Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 December 1899 — Page 10

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WEEKLY JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED INT 18J8. Successor to The Recnrrl. tho first paper in Orawfordsvllle. estjiblislioil in 183!.

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FRIDAY, DE0EMBER 1. 1899

AT last reports Virginia was safe.

TUB party of Bryan party of the first part.

is mostly the

IF the Republicans made immense gainB in Kansas and the Democrats made gains in Nebraska, it shows clearly, as we understand, that the west has registered a severe rebuke upon expansion.

:K A WOMAN at Anderson whose husband was killed by the cars while drunk, sued the railroad company and the saloon keeper who sold the liquor.

The railroad was acquitted of responsibility, while the saloon keeper was compelled to pay the widow 81,200 damages.

HAVE those bright editors who have brought on attacks of acute indigestion through the fear that the United States was getting into the military business in the far east in a like manner as England in India, and who have put forward the argument that England's large standing army in India is a proof of what we will require in the Philippines, ever calculated how much of an army we would need in those islands, if figured on the basis of England's army in India? The regular army of India contains 75,000 white men the population of India is 100,000,000 that of the Philippines is •,000,000. At this ratio we should have to support in the islands exactly 2.000 American soldiers.

COLONEL HKNDKBSON can hardly be Baid to have opened headquarters, eince his unanimous nomination to be epeaker by the Republican caucus was assured many months ago, but he is in his office daily and is glad to have members of the house call and talk to him about their committee assignments. There will be nothing even remotely resembling a shake-up among the old chairmen of the house —except in caseB where they express a wish for a chaDge, they are likely to get their old places—but there ar6 several important chairmanships vacant. For instance, that of the committee on the judiciary, which was filled by Colonel Henderson in the last house and that of the committee on banking and currency, held by Joseph Walker, of Massachusetts, who was not a candidate for re-election to the present house. Whether the ranking Republicans on those committees will be made chairmen or new men be put at their heads, is a question that Colo'hel Henderson will decide, and he declines to say publicly one word about either the committees or the work of congress, saying that he prefers acts to do his talking. There is some talk about a change in the house rules, but the confidence of members of the house in Colonel Henderson is so great that it is perfectly safe to say that his wishes will be allowed to govern the matter entirely, and that any changes made will be upon his suggestions.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and Speaker-to-be Henderson are the closest of friends, personally as well as politically, and the first thing Col. Hender eon did after his arrival in Washington, for the session of congress, was to call at the white house and hold a long conference with the President on the work that iB expected to be accomplished at this session. This personal harmony between the President and the man who will preside over the house, augurs well for the country and lor the Republican party it meanB that the executive and legislative branches of the government are to work together much smoother than they did in the last congress. The President and Mr. Reed were never the slightest bit unfriendly in their personal relations, but there were several importantant questions of party policy on which they were not only not in accord, but were actually antagonistic in their opinions. This naturally led to embarrassment, and in some caseB to the failure altogether of legislation which the President would like to have seen put through congress, but would not attempt to push because of his belief that Mr. Reed's opposition would give the Democrats an opportunity to say that the party in the house was divided into factions, led by himself and Mr. Reed. In the coming congress, the President and the speaker of the house will work together in all things, and the result is bound to be beneficial both to the country and to the party.

THE NEW CONGRESS. The new congreps will consist on the Benate side of 51 Republicans, 26 Democrats, four silver Republicans, four Populists and one Independent, giving a Republican majority of 16 One of the first duties of the senate will be a reorganization of committees and officers of that body, the present 'officers being Democratic.

The two most important positions are secretary of the senate and sergeant at arms, each place paying about 85,000 salary and carrying with it considerable patronage. By gene'nl consent the selection of secretary will be left to those states east of the Allegheniee, Gen. J. n. Clarkson, of New York, being the conceded candidate The office of sergeant at arms will be left to the west, and several candidates are announced, among others the present Democratic incumbent, Col. Richard Bright, though it is hardly possible that he can secure many Republican votes.

In the lower house the several parties will stand, viz:

Republicans .185 I Democrats 163

Populists 7 Stlverites 2

This gives a Republican majority of thirteen over all. The next house will contain sixty-four new Democratic members and fifty-two new Republican members, or. in other words, nearly one-third of the membership will comprise raw material.

"WE must keep the Philippines. It is poor statesmanship that does not look beyond the immediate future," says Senator Teller, leader of the silver Republican party, that last hope of the Bryan Democracy.

THE National Orange ha6 placed itself in line with the most advanced thought on the subject of trusts by declaring that all trusts are not vicicu".

GOVERNOR ON FARMING

He Has Proved Something or a Prophet lu Prices.

Indianapolis News: Governor Mount, who has just returned from his farm in Montgomery county, is pleased at the prominent outlook for the farmers of the state.

The outlook for farmers was never better, in my mind, than it is now," •aid the governor, in reply to inquiry on the subject. "Of course, I refer to good farmers and to men who take an interest in their farms and study the business of farming. Prosperity can not come to a man who does not think. There is need of a careful study of the marketB and of the conditions surrounding the farmer. "I have, during the year, sold two kinds of live stock at a higher figure than I ever did before in my farming experience, and the prices which thes? two kinds brought me are gratifying from the fact that several years ago, in addressing farmers' institutes, I made prophecies which have been fulfilled. I have sold yearling shorn sheep at 85 a hundred, which I never did before, and I have sold two year old cattle, to be delivered next month, at 85.25 a hundred, bringing me an average of over 870 a head for the cattle. I never before sold cattle in the fall at so high a price as this. "Beef cattle will remain high," the governor continued, "and wool will be higher next year than this year. The present demand is greater than the supply, which, of course, will bring prices up. There has been a recent advance in Australia of 2 cents on the pound in wool in one week, and a marked advance has been noted in this country. Wool will be higher next spring."

Prominent farmers of the state have recalled that five years ago Governor Mount, in addressing the wool growers' association, said wool prices would be better. His exact words at the time, as recorded in the Indiana agricultural reports, were as follows: "Prices of wool, the sacrifice of flocks sound the note of alarm. The pendulum is now swinging to the reverse side of the industry. The momentum that will be acquired in the extreme reverse sweep will rebound in its* favor. I predict that in less than five years prosperity will agjiin return to flock masters. The farmer who sells his flock at ruinous prices will be in the market as purchaser when the pendulum has vibrated to the other extreme."

It has also been recalled that in addressing farmers' institutes about the state in the year6 1893 to 1895, the governor had much to say about "the dairy excitement." Too many farmers were going into the dairy business, he said. That tendency, he declared, would bring beef cattle prices higher. The governor says we are now."short" on beef cattle, there being about 7,090,000 less than in 1891, and that of sheep there are about 9,000,000 less than there were in 1894. Prices must go up accordingly, he sayB.

The governor is raising a cross between the Cottswold and the merino Bheep. The merino, he says, have too thick and gummy a fleece and the Cottswold have too thin a fleece. The Cottswold, however, are a heavier sheep, while the merino sheep have the finest fleece. The croaa, he says, is a success, both as to "heft" and quality of fleece, and it ako gives good results in muiton.

WONDERFUL RESULTS.

People Tell What Has Been For Them.

Done

A Testimony of Well Known CitlxensOnght Surely to Convince Xou.

If we publish the recommendation of some person in Indiana who has used Morrow'B Kid-ne-oids for backache and kidney disorders and has been cured, you have no reason to doubt. We give you the names of people living right here in Indiana so you can consult them. We make no false statements or claims for Kid-ne-oids, but give you the evidence of people whom you know. If Kid ne oids did not as we claim they do, people would not give their testimony.

Here is what Henry Havens, the grocer at 5a West Sycamore street, Kokomo, Ind., has to say: "I have had backache almost constantly for the last three years. Many nights could not sleep on account of a dull, heavy pain in the region of the kidneys and at times I could not turn over in bed without assistance. I had retention and burning of urine in Us discharge this was annoying as well aB painful. I doctored for these troubleF, bat got no relief and had seemingly arrived at the very worst point when I read the claims of Morrow's Kid-ne-oids I secured a package and followed the directions closelv. Their action was qirck and sure and to day I am a different man. I shall continue to use Kid-ne-oids and will recommend them."

Kid-ne-oids are for sale at Geo. W Steele's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. Manufactured by John Morrow & Co., Chemists, SpringBeld, Ohio.

"The enormous corn crop grown in the United States this year must bring good profit to the farmer," said the governor in further talk on farm topics. "The foreign demand for our corn is broadening Recently shipments were made to Russia. This is the first experiment of the kind. It is likely to result in an enlarged demand for corn in that country. Besides, the price of live stock is above that of corn, insuring good profits to the intelligent farmer."

HAVANA'S. GOLGOTHA.

Mountain of Human Bonos Covered Over by the American Force*.

In the Colon cemetery at Havana, where the American seamen who perished in the Maine catastrophe are buried, in striking contrast to the reverence displayed by Anglo-Saxon peoples for the burial places of their dead, there has been for more than two centuries a human bone pit. Exposed to the glare of the sun, the mercy of the rains, there have lain for years the frames of those who once lived and loved, says the New York Herald. This famous pit was first dug by Don Pedro Valdes, in the year 1602, and from that day to this has been the receptacle for the skeletons of the Cuban dead. It is 110 feet square and twenty feet deep filled to the twentyfoot level. An eight-foot stone wall Incloses it from the morbidly curious, and in external appearance it resembles an antiquated Spanish fortress or barracks. The old Spanish custom of renting graves, none being able to buy outright, in Colon cemetery, easily explains the necessary existence of the "pia." A man dies, is buried in a rented grave, forgotten in a short time, the rent unpaid one year—ihis bones are dug and thrown among his ancestors' in the mass of dead humanity the grave, being already open, is held to receive the next body. A careful estimate, no record having been kept, puts the number of human skeletons In the pit at 700,000. When one realizes that the pit is nearly 300 years old, and the average life of man Is a little less than thirty years, Havana's population for the last 100 years being more than 200,000, it is quite plausible that the estimate is most conservative. In some cases the coffin and all have been dumped into the "pit" and left to the depredations of the vulture or buzzard, the scavengers of Havana. Skulls with long" hair still on are not Infrequent sights, and in one case a skull still held fast a "switch." Midnight rambles over the heads of these departed have been one of the pastimes of the morbidly inclined in Havana. The American government, ever to the fore in the ways of civilization, has at last filled over the ghastly "bone pit," and the days of "luncheon on skulls" are past

Are You Nervous?

"Overwork and underexercise result In nervous diseases," said a physician recently. "Preventive measures may he summed up in two words," he continued—"physical development. Worry annually kills more people than work. One should strive, therefore, to avoid things that tend to disturb the nerves. Throw away the pen that scratches and the pencil that has a harcf spot in it. Discard a needle that squeaks and a basin that leaks. Use sharp tools, wear soft garments that do not rustle."

IT will not be a surprise to any who are at all familiar with the good qualities of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, to know that people everywhere take pleasure in relating their experience in the U6e of that splendid medicine and in telling of the benefit they have received from it, of bad colds it has cured, of threatened attacks of pneumonia it has averted and of the children it has saved from attacks of croup and whooping cough. It is a errand, good medicine. For Bale by Nye Booe, druggists.

"I SUFFEBED for months from sore throat. Eelectric Oil cured me in twenty-four hours." M. S. Gist, Hawesville, Ky. "V

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Bleached Damasks

10 pc 2 yd wide fine all linen satin damask, new designs, present values 81.15 and 81.25 yd. Choice per yd Napkins to match some of the designs, 24 inch size, at 83 00 and 83 50 per dozen. 10 pc regular 81 value, all linen,satin Damask, fnll 2 yds wide, beautiful new designs at, per yd

Napkins to match at 82.75 per dozen. 2 yd wide all linen damask in good designs, heavy weight, at, per yard

Napkins to match this quality,82.25 doz Choice of about 20 patterns in fine bleached Damasks, 66 to G8 inches wide 70 inch all linen bleached Damask, four choice designs, per yd Extra heavy, all linen,s bleached Damask/ in good design?, 60 inch width, per yard Beautiful designs in good quality cotton bleached Damask, 58 inches wide, per yd

Towels

A good hemmed huck Towel, 17x34 inch, fast color borders or white, each All linen hemmed huck Towels, white, red or blue borders, 15x30 inch, each All linen knotted fringe Damask Towels. fine quality, white only, each 30c and 35c values in knotted fringe, all linen TOWOIB,white and colored borders, each

Cream Damasks

Three new designs in half linen cream Damask, 60 inches wide, per yd Half linen cream Damasks, six choice patterns, 70 to 72 inch widths, a quality sold in some stores at 50c, per yd All linen silver bleach DamasWs. G2 to G4 inches wide, several good defciens, qualities we have been selling at 50c per yd. Extra heavy pure linen silver bleach. 64: inch Damask, has been 60c, per yd Full 2 yd wide, all linen Damask, two patterns only, good value a*., per yard Several choice designs in extra heavy, fine silver bleach Damask, per yd

Blankets

We were offered this week almost as much as we ask you for our stock of cotton blankets, but we would rather keep them for our retail trade. These goods were bought last spring when all kinds of cotton materials, and wool, too, for that matter, were much less than they are now. We are offering them at the same prices we should have asked had there been no advance. Large size snow white cotton Blankets with dainty pink

and

per pair

Cotton Blankets, 56x68 inches, in

It Pays to Trade at

Complete line of Yountsville Flannels, Blankets, Skirts And Yarns.

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Special Linen Offering

We want you to know this store is a truthful storie, and when we say special linen of-

fering we mean just that and nothing less. This is not a lot of odds and ends to close out, but clean, fresh new goods, bought for cash at less than regular prices and offered in the same way. We are always on the lookout for Linen bargains, and the past six weeks have bought up more than the usual number of good things, and that

in the face of sharp advances in the foreign market. But this store is not a selfish store, and when we get good values we straightway offer them at the same rate of reduction. And why shouldn't we? Our percentage of profit remains the same and every lot offered brings us new friends and makes our old friends better friends. That is one reason why this store is as large as it is. Here are proofs of our assertion.

Special Linen Offerings.

1.00

85c

75c

65c 48c 40c 25c

borderB,

Blaflkets are on third floor—take elevator.

White cotton Crash per yd

10c

11c

20c 25c

25c

33*c

13 48c 50c 1.00

light blue

45c 48c

gray,

tan, and white, with red and blue fancy borders, per pair 11-1 cotton Blankets, 64 inches wide, 83 inches long, tan, gray, and white, with red and white and blue and white, borders also brown and gray guinea hen or mottled Blankets, fancy borders, per pair Beautiful pure white Blankets with blue and gold and red and tan fancy borders, 64x84 inches, per pair Twilled cotton Blankets, 64x84 inches in size, with pink, red or blue borders, per pair

73c 89c 98c

P. S.: This store will be closed all day ThursdaylNovember 30th~Thanksgiving.

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Napkins.

An all linen Napkin at per dozen Extra good values in all Linen Napkins, good size, worth 85c, per doz 25 doz half linen 22-in bleached Napkins five choice designs, per doz Large size all linen Napkins per doz 50 doz of our regular 81 25 dinner Napkins per doz 20 doz of our 81.75 Napkins at per doz 10 doz extra fine all linen satin DamaBk

Napkins and about 20 doz fine Napkins, styles that matched pattern cloths that have been sold at 83 50, per doz

Crashes

39c 75c 75c 1.00 1.10 1.50

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2.95

3c 5c 5c

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All linen unbleached Crash T? per yd 25 pes red and blue checked Glass Crash, about half linen, per yd 17-inch Glass Crash, red and blue borders, worth 10c yd An extra heavy all linenBarnsley bleached

Crash, fast color border, only 300 yds in "1 the lot, per yd AUO Several styles of our regular 12% and 15c

Crashes, Scotch Barnsley and oatmeal weaves, reduced just to be in keeping "1 1 it of in A A Our stock of fine pattern cloths, with or without napkins to match, in 2, 2%, 3, 3% and 4 yd lengths, 68, 70, 72, 81, 8G and 90 inches in width, with borders all around, is enlivened by about 50 tiew patterns. These goods make excellent holiday presents.

We also have hundreds of fine white towels, scarfs, lunch cloths, center pieces, doileys and hemstitched napkins, ranging in price from 10c for doileys up to 83 for the larger pieces, any of which would gladden a housewife's Christmas tide.

The new department for linens on our third floor srives us ample space for their display and an abundance of lijjht for your buying. Take the elevator.

Extra large 4-pound cotton blankets in white, grey and tan, our own designs in borders, per pair Brown and gray guinea hen blankets, 64x84 inches, weight about five pounds, pretty borders, per pair.. Brown, dark grey, light grey, tan or wine, plain and mottled blankets, red, blue, jrreen, yellow, and black borders, double fleeced, size 64x84 inches, per pair Fancy cotton blankets, pink, blue and tan shades, beautiful borders, large size 98c, smaller siza, per pair

Wool Blankets

We carry a complete assortment of Yountsville wool Blankets and sell them at same prices aa they are sold at the mill. New arrivals in this line are fancy plaids at 84 50 for full 5 pound blankets. When you buy Yountsville blankets here you save money.

Our line of fine grade wool Blankets including the famous St Mary's goods are all offered at old prices. No advance here so lone as our present stock lasts. We can't answer for these prices when we buv asrain.

7*c

98c

1.19

1.33

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73c

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Sole agency for The New Idea Paper Patterns. All Patterns 10c.". No more, no less.