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•i, POUTIGfiL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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CI1Y MARSHAL.

TTiMEUY SCOTT is a candidate for City Marshal. Fi subject to tbe decision of the Republican city nominating conveution.

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J. JEFFRIES is a candidate for City Marshal, subject to the decision of the Keynblif*an nominating convention.

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. ASRF.SSOR.

MARRTSONSugarereek

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W ILK I INS is a candidate for As

sessor of township, subject to lc cision of the Democratic nominating conTention.

L. WALKER is a candidate for assessor of Jackson township, subject to the decision of the Democratic nominating convention,

THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

VOL. 14, No. -Hi— Entered at the PostofficeaB treeoud-elaas mail matter. W. S. MONTGOMERY,

Publisher and Proprietor.

Circulation This Week, 2,548.

TIIK GKIXOING OF TIIK MI M.S. Sounding, sounding, Loud o'er the din of cities,

Breaking,"crashing, clangorous, Over the hills of earth Mocking tlie shriek* of the chargers, Changers who stand in the temple, Rumbling, rolling, pitiless— These are the mills of the world.

Sounding, sounding, Low from the hills of dream-land, Sweet o'er the paths of childhood, Just to the farthest reckoning Wood cchoes, harp-strings singing, Blent with the splash of waters, Faint, but so sure,— These are the mills of God, JOHN JAMKS ME KHAN, in March Lippincott's.

IF EVERY mail and woman would see that each days work was done when that days sunset, there would be more successful people in the world.

PENNSYLVANIA

in electing a Congress

man at large Monday, went Republican by 150,000. The workingmen voted the Republican ticket almost unanimously. 2To nee4 to talk about straws showing the drift, that is a tidal wave and could •carry saw-logs.

WHENEVER you hear anyone claiming the A. P. A. as a Republican organization, you can remind them that Cleveland appointed one of the leading New York members, W. H. Peckham, for Judge of the Supreme Court. It is not a Republican organization.

"GROVER, Grover, four more years of Grover. In we go—out they go! Won't we be in clover." The above was the Democratic cry last year. Yet wheat is now selling in the markets of this county at 48 cents a bushel, and the chances are it will sell for 40 cents next summer.

THE prospects seems good for a fine ield of wheat this year. The crop in Kansas is calculated to be 100,000,000 bushels off of 4,500,000 acres, This year's crop will surpass that of 1892. when Kansas had 4,300,000 acres, and they are still shipping 1892 wheat from there.

THE Tipton Times, the organ of the Tipton Democracy, gets after John W. Kern, one of Indiana's leading Democratic politicians, in fine style. Kern was Cal Armstrong's attorney at Kokorno, and to clear him of the charge of embezzling §48000, and various other crimes, while deputy treasurer of Tipton •Co., Kern gave the Democratic officials of Tipton a terrible going over, accusing them of dishonesty, corruption in competency, conspiracy against Armstrong, etc. etc. The Times comes at Kern and says that to defend his client, a man does act have to be an ingrate, a libeler, a slanderer, a dishonest scoundrel, and have to stultify his principles and sense of honor to be a lawyer aad represent •the interests of his client. The Times winds up with: "We have criticised John Kern, have no opology to make or word to take back." We wonder if there is not a. good deal of truth in what both Kern and the Times have said.

Warming Certainly Fays IVIien Done Thoroughly. DEACON GEORGE W. HALLOCK, a Long

'Island farmer, is talking about "Practical Farming^' to farmers institutes. Mr. Hallock's farm consists of only sixtyseven acres, yet he produced last year 6,000 quarts of strawberries, 2,530 bushels of early potatoes, 5,100 barrels of cabbage, .3,950 bushels of onions from sets, 2,700 'bushels of late potatoes, 12,800 bushels of carrots. 21 bushels of white beans, 3 tons of Hungarian hay, 200 pounds of onion seed, 75 pounds of carrot seed, 110 •f "bushels of Brussels sprouts, 10,000 roots |. -of celery, 800 bushels of corn on ear, 300

Htrashels of onion seta and 275,000 cabbage Implants to carry over.

The march Forum will contain a sharp -and helpful discussion of the Income Tax. /The Hon. Uriel S. Hall, member of Constress from Missouri, will write in favor 'Ct it and Mr. David A. Wells against it. 'The same number of the Forum will conI 'tain the first of a series of articles on difparent systems of Socialism or Communism that are favored by different traps of agitators in the United States feMt. Edward Bellamy will explain deJpflnitely the programme of the Nationalists, IpiUld Professor William G. Sumner of Yale %&Jniverslty will criticise this programme llsahowing its impracticability. The Forum

Lst the end of each article will publish a Mat of books and articles bearing upon fttfce same subject, so that these desiring »¥o do so may uit»h.e a more complete instigation, than auy review article can ive. The Forum will also contain an interesting study of the religious con-

Idltion of an old Puritan town in Massatiusetts, showing the lapse of the force ad power of the churches, by the Rev.

Tm. Bayard Hale, of Middleboro, Mass.

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No wonder Chairman Wilson is sick. That tariff bill is enough to tnake anybody sick.

Mr. Cleveland must find it difficult to sleep while that silver gong is being thumped so hard in Congress.

The Farmer's Alliance disapproves of Secretary Morton and for oncc its disapproval meets with general approval.

The enterprising manufacturer of campaign goods will be certain to lay in an immense supply of imitation cuckoos.

Brother Talniage is going around the world, but his weekly sermon will continue to occupy its usual place in the papers.

That "North aud South" railroad scheme of the Kansas populists is like others from the same source—too glittering in promises,

The Indians of the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory do not want statehood but certain schemers who think they see big money in it do. Congress will deside the question.

It seems that there are a number of Democratic Senators who have no doubt of either the constitutionality or desirability of protection, when it is for their own interests.

Gov. Lewelling's jaw-bone isn't as deadly a weapon as the one that caused such havoc in the bible story. In fact, as a jawist he isn't in the same class with Mary Ellen Lease. "Theory is the wisdom of the wise man practice is the wisdom of God"— ex-Speaker Reed. The country is now getting a taste of theory from the Democratic point of view.

The tramp question is worrying the locul authorities at Washington. They should turn it over to the Democratic President and Congress, who have made more tramps than anything else.

The Democrats of the Senate Finance Committee are working on the theory that the people have no rights thai Democrats are bound to respect. The people will have their say next November.

The Southern Interstate Immigration Bureau has employed a party of medical experts to examine and report upon the healthfulness of the south. It isn't the sanitary condition of the south that keeps out immigrants.

It can hardly be considered a recommendation ot Mississippi's new Senator, Mr. McLaurin, to say that he is a successful criminal lawyer. Dan Vorhees and Joe Blackburn are also successful criminal lawyers, but nobody ever accused either of being a statesman.

We boast of the refining effects of civilization. Yet, more than one thousand people voluntarily witnessed the flogging of seven prisoners at the public whipping post at Wilmington, Del., the other day. And there area few people who will go out of their way to see a man hanged.

The cuckoo Democrats in the Senate say they have conciliated the Democratic Senators who were opposed to the Cleveland tariff bill. That may be true, but they have not conciliated the thousands who are idle or working for reduced wages because of that bill, and they have not tried.

Here is a bit of knowledge for those who are so positive that we are not up to the old world in our educational methods. The German School Commissioner to the World's Fair says in his official report to his government: "Tn their school system the Americans are in every way superior to the Germans."

A great many Democrats want to know whether Gov. Flower's barrel has been permanently closed. We can't speak as the permanency, but it is clear that the old man doesn't intend to put up good money for a worthless nomination. He knows that no amount of money can make a Democrat the next governor of New York.

How Merchants Can Keep Business at Home. Frankfort Times.

One of the easiest ways to make people go abroad to trade is neglecting to advertise at home. Merchants who don't believe that advertising pays should be the last to complain, if people attracted by liberal advertisements of merchants in other cities, go abroad to do their trading. As a general thing most of the people who send abroad for goods do so because of the bargains offered in the city papers, or because they see things advertised that they think the local merchants do not keep. If the local merchants would make a business of thoroughly advertising the goods they handle, and their prices, much of this trade would be kept at home. Nowadays people usually know what they want without looking around town for it and they go where they know they can get what they want at the cheapest price. The merchant who keeps them informed through the columns of the local paper that he keeps what they want and that he will sell it at reasonable prices, has no cause to complain of his customers sending to the cities for their goods.

DEATHS.

As reported by C. W. Morrison & Son undertakers. Matilda Carney, age 67, near Morristown Friday, Feb. 16th. Funeral by Rev. Cambric at Hanover Sunday at ten o'clock a. m.

Nora E. Deshon. age 12 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Deshon of Buck Creek Township, Tuesday, Feb. 20th. of epilepsy. Funeral Wednesday at one o'clock p. m. at Sugar Creek Church by Her. Chas. Hunt.

Reported by H. Rottman, Undertaker. Emma, wife of J. S. Thomas, died Feb. 13 at residence No. 75 North State street, of puerperal fever, aged 86 years.

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at Presbyterian church, Thursday Feb. 15 at 2 p. m. by Rev. Fowler, of Winchester Ind. Interment at Park cemetery.

Rinda, wife of J. R. Abram, died Feb. 17, at residence No. 13 Pierson street, of consumption, age 48 years. Services at residence Feb. 18th, by Rev. Lewellen. Interment at Mt. Lebanon.

1UC UBJSAl' AA1 MlOMl D1SMUCBAT1C BAND. O gi eat and mighty Grover,

Tbe greatest of us all We thought we'd he in clover, W hen.we elected you last fall,

Nothing else to do.

O great and mighty Gresham, Pilot of our ship of state, 'Tis but an honest confession

It's unpleasant ridin' in the old ship of late You'd better get some schoolin'. About this big ship, You'd better quit your foolin'

For the islands you can't whip.

O great and nnghty Carlisle, Our pocket-book you hold, O won't you stop and wait awhile

Before you sell for gold The credit of our Nation, And upon it place A debt will take a generation to eras«.

O great and mighty .Smith Of agencies the greatest It seems that now 'twas but a myth,.

You didn't really hate us 'Twas for the sake of fraud you could scarcely liud You laid us on the shelf before yon ('hanged your mind.

O great and mighty Bissell, The "hand writing on the wall" Civil service most a lizzie

Since ycu began to call, The I'. O. roll of honor And the heads began to drop To make room and dollars

For the deserving presidential crop.

O great and might Morton, Greatest farmer of our land. You surely must be sportin'

When you take a stand. Again your brother granger, You should be more careful what'you say, For your scalp may be in danger,

Yon caik't always have your way.

Ogrcat and mighty Wilson, Great reformer of the age Stop a minute, just to listen

While we read (for) you a page Of idle people and a panic, Of smokeless chimneys, noiseless wheels, Just stop and think 'twas you began it

And at the soup house we go to get our meals

O great and mighty Vorhees, The tallest of the lot Your long arm seems to reach with ease,

The presidential pot And to get from it a plum To Bend upon a mission That strikes the people dumb

When Grover's not a fistain'

O great and mighty Bynuni For he to Congress went He was only try in'to guy'em

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J. J. Hauck, died Feb. 21st, at his residence No. 59 Wilson street, of heart disease, age 54 years, 6 months. Set vices at residence, Friday, Feb. 23rd, at 2 p. m. by Rev. J. A. Lewellen, of tbe M. cuarch. Interment at Park cemetery. ...

The McCormlck Biuderand Mower.

Persons who desire a new self- binder or a inower, are requested to call at the 1 very barn of Jeffries & Son, and inspect tbe McCormick, for which they are agents. 7tf

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For the price of wheat's, not up a cent, And many a one is wonderin' why They've not received their piece of pie, One thing he should keep in memory,

The next time we'll elect Chas. L. Henry.

O rulers great and mighty, Of this great and glorious land You'd better halt your party 'Fore the people take a hand, You'd better do some driliin'

Have someone take command For these times is just a killin' Off your little band.

TTTK GREJCNFiJSLiJ BEFUBLIOAN. THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1894.

But now the 'lections over We've nothing else to do, But idly sit and watch you Grover

W.H.HARRIS.

THE VETERANS.

An Kloquent Tribute to Them by One Who Was Too Young to be a Soldier.

Hon. George L. Douglass, the brilliant young speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, was much too young to go into the army, but he stands second to none in his admiration of the brave men who res sued the country. He said in a speech at a Reunion at Baxter Springs, Kan.:

The debt we owe to the armies of the Union is the debt not alone ol this but of every land. The Greenlander on his barren coast, the Russian peasant in the heart of the mighty Empire of the Czar, the British workman at his forge, the Hindoo in his distant home, the dweller in the remotest island of the sea, are alike beneficiaries of the bravery and the sarcifices of the men who saved tbe Union and stamped from the face of modern civilization the blot of American slavery.

The historian who would measure the results of that war by the mere political fact of the preservation of the Union, aid the immediate emancipation of 4,000,000 of slaves, is short-sighted'indeed. Vast as was the gift of freedom to 4,000,000 of black men, the gift to the white race by the consequent change in the whole course of American thought, education, civilization and influence was infinitely greater and grander. And when I take the gray-haired veteran by the hand I reverently think of him not only as one to whom my devoutest thanks are due for tbe preservation of the Union in its integrity and the flag in its glory, but as one of the grand army that did greater service to the cause of Christian civilization throughout the world than any other army that ever battled on American soil. It is no demagogy to say this it is but the acknowledgment of an everlasting truth. I care not what are the political affiliation of any map, he honors himself only when he honors the men whose valor saved for him a country and a flag.

I have no sympathy with that sordid fear—so prevalent in high places to-day— that this Nation may be too generous to its old soldiers. To tbe distorted vision of some men, the occasional discovery of a single nnwortby pensioner seems to be a larger fact than that thousands of brave old herpes receive some small measure of justice at the hands of this great Government in the closing years of life. We all agree that no pretender should ever receive the bounty of this Gove nment. But the vast body of the survivors of the armies of the Union are not pretenders bnt brave men who deserve the eternal gratitude of this Nation to-day no less than when they faced the rebel bullets upon a hundred battlefields or starved and suffered in Andersonville or Libby Prison. I was only a small boy when the war closed, and I wasn't in it. But I am not one of those who believe that $13 a month ever paid those brave men the debt this oountry owed them.

They talk about fraud and "coffeecoolers," as though coffee-coolers made up the rank and tile of the grand army! I wasn't there, but I know there was someone else besides coffee-coolers who scaled the rocky hights of Lookout Mountain someone else than coffee-coolers who charged up tbe bloody slopes of Kenesaw and stood amidst the storms of snot und shell at Shiloh, Antietara, and tbe Wilderness someone else besides coffee-coolers who faced death and hell at Little Round Top and drove back the rebel hordes, shattered, broken and bleed

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ing from the hills and valleys of Gettysburg someone else besides coffee-coolers who, starving, thirsting, famishing in Southern prison-pens, came forth living skeletons or perished within those awful confines someone else besides coffee-cool-ers, who. ere the war ended, filled 300,000 loyal graves!

I have often thought when reading of the fierce struggle of that, contest, where shot and slieli plowed their bloody way through the ranks of living inen, and thousands were falling never to rise again how the shattered columns would close up and still face the storm of lead and steel, ready to do and die for country and the flag—I have often thought, if I had been there, I would have wanted more than anything else on earth to run. Whether I would have run or not I do not know. I can only hope the Almighty would have vouchsafed me some small share of that courage and devotion which crowned the heroes of that day. But this I know: the more I think of that great struggle and the glorious heritage of freedom and nationality their valor prserved for my children and me, the more I thank God for the men who stood fast in the hour of the Nation's peril and braved death in a,11 its forms rather than that the Nation's flay should go down.

When I was a boy, away back in my childhood's home on the banks of Lake Erie, there was an old man, weatherbeaten, gray and feeble. He was an object of veneration and honor in all the country around men went, out of their way to speak to him strangers sought.to meet and talk with him aud felt honored when then grasped the hand of "Old Ben Fleming," who had fought with Commodore Perry, 80 years ago, in the famous battle of Lake Erie. He was a plain, simple old man, but in the great patriotic procession, upon the anniversary of that day, surrounded by flags and banners, the cynosure of all eyes, would ride "Old Ben Fleming," the surviving heir of a bygone age. How the boys cheered and women waved their hands and men took off their hats as the old hero of 1813 rode by.

A quarter of a century now, and more, since the battered regiments turned homeward from the great war—a generation has come upon the earth since then. One by one the old heroes drop by the wayside and we hear the footfalls of younger men in the haunts and places of the brave men who are passing away and, in the not far distant future, I can see the last old soldier of the grand army of the Union. It may be 30 or 40 or 50 years, but a day will come, some day, when the last old hero of the great war, with whitened hair and wrinkled face and bended form will stand solitary and alone amid the people of the Nation he fought to save. Glorious and solemn thought! What honor will be too great for him then? What matter where in this broad land he may be, the whole Nation will claim him. Each tottering step will be watched by the eyes of thousands. Each faltering word will be caught and treasured. How reverently even great men will uncover before him and honor themselves by honoring him. And how small and petty, and selfish, how incomprehensible, to .the men of that day will seem the din and controversy of this generation oven the question as to how much this country owes, or whether it still owes anything, to the heroes who saved it!

Old soldiers! I want to say to you that in the ignoble warfare now being waged upon so many of you by men in high places, the young men of this country are with you. We glory in the history you made for us we love you for the country you preserved for us we honor you for the flag you saved for us and, as you stood by your country in her time of need so every patriot, young and old, will stand by you to-day and stand by you to theend.

OBITUARY.

PARK Eli.

Blanche, only daughter of Edward and and Cora Parker, was born September S, 1891 and departed this life February 11, 1894, being two years, five months and three days old. On Sunday evening about 5 o'clock, she was well as usual, and being left in the house a few minutes with her little brothers, she went and sat down on the hearth of the stove, while there her clothing was set on fire. The cries for help by her little brothers, brought ber father and grandfather to her side, but alas, it was too late to save her little life. The flames soou enveloped her and she was so badly burned that death could only release her from her suffering. She will not only be missed by her papa and mamma, but also by her two littlebrothers and her grandparents. Just a short time before her clothing caught on fire, she was singing that beautiful and impressive song, "We will lay up the bible and go home."

Little did her father and mother think she so soon would go to join the angel band in Heaven. It is hard to part with little Blanche, she was such a sweet little girl, but our loss is her eternal gain. Weep not, dear friends, Blanche is in Heaven, where sickness, sorrow, pain and death shall never come. The funeral was preached at the Sugarcreek church near Mohawk, by the writer.

Beautiful hands of a little one sec, Baby voice calling a mother to thee: Uosy-cheekcd darling, the light of our home.

Taken so early, is beckoning come. KF.V. C. JO. HUNT.

SMITH.

Lawrence Lycurgus Smith, son of John and Rebecca Smith, was born Dec. 31, 1863, died at his home in McCordsville, Feb. 14, 1894, aged 30 years, 1 month and 13 days. He leaves nine brothers, three sisters and a mother to mourn their loss. Of a family of 14 children his makes the second death. His fnneral services were held in the M. E. church, and conducted by the Rev. G. W. Greene, of New Burlington, Ind., and his body was laid to rest in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery, to await the final resurrection. Tbe family have the heartfelt sympathy of the community

ROBINSON.

On the evening of the 13th of February 1894. the Death Angel entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Robinson, of Jackson Tp,, and claimed for his own their daughter Alice, aged 18 years 7 months. Alice'illness was not reckoned by days, weeks or eveu months, but by years, yet she bore her suffering all with patience and fortitude. Alice was a dutiful loving daughter, a kind and affectionate sister, and will be greatly missed by her father, mother, five brothers and five sisters, whom she leaves behind. We extend to them our deepest sympathy in this their sad bereavement. Her remains were interred in Harjpn Cemetery. G. G. McKowJf.

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Why it spells Groceries when you read it backwards, and that is what Harry Strickland deals in. The newest and freshest stock. Right now we are selling flour, sugar, etc., below competition. Come in and get acquainted. Our business is growing, because we please our customers. Try us. Best goods, lowest prices. 12

Harry Strickland, Cash Grocer. 1

SOMETHING NEW! In Greenfield Now Open!

A chance for everybody to get a nice present for less money than they ever did or ever will again, in the way of a

Clock, Watch, Silverware of all kinds, Gold Pens, Spectaeles, etc.

We have a large stock and will cut prices to suit the hard times, and so that everybody can get a nice present for little money. We mean business and just what we say. Come and see for yourself at the new jewelry store of

L. A. DAVIS, THE JEWELER,

Opposite Court-House, Greenfield.

THE CHARM OF Individuality.

In the selection of a costume it is not alone necessary that a dress should be beautiful, tasty and becoming. It should, above all else, be distinct. In order to insure that we have bought a hundred patterns, each a gem and every one different. No duplicates. All our own importation.

New Printed India Silks, exclusive designs, one line 75c. A very fine selection of patterns at 81. Hew Black Satin Duchess. Ask to see them. Priestly's Black Dress Goods. All the new weaves just opened.

L. S. AYRES & CO.

Indianapolis, Ind.

Agents for Butterlck'a Patterns.

BINDER'S LIVERY STABLE MOVED!

C. E. Kinder, the popular Liveryman, has removed his Livery Stable from State street to Main street, just east of the Odd Fellows

Courteous treatment for every one, and prompt service. All old patrons are requested to call and everybody come and get acquainted.

E. KINDER, Prop.

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