Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Page 7

ASTHE WORLD REVOLVES

Tillman S’eefa "Blood. Washingtons telegram: The friends Of United States Senators B. F. Tillman and John L. McLaurin of South Carolina are fearful that the political feud which has arisen between them will develop into a personal encounter. There Is great danger that onp of these hot-headed Southerners will say the word which will mean a duel, unless the friends can patch up the fast widening breach. In view of the present feeling of bitter hatred existing between the men that seems impossible. What seems most likely is that the men may meet somewhere and one or the other extend an insult that, according to the well-known South Carolina “code,” tan only be atoned for with blood. Although Senator Tillman did not make his savage public attack on Mr. McLaurin until Saturday last, the bad blood between the men dates back more than a year to the time when the

SENATOR B. F. TILLMAN.

latter refused to take orders from Tillman and supported the administration by voting for the Paris treaty of peace. Hot words passed between them, but the men have avoided a clash until Senator McLaurin’s recent speech in Charleston, S. C., where he advocated expansion, protection and support of President McKinley’s policies, and by inference attacked Tillman’s wellknown hostile attitude toward the administration. This so angered the senior senator that he made thp hot retort in which he openly charged McLaurin with stealing a speech from a New York clergyman, and wound up with this defiance, whose meaning can not be misconstrued: The people of South Carolina cannot be further deceived or misled by this man, and I speak now in order that they may fully Inform themselves In all of these matters; and I stand ready to furnish the proof of everything I say, and. If necessary, will meet Mclaurln face to face In any forum he may choose. Senator McLaurin retorted in kind by charges as personal and as savage as those made against him. Of Tillman he said to a reporter: He began his career by abusing and slandering better men. I have a contempt for an Intellectual bully and shameless pretender masquerading as a statesman, a moral pigmy posing as the champion of honesty; and such a man talks of blushing for South Carolina on my account. I neither court nor desire his friendship or good opinion. Nothing further is needed to demonstrate the bitterness of the feeling between the men. Each of them is known to be absolutely fearless, and a personal encounter would almost be a certainty if they should meet face to

SENATOR M'LAURIN.

face. Dueling has been made a crime Which disfranchises Its participants in South Carolina, and if Tillman and McLaurin would meet on the “field of honor” both would lose their senatorial togas. This may help the heated ■tatasmen to ( keep cool heads, but the friends of the men will take no chances and will do all they can to keep them apart until they have time to cool oft. —George F. Curtis.'

Electricity in the Household.

Now that electric motors are cheap to buy, cheap to run, and simple to operate, there Is no good reason why they should not be forthwith Installed in a million of our homes. A Diehl motor, using one-tenth of a horsepower at a- eost_in New York city of one cent an hour, runs a sewing machine with ease. A motor of double this size, of one-fifth of a horse-power, rotates a washing machine, and then, with electrical versatility, turns a wringer or a mangle. In summer a motor as small as you please drives a fan, and refreshes air otherwise mo-

tionless and muggy. If the house contains a workshop, another motor turns the lathe, or the pottery wheel, or actuates a loom, a set of carving tools or a lens-grinder.

Fountain Coffeepot.

Below is shown an important improvement on the French coffee pot in which the water has to be poured through the ground coffee several times, the grounds in the old-style pot being suspended in a cloth strainer and the water allowed to filter through. In this new pot the water is automatically elevated to the top of the interior and

falls in a continuous spray on the ground coffee. This is accomplished by means of the central vertical tube, which is provided with a flar-

ing disk at the bottom,the latter having openings around the outer edgp for the entrance of the water. It is a wellknoyrn fact that the water boiling in a pot or kettle can be made to force Itself through a vertical tube provided with a disk at the bottom, and as openings are cut around the top of the tube the water falls directly on the wire gauze strainer secured to the tube just below the perforations. The pot can be filled with water to any desired point below the strainer, and when the required quantity of coffee grounds is placed on the gauze support and the pot placed over the fire it will automatically filter the strength from the grounds. As soon as this has been accomplished, the grounds are allowed to drain for a short time and the fountain and strainer are then lifted out before serving the coffee. One advantage of this device is that the slight jarring of the strainer by the movement of the boiling water causes the grounds to readjust themselves constantly, thus presenting all sides to the hot water.

Mexico’s Arch of Peace.

Capt. Porfirio Diaz, son of the President of Mexico, and other prominent

Mexicans are about to have erected In the City of Mexico an arch of independence, 100 feet high, dedicated to the triumph of peace. Above picture Is from the drawing of the proposed structure.

Gebhard Wants a Divorce.

Freddy Gebhard several years ago achieved world-wide notoriety as one of those who were most smitten by the charms of Lily Langtry, the famous English actress and beauty. He accompanied hes all over the country,

hiring a special car for her accommodation, and was most pronounced in his attentions to her. When the Jersey Lily returned to England and married Hugo De Bathe, Gebhard did not pine away and die. He was not of that stamp. Instead he cast about and

soon married. Now it is announced from Sioux Falls, S. D„ that Gebhard has arrived there with his valet and eleven trunks, preparatory to acquiring a legal residence. Although Gebhard says his visit there is for “business” reasons, it is generally believed that his sole object is to secure a divorce from his wife, who was Miss Louise Hollingsworth Morris of Baltimore. They were married In Baltimore In 1894. The bridegroom’s gift to the bride of a $50,000 diamond necklace and a beautiful ruby valued at $20,000 made the marriage a notable one. Mrs. Gebhard was known as one of the “big five” most beautiful women in« Baltimore. She is the daughter of John B. Morris of that city. Well Charged, Tolstoi’s new novel will be about a society girl named Spzlefzeff. The book ought to make delightful summer reading, as the heroine’s name sound* like the drawing of a glass of seda water. —Ex.

SALT LAKE'S LEVEL.

Although It la Lowering, Thera I* Me Cause For Present Alarm. Reports from Salt Lake City show that the Great Salt Lake la at a lower level than ever before In Its recorded history. The amount of water flowing Into it has been less of late than the average and evaporation has been greater. This has awakened a fear that the lake is drying up—not that there Is thought to be immediate danger that it will disappear, but that the decline noted may be permanent. The Monthly Weather Review, published under the direction of the Weather Bureau, gives assurance that such is not the case. In other parts of the world similar records have been made, and great Interior bodies of water show lower levels than usual. Lakes of this kind have their periods of rise and fall, and it may confidently be expected that in the course of a few years Salt Lake will begin to rise again. It requires many years for bodies of water like these to permanently decline In volume. There Is a pendulum swing In their history, just as there Is In the records of precipitation. Every now and then one hears It said that our arid region climate Is changing because of an Increase or decrease In the amount of snow or rainfall. But an examination o meteorological records show that oscillations of that kind have gone on for years, and that sooner or later conditions get back to what they were before. It Is believed that at one time Salt Lake extended over a vastly greater surface than It does now. It has receded from what It was then, but whether it did so gradually or in consequence of some great geological change Is not so clear. It was in a long-ago geological era that it extended over the desert region lying to the west and reaching out in Nevada. A geological change in the surface of that part of the earth might enlarge Its area or cause It to disappear entirely. But movements of that kind occur only at long Intervals, and many generations of men may have passed away before another takes place.—Denver Republi can.

Erratic Nitro-Glycerlne.

Long experience commonly makes the oil well shooter unconsciously, if not avowedly, a fatalist Nitroglycerine would make a fatalist of any man. It is a substance that Is likely to do almost anything except what is predicted of it. A ten-quart can of It had been dropped off the roof of a house with no disastrous consequences, while it Is on record that a man. In passing a can that had been emptied and that was lying beside a forest path, struck it with his walking stick and was promptly blown into a neighboring tree-top. Instances are numerous where workmen have “thawed out” the erratic fluid by standing the cans on top of a hot stove and have continued to eat three meals a day, and yet the dropping of a piece of hot iron intc a tub of water In which such cans hi.' been standing wrecked a building and the adjoining derrick. Instances such as these could be multipl’<sd from the annals of the oil country and serve to show how unreliable nitro-glycerine is. As one shooter expressed it: “If only a man sticks to this business long enough, he is pretty certain sooner or late.* to be spread all over the next county.”—Frank Les lie’s Popular Monthly.

Some of Vreeland's Maxims.

H. H. Vreeland, President of the Metropolitan Railway, of New In a recent speech gave the following maxims: There are no elevators In the house of success. The “bad boy” often makes the best man. A man can be too confiding in others, but never too confident in hipaself. A college education Is a goodthing, but many a graduate finds himself overtrained. Clothes don’t make the man, but good clothes hrwe got many a man a good job. - A bad man with good manners often out-does a good man with bad manners. Many a hero of the world sees a “noaccount” every time he looks in the mirror. No man can stand on top because he Is put there. If you have $25, and want a job, It is better to spend S2O for clothes, $4 for shoes and the rest for a shave, a hair-cut and a clean collar, and walk to the place than go with the money In the pockets of a dingy suit—Success.

Hygienic Coffee Drinking.

Professor Zenor Kramberg, a wellknown German scientist, has just written an Interesting article on hy gienic coffee drinking. The professor first discusses the question as to whether coffee, tea and tobacco are to be considered as poison, and comes to the conclusion that their Influence upon healthy people Is not noxious as long as consumed in reasonable quantities, but that all the three have a more or less pernicious effect upon feeble persons. Herr Kramberg says that coffee should not be taken right before or after meals, but best some time in the afternoon. He considers four cups a day the maximum, and says that six cups or more in a day will soon affect the general health. Children should not be given any tea or coffee, he declares, and goes on to say that little children who have been accustomed to either of these drinks soon show signs of nervousness.

Similarity.

The pessimist and the amateur photographer both seem to take the worst view of everything.—Philadelphia Record.

TRIBVTE TO OVR NAVY.

ACCEPTED DESIGN FOR THE WORLD’S GREATEST NAVAL ARCH.

One of the most imposing architectural ornaments in the world will be the naval arch to be built at the Battery in New York city to commemorate the famous deeds of the American navy. It will be visible for many miles out at sea. The arch, not including the statues on its top, will be 125 feet in height The width will be the same, thus giving it an extremely massive effect. The piers will be decorated with large groups of statuary standing on elaborate pedestals. These groups

WILL DESTROY THE IRONCLAD.

S. Sheckler of Wellsville, Ohio, has Invented and applied for a patent on a device to destroy ironclad battleships, which Secretary of the Navy Long and President McKinley believe will be a

success,th« invention having been submitted to their inspection. Sheckler is a well-known electrical engineer and has worked for two years on his invention. Its utilization all depends on the success of the submarine boat The device is a steel box two feet square, highly magnetized, filled with powerful explosives. The box is attached to the top of a submarine vessel in such a manner that It can be released when under a steel battleship, and by magnetism the box will immediately adhere to the armor of that vessel. Its discharge is regulated from the submarine boat by electric wires,

will represent stirring historical events in the history of the navy. The design is the work of Ernest Flagg, the New York architect who designed the buildings of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Corcoran art gallery in Washington and other well-known buildings. The work will be crowded with naval emblems and decorations. The top will be surmounted by a quadriga of seahorses. On each side of this group and crowning each of the huge piers will be classic barges filled with naval tro-

which unwind from a reel on top oi that vessel.

It Staggers Humanity.

When the English budget was introduced somebody said that every Boer killed had cost $5,000. The British have certainly not killed 10,000 Boers. It is doubtful whether they have killed 5,000. If it has cost them $750,000,000 to kill 10,000 Boers, that is $75,000 per Boer. If only 5,000 have been disposed of, the butcher’s bill amounts to $150,000 apiece. There were less than 40,000 Boer families in the two repub-

THE EXPLOSIVE ADHERES TO THE IRONCLAD'S HULL.

lies when the war began. England could have given every family $20,000 without spending any more than she has paid for fighting. The Boer republics, whose combined population is less than that of Detroit or Milwaukee, have given the British empire the most costly war it has ever had in its whole history in the same space of time. England has just borrowed $300,000,000 to pay a mere installment of the cost of the Boer war. The Crimean war of three years increased the national debt by $195,000,000. The Boer war has lasted a year and a half. In that time England has had to borrow

phies. In the interior of the great opening each side will contain five niches cut into the base of the arch. The niches are to be filled eventually with the statues of naval heroes. The enterprise of building the naval arch was undertaken by the Naval Academy Alumni association. A number of wealthy New Yorkers have pledged themselves to contribute $500,000. A general solicitation for funds will be commenced soon. People throughout the country to be ask to contribute.

more than she ever borrowed in any two years of any other war in her history. Moreover she has spent more than we spent in our civil war in the same length of time. Our most expensive year was the fiscal year 1865,when we had over a million soldiers under arms. The cost of the war for the year was $570,887,377.89. England has paid over $750,000,000 for a year and a half of Boer fighting and expects to pay a billion before the job is over.

At Naundorf in the Hunsdick near the Rhine, a Roman temple has been

enclosed in a walled enclosure measuring 220 by 200 feet. The temple stands in the middle and is 60 feet by 50. It contains more terracotta objects than have been discovered hitherto in Germany. They are votive offerings, about 100 being whole figurines representing goddesses. Small bronze statuettes of Mars, Jupiter and Mercury have also been found.

The Pennsylvania railroad is reported to have over 28,000 individual shareholders who must be notified of the new stock allotment and receive subscription warrants.

JUVENILE DERISION. Yon grown folks oft grow tedious With your superior airs, You seem to think your learned words Of history and affair* Bespeak a deference for yon Which must not know alloy, Your mien is proud and haughty Because you’re not • boy. But yon can’t venture out of doors Without your overshoes. Nor laugh to hear the wind that roan) The winter’s zest you lose. And all the viands that made glad Your youth, began to cloy Long since. You dine on mush and mflk Because you’re not a boy. You know, perhaps, how stocks will ga, Or how the planets move. And I must learn such things in time, A sorry task ’twill prove. Bo since my penance is so sure, Forgive, if I annoy, By boasting for a few short yean That I am now a boy.

HUMOR OF THE DAY.

“Do you believe there is any luck In black cats?” “Th?re Is luck In mine.” “Ah. Indeed!” “Yes, he just ate a rabbit’s foot”—Chicago News. Sometimes success seems near enough For us to touch her garment’s border) But ere we do she’s gone—it’s tough!— To fill some more attractive order. —Brooklyn Life. “Love Is a great leveler,” remarked the Wise Guy. “You bet” agreed the Simple Mug, enthusiastically. ‘Tv* been thrown over half a dozen times.” —Philadelphia Record. Fanny—“ Now, when I am asked to sing I never say, ‘Oh, I can’t!’ but I always sit down at the piano—” Annie—“ And let the audience find it out for themselves?”—Tit-Bits. “I’ve just found out how J. Pierpont Morgan must have proposed to his wife.” “How?” “He probably said, ‘Darling will you put yourself tn my trust?’ ’’—Chicago Record-Herald. ‘Tis woman’s privilege, they say. To change her mind. The same Applies unto her wedding day, When she may change her name. —Philadelphia Record. Phrenologist—“My 'riend I find you have a most remarkable memory.” Mr. Mulcahay—“Professor, wud yea molnd puttin’ thot down an a shllp av paper so’s Oi won’t fergit it?”—Lealie’s Weekly. Patience—“Do you know, when Will went to put the engagement ring on my finger, he really didn’t know which finger it should go on.” Patrice—- “ Well he must have had a very poor memory.”—Yonkers Statesman. Little Muriel learned In her lesson that “Yarmouth is celebrated for the curing of herring.” “Oh, how funny it must be,” she exclaimed, “to see the little sick herrings sitting round getting ’setter!”—Youth’s Companion. “Do you appreciate music?” “Sometimes,” answered the young man with wide ears. “The other evening I went to hear a big chorus, and I dozed off and thought the home team was making home runs that drove the bleacher* crazy.”—Washington Star. Willie Boerum (entertaining his sister’s caller))—“Do you like baseball very much, Mr. Jamaica?” Mr. Jar malca—“l never played ball much, Willie, I enjoy golf.” Willie Boerum (disappointedly)—“Why, I heard pa tell Susan you was a great catch!”— Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. Sllmpurse—“People say that * young couple can get along very nicely nowadays on a small income, if the—er—wife is of a practical turn of mind.” Sweet Girl—“Oh, I’m real practical. My favorite piano piece I* an imitation of the spinning wheel.”— New York Weekly.

A Japanese Kindergarten.

The kindergarten has proved Itself the most contagious fad in the world. Indeed, in Japan, where one now hears of it, they don’t consider it a fad at alt Kindergartens are as securely established as the Government, and the Japanese child is sent to them as early in life and as regularly as though his mamma lived in Beacon street. * Japan has even improved on Boston and on Germany, too, for that matter, for here are some of the features included i- the drlental version of Froebel: “Item No. 1 in the day’s programme consist in bowing to the teacher. Japanese politeness is inculcated when a child begins to crawl, and as soon as be can stand he is taught to make a bow. So Japanese children of all ages will make a deep obesiance when occasion demands, and that is very often.” Many of these young sticklers for ceremony are but three years old. They look not in the least like American or European babies, but like the Japanese dolls which our children play with, except that their faces are really much prettier. But their hair is cut in the same fantastic way, and their little “kimonos” and “obis” are even more attractive in the original than In the imitation.- Waver* ley Magazine.

When Don Pedro Lost His Hat

Great efforts were made in the seventeenth century to protect the honor and dignity of foreign Ambassadors in England. A proclamation was issued in 1621 by the King and Lord Mayor to prevent any one offering affronts by gesture or word to any foreign representative. The London mob were not disposed to deal gently with foreigners, and an unpopular Ambassador ran some risk of personal violence. There was a certain Don Pedro de Zuniga whose presence was particularly unwelcome. He was driving in his coach drawn by six mules through Holborn one day, when his bat, which had a valuable jewel in it, was snatched from his head by a man on horseback. The crowd laughed and cheered and allowed the thief to ride away.— The Gentleman’s Magazine.

Current Topics

Marconi Ar to Marry. New York dispatch: Courtship and experiments in wireless telegraphy combined is the exclusive novelty that Giglielino Marconi, the inventor, was able to indulge in winning an American girl, Miss Josephine Bowen Holman, his engagement to whom was announced on his arrival at Queenstown last Friday. Miss Holman is a daughter of the late Justice J. A. Holman of the Indiana supreme court. Marconi, who is only 27 years old, met his fiance on the American Line steamer St. Paul in November, 1899. He had come to the United States and made a demonstration of his wireless telegraphy by sending wireless bulletins about the Shamrock-Defender yacht race. When the St. Paul was sixty-milea from the Needles Marconi began sending telegrams to the wireless telegraph station that he has established on the Hampshire coast. He sent telegrams for Miss’Holman, who was immensely impressed by the invention of her friend. Marconi followed Miss Holman through Europe. They went to Pari*, Nice and Monte Carlo. Marconi came to New York a few weeks ago. It was reported he cam*

MISS JOSEPHINE HOLMAN.

to make some bargain with the United States government as to the sale of his invention. As a matter of fact, he came here to offer his heart and hand Miss Holman. She consented to receive them, and the two became formally engaged. Miss Holman lives with her mother and sister in a luxurious apartment at 292 West Ninety-second street. She confirms the news of the betrothal. She is of medium height, 22 years old, with blue eyes, hair of light auburn and a fair complexion. She dresses in the best of taste; is well educated and musical. She would not say when the wedding would be, but the family think it will occur in th* early fall. The bride will then go to England to live.

A Popular Woman.

Paducah, Ky., dispatch: Mrs. Ottillia Hippel Davis has just won a contest to determine who is the most popular married woman in Paducah. She is one of the most beautiful women of the city, a fearless horsewoman and the champion bowler of the clubs. • Mrs. Davis, who now wears a diamond pendant with an inscription attesting that she is the winner of ths popularity contest, is a true Kentuckian. She is the owner of five blooded horses. Recently a team ran away and threw her and her sister from the carriage. Mrs. Davis pluckily retained her grasp on the reins while the carriage was being demolished by the kicking and struggling animals, and she escaped unhurt. The follow-

MRS. DAVIS.

ing day she was seen driving the same team. Mr. Davis is southern agent for a lumber company of Chicago.

Minding One's Own Business.

An example of minding one’s own business is furnished by a Hungarian woman in New York, who having fallen out of a second story window and landed right side up, resented th« officious attentions of neighbors wha sent for an ambulance to have her removed to a hospital. What is alleged to be a faithful interpretation of the remarks she made to the doctor whs responded to the summons is an indignant declaration that, having fallen out of her own window into het own yard, and having a doctor of her own, she would send for medical attention when she needed it