Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1887 — Page 2

'fhc JtepnbUcsin. Gbo.,E- Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

Since ISSO our manufactured prbduets in silk has' grown from a value of $24,61Q,7£3 to over 150,000,000. Hox. Wm. M. Evarts, of New York iB a lineal descendent of Roger Sher.man one of the signers of the Constitution. Tint refusal of the clerk of the New York Superior Court to accept Herr Hoet’s preliminary declaration of intension to become a citiaen of the United States has served to call general attention to the fact that there is a law of Congress which provides that before a man is admitted to citizenship in this country, he shall have resided here at least five years and “shall have behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.” The rigid enforcement of these provisions by all officers having dutieß connecter! with process of naturalisation is desirable for evident and forcible reasons. Even Ireland appears to be sharing in some of the prosperity which many of the leading countries of Europe and their dependencies are enjoying at the present time. In the first half of 1887 there was an increase of 3 per cent in the earnings of Irish railroads, as comparer! with the corresponding time in the previous year, and an important growth in the deposits of joint stock and savings banks. Unfortunately, however, those material advances are accompanied by an increase in the use of whisky. This, of course, may he considered, in pome slight degree, -an - indication of prosperity as it shows that money is more plentiful in Ireland than it has been for the past eight or ten years. Still this increase in the consumption of spirits in that country is somewhat surprising, when it is borne in mind that in England and Scotland, where there has also‘been a growth in business activity, less whisky is now used than in any previous period of the same duration for several years past, The frequency of the attempts recently made to wreck railroad trains, proves conclusively that either the laws against that species of deviltry, or the manner in which these laws are enforced, need a pretty robust revision at once. A Mexican law affixing the death penalty to offenses of this class, and the 1 proceedings preHminaryte—carrying penalty into effect were so simple and spmmarv that in many cases the culprits were placed securely under ground before the railroad authorities had time to clear the wreck and start thetrain on its again. The law was on the statute book about three years, and was repealed a few months ago. According to American notions, of course, this law was barbarous. It should be remembered in extenuation, however, that it was far less barbarous than the practice it was directed against, and that the miscreants whom it dealt with were fully as deserving of death as the Chicago anarchists who are to be hanged November 11. It was on the statute book for a brief period only. But it has succeeded in making train wrecking in Mexico as complete a novelty as it yrould be ifi Ithiopia or below the Antarctic Circle. If the various States of this country should use a little of the vigor and intelligence displayed by Mexico, this class of malefactors would soon become a missing link in the species of American criminals. Xelvee Sent to Joliet. Oscar Neebe, the anarchist, sentenced 1o fifteen years’ imprisonment on account of the Hay market massacre, was taken to Joliet, Monday, and placed in the penitentiary. The transfer was made very quietly, the officers fearing an attempt at rescue, and not even a I reporter knew of the design until the ! party were on the train. Neebe asked to see his lawyer before starting, but the request was refused.

Plucky Mr. O’Brien.

Mr. William O’Brien, who is confined in the. Cork jail, avers that if he is convicted and imprisoned lie will resist to the end of his life any demand to wear the prison garb, or to periorm menial I ofllces, such as common criminals are forced to do. Mr. O’Brien is the recipi- j ent of every courtesy that hundreds o: ladies and gentlemen of Cork can show him.

Jacob Sharp's Case.

The general term of the New York Supreme Court, Monday, affirmed the judgment of conviction in the case of j boodler Jacob Sharp. Sharp will be sent to Sing Sing immediately, but the case will go to the court of appeals. A fortune-teller can hit a woman’s case nine times out of ten. “You’ve had sickness and trouble, You’ll have some property fall to you. You do not j have fnli confidence in your husband, j Beware! He is deceiving you! You ’ have a very gentle nature. Everybody ! loves yob. You have had trouble with a relative. It was not your fault. Beware of a blue-eyed woman with a mole on her left cheek. She will make yon trouble. Good-bye—one . dollar—call again.” ~. - •

THE PLUMB LINE.

A Straight I’p-knd-Down Religion the Proper Kind. All That the (treat World Wan n to Make It Happy—Let (load be thS Guide and Heaven Ik the It»kiilt -- r Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. 'Subject: “A Straight Up-and-I)own Religion.” Text: Amos, vii., 8. He said: What the world wants Is a straight up-and-down religion. Much of the socalled piety of the day bends this way and that to sujt the times. It is hori- | rental, with a low state of and morals. We have all been building a wa’l of character, and it is glaringly imperfect and needs reconstruction. How shallß be .brought’ into the perpendicular? Only by the divine measurement. “And the Lord said to me, ‘Ainos, what seest thou?’ and I said, ‘A plumb line.’” The whole tendency of the times is to make us act by the standard of what others do. If they play cards, we play cards. IT they dance, we dance. If they real a certain style of books, we read them. We throw over the wall of character the tangled plumb line of other lives and reject the infallible test which Anios paw. The question foryou should not be-what you think is right, but what God thinks is right. This perpetual reference to the behavior of others,, as though it decided anything hjjt! human fallibility, is a mistake as wide as the world. There are ten thousand ; plumb lines in usd, but onlv one is true and exact, and that is the line of God’s eternal right. There is a mighty attempt being made to reconstruct and fix up the Ten Commandments. To many they seem too rigid. The tower of Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the perpendicular, and people go thousands of miles to see the graceful inclination, and by extra braces and various architectural contrivances it is kept leaning from century to century. Why not have the ten granite blocks of Sinai ret a little aslant? Why not have the pillar of truth a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as good as a square? Why is not an oblique as good as straight upand down? My friends, we must have a standard; shall it be God’s or man’s? The divine plumb line needs to be thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ago Solomon discovered the tendency of buyers to depreciate goods. He Raw a man beating down an article lower, and lower, and saying it was not worth the price asked,and when he had purchased at the lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck, and how he had outwitted the merchant. Proverbs xx., 14: “It is naught, it is’ naught, saith the Inver; but when he is gone his way he boasteth.” iso utterly askew is society in this matter that you seldom find a seller asking the price that he expects to get. He puts on a higher value than he proposes to receive, knowing that he will have to drop. And if he wants fifty he asks seventy. And if he wants two thousand he asks twenty-five hundred. “It is naught,” saith the buyer. “The fabrlcas defective; the,.style—of goods is poor; I can get elsewhere a better article at a less price; it is out oi fashion; it is damaged; it will fade; it will not wear well.” After a while the merchant, from overpersuaeion, or from a desire to dispose of that particular stock of goods, says: “Well, take it at your own price,” and the purchaser goes home with a light step and calls intohis private offiee his confidential friends and chuckles while he tells how that for half price he got the goods. In other words, he lied and was proud of it. Nothing would make times so good and the earning of a livelihood so easy as the universal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes through all bargainmaking. Men who sell know not whether they will ever get the money. Purchasers know not whether the goods shipped will be according to the sample. And what with the large number of clerks who are making faise entries and tjien absconding to Canada, and the explosion of firms that fail for lpillions of dollars, honest men are at their wit’s end to make a living. He who stands up amid all the pressure and does right is accomplishing something toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. I have deep sympathy for the laboring classes who toil with hand and foot. But we must not forget the business men, who, without any complaint or bannered processions through thestreets are enduring a stress of circumstances terrific. The fortunate people of to-day are those who are reserving daily wages or regular salaiies. And the men most to bepitied are those who conducts business while prices, are fading, and yet try to pay their clerks and employes and are in such fearful straits that they would quit businessto morrow if it were not for the wreck and ruin of others. When people tell ms at what a ruinous ly low price they purchased an article, it gives me more dismay than satisfaction. I know it oceans the bankruptcy and defalcation of men in many departments. The men who toll with the Ivrain need full as '.much, sympathy as those' who toil with the hand. All business life is struc k through with suspicion, and panics are only the result of want of confidence. The pressure to do wrong is all the . stronger from the fact that in our day the large business houses .are swallowing up the smaller—the whales dining on blue-fish and minnows. The,, huge I houses undersell the small’oiies because j they can afford it, Thev can . afford to ■ make nothing, or actually lose" oh some j styles of goods, assured they can msk •it up on others. So a great dry goods house goes outside of its regular line and soils hooks a 1: cost or less than cost, and that swamps the book-sellers;' or the dry .goods house sells bric-a-brac at lowest figures, that swamps the small dealers j in bric-a-brac. And the same thing goes on in other styles of merchandise, and ! the consequence is 'that all along the j business streets of our cities there are i merchants of small capital who are in ; a terrific struggle to keep their*heads j above wapm. This is nothing against! the man who has the big store, for every man has as 1 arge a store and.as great a 1 business as he can manage. To feel right and do right under all this pres-. sure Teqnires-martyTrgrace: reqrrres divine support, requires celestial reinforce- | ment. Yet the re are tens of-thousands I of such men getting splendidly through. [ They see others going up and themselves i going down, but they keep their patience j and their courage, and-their tlhrisGan- 1

consistency, and after a while their turn of success will come. The owners of the big business will die and their boys will get possession of the business, and, with a cigar in their mouth and full to the chin with the beat liquor, and behind.a pair of spanking hays, they will pass every thing on the’ turn-pike road to temporal and eternal perdition.. Then the business will break up, ami the smaller dealere will have' opportunity. Or the spirit of contentment and right feeling will take possession of the large firm. I know of scores of great husines« houses that have hail their opportunity of vast accumulation and who ought to quit. But perhaps for all the days of this generation - tho struggle of small houses to keep alive under the over-] shadowing pressure of great hops- s will continue; therefore* taking things as ] they are, you will he wise to preserve your equilibrium, and your honesty,and your faith, and throw overall the counters, and shelves, aqd barrels, and hogsheads, and cotton-bales, and rice-casks, the measuring line of divine right,. In the same way we need to me is . ure our thologies. All sorts of rehgions 1 are putting forth their pretensions,] home have a spiritualistic religions and ! theirchlef work is with ghosts; and oth ; ere a religion of politics, econoipy, proposing to put an end to human misery by a new style of taxation; and there j is a humanitarian religion that looks after the body of men and lets the soul ! look after itself; and there is a legislative 1 religion that proposes to rectify all] wrongs by an enactment of better laws; and there is an mthetic religion that, by rules ,of exquisite taste, would lift the heart out of its deformities; and religions of all sorts, religions by the peck, religions by the square foot and religions hv the ton —all of them. Devices of the devil that would take the heart away from the onlv religion that will ever effect anything for the human race, and that is the straight up-and-dow n religion written in the book, which begins with Genesis and ends with the Revela-

tion, the religion of the skies, the old religion, the God-given religion, the everlasting religion, which says: “Love God above all and your neighbor as yourself.” Alt religions but the one begin at the wrong end and in the wrong place. The Bible religion demands that we first get right with God. It begins at the top and measures down, while the other religions begin at the bottom and try to measure up. They stand at the foot of the ,wall, ur to their knees in the mud of human theory and speculation, and have a plummet and a‘ string tied fast to it And they throw the plummet this way, and break a head there, and throw the plummet another way and break a head there, and then they throw it up and it comes down upon their own pate- Fools! Why will you stand at the foot of the wall measuring up when you ought to stand at tlie top measuring down? A few days ago I was in the country, thirty after a Jong walk. Arid I came in, and my child was blowing soap-bubbles, and* they rolled out of the jup, blue, and gold, and green, and sparkling, and beautiful, and orbicular, and in so small a space I never saw more splendor con-, centrated. But she -blew once to often and all .the glory vanished into suds. Then I turned and took a glass of plain water, and was refreshed. And sofar as .spid-tiiirst-isconcer-nedj the glowing, glittering soap-bubbles of worldly reform and human speculation one draught from the fountains from under the throne of G#f,> clear as crystal. Glory be to God for the religion that drops from above, not coming up from beneath' I want you to notice this fact, that hen a man gives up the straight up-and-down religion in the Bible for any new-fangled religion, it is generally to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then you hear of some swindle he has practiced in Colorado mining stock, telling some one if he will put in 110,000 he can take out SIOO 000, or he has sacrificed his chastity, or plunged into irremediable worldliness. His sins are so broad he has to broaden his religion: and he becomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the soul’s darkness, as broad as hell. They want a religion that will allow them to keep their sins, and then at death say to them; “Well done, good and faithful servant,,’ and that tells them: “All is well, for there is no Lell. ? ’ What a glorious heaven they hold before us! Come, let us go in and see it. There is Herod and all the babes he massacred. There is Charles Guiteau,and Jim Fisk, and Robespierre, the friend of the French guillotine, and all the liars, thieves, houtfe-burners, garroters, pickpockets and libertines of all the centuries. They have all got crowns, and thrones, and harps, and scepters. My text gives me of saving a useful word to all youfig men who are no\y forming habits for a lifetime. Of what use to a .stone-mason j or brick-layer is a plumb line? Why nor build the wall by the unaided eye and hand? Because they are insufficient, because if there be a deflection in the wall it cannot further on be corrected. Because by the law oi gravitation a wart must b 6 straight in order to be symmetrical and safe. A young man is in danger of getting a defect in his wall of character.that may never be corrected. Remember that the wall may be one hundred feet high, qnd yet a deflection of one foot from the foundation affects the entire stueture. And if you live a hundred years and do right the last eighty years you may nevertheless do something at twenty years,-of age that will damage all your earthly existence. All you who have built houses for yourseh es or for others, am I not right in saying to these young men you cannot ] build a wall so high as to be indepenent ]of the character of its foundation? A man before thirty years of. age may commit enough sin to last him" a lifetime. A cat that has kilted one pigeon cannot be cured. Keep it from killing the first pigeon. Now; John, or George, or Charles, or William, Alexander, or Henry, or whatever be your name or surname, say here and now: ; “No wild oats for me, no cigarettes for ; Me, no winfe or beer for me, no nasty ! stories for me, no Sunday sprees for me; lam going to start right’ and keep on right. God help me, for I am very weak. From the throne - of eternalrighteousness let do wn to njie the principles by which I can be guided in building every thing, from foundation to capstone. - “But,” you say. “you shut us-voting folks out fronrrai+ funr ’ OH, no; X like" fun I believe in fun. 1 I have had lots of it-in my time. But 1 have not had to gninto- paths of sin to find it. No credit to met but because of an extraori dinary' parental example and 1 influence 1 was kept iivni outwaid transgressions,

I though my heart was bad enough and 1 desperafely wicked. I have had fun ] illimitable, though I never swore one oath, and never gan.bled for so much as the value of a pin; and never icw the 1 inside of haunt of sin saye as ten-, yekrs ago; with of Prime j (and detective aud two elders ol nrr ; i church 1 , I explored* the c ms by mid- j night, not put of curiosity, hut tha' I ! ] rnignt in pujpii discourse Bet befqre the i ! people the poverty and the horrors of! underground city life? Yet, though I never was intoxicated for an instant, and never committed one act of, dis- ] Bolutenesa, restrained only by the grace ] of God, without which restraint I would have gone headlong to the bottom of in- [ famv,,have had so much fun that I ; don’t believe there is a man on the planet in the present time whphas had more. Hear it, men and boys, women and girls, all the fun is on the side of right Sin may seem attractive, but it is deathful, and like the manehincel, a tree whose dews are poisonous. The only genuine happiness is in an honest Christian life. _ Oh, this plumb-line ofthe everlasting right! God will throw it over all our lives to show us our moral deflections. God will throw it over all churches to show whether they are doing useful work or are standing instances of idleness and pretense. He will throw that plumb-line over all nations to demon* strate whether their laws are just or cruel, their rulers good or bad, their ambitions holy or infamous. He threw that plumb-line over the Spanish Monarchy of other days, and what became of her? Ask the splintered hulks of her overthrown Armada. He threw that plumb-line over French imperialism, and what was the result? Ask thecruins of the Tuilleriesand the fallen column j of the Place VendonM and the grave i trenches of Sedan, anti the blood of! revolutions at different times rolling] through the Champs Elysets. He threw j that plumb-line Over ancient Rome, and ] what became of the realm of the Ceasars? Ask her war eagles, with beak dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into the Tiber. Oh, sick and diseased, and 'sinningand dying hearer, why go trudging all the world over and seeking here and there relief for your discouraged spirit, when close by, and at your very feet, and at the door of your heart, aye, within the very estate of your own consciousness, the healing waters of eternal life may be had, ard had this very hour, this very minute, this very Sabbath? Blessed be God that over against the plumb line that Amos saw is the cross, through the emancipating power of which you and I may life and live forever!

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. Labor in the iron and steel mills is overtaxed. • .The woolen outlook is much better than it was a monthago. , Railroad construction is calling for all the common labor that can be had. A machine has been made which makes either a wire nail or a cut nail. Twenty-five tons of wire is the daily output of a new Chicago wire-mill. Take care of the pence and the absconding cashier will take care of the, pounds. Two thousand men have just been started making narrow-gauge rails at Carondulet, Mo. The Lake Superior ore output this year was thirty tons for ever v twentythree tons last year. The vapor-stove manufacturers will pool their interests in Cleveland, the home of the Standard. The natural gas company has struck Tennesse, and a company has started operations at Oliver, that State. In a comparatively short time all the large industrial establishments East will be lighted by electricity. The largest knife-grinder ever made is in use at Fitchburg, Mass., and weighs between three and tour tons. The shoe manufacturers are pleased with the rctive demand and good prices realised for boots and shoes. The cutlery manufacturers have advanced prices from 16 to 26 per sent, since their combination went into eftect. All the coal miners in and around E vansville are on a strike. Cause: Want higher wages. Probably 10,0QP men are involved. Affair month’s Stove molder’ff’gfrike in St. Louis has been declared off, anu old hands are forced to seek employment elsewhere. The Mennonite colony of silk-grow-ers in Ka sas are encouraged by State contributions and by liberal prices from Eastern consumers. . - The largest steel ingot ever cast in England weighed seventy tong,was sixtytwo inches in diameter, arid was for a gun to be forty feet long. . The Brockton, Mass., Shoe Asse'mbly, which numbered I,TOO members a year ago, is now practically out of existence, so says its chief officer. Sunday factory labor in Germany is enforced by the sharp competition between employers,and an agitation which will a;'rpst it is likely to set in. -An English mechanic with an “Hon. :i before his name has made an engine which makes 10,000 revolutions per minute, and which can be increased to 30,000. All Western machine shops seem to .be crowded, but labor organizations there are warning Eastern mechanics not to imagine that they can Jump into situations easily. A larger„percentage of European labor will remain on this side of the Atlantic this winter than usual, to build bridges, open mines, erect shops and manufactories, and do all manner of ordinary labor. . go far this month 36,226 laborers struck, three-fourths of whom were miners. One thousand Boston cigar makers struck against the employment of apprentices, and 2,500 iron roll turners and others struck at Pittsbtlrg.

THE PUBLIC RECORD.

Krconl of tht Di-mocmOc I’arty m I .kltkihi Kesuli* in Forty C juiiilen. . , i"r - " In tana Cor. Cincinnati Qorpmercial Gazette. The financial history of Indiana abundantly proves that the Democratic party is a debt-making party. They have ever been ready to vote vast sums of money for one thing andanother without ever providing any way of furnishing the money. They seem to have a wonderful faith in lqck providing some way of eventually discharging the debts they create. They evidently believe that a public debt ia a public blessing, for, as far as I can find in the history of the State, they have never discharged any of the debts t ley were so free to contract, and this history is also found in their administrations of counties and cities. There is hardly a Democratic county in the State that is not heavily burdened with debt, and in too many instances the people have nothing to show for the-burden of debt they are carrying. I will admitthat the Republicans in some counties have been exceedingly libe-a! in contracting debts, but as a rule they have at the same time made some preparations for the payment of the obligations. While they have been liberal, they have fallen far behind their Democratic opponents, and their administration of both State and municipal affairs stand out in strong cbfitrust to the reckless and extravagant management of the Democrats. Belo wis a list of forty counties,ta enty of them Republican and twenty Democratic, with the assessed valuation of property in each, "and the amount of the county indebtedness. It will be seen that the twenty Republican counties have $27,293,648 more of taxable property than the Democratic counties, while their debt,is $434,037 less. The average valuation of the Republican counties is $10,067,586, and the average, debt is only $57,319. In tho Democratic counties the average vainaiion is only $8,702,909, while the average debt is $84,107. I have not picked these counties out in such a manner as to make the worst showing possible for Democrats, and the best for the Republicans, but, on the other hand, I have taken the Republican counties showing the heaviest indebtedness, while there are a number of Democratic counties having a larger indebtedness than some of those I have put in the TilTf Tile discrimination is realty against the Republicans. The table proves what was stated in the beginning, that the Democracy is a debt-creating party. It will be well for the people to study the table. It will help them to a rational understanding of the difference between the financial -management- ms the twoparties. In some things Indiana Democracy is an institution different from any found in other parts of the Union, but in its ability to squander money it does not stand on a pinnacle by itself. In that regard what Democracy is in Indiana it is in ail the other States. But here is the table: let the people make their own deductions:

REPUBLICAN. Names. Valuation. Debt. Benton... $6,(5-6,23* $6i,194 Delaware 18,151,795 13,000 Fayette 7,6 2,361 36,916 Grant 9,1*2,965 137,070 Green 5.»21,228 Si, o9 Hamilton 10.050.6,35 19" ,710 Hendricks 12,096,664 16,190 Henry. „*.... 18,806,773 32,900 Jasper 3.812,281 18.000 -Jhv.. 6.9*8,580 91,590 Jtniiingß 3,777,059 12,698 Kb8ciu8k0..A.:......:........i.. 11,0487196 110,000 Lawren5e..:................57 r c,sn,o o “ 68,248 Monroe * 6,043, ->57 92,785 Morgan 7,975.080 . 45.-00 Steuben 3,832,990 7,000 Tippecanoe 21.517.820 175.000 Vanderburg..™*..,:......—•••••, 23,673,225 .50,000 Vermillion 6,0-i8,515 :#,OOO Wayne 25,107,>17 32,000 Totai $201,351,738 $1,16.3214 DEMOCRATIC. Names. Valuation. Debt. Adams $4,5<6,105 $*5,387 Allen 7. 28,637.010 300,000 Bartholomew 10,854,910 100,000 Blackford " 2,737,28 i 52,800 4 lark 9,224 049 87,748 Clav 5,... 6,407,216 62,030 Dearborn.,., 8,994.570 40,000 Flovd.." 9,608,070 35,000 Hancock 8,8*5,100 44,0(XF Harrison... ■*., 4,468,01 a 86,162 Johnson 11.198,230 /.i.OOO Kn0x..... 10.853. (16. 104,500 Madison 10,827,910 101,580 Miami 8.651,105 1 0,000 Perry 2,394,92 5 92,941 Poee'v' 8,091 500 40.000 puiaski:::;::::::."".:....-. - 2,923,010 55,390 spencer ’ 5.242.080 92.000 Warrick'.'.'.'.’.'.'.'.’....,.. 5,046 960 '5,931 Total $174,058,190 $1,688,358 Uemocrncy the World Over. Columbus special,Sept.. 2, It has been discovered that the Democratic State executive committee has issued a garbled and fraudulent copy of Governor Foraker’s special message to the Ohio Legislature in April, 1886, relative to a proposed increase of the taxation of farming lands. This message had been made the subject of attack by the Democratic press and speakers, and was the sum and substance of their campaign argument. Of the 214 lines of the original document ninety-six have been eliminated and the entire sense and wording of the paper changed n order to suit Democratic claims. The forgery is further carried out by making the delivery of the message in April last,whereas it was the year before. The whole document is signed by Governor .Foraker’s name, , and ' thousands of copies sent broadcast ovef the State. The Governor has been apprised of the scheme, and arrests for forgery are likely to follow shortly. It is the clumsiest piece of campaign crookedness 6een here in years. Senator Sherman made his first speech in the Ohio campaign on Thursday last, and its general tenor was .of that candid and explicit sort which Democratic itica ensive.

l is pot in favor of, hanishinc the wor| “rebel'’from the vocib ilary.he saifljuoi doeq he think the qauSeof patriotism an« good governmen is to be best served by omitting to compare the acta and say> ings of the Democratic party, North an i South, for the last thirty years with tht ] acts and sayings of' the Republican ! party. It kill be seen that th 9 protest! of the tenderfeet'as he aptly calls them have not yet caused Mr. Sherman depart from his well-known habit of insisting that there were two side# to tiw war, and that one -was wholly, rigtu while the other was entirely wrong.

BODIES BURIED AT SEA.

Sieamers Have-t»o Means.of Keepinj Them. .].. Whbri a death occurs atyea a cerlif cate is filed containing all informatio as to the probable causes which produij jed death, and also as to thh manner c j disposing of the body. The'bodies f I persons who die at sea are kept twenty j four hours. In bygone times n superst t tion prevailed among sailors that if dead body were kept aboard a vessel d< struction would be its inevitable doom but the notion does not exist amon modern sailors. Monday, Aug. 3, Ret B. B. Dayton, of Amboy, N. Y., whil returning from abroad on the Cunar steamer Etruria, died suddenly and hi body was buried at sea. The action c the officers in thus disposing of th body gave rise to much adverse crit: cism. Some of the passengers said tba the services were not of a becomin nature. This report has reached th ears of the dead man’s wife and famil and their friends. In order that th facts of the case might be understooi the following statement was made b the officers of the ship: “Ihe body was discovered dead ii tlie stateroom about 9 o’clock Monua; evening. Immediately the doctor o the ship made it ready for burial. Afte; the usual preparations were complete! the remains were laid out and enshroud ed with an English flag because tha contains a cross. Tuesday morning th< body was sewed up in canvas and thei deposited in a wooden box, coverec over with the flag. Solemnly and witl every evidenced respect the remain! were carried on the shoulders of eigh sailors to the after-gangway. Chie Officer Seccomb, a humane and Chris tian sailor, had charge of the frmera o’clock Tuesday morning the ship’)' officers and a large number of the cabir passengers encircled the body and the funeral services were conducted by £ minister, one of the -passengers. At their conclusion and when the ministei read tife’ words ‘lnow consiga this body to the deep,’ the box, heavily weighted down with iron, was slid into the ocean. No secrecy prevailed, and everything was done in a proper anc orderly manner, being witnessed by any of the passengers who were so desirous.” .Aburial at sea is a solemn and impressive event, and not many passengers like to witness it. A death at sea casts a gloom over the rest o f the passengers, and naturally enough the officers try to do everything connected with the burial with as little ostentation and display as possible. On every steamer the custom is to bury the dead at sea. The captain of the ship is the sole arbiter in this matter. Whenever it is possible the body is carried into poit, providing the officers are convinced that the body will be claimed upon its arrival. All seamen are firm supporters of the theory that all persons dying on the high seas, unless a short distance from port, should be given up to the deep. On a heavily-laden steamer no room is provided where a dead body could be possibly preserve 1, The medicine fthest usually-.carried does not contain the necessary articles required To embalm a bddy7”^***' The . French and White Star lines carry metallic coffins, and where the friends of a deceased person manifest a desire or are anxious to undergo the expense the body will be preserved and carried to port if it can be done without danger to the other-passengers. Numerous cases have occurred where men of wealth and distinction traveling fori their health: have been buried at seac simply because they were unaccom-i panied and no evidence of who they were could be obtained. No law exists, as some steamship men claim, makes it compulsory upon the captain of a ship to bury a dead body at sea.

PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS.

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