Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — Page 3

THE PRESIDENT INAVGVRATED.

The Ceremonies at Washington

President McKinley took the oath of office at Washington Monday in the presence of a multitude gathered from all parts of the United States and foreign lands. It was the most brilliant inauguration ever witnessed at Washington. Simultaneously, Theodore Roosevelt “Of New York became vice president of the United States. The ceremony that marked the second assumption by President McKinley of the cares of state was most impressive, and full of suggestion of the development of the republic during the .past four years. While the parade was getting under

PRESIDENT M’KINLEY RETURNING FROM THE CAPITOL AFTER THE CEREMONIES.

way the president led the cabinet members to the president’s room in the capitol building, where he was host -at the first function of his second term—a luncheon to his official family. Although strictly formal, this affair was very brief, as the president and cabinet were wanted to take their places in the line of the inaugural parade. Escorted by 28,000 troops, the governors of eleven states and a number of civic bodies, the president rode down Pennsylvania avenue for the second time as chief executive of the nation A Wonderful ParadeThe estimate of the size of the inaugural parade, as given out. at military headquarters, was 31,240, including: Military, volunteer and regular, 22,240; veteran organizations. 1,200; -civic societies, 7,800. General Francis Greene was grand marshal. It took four and a half hours for the parade to pass the reviewing stand. Every presidential inauguration in recent years has had its parade, always creditable in'size and variety, and usually having some distinctive feature. That which followed President McKinley Monday on his return from the capitol to the white house, and passed in review there before him, was different from all its predecessors in the majestic prdominance of the military feature. The civil contingent was quite up to the average in point of numbers; yet by actual count made by the marshals, the men in soldierly uniforms outnumbered the civilians In line by more than three to one. Many Notables In Parade.' In the serried ranks of blue were many soldiers who had carried, the country’s flag far out into the world, and had waged war which was all in the future when the last inaugural procession marched along Pennsylvania avenue. With these, younger veterans, and In the place of honor, as the president’s escort, marched another contingent made up entirely of soldiers of the civil War, all gray haired and showing in gait and bent forms marks of the passage of years and of the lingering effects of the great battles and campaigns of the most stupendous struggle that, the world has seen, and it was an easy prophecy to observe that never _again would they be able to make as brave and numerous a showing imtheir effort to escort a president on the occasion of his accession to office. At their head, to quicken their step, marched the Rough Rider band, suggestive of the extraordinary organization which marked one of the most inspiring chapters in the history of the volunteer armies of the United States. Trlbnte to Other Nation*. For the first time in a quarter of a century the president rode from the white house to the capitol without a successor beside him in his carriage.

Roosevelt Picks a Church in the Capital.

The first act of Vice-President Elect Roosevelt after breakfast Sunday was to attend services at the Germain Reformed Grace Church, of which Rev. (Dr. I. Chick is pastor. The German ambassador is a member of the congregation. “I wish it particularly known.”exclaimed Vice-President Roosevelt, ‘‘that this church is the one which my family and I will attend

Grant was the last of the presidents of the United States up to this time to occupy a similar position. On the return trip he had for companions in his carriage members of the committee specially chosen by congress to take charge of the inauguration, headed by Senator Mark Hanna, himself a national figure. The nations of the world, great and small, paid their tribute to the president in attendance at the ceremonies at the capitol and in reviewing the great parade. In addition to the splendid diplomatic representation, there was present for the first time the head of the government of our next-door

neighbor, the Dominion of Canada, in the person of Lord Minto, the imperial governor-general. American Tar* In Line. The American navy, which has so distinguished itself in the past four years, was represented in the ceremonies more numerously than ever before. Half a dozen warships, more

A VIEW IN THE PENSION BUILDING DURING THE INAUGURAL BALL. BALL.

than have assembled in the Potomac since the days of the civil war, contributed, through their sailors and marines, one of the most unique and enjoyable features of the ceremony, marching over 1,000 strong along the street*. Down on the water-front lay moored the famous old flagship Hartford, inspiring stirring recollections of the fierce naval combats of the civil war;

THE PRESIDENT REVIEWING THE GREAT MILITARY AND CIVIL PARADE.

during our residence in Washington. It was selected to-day by reason of the fact that there is no Dutch Reformed church in Washington. Had there been I should have gone there and for the future would have identified myself with it, for it is to that denomination I belong and in that faith I have been reared.” Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied her husband to church and

while at the navy yard floated the grim double turreted monitor Puritan, symbolic of later day warfare. Further down the Potomac lay other vessels, unable to get up the river to Washington, but whose crews swelled the list of paraders. The states of the union rendered their homage to the president, and demonstrated that no party feeling dominated the great event, by the attendance of sixteen governors, representing north, south and west, moot of them accompanied by numerous staffs. McKinley Gives Luncheon. Mrs. McKinley was hostess at a luncheon similar to that given by the President. Fifty women, including all those known socially as the “cabinet ladies,” were ine guests. It was practically a complement of the luncheon given to their husbands at the same hour by/the president and, of course, carried out the same idea of being formal luncheon of the second administration. The guests, besides the wives and some of the daughters of the cabinet members, included the ladies of the diplomatic corps, and the occasion was fully as formal and at the same time memorable as the luncheon given by the president to his advisers. Senator Depew Entertains. Senator Depew and Miss Paulding entertained at dinner Sunday evening in honor of Vice-President Elect and Mrs. Roosevelt. The guests were Secretary and Mrs. Root, Senator and Mrs. Lodge, Senator and Mrs. Elkins, Major General the Hon. and Mrs. Eaton of London, Mrs. Sheridan, General and Mrs. Green, Mrs. Kernochan, Commander and Mrs. Cowles, Lady Cunard of London, Mrs. Paget, Miss Johnson, Frederic Harrison, Mr. Smalley of the London Times, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cassatt, M. Van Alen, Senator Bacon, and Senator Daniel. Busy Scene In the Capital. At the Capitol Sunday business was in full blast, both houses being in session, and the crowd did not lose the opportunity of the novel sight of seeing the national legislators transacting business on the Sabbath. As all the other public buildings were closed all naturally turned their steps towards the building in which the senators and representatives perform their public duties. As a result the rotunda, lobbies, corridors and galleries were densely packed. It was an interesting and picturesque sight. Citizens and soldiers roamed about arm in arm taking in the sights. Handsome men draped in brilliant and bright uniforms were there. With them were beautiful women, attired in magnificent gowns, which cost enough to support for months the poorer ones who rubbed elbows with their more fortunate neighbors. There were privates and colonels with locked arms, studying the pictures portraying the great epochs in the country’s history, all unconscious of the criticism of the regular army officers, who object to the democratic manner in which the volunteer officers and men meet on a social level. Throughout the day and well into the night the soldiers and visitors paced the Capitol corridors. Soldier* Ran to * Fire. There was a fire on Fourteenth street about noon Sunday. Pennsylvania avenue was full of Pennsylvania soldiers. When the fire engines went up. the hill fully 500 soldiers chased after them. The solcfiers were from the country and are used to running to fires.

at the conclusion of the service they drove to the White House for a call upon the President and Mrs. McKinley and remained until lunch time when they returned to the Cowles residence. Mrs. McKinley invited the women of the cabinet and a coterie of friends to the church luncheon at the White House after the inauguration ceremonies in order to meet Mrs. Roosevelt. Archbishop Chapelle has plans for establishing church in Philippines on American system.

THE APPLE-BARREL*

It Mood in the cellar low and din* Where the cobweb* swept and swayed. Holding the store from bough and Umb At the feet of autumn laid. And oft, when the days were abort and drear And the north wind shrieked and roared, We children sought in the corner, base, And drew on the toothsome hoard. For thus through the long, long wintertime It answered our every call With wine of the summer's golden prim* Sealed bv the hand of fall. The best there was of the earth and air. Of rain and sun and breeze, Changed to a pippin sweet and rare By the art of the faithful trees. A A wonderful barrel was this, had WO Its message but rightly heard, \ Filled with the tales of wind and f^ee, Of cricket and moth and bird; Rife with the bliss of the fragrant Jan* When skies were soft and blue; Thronged with the dreams of a harvest moon O’er fields drenched deep with dfew. Oh homely barrel, I'd fain essay Your marvellous skill again; Take me back to the past, I pray, As willingly now as then;— Back to the tender morns and eveg. The noontides warm and still, The fleecy clouds and the spangled leaves Of the orchard over the hill. Edwin L. Sabin, in the “New” Lippincott.

PITH AND POINT.

Ella—“lsn’t that a beautiful sky?** Stella—“ Yes. What a lovely color for a shirt waist.”—Harper’s Bazar. “Papa, is an authoress always a married woman?” “That uepends, my son, on whether shh can earn enough to support two.”—Life. “Will nothing induce you to change your mind and marry?” he asked. “Another man might,” she replied.—PhiladelphiaNorth American. Madge—“ You’d better not trust that girl with a book. She never returns one.” Marjorie—“ But she won’t keep this—it’s a diary.”—Smart Set. The lovesick poet seeks in vain For words that will rhyme handy; But his best girl would, no doubt, Prefer a box of candy. —Chicago News. Little Tommy’s sister had been 111, and when he saw her he exclaimed: “You look as though you had swallowed a skeleton too big for you.”— Life. She—“Of course, every woman likes to be flattered.” He (with a meaning look)—“But there are women whom it is impossible to flatter.”—Boston Transcript. “Oh, well, you prude, I don’t care for your kisses.” “Sour grapes.” “You needn’t send me any over the telephone, either.” “Sour currents.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. “The wireless telegraphy reminds me of a groundless quarrel.” “What possible connection is there between the two?” “It’s practically having words over nothing.”—Philadelphia Times. “I dare you just to kiss me!” Exclaimed the pert young miss. “I never take a dare,” he said, “And so I’ll take the kiss.” —Philadelphia Record. Burglar (sternly)—“Where’s yer husband?” Woman (trembling)—“Under the bed.” Burglar—“ Then I won’t take nothing. It’s bad enough to have such a husband, without being robbed, too.” i—Tit-Bits. Mrs. Newlywed—“l had horrid luck with my cake.” Mrs. Binthare—“Too frad—did it fall?” Mrs. Newlywed—- “ Yes. I placed It on the window-ledge to cool, and my husband, either by ao» jcident or design, pushed it off.”— Cleveland State Journal. “You don’t seem as fond of poetry as you used to be,” remarked the Iwaste basket “No,” replied the office goat; “I’m suspicious of it I picked up a poem yesterday that looked very sweet at first sight but it turned out to be a bit of satire. I never tasted anything so bitter.”—Philadelphia Reoord.

A Rockefeller Idea of Success.

To just how many millions John D. Rockefeller, Jr., will be heir it would not be easy to state with exactness. It is sure that the young man—he i» twenty-five years old—has every temptation, were he so inclined, to prepare himself for a straightaway course in fast automobiles, fast company and rapid living generally. Instead he has taken to sober paths, and we find him assuring the members of the Students’ Club that the things most worth while are not the search for wealth or extravagant joys, but these four: Character, friendship, health and success. And success, young Mr. Rockefeller says, “is to do the common duty of each day uncommonly well.” The epigrammatic wisdom of that single sentence is wortthy of an older head. With all Its brevity It differentiates the characters, accomplishments and careers of men as they have been since the beginning of time and as they are unfolding to-day the world over. Mr. Rockefeller’s saying is better than Disraeli’s. “The secret of success is constancy tojLpurpose,” because it expresses more than a success which might be merely personal. To “do the common duty uncommonly well” Is to separate yourself from the multitude—to excel.—New York World.

Dresses For Congo Belles.

According to the Svenska Dagblad, of Stockholm, the postal authorities at Brunswick have lately noticed that the mail bags dispatched to the Congo were not being duly returned, and after a lot of trouble they have discovered the reason. It appears that the colored postmen in the Congo Free State make presents of the mall bags to their wives or fiancees. These ladies simply cut out the bottom, and by drawing what is left over their heads, and, with the assistance of a piece of string, they have an ultra-modem ready-made costume. The fact that tht sacks are famished with an enormous black seal bearing the legend, “Brussels Centre,” does not disconcert them in the least.

WAS VNLVCKY SHIP.

The sinking of the Rio de Janeiro was the most appalling disaster the Pacific coast has known for many years. Most of the bodies of the 120 or more victims are at the bottom of the sea and many of them may never be recovered. The water where the ship lies is deep and the current swift, and the dead with most of the wreckage probably will be carrried far out into the Pacific. The number of lives lost may never be known exactly, owing to the fact that the ship’s records were lost, and it is practically impossible to tell just how many Chinese were in the steerage. The Rio was an unlucky ship. Since 1890 she had several accidents. In August, 1890, she

Bowling and the Church.

A Congregational minister at Stillman Valley, 111., has resigned his pulpit because part of his ongregation strenuously objected to his taking part in bowling tournaments. Before presenting his resignation, it is said the minister threatened to knock down one of the pillars of his church who had called to remonstrate with him. At any rate the pastor has departed, leaving behind him a disrupted congregation. In most controversies of this kind between a shepherd and a portion of his flock there are two distinct sides, one of which is frequently lost sight of. It is the popular tendency to express great sympathy for the minister as a man whose personal liberty has been interfered with and to denounce the action of the objectors in the church as bigoted and narrow. Whether such comments are at all justified depends entirely upon the facts in each particular case. It is easily conceivable, for instance, that a minister might devote so much time to bowling, in itself one of the most healthful and innocent of recreations, as to interfere seriously-with his pastoral duties. It is quite possible that the example of the pastor might have had a bad influnce in leading young men to patronize bowling alleys which are connected with saloons, though he himself played elsewhere. Under such circumstances, and under others as easily conceivable, the trustees of the church would certainly J>e justified in holding a serious conference with their pastor. Under what circumstances the' minister would be justified in threatening to chastise those who called on such an errand is not so easily understood. Bowling, like every other amusement, may be easily abused. What In the case of a layman is a perfectly reasonable indulgence in the game might be unreasonable in the case of a clergyman. Especially ought a minister to be careful how he allows a question involving

Gunner Charles Morgan.

THE MAN TO WHOSE SOCIAL QUALIFICATIONS ADMIRAL SAMPSON OBJECTS.

Charles Morgan, gun captain of the cruiser New York, whose promotion to ensign is objected to by Admiral Sampson on the ground that Morgan lacks the social graces which he believes a naval officer should have, was gun captain of the flagship New York during the blockade and battle of Santiago. He was at the head of the force of divers which explored the wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor in 1898, and was highly commended by naval

was in collision with the British steamer Bombay and was severely damaged. This occurred in Hongkong harbor. In December, 1895, she went ashore at South Kagoshimo, Japan, and was so badly damaged that her cargo was discharged and the vessel docked for repairs. In March, 1896, the Rio started from Honolulu for Yokohama. Continuous heavy head weather was encountered, and when the Japanese coast was still 1,200 miles away it was found that there was only 250 tons of coal in the bunkers. The steamship was run back to Honolulu, but before she got there the

only his personal amusements and recreations to interfere with the welfare of the church which It Is his highest duty to serve.

Decries Woman as Witness.

Seldom has an attempt to kill been made the subject of such widespread scientific discussion as the case of the assault upon the life of the Rev. John Keller, the pastor of a New Jersey village church. The affair has attracted the attention of neurologists and of those learned in medical jurisprudence. While as yet the facts of the case are all unknown, the circumstances of it have brought out many opinions and much data in regard to hysteria. It has started a most interesting discussion, whatever the outcome of the approaching trial may be. Science for a long time has been studying that complex being, woman. Whether science has learned anything definite or is still groping in the dark, as Adam groped when he first tried to understand the vagaries of Eve, is another question. The case has brought up the question of woman’s credibility as a witness, her physical, mental and nervous characteristics and various other questions. Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, well known everywhere as a neurologist, has made the assertion that a woman is not a credible witness in a court of law when her testimony is unsupported, thereby confirming the opinion of Judge A. N. Waterman of Chicago. Dr. Hamilton has given the following interesting review of the subject: "The credence which is given to the word of a woman when that word and the word of a man are the only two things upon which the Jury has to decide, is a remnant left to us by the socalled age of chivalry. There is something in us remaining of the old feudal spirit which makes a man ashamed of himself if he does not give more credence to a woman’s word than a man’s word. It is a remnant of the

officers for his excellent work In that connection. He is said to be one of the best divers in the navy, in the Maine work he made an average of seven hours a day under water, establishing a new record. He has been in the navy twenty years, but is still boyish in appearance. His home is at New Orleans, where he was presented -itt . )e. elal and X “SS 1 « 8 ; ln recognition of bi» work on the Maine, wreck. oa

cabins and state rooms had been gutted in order to provide fuel for the furnaces. In May, 1899, she collided with an unknown Japanese steamer off Honomoko, Japan, but was not seriously damaged. During the past fifty years the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, owners of the ill-fated Rio de Janeiro, has lost nineteen of its fleet. The foundering of the Rio de Janeiro does not result in the greatest loss of life, as 200 of the 300 passengers on the Golden Gate were lost off the coast of Mexico in 1862, while 400 Chinese were lost in the wreck of the steamer Japan off the Chinese coast in the early seventies.

old type of days, which are called chivalrous and were not. Woman never occupied such a place in the world as she does now. Those old knights went into the clanging lists and fought for their women as they fought for their horses and cattle. “As to that shooting scrape over in New Jersey, I know nothing, and it would be absurd for me to give an expert opinion upon a case which I have not investigated thoroughly. But I do not know that in my practice I have—not every day, but many times a year—cases where a woman has made charges against men which were proved afterward to be absolutely unfounded. The woman’s pastor is the man who is pretty sure to be the ac-

DR. HAMILTON

cused one. An unmarried pastor runs great risks. Did you ever see an unmarried pastor in a country village; how the married women, old and young, incense him with the coffee pot and fling tea leaves around him? I believe in defending woman to the last gasp, but not in taking her testimony in a court of law as equal to the testimony of a man. God moves ln a mysterious way his wonders to perform, and He has in His infinite wisdom made both male and female, and the female is of a different nervous mentality from the male. I do not want to stir up all the women of the country against me, but I say what I say from a knowledge acquired through a long practice in the specialty of nervous diseases.” In Dr. Hamilton’s work on medical jurisprudence he cites several cases of women who have made false charges and born false testimony because of hysteria. Among them the following: “A young girl in Richmond caused a sensation by declaring that in the previous night she had been assaulted by burglars, who had entered the house. Her story, says Dr. Hamilton, was palpably false, and her state of mind grew out of a general feeling of alarm which attended the commission of several burglaries in the neighborhood.”

Queen Victoria and the Pope.

“Did Queen Victoria ever meet Leo XIII?” asks the London Chronicle. “There have been statements asserting an old personal friendship between them, and, on the other hand, assertions that they never met at all. The truth lies between the two extremes. When Pope Leo was Monsignor Pecci, and nuncio at Brussels at the court of King Leopold, widower of the Princess Charlotte, he met Queen Victoria and her husband. According to some accounts the queen invited the nuncio to Windsor. That was not the case. But the nuncio came on his own account to London for the month of February, 1846, and during his stay he witnessed a great ceremonial in which the queen took part, and was invited to a state reception, but was not specially presented. The passages of kindness between the pope and the queen were exchanged by letters, and at a much later date."

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS

Fmrtiliming Apparatus.

Among all the numerous devices schemes to induce plants to grow, the idea which we illustrate below is probably a novelty, and it is not unlikely that it will serve its purpose to some advantage in the forcing of shrubbery, plants, etc. The inventor is Gardner M. Sherman of Massachusetts, and he claims that the arrangement is not only of great utility and value In accelerating the growth of plants by giving them with the utmost directness the most suitable fertilising ingredients which they are known to require, but in experimenting, in series modifying or varying the constituents employed with a view to the observation and comparison of the results. The dsvioe is a hollow, porous receptable, with a vertical tube at the top. The devloe

PROVIDES FOOD FOR PLANT ROOTS.

is buried when the plant is set out, leaving the end of the tube exposed above the surface of the earth. Then the ingredients of the fertilizer are mixed and poured In through the tube, being absorbed through the porous vessel by the roots of the plant In this manner the roots and eventually the whole shrub are stimulated and made to mature rapidly. It would seem that erven an application of warm water at intervals would be of advantage, in that it would warm the ground and moisten it at the same time, which could not help but stimulate plant growth.

Single Wheel Lawn Mower.

Below we illustrate a new pattern of lawn mower, which the inventor claims will run easier than the two-wheeled rotary grass cutter now In use. The wheel used is similar to the ordinary wheel, except that it is much largeT, affording greater traction on the surface of the earth than was possible with the two small wheels, and therefore providing more power for the cutting mechanism. This latter feature consists of a cutter bar like that of a large mowing machine, with the guard and reciprocating blades complete. By a single gear arrangement the power Is taken from near the center of the traction wheel and delivered to an eccentric which in turn reciprocate* the knife bar. The swath cut is about equal to that cut by the old mower, but the height of the cutter bar be adjusted to cut the grass close to the ground or at any height desired. The mower has a clutch mechanism which enables the operator to draw it

HOW IT WORKS.

backward without operating ths knives, and when not in use the cotter bar can be tilted into a vertical position to facilitate the removal of ths machine from one place to another.

Funerals Are Bad.

2 hate funerals, and shall not go to my own If I can help it, writes a philosopher. Man is the only creature that is of no earthly use after death. We do not even allow him to fertilise the ground. In the economy of nature be should do this. Some women with nothing to do place puppy dogs on the same level, sealing them in lead and concrete. When we learn to burn ths dead and sprinkle the ashes on the roots of flowers and vegetables we shall have advanced several centuries along the line of civilization Certain eccentrics will that their ashes shall be scattered to the four winds of heaven and spilled in the depths of the sea, which is an approach to common sense and decency. Have you not noticed how luxuriant ia the botanic growth in a graveyard where poor folks are burled? Wooden coffins soon decay. One of the more popular roses had its origin in a graveyard, and took its name from the person in whose body its roots found sustenance.