Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 39, Hope, Bartholomew County, 18 January 1894 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. Bt Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA “Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.” Tub Rev. Dr. Paxton, the most distinguished Presbyterian divine of New York, has resigned his pastorate under the most mysterious circumstances and is now living in retirement. Dr. Paxton had the Goulds, Vanderbilts and other millionaires among his parishioners and it was said that he preached to more dollars than any clergyman in the world. There is evidently a case of “scan, mag.” hidden away that may ' yet be brought to light. People who were so fortunate as to ride on the Christopher Columbus while at the Pair last summer will be especially interested with the information that the whaleback ships are to be given a trial on the Pacific as sea-going vessels. One whaleback of 5,000 tons with accommoda tions for 200 passengers is now building and contracts for two others have been let. They will run between Portland, Ore., and San Francisco. The boats will all be of the same general design as the Christopher Columbus. The inauguration of John P. Hop,kins, as Mayor of Chicago, on the evening of Dec. 27, was attended with considerable ceremony, and the occasion was made memorable on account of the number of floral tributes, sent to the council chamber by Mr. Hopkins’ friends. Mr. Hopkins’ competitor was Geo. B, Swift, and the defeated candidate’s name served as a “point” to the scriptural quotation set in a magnificent floral design contributed by Mrs. Washington Hesing: “The Race is Not Always to the Swift.” Spain will “hold up” the little kingdom of Morocco to che extent of $12,000,000 for indemnity on account of the troubles atMelila, and reports indicate that the Sultan of that country has “got the rocks” to meet the demand. The Spanish treasury is said to be depleted to an alarming extent, and this indemnity will be in the nature of a windfall for the Dukes and Hidalgos who have diverted the resources of the country into their own pockets. The Duke of Veragua does hot seem to be “in it,” which is a pity. By the way, we have not heard from Veragua and Eulalia this year. Aluminum, though valuable, has proved a most refractory metal for artisans to deal with. It can not be welded, and until recently efforts to solder it have proven failures. A French metallurgist, residing in New Y6rk, announces that he has now perfected a process for soldering the new metal. He will impart the secret to anybody for $50, but will not patent his ideas. He states that his previous experience with Amercan patent laws has proven disastrous, and thinks that inventors have no adequate protection from the infringements of piratical thieves who are determined to profit by the work of other mens’ brains. Emil Frey, the recently elected President of the Swiss Republic, has had a remarkably varied career; Although a native Swiss, and of a distinguished family, he enlisted in an Illinois regiment while visiting in this country in 1861, and served throughout the war, rising from the ranks to be a Captain. lie was captured at G ettysburg and was confined for a long time in Libby and Salisbury prisons. At one time he was under sentence of death, as a hostage, in retaliation for a confederate officer also sentenced, but who was not executed. He was brevetted Major for gallant services. This rank served as a stepping stone to the grade of Colonel-Brigadier in the Swiss army, which he joined on his return to his native country. Subsequently he served his country as Speaker of the National Council, Chief of the Military Department, first Swiss Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, and as Vice President. Sergeant Frey, of the Twen

I 1 y-Fourth Illinois Volunteers, is now President of the Swiss Confederation. One thousand girls and boys of tender age are employed in the cigar and tobacco factories in Chicago. The disastrous effect of the labor upon the health of these immature workers has aroused the sympathy of reformers and steps to correct the evil as far as possible are to be taken, principally in the direction of shorter hours for the over-worked operators. Many of the children have been ruined for life by nicotine poisoning contracted while working at this trade. The evil effects of the nicotine are not confined to the body but often wreck.the minds of the children thus cruelly exposed to its deadly influence. Medical authorities agree that children are far more susceptible than adults to the deleterious influence of this poison, and while adults may apparently remain unharmed by the use of tobacco, the same habit in children is murderous or suicidal, as the case may be the result of parental coercion or willful subjection to its baneful powei’. At a banquet at the Lexington Hotel, Chicago, on the evening of Dec. 30, given by the “Two Million Club,” figures were produced showing that the population of the great western metropolis has actually reached that phenomenal figure and has started in upon the third million. Even if the plan for a “Greater New York” now being urged upon the contiguous cities on the shores of New York bay, is carried to a successful issue, Chicago in the near future will forge to the head of the procession, and within a decade will be the largest, wickedest most conceited city of the Western hemisphere. The atrocities, suffering, destitution and crime we read of as prevalent by the lake shore are but trivial incidents in her daily life. The prosperity of the metropolis of the Union is as well assured as is the progress of the American people, of whom it is the offspring and result as is the bloorning.rose the culmination and the flower of the fruitful earth and brambled bush and brier. Robert Martindale & Co., of Indianapolis, have issued a calendar for 1894 that is of decidedly unique historical interest. Portraits of all the Governors of Indiana except one are reproduced, with the dates of their services to the State as chief executive. Beginning with William Henry Harrison (Territorial) who served from 1801 to 1812, there followed Thomas Posey (Territorial) 1812 to 1816; Jonathan Jennings,1816 to 1822: William Hendricks (no portrait) 1822 to 1825; James B. Ray, acting, from February 12 to December 11, 1825, and Governor from 1825 to 1831; Noah Noble, 1831 to 1837; David Wallace, 1837 to 1840; Samuel Bigger, 1840 to 1843; James Whitcomb, 1843 to 1848, Joseph A. Wright, 1849 to 1847; Ashbel P. Willard, 1857 to 1860; Abram A. Hammond, acting, 1860 to 1861; Henry S. Lane, January 14 to January 16, 1861; Oliver P. Morton, acting, 1861 to 1865 and Governor, 1865 to 1867; Conrad Baker, acting, 1867 to 1869 and Governor, 1869 to 1873; Thomas A. Hendricks, 1873 to 1877; James D. Williams, 1877 1880; Isaac P. Gray, acting, 1880 'o 1881; Albert G. Porter, 1881 to 1885; Isaac P. Gray, 1885 to 1889; Alvin P. Hovey, 1889 to 1891; Ira J. Chase, acting, from Nov. 24, 1891 to Jan. 9, 1893; Claude Matthews, Jan. 9, 1893 to date. And the Next Day AVas a Cold One. Chicago Tribune. “If I want to get off at Seventysecond street,” said the man with the blown valise, “can I go on this train?” “You can, sir," answered the jaunty brakeman. Half an hour later the train whizzed by Seventy-second street at a thirty mile gait. “I thought you told me you stopped I at this station!” exclaimed the man with the brown valise sharply. “Oh, no!” answered the jaunty brakeman pleasantly. You asked me if you could go on this train. Anybody can go on this train. Auburn Pa-a-a-rk!” This wms why the jaunty brakeman got a letter next day from the superintendent of the road expressing regret that the company would be compeTed to get along without his services from that time forth. The man with the brown valise happened to be the president of the ro ad.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. TITLED JONATHAN. George Ticknor Curtis, the celebrated author, in a lengthy communication to the N. Y. Sun, protests agaist being called “Hon.” ‘.‘L. L. D.,” “Judge,” “Col.” etc., stating that he has never held a public office of any kind, or had a college degree of any grade conferred upon him. deprecates the tendency of Americans to confer titles upon people indiscriminately, without regard to their fitness or adaptation. Some of our embryo statesmen and ambitious clergymen who fish for titles and “honors” with a grab net Would add greatly to their strength of character by a similar course. Every callow youth who has been admitted to the bar in the woolly west deems himself slighted-if his fetters fail to come addressed to the “Hon. Y. G. Noodlehead,” and if the village Weekly Wheezer fails to speak of the “brilliant forensic effort of the Hon. Y. G. N.” in his maiden speech, then—well—“stop my paper”—and the poor editor is forever squelched. Every red-faced and blushing boy who by reason of a little surplus cash and an unaccountable popularity among his fellows in secret societies rises to the. rank of “Major” or “Col.” believes that Fame is already standing at the head of the avenue with a laurel Wreath to crown the Conquering Hero embodied in his fragile form, and if he lives for fifty years he will cherish the proud title that caused his youthful heart to throb with joy. The number of obscure “D. D.’s.” whose alma maters in a fit of aberration have conferred the title that should only crown superior merit and transcendent ability upon well meaning but egotistic “Doctors” who will thenceforth feel themselves as among the “elect,” is realized by few. Possibly all this is a harmless exhibition of human vanity and weakness. It certainly is a useless one. —— OUR NEW SISTERS. The sisterhood of States seems likely to gain several new members during the term of the Fifty-Third Congress. It is with the resources, history and future of Okalahoma, however, that this article will deal. Its admission as a State seems assured. The people of the Territory are said to be rather indifferent about the matter and are fully occupied with matters of pressing interest, without caring at present to peer into an unknown future of dignity and glory as an integral and potent part of the great American Union. Nevertheless Congress is going through the preliminary parliamentary stages necessary for the transformation, and in due time Okalahoma will be “one of us.” By the terms of the bill now pending Okalahoma will have two members of the House of Representatives, and, of course, two Senators. The new State will contain 23,205,709 acres, or 36,358 square miles. There are twelve States smaller than Oklahoma. Indiana has 36,350 square miles, thus ranking as a smaller commonwealth by three square miles. The population of the Territory is now believed to be about 250,000. This is a larger population than that of any other State at the time of its admission. There are now thirty banks in Oklahoma. The educational facilities are remarkable for such a pioneer community, and are rapidly growing better. The climate is unsurpassed. Wheat, in 1893, averaged twenty bushels to the acre. As yet there have been no State buildings erected, but the preliminary steps have been taken to provide the necessary edifices. With the admission of Oklahoma,-Utah, Arizona and New Mexico the number of States west of the Mississippi river j will reach twenty-two. “Westward i the Star of Empire'takes its way,” to plains where nature blossoms in her virgin urine. The overflow of a ' tnighty people is fast transforming j the wilderness into a garden. No# in our day will the problem have to I be solved, but in the future, when ! the mighty west is subdued and setI tied, will the question arise, Where shall the surplus energy and vigor of the race find a congenial field? OUR NAVAL FORCE. Many thousands of people who viewed the brick and mortar battleship off the coast of Cook county, I Illinois, during the summer will be

interested with the information that five powerful modern vessels belonging to our navy are now massed in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. They are the Newark, Charleston, the armored cruiser New York and the double-turret monitor Miantonomah. They are all supplied with modern methods of offense and defense and are supposed to be able to hold their own against any force that can be brought against them on the high seas. The object of thus massing a powerful fleet of war vessels in the harbor of Rioismtc’early apparent. American interests in Brazil are of comparatively small importance, and it is not probable that the United States will attempt to interfere with the internecine struggle now in progress in Dom Pedro’s old domain. The information is interesting, however, in a general way, to Hoosiers who are apt to forget that we have a navy that still carries the Stars and Stripes to the remotest ports of the earth. VANISHED GLORIES. Our idols have fallen! Our dream of beauty has ended! Our hope of further dalliance in the in toxication that so long enthralled us has forever passed away! With the destraction of the Peristyle, the Casino and Music Hall, with the practical ruin of the mountainous Manufactures Building, the glory of the Court of Honor has been so sadly marred that a visit to its once enchanted precincts would seem but mockery —a painful reminder of departed joys that ifever more shall gladden the hearts of those who love the The Beautiful. Like the pale and ghastly corpse of a departed friend that lies a helpless, hopeless wreck before us, wringing our hearts with anguish as we recall the loving look or gentle word or kind caress that ever greeted us from the fast dissolving remains, so will the wreckage of Jackson Parkappeal to all the favored mortals who beheld its glory and who now behold the funeral pyre from whence ascended to the heavens all that triumph of the mind and soul that made it so complete a joy. Not for one brief year could it be spared to us, nor again a bright succession of halcyon days be given us to disport ’twixt the lake and land —amid the glamour of the waters blue, triumphal arch and columns white that held aloft to lingering view the sculptor’s art and legends that could stir the heart. Alas, that to memory and the intangible record of the canvass and the graver’s art must we for ever turn to see again man’s great est triumph in our day. “Still o'er those scenes mv memory wakes. And fondly broeds with miper-care; Time but the imprdssiO'.' deeper makes As streams their channels deeper wear.' A FARMER’S PHILOSOPHY He Gives Some Reasons for the EyIstence of Hard Times. American Times “There is being so much said in the country about hard times and the scarcity of money, and as everybody has a cause and knows a remedy, I thought I would write to tell your readers what I think is the cause. “We buy more than we produce. “There is too much flour and bacon ; shipped here every year. The things i we ought to make at home we are I buying. “We let our timber rot and buy our plough stocks, singletrees,, axe handles, hoe handles, and fencing. “We throw away our ashes and buy soap and axle grease. “We give away our beef hides and buy hamestrings and shoestrings. “Wo waste our manure and buy guano. “We buy garden seed in the spring and cabbage in the winter. | “We let our lands grow up in ! weeds and buy our brooms. “We waste the wax but of our pne and gum trees and buy chewing gum for our children. “We build schoolhouses and hire teachers and send our children off to be educated. “We land a five-cent fish with a four-doilar fishing rod. •‘We send a fifteen-cent boy out with a twenty-dollar gun and a' four dollar dog to kill birds. “We raise dogs and buy wool, “And about the only’ things in this country that there, is overpro duction of are and dog-tics Prudent Advice. Br >oklyn Life. Blinks—Have you read that article on “How to Tell a Bad Egg?” Winks —No, I have not, but my advice would be: If you have anything important to tell a bad egg break it gently.

A HAWAIIAN MESSAGE. ‘‘Great Cry and Very Little Wool.” Further Uetalls-Iastructlons to Minister Willis President Dole s Reply to the Demand for the Queen’s Restoration. The President, Saturday, sent to Congress all correspondence relative to Hawaiian affairs since his last message, with tho following exp auatory note: To the Congress 1 transmit herewith copies of all dispatches from our minister to Hawaii, relating in any way to political affairs in Hawaii, except such as have heretofore been sent to Congress. also send copies of instructions sent on January iaTdJi, being the only instructions to him that have not been sent to Congress. In my former messages to Congress I withheld dispatch No. under date of November 10, is'i3, and also dispatch No. <0, under date of October 8. 1893. Inasmuch as tne contents of dispatch No. 3 are all ruf,,rr ™ to in a dispatch of more recent date, and inasmuch as there scorns to be no longer reason for witholding it, the same is herewith submitted. Dispatch No. id is still withheld, tor reasons that seem to tie justiliablo and proper. O[IOVF.II Cl.K\ ELAM). The last instructions forwarded to Minister Willis were dated January 13, and in brief were as follows: To Willis, Minister, Honolulu: Your dispatches numbered 14 to lb, inclusive, show that you have rightly comprehended the scope of your instructions, and have, as far as was in your power, discharged the onerous duty conlided in you. The President sincerely regrets that the provisional government refuses to acquiesce in the conclusion which his sense of right and duty, and a due regard for our national honor, constrained hiiu to reach, find to .submit, as a measure of justice, to the people of tho Hawaiian islands and their deposed sovereign. While it is true that the provisional government was created to exist only ifntil tho islands were annexed to the United States, and that the Queen finally, hut reluctantly, surrendered to an arraed'force from this government. illegally quartered in Honolulu, and representatives of the provisional government (which realized its impotence and was anxious to get control of the Queen’s means of defense) assured her that if she would surrender her case would be subsequently considered by the United States. The President has never claimed that such action constituted him an arbiter in the technical sense or authorized him to act in that capacity between the provisional government and the Queen. On the ISth ultimo the President sent a special message to Congress communicating copies of Mr. B.mint’s report and the instructions given to him and to you. The President therein announced that tho conditions of restoration suggested by him to the Queen had not proved acceptable to hor, and that since the instructions sent to you to insist upon these conditions he had not learned that the Queen was willing to assent to them. The matter now being in the hands of Congress, the President will keep that body fully advised of the situation. You will until further notice consider that your special instructions upon this subject have been fully complied with. Gkk.bham, Secretary of State. The last dispatch received from Minister Willis, enclosed with this correspondence, was as follows: Legation of the U. S., Honolult , I December 23, 1893. 12 Midnight, f Sir —President Dole has just delivered in person this hour (midnight) the answer of the provisional government, declining to accept tho decision of tho President of the United States—a copy of which is herewith inclosed. The revenue cutter Corwin is under sailing orders and will leave here in a few minutes for San Francisco. I will on Tuesday acknowledge the receipt of the answer of the provisional government, notify ng it that the President of the United States will be informed thereof and that no further steps will be taken' by me until I shall have heard from him. I shall deliver a similar communication to the Queen, Albert S. Willis. President Dole’s reply is of considerable length and reviews the question from an annexation standpoint in the manner so often published. Ho emphatically states that the project of political union with the United States will continue to be tho conspicuous feature of the foreign policy of tho provisional government and positively refuses to surrender to the ex-Queen the governmental affairs, as demanded by the President. He states that tho government of the United States has no right to interfere in the affairs of the IslenJs, and in conclusion says: I am instructed to Inform you, Mr. Minister, that the provisional government of the Hawaiian islands respectfully and unhesitatingly decline to entertain the proposition of tho President of the United States that it should surrender its authority to the. ex-Queen. This answer is maderiot only upon the grounds heroin before sot forth, but upon our sense of duty and loyalty to the brave men whose commissions we, hold, who have faithfully stood by us in the hour of trial, and whose will is the only earthly authority we recognize. Wo cannot betray the sacred trust they have placed in onr hands—a trust which is the cause of Christian civilization in the interests of the whole of these islands. Sanford B. Dole. Minister of the Foreign Office. The City of Peking arrived at San Francisco. Jan. 13, bringing Honolulu advices to Jan. 5, which state that the situation is unchanged and that all is quiet. A~ BRIDGE S BURDEN. Triple Lynching by a Determined Kansas Mob. A mob of twenty men entered the jail at Russel), Kan., Sunday night, took out J. G. Burton, Wm. Gay and his son, John Gay and hung the trio to a small railroad bridge. The work was quickly and ? ( an( * mob immediately left the scene, going north. The belief is general that they came from the north part of the county. The crime for which the men were lynched was the killing of rred Dinning, in July last, on the Burton place, about twenty miles northwest of omI * n< ? u^ries , re Rarding a draft payaoie to Dinning and his mysterious disappearance led to an investigation and the arrestor Burton, who implicated the other P* e " made a confession, which led • b |S " nc^,n *f °f Dinning’s body buried in * held near the scene of the murder.