Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 May 1898 — Page 2

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FRIDAY. MAY 13, 1808.

THE historical pussy with a corner isn't in it with Mr. Joe Leiter.

IN another week there will not be enough of Spanish honor left to hoist a respectable flap of truce.

Smrs that pass in the night during these stirring times are pretty apt to pump a few tons of metal into each other.

MONTOOMKBV county give6 promise of a big wheat crop this year and Crawfordsville gives promise of having enough elevators to handle the whole thing.

SOME of the misguided newspapers of this country are referring to Dewey as "America's Nelson." It would be in much better taste to refer to Nelson as England's Dewey.

WHEN the United States has wound •up her differences with Spain THE JOUHNAI. will be one newspaper to run free for the government the following ad:

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DEWEY caring for his wounded enemies is even a greater man than Dewey conquering them, and is strictly in accordance with a war undertaken avowedly in the higher interests of humanity. The youngest of the nations has now a fine chance of teaching her elder sisters some notable lessons in the real science of civilization.

UNDER the caption of "The Situation in Cuba," the North American Review for May presents two remarkably important and timely articles, viz: "Our Work and Observations in Cuba," from the pen of Clara Barton, president of the American National Red Cross, and "The Insurgent Government in Cuba." by Horatio S. Rubens, counsel of the American Delegation of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.

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GREAT many newspapers and public men are now speaking of the revelation of a new destiny lor the United States. They meac thftt thoy are in favor of this country Adopting a policy of colonization. They forget that on this rock many a gallttfit ship of state has meta merited fate. It is occurring to a great many conservative people in this country that with Hawaii as a base of operations in the Pacific and with a few small islands well distributed over the world as coaling stations this country is well enough off as regards colonies.

HARI'EK'S Weekly: A Chicago paper says that the current type of Uncle Sam which all the picture-makers use is not characteristic of anything American, and wants it replaced by a new and contemporaneous conception. It complains that the cartoonists represent the figure that should typify American courage, energy and enterprise as "a long, thin-legged, hollowchested, straggle-bearded nondescript" with trousers half up to his knees, and attended by a disreputable turkeybuzzard. There is some basis for the complaint, but the hope for modernizing Undo Sam must be faint, even among those who would like to see it done. The figure is historically reminiscent, even though it fails in most respects of being contemporaneously representative. There used to be many Uncle Sams in New England, and the type is by no meanB extinct there even now.

MR. INGALL'S COMMENT. John J. Ingalls is growing pessimistic as he grows old and loses his grasp on power and prestige. Still a cynic often tells us things which have just enough of truth in them to appeal to us unpleasantly and call for more than a passing thought. Mr. Ingalls, as a newspaper correspondent, gives voice to the following comment: "Sunday, while the bells were ringing and the choirs chanting, the thoughts of the preacher wandered

from the Bible to the bulletin board, and congregations turned from the cross to the flag. "The veneer of religion, morality and education,'the varnish of culture, are thicker on some than on others, but beneath the film we are all savages at heart, with ferocious exultation in blood, fire and slaughter for our enemies. "Mankind has always given, and still gives, its highest homage, not to the scholar with his pen, nor to the philosopher with

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artist with his brush, but to the victorious soldier with his sword.

LONDON Spcctatnr: The American President is authority visible and personified. When he is armed with the terrible and far-reaching war powers which Mr. Lincoln formulated and employed with such astonishing re suits, there is no man, except the Russian Czar, who is so obviously the direct ruler of men. During his tenure of office the President can not be dismissed. No wonder, then, that the American President ia a figure of such intense interest to he whole Anglo Saxon world. At this moment it is his order and his will alone which direct the course of the war. He might at any moment order the American ships to leave Havana and sail straight to Europe and seize Majorca and Minorca. That would, no doubt, be a very foolish order at this juncture, and will not be given, but if the President gave it it would be obeyed, and there would be no power in the country to recall the order even though the whole nation were mad with annoyance. A British premier who gives an order of which the country absolutely disapproves can, if parliament is sitting, be hurled from power in a few days, or even hours. Whatever he does, America must endure Mr. McKinley till his term of office is over. Congress might twitch his elbow a little if they were angry with him, i,but they could not make him change his policy.

Naturally enough, our people are keenly anxious to know what kiud of man it is in whose hands the law and constitution of the United States has clenched these immense powers. Up till now all that the world has known about Mr. McKinley is that he appears to be merely one of those "plain men" who ewarm throughout the English speaking world—honest and shrewd, and abie to wait, to bargain, and to control affairs, but without a touch of imagination, or of the heroic feeling in regard to human existence. Look at Mr. McKinley's record. He

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A plain Englishman, if destiny places him in a position of great responsibility and great power—a position fraught with enormous opportunities for good or evil—will constantly rise far above what appears to be his real nature, and draw, as it were, a sort of inspiration from the strain and perplexity of the|crisia. At present it looks very much as if President McKinley were going to turn out one of the plain men who are re-made and illuminated by the force of the mighty issues with which they have to deal.

All the accounts from Washington seem to show that the President is facing a very difficult problem with just the quiet dignity and strength one would desire to see displayed by the head of the state. Like all, or almoBt all, rulers of men, he is developing that curious feeling about des tiny which seems a prerogative of the great kings. The correspondent of the Daily Mail tells us, for example, that the President can not be persuaded to take precautions in regard to the possibility of assassination- On being reminded of the fate of Presidents Lincoln and Garfield, Mr. McKinley said: "They had done their work, although they knew it not. If I have finished mine, it makes no difference how many policemen and guards there may be around the White House. That is one of the dangers voluntarily assumed when I took office. I have no fears." The President, the Daily Mall correspondent adds, walks and rides out daily. "The deep lines of anxiety and care are now smoothed away. His eye is, bright, his step is brisk and his salutation is cheery." That note of fatalism, coupled with a true serenity of demeanor, is very striking. It is seldom that the men who are little at heart, and incapable of taking big questions in a big way, are able to show such an example of the mens iiiqua in arduis. If the accounts we have quoted are well founded, it would seem that the President has been able to face the situation in the true spirit. If he can, America should be grateful, for, in spite of her vast power, and Spain's weakness, America may yet find the need of the cool head and steady hand. There seems a tendency among the

people of the United States to call for quick successes. Tf this temper continues and increases it may require all the President's firmness, tact and temper to pursue his own course. The attempt to gain quick successes is sure to lead to a fiasco, but it may require a man of perfect calm and self possession not to be carried away by the excitement and demands for instant action. Oar own belief is that Mr. McKinley will prove equal to the criois, and will refu?e to allow the country to be guided by the chatter of the press, but, of course, only time can show whether we have judged or misjudged his character. At present he is a plain country lawyer, with intelligence and a conscience, who has shown decided promise of capacity to rise to a great occasion.

MRS. DKWOI.F HOITKK has secured a divorce and some smart alex has suggested that DeWolf is now a grass Hopper.

IF this war does nothing else it will brace the people of this country up on geography.

Meutli of Mrs. Kinimi Kurrington. Mrs. Emma Harrington, aged 5(1 years,

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Thursday, May 5, 1S03, at the home of her daughter on west Pike street. She leaves a husband, six children and five sisters to mourn her death. She was a true wife, a loving sister and a devoted mother, and their loss is only her gain. How sad are our hearts when we have to part with the dearest of all earthly treasures, a wife and mother. Who knows the name but to praise it and say, "God be praised for my mother's life"' No sorrow can be so great as when those beautiful eyes are closed forever and those sweet lips are stilled by the cruel hand of death. Mother, who has so often soothed the aching heart, who by her loving words brightened the very pathway of our lives, aud filled the lamps again with oil that made them burn brighter because of mother's kind words. She lias

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pressive, even if cunningly devised, piece of protective legislation, and he obtained the right to "preside at the White House because the party wanted as their candidate an honest and safe man who would fully satisfy the protectionists without absolutely infuriating the silver men. This does not read like the record of a great statesman and ruler of men. It looks, however, as if we were to see yet another example of what has so often happened in the history of our race.

we cannot call her back.

But God permits us for the last time to look upon the form we held so dear, now cold and still in death. Yet, life would not be worth our while had we not some hidden treasure in the skies to make heaven nearer and dearer to us to make us strive harder to win the one great prize God has offered to all that believe in Him. The one comforting thought that God has anchored her safe on the other side only lightens our sorrow. Only a few hours before she passed away she sang those beautiful words, "Nearer, My God, to Thee." How sweet when we come down to cross the river of death to feel that God is drawing nearer and nearer until at last we are within His mighty arms, saved forever more.

The privy vault is not a relic of barbarism. Moses and the cat have taught mankind better than to construct and maintain such a Hindoo temple of filth. The great hole in the ground, near the habitation, to be gradually filled with the vileBt human excrement, which undergoes constant putrefaction, evoling poisonous gases, infecting and gradually supersaturating the surrounding earth, frequently seeping into the water of the adjacent well, becoming the vidus of swiftly multiplying germs of infectious diseases that nature labors to eliminate by the secreting functions of intestines, kidneys or skin is an abomination tolerated by ignorance, apathy and vile habit. Clean it out, remove the dangerous contents far off to the hungry land, disinfect the desecrated place, fill it with clean earth, and sin no more. You can make a wholesome earth closet with but slight expense and trouble. Buy an empty kerosene barrel at the nearest grocery, saw it in two in the middle, and thus make of it two tubs which will not leak. Place the two on top of the ground under the holes in the privy seat. Keep the contents of the tubs dry with the house ashes or dry earth gathered in the summer. The contents of the tubs will evolve no gas will not undergo putrefication will not smell to heaven or the other place will not maintain the life of bacteria or disease germs as long as 6uch contents are kept dry by the admixture of ashes or dry earth. When the tubs are full, pull them out and spade the contents into the garden. In the mysterious alembic of nature the filth will be transformed into grass, fruit or flowers, causing no nuisance. If you have no gardens, send the tubs away to be emptied on the land. This will cost much less than the cleaning of a devil's magazine of pestilence called a privy vault.—D. O. W. WUjht, Health Officer of Detroit— Bulletin of the Indiana State Board of Health.

Biff Minstrel Company,

On Monday night, April 16, the famOUB Hi Henry's big minstrels company will be at Music Hall and give one of his grand entertainments. Hi Henry has bten coming here for twenty years and has always given us a grand show. Don't fail to see the electric first part and the big band parade.

LESSON VII, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 1 5.

Ivii of the l-esson, Math, xxiv, 42-,"j 1.

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ISarbarism and Private Vaults.

MACE TOWNSLEV.

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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. GOMEZ,THE WARRIOR

Memory Verses, 44-10 Golden Text, Muth. xxiv, 42—Commentary by the Kev. I. i\J. Stearns. I

[Copyright, ISPS, by D. M. Stearns.] 42. "Watch, therefore, fur ye knuw not what, hour your Lord drtli come." Tin title of this iesMin in "Watchfulness," ami if we considi thi! special topic of this whole chapter and the next, one, "Tho Second Coming of Our Lord," there is no event for which wo would more eagerly watch if we loved it as wo should, and wo would .surely love it if wo understood it. Tho lesson committed suggest that it may bo used as a temperance lesson, and il' wo understand the word "temperance'' in its Scriptural significance of the whole matter of self control thero is no truth that tends more to denial of self and complete self venuiK h.tion than that of the imminence of tho return of our Lord. Having uttered His last public v\onl to tho hypocritical Pharisees and having announced tho desolation of .Jerusalem, .Testis and His disciples left tho templo and as thoy did so Jlis disciples tried to draw His attention to the buildings and the stones, and tin! adornings, but lie surprised them by telling them that tho whole thing would l.o thrown down. This led to a question privately asked llim by four of the disciples (Mark xiii, o), and tho question led to this discourse, in which Ho refers to the approaching destruction of Jerusalem, but chielly to events connected with His coming again at the end of this ago. 4:3. "Hut know this—that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come lie would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be. broken up." On a former occasion our Lord used the same words (Luke xii, oil), but in connection with watching for His return from the wedding. 1 this sermon and in tho gospels c': Matthew, Mark and I.uko wo must remember that tho commission was to Israel, anil tho messengers were forbidden to go to the gentiles, and while there are lessonsf or us all in all tho 13iblu we must not attempt- to apply some things which are specially for Israel to tho church, or vice versa. Truth for the church concerning the second coining of Christ is found chielly in the epistles. Notice specially that the coming as a thief duos not or should not apply to tho church (I Thcss. v, 4, ii), for she is loving His appearing and looking eagerly for llim and constantly saving, "Come, I.urd Jesus" (Rev. xxii.

44. "Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man conieth." Now, to bo ready and watchful is a word for every believer at all times. Having received Christ and become clothed with Jlis righteousness, we are ever ready l'or 11 is presence, for not ing more is necessary to fit us to enter heaven than His merits only. But wo arc expected to be ever ready for any manner of service and watchful to soo His way and hear His words (II Sam. xv, 15 I Chror xxviii, til Nah. ii, 1 II,.b. ii, 1). This is not, however, the special thought ot these words, for the coming of tho Son of Man, as I understand it, is always His coming with His saints in power and glory for tho special benefit of Israel and tho overthrow of her enemies. It. is never death nor Pentecost nor tho destruction of .Jeursalem (Isa. Ixvi, 0, 15 Zech. xiv, 4, o). 45. "Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household to givo them meat in duo season?'' ITero is something a child of God can always lay to heart. Two things required of us are that wu prove faithful und wise. 46. "Blessod is that servant whom his Lord when Iloeonieth shall find so doing." One of His accusations of the Pharisees was, "They say und do not" (chapter xxiii, 3), and His warning in chapter vii, 21, is, "Not every one that saith, but lie thatdoeth." He was never idle or indolent, and it is impossible that those in whom He has full control can bo cither the ono or tlie other. 47. "Verily I say unto you that He shall make him ruler over all Iiis goods." In tho story of tho talents in tho next chapter both the one who gained five and the one who gained two received tho commendation: "Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a fewthings. I will mako thoe ruler over many things. Enter thou into tho joy of thy Lord." What can it all mean but that tho faithful servants will have places in His kingdom according to thoir faithfulness? Saved by grace, but rewarded according to works (Rev. xxii, li.'). 48. "But and if that ovll servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming." Whethor all that talk that way are evil servants or not wo cannot say, God knows, but wo do know that thero are many who bear His name, at least outwardly, who not only say it in their hearts, but are very bold to say it witl. their lips, and oven ufter tlio fashion of II Pet,, iii, :3, 4. 49. "And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with tho drunken." There are many Christians both in the pulpit and in the pews who seem to take special pleasure in the smiting of others, at least with tlioir tongues, unmindful of the word, "The servant of tho Lord must not strive," and of that other, "Judge nothing before the time, and "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" (I Cor. lv, 5 II Tim. ii, 24 Math, vii, 12). As to eating and drinking with the drunken, the Lord sees those who bear His name doing even this also, and openly without shame and in a very literal sense. It is still true that many walk whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things (Phil, iii, IS, 10). Whether thero are many who weep over tliem or not, tho Lord knows. If you are clear of the guilt of the literal fulfillment, remember that there are many seemingly lawful things, as study, business, innocent amusement, the bicycle, etc., which are very intoxicating and take time and strength and money which ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

BO, 51. "Tho lord of that servant shall come." He may seem to delay and not to care, but in an unexpected day and hour He will deal with his unfaithful servants. There may bo present dealing in tho way of treading under foot of men, like the savorless salt, or sickness or death, but these are only partial and except death may be with tho desiro to lead to repentanco. The great dealing is, as in the last lessons, and also in chapter xxv, 30, tho linal one, from which there is no appeal or recall. See romarks on the last lesson, and hesitate not to repeat to your class anything you then said, or have them tell you what you then told them, for these things must be oft repeated.

HE IS TO CUBA WHAT WASHINGTON WAS TO AMERICA.

His Words Upon llaaring of the Maine Disaster—A Grand Old Man Who Known K» Fear mid lias bin Ono Aim—the freedoin ot His IVople.

A story sent, from the interior of Cuba, describes in detail the reception of Gen. Maximo omez of the news of the Main disaster. That the veteran soldier and undaunted commander of the insurgent forces in the field should have been deeply stirred by this awl'ul tragedy was to be expected. It was to be expected, too, that he should unhesitatingly attribute to Spanish activity the perpetration of a dastardly crime. His bitter experience fully justifies his conclusion, for he is not ill a position to judge the Spaniard impartially even in a. specific case which lacks satisfactory evidence of guilt.

Hut aside from his ready and necessarily hypothetical opinion, there is an admirable mingling of dignity and pathos in his use of this catastrophe to point a moral from the Cuban view. In these words from the insurgent headquarters there is laid hare the soul of an indomitable warrior who has risen superior to the assaults of age and the heart of a patriot wrung with a sense of hope deferred. Gomez rests under the conviction that his letters to two Presidents of the United States, and his government's reports to the government at Washington, been heeded, we should have saved $300,000,000 of lost commerce, the Maine and her gallant crew, and all the foreign complications, present and prospective, arising from tlie postponement of definite action.

There is, of course, in this the error of a judgment naturally biased. History, when impartial, will record that the United States has handled this question with admirable patience, positive skill, and a determination to so guard its own honor and the rights of Spain, and so meet the demands of international comity, that it shall eventually stand blameless before the civilized world. The very fact tlial a distinctively commercial nation lias been willing to sacrifice $:i00,000,000 of trade in order that it might be absolutely right when it should decide to go ahead is alone eloquent of the domination of principle throughout. But these concluding words of the aged soldier will strike a responsive chord in the heart of every American: "One of the saddest disappointments of my life is the knowledge that there are in the United States persons who believe that our just representations, asking only for the recognition which we have tlie right to request, were made for tlie purpose of involving the United States in war with Spain beSpaniards. We had fought the Spancause we could not cope alone with the iards ten years. Now we have been fighting them three years more, and no honest man can doubt after what we have done that we are resolved to die rather than surrender. I have been thirteen years in Lhe saddle, and Spain has sent against me across the Atlantic 400,000 men. I have needed no help to do that much, for with me were the 40,000 Cubans who died in the last war, and to-day the whole Cuban Army is ready to die for the principle we maintain."

To this grand old man of a stricken but unconquerable people the hat of every right-minded American must be doffed. From the inauguration of the present war, of which he assumed di rection at a time of life which justified permanent retirement, in which he has sacrificed a beloved son upon whom he had come to lean, and displayed an en ergy that would sliame most younger men, he has never spoken to the world from camp or field that he did not increase the respect in which he is held and render more hideous by contrast the perfidy and brutality of his foe. Master of himself at all times—even when his heart was most torn by the cold-blooded butchery and torture of his unarmed and helpless countrymen—j

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no grander figure is presented by the annals of modern warfare. Riglitly may Maximo Gomez be immortalized by his people as the Washington of Cuba—serene, statesmanlike, uncompromising, just—but terrible..

Jtayiimiid **Matelied'* lletween tlie I.ines. "The late John T. Raymond carried his love of matching dollars so far that he once actually made a bet while performing his role in a theatre here in Washington," remarked Mr. William St. John, the well-known New Yorkers. "L happened to have a seat in the front row that night, and as soon as Raymond came on he spied me and nodded. That very afternoon he and 1 had been matching, and he came out second best. He hadn't been speaking a great ivliile, when, half turning to me and pulling out a silver dollar to my ufter amazement, he said very dis'iT tinetly: 'Heads or tail, Saint?' I caught on, and though 1 thought everybody in the house must be looking, put my finger to my head. 'All right, you win,' said Raymond, and immediately proceeded with his lines. It certainly was a funny thing, but the audience appeared to think it was regular, though perhaps some were puzzled at its irrelevancy. Raymond himself thought it the best joke of the season, and after adjournment of the audience another matching engagement followed."—Washington Post.

He Didn't I.ike the Suggest Ion. "1 understand that whisky com^s pretty high in the Klondike," said the sociable old gentleman with the red nose. "Looks like it reaches the top of th( glass avtnind in this town," said the bartender, and the old gentleman walked out full of wrath.—Indianapolii Journal.

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