Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 April 1898 — Page 6

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED XX 1S18. Successor to The Rccord, the first paper in Crawfordsvillo, established In 1831, and to the People's Prcfg, established In 1844.

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FRIDAY. APRIL 1, 1898.

NOT many months hence a lot of Italians will be traveling around this part of the globe selling busts of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.

THE launching of two battle-ships in one day has pleased the country. A few years from now no played-out nation will think it worth while to threaten Uncle Sam.

A PROMINENT business man in Colorado says the cost of mining gold is but a fourth of what it was a few years ago. The gold yield of the State in 1897 went up to $22,000,000.

A PRODUCTION of Romeo and Juliet, failed to excite any interest in Salt Lake City. The Mormons have no sympathy for a hero who makes so much fuBS over one woman.

THE former estimate of America's available military force ought to be revised so as to include the Klondike prospectors, most of whom would be so delighted to get back that they would fight desperately through grattitude.

THE United States Government wantB more ships, and has the money to pay for them, but the purchases are being made with mch discrimination that it will be use for the foreigners to attempt to ,rk off any gasoline stoves on us.

PATRICK DUFFY, a prominent Irishman of Frankfort, is out carding all the papers with a denunciation of Joe Cheadle for his insulting editorial on Ireland. Patrick might as well save his wind, however, as Cheadle's nomination by the Democrats is a foregone conclusion.

THE coast line of the United States, according to the coa6t survey, embraces 5,715 miles, including 2,340 miles on the Atlantic, 1,556 on the Gulf of Mexico and 1,810 on the Pacific. Sir Charles Dilke is certainly right in saying that Spain will not succeed in blockading us.

EVIDENCES of business improvement under protective tariff and sound money continue to make themselves apparent in the reduction of failures in the business world, those for the last week being, according to Dun's Review, 235 against 266 for the corresponding week of last year.

DUN'S Review of last week quotes the price of cash wheat at 1.04ij against .81% at the corresponding date of last year corn ,35% against .30?ii at the corresponding date of last year lard, 85.40 against §4.50 last year mess pork, $10.25 against 8!i last year, while in other farm products there is an equally striking advance. Vet there has been no free and unlimited coinage of silver meantime.

THERE is no better test of business activity and prosperity than that shown by the traffic of the railroads. Reports from 67 railroads show that the receipts received for the first week of March were 16.7 per cent greater than in the corresponding week of last year, while 27 roads, whose reports have been received for the second week in March, show an increase of 21.7 per cent over the corresponding week of 181)7.

ST. Louis Qlobe Democrat: The opposition to the revival of the grade of Lieutenant General is taking shape. Nearly all the papers which are speaking about it are against it. As was expected, this opposition is not on party or sectional lines. The measure to revive this grade will have very few votes. It ought not to receive a single vote. There is no popular demand in any quarter for such legislation. When any man rtnders service to entitle him to that rank the rank will be revived. No such man is in sight at present.

MRS. ELIZAHKTJI ROBINS PKNNELI, has written for the April Century an account of a trip "Over the Alps on a Bicycle," and her husband, Joseph Pennel,, contributes many illustrations. Mr. and Mrs. Pennell have been ardent bicyclers for many years, and made wheeling tours through Europe before the days of "safeties" and pneumatic tires. Duririg their recent tours they coasted down the steep Alpine passes, and found that it was not as difficult or dangerous as had been reported.

IF YOU WERE PRESIDENT. If you were President, and the responsibility of action on the Cuban question rested upon you what would you do? Would you assume that the United States ought to go to war with Spain unless it were clearly proven that the Maine disaster was accomplished with a knowledge of responsible officials of that government? If you were to consider the question from the humanitarian standpoint alone, would you be willing to enter upon war whicb would subject our troops sent to Cuba to the disaases of a climate which, in summer, mows down unacclimated men more rapidly than artillery discharges, and knowing that the constant and necessary intercom munication which would thus be created would bring yellow fever into this country, spreading it over the entire South and East and endanger ing the lives of millions of men, worn en and children? Even if you were to conclude it necessary to enter upon a war would you be willing to do so before making the necessary preparations in view of the claim which has been made for years that the nation was notoriously unprepared for war? Think of these things from the standpoint of the personal responsibility of the man upon whose action these grave results must deptnd and then see whether President McKinley is entitled to the criticism which has been mads because he has not already acted.

'CRIMINAL SENSATIONALISM. Atchison, Kan., Globe: People who do not see the yellow papers, cannot realize how ridiculous and impudent they are. The New York Journal recently printed a page interview with Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, in which-he declared that he received most of his Cuban news from the Journal's Havana bureau that the Journal was always correct in its statements, and that its patriotism was commendable, etc. Mr. Roosevelt gives a signed statement to the Associated Press that he never saw aNew York Journal reporter that he never made the statements attributed to him that under no circumstances would he talk to a New York Journal reporter, as he does not consider that paper respectable. We hear a great deal about the smart people in the East, and how ignorant the Western people are, but the Western people would laugh such a paper as the Journal out of existence in a month. A paper that invents its news is of no use to anyone, though it may spend a million dollars a day in illustrating its inventions, and printing its different editions in colors. The New York Journal i6 the chief sinner in demanding war with Spain one Btory is that its editor has made a bet of §50,000 that his paper will bring on a war. It would cost two hundred thousand American lives, and millions of American treasure, to enable the Journal to win its bet.

EOOD THOUGHT FOR THE IRISH. The would-be Congressional candidate of the Democratic party in this district, Joe Cheadle, went out of his way to give the Irish a dig in his paper, the Standard. In his issue of March 17 he makes the following editorial comment on the national holiday of the Irish people: "St. Patrick was the name of this individual and according to an ancient legend he drove the last 6nake out of the Emerald Isle, but his work was all fcr naught, it seems, for in after years some sou of a devil invented an article of liquid refreshment called whiskey, and since then snakes have been quite plentiful in that, 'most distressed country,' making a habitation of men's boots and other articlesof footapparel. If St. Patrick could be reincarnated into some being who would banish this new species of snake from the green sod of Ireland 'the wearing of the green' would have a significance indeed."

THERE was a moral as well as a financial consideration in Brazil's sale of two of her warships to the United States. Possibly Brazil needed the money more than 6he did the ships at the present time. Spain, however, it is understood, offered her as much as the United States gave, and offered it earlier. Brazil is very friendly to this country, and so is every other independent nation on this continent. One of the biggest falsehoods and follies yet perpetrated by the yellow press was their story of a few weeks ago that the South American nations had promised to aid Spain in case of war with the United States. The Spanish-American nations have the same feeling^toward Spain that the Cuban insurgents hold. They know, moreover, that the continuance of their independence is chiefly due to the establishment and maintenance of the Monroe doctrine.

CINCINNATI Commercial-Tribune: General Weyler is preparing to return to Cuba to take command of the SDanish forces on that island again and resume the unrivaled series of atrocities which distinguished his recent military administration in the "ever faithful isle." Weyler was ordered out of Cuba by Sagasta at our emphatic request, and should he now be sent back to llavana by Spain that act would not only be an open affrant to the United States, but would be liable to interpretation as a decidudlv unfriendly act. It would be a tit companion

piece to the sending of the Spanish torpedo fleet to this side of the Atlantic. As a refined, cultured, civilized barbarian, Weyler is about the wor6t that ever lived. It takes a genius in savagery to devise such a scheme of wholesale slow murder as his "concentration" plan, whereby hundreds of thousands of human beings were driven into penssurrounded by barbed wire, guarded by Spanish bayonets and permitted to die of hunger. The most savage and bloodthirsty red Indian who ever lived would appear as a philanthropist, a humanitarian and a member of the Society of thr Prevention of Cruelty to Animals if his scalping and eye-gouging proclivities were compared with the methods pursued by Weyler in depopulating Cuba.

Goi.n continues to flow into the country at the rate of a million dollars a day. the total for the past, thirty days being about 5?30,000,000. The gold in circulation in the United States has increased §100,000,000 since the Chicago platform, and these who supported it announced that there could be no material additions to the circulating medium of the country except through the free and unlimited coinage of silver, while the total increase of money iu circulation ha9 been over 8200,000,000

A SPANISH enthuiast at the Blanco banquet said Austria will help Spain because Austria can never forget the fate of Maximilian. The last half of the statement is undoubtedly true, but it is not a reason why Austria is anxious for further American experiences.

YOUNTSVILLE.

Mrs. Sarah Larrick is spendinga few days with her mother here. Misses Ersie McSpadden and Goldie Hancock were the guests of Mrs. Ramey last Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Hurley, Mr. and Mrs. Sidener, Messrs Howard Shauklin and Earl Hurley and Miss Grace Sweeney took dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Shankliu's last Monday.

Again the death angel has come and claimed another dear one in our midst. Hopes and wishes are in vaiu when cailed to compete with the power of that almighty one who knows all things best. John Work departed this life March 19. 181)3 and was born in September, 1879 in Champaign, 111. Age eighteen years six months and fifteen days. He had only been sick a few brief weeks and was under the impression to the last that he would recover. It not only casts a gloom around parents, brothers and sisters but over the whole community to think that one just in the fu'l bloom of manhood and when all of life's sweetness is laid before him, should be taken. Hut we know that God moves in mysterious ways, and it is left to us to bow in humble submission to His will. John always had a cheerful word for everyone. Sunshine could be seen on his face and he was loved by all. We all feel that one of our brig-ht blooming ilowers has been plucked down, but it was only to live again. He leaves a father, mother, three brothers, two sisters and a loved one, with a host of friends to mourn his loss. The funeral was conducted by Rev. J. M. Williams at the M. E church last Monday, and was laid to rest bedecked with flowers, in the Wesley cemetery.

A precious one from us lias gone, A voice we loved 1b stilled, A place is vacant in our home

Which never can be filled.

And we know that the loved one Is waiting In that frriefless land above, Where there will he no parting.

When they meet with those we love.

He leaves our hearts all desolate. He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers, Transplanted into bliss they now

Adorn immortal bowers.

Grm ral Cliiy's Quarantine. Richmond, Iinl., March 23.—General Clay has established a smallpox quarantine at Whitehall. He fears smallpox worse than reporters, and a report from there says he has loaded and planted his cannon, at. the muzzle of which he announces lie will turn back any visitors from the infected district who dare set foot on his premises.

Warrauts l-'or Violators of ^Lining Laws* Terre Haute, Iud., March 28.—State Mine Inspoctur Fisher has caused to be issued IS warrants for the arrest of violators of the mining laws in this county. Some were for violation of the law in regard to the construction of a mine, and others for violation of the law providing for oxaniination of certain employes about a mine.

l$5,000 Fins at KUgerton.

Edgerton, Ind., March 28.—The Oak Harbor Cooperage company here was damaged by lire to the amount of $5,000 Saturday. At one time it was thought the entire town would be swept away, and fire apparatus arrived from Fort Wayne. A chunge iu the wind saved the town. Newcastle Drum Corp Receives Orders.

Newcastle, Ind., March 28.—The drum corps of 21 young men hero who visited President McKinley in Canton, O., with one ot' the gas belt delegations, have received orders from the war department to hold thomselves in readiness to go to the front at an hours notice.

Oil DiKcovcred at Fortville, Fortville, Ind., March 28.—Samuel Gwinn, south of town, while drilling for gas, struck oil. [Experienced oil men say there is good prospects of a paying well of a fine quality of oil. Tho territory had been overlooked entirely by oil men.

lr. Jolin F. Cross Suicides. Yincennes, Ind-, March 28.—The city was startled Saturday by the announcement that Dr. John F. Cross a well known practitioner, had committed suicide by taking morphine.

The journal Co., Printers. Leaders in Type Styles

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Silks,

Orsrandies, Laces, Gloves, Dress Goods, Ginghams, Embroideries,

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Children's black Cotton nose, worth 25c "I 03 Per pair

Ladies'English balbriggan striped Hose worth 20c, and extra heavy black Q/-* Hose

Ladies' fancy boot patterns and novelty Hose, values up to 50c, choice......

Foster lacing Kid Gloves, worth SI, ftQrv Per pair

Foster lacing and button Kid Gloves, QOp worth $1.50 OOKj

Leather Belts, all colors, worth 25c to "I *7^ 50c iI

Novelty and staple Dress Goods that Kf)r» would look cheap at 75c yd, choice

Percalines, all colors, and Silesias, wtli 1 Cp 20c per yard

Skirt Percaline LiningB, per yard

Best cambric Skirt Linings, worth 5c A^ per yard "^V

Bleached, Brown and turkey red Table A f)p Linens, wth 50c to 60c per yd, choice -tM

Cotton Crashes worth 5c Per yard

All Linen, brown and bleached and fancy checked glass crashes, worth Gi4e to 7c per yard

Extra heayy and fine Linen Crashes, "I wnrt.h 1 9. \£n. t.n 1 *\f* .LVVj worth 12}£ctol5c

Light ground Shirting Prints per yard

Regular 5c dress style Prints

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In a war with Spain would not produce more of a sensation than has the exhibition of our new Spring Stock. The new things are all here and ready for your buying, or if you are just looking we are as well pleased to show them to you. We are proud of them. Fifteen minutes spent here in the next few days will give you as much insight into the coming styles as days of reading of fashion hints,: You need not be afraid of buying bad styles at the Big Store, or of paying too much for novelties. The ever in creasing confidence of the people on these two points accounts for the ever increasing trade of the Big Store. We now have ready

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Cloaks, Suits, Skirts, Wrappers, Children's Dresses, Muslin Underwear, Corsets, Lace Curtain®, Portiers, Table Linens, Towels, Napkins, White Goods, Linings and Prints, Draperies.

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In variety never attempted in this city, and all stamped with the distinctiveness of this store.

We are also offering magnificent bargains all through the store. Here area few pointed pointers:

Best Gc Prints per yard

127-129 East Main Street.

"It Pays to Trade at the Big Store."

in Hosiery, Belts, in Neckware, in Umbrellas, in Ribbons, in Jewelry, in Shirt Waists, in Trimmings,

Yard wide unbleached Muslin, worth 4c OC

Yard wide unbleacbed'^Muslin, worth

Good quality bleached Muslin, worth A 03iC

Fine bleached Muslins, worth 7J^c, per" yard Uv_/

Best Apron Ginghams per yard

8ijC and 10c checked Shirtings, per yard v)

Good Feather Ticking, "1 A per yard 1. UO

Regular 10c Outing Cloths, P7^ a I

Fine fleecy Domets, worth 7%c A.%n per yard

Table Oil Cloth, 114 yards wide "I ftp per yard XUL

Silkalines and Golden Draperies, worth 12K per yard

Large bottles household ammonia Each v)L»

Curling Irons, 10c kind You can have them at

Linen finish thread 1 per spool J-G

Fine Toilet Soaps, worth 15c to 22c per

Fine Toilet Soaps, worth 10c to 12c per per cake

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