Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 December 1898 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1898.

ONE reason that Hobson stands this kissing craze so well is that be pets a fresh goose every time. There's great virtue in that.

OUR heaviest trade with the Philippines was §12,534,456 in 1884. The large decline since then was due to Spanish discrimination. In the future the group will be important American market.

THE senate committee on foreignrelations, and the house committee on territories are both at work upon bills providing a government for Hawaii, and present expectation is that the bills will be reported early in January.

FOR merely attempting to hug one woman, Artilleryman Moore is doing six months' service on the Savannah chain gang, while Lieut. Hobson is having his praises sung throughout the world for hugging and kissing 163 Chicago women in less than that number of minutes. And yet we boast that our government guarantees "equal rights to all, special privaleges to none."

REPUBLICANS in congress are delighted with President McKinley's triumphant tour of the south, and enthusiastically endorse everything he said about expansion and the government caring for the Confederate dead. The enthusiasm with which tbe President's straigbt-from-the-shoulder expansion talk was received in the southjwas a pointer for some of the Democratic anti-expanBionists that is being carefully studied.

THE value of exports from the United States duriDg the current year —$1,250,000,000—not only exceed those of any previous year in the history of this country, but they show that the United States has at least taken the lead of the United Kingdom as an exporting nation. At the same time the values of our imports are the smallest for any year since 1S85, leaving a foreign trade balance of $600,000,000 in our favor during the twelve months notwithstanding we had during a good part of that period a foreign war on our hands. Verily, the year 1898 has been a mighty bard one on both the amateur and tbe professional calamity howlers.

MR. BRYAN was not altogether satisfied with the result of his trip to Washington. He did not find the Democratic response to his anti-ex-pansion key-note al) that he expected it would be. On the contrary, he was plainly told by a number of Democratic senators and representatives that they could not endorse his position, and that their constituents would not. If he had it to do over again, there is very little doubt that Mr. Bryan would be less emphatic in expressing his opposition to expansion, but as he has fully committed himself, there is nothing left for him to do but to stand by what he said, and take the con sequences.

WE are encountering to-day the same old mist that obscured the vision of those who objected to the annexation of Louisiana, Florida, Oregon, TexaB, California,gand Alaska. In opposing expansion the present senior senator from Massachusetts is true to the traditions of New England, notably Massachusetts. It was the first secretary of state 6ent out by New England, Timothy Pickering, of Massachusetts, who put himself at the front in opposing the Louisiana purchase, and from his day to this a heavy fog has ob scured the Yankee vision every time accessions have been made to our national territory. The latest instance, before Hoar, was General Butler, who in congress deprecated and condemned the purchase of Alaska as worse than a dead loss. "No man," he declared, "except one insane enough to buy the earthquakes ia St. Thomas and the icefields in Greenland, could be found to agree to any other terms than a free gift for its acquisition to the country."

It did not take long for events in that case, as in previous cases, to clear up tbe mists. Even Alaska, the least valuable of our acquisitions, has paid for itBelf twice over every year. Not a single objection to any of the acquisitions proved well tfounded. Every mountain pointed out as an insurmountable barrier has proved to be nothing more substantial than a fog bank. It never took the sun of experience long to dissolve those mists into air.

HON. DAVID J. HILL, assistant secretary of state, delivered an interesting address on the "Expansion of Civilization" at a banquet. Referring td the disposition in some quarters to harp on the word "imperialism," Mr. Hill said: "A malignant disposition could not have selected a worse word than imperialism. A better word, which expresses the true condition, is expansion. It is not a new one and the idea iB not novel. It has existed since the inception of national growth. Civilization must go on until1 there is not one province, one island, one individual upon which its benign light does not fall." He answered those who argue that tt would be a violation of the constitution for us to set up a form of government over any people, without allowing them to choose its form as well as its officials, by saying: "Nations as well as individuals must pass through the period of minority. It was so with this nation. See how closely our forefathers guarded the right of franchise. All constitutional lawyers agree that the franchise is not a natural right, but a legal gift. The natural rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I cannot believe that it is an evil for the stars and stripes to float over any people, and it is therefore our duty to extend the blessings of our civilization to all men capable of receiving them.

CONGRESS will this week adjourn for the customary Christms.3 recess of two weeks. No time will really be lost by the recess, as all of the important committees will work right through it. The Anglo-American commission has taken a recess until Jan. 5. The work of the commission has not been progressing very rapidly, of late, and it is now practically certain that if there is a treaty at all, it will not include commercial reciprocity.

HAGGARD should be a lesson to future nominating conventions to pay as much attention to the tail of the ticket as the head. If it were not for Haggard, Governor Mount might become United States senator without prejudice.

I'asHert A way.

Fred, the iittle son of William and Leota Smith Doyle, was born Jan. 11, 1898, died Dec. 14, 1898, of whooping cough, aged 11 months and three days. He leaves a father, mother, four sisters and a host of admirers to mourn his lose. The remains were laid to rest on Thursday afternoon in the Wesley cemetery, we6t of town, followed [by a concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives. Little Fred was a bright and loving child, loved and cherished by his parents to whom the sad messenger of death was a chock that only they who have passed through the dreBdful ordeal cau realize. While all temporal ties are broken and prospects blighted yet there is blessed consolation for tha bereaved in that there will be a sweet reunion bye and bye. "You may cast the flowers from tlio mantle

Break the vase If you will. But the scent of the roses Will cling to It still."

O. B.

Grand Christmas Matinee.

On next Monday, week of December 26, the Murray comedy company will commence a week's engagement at Music Hall, commencing with a Christmas matinee at 2:30. This company comes here as being one of the best repertoire companies on the road. They will give eight performances during the week with a change of programme each performance. People living in the country wanting to spend their time at a good show and get home before dark can take in the big matinee Monday afternoon. Matinee prices, 10 and 20 cents. Night prices, 10, 20 and 30 cents.

MACE TOWNSI.EY.

Russia's Great Street Fair.

The greatest of all street fairs is that at Nijni Novgorod, in Russia, which is attended by traders and merchants from every part of the world, for it commands the markets of Siberia and central Asia, and every manufacturing and trading country is anxious to obtain entrance to the profitable region. The attendance i3 said often to exceed 500,000, and every street of the city is converted into a fair ground. There are booths everywhere, wherein may be bought anything from a Himalayan dagger or prayer cylinder to an American steam engine.

Good Marksmen from Iowa.

In a shooting match between the teams representing the different regiments at San Francisco, the Iowa team won over all competitors. The score was: Fifty-first Iowa, 593 Thirtythird regulars, 574 Seventh California, 567 Tennessee regiment, 492 Kansas regiment, 491. The Iowa men used the old Springfield rifle and the regulars the Krag-Jorgenson.

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PULPIT EDITORIALS.

By Dr. Frank Crane of Trinity Church, Chicago, Dec. 18, 1898.

TWO KINDS OF SINS.

[Copyrighted, 1898.]

It Is commonly said that man is a dual being, but this is a mistake he is triple in his nature and hath in him not only an angel and a brute, as writers are wont to say, but also a devil.

There are two kinds of sin men commit—the beastly, which arises from the animal nature, and the- devilish, which comes from some satanic source. Gluttony, lust, anger, drunkenness, are bestial, but envy, bigotry, tyranny and jealousy are infernal. No brute is capable of them.

Toward these two classes of sins the attitude of Jesus was markedly different. For the sins of animality He manifested only a gentle pity, for to the wretched woman He spake no bitter word, but said only: "Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more." And He plainly declared to the scribes that the harlots and the publicans should enter into the kingdom before them. He was called the Friend of sinners, but never the Friend of Pharisees. He mingled freely and of choice with the class of people which in the street language of this day would be denominated "tough."

For the envious, jealous and bigoted He had no liking. He avoided their company. He rebuked them openly and He privately warned His disciples to beware of their leaven (their influence). He even uncorked the phial of His wrath and poured upon them the most blistering condemnation, calling them serpents and a generation of vipers, and asking how they hoped to escape the damnation of hell.

As the Master made such a significant distinction in sins, it behooves us to reflect upon it:.

He did not excuse sins of flesh, for there is no excuse l'or any transgression, but toward them He showed a divine sadness. Yet toward the other sins He displayed fierce heat and choler.

The sins of the body are sins of weakness, while those of the spirit are sins of strength. Both are bad, but the latter are vastly worse.

And why?

Because brutal sins tend to efface themselves, destroying the body and disgracing their author. The drunkard, the lecher and the drone by and by become diseased and enfeebled. But men thrive on greed, hate and bigotry, growing stronger and cumulatively pernicious. The sot is soon impotent, but the inquisitor is long lived.

The sins of weakness are disreputable, whereas the sins of strength are respectable. Thus uncleanness, profanity and debauchery are barred from comely society, while the satanic sins of treachery, envy and the like flourish in the court and the church. The latter, therefore, because more insidious, are more dangerous. Beelzebub could not tempt Eve by desire of tasting the apple, but must needs add the more subtle, intellectual and spiritual lust to "become as the gods." Envy, spite, bigotry and the like appear in ecclesiastical synods and conferences and enter into and disrupt church societies, where brutal sins dare not lift their heads. Statesmen, women and clergymen harbor the satanic impulses, but fear to entertain the sensual.

Beastliness only becomes inimical to society when it borrows philosophy and parades itself as a religious or economic cult. Lust is beastly, but the propaganda of free love is devilish. Laziness is pitiable, but when it creates itself into a system and prates of anarchy and socialism, it has taken another degree in vice and has become a menace. Theft is shameful, but when it calls itself legitimate business it ascends from the brute to the demon.

It is not the bestiality of men that opposes religion, for that rather evades religion, but it is their more demoniacal sins—bigotry and prejudice. Who opposed Wesley? Not the roughs and open sinners, but the prelates. Who attacked Drummond and Dr. Watson? Not the publicans and sinners, but the envious and piously malicious. Who fought against Luther? Not the poor wretches who were enslaved to appetite, but the pride and power of ecclesiasticism. Who persecuted the apostles and stoned Paul? Not the drunkards and thieves, but the representatives of the religion of that day.

And forget not who killed Christ with wicked hands and raging hearts. It was not appetite, intoxication, profanity, weak will and their poor fellowanlmalities but it was jealousy, envy, spite, bigotry and hate. These are the works of the devil, the Christ-killers.

These, too, are the civilized vices, and lodge in the cultivated, intelligent', and, alas! devotional hearts. It is not the imbruted men who threaten the world, but the polished and devilish. If the Lord of Glory had no enemies but the weaknesses of the flesh and the wanderings of the heart and will His triumph would soon be coming but it is a long and fearful battle with those vicious sins of the mind and spirit that are haughty, shrewd and eminently respectable. Well does the apostle say: "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places."

FATALISM.

I am this much of a fatalist, that I do not believe we can make or take life until God permits. I am not ready to follow out this statement into all the involutions of logical consequence. The doctrine of fatalism is to be tasted] not swallowed. If we accept it entire it paralyzes thought and effort. But if we select and use just a little of it It is a great comfort. Indeed, is not every theological doctrine like nature's laws—ia there any such law, as gravitation, cohesion and the like, that operates unchecked? If it did so it would reduce the world to ruin. But each liatural law is limited by the interplay of others. So It is with doctrines. The truth is not either in absolute fatalism or in absolute free will, but somewhere between. The truth is not in God's limitless love nor in His unalterable justice, but in a middle ground be­

tween the two. Therefore I say I am something of a fatalist, and believe the issues of life and death ar* in the hand of Providence. No maligrn power can destroy me until I get through the works the great Architect has laid out for me. Our poor opinion about what conUtutes a man's life is no criterion.

We say the baby who dies at the age of three days, the promising young man whose budding career Is nipped untimely, the young mother who is taken while her family sorely need her, all die before their time. But for that matter we would have said Jesus died with His work uncompleted, for He started to reform the earth and was killed after a brief period of three years. And yet on the cross He cried, "It is finished!" The cruel hands that slew Him were in reality but rounding out His plan. Even so it is with us all. Everyone thought it a gigantic miscarriage of Providence when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, but we now have come to sufficient perspective to perceive that his death was of just that time and manner to complete most perfectly the work of his life that it had quite as much to do with burying the cause of slavery as anything he did during his working days, and that it gave him a niche in fame that he could have attained by no other means. I find that most of the world's great doers were adherents in the partial doctrine of fatalism, and considered the stars to be their friends.

FRAGMENTS.

Frankness is better than subtlety, even as truth is better than falsehood. Whoever aims to win by shrewdness will eventually find some one shrewder than himself, but the man who uses candor, openness and sincerity knows that there is no one who has anything better. a

Frivolity is sister to cruelty.

Each phase of Christianity began with the masses and gradually narrowed to the classes. It was so of Romanism, of Lutherism, of Calvinism, of Wesleyism. God is always going back to the people. When churchly institutions become narrow He commissions some agent like Francis d'Assisi or Luther or Wesley or William Booth to go again out into the highways and hedges and compel the hordes to come in that His house may be filled. This is the cause of missions. If civilized nations will not come He will appeal to the heathen.

The only hope religion has upon man lies in its ability to appeal to his craving for a liner, higher, fuller life. It is this craving that makes men plunge so feverishly into politics, business, social dissipation, drunkenness or travel. Humanity's hell is humdrum. No religion that has not excitement, enthusiasm, exaltation, rapture, will suit mankind. Look at those words. Excite means to move rapidly out of one's self enthusiasm, the filling with God exalt, to raise one out of himself rapture, to carry one away from himself. Do you not see that the kernel in all. of them consists in getting away from the ordinary. The true instinct that moves men to religion is the desire for a high life, of which drunkenness, gambling and all dissipation is a dangerously close counterfeit. The sensualist who exclaims, "Better one day of this rapturous sweetness than years of commonplace the poet who sings, "Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle in Cathay," and the psalmist who cries. "A day in Thy courts is better than a thousand," are different in degree and illustrate the three modes of escape from humdrum that humanity has discovered—the physical, the intellectual and the spiritual. The advantage which the spiritual has over the other two forms is that it is permanent.

If I should be asked what is the most practical and helpful thing for one to learn from Christianity I should say it is to consider that his duty is to be done by the day and not by the job, To look upon what we have done today as a full completion of our responsibility to God and man is the way to both efficiency and heartsease. If one can live right one day he can live right for ever, for forever is composed of onedays.

Excessive spirituality is akin to dissipation. Self-abandonment, even to religious feeling, is dangerous. Temperance is the supreme law in heaven also.

There is a difference between religiosity and religion. Religion is the deep loyalty of the heart and purpose to our sense of right religiosity is the scrupulous observance of pettyrules. The latter pays tithe of mint, anise and cummin the former is occupied with the weightier matters of th law. There can be no true religious life that does not discriminate between essentials and non-essentials. Many who are very particular about the re ligiosities have little or no religion. The chief priests gladly murdered Jesus, but they hesitated to arrest Him on a feast day. There are harlots who are careful to attend mass. Mediaeval bandit: were frequently punctilious about saying their paternosters. Many a thief is afraid to begin an important under taking on a Friday. Some ill-tempered and base-spirited mothers are very careful to have their children baptized. These are religiosities, but religion con sists in keeping the heart and character daily in the atmosphere of God, of the truth and of love. Jesus constantly offended the religiosities of His day, but He was more religious than all.

Saw with a Dhimmul Iiim.

A circular saw for cutting stone is being employed in the construction of the buildings of the Paris exposition. It consists of a steel disk over six feet in diameter which has about 200 diamonds set in its rim. The saw is mounted upon a suitable shaft and driven by steam power at about 300 revolutions per minute, for hard stone, at which rate about one foot per minute can be cut. For soft stone steel teeth are used, with diamonds every fifth tooth, and the rate of advance is about three feet per minute. It is estimated that the stone is cut in this way at from one-eighth to one-tenth the cost of hand labor.—San Francisco Chronicle.

Blondin's Bicycle.

The wooden bicycle used by Blondin in his famous ride across the Niagara falls on a rope is still in existence and was sold in Paris not long ago for about €0 cents.

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Magnificent Train Service

Of the Union Pacific from Council Bluffs or Kansas City makes it the popular line to all points in Nebraska Kansa Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and the Pacific coast. Three trains dally from Council Bluffs. Two trains dally from Kansas City. Pullman Palace Double Drawing Room Sleepers, Buffet Smoking and Library Card, Free Reclining Chair Cars, Dining Cars. Meals a la carte.

For time tables, folders, illustrated books, pamphlets descriptive of the territory traversed, or any information, apply to your local agent, who can sell you a ticket via the Union Pacific, or address J. H. JUNK, Trav. Pass. Agent, Union Pacific Railroad Co., room 9, Jackson Place, Indianapolis. Ind. d*w 11-11 tf

Big Four Bate*.

Holiday excursions via. Big Pour at very low rates. Tickets good going Dec. 23, 24, 25 and 30 and 31, 1898, and Jan. 1 and 2, 1899. Return limit, Jan. 3, 1899.

If Yon Are Going to the Pacific Coast

Don't complete arrangements until you have secured information regarding the personally conducted excursions to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland via the Uaion Pacific. These excursions leave Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul every Thursday, and Omaha every Friday in elegantly upholstered Pullman sleepers, illuminated by

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For full particulars call on or address J. S. June, No. 9 Jackson Place, Indianapolis, Ind. l-28d&w

Winter Tourist Tickets via. the Wabash.

Winter tourist tickets are now on sale via the Wabash to Augusta and Savannah, Ga. El Paso, Galveston and San Antonio, Texas Jackson and Vicksburg, Miss. Jacksonville, Fla. Lake Charles, Mobile and New Orleans, La., and many other points south at greatly reduced rates For information as to ratas, routes, limits, etc., call on or address

THOS. FOLLEN, Pass Agt., Lafayette, Ind.

Increase of Dose Not Necessary,

There are many medicines advertised to cure constipation and other stomach disorders which really do give temporary relief. Among these are the various kinds of pills and the great number of teas. But an experience with these is almost alw ys disappointing. Either it becomes necessary to keep increasing thedose or they become entirely inactive. Not BO with Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Its efficacy keeps up and those who give it a fair and honest trial find that it is always a friend 10c, 50c and $1.00 sizes at Dunn's drug store, 117 north Washington street, next to Trade Palace, Crawfordsville.

Cafe and Observation

cars. Excellent service on superb through trains. Queen &' Crescent Route from Cincinnati south.

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I'LOKIDA, HAVANA, NASSAU.

Double Daily Trams From Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis ami Kansas City Via the southern ltuilway.

Toe Southern Railway and connections have arranged, for the accommodation of travel to the south this winter, the best service ever offered, Beginning Dec. 4, additional through sleeping car service will be established from Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Kansas City to Jacksonville, with through connections, without lay over, from each of t^iese points for trainsleaving both morning and evening.

Time, Cincinnati and Louisville to Jacksonville, 25 hours Havana, 55 hours.

All ticket agents sell one way ami round trip tickets to southern resorts via Southern Railway.

Ask your neatest ticket agent for rates and other information, or write WM. H. TAYI.OK,

Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville. C. A. BAIRD. Traveling Pass. Agent, Louisville.

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Vandalla Excursions.

Holiday rates, one and one-third fare, to all points between Mississipi River and Buffalo or Pittsburgh, inclu sive, north of the Ohio River. Sold Dec. 23, 24, 25, 26 and 30 and 31, also Jan. 1 and 2. All good to return up to and including Jan. 3. No ticket sold for less than 25c.

Horns seekers' tickets, Dec. 20th. Winter tourist tickets now on sale, Includes points in Texas, Hot Springs, Ark, the coast and many other points.

Second class rates to Texas expire Dec. 31. After that only first class rates will apply.

Remember, we connect at St. Louis for points in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, California and other coast points without change of cars. Each Monday night a tourist sleeper leaves St Louis for Los Angeles via. A. T. & S. F. Ry., and on each Tuesday and each Saturday through Pullman sleeping cars leave St. Louis via. Iron Mountain Route for Los Angeles and San Francisco without change. Time of run, about four days.

J. C. HUTCHINSON, Agt.

Gates Mexican Tours.

On Jan. 17th and Feb. 11th, 1899, a special train consisting of sleeping, compartment, observation and dining cars will compose the Gates' tours special. An eighty page illustrated itiner ary will be furnished upon application free to persons contemplating this trip The undersigned has been anpointed the authorized agent of Gates' tours for Lafayette and vicinity and will be pleased to give full particulars relative to this trip.

THOS. FOLLEN, Pass. Agt., Lafayette, Ind.

Twenty-lrour Boors

To New Orleans or to Jacksonville via. the Queen & Crescent Limited trains from Cincinnati, 54 hours through to .Havana..