Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

2®BB--Priee Of life Is living. The fact that one is on earth is no evidence .that he is alive,” exclaims a writer .’.who would have people, all of the people, more fully enjoy the present by making the most of it. Some people are so absorbed in mere money getting. some in mere money spending, land nearly all in one hobby or anotheii that few really enjoy life as it passes day by day, and not realizing that •“To-day is a king' tn disguise,” they never learn the meaning of true happiness. A boy and a dog bound together lie in the Charity Hospital at Bladrwel Island, New York. One of the boy's legs lacks bone above the ankle. Into this part of the leg a part of the dog - fore-leg has been ingrafted. If thdog dies another will be supplied. Tbv dog is a spaniel weighing about twenty pounds. Bandages of plaster of pans fasten him to the boy. The dog’s vocal chords are cut. When union between the boy’s bone and that of the dog has commenced the dog’s leg will he severed from connection with the boy’s, by cutting skin, arteries anc muscles, which now bind the dog to the boy. The skin will then be severed over the dog’s stump and all of the rest of the dog's leg will be cut from the boy’s leg except the ingrafted piece of bone. The surgeon conducting the experiment is Dr. A. M. Phelps, professor of orthopedic surgery in the University of New York. * It will be well for consumptives to be cautious about putting themselves under the care of doctors who profe*that they have adopted Prof. Koch’s system before the Professor himself has perfected the system, and before he has given the composition of the curative.lymph or the method of using it. There are but few of our respected physicians who would indulge in pretenses in a business of this kind. The most learned and careful members of our medical faculty are as yet engaged In studying the dispatches that are sent here from Berlin under Prof. Koch’s authority. They have great faith in the news that has thus been communicated, and probably more than a hundred of them are in Berlin, or have taken passage thither, to await developments. In a short time we shall have definite knowledge concerning a discovery which is of the highest importance to millions of sufferers all over the world.

It la an old saying, and one worthy of some consideration, that the worst thing that can happen to any mover ment is for it to become ridiculous. This is especially true in America, where the sense of humor of the average man is so keen and mot is often better than an argument. This was illustrated in a country town in Kentucky only a few days since. A burlesque company was advertised to appear in the place and had posted some rather “loud” paper on the walls. A member of the council moved that the town marshal be directed to tear the paper down, as it was an offense to decent people. Then there was some debate and at last a member from one of the back wards arose in his place and moved that the sum of $lO be appropriated for the purchase of a sufficient amount of tobacco bagging to cover the posters. He said that this would spare the sensitiveness of those who objected and enable those who could not go to the “show” and would like to see the pictures, to gratify their curiosity by raising the curtain. Bishop William Taylor, whose work in Africa for the Methodist Church is known everywhere, says that while Stanley was not a missionary like Dr. Livingstone, his influence upon Africa was hardly less beneficial. “In sharp contrast with the former type of explorer stands Stanley, who has been as thoroughly upright in his dealings with the blacks as was Livingstone. All the slanders which have been circulated against him can be at once set aside as false, for from the blacks who have accompanied him on his journey, and through whose territory Stanley has made his way, there comes nothing but the accounts of the most honorable of treatment. Having met Mr. Stanley personally I can commend him and the work he has done in Africa in the heartiest manner.” The most reliable evidence of a man’s conduct comes from the people with whom he had dealings. If Mr. Stanley has won the friendship of the natives of Africa. Messrs. Ward Troup, and the friends of the unfortunate Barttelot will attack Stanley’s character in vain.

Eight thensand Alabama m'nsrs are on a strike. Gold at Buenos Ayres on the 2d was 209 par cent, premium. OH was struck at Cardington, 0., at a depth es 3,300 fart. King Kalakua want* to sell his kingdom to the United States. Leprosy is on the increase among the Indtans and ChineseThßrltfshCoTutnbla. Mrs. Snell, of Chicago, has renewed her offer of a reward of >50,000 for the arrest of Tascott. Fire at the Jefferson Barracks,St. Louis. Mo., roasted sixty-six horses to death. Loss, >16,900. Fire destroyed the cotton yarn mill of the A, Campbell Manufacturing Company, Manayunk, Pa. Loss, >300,000. The cold wave extends over the northern part of the country. New .York had considerable snow, in some places over a foot Fire occurred in the warehouse of the Farmers' Alliance at Newman,Ga., on the Ist, completely destroying it: Loss,>so.ooo. The new wheel trust includes all the factories inthe West but two. Wagon and buggy wheels have increased in price about 70 per cent A member of the 3. T. Case threshing machine company, at Racine, states that the company will not join the threshing machine trust that is being formed. ’ The New Orleans cotton firm of V. & A* Meyer has suspended, with liabilities aggregating 62,500,000. They say they wilj pay in full. Slow collections, tight money and a decline in cotton are given as the causes. A disease called “blackleg" has attacked the cattle of Eldridge township, a few miles southeast of Paris, 111., and is causing much apprehension among the stock raisersof that section. A number of fine animals have died, and a general epidemic is feared. John Hutchinson, who fled from Xenia 0., several years ago, to escape prosecution for shortage of his accounts as bookkeepdr of the JNational Bank, has returned, pleaded guilty to the charges against him, and been sentenced to the penitentiary fortwoyears The schools of Alton. 111., have been closed by the Board of Education because of the prevalence of diphtheria and scarlet fever. The decision is generally condemned by conservative citizens, who consider the children safer in school than outA special from Fort Smith, Ark., says: Four men, two on a side, met nn tnn highway near Maldron on the Ist, and fought with knives. One of them named Gillum was cut seriously across the neck and he Will die. Two others, Tom Hammond and his son, are badly cut. The Rollenhouse Manufacturing Co., of Passaic, N. J., wollen blankets, employing 800 hands, went into bankruptcy, with very heavy liabilities. The President invested nearly a million dollars in wool, expecting increase of price by the passage of McKinley bill, but the price didn’t raise. Five men were killed and three fatally hurt by the fall of a furnace at Juliet, 111., on the 4th. The accident occurred at the Illinois Steel and Iron Company’s works. Eleven men were making repairs, on the blast furnace, when it fell without warning, burying the men under the debris. Three of the men escaped. The question, “Shall women be admitted into the General Conference of theM .E Church as lay delegates!” has been submitted to the congregations of all the Methodist churches in the United States and the Philadelphia Methodist states that enough of the returns have been received to show that the women have carried the day, and, so far as the popular will goes, they are entitled to seats in the General Conference as lay delegates. In consequence of the favorable reference to Galveston, her superior position in connection, with the trade, of the great Northwest and with the commerce of South America, contained in the Presidents message, a Presidential salute was fired there on the 2d in honor of the President and in recognition of his compliment to Galveston. Mayor Fulton telegraphed the Texas delegation in Congress to wait upon President Harrison and present him personally with the compliments of the city. Special Treasury Agent Mason and secret service officer Treadwell descended upon a den of counterfeiters near Newmarket, Mo., on the 7th, and captured Horn Barker, a man by the name of Henley and a third counterfeiter whose name could not be learned. The officers also confiscated the entire plant, consisting of plates, dies and presses, and over >30,0000 in spurious money. The counterfeit money made by them has been shipped East for’ circulation, and Mr. Mason says it is a very dangerous imitation, especially the >2O bills. The public has been warned against them by the Eastern papers. The officershave been working up the case for over two months. The Indian situation on the 4th was again reported more hopeful. Severe weather and a driving storm of cutting sleet prevail at Pine Ridge. The troop s are hugging their camp fires, while the Indians sre freezing in their gauze-like tepees just outside the precincts. Agent Royer will call in the Indians at the agency and give them a big feed at the store house. Should the present storm continue, and particularly should there be a heavy fall of enow, the ponies of the Indians now here and whose hay has been stolen by the hostiles will die of starvation. At the best this winter will inevitably be very tough. There copper faces who have bowed their heads to government rule in the present instance art suffering, while their rebelious and thieving brothers are living on the fat of the land. The Government World’s Fair Board has decided to ask Congress for more legislation and more money. The law appropriating >1,500,000 for the Government exhibit isso vague that the Government Board will ask Congress to pass a joint -resolution defining the powers of the board, to indicate how far they may go in buying articles for exhibit and to explain what property of the Government maybe exhibited. Of the >1,500,000 appropriated there is a definite application of put 6*00,000. That amount is to be spent for a Government building. Archir a

Vet Windrim is now making designs for thia building, which is to stand in Jackson Park. The rest of the appropriation, is not enough to pay the expenses of the Fair Commissioners and the Government exhibit, therefore a million more will be asked for by the Government Board. The commission appointed by Governor Tbayer to devl se means for relieving the suffering esused by the shortage of crops in. Nebraska has submitted a report Lshpwing an almost total failure of crops in twelve counties, and that ten thousand families are in need of assistance. The Governor discourages appeals to outside States lest they idjure the credit of Nebraska but promises relief when the Legislature meets. In Frontier county there are eight thousand people, and a large portion of them are becoming desperate. Wheat only yielded one or at most two bushels to the acre. There are no vegetables. All the salable stock has been disposed of, and that remaining is being killed. The animals are too small and poor to furnish food. The committee says that destitution is greater than that caused by the Johnstown flood or the Chicago fire. Practically the same story comes from Canadian - county, Oklahoma. A special correspondent at Pine Ridge Agency, on the 4th, says, the hostile Indians are making use of every moment’s delay on the part of the military to move on them by streughtening their now almost impregnable camp in the dreaded Bad Lands. The 400 or 500 squaws with them are working day and night digging" rifle pits about the camp. This is something unusual if not wholly unprecedented on the part of the Indians preparing'for war The reason of this movement, our scout says, is more to insure the protection of the immense quantities of stolen beef and provisions in the camp than to insure a great slaughter of soldiers. The moment that these supplies are captures by the military, that moment the Indians must surrender, unless their thirst for blood is so intense as to lead them to fight until they are downed, either by starvation or United States bu 1 lets. .. . ■ - At best, whether the military can capture the bulk of the hostiles’ supplies or not, the Indians have undoubtedly secreted small quantities sufficient in the aggregate to run them for at least eight or ten weeks. Agent Royer fulfilled his promise to reward the friendless who continue staying in the vicinity of the agency, and has made a special issue of provisions. More than 500 squaws presented themselves at the store-house, Wednesday, and went away loaded down with food. There was not a male Indian in the throng. It is rumored that Two Strike, the chief under whom the hostiles are marshalled, is wheeling around within shooting distance of the agency for the purpose of getting additional pointers on the military.