Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 21 January 1892 — Page 4

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We are sellings the Celebrated Mrs. Potts Sad Irons, cheaper than they were eyer offered. "We carry the finest line of Guns, Equipments, amunition etc.,in the city.

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LAST Thursday night John L. Sullivan the pugilist signed, the Murphy pledge at Tacoma, "Washington where Francis Murphy is holding a meeting and made a speech from the platform.

THE weather was colder in the northwesterm states Monday and Tuesday nights than it has been for years. It was too cold even for mercury thermometers. Spirit thermometers indicated 44 degrees below zero.

THE REPUBLICAN last week contained a number of typographical' errors which occured through carelessness. In the make up on the editorial page two articles were badly mixed up, that is to say, the last half of each article was placed after the first half of the other, which resulted in a jumble of ideas even if they were not jumbled before. Such mistakes are liable to occur, but great care will be exercised to see that they do not occur again in the REPUBLICAN.

THE snow which fell here Monday afternoon and night was thw heaviest for years, and made the sleighing and sledding which heretofore had been good, simply magnificent. This spell of snow and sleighing carries one back several years, when these spells came regularly, every winter bringing joy and happiness to the yonng men and maidens, the boys and the girls in the heyday of life.

THE MA NUFACTURHRS of the New England States are many of them now demanding free wool or without a duty. They insist however that there should be a duty on woolen goods and on clothing made from the same. Major McKinley however says. "There is one thing that they all might as well make up their minds to down in the East—that is, that they can't have wool free when it comes from the sheep's back and put a tariff on it when it goes on oar back. [Applause.] "They can't have wool come into their factories in New England free and come out of their factories with a tariff to the American people.

IN a talk recently between some Indiana editors, the subject of "official pap" came up. It was the unanimous decision of those editors who received the "pap" that it was a bad thing and very demoralizing in its effects but they like the heroes that they are showed no inclination or desire to loosen their grip on the above mentioned "pap". Knowing their own manly strength and nobleness of they prefered to endure all the hardships purpose incident to pap-sucking rather than subject the weak nature of their despistd contemporary to the great ordeal which theyknew would overwhelm and ruin him forever. Grand heroes, sufferers in a great and noble cause, they are praying for strength to endure to the end.

One of the greatest questions before the American people to-day is the subject of roads and road making. Good highways are of great practical benefit to all citizens but especially the farmers. It enables him to economize in both labor and time and thus makes the earning capacity of himself and teams more. Good roads faciliate social intercourse and as association brightens tlie minds of those brought together they are very desirable on that account. Hancock county has excellent highways and those whose duty it is should see that the laws are not violated and the roads injured by heavy hauling when they are soft. The roads we have should be cared for aud improved and new and better ones built.

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New Castle Courier received the

coutract for the Ilenry county, public advertising and stationary for 1892, and tlie Democrat of that city is in a great rage because it failed to secure the contract. The Democrat and W. B. Burford, a guileless Democrat from Indianapolis, who has probably invented and worked more schemes than any man in the state to secure fat contracts for county and state printing, offered to do the work for $1000 less than W. H. Elliotts bid. How would they have fiiled the contract? The Democrat could have put in the advertising, but as it has less than half, the circulation of the ourier, the county Commissioners showed good judgment in keeping the county advertising in the Courier even if the rate was a little higher. The New Castle business men cheerfully pay the higher rate, because they get a greater proportionate benefit. In case Burford had secured a lump contract for books and stationary for one year, the counly officials would have worked on a very slim allowance of all kinds of material. There would have been nothing left at the end of the year aud the county to

make up the deficiency would have to pay about $1,000 more for stationary and books for 1893, than Mr. Elliotts bid for 1892, so that the amounts would even up and with the present arrangement, the county secures both services.

SENATOR PALMER has pronounced against free coinage of silver. He says it would ruin the Country.

His Ideas on the Quality of Correspondence and Other matters.

Good local correspondence is one of the chief features and is more appreciated in general than any other in a newspaper A good Editor will look well to this important department and see to it that it is up to the standard, pareing them caretuily for fear some one in his zeal has introduced an item that is not for the best interest of the neighborhood harmony and the success of the paper. The good correspondent will do his or her work as carefully as any other part of their business, striving to excel in giving the news and condensing it as much as possible. In this manner they may educate themselves much and their news will be sought after and read with interest. If they strive always to be truthful, giving a few facts concerning their town or neighborhood, discoursing briefly but intelligently on leading issues of the naighborhood, indulging in no gossip, slang

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bosh us these latter things

are really repudiated by the very people whom you ba 0 tried 1- amuse. It seems that I would be just n* truthful in this as if I were telling it

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to face. Some persons seek admittance iuto the colums of their local paper lor the sake of venting their spleen against seme one, or to say something they imagine to be smart. Of course they are not admitted except by some papers of low reputation whose Editor is careless, or too ignorant to distinguish the difference between news, and slander or gossip. This correspondents highest conception of news, is to have the ability to combine the largest amount of gall, impudence eheek and misrepresentation into their items. They also show a disposition to antagonize some one, and draw them into a controversy, supposing that by this means they may induce people to lionize them, when in fact if they knew how ridiculous they are made to appear in the eyes of readers they would try to introduce some common sense into their epistles, or forever oease their efforts to acquire fame in this manner. Persons in quest of balderdash of the above description will search the local correspondence of the REPUBLICAN in vain, for they will not find il there. Our Editor has a better conception of news, and nothing but actual facts, or remarks pure and elevating in tone, make their appearence, beside our correspondents are carefully chosen and are among the most intelligent and enlightened

The Editor who admits every ignorant unscrupulous, blatherskite, into his paper whose sole ambition is to stir animosities and register wrongs, makes a mistake. His weak and disgusting trttempts to draw something cynical and smart from his weak brain, gives the paper in which he figures, the reputation of indulging in the lower class of journalism, and justly so for the editor is likely cut out of the same cloth.

Our correspondents need no admonition to speak well of their neighbors, for they will pass over their short-comings gently if they have them, covering their errors with the mantle of charity, made more soothing by giving it a lining of love. And they certainly have the courage to rebuke evil and wickedness in whatever form it is found, doing it wisely that the evil doer may feel the error of his ways deeply and turn from tliem.

Some sage of former years, has said that "consistency is a jewel." He might also have said had he lived in our day "That cranks were numerous" and that "consistency" was knocked off the box, and deceit, is sitting smiling and grinning on her throne. No one likes to be accused of posessing this characteristic, called deceit*(some spell it deceipt,) but it is a peculiar fact that human nature is so constructed that we imagine we see this imp shining in the other "fellows" face, "When in fact he is peeping out at our own eyes. Is'nt that funny. Why in my short experience as an humble traveler on lifes rugged road, I have had men (one or two only) meet me with that seeming open, cordial, bland, smiling, cheerful, hopeful, laughing, gurgling, bubbling, overflowing, gushing, style that "captivates the eye, the ear it charmed," then when your back is turned they disgorge a large amount of hypocrisy, accompanied with slander and abuse, that makes his auditor grow sick at heart. If you have influence enough to cause the dogs to bark at you, you have a friend and that friend tells you about it. In politics as carried on in our great country, there is two little of that fair, square, open, honest upright gentlemanly principle. Men say all manner of evil of their fellowmeu, become excited, engage in two much dark dealing, become suspicious, begin to wag their tongues, without using their brains, a mistake too many men make, then trouble begins. In the language of one "eminent man," one party is a combination ot all good principles, and the oth'-r party the absence of all of them.

Can any good come up out of Nazareth? In politics there is frequently too little truth told in the manipuiatisn of them, and it seems to give men the lirivilege to assail one another, especially is the candidate made the target, maligned, abused, spit upon. I hate politics as they exist to-day because every little "squirt gun" iu the country that is capable of carrying a 22 short, gives vent to his feelings, then O! the people, the afflicted people. Too mauy, far too many, who are elected to office,betray the trust imposed in them. I am glad that I never discuss pol tics with Republicans or Democrats and I appeal to all my acquaintances of both par ties for the truthfulness of tnis assertion.

In my feble way for the past three years, I have labored assiduously to directly do what I could to increase the circulation of the

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

and in every way build up its interests aad influence It has also been my desire and also that of the editor of the REPUBLICAN to do everything in our power to aid and assist in upbuilding the interest of Greenfield and Hancock County, and eich individual citizen thereof. During the year 1892 it shall continue to be our aim to do all that we can along the line of public and private improvonient in

our city and county. I wish that all may come up to the level of their best efforts during this year, and prosper accordingly. My mission to every one is open and above board and he that dates to assert to the contrary counts without his host. "He is of but few days and full of trouble," and like the rest of mankind will finally die. "Honi soit qui maly pense.

It is painfully surprising to a close observer at the petty swindlers our country contains, You can meet them most anywhere. Persons who would be highly insulted if they were accused of taking a thing that does not belong to them. But if many of them would utilize half of the time in honest labor, that they spend in trying to gain a petty and dishonest advantage over some of their fellow beings there would in the end be in materially better financial and soctfcl circumstances. Iu refering to this class I am not speaking of the professinal dead beats, which infest every corner of Gods country like rocents, but of those curious compounds of human nature who iu some senses may be regarded as reasonably trustworthy, but who foolish unprotitably devote a large amount of their allotted time to small, mean and usually very crudely devised schemes for a transient advantage over their neighbors. Among the multitudinous members of the class refered to may be mentioned the man who spends a dollars worth of time in getting the face va.ue of a punched coin, the one whose goods are of short weight or of inferior quality who "samples" the profit off from every purchas, the oue who brings back articles "bougjit by mistake," minus weight or measure, the one who is chronically short a few pennies, the one who "paid that little slip last Saturday when you were so busy you know," the merchant who inflates the price of articles an hundred per cent in order to catch the high minded costomer who judges of the value of a thing by the money it costs. This customer is most commonly a woman with more money than brains. To these and their tribe may be rightly added the agriculturist who can pile 4 feet of holes in 16 feet of wood. You will also observe that he is generally the man who calls merchants robbers and frauds, but when the first opportunity presents itself he will take advantage of mans extremity with vengence. The one who buries a few pounds of rancid butter under a few pound of freshly churned ditto, the man whose frosted, and mean fruit and vegetables never appear near the top, the one whose weights and measures area little short of the legal standard, etc. etc. It is needless to say that the petty swindler is almost invariably "spotted" and that in the aggregate his little raids are rarely profitable. How often have I heard merchants remark "That woman needs watching, or that man is tricky. Another is the man who paid for his newspaper at a certain time or place when in fact he did not, and was yarning for the sake of a dollar. No matter what business one may be engaged in, they are being constantly preyed upon by the petty swindler. His assessments are perhaps insignificent but in the aggregate they are of considerable moment. We know him as we know his professional brother, the deadbeat, but while we ourselves are responsible for any pecuniary success that the dead-beat may gain at our expense it would take heads infinitly wiser than yours or mine to guard the depredations of his humbler conferee without incuring an unpleasant and unwished for reputation for meanness and penuriousness.

And so you will probably submit to the petty swindlers little extortions to the end of your career. But that need'nt prevent you from occasionly relieving yonr feelings by anathemizing in your private conversation and scarifying in the columns of the newspaper.

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FINANCIAL FALLACIES.

Com1no11-Se11.se View of Currency—Money Liood Only For What It Can Do. [Matthew Marshall in New York Sun.]

I hear read every day utterances by men high in the business and political world, based upon the medieval assumption that the more coin and paper money a country has the richer it is, and a clamor for more currency is set up regularly at every session of Congress. Evidently gold and silver, apart from the use they serve when made into articles of luxury and ornament, the total value of which is only a small percentage of the entire product of the mines, are wealth only so far as they will procure by exchange other articles of utility or luxury. Paper money certainly intrinsically valuable only by virtue of purchasing power, since even an attempt to change its form destroys it. An increase iu the volume of currency, therefore, unless it is accompanied by an increase of the supply of the commod ities which ciu'rancy can buy, is no augmentation of real wealth, and curiously enough gold and silver producing regions, being usually agriculturally barren and deficient in manufacturing industry, are the poorest in the world.

The most satisfactory source of wealth is labor, skillfully directed and industriously applied to the creation of those commodities which men regard as desirable because of their ability to satisfy their wants. When such labor is active it produces wealth rapidly when it slackens its efforts its product is diminished accordingly. Without its co-operation the owners of the precious metals and of the paper

representing them would

be paupers. A man with lots of gold and silver could not satisfy his hunger or clothe his body unless some of his fellowmen labored to create food and sell it to him, any more than if he owned all railroad cars in the country could he supply his wants unless somebody worked to furnish the articles with which the cars could be laden. This, by the way, suggests a tolerably good illustration, though not a perfect one, of the function of money and the reason why a congestion of it, such as prevails at present in this financial center, is a result and indication of dull trade. Wheu men are busy in producing aud exchanging commodities they require more money for the purpose than when they are idle, just as more cars are wanted when many articles are to be transported than when they are few. Thus, when the crops are harvested,a3 they are every summer and autumn, a demand springs up for money with which to buy them from the agriculturists and bring them to market.

The banks are called upon to furnish it, and their stock of it is depleted accordingly. When manufacturers have plenty of orders they use money in buying raw materials and in paying their hands and they, too, absorb it from the banks. Hence the rate of interest or the price of the rent of money, and of credits which supplement moneyi goes up when the manufacturing business is lively, and goes down when it is dull. It is just as

flops Pendleton.

OUR PRICL^

Are the lowest and. the people know it when can buy a Lady's elegant Oil Grain Solid. SI for $1.24 and Mens Hand Bottomed Solid Boo# for $2.50. They are satisfied and we are glad to be able to do it. On Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions, Prices can not possibly be duplicated.

it is with railroad cars. No one supposes for a moment that a scarcity of such cars indicates anything but an active carrying business, nor that the accumulation of them at railroad centers is due to any cause but a want of freight to carry. Yet, for a railrood company to boast of the immense number of cars it has lying idle in its yards is no more irrational than it is for a business community to plume itself on the quantity of currency it has in the same condition. The defect in the illustration consists in the fact that the lack of actual coin and paper money can be supplied, as it is to an immense extent, by credit, whereas no such substi. tute exists for the actual railroad cars.

More 'ilian Hard Work Necessary. Omaha World-Herald.

The men who make the most money on the farm are not, generally, the ones who work the hardest, or who put in the most hours in the field. There is more than hard work that influences for success on the farm. It is not necessary that the farmer should be a slave to drudgery and hard labor. Neither is it necessary f®r him to make himself the biggest hog on the farm. Intelligence, with a knowledge of how to manage, counts for more on the farm than with any other class of labor. The greatest reason of failure on the farm may be traced to ignorance of how to plan and manage properly the farm operations. The next prevailing source of dissatisfaction grows out of laziness, and is so closely related to its leader that they are often hard to distinguish one from the other.

Life, energy and ambition are necessary properties in the make-up of the farmer. Such a person will see the importance of system and will proceed to arrange a place for everything aud see that it is in its place when not in use. He will have a time to go to bed and a time to get up, a time to go to work and a time to quit a time to feed and a.time to water in short everything will be systematized iu a way to accomplish the most iu the least number of hours. The social features of life will not be neglected and the family will share a portion of his time. The long winter evenings will be spent in reading and discussing subjects of interest to farm and household, us well as learning something of what is going on all over the world.

There is no business that affords better opportunities for cultivating irregular hours and running fifteen hours into a day's work than farming, if permitted to be prosecuted without a system. The disposition to greed is almost sure to follow this plan of farm management, and man then practically places himself a rival with the largest hog on the farm and surrenders all prospects and advantages for enjoyment to the one object, that of accumulating wealth. Such farmers are neither a credit nor an advantage to any community.

HORSE NOTES.

—John Schlosser of New Palestine has a fine brown pacing mare by Billy Davis, 1st dam by Joe Jefferson, 2nd dam by Grays Tom Hal, 3rd dam by Bashaw. Persons with a knowlege of what constitutes good blood will readily see that this mare is bred away up. Mr. S. also has a 3 year old stallion by Blue Vein, dam by Hunts Blue Bull, 2 dam by Davy Crockett. —J. O. Branson of New Palestine has suddenly developed into a horseman. He has purchased a bay colt Alceum 16,957 a great grandson of George Wilkes. Alceum is by Alcyonum 12,549. He by Alcyone 632. Alceum's dam, Dixie, by the Hinsdale Horse 826. This horse is standard bred and is one of the best colts in the county. —B. F. Marshall of Charlottesville is owner of a 4 year bay old stallion Major B. by "Garfield Early. He by Black Hawk Messenger, Garfields Early «'am Old Granny record 2:27}^. Majors dam by Hambriuo 2:21%. Mr. Marshall owns the dam. She is now in foal to Homers Sam by Blue Bull 75- Mr. M. is in it so far as the breeding of his horses are con. cerned. —Dick Wilson of Rushvfile has sold Billy Davis No. 16920 to f^rank Gleason of Van Wert Ohio.

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Strathmore got the dams of eleven of the 1891 2:30 performers. Fifty per cent of all yearling 2:30 performers carry the blood of Strathmore. —Johnny Dickerson one of Indiana's great driver never bought a pool on a mm: race in his life but what he did buy was mm 240 acres of nice land down near Terre fess Haute the other day. —Messrs Rock and White of Charlottesville have a great horse in Willie

Wilkes aud no mistake. He is coal black and has .one of the most glossy coats of any horse we have seen. Their sorrel ma're Nellie W. by Landis Tom Hal, is infc^ foal to Willie Wilkes. The bay mare "Alice Brunswick" at this barn, sired by Almont Brunswick. 11,290, 2:25% is a 3 year old and one of the nicest level trotter we have seen move. She is in foal to Henry F. by Commander. This mare's grand sire is Almont Chief 3Gl#ft,aSS?r TJ*: first dam Frauzie G. by Ajax 40. ^adu a good one and gives great promise as a producer and a trotter. &

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