Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 April 1899 — Page 2

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FRIDAY. APRIL 81, 1889.

CHICAGO, after trying hard for three elections, has gotten rid of her boodle council, Crawfordsville needs just one more trial.

UP to date no one HAB been killed in the cruBh of "penitents" hurrying to get back into the Democratic party since Bryan's invitation.

IT is claimed that the raising of fat cattle will become the leading industry of Cuba. The animals thrive there and excellent pasturage endures the yeai around.

MB. NOLAN, by threatening to leave town, so several active Democrats maintain, is merely endeavoring to bluff his aldermanic brethren into offering him full control to remain here. The truth of this assertion remains to be seen.

IT is rumored that Speaker Reed may retire to engage in the practice of law in New York City. Mr. Reed has made a magnificent speaker but there is timber on the Republican side of the house for other speakers just as magnificent.

SOME statistician would provide something interesting and instructive by giving us figures showing- how much, if any, of the 6,600 quarts of wine was left after that $10 Jefferson dinner, and what disposition was made pf the thousand or so quarts of mineral waters.

THE volunteers in the Philippines are not ctying to go home. They are good American Boldiers and are perfectly willing to stay where there is work to be done. The crying is all from the anti-expansionists at home, who wish to make political capital by accusing the president of tyrannically keeping at Manila men who prefer to Btay there.

IN some respects old Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is both a practical politician and a philosopher. For instance, he offers as a solution of the Samoan problem, division of the island between the United States,, Great Britain and Germany, and "practical extermination of the Samoan race," after which he contends, "there will be little to interfere with the spread of civilization on the Samoan islands."

EVIDENTLY Bryan is one of those political soldiers of fortune who would rather lead to defeat than follow to victory. Being still a young man, he careB little who is President so long as he is the recognized head of one of the two great political parties. Moses greatly prolonged his premiership in iBrael by keeping his people pottering forty years in the wilderneBB.

THE Cuban assembly's muster rolls present the nameB of 48,000 offieers and men entitled to their pro rate of the $3,000,000 banquet Uncle Sam is prepared to spread for their delectation. Only a very small portion of this host of patriots bearing arms showed up when the Americans were engaged in the active work of rescuing them from Spanish oppression.

tiPAiN has been notified, through the French ambaBBador, that the $20,000,000 called for by the treaty of peace, will be paid on demand, in New York, in United States gold coin, or in gold bars, as may be preferred, This is anticipatory, as this government has the right, under the treaty, to defer the payment until six months after the date of the exchange of copies of the treaty.

THB only reason why the instructions given the United States commissioners to the Czar's disarmament conference have not been made public is that it would not be proper to state the official attitude of this government on the matters to be considered at the conference in advance of its meeting. There are reasons for the belief that arbitration fills a large part in the instructions.

Wsi. J. BBYAN is the only man this country ever knew who had no other calling in life than standing as a professional candidate for the presidency. If, however, he thinks to forward hiB ambition by siding as he did in his New York "dinner speech with the Tagals who killed our soldierB in the Philippines, he is greatly mistaken. In endeavoring to cheapen and blacken the administration of his successful rival for the presidency Mr. Bryan has overreached himself.

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we advise a mere substitution

of the words "Republican" and "Republicanism" for "Democrat" and "Democracy." Here is what Mr. Harrison said: "OurB is the party of the people. UnleBB we Berve the people honestly and fairly we are faithless to our trust. Duty requires us to strike the first blow at corruption within our own party rankB. Let the word go forth, the Democracy will 'not tolerate a man, no matter how profuse his professed devotion to the party creed,who does not place bis obligation to the public above any and every personal consideration. If Democracy means anything it means the honest service of the people. No man can be a Democrat whose Integrity is not above suspicion. &He who seeks public office for private gain is a traitor to everything for which Democracy stands, and for him there Bhculd be no place within the party ranks. It should be the duty of every true Democrat to scourge him from the temple ol the party faith."

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has no apprehe nsion that the trouble on the Samoan islands will lead to international complications of a serious nature, but he is fully determined that the commission, representing the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, which will sail from San Francisco on the 25th inst., on the United States auxiliary cruiser Badger, shall fix the responsibility for all the mischief done over there, including the ambuscading of the force of American and British marines, resulting ID the killing of two American officers and two privates, and one British officer and two privates.| In order that he may fully comprehend his instructions, Hon. Bartlett Tripp, the American commissioner, has been summoned to Washington, by telegraph, to confer with the President and Secretary Hay

MR. C. C. DONOVAN, of Santa Rosa, California, who is visiting Washington said: "The moBt popular man in California is President Mclfiniey. 1 voted for Bryan in '96, but next year I hope to cast a vote for the present occupant of the white house. I have lots of Democratic friendd who are as anxious to reverse their votes as I am. We think McKinley has conducted himself through all the trying war times as a statesman and patriot, and the coast is pretty nearly solid for him."

THE Indianapolis 'News announces that James E. -Murdock, of Lafayette, will lead the Democratic party in 1900, and gives as its reason for so thinking that Jim is the only Democrat in Indiana who can Becure money from Wall street to help Bryan's cause. Getting money from Wall street to help Bry an's cause will strike the average pop ocrat in Indiana as about as suspicious a proposition aB bringing convicts from the penitentiary to boom the re vival at the cross roads meeting house.

EVERY member of the Florida legislature is a 16 to 1 or buBter, yet the indications are that it will elect Mr. Taliaferro, a Jacksonville banker, who merely confesses "adhesion to the Democratic faith," to the senate, over ex-Senator Pasco, who asBert6 that he was a 16 to 1 man before the Chicago platform was adopted, and ex-Senator McCall, who sayB he was "the original free silver man of recent times." But then, bankers who go into politics have such winning wayB.

THAT Chicago preacher had in mind the church, not the $1 banquet, with $9 on the side, when he said "there ought to be one other place besides the cemetery wnere the rich and the poor can meet as one,"

G. A. R. Encampment Kates. The national G. A. R. encampment will be held in Philadelphia, Sept. 4 to 9. The rate from Indianapolis will be on the following basis:

Two cents a mile, one short way line distance, with a minimum of $1] for the round trip, going and returning via the same direct route, fares to apply via Harrisburg direct, without privilege of stop-over. One first class limited fare going and returning via the same direct route, with privilege of one stop-over in trunk line territory in each direction in addition to the regularly authorized stop-over. One first class limited fare, plus 82, for the round trip, going via one direct route and returning via another, with privilege of one stop-over in trunk line territory in each direction.

Remarkable Care of K^eamatUm. KENNA, Jackson Co.. W. Va.—About three years ago my wife had an attack of rheumatism which confined her to her bed for over a month and rendered her unable to walk a step without assistance, her limbs being swollen to double their normal size. Mr. S. Maddox insisted on my using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I purchased a fifty cent bottle and used it according to the directions and the next morning she walked to breakfast without assistance in any manner, and she has not had a similar attack since.—A. B. BARSONS. For sale by Nye & Booe, druggists.

It Will Be

ason.

jSfiier sayB con

cerning prospects for a good wheat crop in the Btate this year that so far aB he reports, and he has received reports from all parts of the state, the wheat crop is not damaged and will be a large yield. Reports are coming in and in a few weeks he will isBue a bulletin. So far as the reports have been received up to the present time, he says, the crop will be large.

Mr. Conner says there will be a large crop of apples unless the weather is too unpropitious. "There will be no peaches in Indiana," said he, except, probably in a few spots where the trees have been especially guarded or have been put on hinged roots and covered with straw. Weather 18 or 20 degrees below zero nearly always kills the peaches. Cherries promise well, however, and all other fruits look favorable except peaches."

Mr. Conner predicts that this will be an exceptionally dry season. "We are in the cycle of dry seasons this year," said he, "and I look for an unusually heavy drought. There has been an unusual rainfall since last summer and there is about the same total fall every year. We have nearly had our share for the entire year. Then the winds promise to be from the northwest, blowing steady and this means dry weather. Everything points to an unusually dry season."

TAX OFFICERS EXERCISED-

Concerned About an Exemption Law That is Being: Abused.

Indianapolis Journal: The tax officers of the state are becoming somewhat exercised over the returns

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made of property for taxation and letters from nearly every county Btate that the returns are ridiculously low and that the $100 exemption is being abused. One county auditor has written that in his county alone fully 3,000 persons will escape taxation altogether, as their returns are less than $100 and no levy can be made on their property in such cases to enforce the collection of taxes.

Another return which has caused much merriment is that Qf a well known citizen of Indianapolis who lives in a twelve room house. His return for household goods and furnishings shows his watch to be worth $2 and his household furnishings $45. The tax officers will begin an active campaign against such returns and it is expected that the tendency thus far displayed toward reduced returns, will be checked at once.

The auditor ol Montgomery county has written to the state officers to ask if deductions can be made for indebtedness and bank stock used as credits The United States supreme court recently held that bank stock cannot be used as credits from which deductions for indebtedness can be made and thiB ruling was opposite to the ruling of the state supreme court on the same question. The auditor has been trying to collect, as bank taxes, the credits and deductions under the state ruling and wants to know if he is right. The question will be referred to the attorney general for an opinion.

Death of Isaac Haupt.

Isaac Haupt, aged seventy, died Tuesday morning at Covington. He came to Indiana at an early day from Pennsylvania and settled in Covington. He worked for a short time at carpentry when he became interested in politics and was twice elected county treasurer.* He served as deputy treasurer, deputy clerk and deputy sheriff for thirty years. Mr. Haupt was a Mason and Odd Fellow of high standing. He was well known throughout the state. Mr. Haupt leaveB a widow and seven children. Mrs Loe Duncan, of Crawfordsville is one of his daughters.

Foasee-Strausa.

Tuesday evening at eightjo'clbck Mr. Joseph W. Fossee and Miss Julia Strauss were quietly married by Dr. Tharp of the Christian church. The ceremony was private and took place at the new home prepared by the groom f&r their reception on west Wabash avenue. The wedding was in the nature

a surprise as not even

their most intimate friends were aware of the time set for the happy event. Both bride and groom are well and popularly

known

and their many

friends wish them all joy in their life together.

Required By Law.

Toe last legislature passed a law requiring each county auditor to put in his office in a conspicuous place, a bulletin board, and at the beginning of each month to place thereon the amount of school funds unloaned. The law contained an emergency clause. Anyone visiting the auditor's office may wonder what the bulletin board is for. The law requires it.

IN almost every neighborhood there is some one whose life haB been saved by Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, or who has been cured of chronic diarrhoea by the use of that medicine. Such persons make a point of telling of it whenever opportunity offers, hoping that it may be the meanB of saving other lives

For sale by Nye & Booe, druggists. For envelopes try THB JOURNAL.

THE SOY BEAN AS A FARM CROP.

Purdne University Agricultural Experiment Station Newspaper Bulletin No. 73, April 19,1899.

A comparatively new and promising leguminous crop for Indiana farmers is the soy bean. This plant has been successfully grown in different parts of the state and at several pointB farther north in the United StateB. It thrives in good corn soil, and will grow wherever corn can be successfully produced.

Being a quick maturing annual, it will prove especially helpful to those who cannot grow clover. A crop of soy beans can be produced between the spring and autumn frostB anywhere in the state. The soy bean may be grown for pasture, green forage (soiling), for hay or silage, or for seed. It will yield nine to 12 tons of green fodder, IK to 2% tons of hay, and 10 to 40 bushels of seed according to variety, conditions of soil, etc.

Varieties. If seed is desired, the earlier varieties only should be grown in northern Indiana. The medium early varieties will doubtless mature in most parts of the state, and are to be preferred owing to their greater yield. The later varieties might be grown for Boil renewal or soiling, but they would hardly mature seed.

Culture. The soil may be prepared as for corn. If impoverished by previous cropping the soil should be well supplied with lime, potash and phosphoric acid. Nitrogenous manures have also proved beneficial in New England.

The seed may be sown broadcast with the wheat drill in rows 16 to 24 inches apart or with the corn drill to be cultivated as corn. The earlier varieties of soy bean may follow a crop of rye or barley or be sown in the standing corn at the time of the last cultivation, if the weather is seasonable. If sown in corn put in two rows of soy beans between each two rows of corn. Sow about two pecks to the acre in rows, like corn, and cultivate, if seed is desired. For pasture, soiling or hay, sow four or five pecks to the acre.

Food ?alue. Soy bean hay compares favorably with dlover hay in chemical composition. The seed is very rich in protein and can therefore be fed advantageously with corn. The seed should be ground before feeding. The seed is readily eaten. Stock as a rule, do not relish the stems and leaves at first, but soon take kindly to this forage. Soy beans and sorghum supplement each other as soiling crops. Corn and soy beans, together, are said to make good silage.

Harvesting. Begin cutting at the time of early bloom, for soiling. Cut for hay when in full bloom, and as soon as the pods have formed, for silage.

Cost of Seed, etc. Seedmen offer soy bean seed at $2.50 to $5 00 per bushel. This makes the cost far too great to justify growing soy beans as a general crop. Farmers are advised to try soy beans in a small way as a special crop, and then grow their own seed if the crop gives promise of being valuable. W. C. LATTA,

Agriculturist.

Letter List.

Following is a list of the letters remaining uncalled for in the postoffice at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the week ending April 19, 1899. When calling for same pleaBe state that they were advertised: Golf, Mrs. Mattie Sbeel, Anna Halfakcr, Hoscoe C. Sulleven, Mrs. Mary Myers, John Tracy, P. C. Sulsenberry, J. G. (2) Williams. John

Tearing it Down.

Myers & Swan and Milt Bishop have contracted with C. M. Crawford to tear down his old building on the corner of Green and Main BtreetB. The brick in it will be used as foundation brick for the new Crawford building to be erected on the corner.

Mlsg lUnn's Marriage

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Rinn, of Covington, have isBued invitations, several of which have been received in this city by friends, to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Hannah Mary Rinn, to Dr. Frederick Randolph MecLean, of Danville, 111.

WHITE CHURCH.

Every farmer is plowing for corn. Grant Cook and Pad Peterson with their families visited at Allie Peterson's Sunday.

Tom Dunbar visited bis father, who has been quite poorly the last few weeks, Sunday.

Tom Dunbar is going to put up a large barn this summer and has part of the lumber hauled.

John Burg and Nettie and India Wall, of near Clark's Hill, spent Sunday at John Rettinger's.

Aunt Bettie Bowers was at Flora. Ind., laBt week and enjoyed herself so well that I believe she would go again.

Fred Mitchell haB been quite poorly with lung fever. His daughter Mary was down from Lafayette the first of the week.

The school at Center closed last Wednesday. The teacher was Mrs. Bertha Flannigan and she taught a successful school. In the evening a nice programme was rendered and all the pupils did well. We wish Mrs. Flannigan health that she may be able to continue to teach, as she is a number one teacher.

Woman's Dread

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