Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 28 February 1895 — Page 2

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DL'UING the eighteen years ending with June 30, 1890, 1826 persons were killed by cyclones in the United States.

POSTMASTER-GENERAL Bissel, of the President's cabinet, handed his resignation to the President yesterday, to be accepted as soon as his successor is appointed. The most prominent man mentioned for the vacancy is Congressman .Wilson, of West Virginia, author of the "Wilson bill.

YESTERDAY was the day that the Indianapolis public building bill, in charge of Bynum, should have come up, but it did not. Bynum quietly sit through the sc-ssiou and never opened his head about the matter. Well. Hynuin ha? had his day s.n3 he knows it. and all he wants now is a "tv.t place" which to while the rest of his days.

•f Now that the Genenil Assembly has started on the reform road let them keep the good work moving during the remaining days of the session. One of the measures needing speedy attention is the one which Governor Matthews had introduced—prohibiting winter racing at Roby.

Let the bill pass at once and the people all over the State will rise up and call the legislature ''blessed."

SPEAKING of the bill to appropriate money for placing the statutes of Oliver P. Morton and William Henry Harrison in the Capitol at Washington, the Indian* polis News Says: "The choice of subjects is by all odds, the most fortunate and fitting that could be made, and the time of the choice has only been too long •delayed, and shouid be speedily passed to a law. The thing should have been done ars ago. Indiana will be greatly represented by Morton and Harrison. This Legislature should see to it that the work is done*. Delay is dangerous."

TI/.E corrupt practice act, of which SenStuart is author passed the Senate sday. The bill passed limits the mnfc which a candidate may expend -ecuring his nomination and election requires him to keep an account of vxpeniditures and to make sworn state*ut as to his expenses before he can get official commission. There are in *Mtion stringent regulations as to briband.s.veve penalties for that offense. to be hoped that the House will pass bill. If it becomes a law, this legisare will have taken an important step I :ard the purification of elections in In" uH-na.

terestiuy letter on American Canneries, Americ.tu Homesteads, Foreign Immigration and

Coolie .Labor.

EDITOR REPUBLICAN:—I have noticed from time to time the REPUBLICAN urging the building ef a canning factory at Greenfield, and following recent telegraphic reports from California, I feel inclined to persistently urge the wisdom of Mr. Montgomery's advice as well as to preveil on the American people in general to give closer study to the results of promoting home enterprises, which would certainly have a most wholesome •effect. We have been very careless in this respect in the past, and now, while we are ii a prolonged financial crisis thousands of our respectable Americanborn citizens are suffering from a lack of means to earn their own living or even a 5pot of ground on which to build a shelter of their own to protect them.

We ought still to have thousands of acres of government lands in the west where our own citizens could go in their present distress and find tli-m homes, build factories and stores and pile up cities. But years ago we began giving out these valuable chances to foreigners anybody and everybody who wanted to come from wherever they would, and now we have whoJe sections in this country peopled by persons who cannot even /direct you in the English language how to find the nearest cross roads to get out of their settlements. Euough of these people are here read to take a hand in our prosperity, that if one of our large Eastern states were suddeutly swept clear of every person in it they could walk in s&ad repopulate it again. They are here now and more still coming, and I want to impress the fact on the people of Hancock who have not recognized the. results directly, and ask them to interest themselves to the extent of urging and supporting any legislation restricting foreign immigration that may hereafter be proposed. The safety of our social as well as present political system and individual prosperity depends upon it. If the people who are not thrown in direct contact with these people had given support to past efforts of those who have been long ago I think, drastic measures to stop this inflow of people we don't want, would have been more successful. We could get along very well without the great bulk of those who come from every nation, the English even not excepted.

The English are the most desirible, but 75 per ^ent at least of the English persons I know have still more loyalty for the English government than for ours. I began to notice this fact during the Be leriog sea trouble some y®ars ago when it looked like we might have war with England. I was talking with an Englishman one day with whom I frequently met at the restaurant, we were discutsing

the affair and he was very partial in his support of England's construction of justice, and I said "But since you have been here 15 years and have made considerable money in our mines and still intend making this country your home, in case of war your sympathies would of course be with us? He answered, "Well I —I don't know about that." Those were the last words of the conversation and I have never troubled myself to speak to the man since. Plenty of similar instances I hare witnessed since. A few days ago I heard a group of men talking, among them an Englishman who has taken out his first set of citizen's papv..^, just enough to enable him to vote tl.c Populist ticket. The boys were all "hard up" and were speculating on what they would do if they had $500. The Englishman said "well I know what I'd do: I'd go back to the old country.'' He is a member of the Sons of St. George, an English order, and be says the staj. of their large hall in Denver is elaborately decorated with English (lags and no other Hag is allowed a place. There a two of these Englis.li orders in the city of considerable strength, and in the state of ('olorado the Sons of St. George alone has 4,000 members. If I had more space I would go further and pay more, but I merely call attention to these people whom are accustomed to regard as the best friends we have in other nationalities, I will say nothing at present of the intermediate tongues and go to the foot of the list, where I find the Chinese, to whom attention is called by the California dis patches before mentioned.

A wealthy syndicate of Chinamen has obtained possession of a tract of several thousand acres of fruit lauds and orchards and also a large number of smaller tracts through tout the State, for which they pay a yearly rental of from $1,500 to $5,000 each. During the coming year the immense amount of canned goods and green fruits shipped all over the country from this syndicate will be the entire product of Chineese capital and Chineese labor. The thousands of respectale Americans who onght to be employed in these California orchards and canneries can stand around with their hands in their trousers and watch these coolies work. And the Americans all over the country will buy these fruits and canned goods because they are cheaper. Yes they will I ve seen its parallel too often to haye a doubt about it. I will not myself, and the respectable people in localities most affected will not: but outside the districts disturbed these goods will find a ready sale unless vigorous means are used to call our American fellow citizeus' attention to it.

I heard a doctor lecture once who spent several years among the Chinese in their native country. He says they are a people of pestilential sores. They raise and prepare for market a great deal of tha tea we use.

The new tea plant leaves are collected in large quantities and a number of Chinamen get around the pile something like an old-time husking bee. Each leaf is twisted into a small wad and put in a basket and carried off to dry. Lepjosy and other loathsome sores are so common that the sufferers don't think of stopping work to cure up, and the doctor said he would often see an old Chinaman go out to one side when he got to hurting to bad remove part of his clothing, carefully unwrap the affected spot, clean the old sore put on a new rag and go back to twistiug up tea leaves without washing his hands. An immense amount of laundry business is done in cities by Chinamen. Nothing is to dirty for them to wash. I know a young man whose laundry was so loathsome that it was sent back to him from the white laundry because the bauds in the wrash room refused to handle it. He went to a Chinese laundry after that and never had any trouble. The condition is getting alarming when times being so hard that American citizens can see no profit in retaining their fruit lands and orchards, they lease thousands of acres to these people who cau work them with profit, compelling other respectable growers and canners to compete with tiieir ruinous labor. I wish the people of t.he county of my birth would do all in their power toward filling the market with this class of goods and in influencing consumers to give a thought to supplying themselves with the product of respectable producers and freeze out this gigantic coolie industry that is this year threatening tue welfare of our respectable fellow citizens on the Pacific coast,

LUTHER HACKLEMAN,

Denver, Col. OBITUARY. JOHNS. Henry, eldest son of Matthew and Ella Johns, was born near Wilkinson, Hancock county, Indiana, January 24, 1844.

Was married to Sarah J. Coon, May 16, 1866. There were born to them seven chi'dren all of whom are living.

He joined the Methodist church at Elizabeth City under the preaching of Rev. Layton several years ago.

He was initiated into Evening Sfar Lodge No. 503, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, June 3, 1881, and was a faithful member, having filled several offices. He was present on last Friday night and assisted in the work. ..

On Saturday forenoon February 16, 1895, in attempting to cross the railroad in his buggy he was struck by a passenger train and was injured so that death came to his relief in a few hours, aged 51 years and 22 days.

At Home lie rests on that beautiful shore, Where sorrow shall come nevermore. At home with the angels a!ove

Singing anthems of praise and love.

DECADENT DIALOGUE.

How People Talk In One of William Sharp'# Dramas. Mr. William Sharp, the disciple in England of Maeterlinck, has written a volume of dramatic interludes which he calls "Vistas." It may interest some readers who are not well acquainted with the decadent species of dialogue to see the following scrap taken from the "Passing of Lilith," which by some is regarded as the most typical of the "Vistas:"

Ulnel—Lilith, heart of beauty, wilt thou come? Lilith—I perish yonder.

Ulnel—Thou canst not die. Thou art immortal. Lilith—I dreamed that I should die daily and a thousand deaths.

Ulnel—Love scorneth fear. Lilith—Fear warneth love. Ulnel—Come. Lilith—Show me the portals of thy golden house.

Ulnel (troubled) What wouldst thou? Lilith—Thee. -wi

Ulnel—I must go hence. Already—' If this dialogue has a tendency to bewilder the untutored and unpsychological mind, what will bo the effect of this brief quotation from "The Whisperer?"

The Man—Who spoke? The Whisperer—It is I. The Man—Who art thou? Tlio Whisperer—I am of thoso who watch.

The Man—For whom? (Silence.) The Man—For what? (Silence.) The Man—Art thou there? The Whisperer—I am here. The Man—I see thee not. Whero art thou?

The Whisperer—I am the rhythm of the whirling wheels and the falling hoofs, in the noise of innumerous feet and tho murmur of myriad breaths. The sparrows flicker in the light of my footfall, and the high sunlight is in my eyes.

This conversation, be it noted, is taking place on a crowded modern London street Most people would prefer even Oscar Wilde as a steady diet.—Boston Traveller.

INDIGNANT OUIDA.

She Protests Against Any Public Library Censorship of Books. There is another matter in which, to my view, great libraries are as much at fault as when they desire to dictate the price of books. It is when they attempt to constitute themselves the censors of opinion, the judges of what the public should or should not read. It is as monstrous for a librarian or a committee of librarians to exclude a work which is asked for from their bookshelves on the score of its immorality as it would bo for a grocer to refuse to sell a customer tea because he thought it bad for the nerves. The purveyor has no business to dictate the tastes of his supporters. Tho public is tho solo judge of what it wishes to read. If tho wickedest book in the world bo in demand, the circulating libraries, which are merely the go between, uniting the publisher and the reader, aro bound to supply it. Its character is no affair of theirs. They are not popes or police officers, nor is tho public a child or ward in chancery. —Ouida in North American Review.

Symbolical Jewelry.

Tlio Japanese ladies, by tho several ways of dressing the hair, denote whether they aro maid, wife or mother. Other nations and tribes attach a similar significance to the wearing of certain articles of jewelry, as the Algerian women, who, upon the birth of the first child, assume a round silver brooch, encircled by small coral roses and finely wrought knobs of metal. If the child is a girl, this ornament is worn on the breast. If a boy, it is placed on the forehead. These women, young and old, aro fond of trinkots and wear a multiplicity of bead and coral necklaces, as well as those made of spices and a sweet smelling paste, said to bo composed of pressed rose leaves. Bracelets and necklaces of the latter kind are found on sale in largo bazaars and are desirable not only as curiosities, but on account of their pleasant and lasting perfume.—New York Advertiser. *,

Fearless.

"Fear," said the Russian General Skobeleff to a subordinate officer, "must cease when a man reaches the grade of captain." Every officer under him was expected, when tho occasion camo, to lay down his life as an example to his men. "I must show my men how badly tho Turks aim," he said while standing as a target on a rampart of a trench at the siege of Plevna. "I know how to cure him of exposing himself," said a soldier in the trenches. "Tho first time he jumps on the rampart let us all jump after him."

They did so, and Skobeleff, who could not bear needlessly to expose his men, jumped down.—Youth's Companion.

Has the Most Legs."

The little creature which bears the distinction of owning more legs and feet than any other known organized being is the milleped,' which literally means "thousand footed." There are several species of these curious worms, all possessing the characteristic of having a many segmented body, each segment provided with a pair of legs. Unlike the oentipeds— "hundred footed" they are perfeotly harmless.—St Louis Republic.

An Optimist.

"My husband," said Mrs. Sharp, "is one of the most oheerful of optimists"— "Indeed 1" "Oh, yes he never doubts his own judgment"—Cleveland, Plain Dealer.

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HAn onyx seal ring, belonging to ad Incient Atlieuian, was lately dug up jear Athens.

EDUCATION OF WOMAN

TEACH HER SELF RELIANCE, SAYS REV. MADISON C. PETERS.

Appeals to Mothers to Look Higher Than Exterior Polish For Their Daughters. Train Girls to Support Themselves—Wo.

mpn's Position In the Home.

Man and woman are unlike, each incomplete without the other, and it is in their unlikeness that their power over each other lies, and against every attempt to destroy that unlikeness the instinct of either sex will forever impose an insurmountable barrier, making every manly man recoil from a masculine woman with a repulsion equaled only by that which a sensible woman feels for an effeminate man.

I believe in the highest education of woman—that is, training woman to do woman's work, to fulfill a woman's mission, in a woman's proper placo. "Women, as a rule, think of education as a schooling that has to be endured until the age of 18, tho object of which is to mako them appear well in society and give them a chance of success in marrying well—that is, rich. This low standard of education reduces everything to outward appearances. But the education needed to mako her think, to mako a woman of her, to teach her self respect and self reliance, is comparatively neglected. This, I believe, to bo the great error by which, more than anything else, woman is prevented from taking her rightful position in society and from exerting her full influence. All true reform must begin by educating woman to a better sense of what is due to herself and through her to the world.

Mothers, I appeal to you, look beyond the drawing room of your friends, where your daughters are to be sometimes seen, perhaps shown. Look higher than to get them married off. Prepare them not merely to dazzle in the circle of fashion and the gay party. Seok to polish the exterior by what are called accomplishments, but give them also a solid substratum of intelligence, good sense and social virtue. I ask not the sacrifice of anything that can add grace and elegance and ornament to the woman, but I demand for woman an education that will make her man's helpmeet and not simply his help eat, his coworker and not simply his doll to be dressed or his toy to be played with.

I would force upon every woman the thought of a serious lii'o. She should be trained to do some useful thing well enough to support herself by it if necessary, and this exigency often occurs, and the helplessness of many a woman of refinement under such circumstances is something painful to contemplato. Learn some one thing, no matter what, so thoroughly that you can mako your services in that occupation valuable everywhere. How enviablo tho independence you would thus attain! IIow moro calmly could you then face threatened misfortune! IIow much higher tho piano on which you would approach tho question of marriage. It would cease to be a burden taken off tho hands of parents or a mercenary shift resorted to forsupport. Any woman of fair looks and ordinary sense can marry some sort of a man, but is not a life of loneliness moro honorable than a loveless marriage? All honor to the woman who makes her own way in tho world rather than live a lifo with a man for tho sako of being kept, and not until women become self reliant and independent will marriago become what it ought to be— a union on equal terms, a free and glad surrender of the heart.

A marriage for convenience, for position or title, a marriage without love, is a humiliating stoop to the dust, a mockery that blushes to the skies. Matrimony is now looked upon as a mere matter of money, and Cupid, having grown old, has changed to cupidity. I never knew a marriage expressly money made that did not end unhappily, yet managing mothers and heartless daughters are constantly playing tho same game. And until a higher mission awaits the schoolgirl than that of being taken from the schoolroom to the auction block and placed on exhibition in the marriage mart, where showy accomplishments ouhance the value of the ware and draw a higher bidder, no hotter education than that which meets tho flippant demands of society is possibla

I would add to the curriculum of studies in all our schools and colleges for women special courses in coolc-ology, boil-ology, bake-ology and stitch-ology. I would make all the improvements of the manners and the accomplishments of education subordinate to the duties of the home, the means to make home happy. Woman is the God ordained queen of the home In the home is embosomed God's own trust, the glory of the state, the hope of the church and the, destiny of the world. fj Is there a place that can Impart

Blest visions to the aching heart? Is there a place whose image dear Can soothe our grief, dispel our fear?

That place is home.

Of hardships we may bear our part. Still home's the touchstone of the heart. Whatever may our bosoms cheer. Whatever we regard as dear.

That place is homo.

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have always been blessed with crowded audiences, but the joy of my ministry has been that hearts have been healed that tears have been seen streaming from the eyes of the penitent that homes have been made beautiful and lives happy. It shall be my ambition to make this a sonl saving church. With all its magnificonce of architecture it would be but like the old Greek corpse —it was lifted, but fell, because "it lacked something within." A church lacks something within if the grace of God does not work in it in the conversion of sinnera

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