better over the country. If a man has any desire to see evidences of prosperity, which- is equivalent to 6&ying* if he is not a Popocrat, he can find them by scores. Take, for instance, the latest annual livestock report, based upon county returns, aDd issued by the Oraiiye Judd Farmer. "We are again upon the up grade," it begins, regardless of the fact that to some people these are the saddest words of tongue or pen. The shrinkage in t.be value of live stock that began in 1893 was arrested and reversed in 1897. The grain reported is 7 per cent. The total value of all classes of farm aDimals on January 1, 189S, was estimated at §2,037,012,000, against the estimate one year before, complied from the same sources, of $1,885,959,000. An increase in one year of $150,05:'.,000 is quite a fairbi/.ed prosperity item. For the first time in five years there is recorded an increase in both the numbers and the prices of farm animals.

Even horses, in spite of the threatened horseless age, have picked up from an average of $33.(15 to 835.8(3: milk cows, from S23 14 to 820 12:cattle, from S18.47 to 819 72 sheep, from SI.95 to $2.51, and hogs from 8-1.13 to

S 1 2 S

In one item, and one only, can the calamity man find consolation. During the year the price of mules went oil' a fraction over 1 per cent. This will serve the calamity purpose. "Look at our mules," will exclaim the Popocrat. "and the perishing values of our farm animals. Who can deny, in the face of the decline in the value of a mule last year from §10 24 to 839 00. that the gold standard is throttling the farmers'.'" In vain will some one seek to remind him that horses, cows, cattle and hogs have advanced, and that a sheep 6ells for 82 51 instead of 81.91, a bound of 28 per cent.

South Bend Tribune: William H. Oren, treasurer of this county, will go before the next convention of the Republicans of Indiana as a candidate for the nomination for State treasurer. Mr. Oren, who was one of the leading merchants of the city previous to his election to the oflice of county treasurer, is one of the best known Republicans of the county and the result of the election by which the "people put him in his present position indicated his popularity among the citizens of St. Joseph county. Mr. Oren recently visited the leading cities of the Thirteenth district and the popular reception accorded him by prominent Republicans was a surprise even to his moBt ardent supporters in South Bend. The manner in which he was received indicated that northern Indiana is awake to the fact that the time has come when this part of the State should be recognized. Nearly all State offices go to other parts of Indiana. Republicans now propose that northern Indiana should be considered and will offer Mr. Oren as the best man for the oflice of State treasurer.

An interesting novelty at the Paris Exposition will be the Mareorama (sic), which will give visitors the illusion of a voyage by steamer from Marseilles to Constantinople, with calls at Tangiers, Algiers, Naples, Venice, Alexandria and Smyrna. They will be standing on the steamer, which will appear to be in the sea, even to the roiling of the vessel and the salt breezes. The unrolling of the canvases will make them think the ship is moving, the principle beiog the same as that which makes railway passengers in a standing train think they are in motion when another train passes. The voyage of the steamer will be diversified by various scenes, such as meeting a fleet of warships, a tempest, with thunder and lightning: a sunrise, etc .besides other curious incidents. Thus, at Naples, for instance, natives will climb on board and perform the dances of the country.

President McKinlet's utterances on the currency question and his insistence that it is the duty of the party to do all in its power to enact such legislation as is necessary to sustain the credit and standing of our currency are still the subject of much newspaper comment. One remarkable feature of this development is the great number of Democratic newspapers in all parts of the country which are cordially commending the President's views and declaring that is the duty of every good citizen, irrepective of former party associations, to sustain him and the party which he represents in every effort to enact such legislation as is necessary to protect and strengthen, if need be, the credit and standing of the currency of the United States.

Tut: people of Indiana are beginning to believe that they are unjustly taxed to support institutions for higher education. Higher education is a luxury which should be paid for by those receiving it and people fail to see the reason for such schools when their pupils could obtain the same or better instruction at non-State schools for the same money. When the whole question is boiled down it shows that the people are heavily taxed for something which is not a benefit.

PREJUDICED SCHOOL HISTORIES. Indiana is not alone in haviiig school histories reeking with bias and misinformation. In fact, nearly every State in the Union is having difficulty in this matter, the authors of these so-called histories seemingly endeavoring to cater to the political preferences of the school boards of the States passing on the texts. In some of the Southern States however, there is animated internecine strife. The other day the Texas State Textbook Board met to select the manuals for the 800,000 children in the public school. One of the treatises submitted was entitled "School History of the United States,'' by J. William Jones. A protest against against ito adoption, written by a Texan, has come to hand. The writer of the protest, like Mr. Jones, takes an ultra Southern view, and yet they fail to agree on many points. Among the objections urged against Mr. Jones' book is that it is little more than a history of Lee's army that its tone is incendiary: that it gives but a single page to the Mexican war: that it represents that the South would have won but for the death of Albert Sidney Johnston and Stonewall Jackson: that it shows a strained partiality for Gen. Hood: that it fail6 to denounce Cleveland's second administration: that it is not orthodox on the Chicago platform and the free free coinage of silver, aDd thatit leans unduly toward the Episcopal and the Baptist churches. The protest is quite as significant as the so-called history.

I'AVINtJ TAXES J5Y 1XSTALJ.ME NTS. Boston Transcript. Paying taxes on the installment plan is one of the happy thoughts of a municipal philosopher. Why not pay them them that way'.' It is in human nature to find it easier to pay 848 a year in monthly payments of 84 than 824 in one annual payment. There is nothing particularly sacred about the period of one round year that would make it necessary to tax by that period rather than by any other. Thrifty people might prefer to pay by the year, but few people are thrifty. Some men prefer to pay their house rent by the year, but that is not the rule. There is no absolute reason why taxes should go by the year either. Furthermore, if taxes came into the treasury by the month, it is doubtful if so many wasteful expenditures would be made by municipal governments. The large figures in annual budgets tempt to large appropriations. This municipal philosopher may have hit on a great idea. More taxes raised with less grumbling, and with narrower appropriations, would be a wonderful boon.

The Democratic papers of the district are cracking their column rules in order to advertise a scheme of that great and good man, Joe Cheadle. A call to old soldierB to meet at Frankfort, Joseph's home, iB made and it is stated that the object of this meeting will be to nominate a soldier candidate for Congress who will see that all the boy6 get pensions amounting to a dollar a day at least. The trickery in this is so perfectly plain and so disgustingly absurd that it cannot fail to react on its instigator. It is an appeal of a designing demogogue and is bo replete with selfish purpose and ignorant buncombe as to fall by the weight of its own rottenness. The author of this idea has no hope whatever of being able to bring about the thing he claims to promote. He merely wishes to get a place at the public crib by appealing to the credulous cupidity of a 6ucker constituency. Old soldiers all over the district are denouncing the movement and Stone River Post at

Frankfort has filed a protest with the Department Commander.

Hemi Jonas Stamping, the Swedish journalist who described in the November Century "Andree's Flight Into the Unknown," has written for the March number of that magazine an account of "Andree'6 Messenger." The only word that has been received from Audree since his departure was brought by carrier pigeon. The bird was killed by a whaley aDd fell into the sea. Afterwards the whaler learned that the bird might possibly bear a message from the explorer, and the ship sailed back and by chance the body of the bird was recovered. A pieture of the pigeon accompanies Herr Stadling's account.

At a donation party near Pittsburg to a country clergyman blessed with five children there waB a preponderance of second-hand clothing for his flock. On the next Sunday the five marched up the aisle decked out in the contributions just as the minister, possibly by prearrangement with his wife, was delivering the passage: "Yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." The silence in the congregation was painful.

No wonder ministers of the gospel denounce the theater of to-day. Everything disreputable is rushing onto the stage. Following the pugilistic invasion comes Sir Robert Peel, discredited scion of illustrious sire. Preeminent curiosity of the public, which makes such accessions to modern mimic life not alone possible, but profitable, has much to account for in the heat of the hereafter.

KANSAS AND PROSPERITY. Frank Matthews, of Harper's Weekly, visited Kansas this winter and Bpent son\e weeks there investigating the condition of the State. In his write up he says "The manager of one of the largest coal companies in Kansas told me that in November last he went into the flour mill of an acquaintance in Lamed, Pawnee county, beyond the center of the State and almost on the border of the 'short grass' country, lie met a farmer past middle age coming out of the mill. The farmer was tucking a little piece of white paper into his poc«et. The man had been in such straits of poverty that his trousers were patched with burlap. His boots were broken, and through the holes his bare feetshovved. The man's attire was really that of a tramp. 'Did you see that farmer going out'.'' said the miller to the coal man. 'Yes,' said the visitor. 'How much money do you suppose I just paid him in a check'.'' 'Oh, 8500 or 8000.' "'Well, 1 gave him a check fcr 87,000.' "That 87,000 represented only part of the wheat raised on a 81,200 farm The farmer had 4,000 more bushels to sell. That man had owned his farm clear, but had little working capital. He decided that under no consideration would he run in debt. His family lived on the dairy products of his farm, and went without those things for which cash must be paid usually. The first thing he did with his money from last year's wheat was to tit out his family in clothes, and then he went in for some luxuries. He bought two carriages and a piano. Then, to show his faith in 'Kansas farming despite droughts, he put the rest of his money, except the receipts from the -1,000 bushels of wheat held in reserve, into more land.

There is a farmer in a town near the center of the State who had a section of land, 640 acres. It was worth probably $7,000. He had a mortgage on it for $6,000, and Bank Commissioner Breidenthal had been urging the bank which held the mortgage to have the indebtedness reduced. He regarded the mortgage as a rather shaky security. Early in October he received a letter from the bank officials saying that the farmer had raised S17.000 worth of wheat on that land, had paid off the $6,000 mortgage, and had bought an adjoining quarter section of land for $2,500. g| He had cleared, deducting expenses, $14,500 on his wheat, and he had $4,000 left after making his purchases, with which to improve his farm and to lay aside for a rainy day, which in Kansas means another drought. "Out in Thomas county, in the 'short grass'• country, lives a former member of the Legislature. He had a 350 acre farm. Its value was not more than* 81,000. The hard times sorely pressed him. He went to Topeka, the State capital, and hung around his former associates, fairly begging them to give him some kind of a job, even if it was worth only a few hundred dollars a year. He failed to get a place, and went home discouraged. He put in a crop of wheat on his land—there was nothing else for him to do—and, almost hopeless, he sat down to watch it grow. It did grow, and when he had harvested it he got $9,000 for it. That man is no longer looking for a political job. "In Sheridan county, adjoining There is a man who had a half section of land, 320 acres, on which he owed $800. He put 300 acres of his farm into wheat. He raised 7,000 bushels, which he sold at 05 cents a bushel, bringing him in $4,450. He paid off his $800 mortgage, paid 82,500 for a whole section of land adjoining his farm, and had $1,250 for improvements and a reserve fund."

The population of New York, according to the Health Department, is 3,438,899. That of London, by the census of 1894, was 4,349,000. New York is a million smaller than London and a million larger than Paris. It was once supposed that China had the largest cities, but Canton, the largest, is now credited with but 1,800,000.

This country exported last year 75,000,000 bushels more corn than in 1896, and much more than in any previous year. The average export price was 30.6c a bushel, and those who insist that a gold dollar ib a 200 cent dollar must double the figure.

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[Special Correspondence Crawfordsville Journal 1 WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 5—It will be seen from the following clipping from the Washington Post that Charles Landis has at oDe fell swoap taken a very high perch upon the ladder of oratorical fame and that his persuasive eloquence is in demand not only in effete Boston but also in the mine al regions of the West: "Representative Landis' brilliant speech in opposition to civil service of the present day, which was one of the events of the early part of the session, seems to have won him favor in the enemy's country. Massachusetts has long been looked upon as the hotbed of civil service reform, but the Middlesex Club, of Boston, has invited him to make an address at their annual banquet on the anniversary of Lincoln's birthday, and the Hoosier statesman has accepted the invitation. But Mr. Landis' popularity as a new member of Congress is evident in other localities than learned Boston. The Americus Club, of Pittsbuig, has invited him to speak at its annual banquet on the anniversary of Grant's birthday. Among the other speakers on that occasion will be Senators Hanna and Spooner."

There are several brilliant young men in the House besides Landis who are destined to make their mark in political history, the most noted of which is Robert G. Cousins, of Iowa. He is what they term down in Kentucky "a born orator." He possesses all the graces of logic and rhetoric. His convincing and earnest manner and brilliant conceptions evidence the highest type of oratory. He is brilliant in metaphor and confident in the mastery of his subject. Therefore his speeches are not only popular but highly entertaining, and as a speech maker he is much sought after upon all public occasions.

Representative Joe Bailey, of Texas, from the Democratic side, and the alleged leader of the minority in Congress, is an orator of the southern school of politics. He is an eloquent speaker and a ready debater, yet his logic is not invulnerable to the criticism of careful analysis.

It is encouraging to know that while the old land marks of American statesmanship are fast passing away, that the young and stalwart men—embryo statesmen so to speak—are coming to the front. Whether or not they will be able to hold up the banner of American greatness and fame is a much mooted question which the future can only determine.

The venerable Senator from Vermont, Justin S. Morrill, now 8S years old, is a spared monument of the sages and statesmen of a past age. He is still hale and hearty and bears the burdens of his great age with an easy grace. He is always the first Senator in his seat and seldom misses the chaplain's opening prayer. He attendb re ligiously to all his committee duties. He is honored and revered by Senators of all parties, who acknowledge him the dean of the Senate, having been a member for thirty-two years. Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, now 74 years old, has been a member of the Senate for twenty-one years. He is robust and vigorous in constitution, and one of the ablest men in that body. He is an indefatigable worker and a master of the technical ethics of legislation. He is making the fight of his life for the annexation of Hawaii and Nicarauga, and the opponents of these measures will find him foernan to be dreaded.

The people of Skaguay and Dyea, Alaska, have asked the War Department for troops to be sent to those places as a protection against thieves and marauders and other class of criminals who follow in the wake of the Yukon emigration. The Secretary of War will doubtless give this subject prompt attention.

The House on Saturday reduced the appropriation for fortification and coast defense from 89,517,144 last year to $4,144,912, from which it is to be inferred that Uncle Samuel has no immediate apprehension of war.

Senator Morgan thinks the Senate will reach a vote on the annexation of Hawaii within the next week. There is no doubt now that Senator Thurston will vote against annexation upon the ground that it will injure the beet sugar production of bis State. Senator Morrill will also vote against annexation, but bis objection is founded upon a higher plane of statesmanship than that of Thurston. He simply believes it unwise. A poll of the Senate now shows a very close vote. Two votes are yet lacking tu make up the necessary two-thirds to pass the measure. It is thought, however, that they will materialize at the proper time.

Roch F. Rouh.

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THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL

LESSON VIII, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 20.

Text of tin- I.csMin, .Matli. x, it-l.V Memory A ernes, ,»-x -iol(l«n Text, Matli. x, Commentary liy tint I{.-v. I. M.

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[Copyright, 1S97. by D. M. Stearns.] 2-4. "Now thn names of the twelve npostles are those: The lirst, Simon, who Is called Peter, and Andrew, lii.s brother. Jesus Himself went nhout all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues, und preaching the gospel of thi kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people, but the multitudes who were as sheep without a shepherd touched His heart and He told His disciples to pray the Lord of the harvest that He svould send forth laborers into His harvest (chapter ix, H5-38). When we pray this prayer from the heart, it seems to imply a readings on our part to go ourselves if lie opens the way, for it is just following this command so to pray that, we have the record of His choosing and sending forth these twelve In Luke vi, 12, we read that just before lie chose the twelve He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. In Mark iii, 11, we read that lie ordained them that they should be with Him, anil that He might, send them forth to preach anil to heal the sick. The last, night before His crucifixion He told them that. He had chosen and ordained them that they should jzo and bring forth l'ruit, and that their fruit should abide. 5, 6 "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded I hem, saying, Go not into the way of the gentiles and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not. bun go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." This restricted commission will not he understood unless one is familiar with God's plan of blessingforr.il nations, which is to bless Israel lirst and then all nations through Israel. This is fully ft— vealed in the prophets, and He will not depart from it, for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance (Horn, xi, 29). Take as sample passages Ps. lxvii Isa. xxvii, lx, l-:i, 21 Jer. iii, 17. 18 Zcch. xiv, 1(3, 17 There are two other prayers which we would do well to pray along with Math. ix. :iS One is in Isa. lxii, (1. 7, and the other in Rev. xxii, 20. To pray these three prayers from the heart daily will bring one very near to the heart of Christ. His primary mission was to Israel (Math, xv,

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hence this restricted com­

mission at this time to the twelve, but being rejected and crucified by Israel He after His resurrection gave tho worldwide commission as in Math, xxviii, 10. 7. "And as we go. preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand." Thus preached the Baptist, and Jesus Himself, and the 1~, and the 7u, for in the person of the king the kingdom was verily among them (Luke xvii, 21, margin), and had they been content, to receive acrncifled and risen Messiah the kingdom would doubtless have been set up after Mis resurrection, but seeing their decided rejection of Him, He, before His death, told them in a parable that the kingdom was postponed till His return from the far country (Luke six, 11-1,j) 8. "Ileal tho sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, «st out devils freely yo have received, freely give." Some one ha.suggested that verses 5 to 15 of this chapter contain special directions for tho special mission of the apostles at that time, verses 16 to 23 directions for gospel ministry in all ages, and verses 24 to 42 the service ol Christ in its fullest and widest sense, call ing attention to the fact that the last vcrstiu each of these sections has His Yeri.y. I say unto you. 9 "Provide neither gold nor silver not brass in your purses." In Isa. vi. 8, the question is, "Whom shall I send and who will go for us:-' If any one will go l'oi God the Father. Son and Spirit on then business and wholly in their interests, they may rely upon Phil, iv, lit, being made truo to them, "My God shall supply nil your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Je: us. Or, as one has para phrased it. "Make thou His service thy de light, He'll make thy wants His cam" 10. "Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves, for the workman is worthy of his meat.' If we are the lord's messengers on the Lord's business, we have no occasion to Ix anxious about food or raiment or money, but disentangled and freo and without fear (verses 2(i, 28, 31) follow where Htleadeth in quietness and in confidence, foi the silver and the gold and the catl.lt upon a thousand hills are His. 11. And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till yo go thence." The prophets were plainly taught that not all would receive their message, but that some would hate them for it (Jer. i, 17, 19 Kzek ii, 6, 7 iii, 7). In the second section oi our present chapter, and in John xv, IS20, we an taught to expect, the same thing, but we are also taught that some will wel come Him, anil also us for His sake lie will direct our steps in this matter iilso, and if some day lie wants us to have fellowship with Him in being refused, His grace will be sufficient. 12. 13. "And when ye come into an house, salute it, and if the house bo worthy let your |eace come upon it, but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. Even IsKael was not to light against a city until that city had rejected tlieir offers ol peace which they were to proclaim to tt (Deut. xx, 10-12). Every believer is ti count himself a messenger of the Prince ol

Peace, and, like the angels at IJis birth, wo are to proclaim peace in lli.s iiann (Luke ii, 14) Preaching peace by Jesus Christ is our work (Actsx, 30), for He has made peace by the blood of His cross (Col i, 20). Blessed are the peacemakers! How beautiful are the feet of such! Hut then are many who know not these things (Math, v, 9 Isa. Iii, 7 lix, S). 14. "And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shako off tin dust«if your feet." Thus the apostles did (Acts xiii, 57 xviii, 0), and doubtless God was glorified, as He .always will be if the messenger is faithful, whether men will hear or forbear Tho faithful messenger is unk) God a sweet savor of Christ, whether men believe or not (II Cor. ii, 15, 16). The messenger is responsible for tho faithful delivery of the message, but the one who sends him is the one who will attend to 'he way the message is treated. Verse 40 says that as they treat, the Lords messenger so they treat the Lord HimstJf (See also Luke x, 16). 15. "Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of ,judgment, than for that city." By comparing chapter ri, 32, 24, have we not a right to conclude that it may be more tolerable for the heathen who never heard of Christ, than for those in so callcd Christian lands who having heard have not received Him.