Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 44, Hope, Bartholomew County, 23 February 1893 — Page 3

mm AREim Historic Cruelties and Modern Parallels. 8ketr.lt of Homan Holiday- The Coliseum of Ancient Rome—Dr. Tnlmuge'i Sermon. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday. Subject: “Rome and the Coliseum.” Text: Romans i, 15—“I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.” He said: Rome! What a city it was when Paul visited it! What : s it now! Romo! The place where Virgil sang and Horace satirized and Terence laughed and Catiline conspired and Ovid dramatized and Nero fiddled and Vespasian persecuted and Sulla lagi.-dated and Cicero thurnded and Aurelius ;. .d Deems and Caligula and Julian and Hadrian and Constantine and Augutus reigned and Paul the Apes tie preached the gospel. I am not mi?«h of a draftsman, but 1 have in my memorandum book a sketen which 1 made in the winter of 1886, when 1 went out to the gate through which Paul entered Rome and walked up the very street he walked up to sec somewhat how the city must have looked to him as he came in on ihe gospel errand proposed m the text. Palaces on either side of the street through which the little missionary advanced. Piled up wickedness. Enthroned accursedness. Templed cruelties. Altars to sham deities. Glorified delusions. Pillared, arched, domed, turreted abominations. Wickedness of all sorts at, a high premium and righteousness 99} per cent. off. And now he passes by the foundations of a building which is to be almost unparalleled for vastness. You can see by the walls which have begun to rise, that here is to be something enough stupendous to astound the centuries. Aye, it .» the Coliseum started. Of the theater at Ehpesus where Paul fought with wild beasts, the temple of Diana, of the Parthenon, of Pharaoh s palace at Memphis and of other great buildings the ruins of which I have seen, it has been my privilege to address you, but a member of my family asked me recently why 1 had not spoken to you of the Coliseum at Rome, since its moral and religious lessons are so impressive. Perhaps while in Rome the law of contrast wrought upon me. I had visited the Maraertine dungeon where Paul was incarcerated. I had measured the opening at the top of the dungeon through which Paul had been let down, and it was 23 inches ■ by 2(3. The ceiling at its highest point was 7 feet from the floor, but at the sides of the room the ceiling was 5 feet 7 inches. The room at the widest was 15 feet. There was a seat of rock 1 i feet high. There was a shelf 4 feet high. The only furniture was a spider’s web suspended from the roof, which I saw by the torchlight I carried. There was the subterraneous passage from the dungeon to the Roman forum, so that the prisoner could be taken directly from prison to trial. The dungeon was built out of volcanic stone from the Albano mountains. Oh, it was a dismal and terrific place! You never saw coal hole so dark or so forbidding. The place was to i ip nervous shock, for I remembered that was the best thing the world would afford the most il lustrious being except one that it ever saw, and from that place Paul went to die. Prom that spot I visited the Coliseum, one of the most astounding miracles of architecture that the world ever saw. Indeed I saw it morning, noon and night, for it threw a spell on mo from which I could not break away. Although now avast ruin,the Coliseum is ‘ so well preserved that we can stand in the center and recall all that it once was. It is in shape ellipsoidal. oval, oblong. It is at its greatest length 612 feet. After it had furnished seats for 87,000 people it had room for 15,000 more to stand, so that 10,000 people could sit and stand transfixed by its scenes of courage and martyrdom and brutality and horror, instead of our modem tickets of admission, they entered by ivory check, and a check dug up near Rome within a few years was marked, “Section 6, Lowest Tier, 13." The sides of the arena were composed of smooth marble 11 feet high, so that the wild beasts of the arena could not climb up into the audience. On the top of these sides of smooth marble was a metal railing having wooden rollers which easily revolved, so that if a panther should leap high enough to scale the wall and with his paw touch any of those rollers it would revolve and drop him back again into the arena. Back of this marble wall was a platform of stone adorned with statues of gods and goddesses and the artistic effigies of monarchs and conquei’ors. The outside wall is iucrusted with marble and had four ranges, and the three, lower ranges had 89 ccLimns each

and arches after arches: and on each arch an exqusito statue of a god or a hero. Up to a 180 fect-soarod-the Coliseum. It glittered and flashed aud shone with whole sunrises and sunsets ’of dazzlement. At the dedication of this Coliseum 9.000 wild boasts and 10,000 immortal men wore slain, so that the biood of men and beasts was not a brook, but a river; not a pool, but a lake. The corpses of that arena were put on a | call or dragged by a hook out through what was called the Gate of Death. What an excitement it must have been when the two combatants entered the arena, the one with sword and shield the other with net and spear! The swordsman strikes at the man with the net and' spear. He dodges the sword and then flings the net over the head of the swordsman and jerks him to the floor of the arena, and the man who flung the net puts his foot on the neck of the fallen swordsman and, spear in hand, looks up into the galleries, as much as to say. “Shall I let him up, or shall I plunge this spear into his body until he is dead?” The audience had two signs, either of which they might give. If they waved their flags, it meant spare the fallen contestant. If they turned their thumbs down, it meant slay him. Occasionally the audience would wave their flags, and the fallen would be let up, but that was too tame sport for most occasions, and generally the thumbs from the galleries were turned down, and with that sign would be heard the accompanying shout of “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!” ' But all this was to be stopped. By the outraged sense of public decency? No. There is only one thing that has ever stopped cruelty and sin, and that is Christianity, whether you like its form or not, that stopped this massacre of cen-' turies. One day while, in the Coliseum, a Roman victory was being celebrated, and 100,000 enraptured spectators were looking down upon two gladiators in the arena stabbing and slicing eaob other to death, an Asiatic monk of the name of Telemachus was so overcome by the cruelty that he leaped from the gallery into the arena and ran in between the two swordsmen and pushed first one back and then the other back and broke up the contest. Of course the audience was affronted at having their Sport stopped, and they hurled stones at the head of Telemachus until he fell dead in the arena. But when the day was passed and the passions of the people had cooled off they deplored the martyrdom of the brave and Christian Telemachus, and as a result of the overdone cruelty the human sacrifices of the Coliseum were forever abolished. What a good thing, say you, that such cruelties have ceased! My friends, the same spirit of ruinous amusements and of moral sacrifice is abroad in the world today, although it takes other shapes. That pugilism is winning admiration in this country is positively proved by the fact that years ago such collision was reported in a half dozen lines of newspaper, if reported at all, and now it takes the whole side of a newspaper to tell what transpired between the first blood drawn by one loafer an$ the throwing up of the sponge by the other loafer, and it is not the newspapers’ fault, for the newspapers give only what the people want, and when newspapers put carrion on your table it is because you prefer carrion. T he same spirit of brutality is seen to-day in many an ecclesiastical court when a minister is put on trial. Look at the countenances of the prosecuting ministers, and not in all cases, but in many cases, you will find nothing but diabolism inspires them. When I read a few days ago that the Supreme Court of the United States had appropriately adjourned to pay honors to two distinguished men, and American journalism, north, south, east and west went into lameni Itions over their departure and said a '1 complimentary things in regard to them, I asked; When did the nation lie about these men? Was it when during their life it gave them malediction or now since then* deat h when bestowing upon them beatification? One-half the world is down, and the other half is up, and the half that is up l«,s its heel on the half that is down. If you, as a boss workman, or as a contractor, or as a bishop, or as a state or national official or as a bishop, or a potent factor in social life, or in any way are oppressing any one, know that the same devil that possessed the Roman Coliseum oppresses you. The Diocletians are not all dead. The cellars leading into the arena of life’s struggle are not all emptied of their tigers. The vivisection by young doctors of dogs and cats and birds most of the time adds nothing to human discovery, but is only a continuation of Vespasian’s Coliseum. 1 But I am glad to say it is the same

old heaven, and in all that wprld ] there is not one ruin and never will be a ruin. Not one of the pearly gates will ever become unhinged. Not one of the amethystine towers will ever fall. Not one of the mansions will ever decay. Not one of the chariots will ever be unwhcclod. Not one of the thrones will ever rock down. Oh, make sure of heaven, for it is an everlasting heaven! Through Christ the Lord get ready for residence in the eternal palaces. The last evening before leaving Rome for Brindisi and Athens and Egypt and Palestine I went alone to to the Coliseum. There was not a living soul in all the immense area. Even those accustomed to sell curios at the four entrances of the building had gone away. The place was so . overwhelmingly silent 1 could hear my own heart beat with the emotions aroused by the place and hour. I paced the arena. 1 walked down into the dens where the hyenas were once kept. I ascended to the place where the emperor used to sit. I climbed up on the galleries from which the mighty throngs of people had gazed in enchantment. Then, as I stood there, there came to me a burst of echoes, which seemed throbbing with the prayers and songs and groans of Christians who had expired in that arena, and they seemed to say, “How much it cost to serve God in ages past, and tnaukful modern centuries ought to be that the persecution which reddened the sands of this amphitheater have been abolished.” And then I questioned the echoes, saying, “Whore is Emperor Titus, who sat. here?” The answer came, “Gone to judgment.” “Where is Emperor Trajan, who sat here?" “Gone to judgment.” “Whore is Emperor Maxiniinus, who sat here?” “Gone to judgment.” “Where are all the multitudes who clapped and shouted and waved flags to let the vanquished up, or to have them slain put thumbs down?” The echoes answered, “Gone to judgment." I inquired, “All?” And they answered, “All.” And so the Coliseum of Rome that evening of 1889 seemed enlarged into the amphitheater of the last judgment, and I passed from under the arch of that mighty structure, mighty even in its ruins, praying to Almighty God, through Jesus Christ for mercy in that clay for which all other days were made, and that, as I expected mercy from God, I might exercise mercy toward others and .have more and more of the spirit of “Let him up,” and less and less of the spirit of “Thumbs down." We may not be able to do a sum in higher mathematics, but there is a sum in the first of gospel arithmetic which we all may do. It is a sum in simple addition: “Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity.” Household Hints. A teaspoonful of borax added to cold starch will make clothes very stiff. In packing gowns they will be found to crease very little if paper is placed between the folds. Put fresh fish in salted water for half an hour before cooking it. It hardens the fish and improves the flavor. Excellent jelly can be made of the rinds and cores of any good, juicy apples which have been pared for pies or puddings. Every particle of the fruit is thus used. When threading a needle, always put through the eye of the needle first the end which came off the spool first. You will wonder why the thread doesn’t knot. Use of Tobacco. “ The "Wealth of Oklahoma. The last year is said, to have been one of general prosperity to the Oklahoma farmer. The real and personal property of the territory the Governor estimates at $40,000,000. There are five National banks in the Territory, with a deposit account of $150,000 each, and 1'pur incorporated banks, two with $50,000 capital and one with $30,000. There are also fourteen private banks with an average capital of $15,000. Far Advanced. Chico go Daily Inter-Ocean-Agnes —Really, Helen has improved in her music wonderfully since she went abroad. Edith —In what way. Agnes—Why. she never plays anything now that sounds the least bit like a tunc. Money Tight. New York Weekly, Drug Clerk—I’ve been docked a week’s salary for making a mistake and killing a man. Lend me $5, won’t yon? Friendly Policeman — Couldn’t, possibly. I’ve just been suspended a week for killing another one. Instead of (lie" “speak-easy,” why not ,.-o- tii« t-w by calling il a place for “whist" parties.

THE JVE WSOFTBE WEEK The Ohio is above the danger line at Cincinnati. Susan B. Anthony was seventy-three years old Thursday. One was killed and five badly hurt by an engine explosion in Texas. The Odd Fellows Temple at Canton, O., burned, with a loss of 475,000. The funeral of the late Norvin Green v.ai hold at Louisville, Ky„ Thursday. The sewing-machine companies are reported to ho endeavoring to form a trust. Miss Cramford was killed at the Montreal carnival Monday afternoon while tobogganing Barney Jarrott, of Ccllna, O., whipped a pony and the pony kicked the life out of Mr. Jarrott. The Hon. John Schocfiehl,'Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, died at Marshall, Tuesday. Three feet of snow foil at Buffalo, Sunday. and the wind blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour. A twolve-foot anaconda os-aped from a New York animal dealer last week and on Saturday was found frozen dead in a sewer. Mr. Cleveland, Friday, at Lakewood, announced that J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, had been tendered and had accepted the Secretaryship of Agriculture in his Cabinet. “Napoleon” Ives is plunging agahuin the ! New York stock market. Ho hopes to se-cure-or wreck a number of leading railways by his operations. At Columbus, Kas., David Deem, the “inspired teacher,” who has boon on trial all week for insanity, has been discharged by the jury and pronounced sane. Mrs. William C. Whitney’s will, which disposed of a threc-milllon-dollar estate,! comprised only two hundred words. I Everything is given to her husband. Chicago Republicans are urging Philip D. Armour to run as an Independent can- i didato for Mayor, with the promise of a j probable indorsement by their party. President Harrison has proffered the hospitalities of the White House to Mr. Cleveland prior to the inauguration, and has offered to assist him in any way possible in regard to the public business. At Houston. Tex., John Kirby, on behalf of too Texas Pile Timber Company’s New England syndicate, has effected the largest timber sale ever recorded in the | South. Tlie sale is standing timber and amount involved is 4750,000. The body of a leper was dissected at Chicago. Thursday, and tiro antopsv showed that had died from pneumonia. Treatment had conquered the leprosy to some extent. The patient bad been an Inmate of a hospital for a year. Benjamin Besello, a St Louis man, has invented a process of steel making by which steel billets can be produced for 412.50 per ton. A company with 41,000,000 capital lias been organized in that city and a plant will bo built, within three months. George Appo. a New York crook, was Monday, probably fatally shot by Ira Hogshead, a granger from Greenville, S. C., in a room at the New York Hotel, in Now York city. Hogshead had gone there to negotiate with Appo for the purchase of green-goods. At the celebration of the Pope’s jubileeat New York, Sunday, Archbishop Corrigan made a forcible address, in which lie plead for temporal power for the Holy Sec claiming that it was necessary for the good of the church that the Roman pontiff be allowed to rule the territory surrounding the Vatican. FOREIGN. Smallpox in China and Japan has assumed dangerous proportions. The destruction of property by the floods in Australia will amount to 415,000,000. The Pope’s episcopal jubilee was celecratcd at Romo, Sunday, with imposing ceremonies. Jj ’ irgc number of lives have boon lost oWng to deadly gases in the Impensada lead mines near Cartagena, Spain. The pope received 8,000 pilgrims from various parts of Italy who visited Romo in connection with the episcopal jubilee. United Ireland, Parnellito organ, expresses the opinion that the new home rule biil is inferior to the home ruio bill of ]88(i. Mr. Balfour replied to Gladstone’s speech in Parliament, Tuesday. He criticised the Home rule bill, and branded the whole scheme as revolutionary and full of d anger. WASHINGTON. Judge Jackson’s nomination was confirmed by the Senate. Ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, died at Washington, Sunday. An extra session of Congress is likely to be called soon after March 4. Secretary Foster states that at all hazards the gold reserve of 4100,000,000 will be protected. The Department of State has officially approved the action of Minister Stevens at Honolula. (5 President Harrison has issued a proclamation creating the “Sierra Forest Reserve” in the -State of California. Secretary Nobio authorized the payment of of 41.25,000 “reservoir claims” to the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. The conditions on which Hawaiian shipping is to bo transferred to the American registry are reserved by the treaty entirely to bongross. President Harrison hunted ducks on the Maryland coast, Friday, but not a duck approached the blind in which he spent most of tho day. Ho returned to Washington, Saturday. President Greonhut, of the Whisky Trust, was sued at Washington Tuesday, by Mr. Veasy, of Cincinnati, for slander in giving testimony before the investi-

gating committee, and damages to the extent of JoO.COO demanded. in the Whisky Trustln vestlgatlon, Tuesday, testimony by Mr. Hobart, treasurer, showed that half the liquor sold is doci tored, and if desired by customers is labeled as e- nine goods. • The President, Wednesday, approved the quarantine bill, officially known as “an act granting additional quarantine powers and Imposing additional duties upon the marine hospital service.” lie also approved “an act providing for lighthouses and other aids of navigation," known as the omnibus lighthouse bill, tt Representatives Waugh, of Indiana, and Turpin, of Alabama, became involved in a wrangle on the floor of the Honse on Thursday, and a personal encounter was avoided only by the prompt efforts of Congressman Cooper. No one was injured but considerable blood was “boiled.” Numerous members of the Senate tendered Mr. Carlisle a farewell banquet Thursday evening. Mr. Voorhees, in responding to the toast “The President o/ the United States,” passed an unexpected eulogy upon President Harrison, expressing admiration for his integrity, industry and courage, and believed that his foreign policy would pass into history and dial! lenge the admiration of the world. He closed with a pathetic allusion to the President’s bereavements and believed that ho would retire from office ■ with the well wishes of the American people. In the Whisky Trust investigation, Monday, Mr. Greenhut testllied that he had been President of the Distillery and Cattle Feeding Company since its organization. Its stock was $30,000,000, with eighty-two distilleries. A nuumber of plants had been closed—probably one-half of original number were now dismantled. He denied that his company was a trust. Said it was simply an organization for putting their products on the market in the most economical manner and prevent over-production. He knew of no Government officials who had stock in his company.

SLEDGE-HAMMER ARGUMENTS. Republicans and Populists Come to Blows in Kansas. The struggle for the control of the Kansas House of Representatives grows serious. Wednesday, the Republican members, anticipating opposition to their entrance to the hall, marched in a body to the Capitol, where they found a Populist guard in charge. A hand-to-hand conflict ensued. By the aid of two sledge-ham-mers, which had been provided, entrance was obtained to the hall of tire House. Having gained entrance, the Republicans barricaded the doors aud prepared for a siege. The Governor called upon the sheriff to preserve the peace at 11 o’clock, but the sheriff refused to obey. Governor Rewelling appeared at the hall at 10 p. ra. and entreated the Republicans in possession to respect the legal authorities and yield peacable possession of the hall. He feared bloodshed should they persist in their attitude of defiance. Great fears are entertained of a serious conflict that may involve the entire State. The sheriff at Topeka refusing to obey the Governor’s orders, and Governor Rewelling becoming convinced that the militia could not bo depended upon, the Populists decided to not attempt to oust the Republicans from possession of the Hall of the House by force. The Populist House will convene in a hall in the city, and the dispute will be carried to the courts in some of its phases.

“GATHER THEM IN." President Harrison Favors That Policy For Hawaii, m President Harrison, Wednesday, sent a message to the Senate, recommending tho annexation of the Hawaiian islands to tho United States. A treaty concluded between the Secretary of Stafe and tho Hawaniian commissioners accompanied the document. Tho full text of tho message, treaty and correspondence was not made public, the Senate ordering them to bo printed, but it is understood that tho full and complete annexation of the country is provided for, leaving the details ol government to be settled by Congress. Provision is made for pensioning the deposed Queen of Hawaii. FATHER AND SON. Pathetic Meeting of Charles de X-essepS With His Father. Charles de Lesseps, in charge of detectives, was permitted to spend Tuesday with his father, near Paris. The elder De Lesseps has been kept in ignorance of the sentence of the French court, and is in an irresponsible condition mentally. The detectives were introduced by Charles as his friends, and tho aged financier and diplomate entertained them in a free hearted way, as much after his natural manner as his weakened faculties would permit, discussing tho possible renewal of tho Panama project, in which he expressed confidence. Then the detectives escorted Charles back to prison. minleyImnedT Ohio's Governor Financially Involved by the Walker Failure, 1 A sensation was caused in business, financial and manufacturing circles, Fndav. at Youngstown. O., by the failure of Robert I.. Walker, banker and capitalist, I ho made anasssgnment, Friday afternoon, j to Hal Jv, i aylor. a well known attorney, for the benefit of his creditors. The failure v ill he widespread in its effects, involving Governor McKinley, and tho indications are now that every dollar of property owned by tho Governor will be swept away. HUGH O’DONNELL ACQUITTED. Hugh O’Donnell, the leader of th«j 3lomestead strike, was acquitted of tin charge of murder at Pittsburg, Saturday.'