Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 49, Hope, Bartholomew County, 30 March 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA John G-. Carlisle, wSo is conceded to be the ablest man in Cleveland’s Cabinet, is not a college graduate, while all the remaining Secretaries have received diplomas from some collegiate institution. A St. Louis man overstepped the bounds of propriety to a remarkable extent, recently. He became so hilarious over the prospect of getting married, and indulged in liquid refreshments to such an extent, that he forgot all about the wedding. The Emperor of Morrocco has 6,000 wives and could give Solomon points on domestic trouble. The King of Siam has 600, and is supposed to sympathize with Brigham Young. Other Eastern potentates manage to worry along with a smaller number of helpmates ranging from 400 down to 250. To President Harrison personally belongs the credit of the car-coupling act which passed Congress and is now a law. The railroads are given time enough to make the needed changes, and will suffer no hardship and but little additional expense, while many valuable lives will annually be saved. There is literally no end to the preparations for the entertainment of World's Fair visitors, and the Inter-Ocean is authority for the statement that the competition will be so brisk, and the espionage of the press so strict in behalf of the public, that people can live in Chicago as cheaply and comfortably as at home, while seeing the sights. The House of Commons has a wine cellar capable of holding some £40,000 worth of wine, and it is stated that in the average Parliamentary session 7,850 luncheons and 10,650 dinners are served to members and 1,120 luncheons and 1,190 in the stranger's room. Legislators the world over seem prone to conviviality, and we should not critizise our own law makers too harshly when we read of their shortcomings in this respect. A good man writes; “I have been a member of the M. E. church for forty years, and have suffered with dyspepsia and insomnia. I took Blankety Blank’s Balsam and am cured.” This implied reflection on that great denomination is rather ead, but all will rejoice that he has been cured of his piety and dyspepsia, and will hope that his slumbers may not in future be disturbed by visions raised by Calvin's creed or cramping colic’s crucial pains. The impression is said to prevail in England that America is given over to exhibitions of ill-manners and mob rule to a greater extent than any other civilized country in the world. Still we can hardly match the hoodlum exhibitions that have .lately taken place in London. On a recent Sunday a mob followed Mr. Gladstone’s carriage from church and hissed and hooted at the Premier. Americans may be a little rough in some cases, but we seldom descend to such a despicable method of getting even with a political opponent. The English aristocracy are said to be hard up, and many of the most ancient families are this season renting their town houses and elegant country seats to wealthy Americans, and are living in retirement instead of lavish magnificence as has been their life-long custom. Whether their impecuniosity is real or assumed can not be ascertained, but they are at least profiting by the free-handed American way of spending money and at the same time are experiencing a change from the monotony of an unending round of amusements which have been almost their sole occupation in the past. The Sault Ste. Marie canal carried a larger tonnage than the Suez canal last year and the bulk of the business originated in the United States. The tonnage was also largely in excess of the Mississippi river, and was almost as large as the entire ocean tonage of the ports of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It can

easily be seen that in case of war with England what vast interests would be at the mercy of British batteries. England is the sovereign power on Canadian soil, and one I bank of the Sault canal is in Canadian territory. In time of peace we should prepare for war, and the only proper protection in this case is the annexation of Canada. The Governor's palace at Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been historically famous for three-hundred years, and is older than the settlement of Jamestown or the landing at Plymouth Rock. Gov. Prince, in a recent report, has strongly urged the United States government to take some effective steps for its preservation. This should by all means be done, even if New Mexico Is to be admitted as a State, and all indications are that this measure of justice is likely to delayed indefinitely. So valuable a relic of the early history of this continent should not be allowed to tumble into ruins for the lack of a comparatively small expenditure for its restoration. Italy has had a scandal of almost as great extent as the Panama affair in France, in which the failure of the Bank of Rome was the chief factor. The Duke Torlonia, president of the bank, is held responsible for the vanished millions, and his misfortune differs from that of De Lesseps’ in that it is received with universal public satisfaction instead of the sympathy which has everywhere been extended to the groat Frenchman in his hour of trial. Torlonia has the reputation of a sordid schemer who was never known to do a philanthropic or noble act, and he refused to rescue his own brother from bankruptcy when he was at the acme of his career with unlimited resources at his command. Torlonia is a youuger brother of Prince Borghese, whose failure a few yearse since led to the dispersal of the world-famed Borghese art collection, but he abandoned his ancestral name for that of Alessandro Torlonia, whose halfcrazy daughter he married to get poss jssion of her dowry of $25,000,000. PASSING OF THE COWBOY. He Exists Still in Wyoming and Texas but Uls Glory Has Departed. Boston Transcript. Texas produced the herder and cowboy. Texas produces him yet in his fullness. Last winter when the cattle “kings” of Wyoming were trying to kill off or drive off the actual settlers who were making homes on Government lauds and breaking up the vast ranges that had been used for years without permission, the settlers were found to be too strong for the “kings.” It became necessary to have help in the work of depopulating the country, and Texas was called upon to furnish the men. They were of the herder or cowboy type; and no other State could produce their equals for that particular work. Before they “cut loose,” however, it was decided that the settlers had better be left in possession of the lands they had homesteaded for themselves. Utah has the best herders in the United States. They are as a rule, Mormons, and do not partake of the Texas characteristics of the same class. In Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado the herder is no longer a “holy terror.” Twenty years ago he was all that phrase implies save the “holy.” I saw the cowboy element just as it was, never totally depraved, but always wild and often dangerous. There were Pawnee Indian women about the camps and equally barbaric white women in the village. The herders all drank and gambled. They would run accounts between pay-days, and a fair percentage of the debts were paid. At times a herd of herders would take posession of the village; that is, they would fire up on forty-rod whisky, mount their ponies, and with pistols cracking and lariats living they would ride and run over the town like wild yelling Comanches. Then it was dangerous to be out and about. Then doors were locked and such windows as had shutters were closed. Now and then a man would be hurt, but the law was afraid and nothing was done. When the whisky worked off, the boys would tell yarns on each other and laugh over their frolics. If they had been a murderous lot, I would not now be writing. Four Unattainable Things. One of the peculiarities of the cocoanut palm is that it never stands upright. A Malayan saying has it that: “He who has looked upon a dead monkey; he who has found the nest of the paddy-bird; he who hath beheld a straight cocoanut, or has fathomed the deceitful heart of woman, will live forever”.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Tiilophoning to Mexbio is projected. The quickest way to come to a stop is to go too fast. The city of Chicago spends $6,000,000 annually on its schools. Not a person has been killed in a Maine railroad wreck since 1889. A Cincinnati stamp collectors’ society just organized has eighteen members. The largest Canadian fish-hatchery is at Selkirk. It has a capacity of 15,000,000. An earthquake wave once crossed the Pacific in twelve hours, or over six miles a minute. Wheat taken from a mummy vase in Egypt 2,000 years ago was planted and some of it grew. A weather record for 1892 shows that there were 350 cloudless days out of the 365 at Tucson, Ariz. Sugar beets weighing on an average of sixteen pounds have been grown in Floyd county, Georgia. The distance from Philadelphia to St. Paul is over two hundred miles less than across Wyoming and Idaho. □ A butcher’s autopsy over a chicken at Milan, Mich., developed the presence of two perfect hearts of unequal size. The turpentine gatherers of Georgia, it is estimated, have during the past five years destroyed $200,000,000 worth of pine timber. Once it was a great honor and privilege to walk under an umbrella. In some countries it constituted part of the insignia of royalty. A safety envelope just patented is so folded and pasted together that it cannot possibly be opened without being entirely destroyed. Over two thousand schools in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia are already supplied by the respective boards with free text books. Samuel Ramsey writes in the Journal of Education that English pronunciation and spelling are probably the most discordant ever known. Montana is larger than New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Cohnecticut, New York and Pennsylvania put together. During the last year a church in a New England village, which has a membership of fifty-eight, has heard or considered ninety candidates for the pulpit. St. Valentino’s Day has almost gone out of fashion in England. It used to be that many thousands o' valentines passed through the mails on that day, but this year the number was very small. Police statistics show that the arrests for drunkenness in London are at the annual rate of one to every 175 inhabitants, in Birmingham one to 153, in Manchester one to 71, and in Liverpool one to 50. An insurance company has struck i upon something new in the way of an advertisement. AH the agents are required carry to canes with nobby glass heads, in which are exposed the pictures of the leading officers of the company and a brief statement of the excellence of the company over all competitors. A discussion concerning the longest words used in the English language has recalled to one of the participants that “disestablishmentarianism" was used by many English and Irish newspapers at the time of the disestablishment of Irish church, about 1871, and found its way into the House of Commons. To freeze water on a small scale, take a concave watch-glass, touch the convex side upon water so as to leave a drop hanging on the glass. Pour a little ether into the concave and blow upon it. The rapid evaporation of the ether will render the glass so cold that the drop of water will be frozen.

Booksellers in Now York report the cheap edition of Donald G. Mitchell’s “Dream Life” selling pretty well, and that of “The Reveries of a Bachelor” considerably better. Neither, however, has aroused the popular interest that greeted the cheap editions of “The Scarlet Letter.” Mr. Mitchell has lived long enough to see unrevised and unauthorized j editions of his most famous books J published in his own country, a fate that befell Longfellow. With gold still flowing out of Uncle Sam’s coffers it is interesting ta know that all the great transatlantic liners are now built with special treasure-rooms, which are sometimes placed amidships, as in La Champagne, and sometimes far aft, as in the Aurania. This room is an iron-walled vault, about eight or ten feet in each dimension, and enteredonly from the top by a hatch about a yard square. The iron walls are three or four inches thick, with an array of bolts, bars, and locks sufficient to baffle an expert burglar for a long time. The room is deep down in the bowels of the ship, below everything else, and practically right on the vessel’s keel.

Tinting the Oven for Cake. In baking cake the greatest care should be taken to guard against too great heat in the oven. A layer of sand on the bottom of the oven about half an inch thick, is a safeguard against burning on the bottom. If the general heat is too great the cake will burn or crack on the top before it can bake properly. If the oven is not hot enough the cake will not rise properly. A.safe test of the heat is to put a spoonful of the cake dough or batter on a bit of buttered paper ; and slip it into the oven. This may be done during the final mixing of the cake, so that it will not have to stand after it is ready for the oven. If the little cake bakes evenly and quickly, without burning at the edges; the heat is right and the large cake may be put into the oven. An experienced baker always knows the varying temperatures of the oven, and takes care that the heat is right before the cake is begun. Virginia Snake Root. The Virginia snake root takes its name from the fact that it is believed to be a valuable specific for the bite of almost any reptile but the rattlesnake, aud is deemed efficacious in cases of a bite from a mad dog. Experience has not justified its reputation in the last mentioned instance, but its value in snake bites has been too often tested to be doubted, and in almost every pari of the South, where it grows, it is in high reputation. Hood's Cures Catarrh in the Head Took Seven Bott'es—Perfectly Well.

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