Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 May 1899 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1899.

WHEN the people of Indiana pick up a club to kill the trusts, they should begin on the worst one—the Btate school trust.

THERE APPEARS DP good reason why

tiie Cubans, who bave Wen doing about all their fighting with their mouths, should be distressed because they are to be deprived of their guns.

THB commencement of the Terre Haute Normal shows that one-fourth of the graduates of the school this year are residents of Vigo county. Vigc county pays one-seventieth of the tax which keeps this school in operation. Tax-payers should bear this fact in mind when determining the merits of the non-state school fight.

"CIGARETTES are making criminals of more young men than saloons," aayB

George Torrence, superintendent of the Illinois state reformatory. He has observed that ninety-"^0 P?r cent, of the inmates £)f bis institution are cigarette fiends. This leads to inquire whether the anti-cigarette ordinance in Crawfordsville 'has gone to sleep along with the laws against gambling.

ACCORDING to a report of the Methodist Bishops, there are 10,000,000 negroes in the United States, described thus: "Pushed out into the sea of liberty, they hpve reached the surf line, where it is too deep for them to wade and they are not yet able to swim. They seem to be neither citizens nor serfs, having the difficulties of both conditions and the full blessing of neither."

IT IB pleasing to hear that the Nicaragua canal commission is agreed upon the practicability of constructing the canal at a cost somewhat less than that reckoned in many former estimates. Highly gratifying is it, also, to have the commissioners favor a canal of ample dimensions for the safe and speedy passage of the largest ocean steamers and warships, and of the substantial construction.

SOME of Bryan's supporters cite the lack of avowed aspirants for the Democratic nomination as a tribute to hiB popularity. They are mistaken on this point. The reasoa why nobody except Bryan is mentioned conspicuously iB that no real leader of the Democracy supposes his party has any chance to win next year. Defeat injures a candidate, even though he be personally popular. No Democrat who wants to have a future will seek the presidential nomination of hiB party in 1900.

THE feeling is general in official circles that the Cuban army has been allowed rope enough and that they muBt either surrender their arms or refuse to surrender them at once. If they refuse, the chances are that they will be made to do so. President McKinley and his advisers have been disposed to treat these men very leniently and to humor their whims to as great an extent as possible, without giving them the idea that they were able to dictate to us, but there is a limit to patience, and by their backing and filling and bickering among themselves, the Cubans have very near reached that of the administration. It is the understanding now that the disarmament iB to begin the latter part of this week, but there have been other similar agreements that were not carried out.

INTELLIGENT

men from nearly every

section of the south and west bring Bimilar reports to Washington concerning the loss of prestige by Bryan and Bilver. Col. P. Lannon, editor of the Salt Lake, Utah, Tribune, who is visiting Washington, said: "The most ardent believers in free Bilver are forced to admit that the issue is about dead. The trend of events since '96 has forced It into oblivion, and however much we may adhere to the white metal from principle, it has been eliminated as a living factor in the politics of the day. As for Col. Bryan, while many of UB admire him, it must be said that his prestige is on the wane. But no matter whether the Democrats name Bryan or some other man, McKinley is going to Eucceed himself." Col. Lannon says of the case of Roberts, the polygamist representative—elect: "If his claim to membership in the house is rejected, aB it ought to be, there will be good ground for national rejoicing."

GOLD MONEY.

Many Democratic papers are now trying to make it appear that depositors of banks are refusing gold and asking for silver and paper, and assign as the reason, that sliver and paper money are the "money of the people" and the "business money" of the country—and that silver and paper are now restored to their proper place, and further, that the people are refusing to use gold for the reason that they look upon silver and paper as the money the people require and must have. Observing people will not be fooled with any such reasoning. It is quite true that gold is offered in large quantities over bank counters and other places, and it is equally true that it finds its way back again before night. The reason is not "confidence" has been restored in silver and paper as the money of the people, but that a limited amount of it is backed by gold. When the idea

waB

prevalent in 1896

that this principle was endangered, gold sought hiding places as the safest money to have when the time should come that the business of the country would be done with money of unequal values. Now that It is all of equal purchasing power, and likely to remain that way, none is hidden and all can be bad.

THE decision of Judge Baker, of the U. S. court, holding that a sheriff and his bondsmen are liable in damages for not protecting a prisoner from a mob is not new law at all, nor is there any new principle of liability of officers involved in it. Some papers have even gone so far as to wonder why some judge never thought of rendering such a decision before, as the best method of preventing mobs from breaking jails. Judges do not render opinions except upon cases before them. N9 such Q&se ever came "up before, or sucii an opinion would have been rendered before now. An officer is, and has always been liable for failure to do his duty. A sheriff is required to do many things and If he negligently does them, or fails to do them at all, he is liable in damages to the one who suffers. A county treasurer is liable for the IOBB of county money stolen from his possession by burglars, or of a loss of county money by the failure of a bank where such money is deposited. The sheriff is, and has always been responsible for things the law puts in his custody for safe keeping.

SENATOR KEAN, of New Jersey, who has been In Washington on business, said on a subject that has been much talked about recently: "There has been some effort to cite New Jersey as a frightful example, because of the laws which invite corporations to organize within our state, but our people do not sympathize with this criticism. We compel the payment of a fee, based on the amount of capital specified in the- certificate of incorporation, whether the stock has been issued or not, and the result Is that our revenues have Increased this year at least $400,000 or 8450,000. The last legislature made generous appropriations for the blind asylum, the reformatory at Rahway, the equipment of the national guard and additional payment to soldiers from our state who served in the war with Spain. My information IB that all of these extraordinary expenses of the state will be met by the feeB from corporations organized under our laws this year. You can readily see that the people who benefit from this influx of wealth are not apt to be antagonistic to those who bring it

BBIGADIEB-GENERAL GREELEY, chief signal officer, believes in keeping his branch of the army, which has been so highly complimented for Its work in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, right up-to-date In everything. He has just asked for proposals for three electric horseless carriages, for the purpose of experimenting with them to ascertain what uses they can be put to by the signal corps. General Graeley believesthat they can be made especially useful in connection with the hurried erection of field lines of telegraph, and his first experiments will be in that direction. The signal corps has already demonstrated, by actual experiments, that the much talked about system of wireless telegraphy has not been sufficiently perfected to make it safe to depend upon it for the transmission of important messages, although Gen. Greely expresses confidence that it can be made useful in many directions, even as it iB now, and that it will be greatly improved In the near future.

GOLD production throughout the world has neared §1,000,000 a day, and next year's yield is estimated at $400,000,000. In 1890 the output of gold and silver combined was 8419,000,000. The idea that the gold standard causes a scarcity of gold is exploded.

THOUSANDS of Tagal families are returning to their homes in the territory occupied by our troops. It is clear that they were systematicaly terrorized by falsehoods told about the American army.

Death of

a

Child.

The fourteen year old daughter of Wm. Loop, near Mace, died at noop Wednesday of spotted fever. The funeral occurred Thursday.

From Manila.

Mr. and Mrs. Zack Gilkey have received a letter|from their son Charles, of the 4th United States infantry. It iB'as follows: "MANILA, P. I., April 12, 1899.—MY% Dear Father and Mother and all the Home Folks:—I will now try to write you a letter while we arearesting for a week. So far my impreEslonB of the Island are very limited for I have not seen very much of it, and then I had no time to stop and admire scenery, for if I had it is very likely some wandering Filipino would have taken a shot at me. But take the island as it is I think the place Is very healthy. We have lost one man out of our company since weilanded and he died one week after we landed. He was sick all the way over. I will toil you it was an awfully long trip to this place. We were 53 days^on watr,:-. The prettiest place I isaw on the trip was at Colombo on the* island of Ceylon. I have seen many a queer sight since I left home. The most heathenish set of people I ever saw was in coming through the Suez canal, wni(jh is about bs wide again as ajwagoh toad in Indiana. The natives would run along the side of the canal looking at us like we were a circus or something wonderful. They did not have a stitch of clothing on and this was rare aB there were the officers' wives and daughters on the boat. The native Filipino you might think were such csort of people too, but they are not. The men have straight black hair cut pompadour and seem to me to be a very intelligent looking set ofv^fellows. The women are pretty and none.of them are very large. Then »we have the Chinese here, who always carry a bamboo rod on their shoulders with a basket on each end. About all the native animals here are cats, dogs and a kiud of water buffalo, which are used for horses. All the horses here are shipped from#China and are not much larger than a Texasjpony. There have been two hard battlesafought since we landed. The iTilipinos, under Montenegro, a Filipino loader next to Aguinaldo, numbered 10,000, while we numbered some 4,000 to 6,000. We were not right on the]firing line but once in this battle, for we were held in the reserve, but, oh my I how the bullets did fly around us. There were two Ohinamen hit in our camp by Filipino bullets. The riiie most in use among the insurgents are the Mauser and the Remington. The latter is the most deadly weapon,for it shoots a brass ball, which if it hits Is certain death or the loss of a limb follows. There is at this time only about one rifle to every fivejmen in the insurgent army.

We will move on the lines again tonight and relieve the second Oregon volunteers. As soon as we got settled in barrackstand everything is quiet I will send something nice to sister Gertie. I could Bend her a nice silk dress for almost nothing, Everybody smokes clgarettbB here, men, women and children. There is a large Chinese cemetery right close to where we are now camped and they are having three or four funer&ls every day. The last thingithey ido iB to hold a feast over the greve of the deceased. Jim Rush and Floyd Mitchell are both well and sendjthelr regards to you and their love to)their friends at home. Jim had the measles awhile back and was in the hospital^a couple of week, but is all right now. They were both seasick onjthe way over here. There is a kind of wine here called "beno," which if you drink very much of you get to that stage where you would fight your own grandmother. Well, sometimes the boys get to drinking beno and you c*n imagine the scene in camp. They are just simply wild.

April 13—I did not get to fiaish this last night on account of going on pick et duty iust after supper. There are all kinds of fruit growing here, bananas, oranges, figs and the bread fruit. The trees here area hard kind of wood, something similar to mahogany. Bamboos grow by the million here, and all the 6mall bushes have thorns on them which make it almost impossible to get through them. Speaking of the health of the boyB in general it is exceptionally good, and for myself my health is simply immense. I have not been sick a minute since we left the states. I weigh 203 pounds and am getting fleshier every day. I forgot to tell you that it is very warm here and mosquitoes are bad. Tell Audley if he ever enlists In the army not to enlist for foreign service, for it is too far from home, from everybody and everything. Tell the boys around home that I would like to hear from them but I am so busy now I cannot hardly find time to write ycu folks.

Yours affectionately, CHARLES T. GILKEY.

AD Epidemic of Whooping Congh. Last winter during an epidemic of whooping cough my children contracted the disease, having severe coughing spells. We had used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy very successfully for croup and naturally turned to it at that time and found it relieved the cough and effected a complete cure.— JOHN E. CLIFFORD, proprietor Norwood House, Norwood, N. Y. This remedy is for sale by Nye & Booe, druggists.

MONARCH over pain. Burns, cuts, sprains, stings. Instant relief. Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. At any druir store. 61

Ho Won't Call It.

Governor Mount has received additional requests for an extra session of the legislature to take action on the question of Barrett law bonds. Mayor Colfax, of South Bend, who first asked for an extra session and was told by the governor that he would not call a session, renewed his request Tuesday, saying that men and teams were idle at South Bend, and that men were refusing to take the bonds owing to the uncertainty of the law. Other requests were received from the mayors of Huntington and Wabash.

Governor Mount replied to the letters that the supreme court had delt with the question and that he thought the law was clear therefore, he would not call an extra session. The governor feels that an extra session would only be an expense to to the state without any benefit, and might do injury to the laws which now exist, inasmuch as the question before the session could not be limited to the Barrett law bonds, and the governor would have no power over the actions of the legislature further than his power of veto.

The Barrett law has three times been declared constitutional by the supreme court,

Letter List.

Following is a list of the letters remaining uncalled for ia the postoffice at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the week ending May 21, 1899. When calling for same please Btate that they were advertised: Bateman, W Joslin, Oox, Howard Longwlll, A Coombs, Mrs Georgia Ring, Judy

Taylor. MrsSusia

An Attorney.

On Tuesday in the circuit court Joseph McBroom was admitted as an attorney.

POSSUM RIDGE-

More new telephone lines are spoken of, Oats promises an extra crop this year.

The 'phones for the new telephone line have arrived and were put up Tuesday.

A large corn crop is being planted this season, greatly owing to the failure of wheat and clover.

At the present rate of destruction of the fly to the growing wheat, for a short time, there will not be a piece of wheat cut In this neighborh ood.

Otis Rice, who is working on Scott's prairie for a Mr. Livengood this summer, spent part of Saturday and Sunday with home folks, and returned late Sunday evening.

Joshua Whlttlngton, of near Waterman, visited relatives and old acquaintances in thiB neighborhood and Crawfordsville and near Brown's Valley this week and the latter part of last week.

A little corn yet to plant. Owing to the excessive rain the farmers are a little late in planting their corn. We have had considerable more rain in this neighborhood than two miles south or north of here.'

Erastus Seaman has the largest potatoes in this neighborhood. Ras you will have to hustle your patch as J. M. Stilwell Is hilling up his potatoes like pyramids and has a would be man lb the patch to make sure the potato bugs are kept away.

We hope now soon free mail delivery will be put into operation in theae parts. We believe a line running trom near Bluff Mills and east on the gravel road past the Dowaen school nouse and east to the cross

roadB

About seven o'clock Sunday, the 2lst inst. occured afire which completely destroyed the barn of Nelson Rice, three miles west of New Market. All the contents were consumed except a surrey and a buckboaid, including harness, several tons of hay, corn, oats, a new wagon and a mowing machine which he had purchased on the day before. No live stock was in the barn at the time the lire occurred Had there been they too, no doubt, would have burned to death as the fire spread very rapidly. The whole barn was soon in

flameB,

son had been near when the fire was first discovered, he could have likely saved the wagon and mower and probably the harness. But it so happened that he was on the rear part of the farm, and by the time he and others could get there nothing could be done except to move some lumber and cut down and remove the fence away to keep the fire from spreading. Had the wind been coming from the oposite direction, both barn and house would have been burned. Mrs. Rice and her little boy succeeded in getting out the surrey and buckboard, but were seriously burned. In lees than twenty minutes after the fire was discovered the whole community for six miles around was at the fire. The barn and contents were insured in the Home company for $550, which will not near cover the IOBS. The origin of the flre is not known. It is quite a loss to Mr. Rice as the barn was a large one and he had recently put on a new-roof and other improvements amounting to8400 There were parts of the shingles found in the writer's yard miles away.

TALLYHO.

Hog cholera is coming again. Tiger Valley now has a telephone line.

John Adams iB working for Sam Hlpes.

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Insi

at the.

Wilbite farm, thence direct to Crawfordsville on the Terre Haute road would be a splendid route. Let us have it.

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Boy Morris is somewhat interested in the Campbell estate. Homer Davidson and lady visited with W. A. Dice Sunday.

The supper at Mt. Tabor Saturday night was well attended. A crowd of Mace wheelmen will visit the Shades in a short time.

Unusual interest is shown in making the Mace commencement a success.

Ed Linn has completed a fine string of fencing for Mrs. Gregg and Kate Hipes.

Decoration day services will be held at Mace as usual and some excellent singing will be given.

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stage next winter. Herman Bratton has nearly recovered from the measles.

Bert Remley purchased a mule from Wm. Stout, of Wesley. Henry Morris showed his horse at North Salem Saturday.

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There will be an ice cream festival at Mace hall next Saturday night, May 27. The supper iB given for the benefit of the band and all should attend and help a good cause along. The band will also render Bome fine selections of music

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Wilmington, 111., Sept. 13. 1897. Syrup Pepsin Co., Oent6:—Your Syrup Pepsin has been used in our home with great success. The ladies under my charge have grown so attached to it as a corrector of the many ailments of the stomach and bowels, that too great praise cannot be given it. In the relief of indigestion and sick headache it works to perfection.

MABGABET R. WICKINS, Matron DEAB SIBS:—I take great pleasure in adding my testimony as to the efficiency of Syrup Pepsin as used in our Home. We use it in all cases of constipation and indigestion. Respt.

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