Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 May 1897 — Page 2
THE DALLY BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA,
OUEEN'S PREMIERS,
THK MF.y WHO IIFT-PEM TO MAKE! VICTOUIAX HISTORY.
THB QUEENS PRIME MINISTER!.
THREE LIVING OUT OF TEN.
Lord Melbourne Wns the One 'Who Kduootpd Her In Stnte<*rnft—DI*rn**II the >I«Ht Piet a reK<ine t tilnd-
»tone the Monarch of AH*
Queen Victoria has had ten Prime Ministers In her reiffii of sixty years, and In tracing up the causes of the tt'Ide expansion of Hrltlsh power since 1S37 It at once beoomes apparent that to these level-headed statesmen Is largely due the glory which Is being showered upon the old lady who has outlived all but three of them—Mr. Gladstone, Lord Rosebery nud the
Marquis of Salisbury
When the girl Queen ascended the throne, sixty years ago. Lord Melbourne had been Premier for two years, and he continued to hold the Important office until 1841. It was he who gave Victoria her first lessons In statecraft and trained her In the business of governing the Government. That he was an efficient Instructor the wisdom of the Queen's conduct la tlnies of adversity and prosperity Is abundant evidence. Aside from this, the Administration of Lord Melbourne was not noteworthy, and. while he was never popular with the people, the Queen preserved an affectionate regard
for him until his death.
Sir Robert Peel sueeeeded Melbourne. nud continued In otflee until 1S40. Among other things. Sir Rob ert was the grandfather of the young Robert P<Md who has Just dls graced the famous name by writing an alleged exposure of Lon lo’n society. Sir Robert did much during his Premiership to unite the lower classes : and the Government on various vexed questions, and by the working people,
he was greatly esteemed.
Lord John Russell sueeeeded him
•ervlng from 1 -p; to 1ST»2. and his ser-' v oes were of vast import to the Queen, '
although he was generally opposed to the Governmental party. When only
a joung mail of u.i he made a reputa- I tlou by his vigorous opposition to a 1 * * * 5 * * repeal of the Habeas Corpus act. and
two years later, In ISIO. he made his
historic effort to secure Parliamentary reform, a subject with which his
name will be forever Identified. He was always the champion of riv.I and religious liberty. Although
Opposed by the Duke of Wellington’s Government. In ISh'S. m- secured the
repeal of the Test and Corporation
acts.
In 1S3i, the year of the Queen's accession, he had the Criminal law so amended that capital punishment was removed from forgery nud all offenses hut seven. He took a prominent part In promoting the education of the people and laid the foundation of the existing system of national education In England. His breadth of mind was exhibited In 187*8, when he secured the passage of a measure admitting Jews to Parliament. In 1805, on the death of Lord Palmerston, he became Prime Minister for the second time, holding
office, however, but a year.
On many subjects the Queen and I*ord Russell did not agree, but the wisdom of the man overcame the
power of the potentate.
1 lie great Lord Derby succeeded Lord Russell, In 1853. In his early parliamentary career he took a distinguished part In all measures ndat-
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1S74, when the Conservatives secured | a large majority, he was again selected. and he remained in power until 1880. when It was necessary to dissolve Parliament because of its existence for
the full limit of seven years.
Little need he said of England’s Grand Old Man. Mr. Gladstone was Premier four times, from 180S-74, 18805, 1880, 1892-4. The achievements of this monarch of statesmen are too fa-
miliar to need recounting here.
Lord Rosebery, the most luckless of all the Prime Ministers, held office about a year. Lord Salisbury has been twice Premier, 1886-92 and 1895 to the present time. His services will probably be rewarded by the Queen with
a dukedom.
UHE Fd-DAY BOAT,
“The administration of justice In Mexico has certain phases which might startle those who are accustomed to the law's delays in this country.” remarked a Chicagoan the other day who lias spent the last three
years In the sister republic.
"There Is no unneeeenry delay at any stage of the game. If there Is no doubt
STEAMSHIP PRO U1U Y
MET RELIEVE THE IS YEAlt AT BAND.
necessary fuel would leave comparatively little room for cargo and pas-
sengers.
Summed up. this means less earning it is Known tnat tne uunaro uine power and greater expense—a condi- officers have been on the outlook for tion which commerce seldom assumes months past for radical Improvements
and the machinery worked with perfect smoothness and complete absence
of vibration.”
It Is known that the Cunard Line
TURBINE SYSTEM MARVELS.
With Sninl! Coni Consumption 32 3-4 Knots Have Been —At This Speed a Steamer Would Cross the
Atlantic In Hours.
NEW YORK, w—Steamship men say that the four-day transatlantic boat is coming rapidly nearer.
voluntarily. That i§ the stumbling
block.
But once the operating expense problem Is solved the four-day boat will be a reality. Some steamship men say that the solution of the riddle has been reached, and that is what
* XA V/ A4 V LA O A.WI til v* 1 V. € 4 1 I ^ 1 VS T A. AU X. In steamship construction, the object being to produce a vessel which will attract greater attention than the huge Oceanic, now building for the White Star Line. The Oceanic, as the largest and swiftest vessel In the world, Is a distinct cliallenge to all of the other
they base their prophecies concerning | first-class companies, and, as the ♦ V. f .1 _ ~ * rrxi. _ n -1 T t 1 i _ i
the four-day boat upon. The recent trials of the turbine system of propulsion, at Newcastle-Upon Tyne, have been powerful enough to attract the serious attention of the directors of the Cunard Company, and it Is believed that before many months have elapsed an order will be given for the
Km11* mini is cuimng rapidly nearer. h** une-i win uv given lor me It will not be a freak vessel, like the i building of a vessel to be operated by
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Razln roller boat or the Gresham spiral screw ship, or the ten-screw craft advanced by Voss, the German engineer, but an elaboration of the present type of ocean greyhound. Just when the four-day boat will be
si age oi me game, ii mv-ie is imuiii .iusi « neu me ioar-ua.v ooni win oe about the prisoner’s guilt technicall- realized cannot be told accurately.
r‘ | ,lrl 111 ,l11 rocasures relnt- ties were never alowed to Interfere Recent developments of marine archlirf. .t ref0r » l ‘ n Iceland, and. as Chief with his prompt punishment. And very lecture show that It is possible, and It nail"''l 1 ?' * n land, in 1830. he Big- often the Mexican authorities manage is merely a question of how soon the
nalized his Adminlstmiou denm *! .* 1 ”. a ii 8 ^ st, ’ !n of na,lon£ l education in
that distressed country.
Lord Derby was one of the first to
OUCIl lYltrA i t iAU UUUUVI 11 it-iN ( iuv i v i j ix LIU W >11UU lilt? to save the expense of n trial. When- ! competing steamship coinjianies are ever a notorious desperado, for In- forced to spend the immense sum stance. Is captured he Is turned over to which the construction and operation
i.i!ru i*emy was one of the first to a couple of rurals to lie transferred to of a four-day fiyer entails. IiifT' 1 ;,^ t,u ' us Disraeli, and another Jail at some little distance. On | Torpedo boats are built which make s loyalty to that distinguished states-1 the way the prisoner always tries to thirty-one knots an hour. The averman was the cause of his resigning escape—at least, that is the report age route between Sandy Hook and ant* i *T m er8 f lll> ,eu roonths after his made by the guards. j Queenstown Is 2.880 sea miles, and If ppointment in February of 1852. “It Is unnecessary to add that no a thirty-one-knot gait could be malnin forming his Cabinet Lord Derby! prisoner ever did escape under such tained the full distance the Atlantic selected Disraeli os Chancellor of the circumstances or that no prisoner ever 1 could be crossed in a trifle loss than fcxctiequer, and a hostile vote of the 1 could do so. The guards simply report ninety-throe hours, or more than three Mouse of Commons condemning the that their man tried to give them the hours less than four days, budget of the Chancellor resulted In sl'P « IMl tlM1 t they felt compelled to What Is possible in a small hundredL.ord Derby’s retirement. In 1858 he riddle him with bullets to prevent his foot craft is possible In a 500-foot ves-
es*-ai>e. This dispenses with a trial and sol; It Is simply a question of exa legal execution. No Investigation peuse. The cost of operating an ocean ever Is made; It is strictly legal In flyer with such tremendous speed Mexico to shoot down an ’escaping would be enormous. The coal con-
prisoner.’ It is a InlKvr saving device, sumption under the present conditions a uispiaceuieui. oi lony-iwo ions, that’s all, but It Is ns effective and ns of steam generation would amount to She has been tried in heavy seas under expeditious as It Is economical.”—Chi Impracticable figures, and. besides, the the eyes of experts, and their report caeo Times-II era Id. i vast space occupied by the engines and : stated: “There was no racing of screws
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was again chosen Premier, hut his Administration was short-lived His Government brought forward a measure of Parliamentary reform, but on a hostile amendment being carried be
resigned for a second time.
He returned to power In 1866 and In conjunction with Mr. Disraeli! passed the reform measure of 1867* The following year he resigned the Premiership in favor of Dlsreall, and his last speech In Parliament, in 18<H) Just before he died, was made In opposition to the disestablishment of the
Irish Church.
Lord Aberdeen, who was Premier from 1862 to 1855. had the Crimean Mar to contend with. and. aside from this, hia Administration was not note-
worthy.
Lord Palmerston succeeded him In 1855, and was chosen for the second time in 1859. Palmerston was In his 71st year when first called to the exalted office, and he astounded the nation with the vigor with which he pressed the Russian War until the end came, at Sebastopol. The most picturesque of all the Queen’s Premiers was Disraeli, after^ ward Ix»rd Beaeonsfleld. After five attempts to secure election to Parliament, he was at last successful, in 1837. He was 32 at the time, and his maiden speech, made In a high-flown style and with extravagant gestures, created so much merriment that he was forced to stop, but before taking his seat he uttered the prophecy: "I shall sit down now, hut the time will come when you will hear me.” For the next twelve years he made a careful study of the methods of the ablest Parliamentary speakers, and it was not until 1849 that his oratorical ability began to attract attention. He had made few speeches until then, but when he felt the ground beneath him secure he flashed out like a meteor. During the seven years that the Liberals were in power, from ’59 to ’86, ns leader of the opposition Disraeli displayed talents ns a debater and a spirit of persistency under defeat which won him the admiration of the country. When first chosen Premier, In 1868, he served but a few months, because of a hostile majority. la
this system.
The turbine motive power, while promising a revolution In a marine propulsion, Is no freak, and that fact is best demonstrated by the recent performance of the little steamer Turblnla. Over a measured mile near the mouth of the Tyne this vessel showed a speed equivalent to thirty-two and three-
Cunard Line has always maintained its eminence In ocean travel by the sensational speed of its steamers, It Is believed that it will be forced to outdo
tbe Oceanic or lose prestige.
That the latter will not happen without an effort on the part of the Cunard directors has been demonstrated by their interest In the Turblnla, and It is this which makes steamship men generally believe that the four-day boat is not far distant. If the rumors from London saying that within a month the Cunard Company will place an order for a 500-foot steamer, to be operated by the turbine system prove true, the other first-class lines will be forced to follow suit, notably the Am-
rquivaieui to tnirry-iwo ana tnree- i« huh, uorauiy me amqunrtcr knots nn hour, which Is a frac-' er * oan Line, which, with Its Amerlcantlon more than a tliirty-nine-mile gait. ! built flyers, St IMul and St Louis, A large vessel traveling across the A as taken first rank among the differ-
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Atlantic at this rate of speed would complete the Journey In about eightyeight hours, or three days and sixteen hours. Fog and stress of weather would, of course. Interfere somewhat with such a speed, but, allowing for these misadventures, a steamer capable of developing such power could safely bo called a four-day boat. The particular feature of the turbine system which has attracted the attention of steamship men Is the remarkably low coal consumption. All of the trials of the Turblnla. where great speed was developed, were made at small cost for fuel. The Turblnla Is 100 feet long and 9 feet beam, with a displacement of forty-two tons. She has been tried in heavy seas under
THE LONG. NARROW OCEAN FLYER OF THE FUTURE AND TWO OF THE FREAKS.
ent companies.
The effects of the change would be even more far-reaching than this, as all of the great naval powers of the world would, In the race for speed supremacy, be forced to adopt the new system. Ixiw coal consumption and high speed have never yet been found In company, although they have been the dual aim of marine engineers and constructors since the time of the first steamboat. They have, In fact, been regarded as the millennium of the marine world, and If this has really come Its future developments will make the Invention of the airship a needless tusk, as far os speedy crossing of the Atlantic Is concerned. John Duffield of CedarviUe, Cumberland county. New Jersey, Is the owner of a unique farm In the State of sandy roads and mosquitoes. He runs a muskrat farm, and. In a way, too, that Is profitable to himself. Duffield sometime ago found that an extensive piece of marsh he owned along the shores of Delaware Bay, near his home, was of no use, unless he turned It Into a muskrat farm. This he did, and he bids fair to become quite well-to-do In A few years from the proceeds of the rodents, which are rapidly Increasing
In numbers.
Muskrats once settled on a piece of marsh laud suited to their tastes will not leave It. The soft-coated rodents need little or no care, and Increase at a marvelous rate. The harvest time for muskrat crops comes in the winter season, at a time when the south Jersey farmer puzzles his brain to pass avv ay the dull hours. There is a ready market for the sale of the ’’rat furs” In Philadelphia and New York, and the prices the skins command ore from $20 to $25 jier hundred. The fur is not the only valuable part of the animal. Tbe muskrat has a value to perfumers and wholesale druggists, while the carcass has become quite a delicacy as a substitute for the flesh of rabbits. Much of the so-called rabbit stew served up in the city restaurants is plain everyday muskrat meat. In flavor It Is similar to that of the rabbit, and an expert epicure could not distinguish one from i tlle other. The only difference is In the j cost of rabbit meat. It would be hard i to find a cleaner animal than the muskrat. Every article of food Is thoroughly washed before It Is eaten, and Its principal diet is the tender roots of sedge grass.—Philadelphia Press.
Junior partner: “Why did you give Crummer the job of collecting debts for our firm? Do you think he Is any good?” Senior partner: “Well, he collected a debt from me one day I”
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FORTHE VETERANS.
John lirnwn'a I.uat I>.*v* on Earth—Remarkable Chain of Clrcuiiiatanre* Connected with the Death of Gen. Fullerton.
Ode to the Greek Slave. GREEK! by more than Moslem fetters thrall'd! O marble prison of a radiant thought. Where life Is half recall'd, And beauty dwells, created, not enwrought— Why hauntest thou my dreams, enrobed In light. And atmosphered with purity, wherein Mine own soul Is transfigured, and grows bright. As though an angel smiled away Its sin! O chastity of Art! Behold! this maiden shape makes solitude Of all the busy mart; Beneath her soul’s Immeasurable woe, All sensuous vision lies subdued. And from her veiled eyes the How Of tears, Is Inward turned upon her heart; While on the prisoning lips Her eloquent spirit swoons. And from the lustrous brow's eclipse Falls patient glory, as from clouded moons! Severe in vestal grace, yet warm And flexile with the delicate glow of youth, She stands, the sweet embodiment of Truth; Her pure thoughts clustering around her form, Like seraph garments, whiter than the snows Which the wild sea upthrows. O Genius! thou canst chain Not marble only, but the human soul, And melt the heart with soft control, And wake such reverence in the brain. That man may he forgiven, If In the ancient days he dwelt Idolatrous with sculptured life, and knelt To Beauty more than Heaven! Genius Is worship! for Its works adore The Infinite Source of all their glorious thought. So blessed Art. like Nature, is o’erfraught With such a wondrous store Of hallowed Influence, that we who gaze Aright on her creations, haply pray and praise! Go, then, fair Slave! and In thy fetters teach What Heaven Inspired and Genius hath designed— Be thou Evangel of true Art, and preach The freedom of the mind!
left to spoil all I have done or suffered In the cause of freedom, I hardly dare risk another voyage, even If I had the opportunity. It is a long time since we met, but we shall now soon come together iu our "Father s house," I trust. "Let us hold fast that we already have”—remembering that we shall reap in due time If we faint not. Thanks be ever unto God, who giveth us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. And now, my old, warm-hearted friend. Good-bye. Your affectionate cousin, JOHN BROWN.
“A
Oen. Fullertoii'H Death.
remarkable chain of circum-
John ISrown's I.ant Days. The following characteristic letter from John Brown, written only a few days before his execution, has just been published for the first time. It was addressed to the great grand uncle of Miss Julia King of the faculty of the Emerson College of Oratory. It is worthy of a wide circulation; Charlestown, Jefferson Co., Va., 19 Nov., 1859. Rev. Luther Humphrey: My Dear Friend—Your kind letter of the 12th Inst. Is now before me. So far as my knowledge goes as to our mutual kindred, I suppose I am the first since the landing of Peter Brown from the Mayflower, that has either been sentenced to imprisonment, or to the gallows. But, my dear old friend, let not that fact alone grieve you. You cannot have forgotten how and where our grandfather (Capt. John Brown) fell In 1776, and that he, too, might have perished on the scaffold had circumstances been but very little different. The fact that a man dies under the hand of an executioner (or otherwise) has but little to do with his true character, as I suppose, John Rogers perished at the stake, a great and good man as I suppose; but his being so does not prove that any other man who has died in the same way was good or otherwise. Whether I have any reason to “be of good cheer” (or not) in view of my end, I can assure you that I feel so, and that I am totally blinded if I do not really experience that strengthening and consolation you so faithfully implore In my behalf. God of our Fathers reward your fidelity. I neither feel mortified, degraded, nor in the least ashamed of my Imprisonment, my chain, or my near prospect of death by hanging. I feel assured that “not one hair shall fall from my head without my heavenly Father.” I also feel that I have long been endeavoring to hold exactly “such a fast as God has choser.” See the passage In Isaiah which you have quoted. No part of my life has been more happily spent than that I have spent here, and I humbly trust that no part has been spent to better purpose. I would not say this boastlngly, but "Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through Infinite grace.” I should be sixty years old were I to live till May 9, 1860. I have enjoyed much of life as it Is, and have been remarkably prosperous, having early learned to regard the welfare and prosperity of others as my own. j have never sicce I can remember required a great amount of sleep, so that I conclude that I have already enjoyed full an average number of waking hours with those who reach their “Thre Score Years and Ten.” I have not yet been driven to the use of glasses but can still see to read and write, quite comfortably, but, more than that j have generally enjoyed remarkably good health. I might go on to recount unnumbered and unmerited blessings among which would be some very se-! vere afflictions and those the most needed blessings of all. And now when I think how easily I might be
stances is connected with the death of Gen. Joseph S. Fullerton In the wreck of the east-bound Baltimore & Ohio express on the Youghlogheny bridge near Oakland, Md.” said Albert Swas! ey, who accompanied Humphrey Fullerton to the scene of the wreck, to a St. Louis exchange reporter. “Gen. Fullerton came to St Louts at my invitation to see the first iron work put into his building at Seventh and Pine streets. The day he arrived was the first of three days of rainy weather. The men could not work in the rain! and I asked the general to stay over until the next day. He did so, but the day was no better than the first, and I had a few minutes of hard talk-’ ing to Induce the general to stay over for the third day. I finally succeeded, however, but the rain continued to fall and the work was not commenced. The continued bad weather put the general a little out of sorts and making an engagement for the following day we parted. "That night he happened to glance at the weather forecast and seeing rain predicted for the next day he wrote me a note of apology and departed on the 3 o'clock train for Cincinnati. The train arrived at Cincinnati two hours late and as a consequence Gen. Fullerton missed the eastern connection. Ha occupied berth No. 6 in the Pullman going to Cincinnati. "When the train failed to make connection he was told that the sleeper would be sent back and was given a check for a berth on another car. This car was attached to the rear of the next train and Gen. Fullerton, instead of going to his new berth, which was in the first of the three cars, went into the berth he had occupied on his way from St. Louis. About 8 o’colck one of the conductors noticed the general in the berth he had been assigned to while in Cincinnati. The general said that he did not like the idea of sleeping in the rear coach and had changed his mind about occupying his
old berth.
“The general was sick most of the night and rested uneasily. When the train was wrecked he was in his berth and this was probably the cause of his death. When the train left the track on the curve approaching the bridge they were on the inside of the curve and the engine and all but the three sleepers rode over the bridge safely. The two Pullman cars at the rear of the train were left on the bridge approach. owing to the breaking of the coupling and the first sleeper was carried about half way over. Its coupling also broke and the car was hurled over the bridge into the river, leaving the trucks tottering on the edge of the bridge. After it reached the water the heavy trucks fell with a terrible crash on the roof of the car Immediately over the berth of Gen. Fullerton and burled that part of the car in the mud at the bottom of the river. “Search was immediately made for the dead and Injured. The only one missing was Gen. Fullerton and. although there are 125 men working at the river and immense quantities of dynamite have been used, the body has not yet been recovered. It Is supp >sed to be buried beyond all hopes of recovery in the bed of the river. The general's clothing was recovered, as was also his pocketbook, which contained precisely $13.” The death of Gen. Fullerton will not interfere with the erection of the building to be named after him.
Old Hickory. When Old Hickory resided In the executive mansion he Invited his friends with hearty vehemence to wander at will through its vastness, says the Washington Post. The blunt "hero of New Orleans” never affected any airs of state dignity. Gen. Dale of Mississippi he hailed familiarly as "Sam.” and Mr. Van Buren he nicknamed “Matty.” He strolled unostentatiously through the white house grounds for recreation and played "mumblepeg" with his idolized adopted grandchildren In the part where the equestrian statue of himself now stands. Mrs. Jackson had died Just prior to the Inauguration. Her niece, Mrs. Donelson, was the lady of the mansion, and all three of her children were born within its historic walls. When a deputation waited upon the president to receive some precious article to lay in the cornerstone of the treasury department Jackson gave them a copy of the constitution and one of little Mary Donelson’s curls. There was always wine upon the president’s table; indeed, his lavish hospitality compelled him at times to draw upon the proceeds of his cotton crop and even to sell some valuable land in Tennessee. He had his eccentricities, too. The halls of the white houae rang with what have been politely termed “emphatic sentences," and he enjoyed smoking a corn-cob pipe, which he had bored and whittled with his own hands. He had. too, the reputation of possessing the largest assortment of pipes outside of a tobacco shop. The immense cheese, weighing several tons and a a large as a cart body, which was sent to him as a present was sliced and handed around at Innumerable receptions.