Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — Page 2

Ot IkynHunn. BY GEO. E. RENSSELAER, : : INDIANA

A preacher down in Arkansas, whose church was flooded, preached from the roof of the sanctuary to a congregation in skiffs. Members of a new Western temperance society, instituted by an eloquent Boman Catholic priest of Milwaukee and called the League of the Cross, do not commit themselves to total abstinence, but swear not to enter any place where alcoholic drinks are sold for consumption on the premises. The French Government is making most laudable efforts to improve the breed of horses in the country. It has just voted a law that no stallion will be allowed to cover mares which is not provided with a certificate, and to be renewed every year, setting forth the absence of certain diseases. An infringement ot this law entails a fine of 50 to 500 francs, on the owner of the stallion, the man in charge,' or the farmer who allows his mares to be covered.

We clip the following from the Indianapolis Journal, it being exceptionally appropos just now: There is a movement among Boston educators to introduce a morality department, into the public schools, Emerson s “Conduct of. Life” is euggested'as a text-book for beginners. From “Behaviar” the child can go on to “Culture,” then to “Power, ’ then “Beauty,” which will be a winter’s work. This, says the Advertiser solemnly, ought to strengthen the power of thought,increase the extent of use—whatever that may mean—the grace of manners,and “lighten the faces with the true beauty of expression.” Just so. If a Western barbarian can be allowed a suggestion on so exalted a theme, it might be well, in view of Tewksbury and other developments of Massachusetts culture, to give a preliminary course of the ten commandments and the golden rule. Tobacco is precious on the Island of Eteetlan. The men there smoke, the women chew. The latter carry a little bag in which they save quids until absolutely tasteless. “The same system of economy induces the men to mix finely chopped shavings of wood and bark with their Emoking tobacco, and their pipes are the smallest known. Even then they fill the bowl with reindeer hair before putting in the tobacco, and when lighted they continue to inhale the smoke without breathing until the tobacco is exhausted. In the meantime the face and neck swell, the veins are distended, the eyes shed tears, and when human nature can stand it no longer they burst into a violent fit of coughing and spitting which lasts for several minutes. It is of no use speaking to a man from the moment the light is applied to the tobacco until the coughing spell is over.”

Jules Ferry,Prime Minister of France, has been led into a discussion of the American idea of a republic and the possibility of its application to France. M. Ferry expressed the opinion that a President and Ministers responsible to him alone, as in the United States, would lead in France to a dictatorship. He went further than this, and said it would be better to return to the imperial constitution of 1852 than to adopt the American idea, as the former would be more in accordance with French traditions of centralization than institutions borrowed from the United States. And yet M. Ferry admitted in the same speech that a strong government 'Was one of the net essities of the hour in France. The French Bepublicans tried the constitution of 1852, and where did it land them? They have tried the plan of what they call a parliamentary republic and are not satisfied with it As the Constitution of the United States forms about the only model for a strong republican government, which has stood the test of time and the wars of factions, France might do worse than adopt such a model

P»or. R A. Pbootob found At Reno, Nevada, a man who claims to be the strongest man in the world. His name is Angela Cardella. He is an Italian, aged thirty-eight, and stands five feet ten inches in height, weighing 138 pounds. His strength was born with him, for he has had no athletic training. He differs from others chiefly in osseous structure. Although not of unusual size his spinal column is double the ordinary width and Lis bones and joints are made on a similar large and generous scale. He can lift a man of 200 pounds with the middle finger of his right hand. The man stood with one foot on the flo6r, his arms outstretched and his hands grasped by two persons to balance his body. Cardella then stooped down and placed the third finger of his right hand under the man’s foot, and, with scarcely any perceptible effort, raised him to the height of four

feet and deposited him on a fable near at hand. Once two powerful Irishmen waylaid Cardella with intent to thrash him, but he seized one in each hand and hammered them together till the life was nearly hammeied out of them. He is of a quiet and peaceful disposition, and his strength is inherited, for he states that his father was more powerful than himself. • It is jemarkable that there should hav existed in the United States for nearly a half century a little independent State or community about which practically nothing has been known until within a few days. A recent exploration of the mysterious island of St Malo, situated at the mouth of a small bayou running into Lake Borgue, in Louisiana, resulted in revelations that read like a story from the Aleutian Islands or the Spanish Main. The population of St Malo is 150. They are natives of Manila,one of .the Phillipine Islands, north of Java. They have an automony of their own, hold allegienoe to no power or potentate, and, though within the geographical boundary of Louisiana, are beyond the reach of its laws —at least, they have never yet been disturbed. A peculiarity of this Malay colony is that the female sex is not represented. The community has yi ordinance, rigidly enforced, excluding women from St Malo. The inhabitants are described as a mixture of Chinese and Japanese, with the ugliness of both and the better features of neither. The cheek bones are high, the jaws broad and the chin pointed. The nose is short, the nostrils large, and the thick upper lip is rendered more unsightly by short, bristly tufts of wiry' moustaches. They are chiefly deserters from Manila—men who left that island* to avoid taxes and forced enlistment. The only industry of the colony is catching fish, which are sold at New Orleans. Spanish is the language commonly spoken. The form of government is extremely simple. There is no regularly selected chief, but all the colony regard an old Malay named Hilario as the virtual head. Arbitrators settle disputes concerning property. All the houses in St. Malo are built on the same model, which is not unlike the huts in the Phillipine Islands. They are square with low roofs running up with a concave curve to the top, and are built on piles, some nine feet from the water. Furniture is entirely unknown. Bough benches take the place of chairs. Boards on trestles serve as tables, and wooden bunks, built one above the other, are the bedsteads. There is only one chimney in the place, and that.runs only from the rafters of a hut through the roo being about eight feet in length, and is never used, but is pointed out with considerable pride by the Manila men as an evidence of their advanced civilization. The average Manila man swears like a trooper in English—which he probably regards as another evidence of his advanced civilization. St. Malo is undoubtedly the most unique community in America.

THE PUBLIC PRESS.

Excerpts from the Newspapers ob the Various Topics of Interest. BATHER FAMILIAR. ) Gath’s New York Special. Tom Hendricks is in town. FAIR PLAY FOR IRELAND. New York Times. The American people believe in fair play. This is what they demand for Ireland. But no people not wholly depraved ever looks upon secret assassination as fail play, AFTER THE IRON WORKS, WHAT? Philadelphia Times. Since the star-route trial began the Bible has had a long rest from attack. When Mr. Ingersoll gets through assaulting the government the turn of the Bible will come again. It can stand it. STANDARD DOLLARS. New York Times. The mints go on coining standard silver dollars under the law which Congress failed to repeal or modify, but the coins roll back into the government vaults. The people will not have them.’ RUNNING DRY. National Republican. The Ohio river is a beaut ifnl stream that rises near the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette,, runs past the Cincinr ati Commercial Gazette, and goes on to Louisville where the Commercial is waiting for a gazette. EXTERMINATION ADVOCATE*. Danville, 111 . Commercial. No Apache has ever been known to be possessed of any civility, decency or regard for the rights or life of others until he was dead, and the Apache tribe will never become civilized until it has been exterminated. Just why this band of murderers and thieves should be borne with longer it is difficult to conceive. WOMEN TO THE FRONT. Cleveland Leader. The civil service law opens the' government clerkships to competition, and welleducateu women should not be backward in presenting themselves for examination

whenever apd wherever they-have an opportunity. They have the law in their favot, and it will be their own fault if they do not take advantage of it NO SENSATION. Washington Republican. p A nice, polite old man, who came into court to see and hear the star-route trial yesterday, took his right shoj off and put it down by his hat There was no sensation as was the case once m a Kentucky court when the judge ordered a suspension of the argument until the Sheriff could open a window, remarking, “Some one has drew a boot”, , IMPORTING PAUPERS. Chicago Tribune. , The action of the British government in imDoriinp its paupers tn become a charge upon the people of this country is a wanton outrage. It would be so if our la ws were silent on the subject, but done in the face of our express declarations that it shall not be done, it is an affront and an injury that the whole country will bitterly resent EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURES. Union City Eagle. The greater the rate of taxation, the greater will be the burden upon the pioduotive interests of a community, and whenever the burden wipes out profits the business must be abandoned,and each branch of business thus abandoned only increases the burden upon the remainder, until all are destroyed, and bankruptcy will then reign supreme. It is time to call a halt in all useless* and extravagant expenses. AN INDUSTRIOUS PUBLIC SERVANT. Louisville Commercial. The sparrow is an industrious and useful public servant. If he makes himself a bit of a nuisance occasionally,which we doubt, he does no more than some of the featherless public servants do, and yet we must have public servants. We hold that the maligners of the sparrow are ill-in-formed and mischievous citizens, with a sneaking partiality for caterpillars or in wicked alliance with the small boy. WILL (PROBABLY) GET THERE ELI. Washington Critic. It is pretty safe to. say that Indiana will draw two of the Presidential candidates in 1884 if she figures at all in Presidential timber. It will be an absolute necesity. If the party nominating its candidate first selects a head from Indiana the other party will follow suit for self-protection. Ohio, it is believed by many of the leading statesmen, will not get anything from either party. Nev/ York and Indiana, holding the balance of power, will name the men. THE lOWA AMENDMENT. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is understood in lowa that the Supreme Court will stick to its decision that the prohibitory amendment is invalid, on account of informalities in its submission.* In that event the letter will be allowed to kill again, though the spirit makes alive. The people adopted the amendment knowing just what it signified, and its final overthrow on a mere technicality will be the result of that kind of legal vision which discerns a fly on a barn-door, but does not see the door.

AGITATORS. "Richmond Palladium. The question of how far a government is permitted to protect political refugees in its borders, who are plottifig against the peace of another and friendly government, is being examined with much care by the lawyers of this country and Great Britain. It is with the view of ascertaining the duty of the American government in regard to the dynamite conspirators who are supposed to be sending agents and money to England to destroy the lives and property of the people of that country. It is not a new question,though it is one not yet settled. Some years ago Dr. Woolsey said,in speaking of the rights of political refugees: “They may not, consistently with £he obligations of friendship between States, be allowed to plot against the person or the sovereign, or against the institutions of their natiye country. Buch aette are crimes, for the punishment of which the laws of the land ought to provide, but do not require that the accused be remanded for’trial to his native country.”

A Peculiar Case of Blindness.

Ban Francisco Chronicle. The case of Christopher Lynch, who is at present confined in St Mary’s Hospital is the most peculiar ever brought to that institution for treatment Lynch was working last month in a field at his home, in Butte County, when, without apparent cause, he became in an instant totally blind. As he never experienced any foi mer trouble with hit "byes, the physicians were at a loss to account for this peculiar affliction, so Lynch was sent to Dr. McCarthy, at the hospital in this city, for treatment on February 26th, he has since remained. The doctor made a careful diagnosis of the case, and found that the blindness was caused by a sudden hemorrhage at the junction of the optic nerves where they pass from the brain to the pupil of the eye. There is only one other case of a similar nature recorded.

THE HOUSE WITH CLOSETS. flow dear to the heart of the housekeeping woman Axe comforts of which ao few architects tell; Nice children, good servants and plenty of room in The well fitted mansion in which they must dwell, But first of the blessing kind fortune can give her. If she in the city or country abide, Is that which she longs for and covets forever, The big airy closet, her joy and her pride— The roomy, clean closet, the well-ordered closet, The big, airy sloset. her joy and her pride. The house may ba perfect from garret to cellar. Well lighted, well aired, with cold water and hot And yet to the eye of the feminine dweller, If cloeetless, all is as if it were not How oft she has sunk like a dove that is wounded, How oft she has secretly grumbled and sighed, Because she saw not, through with all else surrounded, The big, airy closet, her joy and her pride! The roomy, clean closet, the well-ordered closet, The big, airy closet, her joy and her pride. Fond husbands, who fain would have home be an Eden, For you and your Eves all complete as a whole, To read in, to write in, to sleep In, to feed in. Forget not the closets so dear to the soul; But build them in corners, in nooks and in crannies, Whatever a closet may harbor or hide, And give to your Marys, your Kates and your Annies, The big, airy closets,’their joy and their pride— The roomy, clean closets, the well-ordered closets, The big, airy closets, their joy and their pride! —1: he Builder.

THE HEATHEN CHINESE.

Not “Childlike and Bland?’ but Bude, Bra- „ tai and Disobliging—They Murder Their Sick, ,»nd Dishonor Women. E. V. Smalley in the Century. There is a mistaken notion in the East that the Chinese are always humble and submissive, and much put upon’ and abused by the whites of the Pacific Coast There was a time when the hoodlums of San Francisco maltreated the Asiatic immigrants shamefully, but that time has gone by. Now the Chinaman appears to be as secure in his rights of person and property as anybody. Instead of being deferential and timid, he is often pushing and insolent. He does not give way m the street. He bustles you as rudely as an English navvy. A body of Chinese laborers marching down a narrow street will crowd ladies into the gutter. The Chinese merchants, doctors, and other beonging to the better classes, are as poilte as Frenchmen, but the masses of the Chinese population bn the Pacific Coast are rude and brutal. The chief thing in their favor is their habit of personal cleanliness. The railroad laborers, who are the poorest and most ignorant class, wash themselves from head to foot at the end of each day’s work. All classes are frequent customers of the barber, who gives minute attention to their heads, faces, ears and necks. Among the common laborers there is little sympathy for the sick and injured comrades. If a man is likely to become a burden, the other members of the gang want to aet rid of him as soon as possible. It is commonly believed by the bosses on the railroads that the Chinese doctors put sick men out of the way by poison when they think they cannot be speedily cured. A case was told me in Oregon of a coolie railway laborer who had an arm broken. It was set by the company’s doctor, and was doing well, but the man’s comrades insisted on bringing a Chinese doctor to attend hyn. The doctor came from a distant camp and gave the patient a dose In an hour the poor fellow was dead. In such cases there is no investigation, nobody cares that there is one Chinaman less. The death of a cart horse is of much more consequence. One great difficulty the employers of Chinese labor have to contend with is the superstition of these queer people. Their religious worship consists chiefly in propitiating the malevolent spirits of the dead. If a Chinese domestic fancies there is a ghost in the house he departs at once, and leaves an inscription behind to warn his successors. It often happens that a family will be unable to keep a servant longer than a single da f. Man after man will come and go without giving any reason for his abrupt departure. At last the warning sign is found in the kitchen or servant’s room and expunged; then there is no more trouble. Not long ago two Chinamen were killed in Oregon by the premature explosion of a blast on anew railway line. One of their fellowworkmen declared that just before the explosion he saw two devils come to the opposite bank of the river and heard them talking. Thereupon the whole gang of forty men dropped work, and could not be induced, by threats or persuasion, to return to the spot It was necessary to send them to another part of the line, and bring on a fresh gang who had not heard of the occurrence. It is commonly supposed in the East that the Chinese make excellent servants. Some of them do, no doubt; but I met no housekeeper on the pacific Coast who did not say she would greatly prefer a good white woman, if one could be obtained,to

the best Chinaman. As a rule, the Chinese domestic servants, while they do faithfully,and in a machine like way,what they agree to do, and are shown how to do, they are stubborn and disobliging if asked to go outside of their regular day’s routine of labor. They insist on having their evenings to themselves,and on leaving the house to gamble and smoke opium with their comrades in some dirty den. If for any reason breakfast is wanted at an earlier hour than common, the mistress must get it herself. The "greatest trouble with them is,however,to teach them to show the same defibrence to the mistress of the house that they show to the master. They despise women as a lower order of beings, and cannot understand, until they have been some titae in this country, how a woman can rightfully have authority in a household. The only reason the Chinese are valued as houseservants on the Pacific Ccast is because white service is scarce and very bad. Knowing that they can always get situations, the few white women who go out to service are, as a rule, arrogant, lazy and incompetent.

Agricultural Notes.

A good vegetable garden pays. Get good seed and plenty of it. See well to the ewes and lambs. Don’t use poor tools or bad seed. Exercise mind as well as muscle. Feed and water stock regularly. Care well for all young animals. Are your buildings well painted? . Never breed from senile animals. Grow more small fruits this year. Put your fences and gates in order. Make home attractions “stickup.” Allow no brute to train your brutes. Girls, how about the flower garden? Make tramps work or leave the farm. Plant both fruit and ornamental trees. Give agents and peddlers a wide berth. Bepair and paint tools, etc., rainy days. Industry and econo my produce wealth. Salt and ashes forrnja good dressing for the quince tree. The younger the pigs the oftemer they should be fed. * We have no perfect cattle food. Good hay comes nearest to it. In all cases a cow should be milked regularly and stripped clean. The hay crop of 1882 is estimated at th* value of $372,000,000. The timbered land of Arizonia embrace an area of 5,760,000 acres. It is said that sheep in orchards will annihilate the codling moth. Good com stalks, well cured, are abou equal to hay for cows. There are 3,400,000 acres of United States land for sale in Mississippi. Philip Bitz is fencing in a 7,000 acre wheat farm near Bitzville, W. T. Coal ashes sifted on currant bushes, it is said, will destroy the currant worm. Flowers and ornamental shrubs and trees and beauty and value to the homestead.

Governor Glick, of Kanasas, is President of a cattle company, the capital of which is $1,000,000. Stock cattle are very scarce in Arizonia, and, prices very high, cows without calves ranging as high as $26 Wyoming has a territorial, veterinarian and model law for the prevention and suppression of contagious diseases. The greatest winner on the running turf in this country was Hindoo, and his net earnings amounted to less than SBO.000. They have regular county stock sales in Madison county, Ohio, which have been kept up monthly for over seven years. A man in Georgia yiade s9,ooolast year from 100 acres of watermelons. This year 7,000 acres, in seven counties, will be planted. Parties from the Wisconsin pineries says that the woods are now in better condition for work * than at any former time this year. The Prince of Wales has at Bandring - ham, 105 Shorthorn cows and 29 Shorthorn bulls, which are kept in two distinct herds. It is a mistake to suppose sheep can go a great while without water. They drink little at a time, it is true, but on that account they require water often.

Why He Was a Democrat

New Orleans Times-Democrat. A man was carrying a coon he had just caught when he met three little boys in the road. All of them said, excitedly and at once, “Mister, give me that coon; give me that coon, mister.” “Well, boys, I’ll tell you what I will do. If you will tell me what party you belong to and why, I’ll give it to the boy that gives the best reason for his faith” “I'm a Republican, because that party saved the Union,” said one. “I’m a Greenback - er, because that party is in favor of plenty of money,” said another. When the time of the third boy came he said: “Fm a Democrat ’cause I want the coon.” In a poorly regulated family a bone of contention often develops into a skeleton in the closet