Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 April 1900 — Page 6

B. T. MURPHT. C. E. FCLLRNWIDER. Money to Loan at the lowest rates of Interest and on the best and easiest terms to thr* borrower. City ana eevntry property for sale. Call ana see us.

Elam T. Murphy Co.,

Room"4, Campbell Bid) ., S. E. corner Main A Washington Sts.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE

Furnished at Reasonable Ratet.

Money to loan on real estate. Deeds and mortgages carefully executed.

WEBSTER & SERGENT.

Hecnrfl^r1" Offlna.

SEE

Travis & Brown

About

Good Farms in this and other States

At a bargain. Also about, insurance and loans, 110 S. Ur^n St.. flit v.

BERTRAND E. MAY

OSTEOPATH,

Graduate of cho American School of O* teopathy at Kirkuville, lo. Office 1UW. Main 8t. Hours—9 to 1*3 a. 1 to 4 p. in. Consultation free. Correspond eace solicited and o«teopatl',c literature o» application.

Geylord S. McCluer,

Attorney at Law.

Real Estate and l'i-«bale matters carefully man aired. Wills, contracts and leases prepared, General practice. Notary Public—us 3. Oreeo Street

Opposite Postofflce.

MORTGAGE EXEMPTIONS, Jennison's Abstract Offii

lias every tractof land or lot is well as ovi*r\ mortgage of record, and part ies desirm? affidavits to secure the $700 mortgage exemptioi wlil find It, the be=t place to have them cor rectly executed. Two notaries in office and supply of blanks ready. Last day for fblnp. April 30. 1900.

MONEY

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The Best

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We now have nn unlimited amount money to loan on improved farms at 5 pei ceui.. interest, granting: the privilege paying any or all of loon at the end of firs year, or arty time thereafter. No gob note. Pay all interest and partial pay menta at our office. We ask no appraise ment and examine all farms ourselves. 'i publicity whatever. JNloney on deposit am can close loans without delay or red tapt Call or write us for further particulars.

F^ANK C. EVANS Co., 107 North Green St. Office with A. S. Clements,

Ajrent Home of New York.

Administrator or Guardian in une that is always at home, always safe, and

& Never Dies.

The Crawfordsville Trust Company fills all these requirements. It will settle estates or furnish Itonds It will also pay interest on depoHlts,

Accounts may be opened at any time and In any Bum without cost. Call at office, corner of Main ard Green Bts., or see any of the following directors: A. F. Hamsey, Silas Peterson. IJ. 0. Somerville, D. W. HouEtree T. N. Lucas, Zack Mahorney, F. P. Mount. SS3ASAXA5/Sr-

ics* Abstracts of Title *^4 Mortgage Loans, Real Estate

Abstracts of title, carefully compiled fron •up-to-date abstract books which slww titb to all lauds and lots In Montgomery ceunt.v lnd., being the same abstract books used By me during eight years as Recorder oJ saM Montgomery county.

MONEY TO LOAN at lowest rates wltl privilege of partial payments. FARMS FOB SALE, of forty, sixty, eighty one hunrded and upwards to two hunirec and fort acres, on gravel roads.

Also dwelling houses and choice1 vacant lots in city. Fire insurance.

THOS. X. MUNHALL, Abstracter, Heal Kstate and Loan Agt. -128H B. Main Ht. nvpr Lacey's Book Store.

Ripans Tab«Ies

HEGCLATB TUB

Stomach, Liver and Bowels.

HIFAJNH I4BULKH ara me best mediotm known for Indigestion, Bllllousneas, Heul ache, Constipation, Dyspepsia, Chronti tlvei Troubles, Dlidneu, Bkd Complexion, UfMDterj, Offensive Biestb, and all Ulsorders of tb« Htomaoh, Liver and Bowels.

Htp&iiB Tabuiet oontaln nothing injurlcut to the most delicate constitution. Are pleasant to take, sftfe. effectual and give immediate relief. May be ordered through nearest drugget or bv mall.

THE «1PANS CHEMICAL St. Nfnw Vp*V p«tv

Look What 25c Will Buy

At The F'alr.

1 box Curatlna Soap, 3 cakes in box 1 cake Tarline, 5 ounce cake, Tar Soap. 1 cake Dr. SnTder's well known Carbolic Soap 1 silver plated Sugar Spoon.

All tlie above only 26c.

Come and get one lot.

The Pair.

Joel Block.

B. Washington St,

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Bit of Review In Which Indiana People Are Chiefly Dealt With.

OUR CHATTY WEEKLY LETTER

Which It Is Made to Appear That White River May Yet Become a Commercial

Waterway, and That Hoosier Rural Postal

Delivery Has a Mighty Good Friend al

Court—A Study of Mr. Bynum's Counte

nance Is Indicative of Things—How It

May Turn Out That the Government's Strong Box Is Too Closely Guarded For

Comfort —Other Things Equally Interesting.

I Special Correspondence.]

Washington, April 11.—The Indian&Puiib Commercial club lias forwarded to Indiana, members of congress the report of tlie club's committee on commerce with reference to the navigability of White river. Th,e fact is emphasized that the improvement of tlie Stream would "bring cheap fuel to Indianapolis for manufacturing purposes, and give Indianapolis a cheap traffic outlet, to the whole .Mississippi valley." It is shown thai the nine counties through which the river runs —Hamilton. .Marion, .Morgan, Owen, Greene, Daviess, Knox, l'ike and Gib-son-have a total population of nearly half million and ihoir property valuation is over *-'00.000,000. A navigable stream would open to Indianapolis over 3.000,000,000 tons of workable coal in ilie counties of Owen. Greene, Daviess, Knox, I'iUe and Gibson. The com mitlee reports that. $1,000,000 would effect, the improvement.

There is a disposition among some members of congress who have seen White river during the dog days to doubt whether il could be made much more han a site lor a ship canal. "All that is required." says one member, "Is a little more width, a little more depth, and a little more water." Representative Watson wrote the committee that lie was born within a half mile of White river and that he supposed he had gone swimming in the stream as often as any boy in Indiana. He had skated as far as Indianapolis. and when a freshet was on, he and his boyhood friends used to lloat down to Mtuicie on an improvised log raft. j.v the lime they got that far however, said Mr. Watson, the water had generally so receded that there was not: enough to make it possible for them lo swim 'back, hence there, was more or less dilliculty in getting home.

It is certain that Indiana falls far! Blurt of getting her share of the niil-| lions of dollars annually appropriated for internal improvements, and other I tributaries of the Ohio with smaller possibilities than the White as naviga-1 ble streams, have been drawing on the United States treasury for years. The government has spent a little money: oil tlie lower Wabash, and a snagboat clears the path for the corn boats' which piV 'lie rivet below Terre Haute. ilidiaua is a joint beneficiary I of the Ohio improvements. After! years of waiting Indianapolis is to have a magnificent federal building, which is something.

Indiana will get her share, too,of the, benefits of the rural free delivery systeni, in fact, has received more than her proportion of favors up to date, and is likely to continue in the load in this particular, partly because the state is blessed with good roads and a progressive rural population, aDd1 partly because Indiana has a good friend at court in the person of Perry Heath.

A study of the countenance of Will-! lain D- Bynum, as he walked down the steps at the west front of the capitol after the last executive session at' which his nomination for appraiser I was considered, did not Indicate that the ex-chairman of the National Democracy was carrying a large load of hope. It seems not unlikely that his opponents are in a minority, as they are using the same obstructive tactics which will probably leave Mr. Quay outside the breast-works when thesenate adjourns, in spite of the fact that his friends have the votes to give him a seat. Senator Fairbanks continues active in his etforts to have the Bynun) nomination ratified. The last time the question was up, the senator pointed out the fact, as a proof of Mr. ii.vnum's democracy, that he voted for Mayor Taggart at the last municipal I election in Indianapolis. Mr. Bynum's opponents argue that if lie is to be recognized by the administration, it should be as a Republican.

L. P. Mitchell of Newcastle, deputy Controller of the treasury, bad an experience a few weeks ago which convinces him that Uncle Sam's coffers are well guarded. In company with another Indiana official, he remained at work in his office one evening until the dingy treasury building was enshrouded In darkness. It was necessary to make an exit through the basement corridors. While Mr. Mitchell and his friend were groping along the half-lighted halls, a mun Jumped cut of a recess and leveled a huge revolver at the two frightened Hoosiers, and ordered them to halt. They complied promptly, when they discovered that the supposed bandit was a guard, who put the officials through a rigid examination before allowing them to proceed. Rounding another corner, another huge gun was thrust into their faces, and they were again •roas-questioned. By this time Mr.

Mitchell's companion was In a cold •weat, and fearlnf that the next su

pernumerary might shoot before#askIng questions, he begged to be led out »f the building by the shortest cut, which was done. This recalls a story on Gen. J. N. Huston of Connersville, who, while United States treasurer, decided to see for himself if the money for which he was responsible was being properly guarded. He took off his shoes and slipped softly down stairs. A vigilant guard saw the suspicious looking si ranker stealing about in his stocking feet, and Gen. Huston found himself face to face with the muzzle of P. revolver. He was unceremoniously dragged before the captain of the watch, whore he had some difficulty In explaining his actions and proving his identity. The joke on the general would have been evbn more pointed if the guard had followed his first impulse to empty his revolver into the trespasser.

Representative Watson has taken great interest in the preparation of the naval appropriation bill, which was reported to the house on Thursday last. The bill carries a larger appropriation than the navy has ever before received in the history of this country In one year—something over $01,000,000. Mr. Watson docs not believe that the proposition to establish a government armorplate factory, put forward by the minority of the committee, is a feasible one. The competition in the manufacture of arniorplate is a battle of experts, and congress would be unwilling to pay (lie salaries necessary to obtain the best management or thr latest methods. The superintendent of the Carnegie factory, for instance, gets -$75,000 a year, and no one knows how much the Krupp secret process of manufacturing arniorplate could be bought for. If the private manufacturers refused to sell their secrets, the government might have to content itself with an inferior quality of armorplate, which. Mr. Watson argues, we could not think of doing for a minute. He thinks it far better to have private competition in the production of processes. and for the government to be free to choose the best.

Mr. Watson will make his first speech during the present congress on the l'orto Uican tariff bill. It will be a straight out argument for the measure. The Indiana members will occupy the same position on the next vote on the Porto Uican question as they did before- Judge Crumpacker will make a speech explaining his position.

Representative George W. Steele was elected secretary of the board of managers (.National Soldiers' homes)at the meeting of the board in Washington last week. He lias not yet decided whether or not he will accept. The duties are not onerous, and may be performed in connection with his congressional service.

Mrs. Ida ITusted Harper, formerly of Muncie and Terre Haute, now a Washington newspaper woman, will go in a few days to Buffalo, where she will remain for several months the guest of Susan B. Anthony, in conjunction with whom she will undertake the collaboration of a history of the woman suffrage movement. This is intended to supplement tlie work of Miss Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who brought the history down to about 1885. Mrs. Harper and Miss Anthony will fill the gap between that date and the end of the century.

C. F. W. N'eely, formerly editor of the Muncie News, now chief of the division of finance, department of posts of Cuba, arrived in Washington from Havana last week, and spent some time in consultation with departmental officials here. Mr. Neely, like other Americans recently returned from Cuba, reports the people of the island restless under American control, and. apparently, anxiously awaiting the time when they can have a regular Santo Domingo of a time without the corrective influence of Uncle Sam's soldiery.

Gen. James N. Tyner, attorney general for the postotlice department, well known in Indiana, and especially at Brookville and Peru, where he formerly lived, has recently returned from a swing around the circle of Flagler hotels in the Bahamas and Florida in company with Mrs. Tyner. Gen. Tyner escaped the most disagreeable March Washington has known for years, spending a portion of It at Nassau, where frost is never known and the verdure is eternal. The trip from New York, however, was a most uncomfortable experience, the ship being for many hours in the teeth of a terrible storm which three times assumed the velocity of a hurricane. At one time Gen. Tyner and his fellow passengers resigned themselves to a watery grave, but the storm finally subsided. Gen. Tyner fell in with Mr. Flagler while on the trip, and concludes that the building of this magnificent chain of winter palaces is one of the great Standard oil magnate's ways of amusing himself. Mr. Rock?feller builds universities, Mr. Flagler hotels. The latest Flagler project Is an American hotel at Havana.

Speaking of hotels, one of the finest hotels in the world is built on plans conceived by a former Indianlan. Chamberlain's hotel at Old Point Comfort, which Is the favorite resort of Washington officialdom, Is a combination of magnificent proportions and beauty of detail realized nowhere outside of a European palace. The architect of this vast palace is Henry Smlthmeyer, who was brought to Washington from Indianapolis by Senator Morton many years ago, as a clerk in the office of the supervising architect of the treasury. He traveled 12 years In Europe acquiring tlie architectural Inspiration which he has worked out at Washington in the finest library in the world.

GEORGE B. LOCKWOOD,

Exclusive agency of the celebrated Knox Sailors.

It Pays to Trade

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Complete Line Yoontsville Flannels,

Skirts, Yarns, and Blankets.

The Coming of Spring

Is an event looked forward to with pleasure by everyone. Several months of cold, stormy, disagreeable weather, and wearing of heavy, cumbersome clothing, makes us all glad to welcome spring with its singing of birds, and beautiful flowers, and the dainty, artistic creations in gowns and headwear prepared for Easter surprises and warm weather wear. The Big Store's first spring in its new home will make a record, raising us up far beyond the ordinary store in towns of this size, and placing us in the front ranks of Indiana's greatest dry goods emporiums. We have never before had the'room and opportunity to display the many tasty things we have always provided, as this year. The store is full of pretty, useful articles for your choosing—an assortment not surpassed in the state, and at prices no higher than you are asked in smaller stores amid less comforts. Larger selections, better display, better service, and as low or lower prices than elsewhere! Isn't that an inducement to trade at the Big Store? To our minds the goods have never been so pretty in design and coloring as this year. Perhaps it's because they are sr. new. Perhaps its because they are so different. Perhaps it's because the variety is greater Or perhaps its because their surroundings are so pretty, so light and so large—no dark places, no crowding in this store. At any rate we are sure you will be pleased with the showing and we invite all to come and see the display. There is something new every day and you will be just as welcome if you come to look as if you come to buy. We are always glad to have you visit the Btore.

flillinery.

The Millinery for spring is so different from any past season that it is almost impossible to describe it. There are the new Tam crowns, crushed turbans and jaunty roll brim effects. The trimmings are in the beautiful new pastel shadings and all in all forming perfect dreams in headwear. We are also showing an attractive line of walking hats in new shapes and shadings.

Dress Goods and Silks.

Here again is the change so radical and the colorings so new that we scarcely feel acquainted •with them. From the extreme heavy rough effects to the softest clinging materials is along step, but it is made in the new spring dress goods. There are all degrees of weight between the two so that all tastes may be suited and yet be stylishly suited. Pastel shadings are very popular and beautiful, but the leaders are the greys. There are greys and greys, and then other greys, until the assortment of greys becomes bewildering. You would hardly think there could be so many grey effects, and each of them be so pretty. Of course the old friends, navy and cardinal, go right on selling just as though they were the only shades made.

While the styles in silks are not so numerous as some past seasons, they are perhaps more desirable, and the season's end will no doubt show more silk sales than the assortment would seem to warrant for that reason. Of the things fashion has decreed we have an almost unlimited assortment. One of the favorites will be printed foulards, and what is more dressy and more serviceable than a nice foulard in some one of the many shades of this cloth with the pretty, clean, white figures? .,

Wash Goods.

What a wealth of pretty things we have prepared in this wash goods section! Every good thing is here and in liberal assortment. We are sending dozens of patterns out by mail every day and to cities many times the size of this, and from all sources we receive only words of praise for the selection. The variety is so great the department would not hold them, so you will find the line of novelties on the third floor.

NOTE—Our dress-making department, although making only goods bought in this store, is *|T so rushed with work as to be obliged to seek larger quarters, and almost double the force, besides j[|j[ working overtime. We hope to turn out all work on time as promised—a matter we are earful SSS of—but if you wish to place an order for the spring we advise an early visit to insure against ae- Ml lay or disappointment.

Ladies' Furnishings. jfe

The new neckwear, veilings, ribbons, handkerchiefs, underwear and hosiery are all ready for your seeing. The kid gloves have been selected with great care with the view of matching perfectly the new gowns and millinery.

For the Home.

Among all the rush for articles for personal adornment we don't want you to forget this store's reputation as home beautifiers. Our stock of curtains, draperies, and linens is much in ad-

vance of any previous year's showing in extent and beauty. The prices are always correct. If' they hadn't been during the past years would we have grown so remarkably?

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New Ideal Paper Patterns.

All patterns 10ct no'more, 1*| no less. |j|