Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — Page 2

HOME DECORATION.

An Riport Gives Soria e Hints Worth Heeding in'Fail ReWont lows. ' Never hang a picture so that it will be necessary to mount a stepladder to view it. Hang it so that the center will-be about five feet nth! a half ftom the floor, a little below the line of vision of a person of average height. Never select furniture whos,e “means of support" do not appear adequate. Chairs with spindle legs inclined too far inward or outward have an apparent tendency toward disruption/ and - are constant terrors to callers. Straight subi stauttal legs suggest strength and inspire, econfidence. Never treat a hallway as though it were ’a dOoryard, and no part, of the house proper. A hall should be inviting and hold out to the visitor a promise of the beauty of the inner rooms. Never put a piece of furniture into a room merely because it is pretty aril will fill up. Every article should have its real and apparent use; as a general thing the necessary pieces will occupy furniture. Never permit a white marble mantel to disfigure an other wise,tasteful room Cover it with a draped mantel hoard White marble has a suggestion of cemeteries about it. It always looks crude in a drawing room, even in form of the finest sculpture. Never forget that an open fire and judiciously selected pictures will.make any room cheerful. Never put paper on the walls of a nursery, it is better to either point or calcimine. There is always danger of pojMtti& the coloring of the paper or of the paste becoming sour. Never have a drawing room so filled with frail and delicate bric-a-brag that the hast raovmeflt is fraught with danger of costly and wholesale breakage. This does not conduce to ease. Never have a dark carpet and wall in. a room that is deficient in light. Only apartments open to tlie outer light will stand gloomy tones in decoration. Never use ad inordinately large mirror with » bulbous gilt frame, planned with the evident purpose of getting rid of as much gold-leaf as possible. 'Small bevelled glasses in scones or framed ir. rich plush of color harmonizing with that of the wall paper are in better tasle.

Never liang a picture from one nail Aside from the mere question of safety, the use of two nails, the ‘cord stretched across them so as to come down squarely to the corners of the frame, has a symmetrical effect and makes the walls look very much more finished. Never place a picture or a bit of decoration where it does not 6eive some artistic purpose. If a picture is intended to be seen in a strong light do not put it in an obscure corner, and on the other hand, if it be painted iu a high color key, do not bring it within the direct influence of a brilliant sun-burst.

FARM NOTES.

This is the time of the year to feed! sun flower seeds to the hens, as the) seeds will assist them to molt. Feed the i seeds three times a week. The fence-corners are the post-holes | of the farm. From.them spring nearly : all the weed-seeds and undesirable i grasses which are scattered over the | fields. Rail fences ar expensive on ac-1 count of the ground they occupy and j the weeds they protect. If necessary, ] the hoe should be brought into requisition to clean out the spaces along the . fence. It is useless to save seed, from large, first k3ass-melons if more varieties than ! one are growing on the same location, as no reliability can be placed on such ; seeds next season. Not only will varieties of watermelons mix but if is unsafe to grow them in the neighborhood of pumpkins. Coin of different varieties will also mix, even when separated at great distances. Wire grass is a pest that proves very troublesome, as every joint produces a new plant. If it overruns a held the surest mode of killing it is to keep the ground well shaded with .some thickly growing crop, such as millet, buckwheat or peas. Wire grass delights in plenty Of sunlight. If it becomes thickly rooted the ground should be plowed and harrowed, and a shading crop put on as soon as possible.

Forger Harvey’s Wife

West chester speck! to Philadelphia olograph! j- When the &05 train on the Pennsylvania Railroad arrived from Philadelphia last evening at the Market street station a lady alighted whose face, though pale and agitated, still' bore traces o: the beauty which made her so famous years ago, when she was numbered among West Chester’s popular wife of the condemned Washington forger, Oscar J. Harvey, who goes to the a! ibany Penitentiary next week to serve j otV his sentence of twelve years. .<he was unattended, and her home coming appeared to have been unheralded.since , greet her; and, passing by unheeded the numerous calls olhackmen, she Walked through the “station and turned into Market street ih dhe direction diH&r home of her mother, Mrs. Fedora Holdpg. , " Those who saw and recognized Mrs. jjarvey mentally contrasted this home

! coining of hers with the brilliant oecaJ sion seven years .ago when she left West Chester a . proud and blushing' bride. "Never before or since wm* wedding fes* ] ! tivities conducted on such a grand scale, j j A whole train was chartered to convey | the guests from various points to West I Chester to witness the wedding cere--1 monies. Carriages.from every livery in | town were kept in continuous motion | ' hearing the friends of the bridal party from point to point, while; florists, whb were given carte blanche to provide the choicest (rents for the hot house and j Conservatory/vied w ith each other in ; floral decorations which were the sensation of the hour. All these epormous ! expenses were provided for by Oscar J. Ilarvey, the groom, whose love of disj play, since disclosed in his house deco* i rations, was thus, early developed. It 1 was an occasion long, t0.., 1ie remembered |by the citizens of Wist Chester, who, j w hile they, in common with others, de- } non nee the actions of Harvey, have 1 much sympathy for the woman who 1 left her home here to become his wife, i Mrs. Harvey came frotn Philadelphia, where she had been staving, for ( some time with Mrs. Charles Langdon, and wili remain with her mother, Mrs. Holding, for an indefinite period.

Putting Up a Boy’s Bunch.

Robert .1. Burdette. ] A recent writer—and she writes as one whom any boy would love—tells how she saw a mother put up a lunch for her bov. to take to school, and then she tells very prettily how daintily Bhe would have put up that lunch, and I know she would do just as she said. But she didn’t go far enough. Now, if I were going to put up a lunch for a boy 13 years old, I wouldn’t take a little tin pail nor yet a neat little covered basket. I would just take the market basket, if the family wasn't going to use it that day, and I would dut up a loaf of bread, and trim off every bit of crust to ke'ep the boy from lying about it, and telling me that he ate it and didn’t fire it over the fence, when he came home. I would cut that loaf of bread into slices and spread on butter until it began to fall off, and then I would stack on the sugar as long as it would hold. Then I would! load in a couple of links qf sausages and some slahsof ham; a dainfv cluster of hard boiled eggs—say a half a dozen—all the cake there was in the house, and fill up the rest of the space with pie, and then stuff two of his pockets full of apples to eat during school hours, and fill the rest of his pockets with nuts, and give him five cents to buy ‘taffy.’ Then if that boy came home at 4 o’clock and said he didn’t have enough luncheon and couldn’t he have a piece, I would give him the keys to the cellar, cupboard, pantry, cake chest, and fruit closet, and, yielding, to dark despair, go out into the barn and hang myself. We were a bov myself, once.

Pills for Doctors.

Physician (to anxious wife) —We have held a consultation, madam, over your husband’s ease; he is a very sick man, and it might be well to send for a minister, I think. Anxious Wife— Will one be enough, .doctor, or would you advise a consultation o£mimßter3?— Life. / Pltteburger— Doctor, Lam convinced that I am suffering frdjn the mbit pronounced form of insomarvia. M. I).—WhaLare your symptoms? Pittsburger—On Sunday last I remained awake during the entire service, though the service was one hour long and the thermometer in the vestibule stood at *2 degrees.—Pittsburg Bulletin. A younc physician who had recently hung out EisTsigri,“came"home one day in high spirits. “Do you know, my dear,” he said to I his wife, “I’m really becoming quite I well known here. The undertakers j bow to ihe already.”—French Fun,

An Old Man’s Crankism.

| Albany (X. Y,) special. Horace Allen, aged eighty-three years, a grandnephew of Ethan Allen of Rev<v lutionarv fame, arrived hi Albany ti 1 dav, having pushed a wheelbarrow from ; Iris home in Delaware, Ohio, a distance of 675 miles. He srarted on his great tramp on June 18th,. and rode only twenty-eight miles of the whole distance, j He averaged about nine miles a day,and [ reached as high as fifteen. The old man jis wonderfully vigorous for his years. I At one time he was worth several hunj dred thousand dollars, but lost all in | the panic of 1873. He took to wheelharrowing to cure his rheumatism, and declares that he ha- succeeded. Tomorrow he will push on to the Green Mountaiu State, where he was Dorn.' He expects to go as fai east as Boston

New Designs in Table Ware.

Jeweler's Weekly. A leaf oi Roman lettuce, in which lies a cherry, makes an appropriate olive dish. A unique design in dessert places of royal Worcester ware represnts a folded napkin. Bowls, plates and dishes in Novo ware, beautifully figured, promises to become popular.

How Sad.

"Sfre~gged”tetifccwiPteTr«>*'«l*otigbt-H To plow through the snow-storm or skate on the ice; if But now when it's mentioned she sighs forth “Alack!” • For she hasn't* teal-skin sacque to her bacquet

THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS.

Nature CUt Oui Every Man’s Work! lor Him. I !.' _ ■ i JProyidpnp* Journal If a visible line could he drawn between the successful anil unsuccessful i tavn of our day and generation we | should be surprised in seeing how finch the larger proportion are upon the wrong side. The majority of men are failures. Every profession and avenue jof business is crowded with them. And this is the more surprising "when we see how easily others appear to succeed, as if success w ere really an easy thing to attain. It is easy; if only a few simple laws are obeyed. It is not a matter of luck, but of merit. In the long run a man earns what he gets, and if he fails it-is because he has earned failure. The exceptions to this just law of God are less numerous than they appear. If we could see the hidden causes, we should find that the lucky accident has come to the man who from some peculiar merit deserved it. The unlucky man has always to explain how he happened to he in the way of ill luck, and the explanation is usually an accusation. Nature in the main follows Napoleon’s maxim, and gives the tools to him who can use them, and is not slow' in taking them away from him who cannot. Failure for the most part means that a man is trying to use tools that he was never intended to handle—and that he should lose no time in getting hold of others—sometimes a higher class of implements, but too often very much lower. Nature evidently never meant that Grant should be. a tanner, nor that Richelieu should be a poet, having very different work for both. Precisely so it is through all the departments of life. A man has his work appointed to him before be is born.

The first requisite of success,therefore, is the right choice .of an occupation. Nature makes few mistakes, and she has fitted every one for some special work in life. “What am I fitted for?” is the most essential question a man has to answer. Answered correctly one will have nature’s assistance in everything he does, and his work will be done easily aiid without any needless frietion; answered wrongly, and he will have her continual opposition and protest, until he is an apparent, if not a self-confessed failure. There was a deep truth in the old demand that a candidate for the ministry should be called; but such a call is always a natural one, and consists in fitness. The same call is made from all directions. “Called to be m*. a priest forever,” is hot truer of one than called to be a merchant, general editor or statesman, was of Stewait, Grant, Katkoft or Edmund Burke, and they would have had little success without the call. Even if called to be a hewer of stone or drawer of water, a man’s highest possible success lies in going where he is called. It is for lack of heeding this that we have the incompetence and failure so frequent in life, men vainly trying to do what they were not meant to do, and only learning in the bitter school of experience that no success is possible there. The highest aim of education ought to be to Teach a young man what he is best fitted for. No man is educated until he has learned this. Many never learn it, having to learn, however, by very severe discipline, what they are not fitted for. Another essential element of success is faithfulness.' The practical world puts a premium upon good workmanship. This quality alone is well-nign sufficient to lead any one into the highest positions in life. It may be safely said that every business man is at all times on the watch for persons wboean invariably he trusted to do work well. Especially is this true of positions of honor and trust. They are open to him who in some lower sphere has proved himself trustworthy. Any one who shows even an average capacity for hi 3 work and will do it with absolute faithfulness, equally attentive to small details, will speedily findthedays tooshort j for tlia honorable and remunerative work that men invite him to do. It is at ail times false that there is no work to be found. Only for the there is no employment, and ought to be none. Plenty of work, with good wages and increasing prosperity are the certain rewards of faithfulness. Let any young man start in life with the determination to put the best that he has into the discharge of every duty, and some o! the best things in life will eventually become bis own. There is still “room at the top,'" and faithfulness is one of the essential conditions of ascent. Nor can any one succeed at last in, any sphere of life without a degree of piety, in its older and mqre beautiful sense of iiahitU3.Lre_v_erenee toward nature and her laws. This is not the teaching of the Christian religion only, but equally of all religion and the experience of mankind; The elements of success are moral mainly, and absolute obedience to moral laws is essential to the preservation of a Clear head and sound judgment. Whoever is not obedient will sooner or later find that he has been sowing the wind onlv to reap a will mftr if not srfick. his fortunes when he least expects What the mass of men most need to learn is, that the elements of success and failure both lie in themselves.

Either onte is within our reach; the one hearing immense rewards and the other ; terrible penalties.

Railroad Land Matters.

Washington Special,. Acting; Land Commissioner Stockslager has promulgated the orders of the Secretary of the Interior restoring to the public domain the lands embraced in indemnity withdrawals from the North ern Pacific railroad. The restored land aggregates 9,000,000 acres, exclusive of 1,090,000 acres embraced in Indiari reservations which were, therefore, not included in the withdrawals. The lands affected by the restoration are in the Ashland, Wis;, district; fi,400 acres; in Crookston, Duluth, Fergus Falls, St. Clpud, and Taylor’s Falls districts in Minnesota, 890 acres; Fargo and Bismark, Dak,, districts, 1,800 000 acres; in Bozeman, Helena, and Miles City districts, in Montana, 4,000,000 acres; in Cojnr d’Alena and Lewiston districts, in Idaho, 500,000 acres; in North Yakima, Olympia, Spokane Falls, Vancouver, and Walla Walla districts, in Washington Territory, 1,500,000 acres. oh the GerieraT Land Office has been advised of the decision of the United States District Court for Colorado, Judge Hallett, in two cases against the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, brought at the instance of the Land Department, for trespass in cutting timber miscellaneously on public lands. The court sustains the rulings ot the Commissioner and Secretary of the Interior in holding that timber authorized to be cut for railroad construction purposes can only be taken from lands adjacent to the line of the road. Judge Hallett defines the term “lands adjacent to the line of said road” as used in'the statute, as being such lands only as are “within” such distance from the line of the road as may be reached by ordinary transportation by wagons, and not otherwise ” The burden of proof to show that timber cut for railroad construction purposes is used for those purposes is upon the company and not upon the United States. Judgment was recommended in favor of the United States in the two suits mentioned for 140.000. Upwards of $1,000,000 are embraced in other similar suits now pending against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company - and other corporations.

Redeeming Mutilated Money.

Bank President in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I am often asked whether this or that piece of mutilated money is redeemable. It is safe to say, unless the money’s identity is entirely gone, that it is redeemable. In fact, one may say that money in the shape of ashes can be restored. It is a, fact that after the Chicago fire ashes were redeemed. It came about in this way: It is customary in banks 1o do money up in packages, say of SIO,OOO each, and in the big lire of course hundreds and hundreds of these packages were reduced to ashes. But the shape of £he package remained, and wherever the package could be sent'bn to Washington without crumbling the ashes the money was sure to be replaced. it was done by nimble-fingered women in the Treasury Department whose trained touch and sight are wonderfully acute. It is well known that the ashes of a newspaper if dampened will show traces of the printing. So was it with the bills. These women would moisten the package of apparently useless ashes, and to their experienced eye the number and character of the bill would at once appear as if they had touched it with a magic wand. „

Always Tell the Truth.

Boston Record. A careless man while at work in the Back Bay the other day dropped a brick from the second story of the building on which he was engaged. Leaning over the wall he discovered a well dressed gentleman with his hat crushed over eyes and ears and engaged in a desperate effort to extricate his head irotn its battered covering. ” “Did that brick strike any one down there?” the man inquired, bis voice quivering with apprehension. The afflicted citizen, who had just removed the dismantled cranial adornment, re--msiderable wrath: plied, witn “Yes, sir; it hit me.” . “That’s right,” came the cool and ex* asperating response. “I would rather 1 have wasted 1,000 bricks than to have had you tell me a lie about it.”

A Bright Future.

New York Suu. “When I was twenty-one yeats of age,” said he, “I thought that if I wasn’t rich at thirty I would be too old to en. joy wealth.” “How old are you now.?” “Seventy.” “And rich, of course?” “No. I’m a poor man yet; but I’ve got a scheme in view that will make me as rich as mud before I’m eighty, and then I propose to take things easy and enjoy life.” '

A Short Homey Crop.

Honey will be high this year. The three leading honey producing states, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, have absolutely no honey at all, and in many parts of these states the beee are being fed on sugar to keep them from starving Last year California sent honey to the east by the car-load; this year they have hardly enough for home consumption.

TRADE AND LABOR.

f hilaJciphin Record. Workmen at Anniston, Ala. iron’ works are paid $1 to $4 per day. Thirty electrical roads now being built wijl’be running before winter shall have ,set in. ■ Some splendidly equipped vessels are i being built for freight service on the lakes. Knights of Labor in Atlanta, Ga., buy only from those,who advertise ip labor papers. All cf the best fire brick used in Alabama is taken from Pennsylvania and Maryland. Northwestern Pennsylvania expects to have the largest plate glass works in the world. The Knights of Labor are quietly -extending their organization, especially in the West. Large works are to be established at Chattanooga, Tenn., to erect electric light plants. A new wire mill will be erected at Braddocks, Pa. It wid employ one hundred men. The “largest” tile and pottery works ever-built in this country are talked of at Austin, Minn. From all accounts, between 2,000 and 3,000 coke ovens will be erected during the next twelve months. Brick making will be pushed more a tively on account of the pressure for supplies in the early spring. The lumber manufacturers have orders for all the stock they can deliver within the next thirty days. Labor is in demand in nearly all crafts. Armour is building a packing house in Chicago to cover five acre 3. A device for utilizing the power of Niagara river has been sold in two counties bordering the river for $62,500. Coal operators in the West are very stubborn in their opposition to the semi nionthly payments demanded by law. The Chinese government has bought 6,000 tons of steel rails, and the Indian government has just ordered 18,000 tons English manufacturers are jealous of the prospects opening up before the American manufacturers of iron and steel. The “pluck me” stores, against which the Pennsylvania Legislature raised its arm, are still flourishing throughout the State.The projection of new cotton and woolen mills indicates that the textile industry is not so bad off as some jobbers put it. Builders say there will be much more vork done next winter than usual, especially in alterations, exterior and interior. The largest elevator in the world is to be built on Goose island, Chicago. The dimensions will be 476x150 feet, and 225 feet high. The builders will first feel the decline in activity. A vast amount of work is i.under contract to be finished by Oct. 15 and Nov. 1. One hundred coke ovens will be built at Coaldale, Ala., and, a large steel mam ufacturing plant will be located at North Birmingham. A Bessemer steel plant will be erected at Antimony City, Ark., and a large iron fence manufactory will be established at Plattsmouth, Neb. » —— : Five million dollars have Been subscribed to build a new town near Stevenson, Ala., where manufacturing will be done on a large scale. The largest smelting and redaction works in the country are to be erected at Tacoma. Cost $2,000,000. Labor is snuffing fresh opportunities there. The manufacturers of agricultural implements and tools are organixing for the purpose of advancing prices and dividing business up among themselves. In English mills a replacement of machinery is necessary every ten years. In American mills, the machinery being better made and lighter, runs much longer. . ~ The leading lights in the South are advising all Southern young men who want to stand in the front rank of the, world’s leaders to go into manufacturing. A man shoveling dirt a shovel one pound heavier >v ,an It need be, will lift 0,000 pottlids more in a day of ten I hours than he would with a shovel one pound lighter. Nearly all the glass works in the < country are receiving heavy orders, and ' a « manufacturers think the demand will be string enough to mV ce an ad ' vapee before wilder. The erection of ten,?tiiefii houses for employes is now quite a common thing in the new sections. The houses are well built, roomy, and rent cheap or sell on reasonable terms. The distribution of merchandise and manufactured products,is now going on at a greater rate than it was twelve months ago. The increase has Ijeen estimated at 5 per cent. Mechanics who work in lead afenHen" driven into'consumption. A life-saving respirator has teen introduced in California arid other places West that - saves the workmen very much. The question as to what is the exact mechanical-equivalent oi heat has long puzzled engineers. The latest experiments show that one pound of water raised 1° F. is equal to oneponndlifted 769 feet. The boot and shoe manufacturers are selling large supplies to lumbermen and miners in the Northwest. Some manufacturers have withdrawn their

salesmen from the road, and will try the j old plan of doing business. I Three valuable coal beds in the We3t known aa tire Gunti son deposits, eover 1,000 square miles, and contain lignites, bituminous and anthracites. Railroad, mining and manufacturing interests are opening up these fields. In the machine shops arid car and locomotive works, as well as in the ship yards and tool works, employment will . be more abundant than it was last winter, and a great deal of new machinery is being put up for a hnsv winter’s work. Kansas sugar-making enthusiasts expect to have this country independent - of foreign sugar in a few years. Land there can be made to produce from ten to fifteen tonsof sorghum-cane. Besides this sugar, ten gallons of molasses per ton is made. A company with a capital of $590,000 has leased fifteen miles of coal landß near Paris, Tex , and will open it at once. Capitalists from East Saginaw, , Mich., have purchased two or three counties of West Virginia mineral land to develop it. / -The Mlnneapolis flour-makers have shipped forty-one barrels of flour this year for thirtv-3even barrels last year. The mills are turning out 160,000 barrels per week. For every 100 bushels of potatoes raised last year, only 84 are raised this year. One coal mine in Western Pennsylvania is ventilated with natural gas. The fire which gives the upward current is a natural gas flame. Pipes are used to collect the gas, which is conducted to the bottom of the ventilating shaft after having been burned. German plumbers melt the frost out of the ground by spreading a layer of • quicklime, over which i 3 put a layer of show, apd these layers are repeated several times, a jcordihg to the extent of the frost. Next morning the ground is ready for pick and shovel. The clothing'manufacturers are pursuing a very cautious course in manufacturing for winter distribution. A great many foreign goods are coming in, and this fact disarranges the plans of American manufacturers. Many work, men have been thrown off. In the bituminous mines there is a demand for nearly ail the miners, and but. few- are coming from abroad. Mining labor, which ordinarily is obliged to roam to and fro over the country in “Seasons” this winter will be more stationary, and employment will be more steady. 1 The monster steam hammer of Krupp, the German gunmaxerl is nearly two-hundred feet high. The hammer falls on a block of metal weighing 20,000 tons. One of the cross pieces bears an inscription which, trautlated, reads: “Let her go, Fritz.” Ail access to •jthe works is forbidden. The horsepower employed is equal to ‘ = The boot and shoe manufacturers of England are much pleased over the latest trade developments. Dealers are buying fewer high and more mediumpriced goods. A year ago the prices ranged all the way from $3 50 to $4.50, Popular prices are now between $2.25 and $3 for shoes. Only specialties are commanding.outside prices.- Everything points to an early winter business. in inducing their employers to adopt the new price list. The extent to which organized iabor can actually advance the value of labor over what labor, could bring without such organization is a subject which has received but little attention from employers or employed. Labor answers by referring to all the numerous advances that have been made, which it counts as so mu.li gain, l.ihployers deduct increased cost of rent and living and increased expenditure induced by higher wages. The gain, while something, is less than it appears, tu be on account of off setting causes. Two million dollars will shortly be invested in textile mills in a dozen or more Eastern towns. The Maine manufacturing centers are beginning to feel the stimulus of increasing manufacturing activity. Several large cotton concerns are enlarging their .. facilities, among them the Lonsda’e, the Globe, j the Merrick, and the Amoskeag. Great 4 ” improvements are being introduced into these ngw mills. The Lonsdale is\ finishing one Of the finest factories ever built. The Otis Company is building a arge mill, 410 by 118 feet. The Pacific r Grhpany, at Lawrence. Mass., i 3 build- - immense mill 444 bv 74 feet, ing ail tmn* The Cheney Bros, ale- building A mUI 825 by 60 feet. All the Eastern silkmil is are very busy. The demand for skilled labor in machine shops of all kinds throughout the country is greater at this time than for several years. Special arrangements have been made to secure English and German labor within the next ninety efaysP Farm hands are being initiated into to mysteries of the machine shop, tempted by the higher wage 3 offered. Leading manufacturers are beginning now to recognize the very urgent necessity for technical education. Foreign laborers, although skilled in iheimwn country, have to be in many respects re-taught here. A number of shops in Indiana, Illinois and West of the Mississippi are at this time in need of skilled workmen, and there is an * emigration of machinists from the East to the West, although it has not large proportions. 1