Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 February 1898 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1898.

A DELEGATE convention may have its disadvantages but it has the advantage of putting out a ticket Dominated by a majority.

Tun fusionists will nominate Cheadle for Congress but two of the Democratic papers of this city will probably refuse to support him.

TUERE area great many frail jokes perpetrated about the candidate, but after all he is typical of our American institutions and where will you find in a day's walk a jollier companion than the candidate?

IT now looks very much as though Landis and Cheadle will again be pitted against each other for congressional honors. Joseph is still groggy from the '06 knock out and will go to grass, for good, this time.

THE Populist desire to force the government Into running a railroad is ev ??.nt in their commenton thesale of the Kansas Pacific. That would certainly have been a losing business to the treasury, and would have lasted indefinitely.

Ex-Gov. ST. JOIIX, the high priest of prohibition, has been caught in the act of signing a petition for a liquor permit to be issued to a Kansas druggist. Compared to this shock the proverbial clap of thunder from a clear Bky becomes a very tame performance.

IN all the reports of anarchists' meetings in Paris, the statement is invariably made that in the midst of the greatest turmoil and threats of destruction to human life "order was maintained throughout." From this distance the patient observer of events can speculate but vaguely upon what one of these demonstrations would be •with a Jittle disorder thrown in.

GOSIIEN Times: As a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana, Francis E. Baker is splendidly equipped with all of the qualifications which could be desired. Morally, his life is without a blemish and force of character is observable in him to a high degree. His education has been thorough, technical and practical, upon which has been erected a successful career carved out by ability and a studious attention to results.

IT will probably be a little embarrassing to the Democratic stump orators who expected to use their 1S9G speeches in the campaign of 1898, to know that the money in circulation in the United States at the beginning of the present month was 8223,559,232 in excess of the amount in circulation at the date of the adoption of the Democratic platform of 1890, which is being made the basis of Democratic operations in the campaign of this year.

GEN. WALLACE'S senatorical candidacy is gaining strength each day and from all parts of the State come the most encouraging reports. The people of Indiana realize that in honoring Gen. Wallace they will honor themselves. He, more than any one other man, has been responsible for relieving Indiana from the false light in which she was placed by the unwarranted writings and grotesque twaddling of such writers as Edward Eggleston.

IT is seriously contended that all our great modern naval engines of war are as dangerous at the breech as at the muzzle. The quality of armor plate, too, has furnished a scandal, but there is no assurance that the'vessels of any foreign power are any better than our own. As a matter of fact, American armor manufacturers have filled numerous orders from foreign countries, and a Pittsburg concern has just been awarded a contract to furnish Russia "with plates for two new battleships.

POPULIST National Committeeman Batman, of Maine, denounces in the most vigorous terms the proposition •which a group of men in Washington representing silver-mine owners have formulated, by which they propose a fusion between Populists, Democrats, and the 6ilver party in the coming Congressional campaign. He says that every so-called fusion heretofore has resulted disadvantageously to the Populists, and is destroying their organization and the prospects of party growth.

RECEIPTS INCREASING. Good old McKinley receipts are likely to be the rule in the Treasury Department again. Treasury oflieials new feel confident that the receipts for the month will surpass those of any February since the McKinley law was in operation and supplying sufficient funds to meet the expenditures of the Department. The receipts during the first half of February were a little over a million dollars a day, including Sundays, and it is expected will reach 829,000,000 for the month, which will be nearly twenty-five per cent, in excess of average February rereceipts during the operations of the Wilson law, and will justiabout equal the average February receipts during the period in which the McKinley law operated normally. The February receipts in the first three years of the McKinley law iaveraged 829,700,000, while those of the three years of the Wilson law averaged 833,700,000. It seems probable that the new law will in the present month nearly or quite reach the standard established by the McKinley law during itB first three years, in which it supplied all necessary funds for current expenditures, as it would have done in its fourth year but for the impending shadow of tariff reduction promised by Mr. Cleveland and his free-trade Congress.

"Ix the iindustries of the country, the most significantifact is that in different branches there are constant accounts of additional works starting, some only after a few mouths' or a year's rest, but others which have been idle for several years, and one for twelve year8.'~ With new machines or new owners old works are rapidly put in shape to meet anew demand. This appears not only in textile works, where a few are changing cotton to silk or linen,i but even in iron and steel, notwithstanding the present enormous production and current low prices. In the cotton-workers' strike no change appears, except that demands for further legislation against mill-owners are made in legislatures." —Dun''8 Review.

Mn TELI.KB and his associates in and out of Congress, who profess such a warm admiration for the Mexicans and their system of 'finance, might with entire propriety take some lessons from them just now. Simultaneously with the adoption by the free-silver party in the Senate of resolution favoring the payment of United States bonds in silver coin, the Mexican government comes tOithe front with a proposition to sell bonds payable in gold, and gold only. There is quite a contrast between the action of a silver currency country proposing to sell gold-bearing bonds and that of a country which issued bonds with the understanding that they would be paid in gold and then suggests paying them in silver.

WHEN the Legislatures of two such conservative States as Massachusetts and Iowa are able to roll up only a scant majority of three against constitution amendments providing for women suffrage, the new woman 16 justified in believing she is making progress toward the goal of her ambition. After all there are worse things than the prospect of having keen-witted women endowed with the right of suffrage, and the objection that the feminine mind is incapable of grasping the details of public questions loses force so long aB the ignorant and venal voter is allowed equal voice with the educated and upright student of affairs.

IT will be remembered that the Hamilton county delegation at the recent district convention voted against the report of the committee on resolutions, thus putting a slight on Gen. Wallace whoiwas 'endorsed as a senatorial candate. The delegation was roundly denounced all over Hamilton county for its action and just to show that their hearts are right the Repub licans of Hamilton have now nominated for the legislature Hon. E. E. Neal, the most| avowed Wallace supporter in the field of those asking the honor of representing Hamilton county iu the legislature.

THE money received by the farmers of the country for their farm products in tho past year will exceed by hundreds of millions of dollars that received in the preceding year. The excess in the value of their exportations alone during the seven months just ended is, in round numbers, 875,000,000, and, as the explorations are but a 6mall proporation of their total sales, it is evident that their gain in money received for sheir products during the year will reach into hundreds of millions of dollars as compared with that leceived in the preceding year.

THE calamity shriekers are going to have a pretty hard time explaining to the dear people in the coming campaign how it is that business has so greatly improved without the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Last week's bank clearings show a gain of 54 per cent, over the corresponding week of a year ago, and are 10 per cent, larger than those of the corresponding week of 1892, the most prosperous business year cf the past decade.

DR. NANSEN AS A TRAVELLER. A Liverpool despatch represents Dr. Nansen as saying that lecturing in America is as bad as exploring, and that the American style of travelling is not to his taste. Major Pond, who saw a good deal of Dr. Nansen the last fortnight he was in this country, feels constrained to disbelieve that Nansen has been truthfully reported. He says that our late visitor spoke most sweetly of everything American, and doted especially on sleeping-car berths and dining-car vituals.

Iijverv one is counselled to disbelieve all reports of sentiments casually expressed by Dr. Nansen about this country: but if he did say that lecturing was hard work the American travelling not to his taste, that was all right the sentiments were reasonable, and no one need apologize for them.

One of the advantages of going to the north pole is that when vou get back you can speak your mind freely about the country you have seen,without giving serious offence to its inhabitants. In that particular the polar region differs from the United States, and the difference is in favor of the pole.—Harper's WccliUj.

CJI AAVFOKDSVII.LE has a in go ournal. It is jingo simply to enable its editor, who would never enlist and who would commit suicide if drafted, to attack the President, whose energies are bent upon preventing the plunging of this country in a war which would entail an expenditure of billions of doiiars and which would cost many thousands ot precious, human lives. No decent or sane man wants war and the most patriotic are those who applaud the conservative and statesmanlike attitude of the administration. War is the last alternative of a civilized nation and is only to be resorted to when all things else have failed May the God of nations avert a war.

THE trade journals mention the fact that the business improvement is not confined to any one section, but is diffused through the entire country. This is a significant circumstance. It means that the gains which are being scored are solid and permanent. New England was supposed to be hit severely by the disturbance in cotton manufacturing in that region, yet the damage is slight. The clearing houses in thatlocality continue to report large gains over this time in 1897. Boston's increase in clearings the week just ended was 25.9 per cent.

THE old saying that "nothing is ever lost" is unexpectedly verified by the recent finding in a tomb at Luxor, Egypt, where it had lain concealed for eighteen hundred years, of a papyrus containing twenty poems by Bacchylides, a great Greek poet whose writings had wholly disappeared. Professor J. Irving Manatt in the March Atlantic treats interestingly of the discovery and the poems, and describes the isle of Keos, the poet's birthplace and home.

TALI, oaks from little acorns grow and many great libraries are the result of such small beginnings as the women of Crawfordsville are now making. Years hence when a future generation is taking pride in Crawfordsville's great public library their names will be held in grateful remembrance. In the meantime let us not forget to push this worthy enterprise along by helping the ladies in every possible way.

A MAN named Oakee, who claims to have been a soldier under MeClellan, has managed to drag himself from obscurity by challenging Gen. Wallace to a duel. This fellow Oakes belongs to that class of lunatics which attains notoriety solely by assailing men whose genius and merit have gained for them distinction. Of this class Guiteau, Prendergast and Oakes are clearly representative and are on a disreputable^ parity.

THE State Board of Charities reports that last year one out of every twentyseven inhabitants received public aid from township trustees In Montgomery county the percentage rune up to one in every twenty. This is an appalling state of affairs and reminds us that true charity consists not so much in helping the poor as in teaching them to help themselves.

THE way to make a delegate convention a success is to elect representative citizens as delegates. If representative citizens refuse to shoulder their responsibilities in this respect we know of a number of cheap heelers in each precinct who could be prevailed upon to lay aside their natural inclinations and take charge of the ccn mention.

THE Populists urged the government to put 820,000,000 into the Kansas Pacific railroad and than run the road through receivers. The interest on that amount of money at 4 per cent, is 8800,000 a year to say nothing of the cost of amateur railroading. Populists have grand conceptions for putting the government in a hole.

SOME of the projectiles used by the United States cost 8212 each. The old idea that war is largely a financial duel still finds support.

GARNISHEE LAW DECIDED.

Tli« Supreme Court Construes the Act of 18!7 SusIiiiHinj it With Some vf

Qualifications.

The Supreme Court last week reversed the case of Samuel Pomeroy against Mary Lewis Beach, in which Mrs Beach had brought a garnishment suit under the law of 1897, to seize the wages due Pomroy from the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Company and apply them on a debt due her. Pomeroy defended on the ground that he was a resident householder and entitled to an exemption of 8000, but the Circuit Court of Porter county held that he was only entitled to have 825 of his wages exempted, and rendered judgment accordingly.

The Supreme Court], holds that the new law is constitutional, but that it must be construed in connection with other statutes on thesame subject. It holds that a garnishment proceeding can not be maintained under it except by filing an afiidevit showing that the the defendant is a non-resident, or is seeking to defraud his creditors, such as is requred in a proceeding for attachment. It holds also that the "householder" to whom is allowed wages to the amount of 825 as exempt from garnishment, is a householder living in another State. The holding ie, in effect, that the only change in the law made by the act of 1S97 is to make it no longer necessary to issue a writ of attachment before issuing one of garnishment.

THE REFORM SCHOOL.

Some Interesting Facts In Relation to Tins successful Corrective list ilute of I mlianu.

The JoiiiN'AL has received from Supt. GharUou of the i'lainfield Reform school the following statement with the request to publish, there being many erroneous impression existing as to, the nature and rules of the school: WK

HOW HOYS ARE COMMITTED Only circuit and criminal courts can commit boys, and these only after the boy has had a fair trial in open court. No boy can be committed during a vacation of the court.

AGE.

For crime, boys may be committed from 8 to 10, and for incorrigibility, from 10 to 17. The governor may commute the sentences of boys over these ages and under 21 and send them to this school. All boys are committed until they reach the age of 21 years.

TICKETS OF LEAVE.

No boy is ever discharged until he reaches the age of 21. But a boy is released on "furlough" or "ticket of leave ', after, by along course of good conduct, he reaches his "honor badge." If the authorities of the School deem him worthy he is then granted a ticket of leave for one or more months. If in that time his conduct has been exemplary his furlough is renewed if unsatisfactory he

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return to the school. Each year many letters of leave are revoked and the boys are recalled to school.

DAY SCHOOLS.

These schools are graded in every respect like the public schools of cities, and are taught by competent teachers. Boys attend school one-half' of each day and work the other half. Thus one-half the boys are in school in the forenoon and the other half in the afternoon. No vacations are ever given except to the higher grades, and then only at the busy working season when the teaching of grades render it necessary. The primary schools extend over all the year.

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION

The school teaches every boy habit:-, of industry, and aims to teach each boy a trade. Brick making, brick laying, plastering, gas making,plumbing, steam fitting, bread making, cooking, tailoring, shoe making and repairing, gardening, farming, caring for stock, floriculture, laundry work and printing are taught boys. This labor is aimed to be primarily instructive secondarily productive. No polytechnic or technical school keeps industrial education more prominently in view than does the Reform School.

MANUAL TRAINING.

Realizing that all of the boys cannot enter the trade schools, extensive manual training scnools have been established. The woodshop occupies the old chair caning shop where there are thirty-nine work benches well equipped with tools. Here two classes are taught each day, making seventyeight in all. The course of instruction is the same as the bestSloyd schools in Sweden. The blacksmith and iron working shop is equipped with sixteen forges and here 32 boys are taught all kinds of iron work including horse shoeing.

Hand Burned. /V

Saturday evening Mrs. Elias Brown had her hand severely burned at her home on east Main street. A couch had taken fire in some inexplicable way and Mrs. Brown endeavored to drag it out into the yard. In so doing she sustained her injuries.

WHAT'S the secret of happy, vigorous health? Simply keeping the bowels, the stomach, the liver and kidneys strong and active. Burdock Blood Bitters does it.

ROADWAYS 0E STEEL.

GOOD POINTS CLAIMED FOR THIS STYLE OF HIGHWAY.

Practical Test of Its Merits Gives Excel­

lent Results—Loads anil Speed Nea-ly

Ioubled--Free From Dust and Mud and Very Durable.

AL, interesting experiment with the use of stec»r trackways is re^rtcd from Illinois, where 100 feet of steel road was laid in tho public highway and tested with all kinds of traffic for IS months. The road was first suitably graded. Tho rails wero a quarter inch thick, S inches wide, with a downward flange of 3 inches on either side and an upward flange of an inch on the outer side to keep the wheels on. They wore laid on tho crown of the grade aLd pressed into tho soil to the depth of *he flango until tho soil supported the rail. The downward flanges held the rails in place and rendered ties unnecessary. Fishplates fastened them together, securing continuity. For the horses' tread the soil was removed between the mils to a depth five inches and gravel put in. A mile of this kind of road requires about 60 tous of steel, at a cost in quantities of less than $2,000. A cubic yard of gravel is needed per rod.

This piece of roadway gave such good results that tho following claims ..re made for it: First, great saving of power second, reduction of wear and tear on vehicles, there being no joltr twisting or irregular strains third, saving of time, and a team can trot oil it with a heavier load than they can walk with on a dirt road fourth, it is extremely durable fifth, it is very free from di' t, as nono is ground up by the wheels sixth, its first cost is reasonable and its maintenance easy seventh, it will facilitate traveling and make freo postal delivery possible in rural distriiis eighth, it is a perfect bicycle road ninth, it is a first class motor carriage road.

In order to learn what resistance tc the movement o£ vebit\.ex steel plaits would offer some traction tests were made in I'ittsburg. and it was found that the force required to move one tin on them was hut pounds. This it an exeedin: ly lu',v figure, being but oneeighth of tho force required on asplr-'":, one-elevenrh of that required on macadam and one-thirtieth of that required on good eartii.

It is claimed, however, that much narrower rails, only three-eighths by ono inch, can he used satisfactorily iu connection with macadam, and that a simple barguido will keep an unHanged wheel upon a one inch rail. Such rails would add but from ifoOO to $700 per inilo to tho cost of macadam, allowing for the stono displaced, would carry a traffic of 500 vehicles a day for eight years and rednco the cost of maintenance. The stone road could bo narrower, because one line of wagons of a single track road and both lines of a double track are kept to tho extreme edge of tho road, and wagons on rails can vary but one-quarter inch from a straight line, while wagons guided by a driver require several feet of sea room.

The traction tests show that loads could be doubled, speed nearly doubled, and crops taken to market with about oue-ftfth tho number of trips needed on the average at present. The cost of haulage would be enormously reduced and the good roads problem solved. It is the traveled surface, or track, that produces these results and makes it possible to utilize 11 the possiblo efficiency of tho team, ii these rails will do all this that is claimed for them—and there seems to be no reason why they should not—it is very important that it should bo known and understood at the earliest possible moment in order that advantage of them may be taken another year. To this end it is desirable that exhaustive experiments should be conducted and tho results published. General Stone is understood to be in favor of them. On his tests, reports and recommendations much will depend.

TOLL ROADS OUT OF DATE.

They Are Not In Accord With Modern Ideas of Government.

The passing of toll roads is bound to be a thing of the no very distant future. Concerning it in Canada, the Montreal Gazette says: "Tho movement is one founded on permanent causes and is to bo commended as pointing in the right direction. Tho turnpike trust is an ancient corporation which has done good work in its time, but it is not in accord with modern ideas of government and administration. The plan of raising revenue for road repairs by means of tolls is now recognized all the world over as wasteful and expensive and is fast going out of use. The municipalities could do tho work at yery much less expense. It is in the interest of all parties that tho change should be made, and it will become the duty of the provincial government to enact legislation to bring the arrangement proposed into effect."

Extravagant Road Repairs. A sample of wasteful and extravagant road work was lately noticed by the government road commissioners in a Canadian town. For 75 years broken stone and gravel had been placed on one street until there is a depth of from two to three feet of stone. The money spent on it was sufficient to pave all tho streets in town with asphalt, brick or other good material.

Road Briefs.

The common road is to the farm wagon what the steel track is to the locomotive.

The Colorado Good Roads league will soon be actively engaged in inaugurating road improvements.

State aid in road building is a system of co-operation by which good roads can be economically and rapidly constructed.

Good intentions, loud professions and gilded promises build no roads. Thorough organization and persistent labor alone can secure them.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON IX, FIRST QUARTER, INTER' NATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 27.

Text of the Lesson, Math, xi, 30-30—Mem­

ory Verses, 28-30—Golden Text, Math,

xi, 28—Commentary by tlio Rev. D. M. Stearns.

[Copyright, 1S97, by D. M. Stearns.1 20. "Then began Ho to upbraid the cities wherein most of His mighty works were done because they repented not." Before He chose the twelve He had been about, all the cities and villages teaching, preaching and healing, and after He had chosen and instructed them He continued to teach and preach in their cities (chapters ix, ij« xi, 1). lie never seemed to rest except, when He had to because night had come, but even then He sometimes spent I he night in prayer. Being anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power Ho went about doing good and healing all that wero oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him (Acts x, 3S) God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (II Pet. iii, 9). Even the awful judgments of tho period of the great tribulation will be poured out in order that men may repent, according to Kev. ix, SO, Si xvi, 0, 11. 21-24. It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, for Sodom and Gomorrah, than for the cities in which He had done His mighty works. The people of Ninevah and the queen of Sheba shall condemn those who heard a greater than .lonah or Solomon, yet repented not (chapter xii, 41, 42). But. when will this t*e? He answers at the day of judgment, and lie, knows, for He is the appointed .Judge "God commandoth ail men everywhere to repent, because He hath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom lie hath ordained, whereof He hath given assurance unto all men in that He hath raised Him from tho dead" (Acts xvii, ill), 31). Not only will every one of us give account of himself to God, hut God will bring every work into judgment with every secret, thing, whether it be good or whether it he evil Every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day: of judgment. (Horn. xiv. 12 Keel., xii i, 14 Math xii, 8i) Vet we must not think of a so called general judgment day when all who have ever lived from Adam to tho kingdom shall appear at one grand assize, but rather Ictus get the mind of God, which is briefly this: All who are saved by Jesus' blood can see on Calv.vy that tho judgment for their sins is past (Isa. xliii, 25 John v, 21), but all saved ones, must appear at the judgment s-eatof Christ that, their service as such may bo tried with the possibility of loss or approval (Hum xiv. IU II Cor. v, 10 I Cor. iii, 14

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"At that time Jesus answered and said. I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes Thank God lor all the babes who are willing to believe every word their Heavenly Father tells them Tho wise and prudent in their own estimation must continue to tvalU in tho light, of their own fire and in tho sparks that they have kindled (Isa. 1. 11). because they are too wise to accept God's light. The world by its wisdom knows not God (I Cor i. 21). 20 "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight. In the French this verso reads, Yes, My Father, this is so, because that Thou ust found it good." We must remember that the words "at that time" of the last verse direct us to the time when servants were doubting..' Israel mocking and men despising They had called Him a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners Even John the Baptist in his lonely prison seemed to he listening to satan doubts (do not condemn him till you have tried to put yourself in his place), and under all these and much worse as the time of His awful agony drew nigh He was content to have it so, il' only the Father might bo glorified in Him. 27 All things ore delivered un'o Me of My Father, and no man knowcth the Son, but the Father Neither knowcth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand (John iii, 35) It makes us think of the words of Abraham's servant concerning the only son, I'nto him hath he given all that he hath" (Gen xxiv, 3) No ono but the Father in lieaven ever fully understood the Son of God. and no one but tho Son knows the Father or can make Him known If therefore you would know God, it must be by knowing Christ, for His words still hold good, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father' (John xiv, 9) "All things" include "all power in heaven and on earth'' (Math xxviii. 18), power over all enemies, so that He need not have submitted to a single thing unless lie choso to 2S "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest." Unless we consider, as we have sought to do, the circumstances under which He uttered these words, we will miss much of their force He was, humanly speaking, weary and heavy laden because of the uubefief and ingratitude of those He sought to help and 1-1 found His rest in the will of God and His meek acceptance of tho same, manifested in His "Yes, My Father." Mr. Spurgeon used to say that he saw in this verse a great proof of our Lord's divinity, for when ho tried to comfort even a few heavy laden ones in his congregation he soon found himself getting burdened, so that any one who could give rest to all the heavy laden of earth must be none other than God Himself 29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me for 1 am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.' Not in crying and striving, not in endless doing, but in Him and in His love is rest not in running from Him, but in running to Him In returning and rest is salvation, and in quietness and confidence is strength (lsa xxx, 16). Whosoever will may take the water of life freely and be saved (Rev. xxii, 17), whosoever will may take His meek and lowly fellowship and find perfect peace, but there is no other way. If one will insist upon his own way, his own will, his own rights, he can never find rest. There is no rest but to tho meek and lowly in heart who are willing to humble themselves to walk with God and be agreed with Him (Mic. vi, 8 Amos iii, 8). 80. "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Do you not find it 60? Then you want to know Him better and find out how much He loves you. Is not His will the wisest? Is not His way the best, and in perfect acquiescence is there not pertot rest? With confidence in His love and in His wisdom accept all as from Him who gave Himself for you, and learn to say "Yes, My Father."