Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 45, Hope, Bartholomew County, 1 March 1894 — Page 2

hope beptjblican. By Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA John Pigtail Chinaman is reported to be cheerfully coming forward to register and have his “picture tuk” out west, notwithstanding the efforts of the high binders, and other Chinese influences, to prevent his compliance w ith the law. “How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands. In a moment they shall die and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away.” Colorado women, having succeded to the dignity of voters, have also, when registering, been accorded the honor of having a recognized occupation, and put themselves on record as “Housewives.” This “dodge” is credited to the inventive powers of the wife of ex-6ov. Routt, and is said to have relieved many ladies, as well as election boards, from much embarrassment. Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, has directed Comptroller Ackerman to retain ten per cent, of his salary every month and turn it into the general fund. The city finances of the western metropolis are in a bad way and this action of the Mayor is commended by papers who strenuously opposed his election. It is said that other high-salaried officials will follow the good example set by their chief.

Ip the recent decision of the Maryland Court of Appeals should become an accepted interpretation of law throughout the country and its rigid enforcement be insisted upon the Seventh-Day Adventists will have reason to regard themselves as a persecuted sect who are made to suffer for opinion’s sake. Members of that denomination in the rural districts of Maryland have been arrested and fined for husking corn on Sunday and the court of last resort has affirmed the verdict. The cheering information given to the public on the 10th by the New York mercantile agencies that for the week ending Feb. 9th three hundred factories,long idle, throughout the country, had resumed operations, should be an assurance to every one that an era of prosperity has already set in. May the day soon dawn that shall see it fully established —the wheels of industry all in motion, idle men only those who are idle from choice —and want and destitution banished from our land. The fate of the British warship Victoria has called the attention of naval architects throughout the world to the fatal weakness of modern iron-dads. The up-to-date manof war is almost universally unfitted for sailing, if not actually dangerous to its crew when in motion. All are top-heavy and liable to be overturned by any chance wave that is at all out of the ordinary. The recent acquisitions to the navy of the United States come under this class, and a movement has been inaugurated looking to a thorough investigation of the matter. Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, announces that she does not propose to release her lease on the Kansas State Board of Charities for the simple reason that Gov. Lewelling is determined to release the distinguished lady from further public service that has been so inadequately recompensed in the past. Mrs. Lease publicly states that the salary attached to the position is no object, but as her continuance in office appears to be distasteful to those she considers her enemies she will “hold the fort” indefinitely “just to spite ’em,” and incidentally to vindicate her own character front the aspersions shied in her direction by the aforesaid enemies. Mrs. L. is evidently a sticker from Stickerville, and this is her time to stick. The last Indiana Legislature passed a law providing that township officers shall hereafter be elected at general elections to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1894, and ev-

ery four years thereafter, which election shall be conducted by the provisions of the law governing the said general election. A law was also passed and approved providing for the appointment of road supervisors by township trustees. This law had an emergency clause and took effect before the law changing the time for holding township elections and cannot bo construed to extend the terms of road supervisors then in office. The names of the candidates for township offices are to be printed on separate ballots of a yellow color, and are to be deposited in separate ballot boxes that are to be painted yellow. People who have been accustomed to watch the April elections for political “straws” will in the future be compelled to get their pointers from some other source. Editor Stead, who is still in Chicago as a sort of John the Baptist evangelist, has given Mayor Hopkins a certificate of character in a recent public address, in which ho said that “at present the Mayor’s face is set toward Zion.” Partisan opponents have taken exceptions to the statements of Mr. Stead, and continue to reflect severely upon Mr. Hopkins in many ways, principally, however, upon local matters of administration that are not of especial interest to outsiders. The remarkable circumstance to be noted by people at a distance is this statement that a Mayor of Chicago “has his face set toward Zion.” “Can any good thing come out of Chicago?” Lovers of canned salmon will regret to learn that there, are unmistakable evidences of a diminution and possible failure in the supply of their favorite staple, because of wasteful and highly improper methods of fishing now in vogue on the Columbia river. The supply of fish in those waters has always been regarded as inexhaustible, but, with characteristic American profligacy, the fishermen in that part of the world rose to the emergency and can now philosophically view the situa - tion brought about by their own disregard of even common prudence in the management of the vanished wealth that is now but a spendthrift’s dream. The catch for the past year has not been a tenth as large as in former years on the Columbia, but on the Fraser river, in British Columbia, where adequate laws for the protection of the fish are strictly enforced, the catch has exceeded that of any previous year. One big packer has removed his business from the State of Washington to British Columbia. David Crockett as He Really Was. Galveston, Tex., News. Mrs. Ibble Gordon, of Clarksville, Tex., who was born in 1805, was introduced to David Crockett. Describing the incident, she says; “It was in the winter of 1834, not long after Crockett had been defeated for Congress in Tennessee. We heard Crockett had 'crossed Red river, and fearing that he might not come through Clarksville, but keep on the old Trammell trail, we intended to meet him. Jane Latimer, then a girl of eighteen, rode behind me,and Betsy Latimer followed on a pony. We overtook Crockett and his party at the house of Edward Dean, about four miles from'Clarksville. It was early in the morning, and when Mrs. Dean saw us she said: ‘Mrs. Clark, what brings you here at this time of day?’ ‘My horse brought me,’ I answered, and then I told her I wanted some breakfast. We went into the house, and a friend, who had known Crockett in Tennessee, introduced us. Crockett was dressed like a gentleman and not as a backwoodsman. He did not wear a coonskin cap. It has always disgusted me to read these accounts of Crockett that characterize him as an ignorant backwoodsman. Neither in dress, conversation nor bearing could he have created the impression that he was ignorant or uncouth. He was a man of wide practical information, and was dignified and entertaining. His language was about as good as any we hear nowadays.” A Parisian thief entered a cab without baggage and directed the driver to convey him to an address some two miles distant. On the way thither he afterward requested the driver to halt at the store of a dealer In second-hand goods. The passenger entered the stpre bearing in his arras a large paper-covered parcel. He "had «ripped open the cushions, stolen the horsehair, and sold it. Fifteen thousand oranges grew on one tree, last season, at Altoona, Fla. The tree is twenty-five years old and thirty feet high.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. TYRANNICAL LAWS. This is a very free country, but some astonishing acts of tyranny are occasionally perpetrated by means of laws at variance with the spirit of our institutions. Striking illustrations of this great injustice are not hard to find. One of the most pitiful cases of this kind was that of Anna Wagner, who was arrested on the charge of poisoning a whole family at Indianapolis, After nearly a year’s imprisonment she was unanimously acquitted by the jury, and by public sentiment as well, at the close of a protracted trial, in which her friends were compelled to defend her at great trouble and expense. The innocent and ignorant German handmaiden has no recourse whatever upon any one for all her trouble and anxiety and her weary months of imprisonment, and of course, was thankful to escape as well as she did. The great injustice and wrong that was done to an undoubtedly innocent person, however, remains unatoned for. Again, there have been numerous instances where witnesses, who were so unfortunate a; to be unable to give bond for their appearance, being strangers in the community where their testimony was valuable to plaintiff or defendant—have been detained as prisoners for many months for no offense whatever. But one. of the most aggravated cases of this character wafe that of an unfortunate young man at Indianapolis, who but recently went to the station house —being out of employment—to sleep, because he did not wish to longer impose on friends. While he was at the station house his friends secured employment for him and sent a messenger to notify him to report for duty. The messenger was refused admission by the turnkey, and the next morning the boy, in ignorance of the fact that work had been found for him. pleaded guilty to vagrancy and the maximum fine of $50 was imposed. Being unable to pay, he was sent to the work house. The poor , victim served sixty days and came out worse off than before, his chance for work gone, guilty of no crime but poverty. Evidently there is something very wrong with a system that makes such outrages upon personal liberty possible. THE PUGILISTIC CRAZE. The prize-fighting furore that has of late years prevailed to such an alarming extent in America, and which has culminated in the remarkable meetings between the champions, both at New Orleans and Jacksonville, is an evil that is seemingly impossible to check with the means at present available, Every State is not blessed with an Executive like Indiana, to whose determined stand and prompt action the commonwealth owes its escape from the stigma of placid permission of 1 he brutal exhibitions that have from time to time occupied the public mind to the exclusion of less exciting subjects. The effect of these contests for what is the reverse of all that is refining and enobiing can hardly be calculated, and is especially marked upon the vivid imaginations of the risinggeneration. Col. Alexander Hogeland, a prominent Chicago philanthropist, prior to the CorbettMitchell fight sent an earnest protest to Gov. Mitchell, of Florida, in which he urged the absolute suppression of the contest on the ground that long observation had convinced him that every such meeting was the direct inspiration of countless quarrels and fistic encounters that would not otherwise take place. Exactly the same rule that causes the boy reader of the delirious dime novel to strive to emulate the hero of the impossible tale in all his maudlin adventures holds good in the nauseating details that are given in the daily press to be eagerly devoured by the multitude who delight in these fights to a finish with all their sensational features. On every street corner it is an absorbing topic, and embryo pugilists fill the streets with yells and cries as they “slug” each other in a weak imitation of the wonderful encounter they so iong to see. That their minds should be thus inflamed by an ambition as wicked as that of the champions themselves is but a natural consequence of the sentiment that has been fostered by the failure of out-

laws to effectually suppress the evil that all good citizens condemn. A BANKRUPT K1NGUOM. Greece, since the dawn of civilization, has been a most 'interesting country. The scene of some of man’s greatest triumphs in arms, in art, and literature and song. Tragedy and religion, mythology and necromancy, have there had their birth, and growth and maturity. Socrates and Cicero and Diogenes and Paul and Dionysius are names forever associated with its history. The glamour of an ancient past that stretches back and back and ever backward to an unknown source still hangs about its ancient temples and historic hills. The average reader finds it difficult to comprehend the fact that the same race of people that gave to the world its literature and its first lessons in architecture still survive upon the soil that nurtured their heroic ancestors whose works still remain as monuments to almost superhuman skill. Yet such is the incontestible fact. Nor are thev a degenerate race. Physically, they are still remarkable for their beauty and symmetrical proportions —with Jovian heads and Apo’lo limbs. Mentally they are still ambitious and often learned beyond the common lot oi men, acquiring languages with a facility unknown to other races. The little Kingdom has simply become overshadowed by the great world that has grown and spread, wave following wave, from its enchanted shores to lands bevond the seas. Ambitious yet, its statesmen have perfected and carried to completion great public works that were inaugurated before the beginning of the Christian era, and in so doing have saddled the ancient Kingdom with a debt that has made it practically bankrupt. The most eminent states man of Greece, M. Tricoupis, has given notice to bondholders that, until the finances of the country can be placed in better shape, but onethird of the interest will be paid. Grecian statesman have evidently overrated their ability to pay for their vast system of public works, forgetting or ignoring the fact that all the triumphs of their ancient builders of vast public structures were accomplished by despotic edicts which secured a servile obedience from countless slaves to work o tyrant's will. T HE””VANISHING CITY. The malignant and persistent at. tempts to destroy the remaining World’s Pair buildings at Jackson Park are discouraging to those tvho believe in the progress of mankind, and saddening to all who were enchanted by the beauty of those wondrous structures as well. Commencing with the destruction of the Peristyle there have already been six incendiary fires in different buildings, and there is apparently no reason to hope that they will cease until the last vestige of that great architectural picture has disappeared or been hopelessly ruined. No one has even been ai-rested for these criminal attempts, let alone punished, and it is evident that there is no great desire to preserve the buildings on the part of the Park Commissioners, in whose charge they now are. There has been a spirit of animosity exhibited at all times since the close of the Fair on the part of certain distinguished citizens of Chicago who were not identified with the Exposition that it is hard for outsiders to comprehend, and to this spirit is undoubtedly due the frequent attempts to destroy the monuments that remained to tell of the great triumph achieved by those who may be possibly considered as rivals for the public esteem with those who failed to catch the public ear and eye. Tongue Twisters. Six thick thistle sticks. Flesh of freshly fried flying fish. The sea ceaseth, but it sufticeth us. High roller, low roller, lower roller. Give Grimes Jim’s great gilt gio-. whip. A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit box. Two toads, totally tired, tried to trot to Ted bury. Strict, strong Stephen Stringei snared sickly silky snakes. She stood at the door of Mrs. Smith’s fish sauce shop, welcoming him in. ‘ Swan swam over the sea; swim swan, swim; swan swim back again 1 well swum, swan. “ '

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