Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Page 7

the World RevolVes

IS he Oldest Graduate. Rev. Joseph Warren, the earliest living graduate of Harvard college, has just celebrated his ninety-third anniversary of his birth in his comfortable home in Worcester, Mass. Mr. Cross was graduated from Harvard with the class of 1828. He was born at Bridgewater, Mass., in 1808, and ■was prepared for college by Rev. Pitt Clark at Newton. . Soon after his graduation he was married to his first wife, Mary J. Danforth, who died in 1830. At that time Mr. Cross was principal of Chatham Academy. The young Harvard man studied for the ministry in the divinity school of his own university, and also at the Andover Seminary, and was called to the pastorate of the First Congregational church of West Boylston, Mass., in 1840. Thereafter he lived for nearly fifty years in one house. He was a jnember of the state constitutional convention in 1853 and of the legislature in 1873. Although approaching his centennial, Mr. Cross is active, clearheaded and intensely interested in the

REV. J. W. CROSS.

affairs of the world at large and of the old university of which he is a graduate.

Problem in Education,

The effect of the parochial school upon the public school system is a theme that invites the earnest attention of all thoughtful educators. The discussion of the question at the national teachers’ convention at Detroit did not elicit any important information outside of the interesting fact that expenditures for the religious schools show heavy increase and that these schools are drawing from the public schools. With these facts —if they are facts—as a basis to work upon it would seem that the National Educational Association should be able to conduct an inquiry that would disclose some of the reasons why the parochial schools are drawing pupils from the public schools. It should be able to ascertain the reasons of parents for sending their children to the so-called religious schools. It should supplement this data with information concerning the curricula- of the latter schools and the pedagogic methods and principles employed.

A Naiad Queen.

Eight young beauties, all society leaders, attired in serge combinations, but minus shoes and hosiery, contested

CONSTANCE MACKENZIE.

for the swimming championship, says a London cablegram. Lady Constance Mackenzie, niece of the Duke of Sutherland and heiress to the Cromartle estates, won the challenge shield gold medal for the third time in succession. Medals previously won by her were worn on her blouse. Her beautiful raven hair fell over her shoulders.

The Polar Expeditions.

The Peary relief expedition, under the command of N. L. Bridgeman of New York, has at last sailed. Mr. Bridgeman expects to find that Peary has discovered the pole, and failing that, has made some important explorations. Mr. E. B. Baldwin of Illinois has also left Tromsoe, Norway, with a first-class outfit, a stanch vessel, and plenty of dogs, and expects to reach the pole. Another north pole expedition is that of Captain Bernier of Canada, who intends to enter the arctic regions through Bering strait and drift to the pole. In the meantime four expeditions, German, British, and Scandinavian, are about to sail for the south polar regions. The frozen North and South have lost none of their fascinations for adventurous spirits bent upon solving the polar mystery. Thus far, however, the outcome of exploration has been principally the sending Of relief expeditions—an experience likely to be repeated in the cases of Baldwin and Bernier.

A RATTLER ON HIS BREAST.

A Remarkable Fight tVltaeeeed by a Proapeetor la Arizona. A rattler, a king snake, and a road runner recently figured In a battle part of which was waged on the breast of Herbert Housland, a prospector in Arizona. The king snake Is a deadly enemy of the ratt'er. The experience of Housland was had in the Bradshaw mountains. He was guarding his party's camp for the day and had lain down to sleep when he was suddenly aroused to find a great rattler colled upon his breast. “I almost suffocated from fearing to breathe lest I should be bitten,’* he said. "The snake was greatly excited and in a minute I saw the cause, A king snake was trying to exbite the rattler to combat, and my person was the chosen battle ground. The king snake had probably forced the rattler to refuge upon my body, and following up his aggressive tactics was running In a circle around the rattler very rabidly. He crossed my breast from left to right and my thighs from right to left, and within less than a foot of the rattler’s body. The velocity of the snake was most wonderful. It seemed to be one continuous ring, and part of the time I could seemingly see three or four rings at once. I made a slight movement with my right foot which attracted the rattler’s attention for an instant, and that was fatal to him. At that one false movement Of his eyes, the king snake darted in and seized the rattler by the throat, close up to his head and began Instantly to coll around his victim. They rolled off me in their death struggle and became one tangled mass for ten minutes, when the rattler's sounds died away gradually. While I lay exhausted from my fright a road runner darted out of a bush and grabbing the two snakes in his beak, began to drag them away. The weight ;was too great but he killed the king snake by a blow from his long bill, and ran away as I arose. I threw the two reptiles into the bushes, and there the bird and his mate devoured them."

FOR A BEET COLONY.

Salvation Army to Start n Hill lon-A am 000 Id Colorado. The Salvation Army is about to embark in a great commercial enterprise which involves the colonization of a tract of land in Colorado. Here will be started a practically new Industry in that section—the raising of sugar beets. While in a sense the scheme is commercial rather than religious, officers of the army in New York think they can do much good through the enterprise. A large corporation has bought up and procured options on over 1,000,000 acres of ground. The Salvation Army will act as the agents of this corporation in procuring and guaranteeing the integrity of the colonists. Commander Booth-Tucker, who is now in Cleveland, will return to New York soon. When he arrives the plans for starting the work will be laid before him for his approval. Directly that is obtained, offices will be opened on Fourteenth street, opposite the present headquarters of the organization. Staff Officer McPhee will be put in charge. The reason that outside offices will be established is that the present charter of the army will not admit of such an enterprise being carried on at its headquarters.. The tract covers the greater part of three counties —Kiowa, Bent and Prowers. It is skirted by the Arkansas river and interested by irrigating cana’s, Which are fed from reservoirs having a capacity of 3,570,283,520 cubic feet. It is at Amity, Col., that a flourishing Salvationist colony is now established. The new colonists will not be required to raise the sugar beets unless they so elect If they do, the sugar refining company will pay them the market value. It is understood that many wealthy capitalists of Co’orado are behind the plan.—New York Mall and Express.

When Herrings Were Plenty.

In former days herring were so abundant in Newfoundland waters that the most wanton slaughter of them was permitted without any restriction whatever. Seines were allowed to retain 1,000 or 2,000 barrels of the fish until they perished, and then the net was freed and the whole contents fell to the bottom to pollute the ocean for miles around. When a poaching smack was captured the herring It had on board were all thrown into the sea, and frequently boats when chased resorted to the same means to get rid of Incriminating evidence. The fish then fetched only fifty cents a barrel of 500 herring, or 10 for a cent; they se}l now In American cities sometimes for five cents the single fish. Such wanton waste gradually had its effect, and now the colonial fishing laws safeguard the industry more vigilantly, and fishermen of all classes know better how to husband their resources In this connection. Today herring bait usually brings $5 a barrel, and sometimes twice that, and the smuggler who plans to land a cargo at St Pierre contracts for $lO a barrel before h< touches a rope on his boat

Billiards and Brains.

Herbert Spencer was once an adept at billlardß, and rather proud of his skill. On one occasion, however, at the Athenaeum Club, he found his master in a very young man, who beat him thoroughly. When his defeat was no longer to be disguised the philosopher leant on his cue and delivered the following speech to his fortunate antagonist: "A certain proficiency In this game is possibly a desirable accomplishment, but the extraordinary ability, sir, you have just displayed can only be the fruit of a misspent youth.*

A HISTORIC MANSION.

The Maine Historical society has voted to acept the gift of the old historic Longfellow mansion on Congress street, Portland, tendered it by the late Mrs. Anne Longfellow Pierce. The acceptance was made only after long hesitation, on account of t}ie conditions made by Mrs. Pierce, among these being that the society shall make its home in the building and prepare it for occupancy by other similar organizations that may wish to use it as a meeting place. Another provision binds the society to erect a hall for its meetings and accommodation of its library, to connect with the main house, which must be left substantially as it stands. It is also provided that ‘‘the two front rooms upon the first floor of tbe house are to be kept with appropriate articles for a memorial of the home of Longfellow.” The cost of the proposed hall will be about $21,000. The Longfellow family will put the house in good order, and by the provisions of the will of Mrs. Pierce, as far as possible, the home-

An Automobile 'Residence.

A novel vehicle that has attracted the attention of pedestrians along Wabash avenue, Chicago, for some days is an automobile house, belonging to George Washington, 481 avenue. It is a traveling van propelled by a forty-horse power gasoline motor,

The NEW Bible ReVision.

The new Bible revision which is recommended by a committee of the Protestant Episcopal church should not be mistaken for a radical change in text or translation. If it Is accepted the church, it is said, will have a Bible which retains the version around which the loving regard of the people centersa, with the addition of such notes and commentary as are suggested by a critical study. It Is undeniable, however, that some of the instruction which is proposed may cause a momentary pain to the less critical and the less scholarly multitude which has been brought up near to the doctrine of verbal inspiration. When it is explained, for example, that the century-hallowed close of the Lord’ll prayer. “For Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory forever, Amen,” is not found in some of the early manuscripts, the conflict of manuscripts must become really startling to people who know little of the higher criticism and all of faith. For the words have come down as an injunction from Christ, as an inseparable part of his prayer, and their import and rhythm fiave entered into millions upon millions of lives from generation to generation.

Numerical Status of the Negro.

Those who have predicted that the negro race, because of essential inferiority, would ultimately die out as a result of unprotected contact with the vices of the white civilization will not find their theories supported by the returns of their census of 1900. The negro, in fact, is holding his own. He has gained a foothold on the continent to which he was transplanted in bondage and not by his own volition, from which he cannot be dislodged. Any theories advanced that may contemplate his final extinguishment will have to be radically revised when the tabulation of population by nativity and color now going on in the census bureau is completed. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript calls attention to the fact that the question of gain or loss in the negro race has been left in dispute by previous censuses. From the figures at hand it seems probable that the negro population of the United States In 1900 was a little over 9,000,-

like look of the place Will be retained by leaving some arcticles of furniture, especially those of a semi-historic nature.

and ‘is intended for a home for its owner and his wife during their wanderings about the country. An old street car has been rebuilt for the body of the house, to which are added an observation and operating platform at the front end, surrounded by large

A TRAVELING RESIDENCE.

000. The ratio that the negro bears to the total in the states already counted will make the negro constitute 11.8 per cent of the total population of the country, as against 11.9 ten years ago. Professor George C. Tilden, a min-

Francesco Crispl was born in Sicily, October 4, 1819. He took a leading part in the Palermo insurrection of 1848, and after its failure went into exile. In 1859-60 he organized another revolution, landed at Palermo with Garibaldi, and became a member of the provisional government. In 1861 he was elected to the first par-

Signor Crispi of Italy.

It was in the Congress street mansion that Longfellow passed hjs early life. His birthplace on Fore street is marked by a tablet.

windows, and a porch in the rear. The machinery is mounted on a heavy steel frame, the whole weighing about four tons. Although no great success has as yet attended Mr. Washinfton’s efforts to navigate in the new craft, he believes that when he has put teninch tires on it, with teeth to them to catch the ground, he can move his house at a good pace whenever he will.

Billion Dollar Grust.

A billion dollar cotton seed oil trust is the latest. The Standard Oil, though nominally only a hundred million dollar trust, is really a bfllionaire, for its stock is selling on a valuation of nearly $800,000,000 and more. The billion dollar steel trust is really a billion and a half dollar trust. Several of the “community of interest” railroad system run from a billion to two billions and a half apiece.—Ex. Professor J. S. Kendall has resigned the position of Commissioner of Public Instruction in Texas to take charge of the North Texas Normal school. Professor Arthur Le Fevre of Victoria, Texas, has succeeded him. The exportation of beer from France has increased in ten years from 947,421 gallons to 2,144,030 gallons. Holland is the only country in Europe that admits coffee free of duty.

eralogist and the author of several works on that subject, has been brought from San Salvador and placed in a sanitarium in California. He is in a state of mental collapse due to overwork and the trying climate of tha Central American republic.

liament of United Italy, and In 1876 became president of the chamber of deputies. He was for several years premier of Italy but resigned early in 1891, shortly after negotiating a settlement of the claims against the United States growing out of the Mafia massacre in New Orleans. He ' has three sons In the diplomatic service.

ETHICS OF ADVERTISING.

Kldlcnlouaurnn of the Code Which Goterni Doctor* and .Lawyer*. A writer in Publicity, presumably a lawyer, writes entertainingly on the ethics of his profession in 60 far as it relates to advertising, and taboos the, professional man, be ho lawyer, doctor or clergyman, who advertises. It would appear that he argues from a premise contradictory In its statement, only to reach, as he necessarily must, an Illogical conclusion, not warranted by the intermediate syllogisms. It is false logic, and needs must fall. The fact that he admits advertising has practically become a science and “that the advertiser—the one who has, perhaps, mnue a life study of the benefits of his own system or those of other equally broad-mimled men—is justified in assuming that every man has his own interests at heart, and that with every business man of ambition the advancement of his own business occupies the same position. If, then, the advertiser believes advertising to be one of the most important stages on the high road to business success, why is he not Justified in his endeavor to persuade tho physician or the purist that unless he advertises he pursues a phantom in the form of legitimate personal and professional fame and marked financial benefit?” Of course he Is Justified, and It is only the hide-bound rule of the years when newspapers and other vehicles of advertising were non-existent that trammels him to-day to enter into competition with his mercantile brother. The writer assumes that there are many members of the legal profession who would advertise, to the detriment of their more conservative brethren. Possibly thqt is true. This is not the age of the tallow dip or stage coach, and he who falls in the race need not start on crutches. The etiquette and morals of the bar are high-sounding and sonorous phrases, but the average newspaper reporter with any court experience at all knows what a Sham the ethics of that profession are, and that free advertising is eagerly sought for by the highest counselor or by the police court solicitor. The suggestion has been made, and an admirable one, too, that the papers refuse to print the names of lawyers or physicians in prominent cases unless th«|y advertised. Lawyers furnish their briefs to newspapers; often prepare Interviews; physicians wrlto their own account of difficulty operations, and clergymen synopsis of their sermons, and the newspaper publishes it in choice position without reaping a penny of profit. The enterprising lawyer or physician who casts aside the so-called ethics of the profession and advertises may incur the ill-will of his laggard competitor, but he will have demonstrated that this Is the twentieth century, not the sixteenth.—Fourth Estate.

WORDS OF WISDOM.

Seek happiness for yourself, and you will lose it; seek it for others, and you will find it. • Books without the knowledge of life are useless; for what should books teach but the art of living? It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies, said Lowell, that the native metal of a man is tested. Good counsels observed' are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strauge undutiful children. Imprudence, silly talk, foolish vanity and vain curiosity are closely allied; they are children of one family. If one always takes a short cut through life they sometimes regret they did not go the round about way. Life is to be fortified by many friendships; to love and to be loved make up the greatest happiness of existence. There ate two things in which wa should thoroughly train ourselves—to be slow In taking otfencs and to bo slower in giving It. Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral atones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become bard aa adamant No man can tell whether be is rich or poor by turning to bis ledger. It la the heart that makes a man rich. Ho is rich or poor according to what bo 'a, not according to what be has.

Marvels of the Wire.

It is not widely known that at tho present time, between all important telephone centers of the United States, while tbe trunk wires are being used for transmitting speech, there are being sent over them simultaneously telegraphic messages without producing any interruption of tbe spoken words. Were it not for immutable laws of nature,which cannot be varied by man or corporation, you might, by listening, take off tbe telegraphic message thus traversing these very conductors. What a tantalizing prospect for the wire tapper! Although these telegraphic Impulses actually traverse the coil of wire in the telephone at your ear and actually speed along tbe identical copper conductor at tbat time conveying tbe voice currents, you hear neither dot nor dash of the telegrapblo message.—Leslie’s Weekly.

Robinson Crusoe’s Gun.

A Philadelphia firm of auctioneers recently offered at one of their sales Robinson Crusoe’s musket. It was a fine old flintlock. It was in tbe possession of a grandniece of Alexander Selkirk, and Its pedigree is much more unclouded than is usually tbe case wltb objects of this kind. Tbe man who kicks if his newspaper Is damp would kick harder if he found it dry.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Go-htin Km a M y ,t„ry In the Can. of m. Pretty Girl Sixteen Yean Olil, Who Tells a Ktrauge Story Flans. i Trstty Girl Is a Mystery. Thore is no further clew to the identity of Irene Canning, the beautiful and richly dressed girl of 16 who was found near Goshen walking from Mlddlebury to Goshen and who claimed to be a Galveston heiress worth $300,000. A telegram sent to Rev. George Tarbox of Savannah, whom she claims Is her guardian, Ims been undelivered. Her story regarding an attempt to hypnotise her while en route from Battle Creek to South Bend by Dr. George Pease of Holyoke, Mass., a former suitor of hers, has been partly confirmed, hut Pease cannot be found. Were It not for evidence of extreme culture and refinement her story would not be believed. She Is probably a girl of wealth who has escaped from a private asylum somewhere. She has been removed from the jail to a private boarding house, where she will remain until an answer Is received to a telegram which she sent to friends In Galveston, Tex. ComiuWalon M»n Vunlnh. 11. E. Hurley and Louis E. Johnson, who, since February last, have operatad a commission house at Indianapolis, have disappeared. The amount of claims presented ngaiust them so far exceods $16,000, and it Is thought this amount will be Increased $6,000 by the time the affairs of tho firm are settled. On July II an Indianapolis law firm Informed Hurley & Johnson that unless claims, which had been placed In their hands for collection, were settled that day the firm would Institute legal proceedings. Both members of the commission firm left the city that night. Since then the claims have been pouring In from Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and other places about the country. Will Chang* Party’* Name. The Popullstsof Indiana,whether the party continues under Its old name or adopts a new one, will put full state congressional, legislative and county tickets In the field for tho coming state election. This is the declaration at I.& Porte of C. M. Walter, editor of the Btate party organ, who la in touch with the rank and file of the organization. The conference called to be held at Kansas City, Sept. 17, 18 and 19, says Mr. Walter, will decide possibly upon a new name. Representatives from all over the party will assemble at the conference and Indiana will send a large delegation. The conference will be composed of delegates from the silver republicans, social democrats, union reformists, populists and silver democrats. Han on Sunday Funeral*. t The Jay County Ministerial association has placed a ban on Sunday funerals, this action being agreed upon at a meeting held at Park, Portland. The move Is embodied in the following resolution, which was passed: "Whereas, Sunday funerals have for some time by many Christian people, especially the ministers, been looked upon as mostly unnecessary, and a detriment to the best interests of the proper observance of the Sabbath; therefore, Resolved, shat we, the Ministerial Association of Jay County, Ind., most earnestly request the people of our various congregations and communities to unite with, us in the effort to suppress this custom. * Oldar Exploded With a Vengaanoe. The family of James Jarvin, near Kempton, were alarmingly prostrated from the effect of drinking cider which had been sealed in a tin can. Afterward Mr. Jarvin went to the cellar to examine the cider, but upon holding a lighted match over the top of the can there was an explosion, in which he was severely burned about the hands and face. Hasps Marriage a Peorafc News of a secret marriage contracted at Goshen June 6, between Henry C. Calloway, a wealthy banker of Elkwood, and Mrs. Dora Elllthorp has leaked out. They met at Goshen, Thursday by agreement, sought a lawyer, had ante-nuptial contract drawn, were married and left the city within two hours. Cancht Bstarsan Two Kalla. Otis Pickering, age nineteen, was struck by an I. & V. passenger train at Vincennes and Instantly killed. He waa walking between the rails, when the engine whistled he stopped in front of it. He is a cousin of Dan Pickering, left fielder of the Cleveland ball club. Savad ths Laborers, Took tho Girl* During a storm in the northern part of Allen county, Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. Longenacher, an Amish farmer, was struck by lightning and Instantly killed. The girl was with a party of harvesters in a wheat field. Drink* Gaaollps and Dial. The 1-year-old child of Andrew Clark at Laketon, got hold of a vessel containing gasoline and drank a considerable quantity of the liquid. The little one died In terrible agony twenty; minutes later.