Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 July 1901 — Page 2

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1901.

A LONDON cable states that England perfectly willing for this country to go ahead and construct the big canal. This willingness probably finds its genesis in the fact that England has her hands too full at present to resent any action this country might take in the matter. However, the statement iB a pleasing one as it removes the greatest barrier to the beginning of the great "•work.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY announced before leaving Washington that he would issue the proclamation declaring free trade between the United States and Porto Rica on and after July 25, in accordance with a resolution adopted by the Porto Rican legislature, as soon as he gets an official copy of that resolution. It is understood that Gov. Allen will in person carry an official copy of the resolution to Canton.

GEN. GOMEZ, in his New York speech, forecast the future when he said: "Cuba and the United States belong together. It is only a question of gravitation when they will be one. But at present, after the great struggle in which hundreds of thousands of lives were sacrificed, they (the Cubans) feel that they must have Cuba Libre. It is realized fully that Cuba cannot get along without the United States, but the Cubans do want to feel freedom."

They are now enjoying Cuba Libre, but so far as real liberty is concerned it is not a circumstance to what the Cubans will enjoy when Cuba becomes a part of the United States.

INDIANAPOLIS Journal: The Journal does not know anything about the antecedents of H. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor of the Benguet province in the Philippines, but if he has been using his position for his personal advantage in acquiring land and mining rights from the natives, as is charged, it is hoped he will be severely punished. At this stage of our government in the Philippines it is important that a high standard of official integrity should be established and any offense in that regard promptly punished. It is important to show the natives that the American w&y is not the Spanish way. -t

THE South Bend Tribune somewhat unthoughtedly exclaims that northern Indiana Is entitled to the federal judgeship made vacant by the death of Judge Woods and proceeds to nominate a very estimable gentleman of South Bend for the place. It seems to forget that both Judge Woods and Judge Baker of the federaljjcourts were named from northern Indiana—from Elkhart county which joins St. Joseph. But geography must not decide the selection of federal judges. The idea is repellant. Judges should be chosen for their fitness and the best men should be taken, even if every federal judge in the circuit had to be taken from "the little town of Tailholt."

CONGRESSMAN LANDIS, a few days ago, in discussing public questions incidentally said: "There will be no general revision of the tariff. In the present prosperous condition of the country at large it would seem none is needed. I believe the tariff question will be adjusted largely through reciprocity treaties, thus, incidentally, the points now under discussion will be adjusted. A good deal of time in the next session of congress will necessarily be spent in discussions relating to our foreign pos sessions. I anticipate no great difficulty, however, in shaping a policy. Things are even now shaping themselves satisfactorily. Porto Rico is in good condition, Cuba is about to elect a president, and the Philippines are doing well. Order will certainly be established in all three places, and the foreign problem will be solved satisfactorily to all."

THERE are plenty of weeds about town which have not been cut yet, and if that annual threat of cutting them by public workmen at the expense of the property owners has been carried out anywhere in the city THE JOURNAL. has not heard of it. The sidewalk along the Masonic Temple site is simply blocked by a rank growth and on Green street just south of the Central school building there is an objectionable wilderness of weeds. Where Plum street has been opened through Elston's grove weeds grow big and bold and in many other places about town there is a similar condition of affairs. These weeds are permitted to grow by the reprehensible property owners simply

because they are not afraid of being foi'ced to cut them or to pay for the cutting by someone else. From time immemorial a card has been published by the mayor or marshal ordering property owners to cut the weeds or suffer the consequences. The order was never enforced, however, and when the weed propagators see it each summer in the papers they simply laugh.

POSTMASTER GENERAL SMITH, having had his idea of a thorough revision of the rules regulating secoiid class mail matter approved by President McKinley and his fellow members of the cabinet, is giving his personal attention to the revision and his long experience in the ^newspaper business has fitted him to do the work well. It is not intended that a single legitimate publication shall be hurt by this revision, but the many fake publications, which have been enabled to make money solely because they have been allowed to send their papers and books through the mails at one cent a pound, instead of eight cents a pound, which they are likely to-have to pay under the new regulations, will be hit hard, and there is no doubt of their deserving to be hit hard. The postmaster general has receivedjmany [assurances of support in his effort to save many million dollars by shutting out of second class mail privileges publications that should not be entitled to them from prominent editors of papers of false political shades, and he is confident that his action will be supported by practically all of the legitimate papers and periodicals of the country, not only because it will save a lot of money—the revenue from second class mail is less than $4,000,000 a year, while it costs 160,000,000 a year—but because every legitimate publisher is interested in shutting out fake publications.

THE Louisville Timts, which was supporting Bryan so loyally this time last year, indulges in the following unkind remarks: "Nearlyjall the leaders of the soundmoney wing of theCOhio Democracy in 189(i and 1900 are delegates to the Columbus convention, and it is likely that the platform will make no reference whatever to silver. This should hold some meaning for Bryan, Jones & Co. But the hardest thing in the world is [to convince a political corpse that it is dead.

In going to the state convention at Columbus to beat 16 to 1 the Ohio gold Democrats are taking the trouble of kicking a dead mule, but it wouldn't be safe to conclude they won't have a fight in opposing what the dispatches call 'the platform views of Mayor Johnson, of Cleveland, and Mayor Jones, of Toledo.'

THE many Montgomery county farmers who paid seventy-five cents a bushel for seed rye last fall are now lamenting that they did not spend the same money for seed wheat. The wheat that is raised here this season demonstrates that our county is not yet a dead letter in the wheat crop production. Still corn is the coming crop and its value is more and more appreciated each year as new uses for it are discovered and as it is extended as a food product to the old world. One has only to spend a day in studying the cellulose factory at Linden to have his eyes opened as to the future of king corn. There fourteen valuable products are made from the stock alone.

Letter List.

Following is the list of uncalled for letters remaining in the postoffice at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the week ending July 10, 1901. Persons calling for same will please say "advertised": Aklns, Bill W., Greer, Irwin, Davis, J. O., Hanley, Mat-tie, Fesler, John C., Moore, Mrs. Fannie, Gray, J. A. G., Shelos, Corn,

Travis, J. \V. (2).

Domestic Orders Are Now Good. Hereafter those desiring to send money orders to Cuba and Canada will not have to buy the international orders The domestic money orders are hereafter good In those countries and are sold at all postoffices at the same fee charged for other domestic orders

Heady to Prosecute.

The township trustees are now preparing to turn over to the tender mercies of Prosecutor Reeves the names of those who have not paid their dog tax. The law makes it incumbent on the prosecutor to instigate proceedings at once against all the guilty.

Family Reunion,

The annual reunian of the Harrell family will be held at the home of Samuel Stump,near Highland school house, south of the city, on Wednesday, July 31.

Probate Court.

Daniel Lewis has been appointed guardian of Hannah A Cook's heirs. Ira Hiatt has been appointed administrator of the estate of Silas Hiatt.

Pope Carefully Guarded.

Since the assassination of King Humbert the Pope is Baid to have been very carefully guarded in the Vatican. It was his custom to take the air daily in the Vatican gardens, attended by two guards and one or more prelates, but the number of guards has now been increased, and the whole demeaene Is searched thrice daily.

THE JOURNAL office ior calling cttrde

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

WAS A BANNER HALF YEAR.

In Fees and Taxes Collected by State Auditor's Office.

The six months just closed made the banner half year period in the history of the state in point ol fees and taxes collected by the office of the auditor of state. Auditor Hart discovered this when he wound up the business of the first half of the calendar year last Monday, and began issuing warrants for the $75,000 which goes out to state employees, including judges and prosecutors every month.

The taxes and fees collected by the state insurance department aione exceeded all previous collections for a similar period in the auditor's office by $15,000, being in round numbers $142, 000, With the fees collected by the bank and land departments, the aggregate of fees and taxes will reach $145,-

ooo. All of this goes into the general fund. The extraordinary collections made possible the large payment on the state debt. The fees in the insurance department come from licenses issued and taxes enacted from companies for doing business in Indiana. The fees in other departments come from examining the applications of companies that do business under the voluntary association act. The new order of the government will cut off thirty cents worth of revenue stamps on each insurance agent's certificate.

REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPT.

ItlK Price Paid for the Ancient Volume "Kvanffclla Quntuor."

The splendid manuscript of the "Evangelia Quatuor" which for over 60 years has been in the possession of the earls of Ashburnham, was sold recently bj private treaty ts a purchase who is iiot an inhabitant of England. The price paid is $50,000, probably the highest sum ever paid for a single volume. The history of the volumes, one of the most important and beautiful examples of early goldsmiths' and jewelers' art in existence, is definite and simple. It belonged for many centuries to the Abbey of Noble Canoness, founded A. D. 834, by the Emperor Lewis the Pious, at Lamjyau, on the Lake of Constance. The binding is formed of stout boards lined on the inside with ancient embroidered silk and covered with our Savior on the cross the surface with raised borders and lines of fretwork in gold and studded with 327 emeralds, sapphires, carbuncles, pearls, and other precious stones. The lowed cover is formed into a cross patee, with a border of mosaic enamels and set with 35 precious stones. The covers of the book date from about the end of the eighth century, or probably rather later. This

Evangellarium, or Textus, is not merely interesting as a work of art it is associated on the one side with the early history of Christianity in Bavaria, and the part which the Irish ecclesiastics took in its introduction into that district, and on the other with that great dynasty which played so important a part in the history of Europe. As far as the manuscript itself Is concerned, it is not enriched with the fine miniatures which adorn the best examples of the Carlovingian school, and the inside of the book is distinctly less interesting than the outside. It consists of 220 pages of vel lum, 12% inches by 10 inches, and coiru prises the text of the four gospels o* Jerome's version, preceded by their ar guments or prefaces. (St. Luke haviag two), and by the epistle of Jerome to the Pope Damasus, with tales of the Eusebian Canons. The writing is of

German origin and the text is by several scribes, written not earlier than 950. The appearance of an unpretentious book in such a splendid dress is explained by the probability that the manuscript has usurped the place of an older and finer copy, more in harmony with the covers.

The Czar's Steam Yucht.

The Standard is a palatial steam yacht recently built at Copenhagen for Czar Nicholas of Russia. The cost of the craft is said to exceed 12,000 kroner, or close to $3,000,000. Among tb« features peculiar to the vessel is tin "church" constructed in close proximity to the imperial cabins. The outsid» of the church is modeled after the architecture of the Greek orthodot church, abounding in choicely painted panels of saints and madonnas. Th« door is inlaid with bas-reliefs set in jewels, and at the sides hang censors in long, golden chains. An altar Ls the chief adornment of the interior, furnished like a Russian cathedral in miniature. This lloating church is reserved for the Czar and the member* and guests of the Russian imperial family.—Indianapolis News.

OLIO DRAWBACK to Deportation.

Minister Wu Ting Fang was recently told a story in regard to the Chinese exclusion act that pleased him noticeably. Soon after the act was passed the secretary of state received a letter from Pennsylvania, signed by a Chinaman. The writer said that he had come to this country under false pretenses and hence he should be deported to China immediately. The request was so strange that the secretary of state ordered an investigation. The agent reported a few days later that the Chinaman's statement about the way in which he entered this country was correct and that he should be deported. There was one drawback, however. The Chinaman had been convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

A. S. Clementa.

Plenty of

pounds granulated sugar $1.00 18j£ pounds Ridgewood A sugar 1.00 Y-)]/z Extra sugar 1.00 ~j0 pounds Sleepy Eye flour 1.00 25 pounds Sleepy Eye flour 50 50 pounds Pride Peoria flour 1 00 25 pounds Pride Peoria flour 50 50 pounds OK flour 95 25 pounds OK flour 48 50 pounds John's Best 95 25 pounds John's Best 48 50 pounds Oklahoma 90 25 pounds Oklahoma 45 1 pound Golden Rio coffee 12 1 pound Arbuckle coffee 12 1 pound Lion coffee 12 pound good Rio coffee, bulk 10 1 pound good Santos coffee 12} 1 pound African Java 15 1 pound fancy Pea Berry 20 1 pound White Star (can't be beat for the price).. .20 3-pound can B. H. & P. Club Mocha and Java 75 1 pound White House coffee 35 1 pound Royal Java and Mocha (has no equal for the price) 30 (This coffee is roasted in.Boston and put up in sealed cans. We guarantee every pound of it to suit.)

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No. 21 9:28 a.m. Local Freight.. 1:15 p. m. No. 3 4:18 p. m. Lake Special—Mondays only 1:53 p. m.

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ADDRESS

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LAFAYETTE, IND.

BARNHIIL, HORINADAY & PICKETT. Cash Grocery Prices. 172

Ftftnitttfe, Stoves and Qtseensware.

you are looking for anything in these lines at low prices we will name them in the next thirty days. We are headquarters for Gasoline Stoves, Gas Hot Plates, Ovens, Ice Boxes, Ice Cream Freezers. In Cots, Springs and Mattresses we are headquarters. Do not fail to see our two grades of Felt Mattresses. Our Perfection Mattress has no equal and we are selling a great many of them.

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'E want to say to our customers that we will

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gre&t many lines to select from if you want to buy.

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