Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 22, Hope, Bartholomew County, 21 September 1893 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA Lawrence T. Neal, tho Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, is forty-nine years old and a bachelor. The Democratic party, in the past, has usually had good luck with “old bachelor” candidates. Jatpes Buchannan, Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland have been conspicuous examples of this. Mr. Neal’s father is still an active man at the age of eighty, and resides at Parkersburg, W. Va. Ten million paid admissions to the World’s Fair during tho first four months is the record that proves that Chicago, as usual, is making a success of an undertaking that the jealous East "predicted was beyond her capacity to manage or ability to successfully carry forward. Prospects indicate that the Fair will even ■ be a financial success—something that the promoters scarcely hoped for —which is unusual in such undertakings. Very few of the world’s great expositions have returned anything to the original stockholders. There are two things about the United States Postal laws that every one should know. The sender has a right to put his address on the envelope or wrapper of anything mailable, whether letters, printed matter or merchandise. The Dead Letter office would become unnecessary if all would avail themselves of this privilege. The registry fee is now only 8 cents in addition to the postage, and for that small sum anything mailable can be registered and its safety insured. All packages of value should be registered. The responsibility for a package is thus located and a receipt from the recipient is thus secured —very important matters in some cases. , The great diamond now on exhibition at the World’s Fair by Tiffany <fe Co., of New York, is valued at $100,000. This diamond is celebrated and has a well authenticated history. It was found in the Kimberly diamond district in South Africa, in 1879, and came immediately into the hands of its present owners. It is the largest diamond in Arneri- ] ca, and the finest yellow diamond in | the world. It is one-fifth larger than 1 the famous Kohinoor stone, which i belongs to the British crown. Mrs. j Yerkes, wife of the Chicago street car millionaire, is the lady who has the pile that “jerks” this glittering bauble, which she will take possession of at the close of the Fair As a purveyor of news, it has again become our painful duty to announce the taking off of Mr. Schnitzer. alias Emin Pasha, in the wilds of Africa. He is all “cut up” this time and has been eaten ere this by naked cannibals. We are aware that this announcement will appear a trifle stale and monotonous, but wc can assure our readers that the information has come to us through the regular channels, and is ! quite as reliable, apparently, as any j other piece of news from foreign shores. Emin’s entire party were J massacred by a Viand of hostile na- ; tives, and Emin’s head was cut off | by one stroke of a scimitar in the j bands Of a gigantic savage in a dramatic manner that will delight! the heart of Rider Haggard, who j will doubtless in due time use the in- 1 cident as a basis for a new work of! horrible African fiction. Tile New York collector of customs held that the tomato is a vege - table and accordingly imposed the 10 per cent, advalorem tax, as pre- i scribed by law. The merchant who was importing what he contended is j fruit, which is admitted free of duty, i appealed to the circuit court, but that tribunal decided in favor of the collector, and on a further appeal by the merchant to the United States Supreme Court the decision was affirmed. This is important. We all know now what we are eating when we indulge in the agricultural production in question. This is probably the first time that this vegetable has been brought into court since the days of Pickwick. As all will ] recollect, it was the message, “Chops 1

and tomato sauce” that precipitated the celebrated case of Bardell vs. Pickwick and brought down so much tribulation on that famous and kindhearted old gentleman. Mr. Garner, the “monkeyologist” and simian expert, having long believed that the amusing animals in which he has taken so great an interest can and do talk, has prepared a cage for himself in which he feels safe and is now in the wilds of Africa pursuing the study of the lingo of the various, varieties of monkeys. Word has been received from him in a letter in which he reports satisfactory progress and states that he can conduct a limited but intelligible conversation with his forest friends. Mr. Garner has written to a Boston philanthropist soliciting i contributions of rattles, balls, tin trumpets, dolls and other small toys. He will endeavor to educate the monkeys, as an experiment, on their “native heath,” so to speak, and if successful we may look for the formation of the Amalgamated Missionary Union for the propagation of Delsarte, ideas among the hairy denizens of the tropics. As Delsartists monkeys would be a great success. They could give the human race pointers on “falling down stairs” —the latest fad that has emanated from the fertile brains of “culchah” and alleged refinement. The groat success of the Encampment managers at Indianapolis in preparing for and handling the immense outpouring of people, and veterans as well, that filled the Hodsier capital as never before, places that city in line for successful competition for the national conventions of the great parties in 189G Frequent efforts have been made in this direction in the past, but the patriotic efforts of the public men of Indianapolis were hardly given serious consideration by the, national committees, for the simple reason that it was supposed that a national gathering of anv great organization could not be properly cared for by a city of the size of Indianapolis. Now that it has demonstrated its capacity, with the experience gained by the Encampment, and tho added advantage of three years growth before the meeting of the conventions to nominate canditates for the campaign of '96, the efforts of public spirited citizens are certain to receive a respectful consideration that will more than likely be crowned with success. One or both of the great national conventions will be held in Indianapolis in ’9U. Paste this in your hat. The distant cousins and far away aunts and remote uncles and unheard of relatives of ail degrees of consanguinity, by the direct line of hereditary descent or collateral connection brought about bv ante-di-luviau nuptials ceremonies, have at last, by the cumulative force of oftrepcated calamities brought a Chicago man to grief, and in the frenzy of despair he has rushed into print in the personal columns of the city papers with an emphatic notice to the world at large that all persons claiming relationship with him in the future, and desiring entertainment during their stay in the city, must be identified. Earty in August Mr. McCaslin the person in question, having tried to keep a record of persons entertained by him. because of their claimed relationship, became impressed with the belief that he had been sadh- imposed upon. The family had given up their beds to guests, bunking around as best they could. The situation was desperate. Investigation of the family record led to tho discovery that twenty-five more visitors had been entertained than could by the most liberal construction claim relationship. Mr. McCaslin naturally felt that he had done his duty by his relations and accordingly issued the notice that ia the future visitors claiming relationship must be identified, and that credentials will be required. Sad fate of au Office-Seeker. Boston TranscriptPresident Cleveland caught a shark the other day. On cutting the fish open, it was , found to contain a carpetbag, two paper collars, a petition for appointment as postmaster at Wildcat City, Ga., and sixteen testimonials as to fitness and character. Among civilized people, Swedes take the palm for honesty.

A ROYAL DRUNK. Thirty-Three Intoxicated Kings In One Tent. 9cl«a(Ut« Dlsagrr i iu Their Attacks on the Christian Religion—Dr. Taimage’e Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday. Subject; '‘The Battle Ours.” Text: I Kings xx, 27.—“And the children of Israel pitched before them like two flocks of kids.” With thirty-three kings drunk in one tent this chapter opens. They were allies plotting for the overthrow of the Lord's Israel, You know that if a lion roar a (lock of kids will shiver and huddle together. One lion could conquer a thousand kids. The battle opens. There are a great multitude of Syrians under Gen. Ben-hadad, strong as lions. The Israelites are few and weak, like two little flocks of kids. Who beat? The lion, of course. Oh, no; the kids, for it all depends whether God is on the side of the lion or the kids. After the battle 100,000 Syrians lay dead on the Held, and 27,000 attempting to fly, came along by a groat wall, which toppled and crushed them to death. Which was the stronger weapon—great Goliath’s sword or little David’s sling? David had five smooth stones from the brook. He only used one in striking down Goliath. He had a suiplus of ammunition; he had enough to take down four more giants if they had appeared in the way. It all depends upon whether God is on the side of the shepherd boy or on the sjde of the giant. f go through the court rooms of the country. Wherever I find a judge’s bench or a clerk’s desk I find a bible. By what other book would they take solemn oath? What is very apt to be among the bride’s presents? The bible. What is very apt to be put in the trunk of the young man when he starts for city life? The bible. Voltaire predicted that the bible during the nineteenth century would become an obsolete book. Well, we are pretty near through the nineteenth century; the bible is not obsolete yet. There is not much prospect of its becoming obsolete, but I have to tell you that that room —the very room in which Voltaire wrote that prediction—some time ago was crowded from the floor to the ceiling with bibles for Switzerland. Suppose the Congress of the United States should pass a law that no bibles should be printed in the United States. If there are thirty million grown men and women in the country then there would be thirty million people armed against such a law. But suppose the Congress of the United States should pass a law that Macauley’s history or Charles Reade’s novels should not be read. Could you get half as large an army or the fourth of as large an army? “But,” say those who are antagonistic, “Christianity is falling back from the fact that the church is not as much respected as it used to be and is notas influential.” I reply to that with the statistic that one denomination—the methodist church—according to a statistic given me by one of their bishops, dedicates on an average a new church every day of the year. Three hundred and sixty-five new churches in one denomination in a year, and over a thousand new churches built every year in this country. Does that look as though the church were failing in its power and were becoming a worn-out institution? Around which institution in our communities gather the most ardent affections 9 -- the postoffice, the hotel, the court house, the city hall or the churches? But our antagonists go on and say that Christianity is falling back, in the fact that infidelity is bolder now and more blatant than it ever was. I deny the statement. Infidelity is not near so bold now as it Was in the days of our fathers and grandfathers." There were times in this country when men who were openly and above board infidel and antagonistic to Christianity could be elected to high office. Now let some man wish a high position in the State proclaim himself the foe of Christianity and an infidel, how many States of the Union will he carry; how many counties; how many wards in Brooklyn? Not one. Do you suppose such things could be enacted now as were enacted in the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elected to be goddess, and she was carried on a golden chair to a cathedral, and the people bowed down to her as to a divine being and burned incense before her—she to take the place of the Bible, and of Christianity, and of the Lord Almighty? And while that ceremony was going on in the cathedral, in the chapels and in the corridors adjoining the cathedral scenes of drunkenness and debauchery and obscenity were enacted such as the world had never seen. Could sudi a thing as that transpire now? No, sir. The police would swoop on

it, whether in Baris or New York. Infidelity is not half as bold now as it used to be. Do you suppose that this Bible theory about the. origin of life is going to be overthrown by men who have different theories —fifty different theories about the origin of life? And when Agassiz comes out and puts both feet on the doctrine of evolution and says in regard to many scientists, “I notice that these young naturalists are adopting as the theories in science things that have not passed under observation.” Agassiz saw what we all see—th it there are men who talk very wiseiy who know but very little, and that just as soon as a young scientist finds out the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a beetle he begins to patronize the Almighty and go about talking about culture as though it were spelled e-u-l-e-h-a-r culchar! It makes me sick to see these literary fops going down the street with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, talking about the “survival of the fittest,” and Huxley’s ■‘protoplasm,” and the “nebular hypothesis,” and talking to us common men as though we were fools. If they agreed in their theories and came up with solid front against Christianity, I say perhaps they might make some impression, but they do not agree. Darwin charges upon Lamarck, Wallace upon Cope. Herschel even charged upon Ferguson. They do not agree upon the gradation of the species; they do not agree upon embryology. What do they agree about? Even mathematicians do not agree. Taylor’s logarithms are found to have faults in them. The French metric system has wrong calculations. Talk about exact sciences! They are inexact. As far as with my little knowledge I have been able to explore the only exact science is Christianity. There is nothing under which you can so appropriat >lv writs, “Quad erat demonstrandum.” But my subject shall no longer be defensive —it must be aggressive. I must show you that instead of Christianity falling back it is on the march and that the coming religion of the world is to be the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ ten thousand times intensified. It is to take possession of everything—of all laws, all manners, all customs, all nations. It is going to be so mighty compared with what it has been—so much more mighty—that* it will seem almost like a new religion. Go back a few years when there was not a decent paper in the United States that had not a discussion on the doctrine of eternal punishment. Small wits made merry. I know, but there was not an intelligent man in the United States that, as a result of the controversy in regard to eternal punishment, did not ask himself the question, “What is to be my eternal destiny?” And so some years ago, when Tyndall offered his prayer guage there was not a secular paper in the United States that did not discuss the ques tion, “Does God-ever answer prayer? May the creature impress the Creator?” Talking with men on steamboats and in rail cars, I find they are coming back to the comfort of the gospel. They say. “Somehow human science doesn’t comfort me when I have any trouble, and I must try something else.” And they are trying the gospel. Take your scientific consolation to that mother who has just lost her child. Apply the doctrine of the “Survival of the Fittest;" tell her that her child died because its life was not worth as much as the life of one that lived. Try that, if you dare. Go to that dying man with your transcendental phraseology and tell him he ought to have confidence in the great “to be,” and the everlasting “now,” and the eternal “what is it?” and go on with your consolation and see if ho is comforted. Go to that woman who has lost her husband and toll her it was a geological necessity that that man passed out of existence just as the megatherium disappears in order to make room for a higher style of creation, and go on with your consolation and tell her that there is a possibility that lO.OdO.OOO years from now we ourselves may he geological specimens of the extinct human race i And after you have got all through with your consolation, if the poor afflicted soul is not utterly crazed, I will send out the plainest Christian from my church, and with one-half hour prayer and the reading of the scripture promises, the tears will be staid, an 1 the consol* .km and the jov in that house wi$ be like the calmness of an Indian .summer sunset. There will be glory flooding the house from floor to cupola. Oh, people are finding out themselves—and they all have troubles—they find that philosophy and science do not help when there is a dead babe in the house. Tiiey are coming back to our glorious old-fashioned sympathetic religion. J

.BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION. Bombardment ot the Forts at Bio de Janeiro. Probable Overthrow of the Present Government—Little Damage as Yet Results. The following dispatch was receive at Washington about noon, Thursday: "Rio de Janeiro, Sept. It, 1893. “Gresham, Washington: “At 11 this morning revolutionary forces bombarded forts surrounding entrance ot harbor and also the arsenal on a wharf,, center of city. A few shells were lired into the city. A woman was killed in her

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riisidenco. Commercial telegrams have again been forbidden. Charleston has not yet arrived.” Advices received at Washington from Rio de .Janeiro. Thursday evening, point in a most positive manner to the overthrow of the present government. The disaffection is not confined to the navy alone, but is spreading to the army,where the opposition to the government is becoming most pronounced. It is said that the Admiral of the navy would never have dared to have taken the bold step ho has without assurances of support from a portion of the army at least. It is believed that a dispatch will bo very soon, received announcing the success of the insurgents. Senor Deraononco, the Brazilian minister, is not in Washington at present. CONTAGIOUS CRIME. A Successful Train Robbery in Michigan. The "Uandlts Four” Get 1ST5 000 and Want More. A train was held up between Hancock, Mich., and Calumet by three masked men and robbed of ?75,C03. The scene of the robbery is on the Mineral Range Road, running between Houghton and Calumet. The Calumet and Uecla mine gives employment to about two thousand men. The company pays its men about the 15th of each month. The money taken was sent from Eastern banks by the company. The men who committed the robbery were evidently acquainted with the manner in which the Calumet and Hecla paid its employes and the day on which the money is usually shipped to the mine. The robbery occurred at 9:30 o’clock Friday morning. The engineer and fireman were covered with revolvers by two of the robbers, while the other two ordered the express messenger to put the contents of his safe in a bag which one of . the robbers carried. The messenger immediately complied and handed out some $75,0JO consigned to the Calumet and Hecla mine. Securing the booty the robbers fired a shot and ordered the engineer to “go ahead” —which he did, and the whole affair was such a surprise that the passengers knew nothingof the trouble until after the train had started. The light guards and the sheriffs are out scouring the country. It is thought the robbers had horses conveniently near and a boat ready at the lake, for which point they could make for Northern Canada. NEAL VS. M’KINLEY. Hon. Lawrence T. Ncai, Democratic candidate for Governor os Ohio, opened the campaign at Newark, Thursday. All the Democratic candidates on the State ticket were present. Large, delegations from Columbus, Mansfield and other central Ohio towns were in attendance. Mr. Neal answered thestatments of McKinley at Akron in detail. He held that under our present protective system the whole burden of taxation rested on the consumption of the people. The rich and the poor are not placed on an equality under such a system. The taxes paid are not levied in proportion to their ability to pay. Protection, he said, was an injustice and a crime against the great mass of the people. In conclusion, Mr. Neal said; “The defeat of the Republican party In this State next November, will, by common consent, be everywhere received as the full and final decision of the American people upon the question of protective taxation. The overthrow of McKinley and McKinleyism in Ohio will affirm the judgment of the people of the entire country, entered in the Presidential election of last year, in favor of a tariff for revenue alone. I appeal to you then tc vote the Democratic ticket. Shall I appeal in vain? It is for you to answer. But in answering I beg of yon to remember that the Democratic party is the party of the people; that it has always been the party of the people; that it has at al' times, and in all places, and under all circumstances, in sunshine and in storm, it. prosperity and in adversity, in peace arm in war. watched as a guard an angel over the rights, interests and •liberties of the people.”