Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1893 — Page 2

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Citizens of the United States have $30,000,000 invested in Hawaiian enterprises. M.» White, the newly elected Senator f'oin California, is the first native-born citizen of that State to attain that honor. The statement hasbeen: made that the Czar will soon assume the title of “Emperor of Asia,” and is generally credited in European political circles. , All Europe, from Lapland to Italy, is experiencing a winter whose severity has not been equalled in in fifty years, and in some sections history has not recorded a season of such extremes of cold and storm. A Jett is now the Prime Minister of Egypt, occupying the same office . in that country that Joseph did the in the time of Pharaoh. No news has been received concerning Potiphar’s wife, but her succesrbr probably flourishes in the shadow of the pyramids. The Western Leather Company of Chicago has posted a notice in its establishment that on one Saturday in each month during the’World’s Fair period its employes will be given a holiday with full pay in order that they may have time and means to attend the exhibition. Nearly all politicians of prominence with Democratic proclivities have been more or less frequently mentioned in connection with Cabinet portfolios. It seems impossible that the ambitions of all can be. gratified, and, as usual, there will not t e enough offices to go around. _ • ■ U , _ . , . . . .A-,. , , The appointment of William Walter Phelps to be Lay Judge to the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey, has called attention to the survival of a somewhat ancient usage in American jurisprudence., The office can be traced back to colonial times, and to England through 250 years of legal history. The raisin crop of California for 1892 reached a grand total of 42,000,000 pounds. The first 1,000 car loads sent east realized the raisers 4| cents per pound, but competition in November resulted in a demoralized market, and several hundred car loads in the hands of Eastern brokers were sold-at prices that realized for the producer about 1 cent per pound. * Members of Congress arc allowed $125 a year for stationery, and are permitted to draw the cash to that amount above their salaries less the amount of supplies of that character actually used by them. It is stated that Jerry Simpson of Kansas expended but $5.88 for writing materials during 1892 and drew $119.12 balance in cold cash. Teetotal railway employes are in demand in England, railway authorities having of late made especial efforts to promote temperance in all departments of their business. Naturally the traveling public appreciate this kind of practical missionary labor, and that the movement will be beneficial to all concerned there can be no doubt. A BILL to prohibit the wearing of hoopskirts has been introduced in the Kentucky Legislature. If it is necessary to avert this threatened ca lamity, the Constitution of the United States should be amended at once- Merc State restrictions can have but little effect in checking the epidemic should it once gain a foothold in the feminine mind. 1 The President of the United States is the only officer of the Government who receives, neither a commission nor an official notification of his election. Neither is the Chic! Justice In any official manner informed of the name or personality of the man to whom it is his duty to administer the oath of offiqc once in four years. Grave complications might, but are not likely to. ensue from this strange oversight by flic framers of the constitution. The latest scientific investigations tend to encourage the belief that contagion of various kinds and bacteria of air descriptions may be, and often are, transmitted through the medium of newspapers and old periodicals. Hence if you would live long in the land and continue to enjoy the fruits of your labors for many years it would be well to cease troubling your neighbor, as it may be the death of your-olf and family ■ '

if you continue to spsage your reading Sfcitter. Now is the time to subc ribo, ■ ■ London is a huge municipality and her paupers cost a good deal of money, notwithstanding a large number of them are annually allowed to starve to death to save expenses.. Official reports show that for the two years ending Jan. 1, 1891, the date of the last biennial report, the cost of maintaining paupers in that city was about $11,700,000, and during the same period there were 109,748 criminal convictions. It is scmi-otlicially announced that President Harrison will return to Indianapolis, Marcli O, leaving Washington within an hour or two of Cleveland's inauguration. He wi 1 probably take a much needed rest frbm official cares, and the sympathy of all will be extended to him in the home coming which will indeed be sad. Probably none of the Presidents have stood by so many biers during their term of office. Royalty is not exempt from an noyahce, and sometimes stoops to please the lower classes in a way that free born Americans would despise. It is stated that the Roumanian peas ant ry greet vd the nevd y mar ried Princess Marie,, late of Englano with a loaf of welcome composed oi pigs blood, garlic, honey and ground beans, and that the future Queer, showed her patrotism and strength of character by partaking of the sick cniug comestible with a smiling and cheerful patience. During the administration of President Pierce the question of the annexation of the Sandwich Islands was mueh discussed, and the United States commissioner at Honolulu was authorized to negotiate a treaty with the Hawaiian government with that end in view. Congress and the Presidentwefebf bnemmd'bn 'the question, believing that the annexation was desirable and proper. Unfortunately the Hawaiian King became obstinate and stood out for a “protectorate,” whereupon W. L Marcy, then Secretary of State,summarily dropped all negotiations. William Waldorf Astor, worth at least $100,000,000, has bought the Pall Mall Gazette, at London, and will try to expend a portion of his income in demonstrating his ideas of “how a newspaper should be run.” Mr. Astor is doubtless the wealthiest newspaper man in the world. He has represented the United States as minister to Italy, has been a member of Congress, but has lived in Europe since he was defeated for a seat in the House by Roswell P. Flower a few years ago. He is a mad of ability and his paper will be a conservative organ and opposed to the Gladstone ministry. The Marquis of Queensberry has created much comment by his recent lectures in England on the marriage question. He says that polyg amy as an institution would be preferable to existing conditions. The “Marquis of Queensberry’’ rules have governed the pugilistic ring for years, and probably they might be modified to suit the exigencies that occasionally develope in the married state, but he is going too far in supposing that they can be extended to a ring with only one man against an unlimited number of females. American agitators who are and have been using their influence to secure home rule for Ireland are denouncing Gladstone’s measure for the relief of the Emerald Isle. It is probable, however, that the Grand Old Man is a better friend to the Irish people than the irresponsible malcontents whose occupation will be gone when Ireland shall attain to any form of home rule. At all events Gladstone probably knows how far the British nation will permit him to go in the direction of a larger liberty for that down trodden race, and his efforts if not up to the standard of the dreamers who have espoused their cause, will still have the merit of practical success instead of visionary benefits. A supply of spiders has been forwarded from Chihuahua. Mexico, to New York, to be used as a remedy in the treatment of typhus fever, which has Keen alarmingly prevalent in that city during the wintciy and which it is feared will become epidemic unless a more effective treatment can be perfected. The idea of using spiders as a medicine has boon ridculcd in some quarters, but is by no means absurd. It has been known for ages that some varieties of the insect contain chemical substances that are useful in disease, and Indian doctors in the great southwest have attributed marvelous virtues to their venom in many diseases. The result of the experiments will be awaited with interest.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

RUSSIAN TYRANNY. Dr. Talmage, <m his recent return from the stricken districts of the Russian Empire, whither he went on amission of relief to the starving inhabitants, hastened to give the Czar and all the royal family a certificate ofgood characterand also to speak in the most glowing terms of all the Russian officials with whom he came in contact, as well as to speak in fulsome eulogy of the form of government, and the benignant blessings which the august potentate was constantly casting upon the heads of his beloved people. The idea which he sought to convey was that there was no real tyranny or oppression in that country, and that the stories of Siberian exile, the horrors of imprisonment for political offenses,, and the constant espionage, with which travelers have for time out of mind regaled the American .pep.le,..were without real foundation, without excuse, and but the outpourings of a venomous nature on the part of their authors, brought about by their having been checked in the pursuit of some favorite bobby. ; The good Doctor can hardly be said to be an unprejudiced witness in the case Being the messenger bearing to the famine stricken subjects of the Czar substantial relief, and a man of world wide distinction as well, he would naturally be .received by the authorities with open hands and thankful hearts, and his opportunities for investigation of the darker side of the picture that has so often been drawn by travelers would necessarily be very limited indeed. Evidently the Russian government is very desirous to stand well in the estimation of the American people. What its especial motive or object in this may be has not been developed. Emissaries of the very highest rank, male and female, have from time to time been sent to the United .States, amply supplied with funds and fully accredited, whose sole object seems to have been to combat the hostile feelings aroused by the writings of Geo. Kennan and other noted explorers. Still further in the evolution of this well laid scheme, Mr. Botkine, Secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington, in the January Century, enters into an appeal to the American people for a suspension of the verdict in matters inimical to his countrymen and government. That America is under lasting obligations to the house of Romanoff is an undisputed fact. Russian rulers have from the birth of this Republic favored our interests in many ways, in the face of Napoleonic decrees and British treaties, and we have profited by the friendship, whatever. may have been the motives, that prompted the friendly intervention. That we should remember these favors is self-evident, and it is impossible that we should forget the inculculable services of Alexander 11, during the Rebellion, when by his diplomatic warnings and active intervention — sending Russian fleets to the harbors of New York and San Francisco, making known his willingness to fight in behalf of the preservation of the Union, —he prevented the recognition of the Southern Confederacy by the European powers, and averted the great catastrophe which such action would have precipitated. While it is probable that there may be terrible wrongs and hideous abuses hidden away in the vast territory controlled by the Czar, yet it is more than possible that these have been exaggerated in many instances by enterprising travelers to adorn the tale of horrors which they were under contract to produce. Russia and America, the eagliß and the bear, have evei- been friends, and that they may sb continue is the obvious wish of the great American public and of the intelligent portion of the subjects of the Russian empire. “HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN.” The conviction of Ferdinand de “Lesseps, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, after a life of great success and grand achievements, to imprisonment in a felon’s cell for five years, is an event that calls for the sympathy of all good people, who must deplore the necessities of justice in the sacrifice of a victim whose life has been so full of benfit to the human race. At twenty years of age he wore the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor, -.awarded for courageous conduct during the plague at Alexandria. He served his country with conspicuous ability as consul at Alexandria, Barcelona and Madrid, and as minister plenipotentiary at Rome.' While at Alexandria he conceived the scheme of the Suez canal, which he carried to triumph and success, and upon which his fame will rest, despite the misfortunes of his later years. Dazzled by thq success of his S,uez project, visions of a greater triumph filled

his brain, and the Panama! canal was inaugurated Jan. 1, 1880, ’EKe daughter of the great engineer turning the first sod. Millions of money were subscribed, and the story of the public corruption and final collapse pi the venture is still fresh in the pub lie mind. Now, as the sequel to the. talc, comes the conviction and senHence of the man who for so many years stood inthe topmost -niche fame and public approbation, for “swindling and breach of trust.” With him are to suffer his son, Charles de Lesseps, M. Fontane and M. Cottu, while M. Eiffel, who built the famous tower, will go to prison for two years and pay a fine of 20,000 francs. Sad indeed is the finale of so great a life, for it is more than probable that the man, who entered Paris in triumphal jprocession, who was decorated by Queen Victoria and his own Government, who, indeed, changed the geography of the world and set aside the decrees of the Almighty that had for ages endured —the hero of many bloodless victories —may end his days in darkless and disgrace within the narrow confines of a convict’s cell.. “MANIFEST DESTINY.” The stars and stripes float grandly to the tropic breeze as the paramount emblem of governmental authority at an outpost of the civilized world, greeting with peace and welcome and assurance of safety all the vanguards of the great powers of the earth that may by chance or yet in search of gain sail forth toward the Orient. The. hoisting of our National standard far beyond our borders, and all that it implies, is an event of great significance, and one - that must thrilLand inspire the heart of every loyal American who believes in his country and her institutions, and in the strengthening of our position among the nations of the world, without overstepping the bounds of prudence or the formation of entangling alliances. The proceedings at Honolulu on the Istinst. mark an era in our National growth no less distinct than the landing of Columbus or the Declaration of Independence or the. abolition of slavery. It is an act whose consequences will bo far-reaching —forming a precedent for the acquisition of all contiguous territory and important stations on the world’s highway that our position on the globe entitles us to, and which it is our manifest destiny to take under our protection and care, spreading the blessings of free institutions over lands that are groaning beneath the weight of tyranny and the blighting influences of ignorance and superstition and all the horrors of racial slavery and despotic rule. All hail to this last bright star that ’Fate bedecks our field of blue withal, fit birthday gift for this Colombian year. A MAGNIFICENT EMPIRE. The vast extent, boundless possibilities and ultimate destiny of the territory encompassed by the boundaries of the Lone Star State are difficult of comprehension, and but few of our people are able to grasp the magnitude of its resources, the diversity of its climate, and the imperial grandeur of its future;—Tjie-geog-raphies as a rule convey imperfect or incorrect ideas of its size, the State being so large that, except on a general map of the country, Texas is drawn on a smaller scale than other States. Gen. Greely, as Chief Signal Officer of the United States, has recently Issued a volume on “The Climatic conditions of Texas,” in which some striking facts are given, and by which a more adequate idea of the enormous area of thef State, may be formed than is generally entertained. Texas belongs to the Atlantic drainage basin, but its extreme western limit is 200 miles nearer to the waters of the Pacific than to the Gulf of Mexico. A part of the Pan Handle of Texas is nearer to the Great Salt Lake than to the Gulf. There are 228 counties, fourteen of which are larger than the State of Delaware. The distance from El Paso to the eastern boundary is as great as that from New York to Chicago. The northwest corner of the Pan Handle is as far from Brownsville on the southern border as Chicago is from Mobile. Its latituto extends from a point as far as Norfolk in Virginia to a point nearly as far south as Key West. Its length of sea coast is exceeded by but two States—Florida and California. The State covers eleven degrees of latitude, and its climate is so diversified that “the apple and olive, cotton and hay.” alike flourish and are profitably produced within its boundaries. The obvious lesson to be drawn from the facts set forth in Gen. Greeley’s report is that such an extended area presents so many di verified interests, and contains such a heterogenous population that to continue its government as one commonwealth for many years to come is not likely to 'conduce to the welfare of its people. Four grand States may easily be carved from gigantic-geuLof conquest, and that such action is the logical and proper outcome of the natural growth which in a few years must accrue to that region,few will doubt.

SHELTERING WINGS.

The Hen as a Typ4 of Divine Compassion. -‘Even A# « Hen GatJic retli Her Chickens Under Her Wins:* and Y’o Would Not." Dr. Talmage preached at the Hropkhm Tabernacle last Sundays Certain picture makers having used i;is muse wiihout authority, be took .■ccasicn t> state his ignorance of “those -people or their business.” His - text was Matthew xxiii, 37: Jerusalem, how of-, ten would I have gatherd thy children together even as a hen gathererth his chickens under her wings, and .ye wouldnefe” Hesaid: Jerusalem was in sight, as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a_ height of 700 foot. The splendors of the religious capital of the whole earth irradiated the landscape. There is the temple--Yondei:_is.±he.l£ingls. palace. Spread out before his eyes •ire the pomp, the wealth, the wickedness and the coming destruction of Jerusalem, and he burst into tears at the thought of the obduracy of u place he wuiild gladly have saved, and a’pc.sL'oplilzos, saying,- “Jerusa l";r, Jerusalem, how often would I have- gathered-thy •eliildren-togblber, ;-.-c!n aK'jp-gatlieretii her chickens under her wing'.:, Lad ye. Would not!” T am in sympathy with the unpre4enTio:sp okl fashioned hen, because, like most of us, she has to scratch for a living. She knows at the Start the lesson which most people of good sense are slow to learn —that the gaining of a liyelihqpd implies work, and 1 ha* successes do not lie on the surface, but arc to be upturned by positive :.ID<l continuous effort. The reason that society, and the church, an d the world are so full of failures, so full of loafers, so full of dead deals, is because, people are not wise o take the lessson which an y hen would teach them —that if they wouid- find for 11 mm salves and for those dependent upon them anything worth having they must scratch for it. One day in the country we saw sudden consternation in the behavior of old Donijnick.. Why the hen should be so disturbed we could not understand. We looked about to see if a TTeighborTT dog vrormHnvading the farm. Wo lacked up to see if a slormclov.d were hovering. We could see nothip.g on the ground that could terrorize, z and we could see nothing in the air to ruffle the feathers of the but the loud, wild, affrighted cluck which brought all her brood at full run under her feathers made, us look again around us and above us, when we saw that high up and and far away there was a rapacious bird wheeling around and around, and down and down, and not seeing us as we, stood in the shadow it camo nearer and lower until we saw its beak wav-curved from base to tip. and it had two flames of hye for eyes, and it was a hawk. But all the chickens were under ,i>ld Dominick’s wing, and cither the bird of prey caught a glimpse of us, sr, nbt’ able to find (Im brood huddled under wing, darted back into the clouds. So Christ calls with great earnestness to all I lie young. Why, what is the niatiCKT"Tt is bright sunlight, nnd there can be no danger. Health is theirs. A good homo is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs. Prospect of long life is theirs. But Christ continues to call, gall with more emphasis, and urges haste and says’ “ndt"a“secOjld”oiTglrt' to be lost. Oh. do tell us what is the matter! Ah. now I see; there are hawks of temptation in the air; there are vultures vdieeling for their prey; there arc beaks of death ready to plunge; there arc claws of allurement ready to clutch. Now I see the peril. Now I understand the urgency. Now“ I see the onlj' safety. "Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters into His .shelter “as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing!” The fact is that, the most of them will never find the shelter unless while they are chickens. It is a simple matter of inexorable statistics that most of those who do not come to Christ in yoqth never come at. all.

And so the temptations of this life are various. Some make quick work of death, and others agonize the mind and body for many years, and some like th« living blood of great souls, and others prefer those already gangrened. But for every style of youth there is a swooping wing, and a sharp beak, and a cruel claw, and what the rising generation needs is a wing of protection. Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sisters, and Sabbath school teachers, be quick and earnest and prayerful and importunate, and get the chickens under wing. My hearers, if we secure, the present and everlasting welfare of our children, most everything else belonging to us are of but little importance? Alexander the Great allowed his soldiers to take their families with them to war. and he accounted for the bravery of his men by the fact that many of them were born in camp and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would God that all the children of our day might be born into the army of bur Lord! No need of letting them go a long way on the wrong road before thev turn around and go op the right road: The only time to get chickens under wing is while thej r are chidkens. But we all need the protecting wing. If you had known when you entered ujwn manhood or womanhood what was ahead of you, would you have dared to undertake life?

How much you - would have Keen through! With most life has been I 1 disappointJnent. They tell me. so. They have not atta ned that whiet they expected to attain. They have not had the physical and mental vigor they expected. s or they hllVf met w-1 th rebuffs which thg.y did ftbt anticipate. You are not at oi fifty or sixty or seventy or eignty years of age. what you thought you would be. “ I do not know any onq except myself to whom life bus been, a happy surprise. I never expected anything, and so when anything came in the shape of human favor oi com forcible position or widening field of work it was to me a surprise. • The wings of my text suggests warmth, and that is what most folks wan t. The fact is th at this is a cold • worldp whether you tike it literally or figuratively. We have a big fire*, place called the sun, and it has g very hot fire, and the stokers keen the coals well stirred up, but muclj of the year we cannot get near enough to this fireplace to get warmed. The "vorltFs extremities are cold all the time. Forget not that, it is colder at the south pole than at the north polo, and that thd Arctic is not so destructive as the Antarctic. Once In awhile, the Arctic will let explorers come back, but the Antarctic hardly ever. When at the south pole a ship sals in, the door of ice is almost sure to be closed its return. So life to many millions of people at the north is a prolonged shiver. But when I say that this is a cold world I chiefly mean figuratively. As far as myself is. concerned, 1 have no word of complaint, but I look off day by day and see communities freezing out men and women of whom the world is not worthy. Now it takes after one and now after another. It becomes popular .to depreciate and defame and execrate and lie about some people. But notice that someone must, take the storm for the chickens. Ah, the hen takes the storm. I have watched her under the pelting rain. I have seen her in the pinching frosts almost frozen to death or almost strangled in the waters, and what a fight she makes for the young under her wing if a dog, or a hawk, or aman come too near! And so the brooding Christ takes the'; storm for iis. What flood of anguish and tears that did not dash upon his holy soul! What beak of torture did not pierce his vitals! What barking Cerberus of hell was not let out upon him from the kennels! Yes, the hen took the storm for the chickens and Christ takes the storm for us. And does it not make you think of him who endureth all for us? So the wings under which we come for spiritual safety are bloodspattered wings, are night-shattered wings, are tempest-torn wings. But now, the summer day is almost past, and the shadows of the house and barn and- wagon shed have lengthened. The farmer, with scythe and hoe on shoulder, is returning from the fields. The oxen are unyoked. The horses are crunching the oats at the full bin. The air is bewitched of honeysuckle and wild, brier. The milkman, pail in hand, is approaching the barn yard. The fowls, keeping early hours, are collecting their young. -“Cluck!’’ - ( -tUluek'F ! -‘- i Gl U ck!” and soon all the eyes of that feathered nursery are closed. ; The hawks of temptation that hovered in the sky will have gone to the woods and folded their wings. Sweet, silence will come down. The air will be redolent with the breath of whole arbors of of promises sweeter than jassminc or evening primrose. The air may be a lit.tie chill, but Christ, will call us, and we will know the voice and heed the call, and we*will come under the wings for the night, the strong wings, the soft wings, the warm wings, and without fear, and in full sense of safety, and then we will rest from sundown to sunrise, “as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.” Dfar me! How many souls the Lord hath thus brooded!

My text has the strongest application for people who were born in the country, wherever you may now live, and that is the majority of you. You cannot hear my text without having all the rustic scenes of the old farmhouse come back to you. Good old days they wore. You knew nothing much of the world, for you had not. seen the world. • -.1. - ~ By law of association you cannot recall the brooding hen and her chickens without seeing also the barn, and the haymow, and the wagon shed, and the house, and the room where you played, and the fireside with the big backlog before which you sat, and the neighbors, and the burial, and the wedding, and the deep snowbanks, and hear the village bell that called you to worship, and seeing the horses which, after pulling you to church, stood around the old clapboarded meeting house, and those who sat at either end of the church pew, and indeed all the scenes of your first.fourteen years, and you think of what you 'were, then and of what you are now, When, a good man asked a young woman who had abandoned her home and who was deploring her wretchedness, why she did not return, the reply was, “I dare not go home. My father is so provoked he would not receive me home.” ‘‘Then," saidthf Christian man, “I will test this,” and so ho wrote to the father, and the reply catae back in a letter marked outside “Immediate,” and inside , it is written, “Let her come at once; all is forgiven." So God’s invitation for you is marked “immediate” on the outside; and on thefm side it is written, “He will abundantly pardon.”