Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — George Eliot’s Creed. [ARTICLE]

George Eliot’s Creed.

Several years ago a Maryland farmer and his wife granted the request of a traveling stranger, and gave him a night’s lodging. He told a story that interested them, and they allowed him to remain as their guest for several months. At last a cable message, which he had long said would come, was delivered, and he departed for Europe. He has lately sent his hostess and her husband. SIO,OOO. An angel does not often look like a tramp. A New Yorker had a fine watch cleaned and thoroughly repaired. A week later it stopped. He then interviewed about twenty jewelers. He learned from them that it had a broken mainspring, was dirty, had broken jewels, a cog-wheel was gone, he had dropped it, it had broken pinions, etc. Thoroughly disgusted, he took it to t?ie jeweler who had warranted it for a year, and learned that it was in perfect order, but that he had forgotten to wind it the night before. The watermelon trade is growing into immense proportions. An estimate, which seems to have been made with considerable pains, says that the number of melons raised in Georgia this season was not far from 6,500,000. About 1,200,000 were eaten in Georgia, made into syrup, opened for the seeds, Or left on the vines. Three acres of land produce two car loads. There are about 1,200 melons in a car load. The cost of raising a car load is not far from sl4, and that of gathering and loadiog is sls. The average net profit is about $45 to the car load. The total profit on the Georgia crop this season was nearly a quarter of a million dollars. A certain Postmaster has written to the Postoffice Department as follows: “I desire to know whether, in case a suspected horse-thief, whose mail is accumulating in this office, shall write to me to forward it to him at another office, I will be justified in disclosing his address.” Judge Freeman, Assistant Attorney Generar for the Department, is of the opihion that even in such a case as this a Postmaster must respect the confidential relations between himself as an official and the patrons of his office, and must refuse to disclose any private information received by him in his official capacity. Efforts were made for a long time in Germany to direct the course of emigration from that country toward Brazil, where a fertile soil, a healthful climate, a friendly Government, and gifts of land were promised to Teuton settlers. Many German colonies were induced by these representations to locate themselves within the Brazilian domain; but they have failed wretchedly, and in almost every instance the story of their collapse has been one of sickness, death, and general Aisery. The history of these attempts at German colonization is now giviyi in a connected form in a series of articles originally printed in the Allegemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Brazil, and now republished in pamphlet form in Vienna, with comments by t«B Austrian ConsulGeneral at Rio. The narrative that they furnish will prove sufficient to deter German emigration to Brazil for ' many-yesqrprtogjcmne.

Mr. W. W. Taylor, English millionaire, on landing at New York, had his pocket picked of $30,000 in drafts. Drives to Fifth Avenue Hotel, informs the clerk he has lost $30,000 and desires an officer. Detective Pryor arrives. Mr. Taylor can’t recollect name of bank ih New York drafts are drawn on. Detective Pryor begins to think him a fraud. Mr. Taylor sends to the office for bis other little bag. It is full of money. Detective Pryor is amazed, both at the coolness and cai’elessness of this Englishman of money. He eventually recovers Mr. Taylor’s lost $30,000. Taken from his pocket by a man whose professional name is "Albany.” Albany induced to give up the wallet. Albany is very mad when told that payment on the Englishman’s draits could not be stopped as he had forgotten the name oft the bank they were drawn on. He howlied, threw his hat on the street and stamped on it. South America is going to work in earnest to increase the production of quinine. President Barrios has brought over a great planter, Forsyth, from Ceylon, to manage the enterpise, who has already ridden over 1,000 miles to select good sites, and arranged for the planting of 5,000,000 cinchona trees. It is intended to try the experiment both in South America and Mexico. An English authority states that the Culture of the cinchona has been so r profitable to the British Government in India that in the three years since the trees were first set out the original investment of $750,000 has butthe trees have value of

$5,000,000. Has the experiment ever been tried in Florida? We see no reason why it should not succeed in the damp glades of the interior of that State, as they possess the twb requisites of an almost tropical climate and a heavy rainfall. , Philadelphia Press: The public domain is being taken up by settlers at a rate which will soon exhaust it. The number of homestead timber-culture entries and cadi sales for the year ending June 30, 1863, were 43,591 in Dakota, Kansas. Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The entries for the same States and Territories in 1882 were 29,086. In Dakota alone 3,267,227 acres were taken up last year. This evidently cannot be continued many years in succession. There will soon be no desirable land left in Dakota. The only other fertile and promising territory is Washington, which is also having a boom, and will have a greater one with the completion of the Northern Pacific Vast quantities of valuable agricultural and tjmber lands remain unclaimed in the Southern States. Texas is rapidly filling up, and, as the North ceases to attract immigration by the gradual occupation of its best band, the restless spirits always looking for cheap land and virgin soil will be drawn irresistibly southward. Mormonism still has the upper hand in Utah, and the Salt Lake Tribune is still calling on the Federal Government to quit fooling and do something. Its latest exhortation was couched as follows: “If it is the office of a Government to govern, and if it is proper for a Government to enforce its laws, why not do it? The law of 1862 having been nullified, and the law of 1882 having been nullified, let sterner measures be resorted to. Let us have the Legislative Commission, and if that fails let us have martial law. It is folly to say that polygamy can’t be stopped while the Government has not as yet made a serious effort to do it. What is the sense of exercising ourselves in word-play over quibbles? Qf what avail is good reasoning, or word-fencing, about incidents in presence of the great question. Shall the Government govern? Here are two great forces advancing steadily to a final clash, each gathering momentum with every rolling sun, in full view of which the Government potters and the editors and socalled statesmen quibble and wrangle. It is time to move. the previous question: Will the Government govern?” The astonishment with which the world will receive the intelligence that a blacksmith keeps a set of books, and that Jay Gould served his apprenticeship in bookkeeping “where the village smithy stands,” will be overshadowed by the surprise crea'ed at his own admission that he once actually got down on his marrow-bones and prayed. But then that was a great many years ago, and the glib narrator, who is above such little weaknesses now, deprecatingly characterized it as a “silly lot of stuff.” .Rising from his knees, he made up his3g»nd to go ahead, and in due time “go? ahead” so fast that he bought , out one partner and the other committed suicide. Among the interesting tehnicalities of modern railroad operating or railroad financiering which Mr. Gould neglected to explain, were the alternate processes of “skinning the road” and “doubling the though there- are faint „ gleams that he»had “caught on” as early as 1857, when, as he told the Senate Committee, he bought up Rutland and Washington at 10 cents on the dollar, became President, Treasurer and General Superintendent, “and—got out when it was consolidated with the Rensselaer and Saratoga. Even at the age of 21 or thereabouts Mr. Gould was no chicken.

I remember how at Cambridge I walked with her once in the Fellows’ Garden of Trinity, on an evening of rainy May, and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have beep used so often as the/aspiring trumpet calls of men—the words God, immortality, duty—pronounced with terrible earnestness how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. Never, perhaps, have sternei accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensing law. I listened, and night fell;" her grave, majestic countenance turned toward me like Sybil’s in the gloom ; it was as though she withdrew from my grasp, one by one, the two scrolls of promise and left me the third only, awful with inevitable fates. And when we stood at length and parted, amid the colum nar circuit of the forest trees, beneath the last twilight of starless skies, I seemed to be gazing, like Titus at Jerusalem, on the vacant state and empty halls—on a sanctuary with no presence to hallow it, and heaven left lonely of a God.—Mi/ey’s Essays. Every great example of punishments has in it some justice; the suffering i individual is compensated by the public good. ' >■ ——> —.-yl ■■■■*< The prodigal • robs his heir; the miser robs himself. The*xniddle way 13, justice to ourselves and others.— Bruyere. . •.