Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 47, Hope, Bartholomew County, 15 March 1894 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. Bt Jay C. Smith. HOPE INDIANA “A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.” Our delightful New York financial correspondent informs us, this week, that “Realizable progress is the demand of the hour.” You-bet it is. If we should have to endure some progress that we couldn’t realize it might go hard with us. Postmaster Saiim, of Indianapolis, had 1,242 applications for places at bis disposal when he took office a few days ago, with only twelve positions outside of the classified service to bestow. The hungry patriots of the capital city evidently think their new P. M. is “Uncle Sa(h)m” himself. The great storm that swept eastward over Indiana Feb. 12 reached New York the following day. The frost work that followed upon all the trees and forests surrounding New York is described as something almost miraculous. The trees of Central Park were especially br<l}liant in trimmings that resembled the finest spun glass, which glistened in the sunlight with almost unearthly radiance. France is also struggling with a tariff question. Popular feeling in that country is said to demand an increase of the duty on corn, which is extremely distasteful to Russia, the latter power having even gone so far as to send a note of protest to the government at Paris. The French Ministry have replied that the duty will be made as low as possible. A ruptui-e of existing treaties between the two countries is a possible outcome of the dispute.

A fortune awaits the man who can perfect a new brand of chewing gum that will knock out those now in demand. The market is brisk, and hard times have not lessened the volume of trade in this commodity in the least. One brand now on the market is said to have cleared $2,000,000 for the manufacturers in this country alone. The habit is spreading and is no longer confined to giggling girls and small boys. The gum has a recognized place and an assured future. It is as staple as flour, but it is hardly classed as yet as a necessary of life. The annexation of Canada to the United States has beeh a question that has long received attention in certain quarters. While it has been known that there was a sentiment among a certain class in Canada favorable to the movement, it has not been generally believed that the idea had taken any strong hold on the mass of Canadian people. Recent developments, however, tend to show that the British government is by no means indifferent to the matter, it having been clearly shown that John Bull has emissaries both in Canada and in New York city whose sole business is to keep the British ministry fully informed on all points having a bearing on the question of Canadian annexation to the United States, and especially to ascertain if a sentiment in favor of such a movement is gaining ground in the Provinces of Quebec and tarioThe stories that continue to come to us from Austria, France, Spain and Russia of Anarchist plo ts and red flag conspiracies, exploding bombs and foul assassinations, with an occasional outbreak in the United States of a similar character, are Biot particularly pleasant reading and are still les$ comforting to those who hope for and believe in the advancement and welfare of the human race. Reisdents of our peaceful rural districts can not fully realize the conditions that have brought about these unhappv ’ manifestations of a deep-rooted evil that is sapping the life of all real progress, nor can they realize their own superior condition and happy lot in contrast with the darkened lives and miserable mental condition of those who hold themselves a ready sacrifice in order that they may strike a venomous blow at all existing governments and rulers,

or inflict diabolical injuries upon innocent victims who by no possible process of reasoning can be held accountable for the wrongs of which they complain. Judge Stubbs, of the Indianapolis Police Court, deserves a woi'd of commendation for his decided stand in enforcing the fish laws of the State. Two offenders having been proved guilty of having seines in their possession, and also of having used them in an utterly wanton and reckless manner in White river, near the capital, were fined $100 each and their seines were confiscated. Being unable to pay the fine the men were sent to the workhouse. If every Judge and official whose duty it is to see that these laws are enforced in Indiana would take a similar position and stick to it—ceasing to cover up and smooth over offenses in order to gain a few votes —our streams would soon teem with a finny wealth that would make them a source of food supply of untold value, and give to the sport some of its old-time attraction and charm.

That survival of savagery known as “hazing” among college boys has at last resulted in a murder at Cornell University, details of which were given in our news columns recently. The New York Legislature will, it is said, investigate the matter thoroughly and it is to be hoped that such laws will result as will make such mad-cap exhibitions an extremely hazardous amusement. People have long been too lenient towards these outrages simply because it was chargeable to the exuberant spirits and love of extremely practical jokes on the part of American youth. Numberless cases have resulted in permanent injuries to the luckless victims and at last human life has been sacrificed. The question to be determined is whether college boys are to beheld accountable like other peoplfe, or whether they are to be allowed to continue in their wild careers regardless of the consequences to the life and limb of those' unfortunates who chance to fall within the range of their alleged jokes. It would seem that heavy penalties for every description of hazing should be placed upon the statute books of every State in the Union. As matters are at present conducted in our leading colleges no parent can feel assured of the safety of his son, whom he may be educating at great sacrifices. It is an anomalous condition that tolerates for one moment such exhibitions of brutality as arc from time to time developed at our colleges and universities.

PEOPLE. Bourke Cockran has the loudest and strongest voice in Congress. Tom Eeed has begun to smoke again after four years of abstinence Senator Hoar affects the Henry Ward Beecher style of wearing his frosted hair. Until late years D. B, Hill wore a double-breasted sack coat, winter and summer. Jim Corbett fs a great believer in the invigorating qualities of the home made egg-nog. » George Meredith says that the Americans have a finer set of nerves and more refined literary taste than the English. These are strong words for an Englishman. The city of Quincy, Mass., has a millionaire policeman in the person of Henry H. Faxon, who has long been noted for his antagonism to the liquor trafic. He serves without pay. He has been appointed by Mayor Hodges, who is a Democrat, and' has not heretofore seemed to have much sympathy with his methods. Prof. Edward S. Holden, of the Liclfv Observatory, contributes an article on “Earthquakes and How to Measure Them” to the forthcoming number of the Century. The science of measuring earthquakes, he says, is one which had its birth in the city of Tokio, only a few years ago. As there is an average of two shocks daily in Japan, it is no wonder that the savants of that land have turned their attention to the study of this subject. Brete Harte, although past fifty and in poor health, is a very handsome man. His face retains an appearance of youth while his hair is of silvery white. He has h slender figure and an erect and graceful carriage. An American girl who met Mr. Harte in London last winter says that he was one of the best dressed men there. He is a club man and much sought after in society, but goes out infrequently.

PAUL’S ESCAPE. The Importance of Trifling Things. Everything; Count* In the Final Reckoning: of Human Life—Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. Rev. Dr. Taltnage is making a Southern tour and preached at Mobile, Sunday. Subject: “Unappreciated Services.” Text: II Cor. xi, 33—“Through a window, in a basket, was 1 let down by the wall.” He said: , Damascus is a city of white and glistening architecture —sometimes called the “Eye of the East,” sometimes called “a pearl surrounded by emeralds,” at one time distinguished for swords of the best material,called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric, called damasks. A horseman of the name of Paul, riding toward this city, had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had dropped under a Hash from the sky, which at the same time was so bright it blinded the rider for many days, and, I think, so permanently injured his eyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Damascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundations.

The mayor pave authority for his arrest, and the popular erv is: “Kill him! Kill him!” The city is surrounded by a high wall, and the gates are watched by the police lest the Cilician preacher escapes. Many of the houses are built on the wall and their balconies projected clear over and hovered above the gardens outside. It was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gardens. They have positive evidence that ho is in the house of one of the Christians, the balcony of who$e home reaches over the wall. “Here he is! Here he is!” The vociferation and blasphemy and howling of the pursuers are at the front door. They break in. “Fetch out that gospelizer, and let us hang his head on the city gate! Where is he?” The emergency was terrible. Providentially there was a good stout basket in the house. Paul's friends fasten a rope to the basket. Paul steps into it. The basket is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then while Paul holds onto the rope with both hands his friends lower away, carefully and cautiously, slowly, but surely, farther down and farther down, until the basket strikes the earth, and the apostle steps out and afoot and alone starts on that famous missionary tour, the story of which has astonished earth and heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul’s diary of travels—“Through a window, in a basket, was I let diown by the wall.”

Observe first on what a slender j tenure great results hang. The ropemaker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never knew how much would depend on the strength o'it. How if it had been broken and the apostle’s life had been dashed out? What would have become of the Christian church? All that magnificent missionary work in Pamphylia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Macedonia, would never have been accomplished. All his writings that make up so indispensable and enchanting apart of the new testament would never have been written. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously told as he told it. That example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Phillippi, in the Mediterranean euroclydon, under flagellation and at his beheading, would not have kindled the courage of 10.000 martyrdoms. But the rope holding that basket —how much depended on it! So again and again great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstances. An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island, and right in the midst of surrounding cannibalism and squalor the passengers discovered a Christian colony of churches and schools and beautiful homes and ; highest style of religion and civilization. For fifty years no missionary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why this oasis of light amid a desert “of heathendom? Sixty years before a ship had met disaster, and one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took out a bible which his mother had placed there and swam ashore, the bible held in his teeth. The book w r as read on all sides un* til the rough and vicious popula'ion were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth established, and the world’s history has no more brilliant page than that which tells of the transformation of a nation by one book. It did not seem of much importance whether the sailor continued to hold the book in his teeth or let it fall in the breakers, but upon what small circumstance depended what mighty results!

If vou put a bible in the trunk 01 your boy as he goea from home, let it bo heard in your prayers, for il may have a mission as far-reaching as the book which the sailor carnec in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plainest man’s life is an islanc between two eternities — eternity past rippling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, tha1 which merely happened so, arc parts of a great plan, and the rope thal lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall is the cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the church in the northeast storm of the centuries.

Again, notice unrecognized anil unrecorded services. Who spun that rope? Who tied it to the bask et? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Whc relaxed not a muscle of the arm ot dismissed an anxious look from his face until the basket touched’ the ground and discharged its magnifi cent cargo? Not one ot their names has come to us, but there was nc work done that day in Damascus ot in all the earth compared with the importance of their work. How exultant they must have fell when they read his letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians,'to the Philippians, to the Colossians.to the Thessaloniaus, to the Timothy, tc Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews, and when they heard how he walked out of prison, with the earthquake unlocking the door for him, and took command of the Alexandrian cornship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix ofl his judgment seat! I hear the men and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall talking in private over the matter and saying: “How glad 1 am that we effected that rescue! In coming times others may get the glory of Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of the satisfaction ol knowing that wo held the rope.” There are said to be about sixtynine thousand ministers of religion in this country. About fifty thousand, I warrant, came from early homes which had to struggle for the necessaries of life. The sons of rich bankers and raerchanis generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministe-s are the sons of those who had terrific struggles to get their everyday bread. The collegiate and theological education of that son tx)k every luxury from the parental table for eight years. The other children were more scantily appare led. The son at college every little while got a bundle from home. In it were the socks that mother had knit, sitting up late at night, her sight not as good as it once was. And there also wore some delicacies from the sister's hand for the voracious appetite of a hungry student. The years go by, and the son has been ordained and is preaching the glorious gospel, and a great revival comes, and souls by scores and hundreds accept the gospel from the lips of that young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son at the village parsonage, and at a close of a Sabbath of mightv blessing father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them if he can do anything to make them more comfortable, saying if they want anything in the night just to knock on "the wall. And then all alone father and mother talk over the gracious influences of the day and say: “Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy. It was a hard pull, but we held on till the work was done. The world may not know it; but, mother, we held the rope, didn’t we?” And the voice, tremulous with joyful emotion, responds; “Yes, father, we held the rope. I feel my work is done. Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.” “Pshaw,” says the father, “I never felt so much like living in my life as now! I want to see what that fellow is going, on to do, he has begun so well.” Henceforth think of nothing as insignificant. A little thing may decide your all. A Cunarder put out from England for New York. It was well equipped, but in putting up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven too near the compass. You know how that nail would effect the compass. The ship's officer, deceived by that distracted compass, put the ship 200 miles off her right course, and suddenly the man on the lookout cried, ‘‘Land, ho!” and the ship was halted within a tew yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three ciphers placed on the right side of the figure 1 make a thousand, and six ciphers on the right side of the figure 1 make a million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket let down from a Damascus balcony!

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