Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 October 1898 — Page 7

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Abraham Estlg, tlie Great Proposer is Made tlie Butt Kml of a Joke.

Covington Frictul:'tOne day last week there alighted from the westbound Big Four train a respectable lookiog old gentleman, who walked briskly up town, and after sauntering leisurely around the public square for a while he found his way into the office of one of our attorneys and after gaining an audience with the barrister he related a long story, but briefly summed up it is about as follows:

Abraham Estis is a retired farmer and for the past week or two has been stopping at Crawfordsville. It seems that he owns a 300 acre farm near Danville, Ind., and besides he has several thousand dollars in cash. He is a widower and notwithstanding that he iB past 70 years of age, be is anxious to take unto himself a wife. He met a man who Baid his name was Jones, in the American clothing store at Crawfordsville about ten days ago, who afterwards introduced him to a gentleman by the name of Smith. Jones told the old man that he was looking for a man to take charge of a 500 acre farm situated near Covington, and it struck him as if he (Esti6) would be just the proper person to superintend the farm, but in assuming the management of said farm he was to marry Jones' niece, a buxom young widow whom he was sure would be pleased with his general appearance and genial dispositiongand fall head over heels in love with him on first sight. Uncle Abraham was just too tickled to talk and actually forgot to take the man's name, all he knewowas that his name was Jones and that he said he lived near Covington.

The old gentleman's story was a lengthy one, he went into detail and related every little incident connected with the affair, but the most comical one of all was when the man Jones had him walk up and down the room, showing that he was as suple as a lamb in the month of May, and he imagined that he was "just as young as he used to be." Jones told him that heguessed he was all right and that he could expect a letter from him in a few days and that he would advise him when to come. They parted and Uncle Abraham went away, and it is fair to presume that he thought he was on the high road to the matrimonial altar and was going to have a «buxom young widow for an old man's darling. He hummed old fashioned love songs and wore a smile that betrayed the fact of his teeth being absent for many long weary years. But the letter "that he longed for never came." He grew anxious about the matter and finally concluded to come down and see Jones and incidentally cast a loving glance at his intended. He was informed that he had evidently been made the victim of a joke and was advised by the attorney to procure a hoop pole, proceed at once to the American clothing store where in all probability he would see Jones, also Smith, and then clean out the whole establishment, or that part of it at least who perpetrated the joke on him. He left the attorney's office saying his mind was fully made up to that effect and since then we have been watching the Crawfordsville papers for an account of the fate of Jones and Smith in the bombardment of the American clothing store by Uncle Abraham Estis.

Will Move to Crawfordsville. Darlington Echo: Fifty-three years ago Dr. I. E. G. Naylor first landed in Darlington. In leBS than two years he had won and married Celetia Huffman. Since then the doctor and his wife have been prominently identified with every good workgin and around Darlington. Having reared a large family, most of whom after growing up continued to live in and about here for a time until the Naylor family were looked upon as one of the fixtures of our town, while the children would at times leave us for better or broader fields.

We were to-day unprepared for the announcement that the aged couple were to leave us. We immediately hunted the old doctor up and found it but too true. They have decided to move to Crawfordsville next week. While we regret the fact that they, so long familiar upon our streets and homes, mingling in and out with us, are so soon to be lost to us, we cannot but congratulate them upon the fact that they have stood the worry and rush of business for lo, these many years that they now can retire and take up their abode in a city where rush and worry is unknown, and where their last days can be spent in that peace and quietude eo well earned by them.

No doubt the doctor's reputation as a writer has preceded him to that home of authors, and he may be urged to again take up his pen, but we counsel him to desist and seclude himself from the world that he and his good wife may live yet many years in their new home, and enjoy that rest that can only come to those who can look back to a well spent life.

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Our Colored Friend Is Down In Cuba Keeping Things Straight.

Danville, (111.,) Democrat: The following letter dated Septembar 7th at San Luis de Cuba, was written by Wickliffe Smith to his sister, Mrs. Emma Jackson, both employes of Capt. Edwin Winter. Smith is a college graduate and a law student. He is now secretary to the captain of his company. He says in part: "At this writing I am feeting better than I have for eome time. I have been disabled from duty for several days with malaria fever. Out of our company there are thirty-five or forty Bick with the fever, and of the regiment there are at least 350 or 300 in the hospital. There has none of them died as yet, but several of them are or have been very bad sick there is a reasonable cause for so much sickness. It rains here every day and is very disagreeable for about an hour, then the sun comes out and the air is filled with steam or aqueous vapor, then before night it seems impossible to presume that it has rained for months. The mud here is spongy and like rubber the soil is very poor, so much

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doubt whether you could raise an umbrella without much difficulty and the people are so very poor and distressed, some of them half clothed and some entirely naked, and some of them are starving to death. When we go to eat they Jiuck around us, beg for something to eat and if we drop anything on the ground they will eat it just the same. At first we were quite liberal in giving them, but now our rations are very short for some cause, and we are almost forced to eat off the ground or not at all. Honestly we are 4bout starved to death. But it won't be always, so never mind. When I get back to the "Winter Mansion" I know I can have all I can eat. "Now something about the Cubans, houses and their mode of living. Their houses are all very poorly constructed, boarded up with cocoanut bark and covered with palm leaves. The better class is but little better. Window glass is a thing of the past. You never see a window pane, (but you have many a pain.) The windows are covered with iron bars and represents a jail or penitentiary. In their houses there are no flowers, that iB the poorer class, but they keep the ground nicely swept. They are like Mrs F. at home, they keep their pigs, chickens and horses right in the house with them, and it is a common occurrence to see a man ride upon the sidewalk and order what he wants. No wonder there is so much sickness, for this is cfertainly a dirty place, and there is always an obnoxious smell. Here and there can be seen breastworks and rifle pits where the Spaniards and Cubans fought, and in some places the remains of dead soldiers are plainly seen where they were only half buried and the place is black with buzzards. They are so very numerous they have become as tame as chickens. When I am made an eye witness to so much distress and want, and am 60 very hungry myself, and am dying to come home and see you, Jim, Mr. and Mrs. Winter, Miss Cora and George and Mrs. Lou, and cannot, for Uncle Sam has declared he "will hold me for a while,"I am forced to say, to hell with Spain." But may God bless America, the paradise of the world. We had a skirmish on the 19th of August the command came about 9:30 p. m. We responded promptly .and brave as any heroes. But I confess I felt like retreating, but that would never do, I faced the music well the skirmish lasted about thirty minutes and the command was given, "Cease firing," and in a few moments our first victory was won without the loss of a single man from our company. One man from Company was wounded, one in Company was killed outright, and I have been ready to come home ever since, and I think we will be home Bhortly, in about two months. I hope so at any rate. We are right in the midst of cocoanuts, oranges., lemons and bananas, and such fruit as this is very cheap. But meat, rice and such are very dear. Cigars are worth three and four for five cents they are so cheap and plentiful that men and women smoke them also "kids" from two years old. I have bought two poll parrotts have named one of them "Lou" and the other "Cora." I am going to bring soveral of them home when I come. Tell Mrs. Winter that one of them is for her. There is so much to tell that I can't tell it all now. Will either tell you more when I hear from you or when I come home."

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PULPIT EDITORIALS.

Delivered by Dr. Frank Crane nt. Trinity Church, Chicago. Preceding the Usual Seriuou Sunday, Oct. !i, 1898.

ISAIAll OX AMERICA'S DESTINY.

[Copyrighted, 1998.]

There have been so many absurd attempts to interpret prophecy that It ia a very dangerous thing to take one's self too seriously in essaying a new application. Yet the fantastic vagaries of those who set dates for the end of the world, or of those who make Daniel to have in view the affairs of a small sect or a Scottish village, should not make us miss the larger poetic setting which the ancient prophets supply for the great world-movements of all time. It is sober and reasonable to construe the foretellings of the inspired Hebrew seers as depicting, in symbol and figure, such a pregnant event as the Missiah's advent or the Reformation, foi these were epochal in their consequences And is it trivial to assume that the rise, the power and the future influence of America are within this great category? There is one chapter in Isaiah, the sixtieth, that is crowded with prophetic pictures which, to say the least, can significantly, and without violence to sane interpretation, be made to fit the facts in the case of the United States of America. A succinct comparison of this chapter with these facts is submitted.

The opening verse trumpets forth a call to the people of some nation to rouse themselves to seize their opportunity, for, while all other peoples are in darkness, light has been given to this favored land. "Arise, shine for thy light has come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people: but the glory of the Lord shall be seen upon thee."

The niosL natural thing® for which light stands are intelligence, as mental light 'liberty as social light, plenty, as the light of relief from worry and poverty and morality, as spiritual light. How does our country illustrate these items?

It is well known that illiteracy is here at a lower ratio than in any other land. Education has always been a principal aim in our national policy. As new states were formed congress stitplated that a certain part of the, land should be set aside for school purposes. Nearly 68,000,000 acres of land have thus been used, besides further grants for state universities and agricultural and mechanical schools, making a total of more than 78,000,000 acres, or more land than is in all England, Ireland and Scotland. To this must be added property given to private colleges, which is enormous in quantity bequests of this character in the year 1SS0 alone exceeding $5,500,000, as Miss Cora Jane Flood recently gave property valued at $2,250,000 to the University of California. America is the only nation which spends more for school than for war: Great Britain paying three times as much for her army of slayers as for her army of teachers, France five times, Germany nearly four times, and Russia twenty-six times, and all Europe live times.

Newspapers are certainly light-bear-ers,' shedding the healthful beam of publicity upon the dark places of fraud and oppression. One half of the 42.000 newspapers of the globe are American. Over $16,000,000 is spent by the press of this country for news annually (1892). As to the more elaborate publications, no other nation can equal such magazines as Harper's, The Century, McClure's and the like more copies of some of these, indeed, behig sold in England than of any similar British periodicals. The peculiar light of literature shed upon the children in The Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas and other juvenile publications is not found in other lands at all comparable. The two standard dictionaries of the English language are issued in America, and the plates of the Greek lexicon published at Oxford university are made in New York. The Encyclopedia Brittanica enjoyed a sale of ten times as many sets in this country as in the mother land and ail her colonies. The American Cyclopedia has had sales running past the colossal sum of $12,000,000. The Appletons sell 1,000.000 copies of Webster spelling book every year. As to books, there are 12,000,000 more volumes In the school libraries of America than in all the libraries of Europe combined. These few facts may be indicative of the intellectual light that has arisen upon Columbia.:

As to liberty, or social light, it does not need to be proved, what all men acknowledge, that here the individual has greater freedom of action and more abundant opportunities to improve his condition than elsewhere.

In the way of light upon the daily welfare of our people attention may be called to the indicative statement that while in Europe the average person consumes annually 57.50 pounds of meat and 17.66 bushels of grain, in this republic he has 120 pounds of meat and 40.66 bushels of grain.

And upon the delicate question of moral enlightenment it needs only be recalled that, whereas Europe stood by in shameful palsey during the slaughter of the Armenians, the American people arose in a very storm of creditable passion and compelled their government to go to the relief of Cuba.

The prophet next sees a vast horde of people moving toward this light, and his pictures of that movement are nontoo vivid to be applied to the astounding immigration statistics of this country. "The nations." he says, "shall come to thy light, and kings to th.' brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about and see all they gather themselves together, they come to thee. Who are these that fiy as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? Surely the ships shall bring thy sons from far. and the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls." Now, there has been no migration of people since the world began such as has taken place from across the sea to our country since 1S40 the movement of the northprn hordes down into empire, the Tartar invasion of China, and the exodus of the Jews being insignificant in numbers compared to it.

For now fifty years the ambitious of all lands have (locked here "as doves to their windows." Here is a table showing by decades the number of strangers who have come hither to "build up our walls:" 1S41-1S50 1,713,251 1S51-1860 2,579,5S0 1S61-1S70 2,278,425 1S71-1SS0 2.S12.191 1S81-1S90 5,246,613

1S41-1S90 14,630,060 That they will continue to come the prophet indicates, saying: "Therefore thy gates shall be open continually they shall not be shut day nor night: that men may bring into thee the forccs of the nations, and that their kings may be brought." If the present rate of increase be kept up, this republic In another hundred years will contain one-half the population of the globe.

The seer also points out the enormous wealth of the people he has in his mind's eye. He portrays the land as covered with "the multitude of camels, the dromedaries of Midian and Sphah. The flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, and the rams of Nebaioth. Whereas thou hast been forsaken, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency. Thou shalt suck the milk of the nations. and shalt suck the breast of kings. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron will I bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stone iron." All of which is manifestly a description of great agricultural, commercial and manufacturing supremacy.

The agricultural pre-eminence of the United States is admittted. From 1S70 to 1880 new land was turned into farms almost equal in total extent to the area of France or Germany. Much of this was the "forsaken" land of the Great American Desert turned by irrigation into an "eternal excellency." In 1S90 the respective agricultural state of the nations was in value as follows: The United States $4,000,000,000 Russia, $2,800,000,000 France, $2,300,000,000: Germany. $2,120,000,000 Austria, $1,655,000,000 Britain. $1,255,000,000. None of these countries show much increase except ours they have reached the limit, we are just beginning. The Encyclopedia Brittanica estimates that with scientific tillage our land could support in comfort a billion people

While in exports England still leads the world, America is a close second, and of all the great nations we alone export more than we import. But our foreign trade is not to be compared in importance with domestic traffic. Our internal commerce exceeds the total foreign trade of Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, Holland, Austria-Hungary and Belgium combined. The Pennsylvania railway carries more tonnage than all of England's merchant ships.

In manufactures we, and not Great Britain lead the world, our industries of this kind, in fact, being in value more than half that of ail Europe. So far back as 18S8 the amount of England's manufactured products were not more than half the amount of ours.

As to total wealth, in 1850 that of the United States was only $S,430,000,000 and that of England more than $22,500,000,000 but by 1890 the tables were turned, showing our country's wealth to be $65,000,000,000, as against Great Britain's $52,500,000,000. This youngest of nations could buy all of Great Britain and Ireland and, in addition, pay ofT the entire national debt of those islands, commonly reputed to be the richest on earth.

There are some other points in this chapter that are not without interest. Did Isaiah foresee the present advances of the British people toward an alliance with the government they fought in 1776 and contemned in 1860, when he said: "The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that dispised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet?"

And did he have an eye on Spain also? "For the nation that will not serve thee shall perish yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted." "Utterly wasted!" Where are the fleets of Montejo and Cervera?

Is there no foreshadowing of our peace policy, the absence of that colossal military burden that weighs like a nightmare upon Europe, In this? "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders."

And how could be expressed more practically the sudden development of the republic, within the short space of a hundred years, from the foot to the head of nations, from the poorest to the richest, from the rudest to the most enlightened of them all. than thus? "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in its time."

We are therefore further emboldened to trust that the perpetuity of this glorious government is declared when we read in the same chapter: "Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall they moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall he thine everlasting light." Neither shall we fail to hope that there is here also a guarantee for the certain moral renovation of our people, for the sure triumph of the right, the goot and the just for truest of all the notes of this prophecy rings this: "Thy peopie also shall be all righteous they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified."

What, it may be asked, in conclusion, is the message: "Arise, shine, for thy light has come?" We little know the designs of that silent Providence that shapes events. While all eyes were upon the West Indies, at that time on the other side of the' world in the silence of night, a grim line of battleships crept past Oorregidor island into Manila bay, and when tlu* morning sun arose to shed its beams upon the Hag of the free floating from the American fleet there ensued that swift and terrific destruction of our medieval foe. by virtue of which victory the sun of American political ideas rose splendid in the somnolent Orient, never to set. At the entrance to New York harbor is a statue of the genius of lioerty enlightening the world. The light from the torch she holds aloft dawned for the first time on Sunday, May 1, I89S, upon the ancient and decayed civilization of Asid. "The people who sit in darkness saw a great light", when they beheld the star-spangled banner. The hand at destiny unfurled It. The wiles of European diplomats should not avail to remove it.

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TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL,

LESSON II, FOURTH QUARTER, INTEFK NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. 9.

Text of the Leftson, II Chron. xvil. Memory Verne*, 3-0—Golden Text, Pro?, ill, 1—Commentary by the Rev, IX III,

Stearns.

1. "And Jchosaphat, his son, rnlgn$4 in* his stoad and strengthened himself Israel." Israel, or tho ton trlbos, hs»^ proved themselves to lie tho onoim.-'s o$» God, and to stand with God luoans toA stand against His enemies (.Tas. iv, 4). How grout the contrast in ohaptor xviTl, 1, whoro wo soo Johosaphnt joining affinity with Ahab, the king of Israol, and thus* necessitating the robuko of tho Lord in chapter xlx, 2, "Shouldest thou help the. ungodly and lovo them that hato the. Lordf" To be for God at all tlmos an\ undor all circumstances is a rare thiim. and is seon perfectly only in tho Lord Jo\ bus

Christ.

2. "And ho placed forccs in all the^ foncod cities of Judah." Every king wiu^ king for tho Lord (II Chron. ix, 8), nndj, his strength was to bo in tho Lord and noC In horses and chariots (Dout. xvil, 16). Whon wo put our trust in things visible, wo aro apt to coaso to sec and roly upon, God (.Tur. xvil, 5). This is a constants, tomptation and a snaro. The Lord is of ton, proving us as Ho did Philip, and wo, likft Philip, vonturo to suggest to Him how i^ might bo dono, but all tho whilo IIo HhiVv Bolf knows what Ho will do (John 6-7). Whon wo obediently and trustfullyK under God's guidanco, make ordinary,, provision, all is woll. Tho difficulty i$, when wo ccaso to see God. 8. "And tho Lord was with Jchosaphat." Thisisthoseerctof all blossing. Tho Lor^_ was with Joseph (Gon xxxix, 9, 3, 21, 23), Tho Lord was with David (II Sain, v, 10). His comfort to Moses, Joshua, Gideon and Jeremiah was tho assurance that Ho was with thorn (Ex. iii, 12 Josh, i, 6 Judg. vi, 16 Jer. i, 8). So when tho Lord Jesus sent His followors into all tho world tho groatost cncouragoiuent Ha' could give thoin was Ilis assurance: "All power is givon unto Mo in heaven and on earth. Go ye, thcreforo, and, lo, I ain with, you alway, oven unto tho end of tho AS* (Math, xxviii, 18-20). 4. "Ho sought to tho Lord God of his^ father and walked in His commandments." It is written of Zacbarias and, Elizaboth that they woro both righteous' boforo God, walking in all tho commandments mid ordinunoes of tho Lord blamoloss (Luko I, 0). God had said to Israel that if thoy would obey Ilis voico and koop His covenant, thoy would bo a poculiar treasure unto Him above all peoplo (Ex. xix, 5), and in Titus ii, 11 (R. V.), it ia written that IIo gavo Himself for us to redoeni us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peoplo for His own posses^ sion, zealous of good works. 6. "Thoroforo tho Lord stabiished kingdom in his hand." Joshua was tuUfc that if he would obsorvo to do ucoordin^ to all tho law, his way would bo prosper*, ous and ho would have good success!

Joshua

i, 7, 8). In II Chron. xx, 20, .iohoshaphati' is heard saying to tho peoplo, "Boliovo int' tho Lord your God, so shall yo bo established," and in Isa. vii, 0, is tho contrast,"' "If yo will not bolieve, surely yo shull nnb bo established." In God and in His word is tho only establishment, for nil else shall be shaken. "Whoroforo we roooiving a king* dom which cannot bo shaken led us hava graco whereby wo may serve God accept* nbly with revoronce and godly fear, fop. our God is a consuming flro (Ileb. xii, 28, 2SI). S 0. "And his heart was liftod up in tho wayaiof the Lord." Tho margin says that ho was encouraged in tho ways of tho Lord those who seek to walk in tho way' of tho Lord shull not lack onoouragejnenb to continuo therein. Thero will bo immy a handful dropped for us on purposo to lead us in Ills way (Ruth ii, 10). Thoy' that wait upon the Lord shall renew their, strength, they shall mount up with wings, us eagles (Isa. xl, 31). Tho wuy of the' Lord was so attractive and onjoyablo that tho way of the world and tho dovil beonr.iq distasteful and the high places and groves woro takon away. Wo cannot walk wlrh God unless wo humble ourselves so to d^ and limko up our minds to bo ogreed with Him (Mio. vi, 8 Amos iii, 3). 7. "Also in tho third year of his reign ho sent to his princes to teach in tho cities of Judah." What a suggestive foreshadowing of tho time when "A king shall reign in righteousness and princes shall rule ii^ judgment, and the work of righteousness! shall bo peace, and tho effect of righteous, ness, quietness and assurance forevci'" (Isa. xxxii, 1, 17). There cannot be nny» thing moro Important than that men should know the Lord and His ways, ana when kings and prlncos tuke up this as their mission, tho kingdom will either*, have come or bo very near. Just now our government hus given $50,000,000 for do-' fonso, for tho purchaso or manufacture of warships or war material, but was it evor heard that any government over guvo oveji' $1,000,000 to make known the living God^ 8. "And with them Lovitesandpriosts."' The priest's lips should keep knowledge, and thoy should seek tho luw at his mouth, for ho is tho messenger of the Lord ot hosts (Ma), ii, 7). Their calling is simply set forth in II Chron. xxix, 11, ijj thoso words, "My sons, bo not now ncgli-' gent, for the Lord hath chosen you to' stand bc'cic Him to ecrvo Him and that' ye should minister unto Him and burn incense." Priests, prophots and kings were to recognize God alonoas thoir Master and live only unto Him. 9. "And they taught in Judah and had tho book of the law of tho Lord with tlienv arid went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people'." There' is nothing on euitb so heavenly as the Word of God. It is all "truo from tho be-" ginning" and "forever settled in heayen" (Ps. cxix, b'J, 100). We aro to receive it

meekly, hold it fast, rightly divide it antihold it forth, for it is an ongrafted word, a faithful word, a word of truth and a word of lifo (Jas. i, 21 Titus i, 9 II Tim.' ii, 15 Phil, ii, 10). If all ministers and teachers taught only tho Word of God and honored it as the Word of God, how much more would be accomplished for God! But when thOso who profess to bo its friend,^ dishonor and even set aside many portion* of it what shall wo say? Just this, "Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled |ij heaven." 10. "And tho fear of tho Lord fell upon all tho kingdoms of the lands that wore round about Judah." l'horo was no wur. Other nations brought presents and trib-" uto, and Jeiiosaphat waxed great exceed, ingly (\erses 11, 12). Tho remaining verses of tho chapter tell that his army was 1,160,000, but tho very next chapter tells of his downfall. Uzziah was murvelously helped till ho was strong, but his strength was hie weakness and the causo of his fall (II Chron. xxvi, 15,

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Our only strongth

is in tho Lord. Be strong in tho Lord and in the power of His might.