Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIAN A. G. E. MARSHALL, - - Puimnsum.

Apbopos of the delicate term “remove, ” for murder, which the Inviricibles have brought into vogue, the correspondent of the London journal remarks that Cardinal Wiseman once, protesting vigordhsly against infanticide for child-murder and similar euphemisms, said: “I shall, not be surprised if we ultimately come to 4 uxoricide’ for a brutal wife murder.

< Dynamite is about to be thrown into the shade. An ingenious citizen of Paris, the appropriate home of such discoveries, has produced a new compound which he calls panclastite, consisting of hypoazotic acid, which is one of the numerous compounds of oxygen and azote, or nitrogen, mixed either with essence of petroleum or sulphuret of carbon. The degree "of explosive force is said to depend upon which of the last named ingredients is used.

The Vassar girls’ Jare protesting against the marking system of their college. They insist that's childish’ system of “honors” is absurd in view of the agitation for the higher education of women. The motives for study induced by the system they believe to be especially unworthy for- the graduates of Vassar, who are expected to go into the world as exponents of the higher education. Looking at the very sensible things which their protest says, the conclusion must be made that it is time to s op circulating the silly old jokes about the chewing-gum of Vassar, and to acknowledge that the students there are very earnest and womanly young women.

In France the snail is considered more toothsome than the oyster. The best ones are raised in Burgundy, where they grow double the size of the large garden-snails of of this country. Some of them are fully as large as an ordinary oyster. Snail raising has become quite a profitable business, and is increasing yearly. They are kept in a damp place and fed on peppermint and such things as they like best, until they seal themselves up in their shells for the winter, when they are ready for the market. Nature has furnished snails with extraordinary powers of reproduction, each individual being both male and female, and the outlay in snail farming is represented only By the time and trouble spent in collecting them and keeping them from straying.

A Chicago reporter, wishing to learn the facts in regard to certain gossip about a lady in that city, called on another, a neighbor, in the evening, and was met at the door by the little daughter, who said, in answer to his question, “Mamma’s gone to bed, but if you’re a newspaper reporter you can come tight in. ” He not only went right in, but went right up to the lady’s bedchamber, where, says the brazen-faced reporter, “mamma was twisted up like an interrogation point, with her toes peeping out from under a crimson cornterpane, and her head and arm hanging over the edge of a brass bedstead. Mamma : was a trifle surprised when the young girl entered, urging the reporter to ‘come on.’” She was surprised enough to say: “Well, this is typical of Chicago journalism, I must say.”

A Georgia picnic last week was largely attended, but when the parties returned home two couples were miss* ' ing. Simultaneously there appeared at a hotel in Albany two strange couples who seemed to have something important on hand. They got the hotel-keep-er to procure for them marriage licenses for W. L. Simpson and Miss A. Collier and James Gliz and Miss E. Lundy. A preacher arrived, but-* here a hitch occurred. One of the ladies wanted to back out, and the parties kept the par*

lor door locked for five hours, trying to settle the point. At 10 o’clock at night the door was thrown open and the preacher admitted, when the' ceremony was performed. The brides retired to ■one room and the grooms to another for the night. They returned home to Terrell county, where the fatted calf . was killed and all forgiven. They all belong to the upper tendom.

A Connecticut man has a very novel plan for a public echibition. It was he whose robbery, several months ago, in a Hester street groggery, led to a wellremembered tragedy. He entered the worst drinking-place in the whole Street. Shrewd Yankee though he was, he laid down a S2O bill in payment for 4i &-cent dnnk. His expectation of get-

ting the change was hot realized. The bartender first laughed at him, and then swore, the gang of men and women gibed and threatened, and he felt glad to get out of the place with his life. He appealed to the police, and Roundsman Delaney returned with him and a warrant. A drunken slugger, who was in the place. sleeping off the effects of a night’s debauch, fired upon the officer, wounding him seriously, and was himself shot dead. That event made the saloon infamous, and consequently it would have become prosperous, had not the police obdurately closed the pldce. 44 The Connecticut man proposes to get his $19.95 ba6k, and more too,” says the Boston Herald. “He is having a panorama painted of scenes in Hester street and its. vicinity, showing the vile resorts which have been described by newspapers throughout the country, and as to which, he calculates, a good deal of interest exists. He will lecture on the pictures, detailing his own lively experience, after the fashion of daring explorers who have survived the hardships and dangers of travel in some wild country. He will introduce some vivid descriptive matter from the reports of city missionaries, police officers and members of the Excise Board, and will, altogether, make such a popular exhibit of New York vice as will make country people’s eyes stick out.”

The Dukes-Nutt tragedy recttlls a tragic romance that occurred in Kentucky forty years ago. Col. Sharpe, the United States District Attorney at Frankfort, became engaged to a Miss Cook, daughter of a widow residing four miles from Bowling Green. After a time .he became suspicious of the girl’s purity, telling his friends that he had heard that Miss Cook had yielded to a vile passion for a negro. The engagement was broken off, and in a short time Miss Cook heard •of the cause. Her resentment grew into bitter hatred for Sharpe, and shame caused her entire seclusion from society. A young man named Beauchamp, who greatly admired Miss Cftok for her beauty and spirit, contrived, after various ruses, to see the young lady, and proposed to her. She accepted him on the condi-

tion that he would take the life of her traducer. Beauchamp readily consented, and in a few days took a walk in company with Sharpe to a secluded spot. Then, giving him a pistol, Beauchamp warned., Sharpe to defend himself. The Colonel refused, and, declaring he would kill him at the first opportunity, Beauchamp retired. One night, disguised as a negro, the lover went to the residence of Sharpe, whom he stabbed to the heart and fled. He was suspected of the crime, and pursued to the house of Miss Cook, where, after a desperate fight, in which several of the Sheriff’s deputies were wounded, Beauchamp and Miss Cook wete arrested. Henry Clay and Amos Kendall were engaged in the case as counsel. But before the trial was finished poison was smuggled into the cells of the prisoners, of which they partook. Miss Cook died from the effects of her dose, but Beauchamp recovered. It was but a few days afterward, however, that, securing a knife, he fatally stabbed, himself. The case had a national notoriety at the. time. .

South American Woods.

South America is rich in woods for engineering purposes. The yandubay is exceedingly hard and durable;.the couroupay is also very hard and rich in tannin. The quebracho is, however, more interesting than any, and grows abundantly in the forests of La Plata and Brazil. It resembles oak in the. trunk, and is used for railway Sleepers, telegraph poles, piles, and so on. It is heavier than water, its specific gravity varying between 1.203 to 1,333. The color at first is reddish, like mahogany, but grows darker with time. Beinr rich in tannin it is employed for tanning leather in Brazil, aiid has recently been introduced for that purpose into France. A mixture of one-third ol powdered quebracho and two-thirds of ordinary tan gives good results.

Indian Bread Like Mortar.

As a veritable curiosity, we have a sample of bread made and used by the full blood Indians of the Indian Territory. It resembles mortar in consistency, add is composed of pounded corn meal and beans and flavored with lye. A chunk brtought us ,by Mr. Robin-on is about half the size of an ear of corn, and**is wrapped and tied with corn shucks, and has been boiled in lye,- and is in a state of perfect preservation, having been put up last fall without salt. It is really a curiosity, and more so now that the modern way of cooking with a stove is in vogue with most of them.— Fort Smith, (Ark.)New Era. "TT"- - Look not mournfully into the past, it cannot come back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to m*eet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.—Longfellow. j

THE BAD BOY.

“What you sitting there for half an hour fox, staring at vacancy ?” said the grocery man tp the bad boy, as he sat on a stool by the stove one of these oggy mornings, with his fingers clasped around his knee, looking as though he •lid not know enough tp last him to bed. “What you thinking about any way?" “I was wondering where you would have been to-day if Noah had run his ark into such a fog as this, and there had been no fog-horn on Mount Ararat, and he had passed by with his excursion and not made a landing, and had floated around On the freshet until all the animals starved, and the ark had struck a snag and burst a hole in her bottom. I tell you, we can all congratulate ourselves that Noah happened to blunder on that high ground. If that ark had been lost, either by being foundered, or being blown up by Fenians because Noah was an Englishman, it would have been cold work trying to populate this world. In that case another Adam and Eve would have to be made out of dirt and water, and they might have gone wrong again, and failed to raise a family, and where would we have been. I tell you, when I think of the narrow escape we have had, it is a wonder to me that we have got along as well as we have.”

“Well, when did you get out df the asylum,” said the grocery man, who had , been standing back with open mouth looking at the boy as though he was crazy. “What you want is to have your head soaked. You are getting so you reach out too far with that small . mind of yours. In about another year you will want to run this world yourself. I don’t think you are reforming much. It is wicked for a boy of your size to argue about such things. Your folks better send, you’to college.” “What do I want to go to college for, and be a heartless hazer,and poor baseball player. I can be bad enough at home. The more I read, the more I think. I don’t believe I can ever be good enough to go to heaven, anyway, and I guess I will go into the newspaEer business, where they don’t have to e good, and where they have passes everywhere. Do you know, I tbjnk when I was built they left out a cog wheel or something in my head. I can’t think like some boys. I get to thinking about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and of th® dude with the cloven hoof th a t flirted with Eve, and treated her and Adam to the dried apSles, and I can’t think of them as some oys do, with a fig-leaf polonaise, and ■ fig-leaf vests. I imagine them dressed up in the latest style. I know it is wrong, but that is what a poor boy has to suffer who has an imagination, and wherq did I get the imagination ? This confounded imagination of mine shows me Adam with a plug hat on, just like our minister wears, and a stand-up col--lar, and tight pants, and peaked-toed shoes, and Eve is pictured to me with a crushed-angleworm-colored dress, and brown-striped stockings, and newspapers in her dress to make it set out, and a hat with dandelions on, and a red parasol, and a lace handkerchief, which she puts to her lips and winks with her left eye to the masher who is standing by the corner of the house, in an attitude, while the tail with the dart on the end is wound around the rain water barrel, so Eve won't. see. it and get scared. Say, don’t you think it is better for a boy to think of our first parents with clothes on, than to think of them almost naked, exposed to the inclemency of the weather, with nothing hut fig leaves pinned on? I want to do right, as near as I can. but I had rather think of them dressed like our folks are to-day,, than to think of them in a cyclone with leaves for wearing apparel. .Say, it is wrong to fight, but don’t you think if Adam had put on a pair of boxing gloves, when he found the devil was getting too fresh about the place, and knocked him out in a couple of rounds, and pasted him in the nose, and fired him out in the summer garden, that it would have been a big. thing for this World. Now, honest?” . “Lookahere,” said the grocery man, who had been looking at the boy in dismay, “you had better go right home and let your ma fix up some warm drink for you, and put you to bed. You are all wrong in the head, and if you are not attended to you will have brain fever, I tell you, hoy, you are in danger. Come, I will go home with you.” “Oh, danger nothin*. I am just telling how things look to a boy who has not got the facilities for being too good in his youth. Some boys can take things as they read them, and not think any .for themselves, but I am a thinker frojtp Thinkerville, and my imagination plays, the dickens with me. There is nothing I read about old times but what I compare it with the same line of business at the present day. Now, when I think of the fishermen of Galileo, drawing their seines, I wonder what they would have done if there had been a law against hauling seins, as there is in Wisconsin to-day, and I can see a constable with a warrant for the arrest of the Galilee fishermen, snatching the old apostles and taking them to the police station in a patrol wagon. I know it is wrong to think like that, but how oan I help it. Say, suppose those fishermen had been out hauling their seines, and our minister should come along with his good clothes on, his jointed rod, his nickle-plated reel, and his silk fish line, and his patent fish hook, and put a frog on his hook and ’ cast his line near the Galilee* fishermen and go to trolling forbass? What do you suppose the lone fishermen of the Bible times would have thought about the gall of the jointed-rod fisherman? Do you suppose they would have thrown ■tones in the water where he was trolly

ing, or would they have told him that there was good trolling around a point about a half nfile up the shore, where they knew he wouldn’t get a bite in a week, the way a fellow at Muskego lake lied to our minister a spell ago? I tell you, boss, it a sad thing for a boy to have An imagination,” and the boy put his other kneein the sling made by the clenched fingers of both hands, and waited for the grocery man to argue withhim. * “I wish you would go away from here. lam afraid of you, said the grocery man. “I would give anything if your pa or the minister would come in and have a talk with you. Your mind is wandering,” and the grocery man went to the door and looked up and down the street to see if somebody wouldn’t come in and watch the crazy boy, while he went to breakfast.

“Oh, pa and the minister can’t make a first payment on me. Pa gets mad when I ask questions, and the minister thinks lam past redemption. Pa said yesterday that baldness was caused, in every case, by men’s wearing plug hats, and when I asked him where the good Elijah (whom the boys called 4 go up old bald head,’ and the bearshad a free lunch on them), got his plug hat, pa said school was dismissed, and I could go. When the minister was telling me about the good Elijah going up through the clouds in a chariot of fire, and I asked the minister what he thought Elijah would have thought if he had met our Sunday-school Superintendent coming down through the clouds on a bicycle, he put his hand on my head and said my liver was all wrong. Now, I will leave it to you if there was anything wrong about that, Say, do you know what I think is the most beautiful thing in the Bible?” “No, I don’t,” said the- grocery man, “and if you want to tell it I will listen just five minutes, and then I am going to fehnt up the store and go to breakfast. You make me tired.”

“Well, I think the finest thing is that story about the prodigal son, where'the boy took all the money he could scrape up and went out West to paint tub towns red. He spent his money in riotous living, and. saw everything that was going on, and got full of benzine, and struck all the gangs of toughs, both male and female, and bis stomach went back on him, ana*he had malaria, and finally he got to be a cow-boy, herding hogs, and had to eat husks that the hogs didn’t want, and got pretty low down. Then he thought it was a pretty good scheme to be getting around home, where they had three meals a day, and spring mattresses, and he started home, beating hid way on the trains, and he didn’t know whether the old man would receive him with open arms or pointed boots, but the old man came down to the depot to meet Him, and right there, before the gers and the conductor and the brakemen, he wasn’t ashamed of his. boy, though he was ragged, and looked as though he had been on the war-path, and the old man fell on bis neck and wept, and took him home in a hack, and had a veal pot-pie for dinner. That’s what I call sense. A good many men now days would have put the police on the tramp and had him ordered out of town. What! you going to close up the store? Weft, I will see you later. I want to talk with you about something that is weighing on my mind,” and the boy got out just in time to save his coat-tail from being caught in the door, and when the grocery man came back from breakfast he found a sign in front, “This store is closed till further notice.—Shebife.”— Peck’s Sun.

Looking a Few Years Back.

Fifty year's ago Young America was a quiet, subdued and nice sort of youth, quite unconscious that he was a popular sovereign; or, if he was aware of the greatness to which he had been born, willing to bear his honors meekly and wait in the background till he became of age and had a legitimate right to claim his rich inheritance. The rod had not then passed but of fashion and parents still thought themselves the superiors of their' children,-while filial reverence still lingered in the breasts of their offspring. Those days were not perfect, but they had advantages to which many persons look back with respect. If we have less time to "be formally polite and the brevity of life no longer permits us to dance the minuet, we can still be courteous in our more modern fashion. Even if we live in days in which the doctrine of evolution has wrought a terrible disenchantment, we need not entirely lose tiie sentiment of reverence which forms the basis of all respectful attention to others. The rapid stream df life may now and then be checked‘in its headlong current, for decent social observance and kind feeling may oftener underlie the artificial manners and small' etiquette which has taken the place of the grander style and manner of our ancestors. We are ih danger of allowing the glitter of wealth to supply the place of solid virtues, and the superficial refinement of an education that includes a little of everything to be considered equal to the truer and deeper character that made our forefathers worthy of all respect. It is said that the race is becoming smaller physically year'by year. It is to be hoped that the diminution of body*will not be accompanied by a like oqmlraction of the reverential element anq the moral sense, in the saving of which is our only refuge against the sea of materialism that is setting in so heavily on us. — San Francisco Chroniclq. The Detroit Free Press suggests “crushed hopes” as a proper name for the color of a new spring dress. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self,— Bailey.

PASSING EVENTS.

The Cholera in Europe—The Scott Law In Ohio. . I The Caar and the Vatican—“ ' Misted” > Emigration. All Europe is becoming alarmed at the threatening character of the cholera and the rapidity of the spread. Notwithstanding the international quarantine, which was intended to prevent it from getting into Europe by the gateway of the fines oanal, it has reached the northern entrance and appears to have t astene<Uteelf permanently at Port Said, Damietta, Mansurah and Rosetta, in Egypt, which are all in close proximity to the entrance. Thence it has reached Alexandria to the westward and Cairo to the south, entering the latter place, as usual, while the doctors are disputing about it The march of this terrible destroyer not alone threatens the health of Europe, but it is laying an embargo upon its commerce. It has dosed Port field and the fines canal tighter than any Government or any quarantine could do it already. The great canal la now shut against commerce, and that means a cessation of the trade between Europe and Asia or its compulsory diversion from the short out of the oanal intotbe Mediterranean to the old, long, and tedious route round Africa.

The Scott raw In Ohio. So much has been said about the Scott liquor law, and the-probable action of the Supreme Court upon the question of its constitutionality. says ths Chicago Newt, that it has become a subject of Interest to the public. It is well known that the constitution of Ohio prohibits the licensing of saloons, and the clause was ratified by the temperance people in the expectation that its adoption would put an end to the liquor traino in that State. Such was not, however, the case, as under the organic law of the State there was no power to restrain the sale of liquor. afad it ran riot In April last the State passed what was known as the Scott law, which authorizes an annual assessment upon the business of liquor selling. A case was made up andcarried to the Supreme Court with the* view of testing its constitutionality. The other day the court rendered its decision, all of the Judges except one declaring the law to bo constitutional The opinion seems to be that the effect of the decision will be to strengthen the Republicans; as that party championed the law while their opponents opposed it As two of the members of the Hupreme Court are on-the Republican State ticket the Democrats charge that they were guided as much by their ppitical prospects as by a strict construction of the law in the case.

Th* Osar and the Vatican. An understanding has been arrived at between the heads of the respeotivechurehes of Greece and Rome. The two cimrchee were formerly a unit, but as early as 482 A. D. dogmatical differences sprung up between them, which gradually threw them more apd mere apart, until July 16,1054, when the schism Was completed. Various proposals have Since then been proposed ana rejected for a union of the two churches again, the last being that of Pius IX., when, in 1848, he, invited; by an encyclical letter, the entire Greek church to a corporate union with Rome, which proposition was rejected with scorn. There is, however, in the Greek church a faction that hopes and prays for such a union, which embraces some of the nobility and societies of the, Greek Church. That a modut vivendum has been agreed upon by the heads of the Eastern and Western churches is, in view of their past histories, very significant Under tide concordat the Russian Government retains the right of inspecting supervision in the appointment of teachers, and the education of Catholic children in the Russian language, history and literature, and abrogates the harsh measures declared against the Catholics tn 1864. For the first time in .many centuries, the chasm between the Eastern and Western churches seems to be closing.

Assisted Emigration. • 1 ~ Our Government has at last taken decided action to prevent Great Britain from unloading her paupers in this country. Having tried every possible mbana, except those of humanity and justice, to restore peace to Ireland under her tyranny. Great Britain began some months ago to ship the poor of that country to this, in the hope that by reducing the population there would be less demand for land, fewer paupers to support, ahd an element of political disquietude banished*!rom the island. In May last several vessel loads of panper-Irlsh landed in Boston Gov. Butler called the attention of the Secretary of State to the matter, and quietly since then has it been investigated. The result is that enough proof has been procured to sustain the charge that Great Britain is paying the passage of emigrants from Ireland to this country. The / subject was brought up for consideration at a meeting of the Cabinet on Tuesday, and under the direction of the President . Secret tary Foiger instructed the Collector of Customs in New York to prevent the.landing of all immigrants found to be paupers within the meaning of the law. Some of those who have been donated to us axe taken from the workhouse and are usually persons well along in yearn, with large families, which have been and are the subjects of public charity. On-the same 4, day that thia action was taken by the President the telegraph Informs us that there were then waiting transportation from Queenstown to the United States 100 persons from the Linnford Union, most of whom have been taken from the wqykhouse. While it is tme that we have always prided ourselves tint our land was the asylum for the oppressed of a'l nations, we have never favored compulsory immigration, although the voluntary immigrant, rich or poor, has always been welcome. Our Government has once before had to adopt similar rest t ic*ions in the case of Itoh'. which began sending us her paupers and criminals The return of asMp-ioador/two put an end to the trouble, -and such will he the case of Great Britain Let her deluge her dominion of Canada with these people if the depopulation of Ireland is necessary to the preservation of the United Kingdoms

FASHION NOTES.

Gbay is steadily increasing in popularity. Dzsp collar and cuffs of velvet adorn many of the new Jerseya Tbb fan/’shown as the new importations are quite equal in size to those of last season. Cut-jkt nail-heads are used with very good effect as trimming for black woolen costumes Burrs of terracotta are fast losing their popularity, and no strictly new ones are to be seen. Cobsagk bouquets may be worn either directly in front or on the left side, as fancy dictate* Tmsiuts of dull gold and wheat-heads of either gold or silver may be mentioned among the many other fashionable hat orn*. mental