Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 August 1901 — Page 10

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1901

THE Filipino rebellion consists now mainly ol Atkinson, Towne and a few scattered Tagalogs.

THIS is a great year for the common people. Ex Senator Pettigrew is on the right side of Wal! street and ex-Senator Towne is on the ground lloor at Loaumont.

A MARYLAND town has rejected a $2f,000 library from Mr. Carnegie because it would cost -12,500 a year to maintain it. A place like that is a good one to emigrate from.

TIIE new battleship Maine will be the most powerful vessel afloat. However, its illustrious namesake exerted considerable influence in harbors, hemispheres and archipelagoes.

IT is predicted that congress next year will appropriate $5,000,000 for rural free delivery. Neighborhoods with bad roads are barred out of this procession and can give no good reason why they should be included.

AND now the tobacco trust is to be "paralleled" by a strenuous rival. That's the trouble! No sooner do you get your trust formed and sit down at ease to enjoy your dividends than some rude outsider wants to share them.

BY way of amusing themselves. Democratic papers are nominating a Republican candidate for 1904 and predicting his defeat. They might add to the gayety of the business by writing the platform and letters of acceptance.

NEW YORK'S board of health claims that since it was organized thirty-five years ago it has reduced the death rate from 34 92 per 1000 to 21.04. According to this computation, improved sanitation saved 48,580 lives in New \ork City last year.

"ITESPONSIHLE only to Gotl and his father, so may my son follow his path in life," remarks Der Kaiser in celebration of his second son's entrance into the First Guards. The firm of Me and Gott seems to be doing business at the old stand.

SO LONG as Mr. Bryan holds that what he thinks is Democracy and the old guard holds that what it thinks is Democracy, there is neither danger nor hope of harmony, which calls to mind the scriptural admonition that a house divided against itself can not stand.

THE movement in the Arkansas Dem oeracy to turn down Senator Jones ought to be combated by the Republican party. The senator has contributed a good deal to the gayety of politics, and incidentally he has been the means of increasing the Republican vote in the country at large.

IT is queer how intently some people in this country calling themselves Americans are watching for Uncle Sam to pursue a fell purpose to rob and oppress the inhabitants of our new possessions. Uncle Sam's fiendishly despotic character can only be repressed by the perpetual vigilance of this class.

IT is small wonder that our European cousins look upon America as the land of contrasts and opportunities. From Dick Croker, ward-worker, bar-room fighter and occupant of a TombB cell to Mr. Richard Croker, country gentleman and master of the Moat House, Letcombe, is a change that they can not understand in "dear old Lunnon."

THE Delphi Citizen-Times in speaking of the late Democratic convention of Ohio says: "As an organization it I amounts to nothing and no attention should be paid to its maudlin utterances." From which we gather the idea that harmony is not the corner stone of Democratic action for the coming elections. The gash that Bryan cut in the old party still festers and refuses to hetl.

THE Democrats who are saying that there will be no chance for the creation of a strong Republican party in the south are protesting too much. The excitement which they show betrays their fear. The Democracy has virtually disappeared from the whole country except the south, and if half or a third of the states in that locality should become doubtful that party might as well go Into the hands of a receiver. Nevertheless, the present in dications are that the Republicans are about to build up a strong organization in all the southern states.

A COMING REVOLUTION. Naturally, the protest by Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama, against some of thes outh's political practices, is attracting great attention in that section. Mr. Herbert, in an address before the Alabama bar association at Montgomery, in that state, said: "We need freer thought and freer action in the south, and should give party managers to understand that they must put up men of whom we can approve." Ho also declared that "fraud stalks through the land like pestilence in the night. The line is imaginary between counting out the negro because his vote is cast for the wrong candidate, and counting out the white man because his vote is obnoxious. Let educated men proclaim aloud that, except upon the basis of honest elections, the natural outcome of Republican government is discontent, unrest, instability, and iinally revolution."

Here is a plea for greater freedom of political action and less fraud at the ballot box which is causing some excitement among the ruling caste in the south. Mr. Herbert is a man of standing and inlluence in his section. He represented an Alabama district in the house of representaves for rnauy years. He was secretary of the navy in Cleveland's second administration. During his service in congress no man in his state, not even Senator Morgan, was better known in the country. In the past four years his name has been heard seldom in the United States at large, but he is still a man of weight in the councils of his party. There is no reason to suppose that service in Clovelaud's cabinet has lowered him in the estimation of his Democratic neighbors.

Probably it will be charged by some of the Democrats in both sections that Herbert is preparing to come over to the Republicans. The same accusation was made against Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, when he voted with the Republicans on many measures in the recent congress. Perhaps the charge is true in each case. There can be no doubt that a break is taking place in the south, which will soon make most of its states as debatable as they wore during the Whig days of half a century ago. Delaware and West Virginia have come squarely over to the Republicans in recant years, Maryland has been carried by the Republicans for the past half dozen years in every important canvas except that of 1899, while Kentucky, notwithstanding its fraud-creating election law, is a doubtful state. Several more of the southern states are destined to become shaky for the Democracy in the very near future. v*

Two years ago when John R. McLean was nominated for governor of Ohio, the Democratic state convention gave khis explicit pledge of loyalty to the cause of silver inflation and to the personal fortunes of its especial champion: "We continue to demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold as equal in primary money at the ratio of 1(5 to 1, independent of all other nations in the world. The Hon. William J. Bryan still retains our entire confidence, and we demand his renomination in 1900."

In this year's convention the Hon. William J. Bryan seemed to retain "the entire confidence" of only six delegates out of 950, while the issue on which he rose to power, and which has been set for five years past in the very forefront of Democratic doctrine, was coldly stricken from the platform without even six voices raised to challenge its consignment to the political ash heap.

UNDER Spanish dominion Cuba contained many a black hole almost as pestilential as any known in Hindostan or in the whole vast territory of the Orient. Now Cuba has been flushed and washed, and there has not been a case of yellow fever in Havana for Several months. New brooms sweep clean when they sire handled by clean minded and clean handed Americans, and American experts in sanitation know how to use disinfectants and purifying chemicals. And, above all, they know how to use water, and how to scrub and how to sweeten. The air of Cuba is now sound and wholesome, thanks chiefly to the American passion for the best attainable conditions. The Queen of the Antilles has had a bath at last.

WHILE now and then some small fry in the Democratic party jumps up and derides the Ohio state convention for trampling Bryan and his heresies under foot, no prominent state Democratic convention will depart far from the mark set by the Democrats of Ohio. They see dead issues in free silver, Bryan and imperialism and have the courage to say it.

THOUGH the British postoffice shows a surplus at the end of the year, it conducts the telegraphic service at an annual loss of $3,500,000, or of $41,000,000 since the government took charge of the telegraphs. Sir Michael HicksBeach attributes the deficiency to unproductive extensions of the telegraphic department.

THE Bourbons are said to be afraid of the "New South," and yet it is a foregone conclusion it can never hurt tnem half as much as they have hurt the pld south.

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Scheme For Selling Fnrm and Dramatic Climax. "3ome years ago," said the narrator, "au oil boom hit Litchfield, Ills., and everybody for miles around was seen emitting for oil and every stranger suspected of being an expert looking for a good tiling. An old farmer named Loomis had a big place three miles out. of town, wliieli would have been a fortune for him had he not been possessed of a mania for swapping, manifest in a perennial attempt to trade off his land for twi^e its value. "When the boom was at the top notch, Tjooniis received a visitor who took so much interest in the farm, so liked its appearance, location, etc., that the old fanner scented a petroleum man and saw visions of incalculable wealth: but, being a shrewd man, Looniis did not care to take any unnecessary chances with Providence, and on the quiet he sent the hired man out the back way with orders to dump the kerosene can into the well. The visitor liked the entire place, inspected (he barn, the chicken yard and then, as if by chance, asked for a drink of water. "Loomis was waiting for that and hauled up a brimming bucket before the man's own eyes and poured him out a gourdl'ni of liquid with a line, opalescent scum upon it. The visitor smelled tht) stuff, tasted it, made si wry face and asked if the water was always like that. 'Oh, yes,' said Loomis, 'but you soon get accustomed to the taste, and our doctor says this is the finest water on earth for (he stomach.' 'Well, I tun ding danged if I'll ever get used to it,' was (he unexpected response. 'I am looking for a farm, not sin oil well, and if have got to haul my drinking water three miles from Litchfield I guess I'd rather buy nearer town.' "Tt took Loomis six months to get the taste of oil out of his well, and by that time the boom was over, and nothing was left of the oil craze but rotting derricks and abandoned shafts."—New Orleans Tnnes-1 eiuocraT.

BOOK MAXIMS.

It is better to give a book than to lend it. Do not bite a. paper knife until it has the edge of a saw.

Lo not cut books except with a proper ivory knife. It is ruination to a good book to cut it right through into the corners.

Books are neither card rsicks, crumb baskets nor receptacles for dead leaves. Never write upon a title page or half title. The blank fly leaf is the right place. l)o not turn the leaves of books down. Particularly do not turn the leaves of books printed on plate paper.

If you are in the habit of lending books, do not mark them. These two acts together constitute an act of indiscretion.

Hooks were not meant as cushions, nor were they ii*eact to be toasted before si lire.—Arthur L. Humphreys in Private Library.

Where He Forsrot Himself. "We are seven," laughingly quoted the man who was an applicant for life insurance when asked to give the number of children in his father's family. "And their names?" asked the examining surgeon. "Well, there's Albert, Addie, Henry, Laura, William and Dora and—and"— "The surgeon looked surprised, and the applicant looked foolish.

Then he began again, "There's Albert and Addie, and Ilenry and Laura, and William and Dora, and—and"—

The surgeon announced that these were only six. The applicant acknowledged the corn and went over the list again and again, invariably balking after the sixth name. Then a bright office boy looked up from his work, with a grin, and said: "Say, haven't you left yourself out of the count?"

The surgeon seemed relieved, the applicant seemed more foolish than ever, and the office boy grinned on at his work. "That certainiy was one time," finally commented the applicant, "that 1 completely forgot myself."—New .York Times.

Apples tlic Diet For the Sedentary. Apples are very wholesome and digestible. They contain considerable potassium and sodium salts, magnesium, a little iron and about 85 per cent of water. Apples, being rich in pectin, form readily into jelly. They also contain free organic acids as well as salts, such a malates, citrates and tartrates. They are quite laxative, more so if taken late at night or early in the morning with a glass of water. Their nutritive value is not much, as they are largely composed of water. For invalids apples are best when baked and eateh cither plain or served with cream.

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A gallon of distilled water weighs 8.339 pounds, and there being four quarts to the gallon and two pints to the quart, and 1G fluid ounces to the pint, and two tablespoonfuls to the fluid ounce, and four teaspoonfuls to the tablespoon. and 45 drops to the teaspoon, a drop of water weighs 0.00018057 pound, slightly more.

A Pathetic Bereavement. Miss Singer—I saw in the paper that there is to be an entertainment for a "musical orphanage!" Pray, what may a musical orphanage be?

Mr. Kfcnitall-I can't say positively, you know, but 1 imagine it must be a child deprived of its native air.—Harper's Bazar.

If a inotlier Is at nil clever, she can train ber bab.v by llie time it is 0 weeks old to cry to go to ita father as soon as be comes in the bouse.—Atebison Globe.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON V, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 4.

Text of the Lcshoii. Gcii. xlil, 1-18. Memory Verses, 7-fl—Golden Text, Mntli. vii, 12—Commentary Prepared by the Rev, D, M. Stearnn.

[Copyright, 1901, by American Press Association.] 1-4. Abram went up out of Egypt to Bethel, unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first, and there Abram called on the name of the Lord such is a brief summary of these four verses. We do not read of any altar in Egypt, for there Abram was out of fellowsnip with Hod, thinking of his own personal safety rather than the glory of t_ ol. If you have wandered from God. and neglected the altar and allowed anything to cinne between God and your soul, return to llwn as quickly as possible, for nothing can make up for lack of fellowship with ITiin, and He is saying, "Only acknowledge thine iniquity turn, O backsliding child, for I am married unto you" (Jer. iii, lo, 1-1 l!om. vii, 4). llis wife and Lot and all that he had were affected by his wanderings and return no one liveth unto himself, and we must be careful not in put a stumbling block or occasion to fall in another's way (Rom. xiv, 7-13). 5-1). Alirnin said unto Lot, Let there he no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdiiien. for we be brethren. Lot also was rich in (locks and herds and tents, and the substance of these two men was so great that they could not dwell together. They were in the land for God, and (he heathen were in the land, the

Canaanite and the Pei'izzite, and before these people they must witness for God, therefore there must be no strife, for "the servant ol the Lord must not strike" (II Tim. ii, -4). Who shall yield? For if strife is to cease some one must yield. See the greatness of Abram, the one to whom God had given the land, with whom Lot' was sojourning by Abrairt's consent, who might have said, This is all mine, given me by God, and you and your herdmen must he quiet or else go away to some other land. This would only have been right in the eyes of many, but listen to Abram as he offers Lot the first choice, meekly saying. It will he better for us to separate choose whatever part Of the land you prefer, and I will he content to go elsewhere. This is greatness In the sight of God. 10. 11. Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan, and they separated themselves, the one from the other. This life set before us in Abram consisted of a series of separations unto

God more and more fully unto Ilim, from Ur. from TIaran, from Terah, from Canaan, in which he had only his tent and altar, from Egypt, and now from Lot. It Is only as we are willing to be separated unto God from all others and all else that we can know anything of the sufficiency of God. for while we lean on aught else Ho cannot reveal Himself to us (II Cor. vi, K-1S). Lot, like most people, seemed glad enough to take advantage of Abram's generous offer he had not the grace of unselfishness. He lifted up his eyes, but not even to the hills, much less to the Lord, from whom every good gift comes (Jer. iii. 'J3 .Tas. i, 17). lie sawonly the well watered plain of Jordan and its seeming advantages to himself. 12, 13. Abram continued in the hill country, but Lot dwelt in the plain, and not heeding the wickedness of the men of Sodom he even pitched his tent toward Sodom. The stories of the plains in Scripture are not as a rule so refreshing as the stories of the mountains. See the plain of Shiriar and the plain of Dura (Gen. xi, 2-4 Zecli. v, 11 Dan. iii, 1) and contrast Elijah on Carmel, the trans figuration, the ascension and other hill stories. The air of the hills is better.

Sometimes God allows us to be placed among the wicked that we may there shine for Him, making His grace sulB cient for us, but if He leaves the choice to us we should remember Ps: i, 1 cxix, 3, and keep as far away as possible from every appearance of evil. Holiness is not as contagious as sin (Hag. ii, 11-13). The men of Sodom may not have seemed very wicked in the eyes of Lot, but they were sinners exceedingly before the Lord. 14-17. Arise, walk through the land, in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I will give it unto thee. Separations i*ito God always bring increased blessings and new revelations of God to the soul having by the grace of God magnanimously yielded and in a sense taken second place, God now confirms to him the gift of theMand with a new statement that his seed should be as the dust of the earth. In a later appearing tGen. xv, 5) the Lord told him that his seed should be as the stars of heaven then still later (xxii, 17) the Lord combined the two, and in connection with his giving up of Isaac told him that his seed should be as the stars of the Heaven and as thc sand which is upon the seashore. Afterward the twofold promise is divided and the heavenly part is given to Isaac and the earthly to Jacob (xxvi, 4 xxviii, 14). The first becomes last and the last first and to my mind refer to Israel and the church, through whom as Abraham's earthly and heavenly seed God will yet bless all nations. These two companies of the redeemed may be seen in Gen. and ii on the fourth day suu, moon and stars are for signs, and Jer. xxxi, 35, 30 tells us that they are signs or tokens that Israel is always a nation before God in Eph. v, 31, 32 we note that Adam atrd Eve are typical of Christ and the church, 18. "Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord." Hebron was a hill country, for Caleb said to Joshua, Give me this mountain, and Hebron became his inheritance (Joshua xiv, 12-15) this plsiin of Mamre must have been a tableland, a plain among the hills where

Abram long continued to enjoy fellowship with God far above and away from the atmosphere of Sodom. There in due time Sarah died, and ne bought the field of Machpelah and the cave that was in it as a burial place (chapter xxiii). siud there to this day lie the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Kebekah, Jacob and Leah (chapter xlix, 29-31) awaiting the first resurrection and the fulfillment ol the promises. A good work is being done at Hebron today among the Jews and Moslems by the Mildmay Medical mission, in which I am thankful to have a prayerful and financial interest. Hebron

signifies fellowship: why not have fellowShip with God in this passion? In the study of these lessous I earnestly commend F. 13. Meyer's "Life of Abraham' and C. II. M.'s "Notes on Genesis."

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