Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 January 1901 — Page 10

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1901.

WHAT tire you going to do next century':1

.JULxni WHST says "vote selling is treason to the country.'" That is pretty plain talk but it is the Lord's truth.

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The disfranchisement

for life of the vote seller would be the best thing for this country that could happen. Let the good work proceed.

We certainly endorse the above opinion expressed by our esteemed contemporary. We second the motion, let the good work proceed.

MR. BKYAN said in hisbanquetspeech the other evening, that he had not as yet decided whether he will be a candidate again or not. The Republicans of the country are all of them praying that he will. He is the easiest proposition that ever wobbled down the presidential pike.

THEKE will be a whole lot of watch parties in town to-night that are not being advertised in the papers. Most of these will be parties where "three's a crowd." Well, let the dear vouug things enjoy the occasion. When the twentieth century watch night comes they will be too old to care about such things.

MENOMINEE, Wis., has a novel institution, known as a farmers' resting place. A residence building was given to the city for this purpose and the municipality has agreed to maintain it. Crawfordsville should progress along this line to the extent of establishing a yard where farmers in the city for a short stay could hitch their teams.

CHICAGO Tribune: Whatever may be the motives which influenced these two Indiana Democrats in informing on the men they paid money to for their votes, their action, if it results in convictions, i. to be commended. It will reduce slightly the number of votesellera and may deter some voters from making merchandise of their votes.

IN the reorganization of the Democratic party Cleveland and his friends want the organization to proceed with them at the head, while Bryan and the Populists want the new organization to accept them as leaders. As well tie the tails of two cats together and hang them over a clothes iine and expect them to agree on the best plan to catch mice.

Mews lievieic: Montgomery county has too many men who place no more value on their right of suffrage than to barter lit away. Such voters should be deprived .of the ballot.

All the Eewspapers of the city and -good citizens generally coincide with the views above expressed by the Democratic organ. It is not a question of ipolltics or party, but a question of maintaining the dignity| and purity of the iballot.

"JBY their fruits ye shall know them." West Point turns out a better developed lot of young men than any other institution in the country and those who "have gone through the mill" there assert that the so-called having has been no mean element in thiu development. It weeds out the "nifisy boys" to begin with and it teaihei to all, those primal "requisites for the successful soldier and man, self •ontrol and obedience to superiors.

Tim proposed franchise for the new electric line, as we understand it, provides a date for the beginning of work on the road but not for its completion. The company may drive a few stakes or turn up a little earth to satisfy the terms of the franchise and then take its own time.OWould it not be highly desirable to set a date by which cars were to be running a certain distance, with a cash forfeit for every day after that date the cars did not runr

"OAF" ALLEN has been heard from. He writes a wail from Manila on the result of the election and says: "I am not mistaken. The republic is rushing at breakneck speed into an aristocracy of wealth, the most con temptible of any form."

The "aristocracy" won't bother Allea any. He will be in it, for in 6pite ot the fact that he scattered 820,000 OYg» this district to sscuro an election which he didn't secure, he is still about 8250 000 to the good. "Cap's" roar about an aristocracy is small talk from the political scrap pile.

VALUE OF AN ELECTRIC LINE. THE JOURNAL does not share the fears of those who see in an electric line to Indianapolis a detriment to Crawfordsville. They say that such a road will make it easier to get to the capital city and that Crawfordsville will thus lose trade. But will it be •o much easier to get to Indianapolis? We now have four trains each way between our town and the big town. The electric line will not run more than that, and while the fare will be about half the regular railroad fare, the time consumed in going will be about twice as long. In the new century time is just as important a factor as money to the busy person who has the cash to spend.

Experience has shown that every new avenue of communication, be it railroad, telegraph or telephone has been a blessing and a benefit to every community that it touches. There is no reason to believe that an electric line will be different in this respect. We should welcome every new enterprise of this kind, no matter where it leads to, just so it passes through Crawfordsville. The doubters should remember that each new road to Crawfordsville will bring people in as well as let them out, and it remains for us to say whether the advantage is with us or against us. We take it that there is enough enterprise among our merabants to attract outside trade in larger quantities when the new road* are built, as well as hold what rightly belongs to them here at home. Some of our people will buy at Indianapolis always and in spite of any arguments, just as some Indianapolis people go to Chicago and New York to buy. They like the sensation of spending their money in a bigger place than their own town. Others buy away from Crawfordsville because they can't find here what they want. This class of people •HQ be kept at home if our merchants will increase the variety of their stocks. Neither of»the two classes of out-of-town buyers will be materially affected by an electric line

So we say, bring all the electric lines that will come, the more the better, no matter whither or whence they tfo.

AN Indianapolis paper'publishes a long article to the effect that a certain well known citizen has drawn $15,000 in a lottery.and goes on with a great deal of circumstantiality to tell how he will spend the money. Along at the close of the article it is stated incidentally that he hasn't received the money yet but that he holds the lucky ticket. Quite a difference, perhaps. The law which prohibits the advertising of ia lottery or the publication of the result of a lottery should be so amended as'ito preclude the possibility of the publication of such an altogether vicious article as that in the Indianap1 is paper. To be sure the name of the lottery is not given but the name of the§ alleged winner is and thus an immense'stimulus is given the business of every lottery ticket agent in the country. All will claim that this man won in the lottery they represent and thousands of dollars will be wrung from thelSpockets of men and women who cannot afford to waste money in this manner. The lottery sharks could not''ask a better advertisement than that given in the paper referred to and the publication-iwill do untold harm. A paper that would collect the names of the many, many thousands who never»get onyjreturn from lottery tickets and that would publish them togetherjjwith a list of the sacrifices which these unholylpurchases involved —that paperi Jwould do a missionary work. But when a paper, that poses as a moral factor in the community, publishes that.iMr. So-and-so cleaned up $15,000 in a lottery drawing, it commits an offense against the public good that •annot be too severely condemned.

THERE are at least nine hundred men in Montgomery county so ignorant and depraved that they habitually sell their votes. If the reward of $100 provided by the Caraway law should be paid for the conviction of each one of them it would cobt the taxpayers $90,000. At first blush this seems excessive, but considering the fact that these floaters have been the cause of electing defaulters and other unfit men in county and city offices in years past, it would probably be an actual saving to get rid of them at $90,000. However, this need not be considered because the gentlemen who are pushing the present prosecutions state that, no more of the reward will be claimed than will pay a reasonable attorney's fee. It is in this spirit, having the public welfare at heart that the prosecutions should be continued until the last floater is disfranchised. If this is done that improbable condition of affairs set up as a bogy by the pauper attorney in which floaters would conspire to obtain the reward, would become impossible. The duty of the taxpayer is to encourage in every way the disfranchising process. It will cost him very little now and will probab save him much in the future.

AN ex-candidate for county office estimates that with the floating vote eliminated the sxnesses of the candidates on both sides could be cut down $10,000. This is only one item of saving out of many that could be mentioned.

AN INTERESTING LETTER.

Jesse Gapllnger Writes Entertainingly'of the Ways and Customs of the Filipinos.

THE JOURNAL is in receipt of the following letter from Jesse Caplinger, once a member of Company here, but now with the Otli artillery:

MANILA, P. I., Nov. 4, 1900.—BATTERY A, SIXTH U. S. ARTILLERY.— THE JOURNAL COMPANY, Crawfordsville, Ind.—DEAR SIRS:- After waiting over a year will try to answer your letter of June 25th, 189!). I would like to have written sooner but circumstances have been such that it has been almost impossible for me to write to anyone. By the time you receive this I hope William J. Bryan will have started up Salt river, with his anti-im-perialistic followers.

I am a soldier, and as such would rather be in the states, for I don't like duty on these islands at all but nevertheless, I say that the United States should keep these islands by all means, for in a few years there will be the greatest opening for American capital and labor here that we have ever had any place. The Filipinos, on the average, are not a bad lot of people. They have been imposed upon by the Spaniards and the Roman Catholic church. The Spanish robbed them of nearly everything they had, and the Friars took the rest.

I cannot say that they are capable of self government, because as yet, they do not understand the workings of a good government. There are thousands of well educated natives on the islands but they have been educated in the church, and the laws of the church are their laws. Although it would be next to impossible to do, the best thing the United States could do, would be to banish every Spanish Friar and priest there is from the island, for they are the real cause of all the discontent among the natives.

The resources of the islands are untold. There are millions of acres of the finest timber, that as yet, has never been touched: mahogany, rosewood and other valuable timbers are very cheap here. There is plenty of gold and silver, and it is said that in a few years the finest copper ore in the world will come from these islands. There is also plenty of coal on the island of Luzon.

The poor "John Chinaman" is the principal beast of burden. It is astonishing the load a Chino will carry. Only a few days ago I saw two of them carrying an upright piano. They tied ropes around it, run sticks through the ropes on top of the piano, one got under each end of the stick and away they went as though they were entirely free from any burden. Tho Filipinos do not like the Chinaman and abuse them in every way. Is caused by the fact that the Chinaman have worked for the Americans. I would like for you to see a Filipino market. Talk of babel of tongues, if you do not find it there then there none to be found. I was in charge of our mess for several months, and as I bought plenty of fresh vegetables I had a good opportunity to see their markets, the dirtiest in the world. It is sickening to see them handle their meat and fish. The meat is cut and hung on hooks and every native that buys a piece fingers every piece on the market before buying. Meat is never sold by weight, always by the piece, and it costs at the rate of sixty cents mex. per pound, and I wouldn't ask a dog of mine to eat it. They have no ice boxes just simply hang it up in tho sun, if it spoils, sell it anyway. People .who have stands in the market live in them, and use their bamboo beds for a counter.

Our quarters are only a block from the principal market in the city and it is very interesting, as well as amusing, to watch them going and coming from the market. The women carry everything in baskets on their heads, a load which consists of a few cracked eggs, a very small piece of meat, a small bunch of sour bananas, different kinds of un namable vegetables, and on Sunday, possibly a chicken or a few fish, and when one comes along with her basket of purchases you can smell it for a blojk. The natives do not "sabe" a stove. Most of their cooking is done out of doors with a fire on the ground, everything being cooked in earthen pots, and only in the better class do they have knives and forks, most of them eating with their fingers. The

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different dishes are placed in the center of the floor and the entire family sits down around them, and as we soldiers say "dive in,-' which they do to your heart's contents. It is a sight to watch them eat. All hands in the same dish, and the one that gets away with the "chow" fastest gets the most to eat.

Most of the houses are built of bamboo and nipa. All of them are built from three to six feet above the ground and seldom have over four rooms, and except the better class, have no beds, the whole family or families sleeping side by side on the floor. The average native has but very little furniture. A small table, a bench and one or two bamboo' chairs, perhaps a lamp but in every house you will find beautiful images and a crucifix, be they rich or poor. The native dress is different from that of any other triba in the world. The men wear trousers of any color, that come little below the knees and a shirt of any kind of cloth, which is worn on the outside of the trousers. About one-tenth of them never wear shoes, a great many wear no hat. The women wear a kind of a shirt waist, called a (kimo), which has no buttons or fastenings of any kind, and an overskirt something like the American fashion, and I have never seen one with any kind of head dres3, except when going to church, then they wear a black veil over their heads. As a rule the natives keep their bodies and clothing very clean, but their houses are the anti-type.

The public transportation in the city is something awful, outside of what is carried by the Chinos. All merchandise is drawn on caribao' carts (in English the caribao means "water buffalo,") they being without doubt the slowest of all animals ever created. If there is any animal too *low to "catch cold" it is the caribao.

We have three kinds of public vehicles in the city, viz: the "carromatta" which is something like a dog cart, with a cover. The "quilex," a two wheeled, box-like rig, built to seat four natives, not enough room for one American. The "coche" built like our carriages, except that it is considerably lower. To all these rigs they drive the native pony or "caballo," about half as large as the average American horse, usually half fed, and every other one is balky. The prices for a carromatta is twentylive cents Mex. per hour, quilez forty cents Mex. per hour, and coche fifty cents Mex. per hour. A driver will always take you the longest way around, in order to get a larger fare.

They have a very peculiar method of taking care of their dead. They bury no one in the ground. The cemeteries all have a thick wall about ten feet high all around them. On the inner side of the wall are rows of niches. When one of them dies he is put in one of these niches and the uiche sealed up. At the end of a year, if the rent is not paid, the body is taken out and thrown in the bone pile. The cemeteries are all owned by the Friars. No surprise that the people are beginning to hate this class of people.

There is a good chance for any good honest American here, if he is willing to learn the language and the habits of the people. Spanish and English will be the only language here in a few years the native dialects are gradually becoming obsolete. I have been here nearly eleven months and speak Spanish quite fluently. Clerical work is at a premium, especially in government positions. Clerks are paid from $1,500 to $2,000 per year.

My battery has been doing duty with the provost guard since we arrived here. Duty is very irksome. Mount guard every other night, and drill one hour every day.

There are now six companies of native police in Manila and suburbs, and they are doing very good work. As a matter of course there are traitors among them, and always will be but every family has its black sheep.

As far as I know all the Crawfordsville boys in the Philippines are getting along alright. Those in the volunteers will all be home by July 1,1901. As for me, if the "gugus'" let me alone, I will try to see you all in December, 1901.

Well, I have written enough for this time, so with best regards to all, I will say, "Dion

guarde V. muclios anos,"

adios. JESSE C. CAPLINOER, Sergeant Battery A, Sixth Artillery, Manila, P. I.

Rabbit Slayers.

Paul Stafford and Otis Lookabill hunted in an eighteen acre field last Friday and succeeded in putting fortythree rabbits out of existance in the short time of three hours. This record is hard to beat, the conditions all being equal

Good Advice.

The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people in the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects: such as sour stomach, Pick headache, habitual costiveness, palpitation of the heart, heartburn, water-brash, gnaw ing ard burning pains at the pit o' the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist an get a bottle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two dr\ f« will relieve you. Try it. Get Greg's prize almanac. Fo sale by Moffett & Morgap.

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They are Always With Us and In Tolerably Large Numbers.

The report of the state board of charities says: "The county poor asylums on August 31, 1900, had 3,096 inmates, 1,991 men and 1,105 women. This is a decrease of thirty-seven from the number present on the same date last year. Included in this is the number of inmates of the new asylum for the insane in Marion county. The average population of the poor asylums for the year closing August 31, based on the quarterly reports to this board, was 3,191.

It will be observed that there were almost twice as many men as women in the poor asylums. On the date above mentioned, there were twenty-eight children present, age two years and under, and twenty-eight age three years and under seventeen. The number of males and females between seventeen and thirty years, is almost exactly the same, 153 males and 147 females. From that age on the number of men noticeably increases. Of those between thirty and forty-five years of age there are 361 men and 224 women between forty-five and sixty years the number of men is almost double the number of women and between sixty and seventy-five years, the number of men is almost three times the number of women.

Effort has been made to ascertain the causes of pauperism. While we do not vouch for the accuracy of the analysis in all cases, it is probably 6afe to presume that it is approximately correct. A number of inmates of county poor asylums who are feeble senile and the number of feeble minded and idiotic is approximately the same. Of the former there are 819—538 men and 281 women of the latter there are 858— 437 men and 421 women. In addition to the 858 feeble minded inmates there are 112 who are both feeble minded and epileptic—fifty-three men and fifty-nine women. "The number reported to be insane is 458 -313 men and 145 women. There are fifty other insane inmates who -are also epileptic—thirty-two men and eighteen women. The simple epileptics number 102—sixty-one men and sixty-one women. Five hundred and two—368 men and 134 women—are reported as crippled 369—225 men and 134 women are reported as sickly 178 —130 men and forty-eight women, as paralytics, seventy-six—forty-two men and thirty-four women, are deaf 175— 113 men[and sixty-two women are blind. "Experience shows that a number of these reported insane a-e in reality feeble minded, and quite a number of others have lost their minds through old age. The number of deaths in the poor asylums during the year was 441. "The report includes also a table showing the salaries paid the superintendent and matron of each county poor asylum. In some counties very meagre salaries are paid, and it is hardly to be expected that satisfactory attention will be given to the interests of the county, or the best care to the inmates. In some places the superintendent, with a large family, receives but a nominal salary, while elsewhere the superintendent with a small family is quite well paid. Some coun ties with a large poor asylum

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THEY WONTPAY.

James B. Elmore Pays His Disrespects to the Small Souled Create res Who Go Back on Their Wor.

James B. Elmore, bard, was ia the city Monday and left at THE JOUBNAL office a poem setting forth with great beauty and force the smallness of certain parties here who subscribed for his book and who refused to take it after its publication. "I think," said he, "that the lines apply with equal force to other lines of business and that every man who has ever had any dealings with such shoddy stock will heartily endorse my sentiments." Tha lines are as follows:

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Some wear theirdress agloss with imp And shine with lustre from their pap But when they try alone to j*o The son has lost his brilliant glow. Don't be deceived by line array 'J But judt-'e by actions of each day. The heart that beats 'neath coarser drew:-. May like ''Ben Adhern's" lead the rcsl

Return of a Traveler.

Austin Watson arrived home Motiday" from his European trip. He cams overon the Nebraska, which was nineteen days out and which encountered some terrific weather. Grave fears for her safety were entertained for several days prior to her arrival.

Austin spent most of his tim« at the Paris exposition, and states that it was not nearly up to the World's Fair in anything except art. He was at the exposition for several months and returns several inches taller than when he left, a condition not due to "rubbering'' but to congenial work and a good time generally. He picked up qmite a knowledge of French and becaara so fluent that the ladies had no trouble whatever in grasping the upper ease compliments Austin dropped im their ears. He had a great time from frtart to finish, and may return there in a year or so

Change of Superintendents.

Supt. Meade, of the match factory, has resigned his position there, the resignation taking place on Saturday night. John Carver has been appoiated to succeed him and is now in oharge. For some days past it has been runored that the Diamond match company, (the trust), has been attempting to absorb the factory here and has threatened dire things unless the management accedes to its proposition. There is not the least foundation for the rumor. The trust has made no overtures whatever, nor has any word been received from it either directly or indirectly on any subject. The local factory has all the business it can possibly attend to and is doing well.

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