Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 October 1898 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1898.

THERE has been a decided slump in the sick soldier campaign since Lee and Wheeler testified.

No better single-line testimonal to the prosperity of the country has ever been uttered than this by President McKinley: "We have gone from labor seeking employment to employment seeking labor."

THE county debt is disappearing and the county tax rate is diminishing under the administration of three Re" publican county commissioners. Such business-like and economical conduct should receive the endorsement of the people at the polls.

AT Postmaster General Smith's meeting on Monday there were more people present when he closed than when he began and the enthusiasm had been growing all the time. This was a compliment to Mr. Smith and a demonstration that it takes something more than a street fair and bad weather to prevent a rousing Republican meeting thiB year.

THE conduct of the officers and crew of the British steamer Mohegan was in striking contrast to that of the French in charge of the Bourgogne. In the latter instance the women and children were not allowed to enter the lifeboats, which were overcowded by the crew. In the former, not enough of the crew to properly man them went aboard the lifeboats bearing the women and children.

THE Philippines are the key to all the Orient, China included. Their possession would enable us to extend our commerce into all of ABia, Australia and the rich Oceanic islands, and still leave us free from too close contact with jealous rivals and neighbors. Possessions on the mainland of Asia might lead to foreign entanglements, but in the Philippines we would be free and Bafe from all neighbors feuds.

HEBE is a comparison /for voters to consider. For the three yeara ending June, 1892, 1893 and 1894 the majority of the county 'commissioners and the auditor were Democrats. During these three years the average expenses of -the county were #90,753 annually and the debt was increasing. During the last three years, 1896, 1897 and 1898, the average annual expense has been 880,177 and the debt has been decreasing until it is almost wiped out. As everybody knows the auditor and commissioners during these last three years have been Republicans. Do not their records entitle them to the re-election they seek?

GEN. JOHH M. PALMER has again denied Buck Hinrichsen's story that Palmer had "come back into the fold." The general says he is going to vote lor the Republican candidate for congress in his district, and he advises all the gold Democrats to vote the Republican ticket this year. General Bragg, the leader of the gold Democrats of Wisconsin, is also supporting the Republican ticket. So is ex-Congressman Bynum, who was the campaign manager of the Palmer party in 1896. Palmer calls himself a Cleveland Democrat, and intimites that all the Cleveland Democrats should ally themselves with the Republicans in this canvass.

CONSISTENCY iB not a Democratic jewel. In 1892 the financial plank of the Democratic platform read: "We hold the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminations against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement, etc.

In 1896 their platform says: "We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any nation." And Senator Jones, the authorized mouthpiece of the Democratic party, has repeatedly stated that gold and silver have no intrinsic value.

According to that, moving still further backward, the Dext Democratic platform will abandon the coinage of both metals and proclaim for paper money, which, being the government's promise to pay and bearing its seal, is, according to Senator Jones, the b98t of all moneys, although he denounced it in 1895. "Backward! Backward!!" is the slogan of Democracy.

WHAT IT MEANS THIS TEAR.

New York Tribune: What would an Englishman, German or Frenchman Bay if the Union at the approaching election should take this occasion to repudiate the President and his policy? No one can suppose that it would not be construed as a popular rebuke. Every foreign diplomat would think it meant a popular desire to check the administration in its rightful demands. Spain would so understand it, and every Democratic vote this year is a vote to give such an impression. Other Eutope&n powers interested in Spanish debts would so understand it and would instantly strengthen their demand for concessions. Great Britain is mostly friendly, but would not hesitate at all to believe that this country had changed front and that its administration was no longer in position to represent public opinion.

Nobody can guess how much this change wouldccost the country. It might cost more than all the victories of the war have been worth. It might even cost a foreign war of great magni tude, because Great Britain is to-day ready to uphold the United States in almost any foreign emergency, and with its support possibilities of foreign disturbance are remote but Great Britain would not be ready if the peo pie of the United States are not pre pared to uphold their government, and the difference would mean much. France, for example, or iGermany, might be prepared to dictate to this country on almost any conceivable question, if Great Britain were out of the way, with some hope of success. Neither would venture upon any such step if the two Anglo-Saxon nations could be united. Want of confidence abroad in the stability of the American government cannot be treated lightly, except by those who care nothing for the welfare of their country.

FIGHTING JOE. W

The bard of the Atlanta Constitution haB written a poem commemorative of Gen. Joe Wheeler at Santiago and in the poem are the following stirring a a

Into the thick of the light he went, pallid and sick and wan Borne in an ambulance to the front, a ghostly wisp of a man But the fighting soul of a fighting man approved in the long ago, Went to the front in that ambulance, in 'he

Dody of Fighting Joe.

Out from the front they were coming back, smitten of Spanish shellsWounded boys from the Vermont hills and the Alabama dells "Put them into this ambulance I'll ride to the front,' he said, And climbed to the saddle and rode right on, that little old ex-Confed.

Fevered body and hero heart, this Union's heart to you Beats out in love and reverence—and to eacli dear boy in blue Who stood or fell 'mid the shot and shell, and cheered in the face of the foe, As, wan and white, to the heart of the fight, rode little old Fighting Joe."

Those lines are pretty fair and are made the more acceptable by the knowledge that they are truth. Yet this same Joe Wheeler—ex-Confeder-ate and

Bilver

Democrat, if you please

—went before the investigating committee at Washington and declared that at Santiago there was nothing of which a soldier should complain. He royally vindicated the administration from any fault or blame. Isn't Gen. Wheeler's testimony better and weightier than that of any yellow journalist in the United States?

P. H. MCCOBMACK, of Columbus, who built our court house in Crawfordsville, is being accused of robbing the tax payers of Rush county, who have just completed a court house by contract with the gentleman. No one ever claimed that Montgomery county got any the better of the deal when our court house was erected.

COL. Vfc J. BRYAN is badly needed to arouse and organize the faithful. In the entire state of Maryland there iB not a single congressional candidate of any party who is running on the 16 to 1 platform. The colonel had better let the Spaniards go and turn on the enemy in the rear.

JOE CHEADI.E was present at the Republican meetingMonday evening looking as doleful and forlorn as a prodigal son who had been kicked in bis vacuous bread basket by the frisky fatted calf.

SMARTSBURG-

Husking corn is the order of the day. School has closed here thiB week on account of the street fair.

Jasper Brown will move to Crawfordsville where he will run a coal oil wagon.

Remember Rev. Johnson's regular appointments here every first Sunday in each month.

Sunday school wa6 largely attended Sunday. Remember the time is 9:30 o'clock. Everyone invited to attend.

Rumor has it that John McCullough will take

a

partner and run

a

black­

smith 6hop in the old school house on Silas Misner's place. Mrs. Fred West and children, who have been visiting relatives at this place, started for their home in Seattle, Wash., Tuesday.

There will be meeting at the Baptist church the third Sunday in next month at 11 o'clock, also Saturday afternoon before by Rev. Dalby, of Waveland. All are cordially invited to attend these meetings.

The Journal Co,, Artistic Printers,

CORRESPONDENTS' REUNION.

A Very Pleasant Occasion Which la Enjoyed By Quite a Number of the Writers For the Journal.

The fourth annual reunion of the correspondents of the THE JOURNAL was held In the Red MenB* hall at Crawfordsville last Saturday and while the attendance was not up to the standard, there were not over forty persons present, the occasion was none the less a very pleasant ooe and was apparently enjoyed by all present. The morning was passed in social intercourse and at noon dinner was served, Mr. Reiman the caterer, pu ting up an excellent repast. Upon the conclnsion of the dinner the correspondents repaired to the parlor of the hall where the exercises were held. The association was called to order by President Royalty and after a song by the members and a prayer by W. J. Miliigan the programme was carried out, C. P. Mote acting as secretary. The address (5f welcome was made by J. A. Greene and was responded to as follows by the president:

MB. GREENE AND THE JOUBNAL COM PANY—On behalf of the Correspondents Association I thank you for these words of welcome so fitly spoken, that we have just heard uttered, and more, I thank you for the spirit of generous hospitality which prompts them.

Character, intelligence and morals are developed and shaped by occupation, association and surroundings. The labor a man does impresses its character upon his mental and moral nature, as do its surroundings, and that branch of industry is highest and best, and worthy of the most encouragement. that is the most elevating and refining in its influences.

I have always thought that the noble art of printing was one of the most elevating of the arts, and although we correspondents come from almost every walk of life, I am firmly convinced that we are all better and have better cultivated intellects and more refined minds, than if we had never written a letter to THE JOURNAL. NOW let me say that we accept your cordial welcome to this reunion and shall strive to make ourselves worthy of the kind hospitality you so generously bestow upon us.

ANNUAL ADDRESS.

FELLOW CORRESPONDENTS—It is the custom of all deliberative bodies that have stated annual meetings for the presiding officer to give a synopsis of the general work of the body during the interval between the meetings and make such suggestions as he thinks are prudent for the future government of the body. This has not, I believe, been done by this body before and the fact that the committee of arrangements has made a place this year in the program for such an address shows that we are growing more metropolitan and there is no knowing what will be our future destiny. Since our last meeting the map of our country has been considerably enlarged and many things have been done that will make a great change in the history of this and other countries. Our country has been engaged in a war with a foreign country and has gained some victories that Bre unparalleled in the history of the world and has taken a place much higher among the powers of the earth than she ever held before. But, thank God, peace is about here and we hope that soon we may be able to proclaim that we are at peace with all the world.

The official acts of the president of this society for the past year have been very few, and in truth the principal act has been in writing but one letter in answer to a communication from a member of the society making suggestions in regard to making arrangements for holding this reunion.

The writer made several suggestions in regard to holding this meeting, and I referred him to the committee of arrangements in every suggestion but one, and that one waB that we be aure to have a good day for

thiB

meeting,

and I appointed him to see that the day was such as he desired, and I presume that he has acted faithful in the matter as a good and true correspondent should act and you all know how well he has succeeded

Since our last meeting the head of THE CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL, consequently the head of this society, has passed from labor to reward. On Sunday the first day of May last Thomas H. B. McCain died at his home in Crawfordsville in the sixtieth year of bis age. He was born in Clinton county, Ind., January 24, 1839, where he grew to manhood attending the public Bchools in winter and working on the farm in summer. He served in the army, learned the printer's trade and came to Crawfordsville in 186S and bought THE JOURNAL and had been the guiding star of the same since that time uiitil his death. I recommend that suitable resolutions be passed by this meeting commemorating his worth and virtues and that they be spread on the records of this society.

Dr. Fred C. Hurt, of Waynetown, a former correspondent of THE JOURNAL and member of this association died at Fortress Monroe of typhoid fever on the ninth day of August last at the age of 22 years. Dr. Hurt was born in Waynetown, and there be had his home all his life. A bright prospect was before him. He heard his country's call and made himself a sacrifice that the cause of liberty might be enlarged and that freedom should raise its crowned head over our oppressed neighbors who for many years had been ground down in the most abject slavery. He did not carry a musket, but his duties called him to the thickest of the fight, to look to the wounded and help carry them from the field and administer to their wants. It seems so hard that one BO young, so full of hope and with such bright prospects before him should be thus cut off, but such was the will of Providence and we should not murmer. "God's will be done." I recommend that suit able resolutions be passed to his mem' ory and that they be spread upon our records.

There is considerable dissatisfaction in regard to

the

time of holding

gust, while others thought it ought to have been held the first half of September, and all have some arguments in favor of their positions. I myself think that while we take into consideration the agreeablenesB of the weather we ought to make the date at a time that would conflict as little aB

poBBible

with the other duties of the

correspondents, and would suggest that the time of holding the next reunion be considered by this meeting, believing that it would be more agreeable for the body to consider it as a whole than to delegate it to a committee who know not

the wishes of the

members at large. After a song by J. S. Bennett, the Linden veteran, the following address was read by L. M. Coons: WHAT TO WRITE IN A COUNTBY LETTER

Owing to my inexperience as a literary writer, I feel hardly capable of discussing the above Bubject, and especially to a body of country corres pondents who have been furnishing the county papers with news for many years. Yet it is a source of great pleasure to me to have the opportunity of presenting in my humble way what I deem to be of greatest- importance to be written as news in the country letter. First, I would place great emphasis on the word "news Such writing as "Mr. Jones took dinner with Mr. Brown Sunday" I would hardly call news. Some of the more important topics to mention are births, deaths, sickness, marriages, general news of the community, discussion of church work, school work, crops, etc The first four topics should be writ ten for two reasons. 1. It gives people in another neighborhood a chance to learn something of their relatives. 2. It would be an act of courtesy to the parties you are writing about and their friends, if nothing more.

Country correspondents, as a rule, mention these topics and occasionally something about crops, but very few ever say anything about the work done by the church and school, which are the two principal foundations for forming the character of the individuals who are to manage the affairs of this great nation of ours and bear it on for the next generation.

Don't be afraid to write something about the crops. It is very pleasing to the farmer of one section to read about the crops of another, and by so doing he learns whether or not his crop is above or below the average.

Again, if you live in a small town an occasional writeup for the town is not out of harmony, for it gives the people in general a chance to know what it is doing.

Nearly every community has some aged persons, but those who have reached the ripe old age of four score and above are very few. Such persons have relatives scattered far and wide, and whenever you write a description of their lives you not only furnish the general public with something new, but you also show the person that he is still welcome in your community and that his life is a model for the younger ones to follow.

Now, in conclusion, I would say that with but little reflection the country writer can call to mind real news that will be of interest to nearly every reader so write the "news," the 'whole news" and nothing but the "news." *. ,A song by W. C. Stewart was then rendered after which Mr. R. C. Jackman read the following paper:

MR. PRESIDENT—It seems from the programme that I have been assigned to the part of reminiscences of old time correspondents of THE JOURNAL. I am aB most of you know one among the oldest correspondents of THE WEEKLIT JOURNAL and I am aB well one among the oldest correspondents in Montgomery county, having been a correspondent for some time previous to corresponding for THE JOURNAL. This being the fact you will no doubt expect me to say many wise things,but you need not be surprised if I say a great many foolish things. In my experience as a correspondent I have found that people are very hard to please. If you happen to mention them in connection with something that isn't real nice and doesn't shine like an angel's crown they get hot and say you are slandering them. While on the other hand, if you fail to laud them to the skies and paint them in all the colors of the rainbow for doing some act which was but their bounden duty to do, they do not get hot but very chilly and hold you off at arm's length until they freeze you into saying something nice about them. So you are between two fires with a certain class of humanity, do the very best you can. The life of a correspondent is not always a pleasant one. It has its pleasant

Bide

and its unpleas­

ant side. I acknowledge to having been on both of those sides. When I first began to correspond for THE JOURNAL I lived at Darlington and it was some two or three yeats before the citizens knew or could find out who it was that was reporting the news. For my own safety and the people's good I would much prefer to have remained an unknown correspondent. During those two or three years that I was not known as a correspondent I extracted more fun and enjoyment out of the business than I have in all the years since. But finally it became known who the Darlington correspondent was and then it was my time to get

roaBted.

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reunion. Many wanted it held at the usual time, about the middle of Au

I remember and think

I always shall remember on one occasion of making a note of the fact that a party of ladies and gentlemen had, while sleigh riding, been turned over and almost drowned in the Bnow. A few nights afterwards one of these same young ladies stepped into the room where I was and to say that she was red-headed would not express it, for she was red-headed by nature and by profession. She wished to know if I was the author of that item in regard to the sleigh ride and I like George Washington could not lie, and I never came nearer getting a licking from any one than I did from that lady. This was No. 1 on the unpleasant side. As we said before there are many very pleasant and many unpleas ant things connected with the life of a correspondent. We have not time now to enumerate all the pleasurable items which they have to chronicle and which is an offset to the many sad and sorrowful scenes which they are called upon to record but will enumerate a lew.

Corporal Beckwith thinks there was great deal of needless sickness among the volunteers. At Chickamauga many of his mess mates followed

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SAVED SOLDIERS!

The soldiers who did the most good were those who kept well. There were plenty of brave men who were of little use when the time came because they took less care of their health than they did of their musket.

Malaria and other fevers soon picked out thes6 men much more unerringly than the enemy's sharpshooters.

One set of men went about keeping well in a businesslike way. They took Paine's celery compound at the first indications of intestinal troubles, weakness or when fatigued and liable to fevers. They used Paine's celery compound to purify their blood and put their health on a firm basis as soon as they made up their minds to join the service.

Who Used Paine's Celery Compound Did Not Suffer From Fever.

example and fortified them­

selves against disease by Paine's celery compound, and not a man of them had malaria or fever of any sort or spent a day in the hospital.

Corporal Beckwick writes: CAMP OLYJIPIA, Sept. 17, 1898. Dear Sirs:—When I see so many of my poor comrades coming home looking fit only for a hospital cot, I give thanks to Paine's celery compound for the fact that I went through my enlistment without any doctor's medicine, and am to-day even healthier than when I went to Chickamauga. I firmly belieye that this good health is due to my using Paine's celery com­

It is pleasant to note the fact that John and Sarah were married last Thursday night by one of the popular ministers of the city and the presents were many and costly. Also the happy reunions of many of the prominent families of town and country, the grand results of some religious awakening, the bright prospects of that loving and loved young man who has just launched

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boat on the sea of

life, but it iB sad even to humiliation to have to note the fact that the same John and Sarah, after a stormy life of a fev^ months together, have separated and ruined their lives forever, and that Satan in the guise of a whisky shop has undid a great deal of the good work which the protracted meeting did, and this same young man's boat was wrecked and the young man drowned in the great sea of life.

It is not pleasant to have your friends ask you to write up and have published in your letter an advertisement for them for nothing, which otherwise would cost them about #2.50, but this we do not have to do.

This is no overdrawn imaginary picture but facts, plain unvarnished facts, which the correspondent is expected to note and give to the people.

When I began to correspond for THE JOURNAI. correspondents were few and far between and a country letter was hunted up and devoured almost the first thing when THE JOURNAL came to hand, but now we see before" us not an army of young correspondents but a young army of correspondents. Age seems to be no bar to membership in this army and I for one am glad of that fact the young and the old are all mustered into this service, and with pencils Bharpened are ready to give the news, and most faithfully do they do it. One cannot steal a horse or even kill a chicken but what some correspondent will blow it on them, BO the poor fellow has no chance of getting along in this world without some one meddling with his buBiness. This is all right and as it should be. They should give all the news for people read THE JOUBNAL to get the news and they get the news when they read THE JOURNAL.

Let UB suppose for a moment that this good JOURNAL COMPANY paBs an edict barring all correspondents from THE JOURNAL for a time. What a howl would g.o up from the people in not-only this county but adjoining counties. It would soon injure the circulation of the paper, not that the

pound last winter and spring, which made my blood pure and nerves strong to resist malaria and keep me well.

Very truly yours,

CORPORAL JAS. O. BECKWITH,"

Co. M, First Vt. Volunteer Infantry. Secretary of War Stanton used to say that the

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definition of

for

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is a

change of occupation. That may be true

one in health, but a sick per­

son needs to have his digestion regulated, his blood purified and his nerves invigorated. Paine's celery compound brings the sort of rest the sick body requires through sleep and nourishment.

Just as the great lawyer studies each one of his cases till he knows it on every side and in every aspect, so Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL. D., of Dartmouth College, the discoverer of Paine's celery compound, had studied the nerves in health and disease, when well-nourished and when under-nour-ished, in men and women and children years before he looked for the remedy. Paine's celery compound

waB

the out­

come of his entire professional life. A fitting memorial to a life of hard study and close observation—a remedy that the world could not lose to-day at any price!

Paine's celery compound calms and equalizes all the nervous tissues and induces the body to take on solid flesh. It purifies the blood, as is so clearly shown by the rapid clearing of the skin all evidences of bad humors within. It is an infallible relief for salt rheum, ezcema and all blood diseases.

correspondents make the paper but the people want the country news. In conclusion my advice to correspondents ia to publish all the news and attend these reunions punctually every year, and my especial advice would be to have great regard for the truth and while you keep that on your side you have hot much to fear.

MrB. Eva Layson rendered an excellent song and was followed by J. C. Bennett who gave his experiences as a fifer in the war for the Union. A fine paper entitled "Then and Now" was then read by Mrs. M. 0. Miller. This paper unfortunately was not delivered to the secretary and cannot be presented here. A number of interesting short speeches were made by members of the association and agreeable to the committee's,) report the following officers were elected for next year:

President—Mrs. M. C. Miller. Vice President—R. C. Jackman. Secretary—C. P. Mote. After a few songs the reunion came to a close, it then being qu^te late in the afternoon.

The committee on memorials made the following report: "Since our list meeting in the summer of 1897, two of our members who were then with us in perfect health have passed from the troubles and the pleasures of this life to, as we fondly hope, the perfect joy of the life hereafter. T. H. B. McCain, the president of THE JOURNAL COMPANY, and Dr, Fred C. Hurt, one of our youngest and most beloved members. We feel that in the loss of these brothers we have sustained a loss which only time can cure and which is made reconcilable to us by the belief that our loss has been their distinct gain. They were true men and their lives, while neither of them the allotted length, measured grandly up to the scale of human excellence. We mourn for them and we trust that they await us in the shade of the

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over the great river all

must cross." FOB envelopes Bee THJC JOURNAI. CO PBTVTKKS