Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 13, Hope, Bartholomew County, 20 July 1893 — Page 3

COLORADO’S CLARION CRY. Free Coinage or Death—An Appeal to the American People. The silver convention, in session at Den ver, Wednesday, adopted a long series of resolutions, from which we extract the following: “The people of Colorado, standing in the gloom of impending disaster and representing in condition and sentiment the people of Montana, Idaho, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, ask for your calm and candid consideration of the following facts before you give your approval to the destruction of silver as money and of the final establishment in this country of the single gold standard. “The Sherman law is not the work of the silver-producing States. It was forced on the country against their will. They have not sought to impose upon the country some new financial nostrum, but have asked simply for the restoration of the coinage laws as they were from the first year of the Federal Constitution until the furtive repeal of 1873. The Sherman law was the trick by which that restoration was defeated. “The charge that the bimetallist demand thatfiO cents shall bo made a dollar is a lie. It was the trick of the single standard conspirators that lessened the value of stiver. Had gold been demonetized Instead of silver- retaining for silver its greatest use and chiefest function, and depriving gold of its greatest and chiefest function, gold would not to-day be worth $5 per ounce and silver’s value and purchasing power would be increased largely above its former highest figure. “The silver mining States and Territories, embracing 1,000,000 square miles of continent and 2,000,000 Americans inhabiting them, depend pecuniarily upon silver minin'* for their prosperity. That industry is the very heart from which nearly every other Industry receives support. “Those who contend for the gold single standard wilfully mislead you as to the cost of producing silver. We say to you iir the most solemn and truthful manner that reliable statistics prove that, including but legitimate items in the account, the silver of Colorado costs by the time it is on the market not less than J1.29 per ounce. “If the schemes of the gold kings are accomplished—if the present silver law shall be unconditionally repealed, the great bulk of us will be made paupers, and our beautiful and wonderful State will be set back in its march of progress more than a quarter of a century. Colorado, great in its resources, proud of its business record, filled with brave men and resolute hearts, makes this its appeal for preservation to the open-hearted and generous people of the country. We are confident that it will not be in vain. Hopeful of speedy delivery from the crushing burdens of a financial svstem, begotten of the greed of Great Britain’s remorseless money power and of the prosperity inseparable from an American system, which iucludes the free coinage of gold and silver at the American ratio of 10 to 1, we submit to the people ol the United States this statement of our cause.” The convention, after arranging for a fund with which to disseminate free coinage literature in the East, adjourned sine die.

SHERMAN AM) HIS RILL. Ohio's Distinguished Senator Tells Vbout Its Passage. Senator John Sherman has written » lengthy letter to Congressman Walker, of Massachusetts, which has been made public. He says the Sherman silver bill was the result of a compromise, and was the only expedient available at the time to defeat free coinage. To defeat a policy so pregnant with evil the Senator was willing to buy the entire product of American silver mines at its gold value. He says he has never regretted his action, but now favors the repeal of the bill and the adoption of a different policy. With reserves of both gold and silver in proper proportions, he thinks wo can maintain the entire body of our currency of all kinds at par. He proposes to light the revival of State bank issues, which can not bo made a legal tender. TERRIFIED TRENARY. The long warfare waged by the ladies of Osslan against the only saloon in the village has resulted in a compromise, by which the saloon-keeper, Trenary by, name, agrees to go Intoother business and never again engage in the trailic in that place. The ladies first organized a crusado movement, and for days they bombarded the saloon with prayers and song and with personal intercession. Friends of the ladies, incensed by remarks made by Trenary, then took up the battle, and eventually the situation became so strained that one morning Trenary found a largo dynamite cartridge under his rear door, the fuse of which had failed to burn. This cartride had its Influence, however, for soon after Trenary consented to a compromise. His stock of liquors was purchased and destroyed, and ho was given a start in other business.

HAD A PULL. George Pcrrigc caught a snapping turtle, last week, cut off its head and had it for dinner. Three days afterward he heard a chicken squalling under the house, and upon investigation found that the turtle head had caught it. He had to pry the jaws open to release the chicken, which was so badly injured,that it died. - White County Democrat HIKAYACHILEYMANI WAS DRUNK. A gang of Australian bush-whacking boomerangers dissipated to excess at h’t Wayne, and Hlkayachiieymani was fined for drunkenness, with two others, with still more unpronounceable names, were assessed for assault and batta*|. Refused One-HalfMStion. A Chicago special of June 30 says the owners of No-to-Bac, a proprietary medicine sold under an absolute guarantee to cure the tobacco habit in every form, have met with such wonderful success that a syndicate offer of ono-halt million has been refused. It is said that their sales are enormous, and that there is hardly a drug store in this country or Canada but what sells it. They differ from any other proprietary concerns in the fact that they promptly refund money when No-to-Bac fails to cure.

THE VIKING SDH*. Aitlva! of till' Vessel Mint Crow at C)i r cnjro. A Deet, containing the mair-of-wai Michigan, the steamer Blake and a large number of pleasure craft, bearing Mayoi Harrison, the city officials and representatives of the World’s Fair Commissioners

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left Chicago Wednesday morning and proceeded north to a point off Evanston, where they sighted the Viking ship. Salutes were fired and a lino was formed to escort the strange craft to Jackson Park, where they arrived shortly after noon. The hardy Norsemen were given a rousing reception and the little undecked ship that braved the Atlantic waves now peacefully floats in the lagoon. THE ENGLISH VIEW. The London Times, of Wednesday, discussing the silver crisis, says: “The action of India and of President Cleveland merely precipitated the trouble caused by America’s silver policy, her reckless pension scheme and the McKinley tariff law. The threats from Denver of armed violence if the Sherman law is repealed will not terrify anybody. Such desperation only proves that thosilver monopolists are hopeless. Fighting the battle on the ground of political and economical argument, botii the material and moral forces are on the side of ,the classes in America who arc resolved to support no longer the silver burden. . If India had allowed the question to drift, the sudden action of America must have disastrously shaken India’s credit by closing the mints. It Is believed that a measure of stability has been secured wlilch will defy the shock of any change from America or or elsewhere. In the meantime India’s alarm at the sale of council bills under £1 ; s not justified. The measure is experim ntal and rates of exchange between any i.wo countries can not be fixed absolutely forever. CUT RY THE BIG FOUR. Oni' Fare. i‘.»r the Round Trip To Be the Rate to Chicago from All Points. On and after July 15 the Big Four will make rates to Chicago at one fare for the round trip from every point on its system. Tickets at this rate will bo good every day and on any regular or special passenger train. This was announced late Thursday evening. Every competing line declares that it will meet the rates. This establishes the half-rate business from the large Eastern and Southern territory. THE SIAMESE AND FRENCH WAR. Hattie in Which Twenty Siamese are Killed nml Fourteen Wounded. A dispatch from Bangkok, capital of Siam, on the 14, states that twenty Siamese wore killed and fourteen wounded dlying the exchange of fires between the forts at the month of the Meinam rive.r and the French gun floats Coineto and Inconstanto, which forced the passage of the bar in the face of orders from the Siamese government prohibiting their entry into the river. HORRORS OF CHOLERA. The Egyptian medical delegate to Mecca gives a horrible account of the condition of pilgrims in that city. The deaths from cholera arc double the number officially reported. In the valley of Mouna it is impossible to bury the dead, and the road between Mecca and Mouna is strewn with the corpses of pilgrims left to lie where they died. In Mecca the lack ol grave diggers has resulted in bodies lyinf for many days in a state, of elecompositior before burial. The cholera has broken out again in the province of Kherson, Russia, and it is spreading in the villages along the Dneiper and Dnoister. The authorities by stringent measures hope to prevent the plague from spreading further. A Clover-Leaf freight train went through Grecntown at a moderate rate of speed. It was a long train. Toward the rear was a flat-car loaded with lumber, which jumped the main track and landed on a side-track without breaking the coupling, and without accident save that the lumber was spilled. The cars in the rear followed suit. Reaching the end of the side-track the cars again mounted the rails of the main track and the train proceeded without break. This queer accident is vouched for by scores of witnesses, and it is regarded as one of the strangest railroad freaks on record. Breeches. Trousres, Pantaloons. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The words breeches, trousers and pantaloons are now used, interchangeably, but originally the significations were quite different. Pantaloons were at first nothing but long stockings worn in Italy as a sort of religious habit by the devotees of St. Pantaloon. Breeches originally reached from the waisf half way to the knee, and finally tc the knee, where they were fastened with a buckle. Trousers are the present style of leg-gear, a combination of the two former.

A HEAVENLY PASSWORD i ‘‘The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation.” The Heauties of the Twilight and the Night—Dr. Talmagea Sermon. Dr. Talmage’s sermon at Brooklyn, last Sunday, was from the text, “At Evening Time It Shall Be Light,” Zachariah xiv, 7. He said: While “night” in all languages is the symbol for gloom and suffering, it is often really cheerful, bright and impressive. I speak not of such nights as come down with no star pouring light from above or silvered wave tossing up light from beneath /—murky, hurtling, portentious—but I such as you often see when the pomp and magnificence of heaven turn out on night parade and it seems as though the song which the stars began so long ago were chiming yet among the constellations and the sons of God were shouting for joy. Such nights the sailor blesses from the forecastle and the on the vast prairie, and the belated traveler by the roadside, and the soldier from the tent, earthly hosts gazing upon heavenly, and shepherds guard ing their fields afresh, while angel hands above them set the silver beils a-ringing, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace; good will toward men.” What a solemn and serious thing is night in the wilderness! Night among the mountains! Night on the ocean! Fragrant night among tropical groves! Flashing night amid arctic severities! Calm night on Roman campagna! Awful night among the Cordilleras! Glorious night ’mid sea after a tempest! Thank God for the night! The moon and the stars which rule it are lighthouses of the coast toward which, 1 hope, we are all sailing, and blind mariners are we if, with so many beaming, burning, flaming glories to guide us, we cannot find our way into the harbor. My text may well suggest that as the natural evening is often luminous, so it shall be light in the evening of our sorrows —of old age—of the world’s history—of the Christian life. “At the eventime it shall be light.” The prophecy will be fulfilled in the evening of Christian sorrow. For a long time it is broad daylight. The sun rides high. Innumerable activities go ahead with a thousand feet and work with a thousand arms, and the prickax struck a mine, and the battery made a discovery, and the investment yielded its twenty per cent., and the book came to its twentieth edition, and the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden fortune hoisted to high position, and children were praised, and friends without number swarmed into the family hive, and prosperity sang in the music and stepped in the dance and glowed in the wine and ate at the banquet, and all the gods of music and ease and gratification gathered around this Jupiter holding in his hands so many thunderbolts of power. But every sun must set, and the brightest day must have its twilight. Suddenly the sky was overcast. The fountain dried up. The song hushed. The wolf broke into the family fold and carried off the best lamb. A deep howl of woe came crashing down through the joyous symphonies. At one rough twang of the hand of disaster the harp sti'iugs all broke. Down went the strong business firm! Away went long established credit! Dp flew a flock of ‘calumnies! The book would not sell. A patent could not be secured for the invention. Stocks sank like lead. The insurance company was exploded. The text shall also find fulfillment in the time of old age. It is a grand thing to be young—to have the sight clear and the hearing acute, and the step elastic, and all our pulses marching on to the drumming of a stout heart. Midlife and old age will be denied many of us, but youth —we all know what that is. 'those wrinkles were not always on your brow; that snow was not always on your head; the brawny muscle did not always bunch your arm; you have not always worn spectacles. Grave and dignified as you are now, you once went coasting down the hillside or threw off your hat for a race or sent the ball flying sky high. But youth will not always last. It stays only long enough to give us exujerant spirits and broad shoulders for burden carrying and an arm with which to battle our way through difficulties. Life’s path, if you follow it long enough, will come under frowning crag and across trembling causeway. Blessed old age, if you let it come naturally. The bright morning and hot noonday of life have passed with many. It is 4 o’clock! 5 o’clock! 6 o’clock! The shadows fall longer and thicker and faster. Seven o’clock! 8 o’clock! The sun has dipped below the horizon ; the warmth has gone out of the air. Nine o’clock! 10 o'clock! The heavy dews are falling: the activities of life’s day are all hushed; it is time

to go to bed. Eleven o'clock! 12 o’clock! The patriarch sleeps the blessed sleep, the cool sleep, the long sleep. Heaven’s messengers of light have kindled bonfires of victory all over the heavens. At eventime it is light—light! My text shall also find fulfillment in the latter days of the church. Only a few missionaries, a few churches, a few good men, compared with the institution leprous and putrefied. You have watched the calmness and the glory of the evening hour. The laborers have come from the field. The heavens are glowing with an indescribable effulgence, as though the sun in departing had forgotten to shut the gate after it. All the beauty of cloud and leaf swims in the lake. For a star in the sky, a star in the water —heaven above and heaven beneath. Not a leaf rustling or a bee humming or a grasshopper chirping. Silence in the meadow, silence among the hills. Thus the bright and beautiful shall be the evening of the world. The heats of earthly conflict are cooled. The glory of heaven fills all the scene with love and joy and peace. At eventime it is light—light! Finally, my text shall find fulfillment at the end of the Christian life. You know how a short winter’s day is, and how little work you can do. Now, my friends, life is a short winter’s day. The sun rises at 8 and sets at 4. The birth angel and death angel fly only a little way apart. Baptism and burial are near together. With one hand the mother rocks the cradle and with the other she touches the grave. But I hurl away this darkness! I cannot have you weep. Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory, at eventime it should be light* I have seen many Christians die. I never saw any of them die in darkness. What if xhe billows of death do rise above our girdle, who does not love to bathe? What though other lights do go out in the blast, what do we want of them when all the gates of glory swing open before us and from a myriad voices, a myriad harps, a myriad thrones, a myriad palaces, there dash upon us, “Hosanna!” A minister of Christ in Philadelphia, dying, said in his last moments, “I move into the light!” They did not go down doubting and fearing and shivering, but their battle cry rang through all the caverns of the sepulcher and was echoed back from all the thrones of heaven; “O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?’ Sing, my soul, of joys to come! Hungry men no more to hunger; thirsty men no more to thirst; weeping men no more to weep; dying men no more to die. Gather up all sweet words, all jubilant expresssions, all rapturous exclamations. Bring them to me, and I will pour them upon the stupendous theme of the soul’s disenthrallment! Oh, the joy of the spirit as it shall mount up toward the throne of God, shouting: “Free! Free!” Your eye has gazed upon the garniture of earth and heaven, but the eye hath not seen it. Your ear has caught harmonies uncounted and indescribable —calight them from the harp’s trill and bird’s carol, and waterfall’s dash and ocean’s doxology, but the ear hath not heard it. There will be a‘ password at the gate of heaven. A great multitude come up and knock at the gate. The gatekeeper says, “The Password.” They say, “Wo have no password. We were great on earth, and now come up to be great in heaven. ” A voice from within answers, “I never knew you.” Another group come up to the gate of heaven and knock. The gatekeeper says, “The password.” They say: “We have no password. We did a great many noble things on earth. We endowed colleges and took care of the poor.” A voice from within says, “I never knew you.”

Another group come, up to the gate of heaven and knock. The gatekeeper says, “The password. They answer, “We were wanderers, from God and deserved to die, but we heard the voice of Jesus.” “Aye, aye,” says the gatekeeper, “that is the password! Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates and let these people in.” They go in and surround the throne, jubilant forever. Ah, do you wonder that the last hours of the Christian on earth are illuminated by thoughts of coming glory? Light in the evening. The medicines may be bitter. The pain may be sharp. The parting may be heartrending. Yet light in the evening. As all the stars of night sink their anchors of pearl in lake and river and sea, so the waves of Jordan will be illuminated with the down-flashing of the glory to come. The dying soul looks up at 1 the constellations. “The Lord is my light and salvation. Whom shall I fear?” “The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. About 37 per cent.'of Spain is cub tivated. The World's Fair lias two miles of lunch counters. An uncut diamond looks very much like a bit of the best gum arabic. Dog barbers are quite common in Paris. Their chief duty is to shave poodles. The average strength of a horse is seven and a half times greater than that of a man. Two-thirds of the gold now in use in the world was discovered dying the last fifty years. Moldy apples, which have been stored in cellars, are perilous to health. They sometimes cause diph theria. A bride and groom recently wedded in St. John, Mich., were aged, respectively, twelve and thirteen years. On the Island of Trinidad is a large field covered with pitch which in the sunlight glistens like a dprk liquid. It is called Pitch Lake. “If money does talk, ’ observed Snobbs, the other night, “I would like to ask the girl on the silver dollar why she so persistently and successfully shuns me.”

A curious book, in which the text is neither written or printed, but wovqn, has lately been published in Lyons, France. It was made of silk, aud was published in twenty-five parts, each part containing but two leaves. Chemically treated, one pound of coal will yield dye of various brilliant colors—enough of magenta to color 500 yards of flannel, vermillion for 2,560 yards, aurine for 120 yards, and alizarine sufficient for 156 yards of cloth. There is a lake near the Japenese town of Kara in which no person is permitted to bathe, because once, many years ago, a Japenese emperor bathed there, and the watery have since been held sacred. The most indestructible wood is the Jarrah wood of Western Australia, which defies all known forms of decay, and is untouched by all destructive insects, so that ships built of it do not need to be coppered. The average yearly expenses, of Yale’s graduating class of 185 were as follows: Freshman, 1939; sophomore, $1,041; junior, $1,115; senior. $1,215. The highest amount ex pended in any year was 14,700; the lowest, $200.

A Reynolds ville, Pa., man has taken a photograph of his camera with that instrument itself. The camera was stationed directly in front of a mirror, pointed toward it, and thus it took a picture of itself, but the picture was trimmed so that no one could detect that it was the object in the mirror that was taken. A curiosity in this year’s peach crop on the Delaware Peninsula is the fruit of a tree in the garden of\ Colin Stam, of Chestertown, Kent county, Maryland. All the poaches on this tree are in twins or triplets. A twig one foot long was found to have sixteen twin peaches. An occasional doublepeach is not unusaul,but such fruit seldom reaches a healthy maturity. Guileless immigrants landing in New York sometimes are buncoed into the exchange of good European money for Confederate bills. Last week a German gave 250 marks for a $50 bill. As the bill was crisp and new it may be argued that such counterfeits are of constant manufacture. The only power, however, that could enforce a penalty for such wrong-doing laid down its staff of office at Appomattox. An Arkansas City man is having a hard run of luck. Recently he went to Purcell with a cargo of mules. There he was robbed of $85. On his return he bought a horse which proved to have been stolen and had to give it up. Then two watches were stolen from his residence and he has found but one. Saturday he had a house burned on which there was no insurance. A material lately introduced in the construction of American warships, though not yet effectually tested in in war or serious casualty, is called cellulose. A naval man in Washington, speaking of the sinking of the Victoria, says: “I hardly think that such an accident could have happened to one of our war vessels. Above the protective deck in our boats we place a material called cellulose. It is six feet in thickness all along the inside of the vessel’s side and is about seven feet in height. When this material is wet it swells up and closes an opening. In case a shot from the enemy should drive a hole through the ship's side it would swell up and close the hole, keeping the water out. It would act the same way in case of a collision in which the” ship's side was shattered. It would have a tendency to prevent a rush of water.”.