Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — Page 3

“COME, SEE THE PLACE.”

HOSANNA! CHRIST, THE CRUCIFIED. HAS RISEN. let Beautiful Flowers Adorn the Casket and the Grave—Dr. Talmage'l Sermon.

4 Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn and New York Sunday and Sunday night.. Tejxt: Matthew xxvii. 6. He sirfd: Visiting any great city we are not satisfied until we have also looked at its eemetery. We exainine all the styles of cenotaph, mausoleum, sarcophagus, crypt and sculpture. Here lies buried a statesman, yonder an orator, here a poet, over there an inventor, in some other place a great philanthropist. But with how much greater interest and with more depth of emotion we look upon our family plot in the cemetery. In the one case Jt is a matter of public interest; in the other it is a matter of private and heartfelt affection. But around the grave at which we halt this morning there are gathered all kinds of sturmdous interest. At this sepulcher, have to tell you, in this sepulcher there was buried a King, a Conqueror, an Emancipator, a Friend, a Brother, a Christ, Monarch of the -universe, but bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, and sorrow of our sorrow, and heart of our heart. “Come, see the place inhere the Lord “Tayf” ■ 'lt has for surroundings the manor in the suburbs of Jerusalem, a manor owned by a wealthy gentleman by the name of Joseph. He was one of the Court of Seventy who had condemned Christ, but I think he had voted in the negative, or, being a timid man, had been absent at the time of the casting of the vote. He had laid out the parterre at great expense. It was a hot climate and I suppose there were broad barnehed trees and winding paths underneath them, while here, the water rippled over the rock into a fish pool, and yonder the vines and flowers clambered over the wall and all around there were the beauties of kioskaiid arboriculture. After the fatigues of the Jerusalem court room, how refreshing to come out in thesesuhurbs Ixitanfcal aud pomologies], I walk a little further on in the parterre and I come across a cluster of rocks, and I see on them the marks of a sculptor’s chisel. I come still closer, and I find that there is a subteranean recess, and I walk down the marble stairs and come to a portico over the doorway—an architecture of fruits and flowers chiseled by the hand of .the sculptor. I go into the portico, and on either side there are rooms —two or four or six rooms of rock; in the. walls niches, each niche large enough to hold a dead body. One of these rooms of rock Ls especially wealthy with Sculpture. It was a beautiful and charming spot. Why all Ihi.J.’ The fact was that JosTpirthe owner of the parterre, of that wealthy manor, had recognized the,fact that, he could not always walk these gardens, and he sought this as his own last resting place. What, .a beautiful plot in which to wait for the resurrection! Mark well the mausoleum in the rock. It is to be the most celebrated tomb in all the ages; cateoombs of Egypt, tomb of Napoleon. Mahal Taj of India, nothing compared with It. Christ had just been murdered tnd his body must be thrown out to the dogs and the ravens, as was customary with crucified bodies, unless there be prompt and effective hinderonce. Joseph, the owner of the mausoleum, bogs for the 'body of Christ, and he takes and washes the poor and mutilated frame from the blood and the dust, and shrouds it and perfumes it. I think embalmment was omitted. When in olden times they wished w> embalm a dead body, the priest with 6ome pretention of medical skill would show the point between the ribs where tiie incision was to be made. Then the operator would come and make the incision, and then run for his life else he would be slain for violating the dead body. Then the other priests would come with saltJflf niter and cassia, and wine of palm tree, and complete the embalmment. But I think in this case of embalmment was omitted lest there be more excitement and another riot.

The funeral advances. Present, Joseph, the owner of the mausoleum: Nioodemus, who brought the flowers, and th*' two Marys. Heavy burden on the shoulders of the two men as they carry the body of Christ down the marble stairs and into the portico and lift the dead weight to the level of the niche in the rock, and push the body of Christ into the only resting place it ever had. These men coming forth closo the door of rock against the recess. The Government, afraid that the disciples would steal the body of Christ and play resurrection, put upon the door the seal of the Sanhedrim, the violation of that seal, like the violation of the seal of the United States Government, or of the British Government, always followed with severe penalties. A regiment of soldiers from the Tower of Antonio is detailed to gua?d that mausoleum. At the door of that tomb a fight took placewhich decided the question for all grave-yards and cemeteries. Sword of lightning against sword of steel. Angel of God against the militia. The body in the crypt begins tq move in its shroud of fine linen and slides down upon the pavement, moves through the portico, appears in the doorway, copies up the marble steps. Christ, having left His mortuary attire behind Him, comes forth in the garb of a workman, as I take it, from the fact that the women mistook Him for the gardener. There and then was shattered the

tomb so that it can never be rebu M t, All the trowels of earth.y masonin’ can not mend it. Forever and so. B ever it i; a brQkcnto b. Deaththat uny, taking the side of the militifl, received a horrible cut under the angel's spear of flame, and must himself go down at the last —the King of Terrors disappearing before the King of GraC'V “The Loixl is arisen. ” Hosanna! Hosanna! - ’ - .jN " While scanuing around the plaec where the Lord lay I am impressed with th£ fact that mortuary honors can not atone for wrongs to the living. ICthey could have afforded Christ such a costly sepulchre they could have accorded him a decent earthly residence. Will they give a piece of marble to the dead Christ, when they might have given a soft pillow to the living Christ? If they had put half the expense,of that mausoleum in the making of Christ’s life on earth comfortable the story would not have been so sad. He wanted bread; they gave him a stone. Christ, like every other benefactor of the world, was better appreciated after he was dead. Westminster Abbey an)3 monumental Greenwood a e to a certain extent the world at--~ tempts by mortuary honors to atone for neglects to the living. Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey an attempt to pay for the sufferings of Grub street. Igo into that Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey and there I find the grave of Handel, the musician from whose music we hear to-day, as it goes down reverberating through the ages. While I stand at the costly tomb of Handel, I can not forget the fact that his fellow-musi-cians tried to destroy him with their discords. Igo a little further in the Poets’Corner of Westminster Abbey and I. find the grave of John Dryden, the great poet. Costly monument, great mortuary honors, but I can not forget the fact that at 7G years of age he wrote about the oppressions of misfortune, and that he made a contract for 1,000 verses at sixpence a line. Igo a little further oh in the Poets’ Corner and I find the grave of Samuel Butler, the author of “Hudibras. ” Wonderful monument.

Costly mortuary honors. Where did he die? In a garret. I move further on in the Poet’s Corner, and I find the grave of a poet of * whom Waller wrote: “An old school-mas-ter by the name of John Milton has written a tedious volume on the fall of man. If its length be no virtue it has none.” I go a little further on in the Poet’s Corner and I find the grave of Sheridan. Alas! for Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! Magnificent mortuary honors. What a pity it was he could not have discounted that monument for a mouthful of something to eat! O, unfilial children give your old parents less tombstone and more blankets; less funeral and more bedroom. Five per cent, of the money now expended at Burn’s banquets would have made the great Scotch poet, comfortable and kept him from being almost hurried to death by the drudgery of an exciseman. Horace Greely, outrageously abused while be lived, going out to his tomb was followed by the President of the United States and the leading men of the army and the navy. Some people could not say mean enough things about him while he lived; all the world rose up to do him honor when he died. Massachusetts, at the tomb of Charles Sumner, tried. to atone for the ignominious resolutions with which her Legislature denounced the living Senator. It was too late. The costly monument at Springfield. 111., cannot pay for Booth's bullet. Costly mortuary honors on the banks of Lake Erie—honors that cost between $200,000 and 300,000 —cannot pqy for the assasination of James A. Garfield. Do justice to the living. All the justice you do you will have to do this side the gates of the necropolis. The dead can not wake up to count the number of carriages in the procession, or see the pblish on the Aberdeen granite, or to read the words of epitaphal commemoration. Costly mausoleum of the gentleman in the suburbs of Jerusalem can not atone for Bethlehem's manger and Calvarean cross and Pilate’s ruffian indiniarv.

Again! Standing in this place w'hore the Lord, £ am impressed with the fact that floral and sculptured ornamentation are appropriate for the places of the dead. We are all glad that in the short time of the Savior’s inhumation he lay amid flowers and sculpture. I can not quite understand what I see in the newspapers, wherd, amid the announcements of obsequies, the friends requests, “send no flow* Why, there is no place so appropriate for flowers as at the casket of the departed. If your means allow—-I repeat, if your means allow—let there be flowers' on the casket, flowers on the hearse, flowers on the grave. Put them on the brow; it means coronation. Put them in tlio hand; it means victory. Christ was buried in a parterrel Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers are types of resurrection. Death is sad enough anyhow. Le. conservatory and aboretum do alt they can in the way of alleviation. Your little girl loved flowers when she was alive. Put them in her hands, now that she can not go forth and pluck flowers for herself. On sunshiny days twist a garland for her still heart. Standing in this place where, the Lord lay. I am also impressed with the dignity of unpretending obsequies. Joseph that day was mourner, sexton, liveryman—had the entire charge of all the occasion. Four people only at tfyeffmrialbf the King of the universe. Let this be consolatory to those who through small means or lack of large acquaintance,

I have but little demonstration ot 1 grief at the grave' of their dead. 11 is not necessary. Long line of glit term g equipages, two rows of silvei handles, casket of costly wood, pallbearers, scarfed and gloved, are no! necessary. Christ looks out; heaven at a burial where there are six in attendance and remembers that there are two more than he hao at his obsequies. Not recognizing this idea, how many small properties 1 are scattered in the funeral rites, and widowhood and orphanage go out to the cold charity of the world. The departed left enough property tc have kept the family together untl they could care for themselves, but if is all absorbed in the funeral rites. •That wept for crape which ought tc have gone for bread. A man oi small means can hardly afford to di&. in one of our great cities! Funeral pageantry is not necessary. No one was ever more lovingly and tenderly put into the grave than Christ, bus there were only four in the procession. Again: Standing in this place where the Lord lay, I am impressed with the fact that you can not keep the dead-down. The seal of. the Sam hedrim, a regiment of soldiers from the tower of Antonio to stand guard, floor of rock, roof of rock, wall oi rock, niche of rock, can not keep Christ in the crypt. Come out and come up. He must. Came out and came up He did. Prefiguration. The first fruits of them that sleep. J ust as certainly as you and I go down into the grave'. Just so certainly we will come up again. Though you pile up on the top of us all the bowlders of the mountains, you can not keep us down. Though we be buried under the coral of the deepest cavern of the Atlantic Ocean, we will- rise to the surface. Ah! my friends, death and the grave are not what they used to be to us.for, no.w walking around the spot where the Lord lay, we find vines and flowers covering up the tomb,and that which we call a place of skulls has become a beautiful garden. Yea, now there four gardens instead of one —Garden of Eden, Garden of the World’s Sepulcher,Garden of Earth’s

Regeneration, Garden of Heaven. Various scriptural accounts say that ,the work of the grave-breaking will begin with the blast of trumpets and shoutings; whence I take it that the first intimation of the day will be a blast from heaven such as has never before been heard. It may not be so very loud, but it will be penetrating. There are mausoleums so deep that undisturbed silence has slept there ever since the day when the sleepers were,, left in them. The great noise shall strike through them. Among the corals of the sea, where the shipwrecked rest thesound will strike. No one will mistake it for thunder ortho blast of earthly minstrelsy. There will be heard the voice of the uncounted millions of the dead, who come rushing out of the gate of eternity, flying toward the tomb, crying: “Make way! Oh, grave, give us back our body! We gave it to you in corruption; surrender it now in incorruption.” Thousands of spirits arising from the fields of Sedan and from the rocks of Gettysburg and from among the passes of South Mountain. A hundred thousand are crowding Greenwood. On this grave three spirits meet, for there were three bodies in that tomb! over that family vault twenty spirits hover, for there

were twenty bodies, from New York to Liverpool, at every few miles of the sea route, a group of hundreds of spirits coming down to the water to meet their bodies. Wake up, my friends, this day, this glorious Easter morning, with all these congratulations. If I understand this day, it means peace toward heaven and peace toward earth. Great wealth of flowers! Bring more flowers. Wreath them around the brazen throat of the cannon, plant them in the desert until it shall blossom like the rose, braid them into the mane of the war charger as he comes back. No more red dahlies of human blood. Give us white lilies of peace. Strew all the earth with Easter garlands for the resurrection we celebrate this morning implies all kinds of resurrection, a score of resurrections —resurrection from death and sin to the life of the Gospel; resur-

rection of apostolic faith; resurrection of commercial integrity; resurrection of National honor; resurrection of international good will; resurrestion of art; resurrection of literature; resurrection of everything that is good ond kind and generous and just and holy and beautiful. Nothing to stay down, to stay burled, but sin and darkness and pain and disease and revenge and death. Let those tarry in the grave forever. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will to men.”

Long Distance Measures.

Chicago Globe. The measures for long distances have varied widely at different times and with different nations, to sav nothing of the comparisons used in different sections of our country. For instance: The Jews said “from Dan to Beersheba.” The Persians say “from Medina to Mecca.” The English say “from Land's End to John OGroat's.” The Yankee says “from Maine to Texas.” The Southerner says “from Florida to Alaska. ” The Sucker and Hoosier say “from the Great Lakes to the Gulf/’ The South American says “from the Isthmus to the Horn. ” In Louisiana they say “from New Orleans to Pittsburg.” In California the common expression is “from Altuville to Pilot Knob.”

SHOT IN THE DARK.

The Bulgarian Minister of Finance Assassinated. Shot Down While Entering His Official -—V- Residence—No Motive for thg Awful Crime, A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, says: At 8 o’clock on the evening of the 27th, while Premier Stambuloff and M. Baltcheff, Minister of Finance, who had been, walking together, were about to enter their official residences, which adj _ each other, a man suddenly confront“ hem with a revolver and fired three shots point blank at M. Batcheff, who fell dead A crowd immediately colleo \ at the scene of the shooting, but the assassin succeeded in making good his escape, owing to the darkness and confusioi. which prevailed among the people. A nunber of witnessed the murder report tha die assassin had three accomplices who assisted him to escape. The shooting of Minister Baltcheff caused the greatest excitement and the police 'are searching the city for all those connected with the terrible deed. No motive has been suggested for the murder of the Minister of Finance, but it is presumed that the conspirators may havs intended to take the life of Premie Stambuloff, but that in the darkness or the evening they mistook M. Baltcheff so the man they had marked as their victim

DISGRACEFUL FUNERAL SCENE.

Burial of a Chinaman at Pittsburg Draws Out a Lawless Crowd of Sight Seers. The Chinamen of Pittsburg, Pa., contrary to the general belief in regard to their burials, do not send their dead to China, but own a neat lot in Uniondala Cemetery, in which they are interred Sunday afternoon, the 29th ult., one o their number, Jcu Seu, was buried with every rite and observance attending Chinese obsequies. Jeu Seu was a high Mason, and a long procession of Celestials followed the remains to the grave. Here a most disgraceful scene ensued, brought about by some five hundred Caucasians, who had trampled over graves, torn down shrubbery and jostled the timid mourner? in order to gratify their curiosity. The Chinese reverently placed burning jos s sticks, perfumed paper and printed prayers beside the grave, only to have them almost snatched out of their hands by the excited mob. They also wrapped small coins in paper and scattered them on and in the grave, but boys and men snatched them up and fought fiercely for possession of the curious mementoes. Catcalls, jeers and howls from the vulgar crowd added to a shameless scene that Pittsburg heartily condemns, the excuse being that the riotous crowd was only made up of the idlevulgar and lawless.

A YOUNG TEXAS FIEND.

Twenty-Two Years Old and the Hero o Half a Score of Murders. Sinco the capture of Bill Hudgins and most of his gang, Feb. 5, at Paris, Tex. ( officers have received information that Shows Hudgins’ connection with at leas; four mnrders that have hitherto remained a mystery. One of these was The shooting from ambush of Alex. Handlin, thirty miles west of Purcell, I. T., on July 9, 1890, and for which two men named Samuel and Ramey were arrested, biit subsequently released for want of evidence. Soon after the opening of Oklahoma an old German and his son were called out of their cabin and the double murderer was never captured. A year or so ago the office of the Santa Fe railroad at Wharton, in the Cherokee strip, was entered, the agent shot and the station robbed. Fvidence is now accumulating that will prove that Hudgins committed all of these murders, and three others that have partially developed' Hudgins is only twenty-two years old.

BLEEDING KANSAS.

Twenty-your Hundred People in Wallace County Starring to Death. A committee has reached Kansas City from Wallace county, Kansas, in behalf of and for the starving and freezing farmers of that region. When it was decided t > send a committee a mass meeting was called to raise money to defray the ex pensesof the delegates. Twenty dollars was needed, but that sum could not be secured from the 300 men in the gathering One of the committee took his horse t Spartan Springs and mortgaged it for the sum. The 3,400 people of Wallace.county are hovering about fires made of cow chips, and their daily fare is not enough to suffice for a child for one meat Las year the fourth successive crop failed in western Kansas.

RAIDED THE GIN MILLS.

A Saloon at BlQomrllle, 0., Completely Demolished by Crusaders. A riotous demonstration in connection with the temperance crusade atthe village of Rloomville, Ohio, occurred Friday night, when a mob of supposed temperanco advocates attacked Miller and literally demolished it. Window* and doors were smashed, tho Stock of liquors, and cigars destroyed, poo and billiard tables broken up, and general chaos established. Both men and women were engaged in the fray, and their work from the standpoint of the raiders was done with symmetric completeness.

A HORRIBLE CRIME.

Arthur O’FlHd Outrage* His Nine-Tear Old Grandniece. ArthiS O’Field, of New York, sixty years old and married, was arrested on tho 27th for outraging his nine-year-old niece Stella Harris. He took the child out for a walk and got her into his apartments and assaulted her. She is badly injured. 1 It was with groat difficulty Stella’s father was prevented from- taking the law into his own hands. In the court O’Field was held without bail for examination. The Sterlln einery-wheel works was Jamaged to the extant of $15,000 on the 25th by fire igniting. Insurance, $12,500.

SHORT-HAND.

A Practical Course for Only 92.00, Send for Partioolar*. 1 The Fifth Lesson of the Series Here Given. (Copyrighted by Eldon Moran.) PEN OR PENCIL—WHICH T When the reporter writes with a pencil, he Should Obtain one of medium hardness only,keep it sharpened, and useltwith soft or uncalendered paper. For general purposes. It Is better to use a pen; the pencil In exceptional cases only. In everyrespectitwlU. be observed that the pen and pencil differ from each other. The question as to the merits of each for reporting purposes has been discussed to a considerable extent by members of the profession. Those reporters who employed a pencil while learning, never afterwards giving the pen a fair trial, of course regard the pencil with the greater favor. Of those who have fairly tested both, the majority prefer the pen. The advantages of each maybe seen from the following comparison: 1, p en work ls permanent; pencil writing fades out in a few years. 2 Notes taken with a pen are black and easy to read; pencil writing is hard on the eyes, and for this one Important reason a pencil should be used aslittle as possible. 8. Writing with a gold pen, which ls a yielding, sensitive instrument, is much less fatiguing than manipulating a pencil, which is stiff and inflexible. Short-hand reporters must be able to write many thousands of different words, but ninetenths of all the writing they do consists in takIng down over and, over again only a few hundred very common words. Evidently the first requisite to skill instenography is a very high degree of familiarity with just this class of words and phrases. The reporter writes “is, may, will-be, I-can, donot,” hundreds of times to “ ocean, extracting, caliber, indigo, delve,” etc, once. He may take time, occasionally, to write a hard word in long-hand, but he will fail almost certainly if he Is obliged to hesitate for an instant before writing one of these frequent words or phrases. Hence the teacher will drill his class daily, and require the pupil’s practioe to be devoted mainly to this class of words.

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The Only Royal Contributors.

It is worthy of note that the only two royal and Imperial personages who personally contributed to the reliel of the Johnstown sufferers were the widowed and almost forgotten Empress Augusta of Germany, and the universally assailed and much-decried sultan of TttriugL—Jiew York World.

UNCLE SAM CLOSE FISTED.

Many Millions Does He Owe tha« He Refuses to Pay. Special Washington letter. The government was very .poor duping Washington’s two terms of office—even poorer'than the people—-for method; of taxation had not yet been matured, and while the outgo was regular and certain the income was capriciou* and doubtful It had been agreed that the public buildings should be constructed with money obtained from the sale of the government lots in the city, but this came in slowly, and a part oi it went in expenditures not contemplated by the contract. The fact is that the usually level head of the great Washington himself was turned during that decade. That prudent personage actually indulged in| enthusiasm and flew kites. He dieted that the raw swamp town that had been named for him would haver 100.000 population in twenty-five years, and that it would outstrip New York, or even Boston. He speculated somewhat in real estate here himself and paid for Washington lots twice what; they would fetch to-day. He enconri ged Robert Morris to speculate, and 1 that shrewd financier, who had held! the armies of the revolution up by main! strength, sunk all of his money and! passed four years in a debtors’ prison. It was during that dismal season that, the federal government appealed toi Virginia and Maryland for a loan, un-> der the implied threat to keep the captol at the north if the loan was not forthcoming. t In round figures Maryland lent $72,000 and Virginia $120,000. Not a cent of it has ever been paid back. Will it; ever be? Doubtful.

As a senator recently said, “the. United States government is the mostj relentless creditor and the most exact-! ing and unscrupulous debtor that thoi sun shines on. When it is owed it is a very Shylock, when it owes it is as indifferent to its obligations as a tramp.” The machinery to which a creditor of Uncle Sam must appeal is so elaborate as to dissuade all but tha pluckiest First, he must apply to congress for permission to go to the court of claims. After tedious years and great expense that court is reachedperhaps witnesses summoned, and tha correctness of the bill verified—perhaps. Then he must go to the secretary of the treasury and induce that august functionary to condescend to include the amount in the current propriations asked for.

UNCLE SAM AS A MISER.

If the favor i 9 graciously granted, the claimant, if still alive, must go back to congress and watch the appro* priation at every step of its progress, through two committees and through two houses. Nine times out of ten some demagogue thief “Object!” to the amount and it is dropped, and the claimant's children or grandchildren may again present the bill, with the same circumlocution, in future years. The Robert Morris 1 have mentioned was out of pocket $300,000 for ad vances during the revolution and his loss was never made good. Similarly John Ericsson saved the country by sending the Monitor to Hampton Roads in 1862, and was never paid for it On his death-bed he daunted an unpaid bill in the face at Uncle Sam. There are tens of millions of dollars in the treasury that honestly belong to the citizens of the United States for various services rendered, and they are likely to stay there forever.

I happen to know a case In point. In 1861 a cartridge factory blew up in this city and killed some twenty young women engaged in the difficult and dangerous business of filling cartridges by hand. A young man exumined the 6cene, thought it over, and concluded that he could make a machine that wonlij do the work. He broached, the idea tc the war department and wad. laughed at for his pains, being in* formed by the chief of ordinance that the thing was impossible. The young man, whom I will call Dodge, persisted in his dream, devised a plan, made a working model, carried it to the chief of ordnance and set it going. That puzzled functionary was surprised, bewildered, pleased, convinced. He took it to the secretary of war and said: “Every cartridge hitherto made in the world has been made by hand; no more will be made by hand when this remarkable m ochine is generally adopted, and it will save two-thirds the expense.” The secretary sent for Dodge and gave him n order for a machine, authorizing him to incur the necessary expense in making it The young man went to New York and Boston, got the various patterns constructed and parte made, assembled them and set up the machine in Washington. It did all that had been predicted for U and immediately superseded hand filling in all the arsenals of Ihe country. More than that, the government made machines and sold them to France, England and other countries and the whole world now fills Us cartridge* with machines made on the same model. Well, that was a quarter of a century .ago. Dodge has never received • pen jy for his valuable aud humane Invention town any source whateveal