Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — Page 3

People and Events

Author and Diplomat. John Barrett of Oregon, formerly United States minister and consul general to Siam, has been appointed by the president adelegate to the international conference of American states, which will be held in the City of Mexico. Mr. Barrett made an excellent record during the three years he spent In Bangkok as American minister. Since his return to this country he has won by his writings a widespread reputation as an authority on the commercial problems and possibilities of the far East in relation to European and American Industry and trade. Mr. Barrett is a native of Vermont, a graduate of Dartmouth and a scholar of merit in the science of national economics. He has made special stud-

JOHN BARRETT.

ies of the South and its industries, and h*a writings on that subject are profound and important. For several years he has made his home in Portland, Oregon, but owing to his extensive travels at home and abroad, he has not spent much of his time in that city.

The British Budget.

‘‘You have had your feast,” says the English chancellor of the exchequer. “You have all. Liberals and Tories, been mad for rioting and expenditure. Now comes the reckoning, and you may laugh or not, as you please.” There will be no laughter. The English taxpayers were hilarious at the beginning es the Boer war. They are not now when the bills have to paid and they are so much heavier than it was supposed they would be. The total •ost of the war will be about $1,000,000,000, necessitating a great increase of the national debt and heavier taxation for years to come. It is poslble that if this could have been foreseen the Boers would have been let alone. A large proportion of the expense of a war whereby Great Britain is acquiring possession of devastated territories inhabited by an Irreconcilable population will have to be paid by posterity. The budget of the chancellor es the exchequer contemplates a loan of nearly $300,000,000 in addition to new taxes, which it is estimated will produce about $56,000,000. The payment of increased taxes to that amount would not seriously inconvenience American taxpayers—whose taxes are to be reduced about $40,000,000. Those of Great Britain are not in so good a condltipn to meet new demands. The income tax is now 5 per cent. It is to be raised to a little over 5.8 per cent. It may be higher yet in a year or two. As consols held by foreigners pay an Income tax American financiers may not be ready to Invest in the new loan. Beer, spirits, tobacco, and tea are

Reputed Fiancee of Lieutenant Hobson

Miss Florida Whitin’g Graves, the reputed flan..cee ot Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, is one of the beauties of Birmingham, Ala., and is also well known in Washington society. No positive announcement of the engagement has been made, and when the hero of the Merrimac is asked ■whether or not the report is true he smiles and says nothing. The engagement, h o wever, is said to be a settled fact by friends of Mr. Hobson. During the congressional season the young naval officer and Miss Graves were much together and they

made a prominent and pretty , figure In the parades of sash- j lonable folk. During her visit here the Alabama girl was a guest of Congressman and Mrs. Bankhead. She soon attracted widespread attention by her remarkable beauty. She is of me- I

taxed- heavily already. Ths chancellor of the exchequer does not deem an increase advisable. He will not listen to propositions to impose duties on brpadstuffs or foreign manufactures. Great Britain may come to such duties in time, but is not ready for them yet For the first time in many years sugar, an article of universal consumption, which has cost less in Great Britain than in any other country, will have to furnish revenue. There has been an immediate advance in its price, which may provoke complaints. American manufacturers of jams and jellies will find British competition less serious than it has been. The proposed export duty of 25 cents a ton on coal will produce considerable revenue and will by discouraging exportations tend to cheapen the price of the article in the home market. The expenses of railroads, manufacturers, and private consumers have been increased greatly by the high price of coal. A duty which tends to make it more expensive in neutral markets must work to the advantage of American coal operators. They will be jiven an opportunity.

An Expensive Junket.

The British admiralty’s estimate of the cost of the trip of the Duke and Duchess of York on the steamship Ophir includes the following items: Wages of crew, $41,980; victualing and clothing, $9,880; coal, $125,000; naval stores, $3,140; hire of the Ophir, $633,500; total, $813,500. The British taxpayers are a loyal class of people, but when they read in Sir Michael HicksBeach’s budget statement that the Boer war has added $275,000,000 to the debt, that the deficit last year was $255,935,000, and that they must pay $56,000,000 of new taxes this year, they will read the admiralty’s estimate of the expense of the Duke of York’s junketing trip with somewhat mixed feelings.

An Able Churchman.

Right Rev. William Stubbs, D. D., bishop of Oxford, died in London, England, last week. He was 76 years old and had occupied the Oxford bishopric since 1889, when he was transferred from the see of Chester, over which he had ruled for five years. Bishop Stubbs was .an author of international

RIGHT REV. WILLIAM STUBBS.

repute. As a British historian he occupied a high place in the estimation of the British people. His constitutional history of England’s standard and his cognate works on this subject are widely read and prized. He was honored with several decorations, British and foreign, among them the Prussian Order of Merit. The deceased was a cousin of the dean of Ely, who lately visited America.

California did not figure in the census returns of the united States until 1850. Then its population was 92,597.

dium height, somewhat slender, her eyes are dark, hes features of rare regularity, her hair is a bright chestnut and her complexion a clear olive. Miss Graves is a clever violinist and has many feminine graces and accomplishments.

IGNORANCE IN FRANCE.

Amazing Density of a Large Percenter* ot Army Recruits. Not long ago a writer on military subjects related with conceivable stupefaction an anecdote for the truth of which he was able to vouch. In the course of a visit of inspection, a General had questioned a recruit as to what he knew about the war of 1870. In his utter inability to even grasp the meaning of the question, the soldier had stared open-mouthed at his officer, and it was finally elicited from him that this was the first he had ever heard of the Franeo-German war. The narrator of the anecdote expressed the belief that this remarkable example of class ignorance was a wholly exceptional case. He as speedily received proof that he was mistaken. A cavalry officer has written him a letter, from which I make the following interesting extract: “You cite a case which you suppose is isolated, but which, nevertheless, astonishes and grieves you. What would you say if you knew the truth? I am in the habit of making every year a small, informal inquiry into the degrees of instruction of the recruits drafted into, the company I command. I always put to the men the three following questions among others: What do you know about the war of 1870?' About Alsace-Lorraine? About Blsmarca? I receive on the average fifty recruits composed of peasants from Normandy and Brittany, and some few Parisians. Out of the fifty thirty can make no answer whatever to my questions. They know nothing at all. Ten have heard something to the effect that Lorraine is a province, that Bismarck was a German General or Emperor (!) and that the war of 1870 was not favorable to France. But their notions are far too vague to make any impression on their minds. Finally ten of the men, the Parisians in particular, have some idea of what our disasters were. For five years in succession I have obtained a like result. I inform you of it without comment” As the writer points out, the German Invader was seen in almost every corner of Normandy, and penetrated far into Brittany, so that it is all the more astonishing that the rising generation in these provinces should know so little about the war. The Ignorance of the peasants of the South of France may be expected to be more absolute still. With a state of things such as these facts reveal in existence, and even a Paul Deroulede admitting, as he did in his recent speech, a war for the recovery of the lost provinces to be out of the question, it Is evident that the policy of "La Ravanche” has lived.—Paris Correspondence in the Pall Mall Gazette.

Reproduces Geological Phenomena.

Nothing could better illustrate the difference between old and new methods of getting at things than the interesting object-lesson work that is being conducted by Dr. T. A. Jagger in the Harvard geological laboratory. Here by a series of ingenious operations much like what a child would regard as play, the effects of the forces of nature are Illustrated in miniature. One piece of apparatus has been devised to explain the “ripple marks” seen in many fossils. These marks, it is found, are not caused by the direct swash of the surface of the waves, but by the oscillation of the deeper water. Plates of glass covered with sand are let down under water and subjected to different sorts of vibration, and ripple marks similar to the various types found in fossil forms are readily made. The effect produced by lateral pressure on stratified rocks is illustrated with layers of different colored wax, and miniature volcanic action such as that which formed the peculiar Black Hills of South Dakota is shown by forcing melted wax through layers of coal dust, plaster of paris, etc. The effects of erosion are shown by letting a fine spray of water fall on a miniature formation of land illustrating a variety of natural features. Geysers on a small scale are made and caused to spout with rythmical regularity like the ones in nature. Sand deltas left by the melting of glaciers are also reproduced, and in the same way many other phenomena hitherto explained only theoretically are demonstrated under the actual physical conditions reduced to a small scale in point of expanse and time.

What the Big "V" Meant.

Many years ago a young fellow entered the freshman class at Amherst College—a lad with a square jaw, a steady eye, a pleasant smile and a capacity for hard and persistent work. One day, after he had been in college about a week, he took a chair from hjs room into the hall, mounted it and nailed over the door a large square of cardboard on which was painted a big black V, and nothing else. College boys do not like mysteries, and the young man’s neighbors tried to make him tell what the big V meant Was it “for luck?” Was it a joke? What was it? The sophomores took it up and treated the freshman to some hazing, but he would make no answer to the questions they put. At last he was let alone and his V remained over the door, merely a mark of the eccentricity of the occupant Four years passed. On commencement day Horace Maynard delivered the Maledictory of his class, the highest honor the college bestowed. After he had left the platform, amid the plause of his fellow-students and of the audience, one of his classmates accosted him: “Was that what your ‘V* meant? Were you after the valedictory when you tacked up that card?” “Of course,” Maynard replied. “What else could it have been? How else could I have got it?”—Youth’s Companion.

The presidential excursion will not come to an end until June 12, on which date the president and his party of guests will arriver home in Washington after having traversed 21 states and three territories. The train is,with one exception, the finest that modern mechanical ingenuity could devise. The exception is the special train in which W. Seward Webb makes long trips. Mr. Webb has what is admitted to be the finest private car in the world, and the train in which he travels is always most elaborately equipped in every way. Usually when the president is about to take a long journey the Pullman Company has some cars just reaching completion which are intended for use on the Congressional Limited, the famous Chicago Limited, or some like trains, are made up into a train for the president’s use. Such was the case this time. The train has all the modern comforts of limited travel. There is a baggage car which also contains a dynamo to furnish electricity to the whole train, a barber shop and a bath room. Then there is a dining car. This car is manned by a picked crew of the best waiters of the Pullman service. When the train is

THE PRESIDENT SHAKING HANDS AMONG THE CROWD

bounding over the sands of Arizona the waiter in the dining car will appear at table clad in a snowy jacket with a carnation in his button-hole. This car is stocked with the very finest the market affords. To those who travel with the president all these things are free. The president does not use this dining car, but has his own private dining room on the car in which he lives. After the dining car comes the car devoted to the members of the cabinet and their families. This is a very fine state-room car and each cabinet officer has his private room. The newspaper correspondents on the president’s train share the car of Secretary Cortelyou. There are three newspaper representatives and three photographers representing the great weekly periodicals. There is a special railroad representative to see that all arrangements on the railroads are carried out, and there is a special representative of the Western Union Telegraph Company to assist in the filing of news dispatches. No individual daily paper is allowed representatives on the train because every paper in the country would want to send a correspondent if it could. So the newspapers get their reports from the representatives of the press associations.

Law Runs in the Family.

In June next, Ruth, the second daughter of Senator Mason, will graduate from the Washington College of Law at Washington, D. C., as a full-fledged attorney and counselor. She is not decided whether she will hang out a shingle and wait for a practice or content herself With the satisfaction that if she wanted to practice she could. It has been suggested that she might enter the offices of her father and brother, but it is thought more than likely that she will give herself up to musical studies connected with the piano and violin. Miss Mason is a graduate of a Chicago high school. In her four years’ course there she held 90 per cent average, which en-

titled her to be a teacher without examination. The young lady is interested in athletics. a player in tennis tournaments

The President's Journey

Besides the cars mentioned there is a White House car on the president’s train. This is virtually a travelingexecutive office. The president’s clerks occupy it and Secretary Cortelyou will there keep up the correspondence of the president with all the world by mail and telegraph. The president’s own car will be his castle. Here he and Mrs. McKinley will live. They will have their private staterooms, with brass beds and silken hangings. They will have their dining room equipped with silver and cut glass; 'there will be fresh flowers on the table every day. They will have their observation room from which they can view the country through which the train passes. .Here the president can be alone if he chooses or he can entertain his friends. From the rear of the train he can bow to the crowds as the train moves slowly through a village, or, reaching over the railing, he can shake hands with the enthusiasts who crowd around the president’s car wherever he stops for even a minute. Or he can make a speech if he is moved to do so, and the chances are that he wHI at many places.

Wherever the president’s train stops for more than a day the party leave the cars and go to some hotel.

The Mexican republic and the Austrian empire, after thirty-five years of real though passive hostility, are about to resume friendly relations. The tragedy of which the unfortunate Maximilian was the central figure nears its final scene. Most of its great actors have passed from the stage. The survivors are about to admit that justice was done and to bury their long quarrel in oblivion. The attempt to set up a European empire in Mexico originated in Louis Napoleon’s desire to distract his people’s attention from his own corrupt government. Mexico’s failure to pay certain bonds was the immediate ex-

and the best horsewoman among the younger Washington girls. She has traveled much in America and in Europe.

THE PRESIDENT SPEAKING fROm THE REAR PLATFORM.

Mexico and Austria.

cuse. France and England united In a naval demonstration. England knew that her act would be distasteful to the United States, with which country she had for two years been at the point of war. Seeing that it did not provoke us to hostility, England withdrew from the conspiracy. The French troops overthrew Mexico’s weak government. A Mexican faction invited Maxmilian to assume a crown that it had no right to offer. When the civil war permitted, the United States came to Mexico’s rescue. France was warned to withdraw her troops. Sheridan was sent with an army to the Rio Grande. The Mexican patriots were supplied with arms. The French army retired. The deluded Maximilian remained, to be captured, tried, and executed by the people he had attempted to subjugate. That the Emperor Francis Joseph should cherish against the Mexicans resentment for his brother’s death was quite natural, and yet unreasonable. For, while Mexicans held the rifles that ended Maximilian’s life, Louis Napoleon loaded them and the United States pulled the triggers. The Mexicans, though they had suffered the greater injury, were ready to forgive and forget, but the Austrian court long persisted in its rancor. Perhaps the aged Francis Joseph has learned from his many sorrows the Christian duty of forgiveness. He re-

cently caused to be dedicated at Queretaro, with ceremonies in which the Mexican people joined vflth sympathy, but without regret, a chapel to his brother’s memory. Now he is about to welcome the envoy of the people his brother sought to wrong. At last he recognizes the fact that the safety of the people is the supreme law, to which personal griefs must yield. Even the house of Hapsburg at last admits that the only “divine right” is the people’s will.

Tearing Down to Build Up.

Wreckers are at present employed upon the A. T. Stewart palace, at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, New York. The material of which the magnificent dwelling was composed is being carted away to all parts of Manhattan island. Much of it will be used in the construction of smaller buildings. The marble of which the exterior walls were built is being sold to stonecutters. Great pieces of the finest Carrara marble, beautifully polished, which lined the dining-room and the ballroom, as well as those used in the wainscoting of the corridors, are to be transformed Into shafts, headstones, tombs, urns, broken columns and pillars to mark the resting places of the dead.

The annihilation of this beautiful pile is suggestive of the fate that has overtaken nearly all of the great merchant s achievements. The princely fortune that he left is scattered. His great store on Tenth street was long ago eclipsed by others a mile farther up town. His working women’s hotel has been converted to other uses. Aside from the identity of his name with one or two benevolences, there will be nothing left in a few years to remind the city of which A. T. Stewart was for years the greatest merchant that he ever lived. He did not build as wisely as some of the rich men of a later day. Commercialism entered into nearly all of his undertakings, and with the removal of his personality the monuments he created ceased to have life. Of all his investments, only those which were made to benefit others have any vitality today. These, unfortunately, are neither numerous nor conspicuous in a city and a country which in our time abound in great philanthropies.

Mrs. Margaret Deland, the novelist, has begun a series of flower sales at her Boston home for the benefit of the poor of that city.

The Sentry and the Bull.

Jwt outside our lines at Gibraltar, says the Daily Mail’s Gibraltar correspondent, it is customary to land the live cattle from the ships and take them to the slaughterhouse. The other evening a British sentry was pacing up and down when a bull, just landed, rushed at him, doubtless attracted by the man’s red coat The sentry brought his rifle to the charge, and received the bull on the point of his bayonet The animal bellowed with pain, retired a few paces, and, like the good Spanish bull that he was, charged again, The second time the bayonet entered the neck, and the bull, with a whisk of its head, unshipped the bayonet and carried it off with him. The sentry did not like to shoot, as his rifle was loaded with slugs. Both Spanish and English sentries on these posts are similarly armed, otherwise when using their rifles on smugglers much danger to the innocent public on either side might be done by stray bullets landing in the towns. The bull made for the Spanish lines, where the nimble sentries dodged him behind the boxes, and ultimately drove him off.

FROM DEATH’S DOOR.

Hillsdale, 111., April 29th.—Much interest has been aroused here over the case of William Marks, who has been in a dying condition for several months with an apparently incurable Kidney Disease. The leading physicians of this place had pronounced his case a hopeless one, and others from Port Byron, Geneseo, and Davenport, la., had attended him, and in a consultation decided that he could not live. * In desperation, his nephew inquired of Mr. L. F. Giles, a local druggist, as to a last resort. Mr. Giles suggested Dodd’s Kidney Pills, a remedy which had just been Introduced here. The results were marvelous. Mr. Marks immediately began to improve, and within a few weeks was able to be up and about, completely cured. His cure is the talk of the neighborhood, and is considered nothing short of a miracle.

There appears to be no doubt that this new remedy, Dodd’s Kidney Pills, will cure any case of Kidney Disease, for the more malignant forms, such as Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, and Dropsy, yield readily to its remarkable influence. These forms of Chronic Kidney Disease have hitherto been considered incurable, and have baffled ail medical skill, and yet, this new remedy has cured every single case in which it has been used, in this neighborhood. The doctors themselves are amazed at the wonderful work Dodd's Kidney Pills are accomplishing in Rock Island County.

Two Views of a Rich Man.

Baton Stumm, one/ of Germany’s most influential personages, commercially and politically, who died recently at the age of 64, was enormously wealthy, owning vast factories and iron foundries at Neunkirchen, where he was greatly loved by his work people on account of his strict justice and kindliness. On the other hand, he was bitterly hated by the socialists, who saw in him the type of capitalism. He was often called King Stumm because of his possessions and his somewhat autocratic bearing.

Career and Character of Abraham Lincoln.

An address by Joseph Choate, Ambassador to Great Britain, on the career and character of Abraham Lincoln —his early life —his early struggles with the world —his character as developed in the later years of his life and his administration, which placed his name so high on the world’s roll of honor and fame, has been published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and may be had by sending six (6) cents in postage to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111.

Welsh Language May Die.

While there is a strong movement In Ireland for the revival of the ancient language, it is different in Wales. A poll taken at Cardiff on the question whether children in the board schools should be taught the Welsh language has resulted in a majority of 670 votes against it.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you • package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, t ut it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. the price of coffee. 15c and 25 eta per package Sold by all grocers.

Estimates for Arctic Expedition.

Captain Bernier estimates the cost of his proposed Arctic expedition at $130,000. He has applied to the Canadian government for a grant and has also opened subscriptions in the- principal Canadian cities.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous.

It is consoling to think that this matter of old age is not chronic, and that, after a certain crisis, we may come out as young as any of them.

Maple City Self Washing Soap

does not shrink woolens nor will it Injurs the flnest fabric. Just try It once. Coal can be transported 1,000 miles on the German lakes for 20 cents a ton.

When cycling take a bar of White’s Y» catan. You can ride further and easier.

Every man is sometimes what he should be at all times.

A COUNTRY ROAD.

A dusty, stone way, whose bord'rtng sod Is thick with blackberries and goldenrod; Abrupt, bare hills on one side looking down. And from the other you can see the town; Follow the river’s course through meadows green, O'er which thick woods and marble ledges lean. A little further, where the road descends. A brook’s soft twinkle with some bird song blends, (Gone from its edge the dear old dame's small cot Half hidden by quaint flowers) lush bergamot Makes sweet its banks, its depths the boys still swim. Or watch the minnows from some willow limb. Upon its bridge how often I have stood, atching the west, whose glory seemed to flood With tenderest light the poorhouse and the graves Beside it —turn to gold the brooklet's waves— Till from the hill, oh, dearest sight of all! I saw my father and I heard him call. He came with sturdy stride and swinging pail— My hand in his—told my day’s whole tale Of joys, that 'neath his bright smile seemed to grow. While lessened was my every childish woe. As his sweet words fell on my soul like balm, While we walked homeward through the fragrant calm.

—Mary M. McCarthy.

Novel Horseshoeing Rack

Shoeing a fractious horse is not a task to be envied by any one, and there is always danger of accident to the man* who performs the work in the ordinary manner, as the animal seems possessed of the idea that the hoofs were made to defend itself with instead of to be shod. In addition to the danger to the shoer, the animal is liable to injurt itself in the argument and especially is this the case in shoeing colts for the first time, when fright is generally the chief cause of trouble. To overcome these difficulties John Cea of lowa has designed the horseshoeing rack shown in the illustration, the inventor claiming that the mechanism will hold all parts of the animal securely in any desired position, at the same time relieving the horse of all strain and depriving It of the power of injuring itself or the blacksmith.

PREVENTS INJURY TO SHOER.

It will be seen that numerous straps and windlasses are provided, which will not only firmly hold each foot, but will lift the animal bodily from the floor and keep him suspended while the labor is going on. It is also probable that after a few applications of the machine to a fractious horse he could be induced to stand quietly while being shod without the use of the appliances.

Another Ecumenical Conference.

The first ecumenical conference of the Methodist church was held in London in 1881. The second met in Washington, D. C., Oct 7,189 L The third will meet in Wesley’s chapel, City road, London, in September next. The coming conference will discuss the present position of Methodism, the influence of Methodism in the promotion of international peace, the relation of Methodism to the Evangelical free church movement, Methodism and Christian unity, Methodism and education in the twentieth century, and Christianity and modern unbelief, but it will not discuss any question upon which the Methodists have divided. Whether these ecumenical conferences have promoted closer fellowship among Methodists is an open question, but it is contended that the conferences have promoted concerted action among Methodists on important public and religious questions. Reports are to be made at the coming conference as to means for still further promoting united action on questions of common interest to the laity and the clergy.

England's Big Loan.

The British government has issued an invitation for subscriptions to onehalf the new loan of $300,000,000, stating at the same time that the other half has already been placed. There is loud complaint because no explanation is offered. The London Chronicle voices the dissatisfaction of the public when it speaks of the issue as a “disastrous” one, “in which the British taxpayer drops the round sum of £s,300,000 in the process of borrowing £60,000,000.” Part of it has been floated in New York.