Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 7, Hope, Bartholomew County, 8 June 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE • INDIANA Lord Sudeley, of England, is one of the greatest jam producers in the world. It is asserted that his great fruit farms in Gloucestershire supply the material for his jam factory which turns out over a thousand tons of jam every year. A man at Junction City, Iowa, has written to the Department of Justice at Washington inquiring if the government pays a bounty on ' twins. He plaintively states that he is the unfortunate parent of three sets of simultaneous infants, and naturally desires to come in for his share of relief if any has been provided by the powers that be. Unfortunately no such provision has been made,and as. things look now the future is dark for the prolific pioneer. They do say that some of the Egyptian fakirs who are selling relics and souvenirs from that ancient country, are not without guile. One is known to have worked off a large and heavy assortment of broken red .sandstone, stolen from a hotel in process of erection on Fifty-seventh street, Chicago, as chips from the pyramid of Cheops, realizing various prices, according to the size, from 75 cents to $4 a chip. The Oriental swindler swears “by Allah!” that he chipped the rock from the pyramid •himself. «

The response to the special invitations sent to the various crowned heads of Europe by the World’s Fair directory, desiring their attendance at the big show, are not flattering to the management, as they one and all plead other engagements, with the exception of the Sultan of Turkey, who refused to receive the cablegram of invitation at all, stating that it was not in accordance with the* etiquette of his court to receive telegrams from persons with whom he had no acquaintance. It looks as though the Fair will have to pull through without “high digs,” excepting those already in this country. Superintendent of Immigration Herman Stump, of New York, with the approval of Secretary Carlisle, has made an important ruling with regard to the admission of idiotic immigrants when accompanied by their parents, into the United States, denying their right to land on our shores. In support of his position he quotes from the act of Congress of March 5, 1891, which absolutely debars idiots, and holds] that the fact that the idiotic person may have ample fortune, or relatives who are able and willing to care for him, does not change the law in reference to such afflicted characters.

Johnny Walsh has suddenly become rich and famous on account of his honesty. Johnny found a set of diamond earrings of great value belonging to a Mrs. Johnson of New York, who offered $2,000 reward for their return. Johnny is only a little seven-year-old newsboy of New London, Conn., and is somewhat embarrassed by his newly acquired wealth and notoriety. He went to New York, accompanied by his parents, to receive the reward, which was paid to him at Tiffany’s. He was given a rousing reception on his return home, was elected as mascot for the base ball club, and altogether finds himself quite a hero, and no doubt believes that “honesty is the -best policy. ” A World’s Fair correspondent writing to Harper’s Bazar, says, “Don’t take the babies to the Fair.” This is about the most serious reflection on the intelligence of the American people that wo have recently seen. Does any one suppose that any sane father or mother would take a baby to the World’s Fair? There are lots of foolish people in this country, and a great number who are almost inseparable from their babies, but certainly not many who would be foolish enough to expose their tender offspring to the dangers and weariness that would be inseparable from such a tour of sight-seeing. The advice is quite superfluous. , A singular person appeared on the

streets at Zanesville, O., the other day. He wore a beard that had not been cut for forty years. The hirsute appendage was seven feet in length and was kept in plaits and tied up so as to be carried about conveniently. The old man is known as “Daddy” Sloane', and the occasion was the first time he had taken his whiskers to any city. The cause of the eccentricity was defeated ambition in youth, Mr. Sloane having vowed that he would not cut his beard until elected to some small office. He now lives the life of a hermit near Zanesville, and his busines in that city was to make arrangements for having a clay coffin, which he had moulded himself, burnt in a furnace. His beard is snowy white and so heavy as to bow him over, and is doubtless the longest in the world.

There are cranks in all countries, and curious combinations can be congregated by a careful culling of their creeds. Vegetarians are nowadays ventilating their views in a way to attract considerable attention. A French vegetarian society is all torn up with internal dissensions. All are convinced that their temporal and eternal salvation depends on absolute abstinence from fish, flesh or fowl, but there their unanimity ends, and animosity toward each other begins and is carried to an extent equal in sev'-'ty to their original abhorence of flesh, on which they ai*e all agreed. One branch calls itself cerealite, and they subsist on cereals only; another believes that fruit is the only proper food for man, and govern their diet accordingly; and a third devotes its attention solely to tubers and roots. wing thinks that the welfare of the race depends on the immediate adoption of its views. In the meantime the market for choice beef continues strong, and pork products have seldom been quoted at so high a figure. The reigning fanhlies of Europe carries large policies of life insurance, and it is hinted that of late years this custom has increased to a notable extent. If such is the case it is doubtless an indication that crowned heads do not view the future with undoubted confidence, and that they possibly fear the influence of the progress of free thought and a tendency to more liberal government as likely to prove detrimental to the fortunes that have come to .their families on account of their hereditary rights as ruling princes Of the blood. Price Albert’s life was insured for nearly £1,000,000, and that sum was received by the Queen. The Queen’s own life is very largely insured for the benefit principally of Princess Beatrice. All of the reigning families are known to be large customers of the insurance companies, the-only sovereign who has no policy being the Czar of Russia, the companies regarding him as a dangerous risk. The policies upon Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria,.have been canceled on account of the troubles in that country.

Maudlin sympathy for condemned murderers is not an uncommon culmination of a murder trial, and cases have occurred where the female portion of a community have gone to great lengths in exhibiting a sickly and sentimental devotion to the unfortunate man who had been condemned to die for his awful crime. Gushing maidens have shed copious tears and soothed the pathway of the criminal with tender words and ! fragrant flowers, and in one or two instances in the United States of late I years have gone to the length of | marrying the object of their solici- | tude. This peculiar phase' of the | feminine character has been strikj ingly exhibited in the case of Carlyle I Harris, executed at Sing Sing on | the 8th, Harris, had ire secured a j.pardon, was to have been married to j a charming and devout young lady | missionary, who frequent!}’ visited j hjm in prison, and who firmly be- | fieved in his innocence and nobility j of character. And now comes the j further announcement that a mari ried woman of Islip, L. I., a Mrs. 1 Broadway, entirely unknown to Hari ris, had allowed her sympathies to ' become so strongly enlisted in his | behalf that she sickened and died on the Wednesday following the death of Harris. Newsdealers who supplied the lady with papers testified that she gave way to uncontrollable grief when they brought her the papers containing the account of the execution.

1 TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. i > THE AUSTRALIAN PANIC. / ) The general uneasiness which has existed in financial circles in the United States for some time seems to have prevailed in all the great financial centers of the world. In Australia the disaster has been ruinous, widespread and far-reaching. The conditions which have brought about this unhappy state of affairs are different from those prevailing in "other countries where similar calamities have occurred, and have called the attention of the civilized world to that antipodean continent. In extent Australia is about as large as the United States and has a population of only about 4,000,000, onefourth of which is concentrated in the four principal cities of the country—Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. Gold was discovered in 1851, and vast wealth has resulted from that source. In 1830 there were but 1,300,000 sheep in the country; in 1891 there were 100,000,000, and this industry has proved a huge bonanza. During recent years a vast system of internal improvements has been carried for- i ward, the money for which was -pro- I cured by borrowing and by specu- j lative ventures of various kind. In j August, 1892, the aggregate debt of ; the Australian colonies was £198,- I 000,000, bearing an annual interest of £8,000,000, or nearly $10 for every I inhabitant of the island. This reck- j lessness is the root of the present I difficulty. In 1892 Sir George Dibbs, the Premier of New South Wales, visited England for the purpose of strengthening the confidence of English financiers in the various colonial enterprises. Failures had begun in December, 1891, and the financial statement of the government to the Legislative Assembly of New South ; Wales acknowledged the inability of the colony to effect further loans to carry forward the enterprises already under way. In February fol-

lowing the Australian Land Company j (Limited) suspended payment. This ! was followed by the failure of a i number of building and loan com- ; panies and the conviction of a num- 1 ber of their officers of fraud and con- i spiracy. Still the “boom” that had prevailed in the colonies for years was not entirely flattened out. Lots had sold at auction in Sidney at the climax of the excitement at about $6,000 per front foot. April 26, 1891, Premier Dibbs stated that the only object of his journey to England was to place the true situation of the colony and the extent of its resources before the English public. On his arrival in London a few weeks later he spoke for all the colonies, stating that in ten years their trade had increased 71 per cent, and that in that period £113,000,000 of borrowed money had been expended on railroads. Apparently the mission of the Premier was a failure, for within the year nearlj) all the financial institutions of the Australian colonies have been wrecked. Fifteen large banks, with aggregate deposits of $411,808,760, have closed their doors. Of this sum about $126,000,000 was owed to depositors in Great Britain. Indirectly the the crash in Australia is liable to seriously affect the financial situation in the United States, because of the probability of British capitalists calling in their American investments on account of their losses in that far off island. All the nations of the earth are now so intimately connected that any great disaster in any country can hardly fail to impair the confidence which is obsolutely necessary for the conduct of modern business. Happily our financial system is on a reasonably solid basis, and our “booms” are local in character and have not been guaranteed by the government. Therein lies our hope and assurance of safety. THE FARMER’S PROFITS. That there has been a marked and serious decline in the sum of profits secured by the average farmer in the United States within the past decade, when the amount 'of capital invested in the pursuit is taken as a basis for calculation, seems to be a generally accepted truth. Many reasons have been advanced for this unsatisfactory condition of affairs. The majority of our readers will, we think, be interested in the views of so eminent an authority as Mr. J. 1 Sterling Morton, the present Secre-

| tary of Agriculture, on the subject. Mr. Morton in a recent authorized j interview in the Philadelphia Ledger, exhaustively discussed the matter, and from the published report we have gathered the leading ideas as to the primary causes of the exciting depression in agricultural circles; Under the operations of the Homestead Law the plowed area of productive laud in the United States has been trebled in the last twentysix years, but the market has not been developed in the same degree. Farming implements have within the same period been improved to such a degree as to add materially to the facilities for production. Foreign nations have to a certain extent pursued the same policy in regard to the opening of new lands to colonists and pioneer settlers. Thus the whole world has been in a manner plowed up and cultivated, and while the world is no donbt better fed than in the past, the supply of all descriptions of food products has exceeded the demand and the net per cent, of profit has as a natural consequence decreased. This is also true of all legitimate avocations. Profits in all branches of business have suffered from over-production, but the condition being general is not necessarily a misfortune, but -rather a benefit to the world at large. Statistics show that 97 per cent, of the dry goods dealers who embark in trade fail at some period of their business career. The percentage of failures among farmers is less than that of any other vocation. The profits in railroad transportation have declined in a greater ratio than that of the farmers. Mr. Morton thinks the outlook for farmers in the future is especially bright. The supply of tillable land is approximately absorbed, and the demand for it is increasing. Any farmer who owns land, with twenty-five years of life before him, can leave an estate to his children double or treble its present value by simply taking care of what he has intelligently without any undue effort to obtain riches. The demand will have trebled, while the supply of necessity will remain stationary.

THE CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW The Geary law, and the absurd complications that have resulted from the inability of the authorities to carry out its provisions promptly after the Supreme Court decision upholding its constitutionality, is a striking illustration of the adage, “Don’t bite off more than you can chew.” That is exactly what the United States has done in this instance. The law as passed and sustained is a shining specimen of illadvised and ill-conceived legislation, though the evil that it seeks to remedy is no less real and impending on that account. That Chinese immigration is in need of stringent regulation few will deny. To what extent the restrictions should be carried is an open question. It is estimated that there are now 100,000 Chinese in this country who have not complied with the provisions of the registration act. It is the duty of the Treasury Department, under the act, to send these delinquents back to China. For this purpose $6,000,000 will be necessary. Only $16,000 are available, with no possibility of other funds until Congress convenes. The decision of the Supreme Court places the Secretary of the Treasury in a very awkward position, from which no power can relieve him. The outcome of’ the dilemma will probably be that the Supreme Court will grant a rehearing, and pending the rehearing an injunction may be issued restraining the Treasury officials from enforcing the law until Congress meets again.

A Boy’s Ambition. Harper's Magazine. , There is, as a rule, nothing more lofty than the ambition of boy of five who has looked carefully over the whole range of human endeavor and made up his mind what he is going to be. A lad of that observant age known to all of his kind as “goin’ on on six” was asked the other day if he expected to become a lawyer like his father. “Qh no ,”said he with a positive shake of his head. “I’m going to be captain of a big ship, and I’ll sail out west and bombard the Indians on the plains.” Mrs. Blank —You were very late at the club last night. The day actually broke before you got home, Mr. Blank—But I was broke long before the day.

ABOUT THE GULF STREAM. LleaUnaat PUtebary Tell* of the Variations of the Great Ocean Current. Lieutenant J.'E. Pillsbury, of the navy, has at the reonest of Professor T. C. Mendenhall, Superintendent of the Coast survey, written him a letter setting forth his views on the subject of the Gulf Stream and its variations. He says: “I ' think the Gulf Stream does change its position to a slight amount, but not in the arbitrary manner or to| the great extent stated by some of the newspaper writers of latq, While it is probably a fact that as a rule, a current from the equator is warmer and one from the pole is colder than the surrounding waters, it is not always the fact that the warmest flowing water is from the south, nor that, the coldest is from the north. . The mere presence of warm water does not necessarily show that a current exists, nor does a change of temperature show that there is a change in current The Gulf Stream probably has a vibratory motion, as evidenced by our own anchorage off Cape Hatteras, and as previously noticed of Rebecca Shoal, Fla. Anchored there, on the northern edge of the stream, riding to the wind with a gentle current, the latter would suddenly become strong and swing the vessel until she was stern to wind, to remain but a short time, and then the current becoming weaker the wind would gain the ascendency. This was repeated a number of times. ‘T believe that the daily volume of thqjstream varies but little except from that due to declination of the moon. Along the northern coast, however, it is not always on the surface, but is overrun by other currents. 1 think that its track through the ocean is absolutely fixed by law, and that its vibration is periodic, although the limit of the periodic change may vary a trifling amount. The generally accepted belief that a wind blowing across the current changes the, position of its axis is, I am convinced, erroneous. Every temporary wind, however, does transport water (chiefly by means of waves), and with it goes, its heat or cold. “The fact of finding gulf weed within a few miles of Nantucket lightship does not so much prove that the current is nearer our shores as it does that winds have prevailed in the from which it comes. ‘Its home-as it the Sargasso Sea, from which it is drawn by the winds and the sea. A small amount finds its way into the Caribbean through the Antigua passage, but most of it passes north of the West Indian Islands. The break of the waves has more effect on its movements than a current, unless the latter is very strong, and in the Gulf Stream itself it is seen stretching in long lines in the direction of the wind and sea, and not in the direction of the current, exccp! only in the case of a rip at the meeting of currents. “Anchored on the edge of the Florida reefs, with a strong wind blowing directly from the Gulf Stream, which was only a short distance away, iU clear blue water was driven by the sen and overcame the cloudy reef water, but no current accompanied it. In Key West harbor the water is usually cloudy-. A southerly wind will cause a sea that will carry the clear watei inshore, even in spite of an ebb tide. The wind shifting to the opposite quarter will at once alter it to milky whiteness.” Much complaint Is made by the Johnstown sufferers at the non-distribution of the relief funds in the hands of Governor Beaver and his committee. The generous people of the country seem to have brought into existence a most ungenerous sot of committee men.

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