Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 February 1899 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1899.

MK. CLARK, the new Bilverite from Montana, cleared up the trifling little sum of fifty million dollars last year. He is going to the senate to represent the cause of the poor, dear, downtrodden people, of course.

SENATOR PLATT put it well when he •aid: "Here we have been for a whole century annexing territory, annexing with a clnb or with a caress, just as the necessities demanded, and yet senators are discovering to one another the most acute distress over what they boldly describe as a 'departure from time-honored traditions.'"

OK the scaffold out in Montana Tom Salmon's last words were: "If any of you follow my body to the cemetery do not uncover you heads and take chances of getting pneumonia. It is a barbarous custom, and I hope you will protect yourselves, for by so doing you will please me." Salmon's crime may have deserved the death penalty, but it seems a pity to hustle out of the world a man capable of talking good hoss sense like that.

THE lynch law bill was killed in the legislature and, perhaps, it is just as well. The best way to prevent mobs is for eourtB to enforce the law. Mont gomery county does not average one homicide in ten years and the reason for this is that her juries hang those guilty of murder and give those guilty of manslaughter the limit of the law. No

Biukly

sentimentality goeB here

and as a result attempts on human life are very rare and when murder iB done mobs do not rise up, the people knowing well that the law will be vindicated by the jurors of the jury, good and lawful men.

PBEMIEB SAGASTA'S vigor and public spirit in determining to push the treaty through the cortes in the latter part of February whether the AguinN, Vdos of the American senate permit it ^o be ratified here or not ought to please his country. It certainly evokes the admiration of the United States.

Tbe treaty represents an agreement and a pledge by the representatives of both the nations concerned, and a defeat of it by the malcontents and obstructives of one of the countries would be a humiliation and an embarrassment which would inflict shame on that country for all time. This disgrace, however, will be averted. The treaty will be ratified on February 6.

LOUISVILLE Times (Dem:) There is nothing surprising in the statement from Washington that persons in or of out congress who oppose acquisition of the Philippines, are advising Aguinaldo to persist in his intractable and hostile attitude. In both houses there are some of the decendants of those Boston traitors who used blue light'Bignals to aid the British during the war of 1812 and it waB quite well known in Washington that certain members of the senate worked hand in glove wit De Lome UD to the moment of his disgraceful departure. The communications between them were too confidential and contained too much secret information, which no member of the senate had aright to disclose, for them to be anything short of treasonable. The eentiments of certain of these people are far more appropriate for the Spanish Cortes than for the American senate.

No speech made on the Philippine question has contained more common sense or a plainer statement of the actual situation than that made by Senator* Piatt, of New York, the first he haB made during his present term in the senate. His arraignment of the senators who are largely responsible for Aguinaldo's bumptious position follows: "There are reasons why the natives of thoBe islands, after their experience with Spanish misrule, should misunderstand the presence at Manila of an American army, but there is no reaBon why an American senator should misunderstand it, and no justification of his course in mis representing it. He knows that there is no American in all thiB broad land who wishes any other fate to any single native of the Philippine islands titan his free enjoyment of a prosperous life. He knows that CIOBB in the wake of American rule, there would come to 'the Philippines a liberty that they have never known, and a far greater liberty than they could ever have under the arrogant rule of a native dictator."

IT would not be a noble thing to rail against one's own country, even if all such utterances were to be strictly confined within the limits of this country. It is a wicked thing to do so when it is certain that every word will instantly be sent abroad for the aid and comfort of the enemies of thiB country and for the misleading and ultimate injury of those who otherwise would be our friends and would get great benefit from our friendship. Those who say such things are Aguinaldo's American aids. They are doing their utmost to embarrass this government. They are at the same time doing the Filipinos themselveB the worst possible disservice. The true answer to their semi-traitorous intrigues, and to this Tagalese playing at war, will be prompt, irresistible and relentless' action by the executive in the Philippines —such action as might profitably have been taken long ago—and then, at the unfortunately belated date, emphatic ratification of the treaty and fulfilment of its provisions. The time is past for trifling with or forbearance toward either foreign foes or their domestic aids.

THERE has been a decided change in the attitude of the "auntieB" since the senate agreed to vote on the treaty Feb. 6th. Instead of talking of expecting to reject the treaty of peace, as they were doing a week ago, they are now begging the supporters of the treaty to let them down easy, by having the senate adopt a meaningless resolution declaring that the treaty does not bind the United States to permanent retention of the Philippines, something that everybody already knows. There would be just as much sense in adopting a resolution declaring that the treaty did not bind us to lick Spain again. The treaty will be ratified. That is now considered to be an absolute certainty.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will not receive the finding of the Eagan court martial for several days yet, as it is customary for the secretary of war to refer the finding of the court martial to the judge advocate general for a legal review before forwarding it to the President. There is no doubt that the finding waB guilty on both counts. This finding may be approved, set aside, or mitigated in the judgment of the President, and the general impression is that it will be mitigated. While the opinion that Eagan deserves punishment iB general, there are few who think, in view of hiB long and honorable service, that it should be as severe as dismissal from the army.

THERE is not the slightest foundation for the sensational reports sent from Washington about the administration being worried over the antics of Agoncillo, the agent of Aguinaldo, in Washington, who has been doing some fool talking in the newspapers and elsewhere. Secretary Hay iB authority for the statement that Agoncillo's name had never been called at a cabinet meeting, and that President McKinley haB never even had his attention called to the presence of the little Filipino in Washington, except by the newspapers.

IF the pilgrim fathers, in whose doughty deeds we now BO glory, had been considerate of the Aguinaldos of their time, this country would Btill be a howling wilderness inhabited by Bavage beastB and still more Bavage men. But chief among the awful virtues of our pilgrim sireB waB the virtue of expansion and they scattered the seed of empire and new civilization for the common good of the race regardless of tbe bloody protests of "sullen peoples, half devil and half child."

Letter List.

Following is a list of the letters re maining uncalled for in the postoffice at Crawfordsville for the week ending Feb. 1, 1899. Persons calling for them please state that they were ad vertised: illegier, George McMurry, T. Heirs Kimble, Mrs. Louise Miller, Mrs. Wm. H. Marten, Mrs. Mary Monro, Arom

Parott, Tom

A Surprise Dinner.

Mrs. Will Coyner, north of Kirkpatrick, was treated to a grand surprise last Saturday. Quite a number of her relatives and neighbors gathered at her home while she had gone to Stockwell with her huBband for a new cooking stove. On their return Mrs Coyner was greeted by her daughter, Donia, who said, "hurry in Mamma I have a good fire." Immediately after Mrs. Coyner had entered the sitting room the kitchen and bedroom doors opened,—then fun of course, with a most excellent repast awaiting her.

L( Grippe Successfully Treated. "I have just recovered from the second attack of la grippe tbi6 year," says Mr. Jas. A. Jones, publisher of tbe Leader, Mexsa, Texas. "In the latter case I used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and I think with considerable success, only being in bed a little over two days against ten days for the former attack. Tbe second attack I am satisfied would have been equally as bad as the first but for the use of thiB remedy as I had to go to bed in about six hours after being 'struck' with it, while in the first case I was able to attend to business about two days before getting 'down'" For sale by Nye fc Booe, druggists.

THE OTHER SIDE

Tbe Defendant* In the Stout Case Present Their Side of tbe Controversy.

To the Editor of the Journal. Several articles have appeared in THE CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL in regard to the case of Jane Stout vs. Angeline Remley et al., the children of Joel Stout, deceased. It is well known that Joel Stout was an honest and honorable man and citizen of Montgomery county, Indiana, and was a man who abhoreu fraud, trickery or dishonesty, and the family of Joel Stout feel that part of the articles published and part of the allegations of Jane Stout's complaint are false and misleading and a slander upon the name and memory of Joel Stout, their dead father, as well as upon the family. That part of the charge stating "that Joel Stout secretly, before his marriage with Jane Stout, and for the purpose of defrauding her out of her rights, conveyed his lands to his children, and that she had no knowledge of the deeds made by Joel Stout to hiB children before her marriage with Joel Stout, and that Bhe discovered said deeds after his death," are false and slanderouB, and under what is stated to be the fact, are malicious, and the allegation "that the said Joel Stout was engaged to and promised to marry said Jane Stout in November, 1888," is also false.

The real facts as can be proven are about as follows, to-wit: "Several years prior to 1888, Joel Stout bought a body of land and a good home near Wesley, in said county. At that time he had a wife and six children, three girls and three boys, some of them then able to work on the farm, and he told his children that if they would work hard, be economical, and help him pay for the land they should have a share of the land.This they agreed to do, and did do, and his wife, a hard working woman and a noble wife and mother,also helped to pay the debt,and before'ber death, which occurred in January, 1888, Bhe and Joel Stout, her husband, talked over the matter of dividing their lands among their children aB previously spoken of, and in February,1888, after the death of his wife, Joel Stout's health was bad and he desired to settle and adjust his business in regard to a division of his land among his children and the payment of about 8400 of original mortgage debtB against his land, and make provision for his own support during his lifetime,and with that view he consulted with his friends and aB a result, as early as the Bummer of 1888 the arrangements had been understood and agreed upon by Joel Stout and hiB children about as follows: Oscar Stout, his oldest son, had received a conveyance for land worth more than his share and it was arranged that he Bhould pay 81,600 of said 84,000 of indebtedness, and pay to Joel Stout the interest on 81,000 during his life, and that his daughter, Mrs. Emma Zook and her husband were to take 80 acres of the land and pay 82,-100 of said 84,000 of debts and pay to Joel Stout the interest on 81,000 aB long as he lived,and that he was to make deeds to the other children for their portion of the lands and reserve a life estate therin, thuB securing his own support, the payment of said $4,000 of debts and divide his lands amongst his children, keeping for himself the undivided onethird of the homeplace in fee, being 122 acres, a valuable tract of land and that Joel Stout neglected to exe cute the deeds to carry the said ar rangements on his part until the 12th day of January, 1889, at which time he executed the said deeds before John Johnson, recorder of said county, and on said 12th of January, 1889, Joel Stout had never visited said Jane Stout with a view of marriage, and had never spoken to her on the subject of marriage.

On the 8th day of January, 1889. Mis. Mary A. Snyder, a sister of Joel Stout, at the request* of said Joel Stout, visited said Jane at her home and told her, (Jane), that Joel Stout had requested her to ask her, (Jane), if she would consent for Joel Stout to talk with her on the subject of marriage, and Jane said she would, and it was then arranged that she meet Joel Stout in Crawfordsville the next Saturday and confer as to a day when he Bhould come to see her, and on the said next Saturday, the 12th day of January, 1889, in the afternoon, said Jane went to Yeagley & McClamrock's store and soon Joel Stout came in, and in the hearing of other persons, Joel Stout said to Jane, in substance: "In regard to that arrangement made by Mary Ann with you, when will it suit for me to call and see you?" and Jane said, "next Tuesday," and that next Tuesday was the 15th day of January, 1889, three days after said deeds were executed, and Joel Stout for the first time visited Jane with a view to marriage three days after the deeds were made and before any contract of marriage, and Joel Stout told Jane before their marriage all about said deeds having been made, and Jane Stout was told also by Mrs. Mary A. Snyder that Joel had conveyed his lands to his children, and Jane replied and said: "Yes, he told me all about it it's all right and

"The way to be happy is to have a good liver and a good heart"

You look to the heart

will take care of the liver.

I'm glad of it—I'm not marrying him for his money." And Jane Stout told Rankin Walkup, Milton B. Waugh and Harvey Wynekoop that she knew about tbe deeds before her marriage to Joel Stout, and Bhe told othero the same. And the transaction between Joel Stout and his children was a family settlement, free from fraud, and was simply justice between the parties. This statement 1B made to co rect any wrong impressions that may be taken from what Jane Stout

Hattie Bell Swindler was born on March 4, 1878 departed this life January 21, 1899, aged 20 years, 9 months and 17 days. She joined the M. E. church in January, 1894 was married to Edgar D. Bennett Sept. 20, 1890. As the sun was setting in the western horizon Hattie's life with all that was mortal sank to riBe In that beautiful land where the Bun never sets. With her long months of suffering not a murmur came from her lips, wholly resigned to the will of a kind heavenly father, ever ready to give a kind and loving word to all of her friends, trusting in the wisdom and faith of her dear loving Savior, expressing herself ready and willing to go at the summons of her Master. As we look upon her cold and lifeless form in sadness, and into the grave with sorrow, there comeB a mingling of joy that the bright and beautiful testimonies that she gave her friends and more especially her husband and parents, breaks the horror of death and we are led to exclaim, "O death, where is thy Btlng O grave, where is thy victory The giving up of Buch a beautiful life iB only the refining fire that burns the dross out of our souls and fitB us for the home beyond. Hattie, we are loth to give you up, but we would not dare to call thee back. Gone to sing the songs of heaven, with her voice tuned to the music of the angele, enjoying the companionship of grandmothers and grandfather and to add one more jewel to the crown of our heavenly king. Hattie leaves a father, mother, husband, one dear Bister, four brothers and a host of loving friends to mourn her irreparable loss. Heavenly Father, give us grace and courage to live lives that when the sncftmons comes the Master will exclaim, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of the Lord." To the young friends of Hattie tbe following lines are respectfully dedicated:

My youthful mates, both small and great. Stand here, and you shall see An awful sight, which Is a type,

Of what you soon must be.

I used to appear, once fresh and fair Among the youthful crowd But now behold me dead and cold,

Wrapped in a sable shroud.

My cheeks once red, like roses spread, My sparkling eyes so gay But now you see how it Is with me,

lifelesB

lump of clay.

When you are dressed in all your best, In fashion so complete, You soon must be as you see me,

Wrapped in a winding sheet.

•h, youth, beware, and do prepare, To meet the monster, death For he may come when you are young,

And steal away your breath.

When you unto your frollcks go, Kemember what I say In a short time, though in your prime,'

You may De called away.

Now I am gone, I can't return, No more of me you'll see: But it is true, that all of you,

Must shortly follow me.

When you unto my grave do go, The gloomy place to see, I say to you, who stand and view,

Prepare to follow me.

Yom.

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about the matter, or from the said newspaper articles. [The articles appearing in THE JOURNAL, to which reference is made in the preceding communication, merely set forth the allegations of Mrs. Stout's complaint. No comment was made, one way or another.—ED. JOURNAL,] In Memory of Hattie Bell Swindler Bennett. [By Her Father.]

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ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.

President Burroughs, or Wabash, Delivers an Address on "Our Colleges and Saloons."

Indianapolis Sentinel: The initial meeting of the state convention of the Indiana anti-saloon league was held last night at Plymouth church. The body is non-denominational and unpolitical, having been organized by the Rev, Howard H. Russell for the purpose of exterminating the saloon. The league employs three means whereby it 6eekB to carry out its principles, namely, through agitation, legislation and enforcement of the laws.

Summer Prices

WARNER'S FIRE SALE.

O O O O O O O O

STUDY THE FOLLOWING SAMPLE PRICES AND REMEMBER THAT OUR ENTIRE STOCK IS GOING IN THE SAME WAY.

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We Want Your Trade.

EDWARD WARNER.

President G. S. Burroughs, of Wabash College, addressed the convention on "Our Colleges and Saloons." He stated that education nowadays is not BO mechanical as it used to be but that it ie live and has kept pace with the progressive spirit of the age. Mr. Burroughs continued: "The object of the college is to train leaders. But one who would live an intellectual life among men must be a total abstainer. The college atmosphere is healthy and the flower of our young American manhood is found at the colleges. I am convinced that morals from within are working more potently than thirty years ago. The young man who finds in college an opportunity for self-in-dulgence and improper enjoyment will never learn self-control. The college that tolerates the saloon and Its influences for evil 1B recreant to its er rand, false to Its trust and guilty of moral suicide. The saloon and the college are incompatible and the former must go."

To Secure More Gas.

Several residents of the city whose gas Bupply has been so small during the present cold snap that they have not had enough to cook the daily meals, have discovered a way by which a better Bupply can be secured. A teakettle of hot water is procured and going under the house the fluid is poured over the pipe and the joint in tbe pipe that

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A FRIEND.

Will Locate In Chicago.

Blaine Archey and son, Will Archey, have determined to remove to Chicago and take up their residence. They consider it a better place for their business.

up to the stove. It is said

that this scheme melts the frost which has clogged up the pipe and the flow of gas iB greatly augmented. The recipe is given for what it is worth.

The Florida Oar Gone.

The Florida exhibition car which was switched off here Monday morning near the Big Four station, has left us. It seems that the show was not patronized very heavily and so the manager got disgusted and pulled out for Waynetown.

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ROUND HILL.

Nearly everybody has the grip.

wUh^he^ip

EaheImtn is

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quite sick

W.il80n'

who hM

been

the sick list, is improving. S. L. Rafferty and wife have gone to Valparaiso to attend school.

Several from here attended the opera

Richmond Monday evening-.

Miss Rosa Nolan called on Misses Rena and Ethel Rafferty last Sunday. D. W. Pierce delivered hogs to New Richmond the latter part of the week.

PJay®r meeting at Geo. Pierce's

last Wednesday evening was well attended. Rev. Jakas preached to a small congregation last Sunday on account of the bad weather.

Mrs. Lizzie Bennett is at New Market, where she was called by the illness of her brother.

John Hughes, of Linden, has moved in with his father-in-law, George W. Pierce, for the winter.

Lafe Wilson and wife, of Shawnee Mound, visited at A. W. Wilson's the latter part of the week.

Quite a number from here attended quarterly meeting at New Richmond last Saturday and Sunday.

J. D. Pullman has purchased the John Dewey farm near New Richmond aad will move thereon in the spring.

J. A. Smith is now agent for a South Bend modeling company. Joe is a hustler and is well worthy of his position.

A.linviile.

ONLY through car line is via. Queen & Crescent Route and Southern R'y from Cincinnati.

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