Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 January 1899 — Page 10

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FRIDAY,

JANUARY 13. 1809.

GOLD shipments from Australia to the United States last year increased 810,000,000. Our interests in the Pacific are growing' in every direction.

WHEN VV. J. Bryan, in a recent Bpeech, said that it was not the mission of the United States to shackle an alien race, Bryan was right. Our mission is to strike off the shackles.

IK grim old Andrew Jackson could have seen the curious crowd that this year celebrated his New Orleans victory, he would have asked a summary dismissal from the college of immortals.

THE silver peso in Havana, which has been changing value daily, ranging anywhere from 50 cents to 80 cents, is settling down to its bullion value. It is not exchangeable for gold, and muBt depend on the open market for its rating.

IT never occurred to Jefferson to allow the inhabitants of the Louisiana purchase to select an [independent form of government and then use the power of the United States to protect them. He had a better plan which time has vindicated.

COLORADO during 1898 produced two fifths of the silver output of the United 8tates and also, mirabile dictu, twofifths of the gold product. This is placing the two metals on an equality with a vengeance, but it does not argue very Btrongly for 16 to 1.

EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S mock solicitude for the souls of Filipinos who may be sent to glory by the gunpowder route should make the home mission board realize the importance of an increased appropriation for mission work in and around Princeton, N. J.

Uncle Sam can say that a note without a revenue stamp is not collectible why should not the state of Indiana that a note not listed for taxation is uncollectible. Senator Gill's bill has a good deal of common sense in it. It would help unearth the taxdodgers.

THE treasurer says that prior to September 1, 1898, the highest point which the gold balance had ever attained was $219,058,232. on April 3, 1888. On June 0, 1893, the amount was $89,589,364, the lowest in 15 years. Since July, 1896, the reserve of $100,000,000 has not been trenched upon.

GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT in his message to the New York legislature has declared himself in favor of a gradual extension of the elective franchise to women. The single argument against woman suffrage is the indifference of the women themselves, but THE JOURNAL ventures the prediction that twenty years from now it will be practically universal in the United States.

SOME people speak of expansion and the possession of colonies as if they must necessarily imply imperialism and an emperor. There is no such necessity. Outside possessions and territories can be more efficiently managed by a Republican form of government than by an imperial form. This has been demonstrated throughout the world's history. Things went well while the republics lasted, but when ambition led to the one-man power it generally ruined the nation. There is no reason to believe that such a history of ruin would be repeated in our republic. The circumstances are different.

COUNTY REFORM.

South Bend Tribune: Those persons who have in charge a change in the laws governing the counties of Indiana have a delicate duty to perform and one likely to involve them in some perplexing situations unless the utmost diplomacy and the greatest care are exercised.

As an instance of what is proposed that certainly cannot meet the approval of the taxpayers of most of the counties is a clause in a bill written by the Hon. William Dudley Foulke, of the town of Richmond. According to a statement Mr. Foulke's bill for county reform "provides for a uniform and correct system of keeping the account of county and township officers. The state auditor is charged with the duty of prescribing a uniform Bystem of bookkeeping and is instructed to furnish all neceBBary blanks and books." So far as the state auditor prescribing a uniform system of book­

keeping pno proper objection can be raised, but when it comes to the auditor purchasing and supplying all the blanks and books required by each of the 93 counties of Indiana a great injustice is done the several counties' interests.

Just why such a bill should be enacted into law is not apparent unless it be in the interest of those Indianapolis business concerns that seek to secure the entire business of the state. It must be apparent that there are other commercial interests in Indiana just as much entitled to consideration as those at the capital. This being true no legislator ought to vote for a bill having any such clause nor ought the people of the 91 counties besides Marion permit their representatives or senators so to vote. These gentlemen are sent to the legislature to represent the people of their counties. They should look after the interests of the business concerns of their counties as well and not think of legislating in the interests of Indianapolis concerns first.

Legislators should beware or they will be caught in a trap in this movement for county reform.

OUR l'ROSPECT IN THE PACIFIC.

Were there any reason to apprehend that the senate will reject the Paris terms, the question would assume a very serious importance in the higher financial circles: for it might easily give rise to the gravest international problems. This is so fully appreciated that it is deemed impossible that, whatever may be the private opinions of individual senators, a majority of the senate could be found willing to court such risks and discredits as would result from the rejection of the treaty. It is therefore taken for granted that the treaty of Paris will be ratified in all particulars and financial circles are not uninterested in the commercial developments which may follow that event in the not distant future. The prominence the United States will occupy on the Pacific c.annot but result in a large increase of interest among enterprising Americans in China, Japan and Australia. That interest may be expected to lead to the creation of depots of trade, shipping, shipbuilding and production of machinery on our Pacific coast. Such undertakings, however, will have their support, both material and financial, at the interior center, and especially in this metropolis, and among the interests to be benefited will be the trunk railroads connecting with the Pacific coast. The way Into China is now fairly opened, and its government begins to accept the fact that its 400,000,0000 of people are destined to undergo a transformation similar to that which has befallen the 40,000,000 of Japan. It is impossible to conceive the magnitude of the commerce thus thrown open to the United States, occupying, as we shall, a vast territory on the very threshold of the celestial empire and having geographically closer facilitiesji for intercourse than are held by any other power. A great national awakening to the vast opportunities thus opened to us awaits the country and nothing but an inconceivable lack of enterprise can prevent the annexation of the Philippines from being the beginning of a new and great era in our national prqgress.

THE Dingley tariff's total receipts from customs in the past calendar year fell only $3,000,000 short of what its author predicted would be the yield. Probably the war was responsible^for even this shortage. For a time the war hindered imports, though, of course, that time was short. There is a probability that the receipts from customs is 1899 will be much greater than they were in 1898, and that every claim which Dingley and tbe other Republicans made for the Dingley act will be more than met. Seldom has a tariff law, in the matter of revenue production, equaled the expectations of its frainer6. The present act will undoubtedly do this.

TOWNSHIP SCHOOL NOTES.

There will be 24 weeks of this school term. The map drawing for the cash prizes must be done by Feb. 1, and tbe drawing for the map prizes by the close of the term.

The state board of health is behind the

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the schools are bathed three times a week and their clothes sterilized in a steam chest, killing microbes by the million.

A six-year-old pupil in school No. 35 was asked by the teacher the question: "If a farmer had six sheep and five were killed by dogs, how many sheep would he have?" The pupil said "six," and the teacher shook his head, which caused the pupil to exclaim, "Yes, he still had six sheep, but five wore dead sheep."

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GOOD ROADS.

Hon. P. 8. Kennedy Gives His Id efts on a Subject of Interest and Importance.

To the Editor of the Journal.

Gov. Mount in his message to the legislature points out some gearing defects in our road laws, which nothing but a radical reform of our whole system of road repairing can ever remedy. He says: "The average road levy by the township trustee is about 20 cents on the $100. This raises a vast revenue, which is not expeneded with judgment and ifidelity. The railroads of the state are assessed, in round numbers, at $154,000,000. This would create a revenue of nearly $300,000. This is 'farmed out' between the railroads and the supervisor. A discount is made to the railroad, the 'go-between' makes

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thousands, some of the supervisors profit by the method, and the cause of good roads suffers. The farmer is allowed to work out his road tax often by a slipshod method, which, if pursued by a road contractor, would end in bankruptcy. The supervisor should be held under bond to faithfully execute the duties of his office. He should be given power to compel every man owing service to the highways under the law to perform the same. All road tax should be paid in cash, reserving to the payer the right to work out the same, for which he should be paid in cash, provided he responds to the call of the supervisor when given the opportunity to perform such work, and accepting the lawful price for such services."

The remedy for these wrongs will have to be more radical even than the governor suggests. No rational man in the state would ever think of carrying on any business of his own by the methods which prevail in our road repairing. And as long as these methods prevail the results pointed out by the governor will follow. If favors are to be shown to farmers who wish to work out their road taxes, let them take specified sections of road and give bond that they will keep such sections in repair for a specified sum. This would afford work for the farmer and his teams, and besides, insure a faithful and honest expenditure of the public money. Too much money is spent for executing the law and not enough for repairing the roads. Laws are like machinery, the simpler they can be made the better, and the less likely they are to get out of order, or work badly. What we need is a simplification of our road laws. The road tax is abundant, but too much of it is wast ed. The property of Montgomery county i3 valued on the tax duplicate at over $20,000,000. The levy of 20 cents on the hundred dollars brings into the road fund a little over $40,000 per annum. If we assume that there are 500 miita of road to be kept in repair, this would allow $80 to the mile. You may select the worst mile of road in the county, and any farmer in the vicinity thereof would be glad to take a contract to keep it in repair for onehalf of

$S0.

There is no other public work to which a contract system is so well adapted as road repairing. The contractor will soon learn that the way to make the most money on his contract will be never to neglect the road he has in charge, nor let it get out of repair. He will learn that "a stitch in time saves nine." He will find out that 25 cents spent in stopping a wash to-day may save five dollars worth of work to-morrow. This will secure good roads all the time. All other public work is done on the contract plan, and there are more reasons why road repairing

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way than any other kind of public work. Let road supervisors, like the toll-gates, become a thing of the past. As long as we have supervisors we will have neglected roads and a wastage of the public money. K.

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PULPIT EDITORIALS.

Delivered by Dr. Frank Crane at Trinity Church, Chicago. Preceding the Usual Sermon Sunday, Jan. 8, 1890.

TIDDLEDY-1YIXKS.

(Copyrighted,

1S99,

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by Frank Crane.]

have received letters from readers of these Editorials asking my views upon the question of amusements. One correspondent declares that should long ago have scathed dancing, cardplaying and the like, but that 1 am afraid, and also am other things, all underscored. The whole subject of amusements is too large to take up at one time and I wish now, therefore, to confine the present discussion to the single grave issue brought to my attention by a gentleman who asks if it be wrong to play tiddledy-winks. He states that he is pastor of a church, and that, having to give advice to many young people who are taking up with this game, he desires to get the benefit of my learning upon this matter I do not wish to deal hastily upon so important a theme and have therefore made a careful research, the results of which are herewith presented.

Note that the question is not whether the game of tiddledy is harmful, nor the game of winks, but the game of tiddledy-winks, compound word, combining the two ideas in one. Thus not only will each have to be investigated separately, but the mutual interactive influence must be carefully guaged. We may as well dismiss at once the Idea (Meyer, Olshausen, Knupfenstein, Bogensnufen) that this has any allusion to T. D. Winks, a prominent merchant of Amsterdam in the sixteenth century. This man's name, as appears by abundant proof (Bonebraker's History of Tomfoolery, vol. II., pp. 8-11 and 73-125 Nichtsverstehe's Ev. of Idiocy, in loc., ad fin., ab initio) was not Tiddledy but Tiddy (and not Teddy, as McGinty

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"De Profundus"), the added syllable eld being an interpolation by a later hand, probably introduced because Mr. Winks was commonly reported an old rascal (eld-old). (However, cf. contra, Parleyvoo, torn. 1, dick. 12 (Versailles ed.). Belohee, G75, asks, "Hujus, hujus, hujus?" to which Uray Notlier signilicantly replies (pp. 79-80): "Was haben sie?" See this whole point summed up in Lange's review of Professor Short's "The Influence of Art on Things in General

The word tiddledy really has a composite history. The flrst syllable tid is evidently an abbreviation of instid (eolloq. for instead), simply implying that we do one thing instead of another. Here is the idea of choice, and by implication the doctrine of free will showing that while this game might be played by an Arminian, it could not be indulged in by a Calvinist. Methodists therefore can play, but not Presbyterians. (Cf. "Great Tweedledum vs. Tweedledee Debate," Disciples' Publishing company, New York and Chicago). The syllable "die" may be traced to many sources, but from internal evidence we agree with Dummkopf, Casse-cou, Blatherskite et al., in holding that it is derived from trundle (in trundlebed). (See Maivina's "Nositte's Letters from Jenesaispas.") It seems from this that only children (those who occupy trundlebeds) should pursue the intricate fortunes of this pastime.

The affix "dy" remains (not die, as Mosher, Merival, Westcott). The chief eschatologists agree that nothing mortuary adheres to this word. On the contrary, it appears to be akin to the Greek de, a particle whose meaning is disputed. But the weight of probability is on the side of Bleek, who claims that is the concentrated form of tidy, and being interchangeable libials he holds that the two syllables of tidy are mere intensive reduplications, as papa, mamma, etc. Here, then, we have the third great idea: That when Methodist (tid, instead, choice, Arminian) children (die, trundle) play this game they should be tidy about it and not litter up the floor.

There remains the word winks, which has been a hard-fought etymological battlefield. Billetdoux contends that it is an allusion to the fact that the church ought to wink at such things, implying good-natured sufferance. O. R. Thodox, on the contrary, contends that It refers to the passage of Scripture where it says "the times of their ignorance were winked at"—that is, that we who have the fullness of light should not do these things. But we are Inclined to favor the view of the anonymous author of "Soc et Tuum," who maintained that the root is win, while the ks is added for euphony and piquancy. This bold view, while it called forth a storm of oposition when It was first published (see Oddsbob's Encyc. of Lit. Hash) has at last won its way to universal acceptance by its inherent probability. There is no scholar of importance today that will gainsay its importance. The meaning of win-ks Is, therefore, that the game is not to be played for money, i. e., no one is to win gold or other collateral. The conclusion of this argument is, then, that Methodist (tid) children (die) may play the game, provided they are tidy (ty) and do not play for gain (win-ks). (We have followed B, 17, C, Arm. Aeth. Goth. Chrys. Georg. Syn. cell. Jer. Aug. Ambrasiast. It seems to us that Griesb. and Laehm. adopt the reading "lucus a non lucendo'' against Weighty evidence.)

THE PASTOR.

It would seem that the tendency of the age is to gradually eliminate the pastor by substituting the preacher. Formerly the pastor element in the ministry predominated. The clergyman was a member of every one of his families, their confidant, adviser and friend. He stayed in his charge for life, theoretically, and the children grew up to seek his help and guidance. It made little difference about his preaching it was not his power to entertain, but his personal helpfulness that was valued. Nowadays the preaching is made all important. Preachers are shifted often in the intense desire of each congregation to have the most brilliant "drawer." When the newness has worn off the orator, or for any reason he begins to lose his attractiveness, he must move on. Under this pulpit pressure he has absolutely no strength left for family visitation. He cannot bear the two

burdens of intellectual leadership and personal comradeship. The speaker swallows up the teacher. Now, a personal friend has infinitely more Influence than the most magnetic public leader. His force is more constant and particular. Hence, the effect of the ministerial profession is being steadily lessened.

It is the family physician who is taking the pastor's place. I think Dr. Holmes somewhere observes this fact. The physician is settled, his relations with families are confidential and individual. If he has a strong character, his religious and social convictions, as a rule, will be more permanently established among his clientele than those of a preacher among his congregation. The moral molding of the coming generation is in the hands of the medical profession.

OTHER QUESTIONS ANSWERED. An objection to the doctrine of special providence can be removed if we will reflect that God's mind must differ from ours, among other ways, in this: That while I think of but one thing at a time, my thoughts going in single file, God thinks thoughts by platoons. I can be conscious of but a single impression at one moment, while God can be conscious of a million. My mind is like a single instrument, a flute playing a succession of notes as a melody but God's mind is like an orchestra of a myriad harmonious pieces. By this simple idea we can easily see how He can attend to solar systems and at the same time mark the sparrow's fall.

I find the family analogy the best solution of all theological muddles. Perplexities about God and myself dissolve in the thought of His paternal nature. For example, He demands "belief." Well, call it "trust," which is a word that means the same thing and hasn't so many historic evil associations. Now, we couldn't get along at all in our home if my children did not trust me. They are so helpless, ignorant, immature, that my love for them demands that they must trust me. And how could I expect to be happy in this tremendous universe if I did not keep close to my Father?

Some people reject prayer because most things they ask of God are refused. But I find that same state of things in myrJiouse. The children ask a hundred thihgs every day which they cannot have.1' ^nd I know—although they often do not know, and they weep at my obduracy—that there is quite a« much kindness in my refusal as in my compliances. As a logical thesis prayer is not substantiated by experience, and Professor Tyndall's prayer test was conclusive, but as a family affair prayer is perfectly consistent.

There are so many mysteries that God has not explained to me. What is the nature of the life after death? Whenis the moral element visible in the struggle of nature for the survival of the fittest? Why is suffering beneficialV Why was evil ever permitted in God's world? About these things I know nothing. Why didn't God tell me? I crave to know. I am impatient often because I know not. But this also is made reasonable by the family analogy. Constantly I must impress laws and facts on my children they cannot understand. They ask a thousand questions to which my only answer can be: "You will understand it some day." My children, therefore, teach me that to grasp many things it is necessary for one to grow sufficiently to be able to perceive them. Hence the Master is only fatherly when He says: "What do thou knowest not now: thou shalt know hereafter." Emily Dickinson has I)ut this thought into a sweet little verse:

We sliiill know why, when time is over, And we have eea-ud to won-lrr whv. Christ, wiil explain each SRI arati- anguish

In tlu* fair .-ch'oolruom of tho sky.

Why be confused about hell? It seems to me hell is implied by immortality. Because whoever lives forever will only be happy by forever conforming to the laws of his being, if he violates those laws eternally he will suffer eternally. The law of his nature is that he will be in harmony with the Father. A child coudn't live comfortably in a home and be estranged from his parents, could he'.'

A man has two natures, the beast and the spirit. The beast dies the spirit lives on. If his enjoyment is of the material kind alone it will cease by and by nothing but craving and unsatisfied longing will remain. If his joy is spiritual it will continue with the spirit's future life. The trouble with "the lust of the flesh and the pride of life" is that they "pass." They are enjoyable while they last—'tis folly to say they are not. It is fun to steal, deceive and to be debauched by alcohol but it does not last. We sicken of it all. So with what we call "worldliness." Worldly people are happy, for a while but they become blase, they grow cynical and disgusted with life. Now, if you will prolong any nonspiritual man's life to a thousand years right here on this earth, the last 940 of them, at least, will be simply hell. The hereafter cuts no figure in the case, as I see it. But faith, hope and love, these three abide one could live 5,000 mundane years with a heart full of "these three" and enjoy every minute of them

"He that believeth not shall be damned," always had an ugly look till I brought it down to its lowest terms. Substitute "trust" for believe, as was suggested: then it is true everywhere. Without trust, or confidence, what is a government? You can see in Cuba and Turkey. Without confidence, what is business? It becomes a panic, such as that which we have recently been experiencing. Without trust, what is marriage or home or friendship or any human association? Why, It Is damnation. No word short of that expresses it. To live with those we cannot trust is hell. And so it will he to live on and on in the life here and beyond, without confidence in the Father, alienated, suspicious, rebellious. Do you not see that is the most natural thing in the world that "he that hath no confidence shall be damned?"

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