Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 39, Hope, Bartholomew County, 19 January 1893 — Page 3

SFOuIS OF STATESMEN. How the People’s Lawmakers Beguile their Leisure Mti’tira. SUPREME COURT WHIST CLUB. The Senate Poker Team—Frye Without Bait—The Triangle, Kenna, Edmunds and Hampton—Garland Makes a Cartridge—Back and Palmer. Special Correspondence. Washington. —Work consumes most of the statesman’s time and ho has consequently few recreations and no sports properly so called. He is too busy to play. To men who have had to attain and hold their places, life is a dreadfully earnest thing and the hard work which each day entails fills it full.

SENATOR FRYE DOSING A LUMBERMAN.

Neither President Harrison nor Secretary Blaine nor Secretary Windom, I believe, indulge habitually in any sport. The same is true of Senators Hiscook, Hawioy, Chandler, Hoar, Sherman and Ingalls, with the exception that Senator H wley plays billiards worse than he sings. Whenever Mr. Ingalls has an hour he can devote to amusements, and it is seldom, he possesses himself of one of the rare books of the world which he never found time to read and plunges into it. Probably a majority of our lawmakers and law-interpreters play cards, but few of them are expert or devoted to any game. The supremo court has a select whist club to which seven members belong and which meets “around,” the bouse oftenest chosen being that of Mr. Justice Blatchford near Franklin square. The club knows all about Hoyle and Pole and the other high muckamucks of pasteboard and inclines to hold to “the rigors of the game,” like Thackeray’s heroine, but it possesses a backset in Mr. Justice Lamar, who being a brilliant raconteur and having had exceptionally interesting personal experience, is often drawn out in conversation by the roar couple in sue h a way as to carry consternation into the ranks of the enemy. The senate quartette are understood to be hard men to tackle — Don Cameron, Hale, Butler and Farwell. They are said to enjoy themselves and to make about as much as they lose in the course of a winter. The senator who kills the most fish and small game during a year is, I suppose, Frye of Maine. He has a cabin in the woods on the Rangely Hills of Aroostook, and he generally goes there every year as soon as he can get away from Washington and stays till the tocsin sounds again. While he is there Mrs. Frye is there roughing it and doing the cooking. In speaking of this outing once, the senator said to me: “When I get up there where it is cool, with plenty of hunting and plenty of finding, too, by the way, with everything of the freshest and the cooking done to a dot, it comes about as near heaven as I ever expect to see.”

JOHN K. KENNA, THE BOSS FISHERMAN OF THE SENATE.

Senator Frye tells some good stories about officiating as doctor up there. Being distant from a settlement he carries drugs with him, and occasionally a lumberman will come twenty or thirty miles to get “fixed up.” Frye is distinguished for being the only man in the United States senate who never takes a.iy bait when he goes fishing.' I do not, of course, moan that he carries no bait for Mie fish, but only that he consumes n 10 himself. To see him sit motionless by the hour, with no bottie to raise to his parched

lips has often caused amazement and anxious solicitude to his companions. Senators Kenna, Edmunds and Wade Hampton. “Do you suppose ho is still alive?” they inquire of each other as the hot sun declines. By the way, these last three form a noted piscatorial triangle. At least once during every session of congress they creep off up to, Point of Rocks to fish and shoot ducks. “Mo talking” is the rule which governs those occasions. Sometimes Frye goes along, and sometimes Senator Gorman of Maryland, who claims the privilagos of a host. I asked Gen. Hampton last winter about his fishing comrades. “I suppose the best all-round fisherman in the senate is Mr. Kenna of West Virginia,” he said. “There is no nonsense about him. He is not a dude. He goes in to catch fish. Dressed in rough jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a slouch hat and high boots, well greased, he rows his own boat and attends to his own bait. With his tall, robust figure and young handsome face, he looks the rustic Apollo. And Kenna is probably the best rifle shot in the senate. Ho is a great man after deer and boar, and for years has kept a pack of beagles with which ho annually scours the flanks of the Alleghanies.” “Kenna fishes to get fish. His favorite allurement is the phantom minnow. Every time he goes out homo ho comes here and buys ton ora dozen for the boys.” Last summer, I find, he bought several hundred, and I have often wondered whether they had any influence on effecting the wise decision to which the legislature at last arrived. Senator Beck is fond of hunting and bags a good deal of game in the course of a year. Senator Platt is fond of trout and salmon fishing and pursues the sport with eager enthusiasm. He has a cabin up in the Adirondacks where ho and Mrs. Plait enjoy a good deal of every summer. Three years ago when ho heard that Cleveland was going there he said: “Well, there! Now I’ll pull up and go to Canada.” Platt has also a passion for botany and studies the secrets of the flowers wherever he wanders. Senator Blackburn is the crack shot of the western statesman, and he has a mild liking for hunting and likes to go fishing occasionally, but he has been grossly lied about and misrepresented by the newspaper man who sot him up as a terror to the wild game of Kentucky. It is understood that the game does not regard him in that light.

THE WAY SENATOR CAMDEN JERKS III8 FISH.

Senator Gorman is known in the senate as the lone fisherman, being given to solitary hunts. M. A. Tappau, our chief sporting tackle merchant, tells mo: “Garland is an artistic sportsman. He kno.ws just what he wants. I have to load all his cartridges for him according to model. Each must contain twelve buckshot No. 3 with one single B shot in the center of each layer to make it solid. Ho goes on a deer drive as often as he can get away. Edmunds has a fine billiard table in the basement with the closet adjoining. for balls, cues, etc. Ho is thought to resemble St. Jerome. Evarls has fun farming, owing 800 acres among the Green mountains and 300 on the Potomac just below Washington. Gorman has a passion for base ball, and once played second on the Nationals here. Mills has the same frenzy. Don Cameron and Sheridan scoured the battle-fields of Virginia on horseback, and Spooner enjoys the same recreation, generally accompanied byMrs. Spooner and his second son. Palmer is fond of fishing, story telling, singing, entertaining and rustic roughing it; and he is passionately fond of bonfires and generally manages to havo one of Parnassus every night when ho has his friends around him in his favorite log cabin. Book likes everything that yields a new and agreeable sensation, and he generally manages to get it. Sherman’s chief game is backgammon, in which he is an expert. He also enjoys playing “Muggings” with his daughter, who, it is understood, is now nearly twenty games ahead. Quay is a great off-shore fisherman and is therefore the pride and envy of the senate. He has caught not onlv strugeon and cod, but shark and swordfish—the captains of the sea. The best base ball player in either house is Bon Buttorworth of Ohio, who can pick the leathern sphere outof the air with great dexterity. He is often in the game at Le Droit park, where he lives. About twenty members of congress are always found on the stand when a league game is played here. W. A. Croffut.

lUllromllnit In thr Holjr Land. One of the most interesting and suggestive of recent projects is that of a railroad to run from Jaffa to Jerusalem and thence to Betelohom. The enterprise is a purely commorelal one, without a trace of sentiment or religion. Certain English and French speculators propose to make money by shortening the journey of the numerous tourists who visit the Holy Land every year, and by providing modern conveniences of travel where they are now utterly wanting. The idea is logical and attractive from a business point of view, it mhst bo confessed. One can readily understand how tho proposed railroad may be made to' yield good dividends. And yet tho thought of such an invasion of that sacred corner of the world is not pleasant. To fancy a locomotive thundering through tho valley of Johosaphat, past tho tombs of tho kings, in the shadow of the mountains of IVIoab, is to feel an impulse of protest against a thing so foreign to those scones and their familiar associations. It seems in a measure to imply sacrilege, so long has the spirit of romance, the atmosphere of sleep and dreams, pervaded the country and all of its interests. Tho average heart can not easily discard the impression that tho locality is a consecrated one, which should bo forever exempt from alien and compromising influences. There cannot bo any romance or solemnity where the railroad goes, of course. It is, of all creative agencies, the most iconoclastic and utilitarian. The philosophy of its existence does not afford any room for sentimental considerations. It is heedless of all those facts and traditions which make the Holy Land remarkable and precious. In its theory of things. Palestine is only a tract of territory 12,000 square miles in extent—not quite so large as Maryland—which presents a certain amount of passenger traffic, worth a given number of dollars at Gould r tes. with tho customary reduction for excursions. The pool Of iSiloam is to it simply a good place for a tank and nothing more. Its conception of the Garden of Gethsemane is only that of a convenient location for a depot or round house; tho Mount of Olives is but an obstruction which involves difficulties in grading; and Calvary, taking tho latest and best conclusion as to I the true site thereof, is merely a hlnderanee to switching facilities in the vicinity of Damascus gate. Tho Jordan means to it only the necessity of a bridge, with trestle approaches. Its interest in the Dead sea, where Sodom and Gomorrah are supposed to have stood, is confined to the fact that a branch lino of eighteen miles will carry tourists there from Jerusalem; and Bethany, Jericho, Gilgil, and other noted intervening places are only so many names to be placed on its time cards. The matter has a still deeper meaning, however, than that which relates to the coming removal of tho spoil of romance under which tho Holy Land has brooded over since the present population of tho world can remember. Itfconveys a lesson of serious and practical import, which tho Clergy in particular should not fail to heed.’ There are miracles now that have quite as much significance as those which came to pass in olden times; and the continued potency of Christianity depends very largely upon a correct understanding and a proper treatment of them. The progress of civilization has introduced new forces which onn not be dealt with according to old fashions. It will not do to ignore tho revelations of science and the conquests of industry and capital which have wrought so many changes in tho world, spiritual as well as material, during this aentury of unexampled activity and accomplishment. Tho church is in duty bound to adapt itself to these changed conditions. It cannot otherwise hope to maintain its supremacy and duly perforin its mission. The railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem and Bethlehem is typical in ils way of a general tendency of thought and feeling which calls most urgently for improved religious methods and appliances. It is a question of substituting tho teachings of experience for the precedents of a former and very different period. The tost of merit in religion, as in everything else, is success; and success of the right sort is to bo achieved only by placing tho means in strict lino with the desired ends.—St. Louis Glohe-Doraocrnt. Siam's Kins. Siam, a little sparsely populated country in tho distant south, long refused allegiance to our groat land, like a praying mantis pushing back an advancing chariot with his little claws. But now for 200 years she has boon submissive to tho behests of him who sits on the dragon Throne. In the eighth moon of this year a new ruler will bo crowned as King and take to consort a Queen, with dazzling pomp. A merchant of Ch’ao-chow Fu, Kuangtung. long a resident in Slam and loaded with favors by the King, was lately commissioned to proceed to Canton to buy rosewood cabinets, silk embroideries, etc., to the value of 10,000 taels. This Chinese merchant has presented the King with a couple of boards, containing each fourteen characters beautifully carved, praising the King as one of those virtuous princes whom the Son of Heaven views with special favor. —Hu Pao. An Accomplished Musician—Mrs, A.— “Do you play tho organ, Mr. Smith! Smith—“Yes. if the hurdle is not broken.” —Epoch.

FOUR OF A KIND. Quadruple Execution at Chestertown, MarylandGone From the Biting Front and Know No More to Murder Here Below. Four negroes named Brooks, Comcgys, Williams, and Brown, were hanged at Chestcrtown, Md„ Friday, for the murder of Dr. James H. Hill during tho campaign of last year. The crime was tho result of a long standing feud. Fifteen negroes were at first arrested and eight were convicted at the trial in October, and sentenced to suffer the death penalty. Tho tour negroes who were hanged were the principals in the assassination. Four noys, throe of whom were sixteen and one thirteen years of age, aided them. On acconnt of iheir youth, and because ho believed an octet hanging would bo a blemish on the States's escutcheon,, Governor Brown commuted their sentence to imprisonment for life. Thocausos which led to tho assassination began several years ago. Tho origin was a quarrel in which neither tho negroes nor Dr. Hill were In any way Interested. Great excitement had prevailed, and it was Intensified by the clemency of the Governor. Tho streets of the little city were almost entirely deserted, except by tho jposso summoned a couple of days ago by Sheriff Plummer. The scene In the city court-house, however, was quite different from*that on the streets. The rooms in which tho eight men were tried and convicted were crowded with young and old, armed with all kinds of weapons. They had been summoned to defend tho jail should an attempt bo made to lynch the four prisoners, but no such an attempt was made, and the posse contented itself with opening sundry bottles and tolling what it would do if 'a mob should appear. A hearty breakfast was served to the prisoners. Shortly after 11 o’clock tho members of the posse who wore inside the jail, tho reporters and tho witnesses allowed by law, crowded into the corridor, where they were admonished by tho sheriff to get ready. Watchman Storks opened the four doors and two deputies went intoeacli coll and handcuffed and pinioned its occupants. The sheriff ordered the crowd in the corridor to stand back, and the short march to the scaffold commenced. Brooks led, with Comcgys next, followed by Williams and Brown. The sheriff was waiting on tho scaffold for the men, and he silently motioned each of them to his position. Tho heavy, awkward-looking cotton nooses were soon arranged about the necks of the four men, after the black cap had been placed over their faces and their legs bound at the ankles. The sheriff took a last look at, tho beam, the ropes, tho traps and finally at tho men themselves. Tho people waiting in the yard below could see nothing, so effectively was I tho gallows boarded up. They heard the creaking of thetraps, however, and waited with bated breath for the noise of the lever. In a minute it came. Four of the murderers of Dr. Hill had suffered tho penalty for their crime. POLITICAL. W. ,1. Stone was inaugurated Governor of Missouri, Monday. The Michigan House has passed a bill appropriating iB0,n00 for the World’s Fair. There are twelve candidates for postmaster at Bluffton and the Democrats will hold an election on the 10th to settle the claims of tho aspirants. John P. Altgeld was inaugurated Governor of Illinois, at Springfield. Tuesday, being the first Democrat to succeed to that position since 1857. .Susan B. Anthony has been appointed to a position in the executive department of the State industrial School at Rochester, N. Y., by Governor Flower. Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy, was nominated for United States Senator by the Democratic caucus at Albany, N. Y., Tuesday night, by a vote of 85 to 5. The Republicans will make an effort to have the Nevada Legislature declared an illegal bodyj not having been elected on a population basis. In such event Governor Concord will appoint a Republican to succeed Senator Stewart. In Texas it is rumored that in event of a hitch in the balloting for United States Senator tho Hogg men and Populists will unjto and nominate Hogg. The Hogg men claim that Mills’ defeat is certain. Senator McMillan has introduced a bill in tho Minnesota Legislature for tho selection of presidential electors in accordance with the plan now in vogue inoMichigan, whereby each congressional district elects one and two are chosen at large. Tho Populist triumph in Kansas at the November election was consummated, Monday, by the inauguration of Governor Lewolling, at Topeka. Ho threatens to reform tuings in general, and in his inaugural address, among other things, he said; ‘The State is greater than party; but the citizen Is greater than the State. The problem is how to make the State subservient to the individual rather than to become bis master. The. Government must then make It possible for the citizen to live by his own labor. If it fails of these tilings It ceases to be of advantage to the citizen. This is the generation which has come to the rescue. Conscience is in the saddle, and the grandeur of civilization shall be emphasized by the dawn of a new era, in which the people shall reign, “when the withered hand of want shall not be outstretched for charity, when liberty, equality and justice shall have permanent abiding places in this country. ’ a largeTeaiT Remarkable Disappearance of a Mexican Lake—Strange Result of an ICarthquake. A special from Dnrongo. Mexico, on the the 12th, says: The overland mail courier who has just arrived here from Mazatian, brings tho first news of a most remarkable occurrence—the disappearance of the Laguna Madre, or Mother Lake, one of the most beautiful sheets of water in the State of Sinoloa. This lake was about eighty miles long and twelve miles wide. It was located at the foot of tho Sierra Madre mountains. The surrounding country Is devoted to agriculture. A few days ago there were a series of slight earthquake shocks felt in this section. It was during one of these seismic disturbances that the natives were startled to see the water In the lake suddenly disappear as though the bottom had fallen out. Then-

sands of pounds of fish wore stranded h, the former bed of the lake. This suddc* disappearance of the water was caused by a large crevis, which is supposed to have boon caused by an earthquake. the water evidently found an outlet Into the ocean through an underground passage. The flow from the springs which nil tho lake now passes into this new outlet. THE POPE'S EMM1SSARY. Mgr. Satolli Appointed Permanent Representative. A Catholic Diplomatic Corps for the Cnlted States—The Powers of the New Minister The mystery surrounding the advent of Mgr. Satolli in this country begins to clear up. The following dispatch from Rome on the 14th, throws some light on the matter: “The Pope has decided to establish a permanent apostolic delegation in the United States, and has nominate* Mons. Satolli to bo the first delegate.” This decision the Vatican considers to bo a sufficient reply to the opposition to Mons. Satolli and his mission. The propaganda will send by the Rev. F. Z. Hooker, the documents authenticating the new powers conferred upon Mons. Satolli as permanent delegate. In order that he may convoy those documents, Father Hooker will postpone his departure for America. news that the Pope has instituted a permanent apostolic delegation for the United States, is coupled with the information that Mons. Satolli,named as the first apostolic delegate, has all the well-defined and extensive powers belonging to church officials of the same rank and title.

MURDEROUS MEXICANS. I’rime and OalrUK*' Followed by Speedy Justice. A dispatch from Morelos, Mex., on the loth, says; I’adro Malcvo, a well-known merchant of Xalatlaco, accompanied by his wife, loft homo a few evenings ago to visit friends in Cuernavaca. They were making their journey in a light conveyance and were within a few miles of their destination when a band of ten outlaws attacked them. Mr. Malevo was murdered and robbed and his wife outraged by the villains. The news of the crime spread rapidly. The unfortunate woman was take to Flanguistcngo, where she related her story to the military and federal authorities. The commader of the military garrison thereupon immediately ordered out a detachment of twenty-live troops,led by Capt. Mucio Caballos, to go in pursuit of the perpetrators of the foul deeds. The troops had no difficulty in following the trail of the villains, and in a few hours came upon them in their rendezvous in the chapparel of a mountain ravine near Xalatlaco. The outlaws made a desperate resistance and kept up a fight until three of them had been killed. The other two were captured and have been shot. None of the soldiers were killed. A large amount of stolen property was recovered.

THE CRISIS REACHED. As a Result of the Great Panama Scandal. The French Cabinet Resign—Great K\* citement But No Disorder—A. New Cabinet Formed. The French cabinet resigned, Tuesday owing to differences in the cabinet «. n tinarrest of cx-Minlstcr of Public Works Jiaihnt and other matters. The greatest, excitement prevails and people throng the streets. The police are out in force and dispersing crowds. The President changed M. Rlbnt with the duty of reconstructing the ministry. It is openly charged that the President and M. Ribot are not in earnest in the Panama prosecutions, and that they have no intention of bringing the bribe-takers to trial,and the prosecution of lie Lcsseps, Fontaine, Cotty and Eiffel will be nothing more than a farce. It is charged that efforts are being made to postpone the exposure of certain guiltv parties until the law of proscription shall nave, taken effect. The ministry which has resigned was the same as the old ministry of M. Leubct. with the relative situations of il$ members changed and without M. Rlcard and M. Roche. A new cabinet was immediately organized with M. Ribot as premier and minister of the Interior. M. He Freycinot, who has been minister of war for many years, is not a member of the now ministry. The trial of the accused deputies and other officials is proceeding and damaging testimony is being daily ebcited. A JAILER JAILED. Henry Smith, jailer at Uismarck, N. D., lain a cell, handcuffed and shackled, and his prisoners have left for parts unknown, carrying the keys with them. The cell will have to bo I -rcibiy entered to release the officer. Sniday the prisoners were locked in the cell* and. the jailer wont out to milk. When he returned lie was struck on the head and knocked down and then hit again. Ho became unconscious an i when ho came to lie was locked in the cei! as stated. The sheriff's living-rooms were found to be ransacked and valuables stolon. The prisoners'are supposed to have taken the evening train east. The” sheriff and ids wife are out of town. jump. Thorger Ilemmestvodt, of Rod Wing. Minn., broke the record by jumping 102 feet on a pair of skis, Saturday. The feat. Is performed on a steep hill, which has a wooden platform midway, upon which the performer slides and is projected into th t air, thus jumping a variable dstanco, according to the speed he has attained and height of the hill upon which he Is sliding.