Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Page 7

The Weekly Panorama.

Sttuinjl Girh Union. The girls in Chicago who are employed u domestics have combined themselves into a union, adop.eu a scale of wages and formulated this set of rules which have brought terror to the heart of houseekeepera: Rule L Work shall not begin before *:SO a. ni, and shall cease when the evening's dishes are washed and put •way. Two hours each afternoon and •n evening at least twice a week shall bo allowed the domestic as her own. Rulo X. There shall be no opposition •n the part of the mistress to club life •n the part of the domestic. Entertainment of friends In limited numbers shall not be prohibited, provided the domestic furnishes her own refreshments. Rulo X. Gentlemen friends shall not bo barrod from the kitchen or back poreh. Members of the family of the bouse shall not Interrupt the conversation arising during said visit Rulo 4. Domestics shall be allowed such hours off on Monday as will permit them to visit the bargain counters

SOPHIA BECKER.

(One of the leaders in organizing the Chicago domestics.) •of the stores and enjoy on that day the same privileges enjoyed by the mistress and her daughters.

Not a Plagiarist.

Historian Maclay Indignantly denies the charge that any part of his mortal work was stolen from the Edinburgh Review. “The idea that I have committed any act of plagiarism in my history," he exclaims, “is simply preposterous." Of course it is. Compare these two passages and the absurdity of the notion that one can have been stolen from the other becomes manifest: ' RBWIEW. MACLAY'S. Taking Mr. James Taking James at -et Els word we turn his word, we turn ,to Vol. IL, pp. 854-5, to Volume IL, pages and there we find 854, 355, and find ths French pri- him referring to the vateer Bordelais, French privateer "an extraordinary Bordelais as an exfine ship" of 24 guns, traordlnarily fine striking her colors ship of 24 guns to a British frigate striking her colors of 48 guns, “with- to a British 4«-gun out. as it appears, frigate, “without, making any resist- as it appears, mak•nce" certainly ing any resistance,” without provoking certainly without any comment from provoking any comMr. James. ment from James. The differences are obvious. The Edinburgh Review spoke of “Mr." James. Maclay leaves out the Mr. The Edinburgh Review had no comma after “word.” Mr. Maclay puts one in. The Edinburgh Review referred to "Vol, II." Mr. Maclay speaks of “Volume II." The Edinburgh Review abbreviated “pages" to “pp.” Mr. Maclays spells out the word in full. The Edinburgh Review put in the figures "854-5." Mr. Maclay makes them “354, 855." The clause about the French privateer Bordelais has several new words in the Maclay version. Finally Mr. Maclay ends as he began by leaving out the “Mr.” from befrore the name of James. This critical comparison makes it evident that Mr. Maclay owes nothing to anybody. The construction of bls history is as origins) as its tacts. —New York Journal

First on Record.

Ex-Congressman John Roy Lynch, who has Just been appointed by President McKinley to office of captain and assistant paymaster In the regular army, Is the first colored man over commissioned for staff duty. The ex-congressman has proved his

JOHN,ROY LYNCH.

capability to hold this responsible position, having served long and faithfully in variouS high public offices previous to his recent appointment. During the Spanish-American war he was made a major and paymaster of the volunteers, and is now serving In that capacity In Santiago Cuba. •

People and EVents

Jotva’e Handsomort Woman. j Mrs. Dollie Romans Bradley, of Denison, to be the handsomest j

woman in lowa and is also the foremost * worker for woman’s suffrage. Her untiring efforts in the tatter line are due to a vow she made on her mother’s death bed. The latter was active in the cause of securing the ballot for women and when

■he was dying she called her daughter to her side and made her vow that ■he would try to carry, out the work Wulch the mother had planned. Since then she has labored indefatigably. Mrs. Bradley is also a vocalist of great ability..

Col. Mosby Reappears.

The recent appointment, to please President McKinley, of Col. John S. Mosby as special agent of the General Land Office,-with headquarters in the west, has brought into prominence one of the picturesque figures of the civil war—a man admired by the south for his dash and brilliancy and reviled by northern soldiers because his warfare was of the guerilla type. A Virginian by birth, he is now approaching his 69th birthday. While in the University of Virginia he shot and seriously wounded a fellow student who had assaulted him and, during his confinement for this offense, he studied law so thoroughly that soon after his release he was admitted to the bar. At the beginning of the war he fought with Joseph E. Johnston and later with Stuart, but after two years he organized, in northern Virginia, a force of Irregular cavalry and during the remainder of the war he harassed the Federal troops by cutting o- communications between the armies and destroying supply trains. His partisan rangers, when not on a raid, scattered for safety and remained in concealment, with orders to assemble again at a given time and place. Various expeditions were sent out against him,, but friendly neighbors always kept him Informed of the enemy’s approach. Mosby held rank in the Confederate army and reported to Gen. Stuart and, after his death, to Gen. Lee. His partisans received the same pay from the

COL. JOHN S. MOSBY.

Confederate government as the regular cavalrymen. At the close of Abe war he resumed the practice of law, supported Grant and Hayes and was for six years consul to Hong Kong.

Philipps Couldn’t Keep Vp.

Speaking of the suspension of his commission house, "Corn King" Phillips says: “In a nutshell, it was a case of too much business. It has grown so rapidly that our facilities for taking care of it have not kept pace with it Money came easy and it went easy," says the Chicago Chronicle. On reading this one naturally recalls the fact that not so very long ago Mr. Phillips made a speech in Minneapolis in which he proposed a case of a great deal more business —so mucn more as to make the Phillips commission business look like a molehill beside a mountain in the comparison. The business which he proposed was nothing less than that of keeping corn forever cornered, with 50 cents per bushel as the minimum price. In order to work this business successfully he proposed to establish a bank with a capital of 150,000,000 or such a matter and to establish mammoth elevators also to store the corn offered by farmers as security for loans from the big banks on the basis of 50 cents a bushel, with a margin of 10 cents off. * The magnitude of the business had no terrors for the “corn king" when he made that speech. In his mind he had no trouble in conducting a bank with $50,000,000 or more capital and an elevator business running up to hundreds of millions of bushels. In his mind, t6o, ILwas a perfectly simple matter to keep the price of corn up to 50 cents a bushel or above. What dees he think of it now? He admits that his respectable but comparatively trifling commission business has run away from him. He has not been able to keep up with it or keep track of it Does he still think he could keep yp with his rousing perpetual corner business ' "Money came easy and it went easy” in his little business; how does he think .. might be with that tremendously big business? Might not the easy-coming money go too easily? i

POVERTY OF ENGLISH CLERGYMEN.

Meay as the Benefloee Raid to Ba Worth Lom Than BTSO a Tear. The lot of the clergy in the Church of England to-day is said to be so wretched that even younger sons have given up the career which for so many years was looked upon as their chief resource. It may easily be understood that this calling has ceased to appeal to them when the fact is known that out of about 14,000 benefices in the church more than 7000 are worth less than 1750 a year, and that nearly all of them are decreasing in value. About 1500 beneflcies are worth only 8500 a year and less than 8250 annually is the return from ,800 livings which have been recently described ag more nearly "starvings” to the unfortunates who afe assigned to them. In, the diocese of Petersborongh there are sixty-one livings that are worth no more than 8225 a year and this is not yet the worst as there are in Newcastle benefices that are valued at only 8125 a year. | The wives of the clergymen in these parishes are, of course, unable to employ servants, and all the drudgery of housework falls on their shoulders. The luxury of meat is denied to them except on alternate days, and their children—of whom the number is always in Inverse ratio to the amount of the living—are prepared by education in the elementary schools, or by the teaching their parents can give them at odd times for their descent to a lower social sphere. These clergymen as a rule come from good country families. Their wives are from the same class and are in few cases fitted by their training for a life of drudgery and hard work.

The actual return from these livings is frequently much less than the figures quoted here Since their value is dependent on the price of corn and this has declined until in many cases what used to be a living worth 8500 is now in reality not worth more than two-thirds of that sum. Various exactions make, life hard for the rector who Is trying to struggle along on the meagre incomes mentioned here. If his predecessor happened to be a man of private means and chosfi to enlarge the rectory by the addition of wings or drawing, rooms, the P oor incumbent must keep all this up; and the Bishop’s chapter, who receive fees from the rector and not from the Bishop for their work, are caVeful to see that the church and the rectory are kept In condition. There Is thought to be no hope of improvement in the lot of the priest so long as the representation of this bodyjs so small in the synods of the church in which the Bishops are represented by eight ouipf ten delegates. It Is to this Injustice that most of the present evil is attributed and the remedy is expected to come from the tack of candidates for holy orders. They are decreasing so rapidly in number that it. will soon be a problem to find enough to fill the vacancies made by death. No greater Evidence of the present miseries could be found than the fact that the over supply of clergy of a few years ago threatens to become a memory and be followed by an' absolutely scarcity .—New York Sun.< absolute scarcity.—New York Bun.

A Baby Canary’s Music Lenon.

In the account of a pair of canaries and their offspring, which is published in the Ladies* Home Journal, Florence Morse Kingsley tells how the oldest baby bird, as soon as he learned to flutter from one perch to another and to reach for a seed and crack it, was put into a cage by himself and hung out on the veranda near the father bird, who was named Wee Willie Winkle, and was a superb singer. Then the baby bird’s education began. First, he learned to jump fearlessly into his china bathtub and flutter bis wings and get himself gloriously wet, just as father did. Next, he cuddled himself into a delightfully comfortable little bunch on his perch and listened attentively while Wee Willie Winkle sang his wonderful song. The second week we heard a funny, sweet little chirping and gurgling. It was the young canary; he had begun to study his profession in earnest Hour after hour the little fellow practiced, happily and patiently. One day he trilled a little trill, and the next day he had learned three new gurgles, and the day after that be the trill and the gurgles together and added a longer trill on a higher key. In three weeks’ time we were asking, "is it Wee Willie Winkle who 1s singing, or the baby?"

Nut Sausages.

Vegetarians have been attending the annual congress of their Federal IffiTon at the Memorial Hall, Farrlngdon street, London, and hoping fervently for the reclamation of the carnivorous millions outside. In accordance with the custom at these annual gatherings, there was an exhibition of preparations from which every vestige of the hateful meat was rigorously excluded. A hardened unbeliever who visited the exhibition was a little astonished to discover at one of the stalls a plate of what looked like cutlets. It was reassuring, however, to learn that they were absolutely Innocent of meat, nnd that, like the rissoles on another dish, they might be eaten without a blush by the truest disciple of the turnip. Nut foods, moulded to counterfeit the shameless sausage; countless extracts and preparations warranted to impart more bone, brain, blood and muscle than an entire herd of prize cattle, and Innumerable tabloids, powders, syrups, desiccated foods, breads, oils, biscuits and soups, all suggestively named and attractively put up. wers on show for the delectation of the faithful and the conversion of those who wander in the darkness of unbelief.—New York Herald. . , / ’ X* K

Napoleon •••• Statue

(Paris Letter.) The recent finding in the Seine river of the statue of Napoleon Bonaparte, which adorned the top of the Vendome column previous to its destruction in 1871, recalls the preceding century of political vicissitudes through which France passed and the tumultuous scenes of blood and riot of the Paris commune. The history of the Ven-, dome column is coincident with this period and shows the varying mood of the French people. It is said that every change in the government of France has witnessed the raising or lowering of this historical monument. So regular.had become its destruction and subsequent upbuilding that some irreverent writers of the time suggested that it be put on a. hinge, so that the performance could be gone through more easily and cheaply. The column was first built in the Place Vendome by Napoleon in 1806. It was modeled after the column of Trajan in Rome and was 144 feet h'gh. It was covered with spiral reliefs representing scenes from the campaigns of the Corsican against the allied forces of Russia and Austria in 1805. I.SOO Banian and Austrian Cannon captured during the battles, were melted to afford material for the covering of the coluqin. On the top stood a statue of Napoleon in Roman costume. In 1814 the statue was thrown down by the royalists and a white flag-sub-stituted. This act was in retaliation for an episode which occurred during the revolution, when the equestrian statue of Henry IV., which for nearly two centuries had graced the Pont Neuf, was melted into cannon. It was the Intention of Louis XVIII. to treat the figure of Bonaparte in the same manner, and to surmount the column with another statue of Henry IV. It seems, however, that he did npt carry out his design.

When Louis Philipppe ascended the throne he caused an effigy of the Little Corporal, in great coat and three-cor-nered hat, to be substituted. This design could not have been pleasing to the Napoleonic family, for when Napoleon in. became emperor he caused it to be torn down In 1863 and substituted one designed by Dumont and which, closely resembled the first, showing the great general in the Roman dress. This remained until 1871, when the entire column was destroyed. By the Fury of the Commune. At this time people would not believe that the Communists would dare to destroy the historical monument. Thd threat to do so had been made, however, and there was great excitement in Paris. The day was appointed and crowds went to witness the proceeding. A vast multitude gathered and ropes were stretched to prevent the people getting too near the place where the column was to fall. Soldiers with guns on their shoulders patrolled the open space. The Place Vendome, where the Column stood and now stands is in one of the most fashionable, beautiful and popular sections of Paris. The proprietor of the Hotel du Rhln sought to prevent the destruction of the monument. He went to the leaders of the mob and offered them 500,000 francs if they would forego their frenzied design. They refused to listen. A scaffolding was erected and men sawed and hacked through the column near the base. Ropes were attached to the shaft and by means of' a windlass the great mass was toppled oyer. It fell with a crash and was broken into fragments. Its fall was greeted with wild cheering. At one time the excitement became so great

that a riot seemed certain, but gradually the fury of the mob subsided and the people dispersed. Until 1875 the pieces of the old column lay on the ground, dust covered and objects of curiosity to visitors. Then they were collected and again placed in position and it was believed that the statue of the Little Corporal, which Napoleon 111. had placed on top in 1863, had been restored. The recent finding in the Seine, however, proves that the present figure Is a substitute. The figure has been Intrusted to the Commission for the Preservation of Historic Relics and will no doubt be an object of much care and curiosity, for everything connected with the great Napoleon is now cherished by the French people and'held in admiration by nearly all the people of the world. It is probable that the column as it now stands will never again be torn down or defaced by an infuriated French populace. The base of the monument and the railing around it may again, in the near future, be hung with wreaths of immortelles, as they were previous to 1870. Many of the deeds and acts of Napoleon may call for condemnation, but he brought a glory to France which will forever live in,history and was one of the great characters in bringing about the governmental changes which European countries underwent during the nineteenth century. Although imperial in his ambitions he was the greatest menace to European royalty that ever appeared in political and military action. Republican France may now justly honor bls memory. He b’iilded his empire on the foundations of political freedom.

The Pope has recently manifested a preference in regard to ladles’ apparel over and above the strict regulation in

THE VENDOME COLUMN. (As It now "appears.)

regard to ladies who are received by the holy father at the Vatican. A niece of the Pope was about to be married, and her distinguished relative took so great an interest in her trousseau as to stipulate that the young lady should only have white, blue or black gowns, adding that these were the three colors most becoming to young girls. “Gray and brown,” remarked His Holiness, “are only Suitable for old women, and I do not like any other colors.” Possibly the Pope prescribed white because it is the symbol of purity, bine because it is the color dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and black because it is the time honored hue of dress for outdoor wear for Spain and Italy.—London Pall Mall Gazette.

The thirty flower girls who recently invaded the upper house of tho Austrian rlchsrath to protest against the measures to be taken to suppress the trade of hawking flowers in the streets represented a numerous class. The flower trade of Vienna nearly rivals that of Paris, and the large dealers felt that they aad cause for complaint when a well-arranged bouquet of roses was offered on the street for one-sixth the price asked in the shops. Great quantities of flowers, it is said, have been brought to Vienna from Nice and sold at an extremely low figure to the hawkers, that they may undersell 'the regular florists." The tears %nd entreaties of the girls have secured a postponement of official action until the autumn, so that the flower sellers, whose-business is carried on in somq families from one generation to another, will reap the benefit of their most profitable season.

Which We. a Thrown Down With Vendome Column,

Pope on Woman's Clothes.

Flower Girls in Vienna.

THE CHEMISTRY OF SOAP.

■ ■oft. Curd and Toilet Soap*— Potash US, tie Used Now. In the old days It was understood that potash soaps were soft, and those made from soda were hard. But W. J. Teeters says. In the Wes'ern Drug* gist, that the soft soaps of the present days are as a rule not made from pot* ash, but from soda, and are soft only because of the surplus water incorporated In them. They are known as ■“Swiss soaps,” or “settled soft soaps,” and contain from 381-3 to ninety per cent of water. Most of the soaps of the market are made by saponifying oils with an alkali, precipitating the soluble soap formed by adding solution of sodium chloride, removing, drying and manipulating the soap thus formed. Curd soaps are made by melting the precipitated soap, adding more lye to emulsify any unsaponlfled fat carried down in the salting out process, boiling and running into frames or molds. Curd soap has almost invariably an excess of alkali, to eliminate which the process of “fitting” Is resorted to. This consists in allowing the curd soap to stand for some time after boiling, pumping off the lye, introducing steam, and. If necessary, water, boiling and allowing It to cool slowly for several days, when the whole separates Into layers, the bottom containing the precipitated impurities known as negur, the top layer consisting of a frothy crust known as fob, while tho seml-liquld soap floats between the two. Toilet soaps, at least those of the best quality, are made by the cold process. The “stock soap” made by the process outlined above 1s cut into very thin slices, thoroughly dried, mixed with perfume and coloring matters by grinding in a mill, and then pressed into the desired shape. The transparent soaps of the best class are made by dissolving the dry stock soap in alcohol with the addition of a small amount of glycerine, and allowing It to set Cane sugar acts somewhat like glycerlpe by aiding clarification, but its use 13 open to serious objection, as It has a very bad effect on the skin.

WORDS OF WISDOM.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road tb error.—Mollere. To be doing good is man’s most glorious task.—Sophocles. Good counsels observed are chains of grace.—Longinus. We give advice by the bucket but take it by the grain.—W. R. Alger. Life is not so short but that th<»re is always time for courtesy.—Emerson. If thou wouldst be obeyed as a father, be obedient as a son.—William Penn. , Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise meh learn much from fools, —Lavater. If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.—From Poor Richard’s Almanac. The two powers which In my opinion constitute a wise man are bearing and forbearing.—Epictetud. No rock Is so hard but that a little wave may beat admission tn a thousand years.—Tennyson. If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence it commonly produces melancholy.—Sydney Smith. Half the misery in the world coines of want of courage to speak and to bear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love.—Mrs. Stowe.

The Garbage Problem.

The dtoer countries, in spite of tho rapid strides we have made in invention, are a good deal ahead of us in many ways. There Is the question of the disposal of garbage, for instance! It is said that it costs the city of New York about *500,000 a year to get Md of it, while many English, cities, by burning it in special furnaces, not only destroy it in the most effective way, but actually make a profit out of it. The furnaces dry it out so that it mgy be used as fuel, and this fuel is used in making steam for pumping water, running electric plants and for grinding up such parts of the refuse as may be converted into cement, tiles ans paving blocks. This plan is in use In seventy or eighty of the smaller cities of England, and a million dollar plant is being erected In London.

A Camara For a Sultan.

What is perhaps the most costly camera in the world for its size has just been made for the Sultan of Morocco. According to a correspondent of the Westminster Gazette it is merely of the quarter plate dimension, but all the metal work of the camera Is of solid eigbteen-karat gold, each particular screw being of that precious metal and stamped with the official ballmark. This is the first time screws have had that honor conferred upon them. The case for the camera is of pure white morocco leather, lined with plush, and finished off with massive gold mountings and lock. When the camera is finished, a few days hence, it will represent a llttlo bill of some *ISOO.

The Gallaut Cabman.

Nothing, perhaps, produces quite so much wit from a cabman as a sense of being underpaid, which in most cases means that he has been justly paid. A lady who had been guilty of this kind of justice experienced the usual sense of discomfort when her driver straightened the palm into which sbe had dropped her shilling and looked at her speechlessly. She was weakly about to add another sixpence vvben the cabby’s sense of humor prevailed. He transferred tho shilling to bi? pocket and smiled sweetly down at his embarrassed fare, “Course, iplssy,’’ be remarked, “there was the pleasure o’ drlvln’ you!”— London Chronicle. t

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Socialism Criticised by Lutheran Dele* gate*—Receiver Placed in Charge of a Bank at Avilla —Farmer* Organise to Exterminate Rapacious Wild Bea*t*. Coal Combine I* Feasible. It can be said on the best authority at Terre Haute that, as a result of the meeting in Chicago of the committee which has in charge the formation of' a >15,000,000 corporation to own the Indiana coal industry, the reports received from mining sections in answer to letters of inquiry recently addressed to all owners of mining properties, assured the committee that the project could be carried through. The offers of the properties which had been obtained expire this month, but the committee was informed by its respective members, who were selected by districts, that their inquiry had resulted in information that the so-called options would be extended until February. The committee thought, however, that the company could be formed before the first cold weather, perhaps by Oct. 1. Paper in Receiver'* Hand*. The Muncie Morning News has passed into the hands of a receiver on application of the stockholders. Until two weeks ago it was owned by a company, of which Fletcher and Cyrus Heath were chief stockholders. They are brothers of Perry S. Heath. Before that the plant was owned by Charles Nee>y, who is under a charge of embezzling Cuban postal funds. It is said Neely now holds a heavy mortgage on the concern. A new company, of which Charles McElwee is president, is nominally the owner for a few days. Robert Winter, managing editor, says tho plant will continue to operate under direction of the court. The assets and liabilities are not given. The company was capitalized at >25,00P. Names Receiver for Bank* In the absence of Federal Judge Baker from the state, Referee Chapin appointed E. B. Thomas of Fort Wayne receiver for the wrecked Avilla, Ind., bank on the application of three of the heaviest creditors. Mr. Thomas will serve until the creditors meet and choose a trustee in bankruptcy. Attorney R. p. Barr of Kendallville, representing H. W. .Leach, the missing banker, has promissory notes amounting to >1,400 and certificates of deposit amounting to >2,000 in Denver, Col., and Bunker Hill, Ind., payable to each one. Liabilities will reach >27,000. The bank may pay 20 cents on the dollar. , pecinrv Wrong. At the fiesslon ?! ‘he 350 delegates to the Fort Wayne conference of ih* Lutheran synod at Fort Wayne tijjl theories and teachings of socialism were bitterly denounced. The assertion was made that socialism was contrary to the teachings of the Bible, Rev. Mr. Katt of Terre Haute led in the discussion. He pointed to nation, al, state and municipal laws as effective in the government of the people. The attacks on socialism were continued by men prominent in the German Lutheran church. Pine Lake Aaaembjy Officer*. The Pine Lake assembly, a national association of Baptists in session at La Porte, and owning grounds at Pine , near Ixx Porte, has elected the following officers: Dr. W. T. Scott, Franklin, Ind.; vice-president, the Rev. C. R. Parker, Muncie, Ind.; secretary, J. Verne Dorland, La Porte; treasurer, the Rev. A. D. Barry, Indianapolis; superintendent, Prof. R.'T. Regan, Chicago; custodian of grounds, L T. Harding, La Porte. Uphold* Cruelty to Baaat. William Hess, a wealthy citizen, was in the police' court at Evansville on the charge of cruelty to animals. His neighbor has %calf and the other night Hess could not sleep 'for the calf’s bawling, so he tied its mouth with a rope. The judge released Hess, saying he believed he would have done the same thing. The police authorities say they will appeal the case. Wolvo* Annoy Farmara. A pack of wolves has appeared in Noble township near La Porte, and farmers report raids on their stock. They are believed to come from the Kankakee region and their howling at night can be heard for miles. Posses of farmers are being organized to track the animals and kill them. Bank Declare* Big Dividend. i The Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis has declared a dividend of >700,000, or 283 1-3 per cent Of this >450,000 was declared out of surplus and >250,000 out of undivided profits. The capital stock was increased from >300,000 to >1,000,000. Wheat Destroyed by Fire. One fifty shocks of wheat belonging to Jacob Deßoy, a farmer in the northern part of Tipton county, was destroyed by fire. The conflagration originated from the sparks of a locomotive engine. Die* While Riding In a Buggy. George Cochran, an old soldier, and a prominent farmer, died in his buggy while going to Elwood with his wife on a trading expedition. Heart failure was the cause of his death. 7