Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — Page 2

THE CHOOSING. (ah m will not be "my lady,” In Mr silks and Satins fine, Ak<l the great but wait and wonder, and their dreams of love resign, ffheogh they offer gold and jewels, all that vainer women crave, Laura‘ll be no rich man's darling; Laura'U ba the poor man's slave! “Out. you. dreamer!" quoth the mother, old In yeart, but sorrow-tried; “Will you walk the world's way weeping when the footman blds you ride? Will you hide you In a hovel—go a beggar to the grave? Ont upon the poor man's wooing! Won would be the poor inau’s slave? "Heed you. less, the words of wisdom: let but poverty appear la the door, and love, affrighted, flieth out the window, dear! Would you welcome thorns for roses, so to cry when none can save? Bitter bread the poor luau brings you. Out upon the poor man’s slave!" Dees she listen? Tear drops glisten, but she heeds no golden gleam, tn the green heart of the meadows weighs her duty and her dream, n*Mg»les all their gold and jewels, all that vainer women crave—grass around the weeping mother—" Let ns* be the poor man’s slave!" —Atlanta Constitution.

THE VALENTINE BOX.

THE HARBIET E. FOULKS.

GrjQ HE last signal had sounded, as J] Esther Gray came out of the school cS bouse and walked slowly down the street No one would ever have guessed •boat what this detnura little girl was thinking, for she gave no sign, and she had a way of keeping her thoughts to herself. “I do wish somebody knew how much 1 want one!" she murmured. "One made •f pretty lace paper, with red roses and «**. with a verse on the leaf inside, just like Jeanie Bly got last year!” and the girl's eyes kindled at the remembrance. Rather never teased for things, and was so gentle nnd quiet that no one seemed to think she ever wanted anything she didn’t have. Last year her friend Jeanie had so many valentines she didn't know what to do with them—but Esther had never had one in her life. To-morrow there was to be a valsutine box at school, and she dreaded lest she might bo the only one forgotten. “I'm almost sure everybody will gat •ne except me,” she said with a sigh. “JBstber! Esther!” rang a cheery voice, ■ad, turning, she saw her friend Jeanio. “What a chase you have given me,” she cried, flushed and panting. "This is the third time I’ve called you.” “Why, I didn’t hear you," said Esther in surprise. ‘‘l supposed you had gone home long ago; I stayed to get my problems.” “Yon don’t catch me working after school,” said Jeanie, "I've been down to the store buying valentines for to morrow.” “I wish I had something to put In, too,” said Esther, wistfully. By this time they had reached the gate, ftml Esther bade her friend goodbye. “Be sure to come to school to-mor-row,” called Jeanie, as she turned the corner and danced away. That night Esther told her mother all •bout the box, and how the pupils were going to give valentines to their little •ctool friends. Mrs. Gray did not have money to give her daughter for such preoents, but when she saw how much Rather wished to do something, she cut the lace paper from som» Christmas canfly boxes, brought out a box of pretty pictures and made a cup of paste. “Now, Esther,” she said, “here is nil yon need. You can make your own ▼•tontines.” So Esther set to work with a will. She put her fancy paper on the edge •nd made a border of roses which she ent from the pictures. In the center of o*ch she pasted a little gilt heart, nnd «• the other side she wrote her verses. BLe remembered some that were on Jaato’s the year before, and this is what •he wrote; “When you this valentine receive, I pray you in my love believe.” On the second: 1 “I’ll give a loving heart to thee. If tbon my valentine will be." But on Jeanie’s she wrote the prettiest rente of al): “If you’ve a corner in your heart. One little corner unemployed, Pray, darling, pray set it apart. And let me in to fill the void." Then at the corners she printed th*

“I KNEW YOU WOULD GET ONE."

wosito, “Forget me not," "Truly thluo,” “Lave’s offering," "Faithful nnd true." Wton she had finished aho brought them flor her mother to see. “They are very pretty, Esther; I’m W»* anyone would be glad to get them; tot who are yon going to give them toY" Rather cast down her eyes. “Th* prettiest one is for Jennie,” snfd Jto, “•nd 1 think I’ll give thu otiiors to the two little girls that started In school th* other week.” nnd, with a good-.light ttoa. Esther «ent upMaini. The next d ay the achool room wns in a tonw of'excitement. Even Miss Brown eenldn't keep the scholars very quiet us th* hour drew near to open the box, which wns so full of valentine* that the warners of tho envelopes peeped out. At tost the signal sounded for putting awuy "toots, nnd there was no' togging behind far second orders “Now, childrou,” said Miss Brown, “I propose that we choose n poatluistreSa to aril off the valentines a. 1 hand them ««t; 1 will push papers for your votes.” How each heart be»t as the papers were passed around. Esther wrote “Jessie” on her little strip and folded it tsrofully that none might see. Then dba looked down and tried not to want to to tha chosen one. When the votes were counted th* choice fell on Jeanie Ms. and in gay spirit* she cam* forward

HIS MEMORY GROWS PRECIOUS AS THE YEARS ROLL BY.

LINCOLN’S birthday is a day on which once every year every American can well devote one hour to the contemplation of the character of Lincoln, the “Rail Splitter.” No country save the United States has ever produced his like. No human being perhaps has ever done as much as Abraham Lincoln to prove that ability is actually born in a man and can develop, independent of circumstances. The father of this man was a shiftless, wandering type of the dissatisfied Incompetent. But the energy which he did not use was apparently stored up nnd handed on to his son, Abraham. The child was born in a wretched hovel, in the most abject poverty. His mother was an ignorant woman, but of a strong character. What a man was Abraham Lincoln! lie received barely the rudiments of an education, yet he mastered the language both as writer and speaker, and produced from his inward consciousness a marvelously pure and effective style. Abraham Lincoln was a man's man. He stood six feet four Inches In hfs bare feet. He looked grotesque and ungainly in the days when his long legs stuck out bare below the shrunken leather breeches that were too small for him. Lincoln was unfortunate In his love affairs—that is an excellent experience for any man. It makes him think and takes the conceit out of him. In his youth this man, destined to carry out one of the gigantic tasks of civilization and to work ceaselessly night and day for others, showed no signs of natural ability to work for himself. He inherited all of his father’s defects, but In Abraham the mainspring was wound more tightly. Good results came at last, although he tried boating, storekeeping, surveying, soldiering in an Indian war and finally the law. Those who knew Lincoln bwst knew him to be intensely ambitious. It is said and believed that his wife married him without loving him because she believed that his ambition would make him President of the United States. It may interest some of our lawyers to know that Abraham Lincoln, poor as he was, would throw up any case as soon as he learned that his client was in the wrong. It will Interest young men who arc waiting for the lightning of genius to strike that Lincoln prepared himself for lightning when it should arrive. This any man can do. Lincoln was a religious man. He was not religious in the sense of having decided on some particular kind of divinity suitable to himself and rejected all others. He was religious In the broadest and noblest sense. He believed that men are put here by a Power which has prepared a way for their ultimate welfare and salvation here on earth. If you want to study the workings of a mind noble and religious read to your wife and children this utterance of Lincoln after he had decided to free the slaves. If we shall suppose that American slavery Is one of those offenses which in the province of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came •hall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the lievers In a living God ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that thia mighty scourge of war may speedily pass a wav. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said 3 000 years ago, so still It must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”

and took her place by the teacher's side. There were large envelopes and small ones, white envelopes and yellow, pretty valentines and comic ones handed out to the merry crowd. The whole school seem*d brimming over with delight. Even the two little strangers were beaming as they gazed at their treasures. Everybody but Esther. She still sat omptyhanded, looking down at her desk. "Oh, if I could get just one, I shouldn't care how ugly it was,” she acknowledged to herself with a choke in her throat, a* the tears sprang to her eye*. Mis* Brown glanced in the box and motioned Jeanie to her seat. “I believe that is all and I think you have all had a good time,” she said with a smile. But Jeanie hesitated and cast a quick glance toward Esther. “I’m 'most sure there'* another one there, Miss Brown. 1 'most know there Is; may I see?” "You may look, but I am certain the box la empty,” said her teacher. Jeanie looked, and looked again, but could find nothing. A puzzled look caine over her face, ns she turned to go. She glanced once more, and caught a glimpse of something white that had slipped between the box and the wall. Yes, it was the corner of an envelope! She eagerly seized it and held it up triumphantly, as she read aloud: “Mia* Esther Gray!” Then, seeing the tearful face of her friend, she forgot her office, nnd ran impulsively to her desk, exclaiming: “Her* It is, Esther. I knew you'd get one, and It’s the prettiest one I bought.” Esther’s joy shone through her tears ns she took the dainty gift, and her hand trembled with excitement as she drew out a marvel of tinsel and satin nnd lace. She gazed at it in rapt delight, a softened light in her eyes. "Oh, Jennie,” she cried, “It to the most beautiful thing in the world!” And so reverent was her voice that a hush fell upon the pupils as they turned to look at her.—Detroit Free Press.

Lincoin’s Idea of Polley.

During the civil war, one of the loudest and most frequent complaints against Lincoln was that hs had no policy, and simply drifted. It seems that this was precisely what he intended to do. "The first time I met Mr. Lincoln," said Senator Palmer of Illinois, "was in 1839, when I went to Springfield to be admitted to the bar. He was already recognized an a Whig lender. He wore. 1 remember, a suit of linsey-woolsey that could not hav* been worth moreathau eight dollars, even in those days. The last time I saw him was in February, 18(55. I had com* to Washington, at the request of the Governor, to complain that Dlinois had been credited with 18,WO too few troops. I saw Mr. Lincoln 1 one afternoon, and be asked me to c*me again In the morning. The next morning I sat In the ante-room while several officers w*r* received. At length I was

told to enter the President's room. Mr. Lincoln was in the hands of a barber. “ ‘Come in. Palmer.' he called out, ‘come in. You’re home folks. I can shave before you. I couldn't before those others, and I have to do it some time.’ “We chatted about various matters, and at length I said, ‘Well, Mr. Lincoln, if anybody had told me that in a great crisis like this the people were going out to a little one-horse town to pick out a one-horse lawyer for President, I wouldn’t have believed it.’ "Mr. Lincoln turned about In his chair, his face white with lather, and a towel under his chin. At first I thought he was angry. Sweping the barber away, he leaned forward, and placing one hand on my knee, said: “ 'Neither would I; but it was a time when a man with a policy would have been fatal to the country. I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.’ ”

Lincoin's Short Creed

Abraham Lincoln once said: "I hav* never united myself to any church, because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long, complicated statement of Christian doctrine which characterizes their articles of belief and confessions of faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both Law and Gospel, ’Thou shalt lov* the Lord thy all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, aqd thy neighbor as thyself,’ that church will I join with all my heart and with all my soul.” . >

Papa Kicked Him.

Textile—Papa got an awful valentine —that said he was an old mule —and he thinks you sent it. Willie —Why, I don't see how he can suspect me. Tessie—But surely you remember how lie helped you off the front steps th* last time you called!

POWERS AT A CRISIS.

UNITED STATES AND FRANCE OPPOSE THE ALLIES. Serious Hitch in Venezuelan Trouble Causes Alarm England, Germany and Italy Reject Bowen's Final Proposal—Castro Fears a World War. Emphatic rejection by the allies of Venezuela's last proposal was received by Minister Bowen Saturday. At the same time Mr. Bowen was notified that France would insist on having equal treatment with the powers joining in the blockade in the settlement of claims. The situation is, therefore, critical rnd it involves the United States, for the American is one of the eight creditor nations of Venezuela which the allies refuse to recognize as having a right to immediate settlement of their claims through the negotiations of Mr. Bow it in behalf of Venezuela. Germany, Great Britain and Italy demand preferential treatment in payment of claims. Mr. Bowen thus far has declined to aceord it, and in this attitude _has the backing not alone of Venezuela, which he represent*) but of the Ufthed States, France and six other creditor nations. In this stiuation France and tho United States are as strongly allied, though informally, as Germany, Britain and Italy. The six other nations, two of which are Belgium nnd Spain, nre also firm in their agreement with the American view. The allies’ answers to Minister Bowen’s last proposal were received in Washington Friday. They were to the effact that the allies could not consent that the United States and the other claimant nations receive tiie same treatment as the blockading powers, and that they, therefore, rejected in toto Mr. Bowen's final proposition. Knowing the consequences that were to follow the presentation of these answers the representatives of the allies took upon themselves the responsibility Of withholding the notes of their governments and of again cabling, urging a retraction of their preferential demands. Meanwhile Mr. Bowen is biding his time. He is keeping Caracas informed as to the progress of events and is counseling patience, hoping that the powe’s will yet yield. As a matter of fact, he has as yet received no intimation from the powers that they are really desirous of settling the Venezuelan dispute at Washington since the representations of the powers have thus far consisted of counter propositions. Fears a World War. A Caracas correspondent quotes President Cjistro as saying in the course of an interview: "I cannot grasp the news from Washington. I fear that the Venezuelan conflict will be made a pretext for a world war. I have answered, however, the demand for preferential treatment as follows: The Venezuelan government de•ires equal treatment for every creditor nation, at the same time keeping in mind and respecting its previous diplomatic agreements and obligations. "Ab far as I can see, the French claim is absolutely perfect, yet the blockading powers seem to desire to invalidate it. This is a stronge procedure indeed when you recall that the French, Belgian mid Spanish claims already have that solemn sanction which the blockading powers pretend to be desirous their own should receive. "Yet I am hopeful—yes, always hopeful. Mr. Bowen has cabled me to be prudent and patient. I shall be both, and we will exhaust all peaceful means, with tho understanding that when that has been done we will not give in but will fight. We have concluded that if there is no honor among nations nor virtue in international agreements we must defend ourselves.” The French legation has notified the Venezuelan government that in virtue of the convention of 18*57 France was allowed to collect directly a part of the revenues of several custom houses in Venezuela as a guaranty for her dipl >- matic claims arising out of the previous revolutions. France, it is said, renounced forever by the convention of 1885 the exercise of this right on condition that the interest on this debt should always be regularly paid. As this payment has not been made, France, without asking the authorization of Germany, England and Italy, intends to revive her right of direct collection.

The Comic Side of the News

Are the coal miners searched to see that they do not carry away nuggets in their pockets? All this time Castro is piling up a big bill against tho powers, but they may never find it out. In Chicago a prudent man will not go past a dark alley with a bag of coal <-n his shoulders these nights. Good-by to the pleasures of solitude and privacy when Marconi gets that wireless pocket telephone perfected. One of the big Toxas oil companies has been placed in the hands of n receiver, but about the Only thing in sight for hitn to receive is kicks from tho stockholders who believed the fairy tales In the prospectus. How the progress of the “new" woman Is perpetually squelched! In Guthrie, Okla., the young ladies have been in the habit of wearing bloomers to school. Whether they wore skirts over them or not Is not stated. However, Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has forbidden the further wearing of bloomers by the fair. Western boys nre wanted for the navy, but they will hardly rush forward to enlist, as they consider themselves, as n general thing, to be as good ns the officers. Apostle Smoot refuses to answer nny questions as to hto views of polygnmy. He 1 probably nfrnld of what his wives would do to him after they had rend th* interview. Now York school teachers nre warned that marriage will b* ground for dismissal hereafter. Ar* the poor, overworked school teachers to hav* non* of th* luxuries of life?

PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS OF COLNEY HATCH ASYLUM.

The Colney Hatch insane asylum in Middlesex, England, which was partly destroyed by fire recently, is one of tire largest of the insane asylums in Europe. The institution is very old and has been added to by degrees for more than fifty years. The main building, which was not touched by the fire, was built in 1849 and was dedicated with great ceremony by the late Piince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. The asylum was originally built to accommodate 1,004 patients and wns put up as an addition to the institution already in existence at 1 Inn well, which had room for about 1,000. The buildings destroyed were of wood, whereas the main building is of stone and is considered fireproof.

DOWIE TO INVADE NEW YORK.

Holt of 3,000 Zion Workers to He Led Eastward by ‘‘Elijah II.” John Alexander Dowie is about to lead a restoration army in a religious crusade against New York. A following of “the faithful” 3,000 strong has been recruited and when the trumpet is sounded by "Elijah II” tho Zionites will take up the march in the quest of 100,000 convert*. The now movement is the most extensive planned by the Zion leader. It calls for the establishment of a Elon City in the East similar to the settlement near Waukegan. Envoys have been in New York for months laboriously planning the campaign and word has been received by Dowie that an option had been obtained on Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Music Hall and that all was in readiness for the exodus from Chicago. The restoration host has been gathered from members of the church in Chicago and it is to be re-enforced by the Zion ■'seventies.” phalanxes of Dowieites that are closely connected with the colony. The surpliced choir, the robes, the lich vestments and the other insignia of the prophet are ready for the movement. "One hundred thousand souls” will be the rallying cry of the crusade, for Dowie has fixed that ns the minimum of conversions. Daily meetings are to be held by the members of the cult until the whole of New York is brought under the spell of a revival. The fire is to be directed against every class, curbstone services being counted on as the most potent method of spreading the tenets of Dowieism.

THE RAILROADS

The following table shows the new railroad mileage built in the United States during the last decade: 1803 3.024 1898 3.266 1894 I,760!18fi0 4,569 1895 1,428|1900 4,894 1896 1,6924901 5.368 1897 2,109,1002 6.026 The table exemplifies the stendy recovery of the country from the depressing conditions which existed after the panic of 1893. In 1894 and 1895 rails were cheaper than before or since, but only about one-quarter ns many miles of track were laid in each of those years as in I!K>2. The purchases by the railroads of freight cars and locomotives during the last four years show how rapidly the business of the country and consequently their business has been Increasing. The following table gives the number of cars and locomotives under contract or construction on Jan. 1 and July 1 of 1898 and sulmequent years: Freight Locomocars. tlvcs. Jan. 1, 1898 14,717 21T July 1, 1898 33.088 802 Jan. 1, 1899 32,614 440 July 1, 1899 35,684 519 Jan. 1, 1900 102.485 1,192 July 1, 1900 30,606 1.001 Jan. 1. 1901 54.118 1,102 July 1. 1901 52.823 1.311 Jan. 1. 1912 77.226 2.281 July 1, IQO2 91,005 2,172 The total number of freight ears in service on American railroads increased Arom 1,110,045 Jan. 1, 1898, to 1.488,197 July 1 last, and the locomotives in service from 32,771 to 37,945. Yet the railroads never have felt the need of more cars and locomotives so acutely ns during the last six months. Business has increased more rapidly than their facilities for handling it.

WARSHIP RAMS DESTROYER.

Fifteen Lives Are Lost in Naval Maneuvers Off Corfu. The torpedo-boat destroyer Orwell was run down by the British cruiser Pioneer during the naval maneuvers off Corfu, and fifteen men went down with her. The crash was terrific. The Pioneer was steaming nt full speed under forced draught when the torpedo-boat deslroye-, also nt her extreme speed, ran across her bows. Three seconds either way would have averted the collision, but as it was the armored cruiser struck the Orwell fair broadside, cutting her completely in half, the forward half of the vessel sinking like n stone almost without a swirl on the water. The after por tion of the destroyer was kept afloat by one of the water-tight compartments being uninjured nnd was towed into port. The accident happened nt night nnd it is thought thnt owing to tiie fniut haze prevailing the lights of the cruiser nppenred more distant to the enptnin ->f the destroyer than was the cane. The blame for the accident to not known, though ft appears that the captain of the Orwoll took long chances In leaving so narrow a margin in crossing the bows of the crulfer, knowing her ta b* under full speed. Dr. Albert J. Atkins of the California Medical College says that It Is electricity, not oxygen, that purifies the blood.

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