Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — Page 2

CURRENT COMMENT.

•'WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST." — — - - \ B. F. Jones, of Pittsburg, in American mistI am. a protectionist because our country prospered with protection and languished without it. Because revenue can be more easily, more surely and with less objection raised bv ji:dic~.Qi:.x pratc.dive tariff laws than otheru i: e. Because protection* diversifies employment and largely relieves wageearners from foreign competition, thereby enabling them to be liberal consumers, as well as producers. Because, as has been demonstrated, the effect of protection is the cheap: ening of prod tic ts. Because defense against injurious importations is as necessary and justifiable as an army apd navy. Because the tneory of free trade between nations is as fallacious, impracticable and utterly absurd as that of free love between families. CHAIRMAN QUAY'S RESIGNATION. PMladclpWa Enquirer. r Senator Quay inis resigned the chairmanship of the Republican national executive committee. The new chairman has a thankless task before him. Senator Quay won one of the most notable victories on record in 1888, and, as a result of his success, he has been the target for Democratic abuse ever since. The Democratic papers of New York have fairly outdone themselves i n course in vecti ve and mud-slinging. .Their intention was to drive Quay out of power and to prevent him from conducting another campaign. They succeeded in forcing him to retain the chairmanship for months —even years —after he had i n tended to retire. It is'no secret that he wished to relieve himself of the duties of chairman right after Harrison campaign, but he refused to go out under fire, and -he has held on to the present time. That much the free, traders have accomplished. Now that their fire has practically ceased he has declared his intention of severing his connection with all official management, and an other is to take his place. Mr. Clarkson will succeed Senator Quay. A better selection probably could not have been made. Clarkson is intimately acquainted with the duties of the committee. He has a knowledge of men and politics. He lias the ability to conduct a campaign such as the next will be. Peculiar fitness is necessary for the >ffice. He has it. The Democrats won't like the selection for that reason. They will continue to cry corruption. But let them talk about buying votes by wholesale if they wish. That will do very well in the midst or a heated struggle, but who ever knew it to be done? If a chairman •an buy thousands of votes it is essential that there shall be thousands of voters willing to sell. Intelligent communities do not sell themselves, and the stories that are trumped up in every campaign that money is used to purchase voters are for the most part imaginary. This is true ~ of both Clarkson has not been made chairman to corrupt the voters but to win the campaign by fair methods, although the same old familiar charge will be renewed and he will be termed a “boodler” by ■very Democratic paper in the country before he is twenty-four hours uder. The abuse will begin at once and be kept up. This seems to be a necessary part of a free-trade cam—paigu. —- It is frequently charged that votes are corruptly influenced in New York •ity to an alarming extent. There ore without question a large number of foreigners unable to read who are kept in line for Tam man}’ by most peculiar methods. But victories have been won much more frequently' theye upon the safer principles of altering the returns. It sometimes happened that the Democratic party has needed more votes than were cast and that these votes were had at night by recounts or by the •‘correction'' of figures. Blaine was beaten in that wav. Senator Quay became » familiar with this scheme before he had been many days in charge of the campaign in 1888, and lie made it impossible for this particular kind of fraud to flourish. That was one of the strong points of his chairmanship. He insisted upon a fair vote, and he not only insisted upon it but secured it. and the result was a fairly honest election in New York city. That is how lie carried the State for Harrison. Whether the new ballot-reform bill can be made to serve the purposes of Tammany's dishonest election officers we dot pretend to say. but Chairman Clarkson will have a desperate lot to contend with, and if he can overcome the machinations of the Tammany people he will be entitled to all praise. But he won’t get it. The freetrade mud batteries will open, and no matter how honestly he may conduct the campaign ho must expect to be plastered from head to foot. This is the only idea the free-trade papers of New York have of conducting a campaign—flinging mud. The resoh tions adopted in recognition of Mr. Quay 's services as chairman arc true in every particular and are a deserved tribute to his ability. Croakers may croak and Democrats may sneer, but tliQ resolutions tell ' the truth about one of the greatest political leaders of the-age.

A PRACTICAL VIEW. During the past few weeks much Kas been said And written about the tin industry. I have in the past been ■engaged in the South Wales and Staffordshire districts, and con say that

I thoroughly understand the manufacturvin ail its processes. I purpose showing some insight into the methods now ih use and offering a few suggestions, based on an experience of some years. The' plates are ’knowu to the buyers as coke orcharcoal, with varied grades of these as ‘"best," ’‘extra best. ' etc. The basis of all is the pig iron, mixtures of pig iron being used to obtain the nec-es:. sary quality. -» (.oke plants are made from' pmg died iron, the processes varying slightly from the manufacture of ordinary bar iron. -Besi*-eoke plates [ are made in a similar way, with the addition by settle of a facing of iron made uTchareoal fires from scrap iron. I — —— The quality of coke plates vari es with ,the mixture of pig iron' and the methods of manufacturing. Charcoal plates are supposed to be made from iron manufactured in charcoal fires, the mixtures of pig iron processes and selections varying with the quality of plate desired. A® new departure sou.e twelve years ago brought mild .steel ‘basic’ into use, and it is now used largely instead of charcoal, even with a decided gain in regularity of quality, fineness of surface, and less waste than charcoal iron. Many Welch makers buy largely of these steel bars to manufacture into charcoal plates, the cost being lower and a better average in quality is obtained. Now any works that manufactures steel rails can put in roils to make the bars of mild steel needed for rolling the charcoal plates, the. requisite ‘mildness'' of . steel being only a matter-oLdeiaih. And, again, the ordinary makers of “merchant' iron can produce the bars for the coke plates, as tli \se bars present no difference in manufacture from good merchant iron, fair homogeneousness and average tenacity only is desirable. Given the bars as indicated above we require rolling mills, shearing gear, pickling, cold rolling and annealing plates, and you have the tin ready to coat witlr tm; terne or lead. We have now all materials and plant to produce the bar ready for rolling into the plate. I would suggest putting down plants for manufacturing the plate from the bar.only leaving this to be made by the already established irou and steel roll-ing-mills, who can readily supply all that is required and to whom it would be a welcome addition. Of their capability thei‘e is no doubt. Outsteel rails today are more than the equal of any British make. The com position, mildness or softness o! both the steel and iron bars are matters of detail that can be easily dealt with. As regards our materials, such as palm oil, we can buy oil the west coast of Africa just as cheaply as England. Tne cost of the acid used (sulphuric) I don't know. The tin mined in Europe does not amount to more than ono-eighth of that used, the Straits settlements and Australia being the chief source of supply, and these markets are open and nearer so us than England. In addition, our own protection of tin is increasing and tne building up of this industry will hasten development of tinmining. Tin works should be established within easy access of the works, roll mg the bars to save freight. Given that the cost of labor is 50 per cent: higher than in England, this additional cost would not add more than one-half a cent on charcoal'.' and less in coke per pound. Why the Democratic leaders and press should deride the efforts to establish this industry is a mystery to me. It presents few difficulties, and will give employment to thousands of hands and profitable investment to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Is it because it's in the “McKinley’ bill and “no good can come out of Nazareth?” On the lines suggested we can in the time given produce not only the required quantity, but more, and with a much less capital than required to build up this industry from the pig iron to the finished plate. A Tin-Plate Works Manager - O

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

About twice as much power is required to stop an express train as to start one. E. A. Howard, of Belfast. Me., has a clock still keeping time that was a" wedding present to his grandfather in the fail of 171*5. George Soliweich. a merchant of Richmond. Mo., owns the table upon which the Book of Mormon was written. He values it at $5.0^)0. Dr. C. F. Rand, of Washington, possesses a curious relic of tl.e rebellion. It is a piece of “ha”d ta.-k' which formed a part of one, of the doctor's ratious thirty years ago Sheriff West, of Camden, N. J..has seized a cemetery lot owned by Jacob Stranger, on an execution issued by J. J. Knight, who secured a judgment against him for s2± Doniphan, Kan., is said to be the only town in the world that had a river and two railroads and lost then' all at a swoop. The shifting of-the Missouri river chaunel did it. □ Three telegraph poles, two fifty feet and one sixty feet,were ut from the same tree at Harlan. Mich., a few days ago. The tree forked about the stump, which was four feet ip diameter. A hotel has been built in Hamburg entirely of compressed wood as ha-d as iron, and rendered absolutely t proof against both fire and the at- [ tacks of insects by subjection to chemical processes.

DEATH FROM TRICHINOSIS.

A Victim or This Awful Disease In New York. Joseph Palmi, a laborer, died at Bellevue Hospital, Wednesday, of that fortunately rare but extremely painful disease, trichinosis. This riissnss may be described to the technical reader as the propagation and infinite multiplication of minuteUvTng worms in the mus- f cles-of the entire system. It • usually arises from the incautious us 5 of raw or partially cooked pork. On last Saturday aft.'rnoon the police summoned an ambulance to No. 49 .Mulberry street to remove a man who was supposed to be suffering from a se. Tere attjick of inflammatory rheumatism. Dr. .Henderson, the ambulance, surgeon, so reported the case on his arrival, and it was thus entered on the books, but when Dr. D. H. Williams, jr. proceeded to examine the patient in his ward, he could not find any of the customary symptoms of inflammatory rheumatism. An interpreter Was summoned, when Joseph was closely examined as to his experiences. He stated that the acute pains of which he complained had begun about June 5 and continued to increase in intensity and extent until the ambulance came for him. As these pains had first developed in the stomach and then spread through the body, Dr. Williams decided that it must be a case of trichinosis. -Palmi at first denied that he had been eating pork, but finally admitted that, about a week before the pains appeared he had purchased some pigs’ feet of a butcher in Mulberry street near his residence. His Wife and children had eaten the food with him. The man suffered terribly, and the physician was compelled, to administer opiates, both internally and hypodermically, to ease the excruciating pain caused by the myriads of worms invading every muscle of liis writhing body. Though the patient was able to take slight nourishment he eontinued to grow weaker day after day. until death finally put an end to his sufferings. • Although I nave not vet -completed my diagosis,” said Dr. Williams yesterday. “I have no doubt that the case is one of trichinosfe. Palmi acknowledged having eaten pig’s during the Inst week in May, but he ipust have eaffm other kinds of pork, for pig’s feet contain very little muscle, being principally composed of tendons, cartilage and gelatinous matter. According to his statement his wife had a slight attack of abdominal spasms, which £,re the first symptons of the disease. She, however, seems to have recovered, though I should not be surprised if the Woman was brought here in the same state as her husband was. Trichinosis consists of the breeding of minute worms in' the muscles, and they go on multiplying until the entire system is filled with them. Being in the muscles of the pork, which has not been properly cooked—and it must be submitted to a heat of 255 degrees to kill the worms—they are taken into the stomach. Here they began increasing and produce the abdominal spasms which are the initial, .symp=.. toms then, following the intestinal track they finally pass through the abdominal walls and so enter the lymphatic organs. From that moment the patient is doomed, unless he is so constituted that his system can resist the trichina when they become encysted and die. If they are too strong for resistance they go on living in the muscles until the latter decompose and death ensues very quickly. ‘‘When Palmi was first brought here I tboli a piece of muscle from liis forearm and discovered that he had previously suffered from the disease, because there were encysted worms visible in it. After he died portions of the muscles in. tlie calf and shoulder were removed, and these we intend examining under the microscope just as the portions are, and then they will be hardened and their transverse sections prepared for further examination. But there is no doubt that our diagnosis is the correct one. One of the symptoms is an intense thirst and agonizing pain, both of which were present in this case. Usually trichinosis is developed from pork which is eaten raw, and people frequently have it who are in the habit of eating raw Westphalia hams and bologna sausage. Biff pork is not the only meat which is capable of developing trichina, for they are found in the,muscles of dugs and eats, rats and mice, and even moles, all of which animals eat pork. The origin of. trichina? is unknown, and they may be* inherited for all we know.”—New York World. £>bme Washington Manias. A few days ago an office-seeker from the south, who has been slicking close to the white house ever since the inauguration, and confidently ex pected an appointment, writes a Washington correspondent, was so prostrated by the (success of a rival candidate that he became seriously ill and had to be removed to his home. This case suggests the question whether office seeking should not be classed with certain mental diseases, such ’as or the mania for drink, kleptomania, etc? It certainly is a malady, with symptoms distinctly marked, but which arc similar to those observed in various affections of the brain and nervous system-fits of extraordinary | excitement or periods of excessive despondency, hallucinations. The latter sometimes takes the form of extreme self-exaltation, the unhappy subject being possessed with the idea that ho is a person of great

importance, and that he has a claim against A political party or leader foi services rendered.. Instances of similar forms of dementia are to be seen daily in lunatic asylums, and oven outside of such institutions, where are found persons deluded with the motion that they are this or that great man, or that they have been defrauded out of fabulous wealth. In the absence of ' a better word, the word lueonmnitt. <■ <■.. mania for place, or position, is suggested to denote the malady whose syiff;)toujs have been briefly indicated. It is to be observed in Washington in all its stages. Loeomanfives prowl around the public places at all hours of the day. dogging the footsteps of men in authority, pursuing them to their offices and homes, and frequently displaying such violence and insane persistency as to require force for their removal. It is time that this disease was fully recognized in medical nomencliture, and that institutions for the treatment and cure of locomaniacs were established. The malady is more widespread than drunkenness and equally deplorable in its results, producing insanity and often breaking up homes and wrecking lives. Another species of mental aberration particularly noticeable in Washington is a phase of Anglo man ia in the matter of horseback riding. This is . popular amusement in this city of beautiful streets and picturesque country roads. There are many riders, male and female, who, for the most part, ape the English as far as possible in style of costume, outfit and manner of riding. The horses are trained to trot so as to accommodate the equestrians who affect the ungainly movements of English horsemanship. It is remarkable that this mode of riding should have preference over the safe and easy seat in the saddle of the Southern rider or the cowboys or the Mexicans. There arc no better equestrians in the world than those who sit erect in the saddle, legs and body nearly in the same line, grasping their horses firmly with their knees. It is almost impossible to unseat them, but a man who rides on a fl it saddle with his knees under his chin and his feet turned out at an angle of 45 degrees, is one of the most helpless and awkward looking creatures imaginable.—-

They Will not Stay Extinct.

The school books used to tell us that the Cave Dwellers were extinct, but now they have found a settlement of Cave Dwellers in New Mexico, alive and active, who never imagined they had been relegated by the learned scholars of the world to the dim and remote antiquity of prehistoric time. Here we have been living in the same country with them as contemporary fellow-citizens, and imagining all the time that there had not been a soul of them alive since the time of Noah. We have always supposed that mastodons~were extinct; but now they have found them, alive and hearty in the interior of Alaska, and it i§ supposed, if we penetrate farther, we may And them as thick as cows and horses in America. Some scientists are already beginning to question if any order of life that ever inhibited the planet is absolutely extinct, and await the further exploration of Africa to bring to light the unicorn, the behemoth, the dedo, the phoenix, the centaur and the ten lost tribes of Israel.—Yankee Blade.

The Lost at Johnstown.

1 The latest attempt to register the survivors of the flood at Johnstown,has resulted in failure. The difference be-tween-the total number of those-«ho, report themselves 1o be survivors, and the number of people Johnstown is supposed to have had before she was engulfed by the destroying ...wave, is only 1,000; and the list of dead from the various morgues aggregate 3,900. There is now no hope that the numbei who lost their lives through the bursting of the South Fork dam will ever be determined with any degree of accuracy. It is not probable that another attempt will be made to register the survivors. No one knows exactly how many people Johnstown had before the flood, and what is a more discouraging fact, there are people who In the presence of relief supplies and with the prospect of a division of relief funds are only too willing to figure among the survivors of once happy Johnstown. This is one of the weaknesses of human nature, and people in the Conemaugh region are no better than the average. A count of the dead handled at the morgues, and the findings of searchers for bodied in the river below Johnstown, will form the only reliable death record. And there are*- undoubtedly many bodies now slowly wasting away in the water, held down by sand or by rocks or snags. —Wisconsin.

LL. D.

When the college wants to compliment a visitor, or a benefactor, or one who may become a benefactor, and cannot make anything else out of him, it can always mako him a doctor qI laws. He may be a land speculator, or may have invented a cocking stove, or may be proficient in cuniform inscriptions, or may have found an asteroid, or may have put up a new brand of tobacco—it does not matter, LL. D. looks well after any man's name, and LL. D. it is.—Rev. Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

There are 1,000,000 people in Liberia. .. Uncle Sam has seventy-five women lawyers. A revival of battledoor and shuttlecock is promised. A woman at St. Johns, N. 8., controls the ice trade of that city. Weigh your words and do no throw in too many fbr good measure.—Dallas News. * A ten-thousand dollar monument to Victor Hu wo is to be erected in Jackson Park, Chicago. Mr. Pitman says that only one person in eight who profess to write shorthand can’ transcribe his notes. A Hannibal (Mo.) man won a wager of $5 by gating two pounds of lirnburger cheese in five minutes. Africa is a land of many tongues. The Bible has now been translated into sixty-five of its languages and dialects, j A Chester (Pa.) mechanic has calculated that he has walked 17,250,000 steps in ten years going to and from hiswof¥r The fancy ball given lastmonfe in Paris by the Princess de I&on caused pn expenditure in that community of $60,000. There was a pie-eating match at Leoti, Kan., on the Fourth, but unhappily the pie gave out before the contest was decided. If all the mountains in the world were levelled the average height of of the land would rise nearly two hundred and twenty feet. “Did you ever go up in a balloon?” “Once.’ “What were your sensations!” “Oh, same as usual. I wanted the earth.” —Harper’s Bazar. His Majesty of Greece has the smallest income of any sovereign, viz., $260,000, and this includes $20,000 each allowed him by Great Britain, Russia and France. A peculiar glossy and transparent cloth is made from the fibre of nettles, which is used among other things for belting of machinery and it is claimed to have double the strength of leather. The banana, which is of the Malay - origin, is a developed tropical lily from which by ages of cultivation the seeds have been eliminated and the fruit for which it was cultivated greatly expanded. The habitual fishermen of Boston harbor say that the recent naval shambau there caused all the fish to strike out for deep water, and that they are slow about returning. One of the queerest names for a street-is that borne by a public thoroughfare in the annexed district called Featherbed lane. Tt—is supposed to have been so christened because it is full of rocks. —New York Sun. A German girl who arrived in New York, Thursday, to marry an old lover, was met at the wharf by the groom, but she immediately refused to keep her promise, declaring that she never thought he was so homely. The costliest dresses in the world are worn by the women of Sumatra. They are made of pure gold and silver. After the metal is mined and smelted it is formed into fine wire, which is woven into cloth and afterwards made into dresses. Mrs. Frank Leslie has announced her intention of leaving the greater part of her property to found an institute for the instruction of women. The property which will be set apart for the foundation the institute will be the procSfcls from the sale of her various publications, which she values at about six hundred thousand dollars. x ~ “Tlie Merchant’s Free Kindergarten” is the last organized of the twen-ty-sevea schools no wjinder the care of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association, of which Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper is the untiring and most successful president. Over 2,220 children are enrolled in these kindergartens of San Francisco. It is the most popular of all the charities. The statistics of the average size of families in the various countries of (Europe, which are of considerable Interest for the status of public morals, are the following: France, 3.03 members; Denmark, 3.61; Hungary, 3.70; Switzerland, 3.94; Austria and Belgium, 4.03; England, 4,08; Germany, 4.10; Sweden, 4.12; Holland. 4.22: Scotland, 4.46:1ta1y,4.51),5pain, 4.65; Russia, 4.83; Ireland, 5.20. A Rome correspondent of the New York Mail states that the revenues of St. Peter are diminishing year by year. The pilgrimages which in times past furnished the heaviest

WHY THE CENSUS WAS A FAILURE IN BITTER GULCH. "Horse thief?" "No, census enumerator."

contingent of pecuiary gifts becora rarer and rarer. A press dipatcl says: The Vatican authorities hav« requested the papal nuncios at for eign courts to invite contributions ti compensate for the speculative losses -in fee—Peter’s pence funds Th« pope h'as decreed an extension of thi marriage tax to all Catholic states. Among the special students atßyrz Mawr College is Miss Urne Tsuda, a Japanese woman, who is the teachei of English in the Peereses’ School at Tokio. Miss Tsuda was one of the five little girls sent in 1871 by the Japanese government to be educated in this country, she and one companion remaining for ten years. She is interested in raising a fund to estab lish scholarships in the United for Japanese girls who will fit themselves here and return to Japan as teachers in girls’ schools to be established there.

Cutting Corn With Horse Power.

Hoard's Dairyman. The Rural New Yorker, of Jun< 20, contained an illustrated description of a corn cutting machine tbal is much like a reaper with a side elevation from which fee cut com is delivered upou a wagon with low truck wheels—the wagon and cutting machine being moved forward at th« same speed, there bing a pair ol horses to each. The apparatus was made at the solicitation of Professoi I. P. Roberts, of Cornell University, 4nd was used last fall to cut 100 tons of ensilage corn. It is claimed that in corn yielding fifteen tons to the acre a ton cau be cut and loaded in five minutes. The! cuts show two drivers and a loader, but Professor Roberts says the loader can be dis pensed with, generally. It did great execution. So did the apparatus gotten up by Mr. W. V. Clough, of Geneseo, 111., which simply had a strong knife ot scythe fixed to the frame of the rack on the trucks. Moving the machint forward against the cornstalks severed them from the hills while twe “men standing - on the rack caught them and gathered them in, in good shape across the wagon until it was loaded. One row of corn was cut as fast as the team walked, and that is all any machine can be expected to do. If a broad sword fastened at the side of the truck will do all that a reaper and elevator and a team cud do, the question is, why not take th« broad sword? The number of men is the same. Mr. Clough cut fifty loads Eer day with the machine last fall. loth machines did great execution, and either of them cut enough in all conscience. We thjnk we know Prof. I. P. Roberts well enough to believe that he is the apostle of simple directness in all things; and settle the question of efficiency with him, he then goes for the simpler methods. We do not know which will be the preferable machine. Time and practical use must determine that. We only acquaint the corn cutting world that both machines are in the field, and that the hard, back-aching work of cutting by hand may be avoided. Let both win—they are needed, for the field is vast. * -

An Engineer Taught by an Insect,

Inventive Age. It is quite certain to a hint from an insect was due the invention of a machine instrumental in accomplishing one of the most stupendous works of modern times —the excavation ol the Thames tunnel. Mark Isambard Brunei, the gr eat engineer, was standing on* day. about three-quarters ol a century ago, in ship yard, patching the movements of an animal known as the teredo navalis (shipworms when) a brilliant thought suddenly occured to him. lie saw thal this creature bored its way into the piece of wood upon which it was operating by means of a very extraordinary mechanical apparatus. Looking at the animal attentively through a microscope, he found that he was covered in front with a pair of valvular shells; that with its foot as a purchase, it communicated a rotary motion and a forward impulse to the valve, which, acting upon the wood like a gimlet, penetrated its substance, and that as the particles of wood were loosened they passed through a fissure in the foot, and thence tiirough the body of the borei to its mouth, where they we.re expelled. “Here,” said Brunei,to himself, “is the sort of a thing I want. Con I produce it in an artifical form?” He fore with set' to work, and the final result of his labors, after many failures, was the famous boring shield with which the Thames tunnel was excavated. This story was told by'Brunei himseif and ttiere is no reason to doubt its truth.

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