Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1893 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. . ■ ■ i - -•-» - •bmi K. Matjtt, Pabtebar. RENSSELAER INDIANA

Gold brick and “green goods” men continue to rope in the victims who are too poor to take the papers. The Illinois Legislature has a bill under consideration to compel the trimming of all hedges along highways. The eolored teacharsof Atlanta, Ga., adopted eulogistic resolutions concerning the elevation of Hoke Smith to the Cabinet. As a ship canal the Panama ditch was a failure, but as a “drain” it was a huge success in carrying off the surplus wealth of the French people. j Mr. Gladstone claims from descent Henry HI., of England and Robert Bruce of Scotland. This fact should not count against him in the popular estimation. He is ‘ ‘a man for a, that. ” The Russian military authorities have rejected one-half of the new Lebel rifles purchased for the army, and it will take three years to supply the Czar’s battalions with perfect The Emperor of Germany likes to •ee the Empress wear an apron, and rt is supposed that this preference will cause that article of feminine Apoarcl to be much in vogue in the Fatherland. The collapse of the Kansas revol uKqm is also attributed to heart failure. In reality the failure of the Populist cause was directly attributable to rank treason on one side and cowardice on the other.

A Long Island sculptor will carve a statue of a mythological goddess trow batter for the World’s Fair. She will be a Goddess of Greece in fact, and if made of genuine butter will be very “fresh” for a time at least. The Ohio Governorship seems to be a sort of financial hoodoo. BiShop, Hoadly, and Campbell were very unfortunate in a business way while in that office, and now McKinley’s woes are making the chair of state a very uncomfortable resting place. The re]wr tors who told “why Cleveland was elected” have been outdone by the scribes who have furnished “bottom facts” in the Kansas q uarrel. Trust the Associated Press for “fairy” tales and don't worry yourself reading Munchausen or the. Arabian Nights.

Tnr American end of the Home Rule party are not altogether pleased with Gladstone’s Home Rule bill, but will try to be satisfied with its provisions. This being the case, Mr. Gladstone can now proceed to struggle “wid” the British lion in his attempt to loosen his grip on the Irish lamb. ~ Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, has been joked about his name until he doubtless wishes that bis mother had been somebody else. “Hoke” is no joke, nor it is a pet name, but was the name of his ma tcnial ancestor before she lost her identity by marrying Smith pere, Mr. J. Sterling Morton, who is to be Secretary of Agriculture in the Cleveland cabinet, is the proprietor of a ‘Tnodel farm" in Nebraska, and is a scientific student of agriculture, horticulture and arboriculture. He is believed to be especially well qualified for the duties of his new position.

A New York millionaire committed suicide at Saratoga, recently, because the train was one hour late. “TVaiting for the train” is not a hilarious occupation, as thousands can testify, but it seems unreasonable in the New York man to carry his annoyance to such a desperate extreme in such an attractive town as Saratoga is reputed to be. Turtle is said to be danger of a rabbit plague in Kansas. This, coupled with the pestiferous politics which prevails in that region, together with the devastating cyclones, drouths and grasshoppers which are wont to claim all things for their own, will have a tendency to make discontented citizens of the older Slates ‘‘endure the ills they have rather than to fly to those they know *ot of. ” '■'j j A Pittsburg widower who wanted a wife “real bad” carried on a corwMjKmdeucc through a matrimonial bm •can to a successful issue, and on the '‘round up” found himself engaged te his own daughter. Blue ruin reigned in that household. The “old man” was terribly out up and went ont and climbed some hills, while the daughter cried all night

> for the wasted affection lavished on her unknown lover. Prof. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, accuses Jupiter "and Mars of a conspiracy which has resulted in bringing to the earth the coldest weather that lias been known in the Northern hemisphere for many years. He saw them together on the night of the 25th of January and is fully convinced that they have set up a job on us. It is al ways a satisfaction to be able to “lay" our troubles on to somebody, and the Professor willl please accept our thanks for locating the offenders who have so grievously punished us.

Ward McAllister, boss of the swell Four Hundred ot New York, in contemplation of the proposed visit: of the Prince of Wales, has evolved a code for the instruction of those who feel like extending the hospitality of their homes to the Prince. It seems that to be-in “good form” certain rales of etiquette are necessary in entertaining a royal guest. It is not certainly known that the Prince will “board round.” but those of our readers who desire to do the thing properly should opporutnity offer will do well to write Mac at New York for full instructions. Vandals in the West have destroyed vast tracts of sugar maple trees by hacking them with the ax year after year to draw off the sap rather than to tap them in the proper manner. Such waste is characteristic of new countries. The lavish supplies with which nature has endowed a timbered country are never fully appreciated until they been dissipated by the improvidence of pioneers. Millions of dollars were thrown away by the early settlers of Indiana when they burned the almost inexhaustible supplies of walnut timber in great heaps to get it out of the way.

The financial ruin of Gov. McKinley has brought to him the sympathy of the people without regard to party lines. The devotion of Mrs. McKinley in bravely sacrificing her own private fortune to meet the. demands of the Governor's creditors has been the subject of much favorable comment. While the sacrifice oT the accummulations of a life time of honorable effort, to pay the debts of a defaulting friend, is sad to contemplate. yet it is more than probable that the circumstances will in a very few years have the effect of increasing the Governor’s wealth to a point far beyond what it would have attained in the regular course of

The term “Mug wump" is derived from an Indian dialect, and originally was used to designate an aborigine who deemed himself superior to his fellows. The word came into prominence during the campaign of 1884, and was applied to those Republicans who refused to support Mr. Blaine. A writer in the St. Louis-Globc-Demncrat asserts, how ever, that in reality Mr. Blaine was a Mugwump himself in 1882, and was responsible for the defeat of Folger for Governor of New York in that year by Cleveland by the phenomenal majority of 193,000. thus bringing Cleveland into prominence, and in effect bringing about his own defeat which followed two years later

Huge Mass of Ice.

Indianapolis New*. Some time ago the farmers of Sims and Greene townships, Greene county, sunk a well in hope of finding gas. An abundant flow of water resulted, the stream gushing to a height of one hundred feet. It fell

THE ICE-COVERED DERRICK.

back over the derrick, freezing as it fell, making the derrick a huge icicle of wonderful beauty. Hundreds of people are visiting and photograph ing it. The ribbon of the. Legion of Honor was presented to Mme. Brochard, of the Lenon Hospital, for her faithful services during the cholera epidemic. Although she had braved the plague, she was too diffident to wear the insignia openly, and concealed the ribbon bene;nh a fold of her dress. Warren county. lowa, has a petrified shark. ' .

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

HOME RULE PROSPECTS. The presumption generally held in regard to the success of Gladstonian home rule is that the bill will pass the House of Commons in April or May, going at once to the House of Lords, where it will be summarily rejected by a large majority. There are precedents in English history for the creation of a sufficient number of new peers by the Premier to overcome, the adverse majority, but it is not believed that Mr. Gladstone will resort to this expedient. His course will more likely be to dissolve Parliament, and go to the people on the question of the right of the Lords to nullify the popular will as expressed by its representative body. Indeed it may be said that the continued existence of the House of Lords is threatened by the issue that is likely arise by the dissolution of the English Legislature. Should the Liberals then be returned to power the Lords would hardly dare to reject the measure a second time, and Liberal success would mean the realization of the hopes of Ireland's friends. The right of the. Crown to veto all measures passed by Parliament exists in law, but has not been exercised for a century, and is not likely to again be used in any case. The right of the Lords to reject bills passed by the Commons also is a mere theory that will not much longer be tolerated. The people are the paramount authority in Great Britain, as in the United States, and their form of government permits a prompter execution of the popular will than even our boasted institutions.

' BEAUREGARD. Gone! How large a place in the public attention he once filled. How the public pulse was thrilled with a portentious fear as it followed his movements along the southern border. His was a name that filled ’with dread for many a day the timid hearts of Northern “mudsills” yet unused to war. His was a fame that loomed across the. gathering clouds of civil strife as darts the lightning's vivid flash athwart the black and threatening vortex of a summer storm. His was the hand that fired the shot “that echoed round the world” and plunged a nation into fratricidal strife. His was a mission to salute the god of war in the greatest drama ever played before His throne. He it was that hurled the shaft that bathed in blood a million firesides and freed four million slaves. Beauregard! Chivalrous the sound! Promise of

mighty things to come. How great the hopes of conquest that clustered about his name. How small at last the realization of the rebel dream. Of all the Sou tern leaders at the begiring of the war, none were so conspicuous for ability, none were so feared at the North, none were so inexcusably disloyal. Reared at West Point, in command of that great institution, he left its sacred portals that-had sheltered him so long, and struck, like the fabled snake, at the hand that warmed him, achieving for a time a transient success to go down at last in gloom and dishonor and defeat, as of right he should have done. So passeth the heroes all. Patriot and traitor, conqueror and conquered—rebel and the loyal heart-—all will soon have ceased to claim the recollections and the homage of the people North and South, and the memories of that awful contest will have passed from the tablets of the human mind to the more enduring records of the written page and monoliths of bronze and stone.

NEW MEXICO. Gen. Kearney took possession of Santa Fe in 1846, with the declaration that it was the intention of the United States to provide for New Mexico a free government with the least possible delay. Relying on ; this official assurance, the Territory, ' annexed by force and as a i-esult of ■ the treaty cf Guadalupe Hidalgo, formed a State constitution and chose a member of Congress in 1850. and the. Legislature selected two United Senators. But Statehood was not conferred upon the applicant, and the country was forced to be content with a territorial form of government. In 1876 both Houses of Congress, by an overwhelming majority, agreed to make New Mexico a State, but a minor amendment to the act prevented its becoming a law. In the next Congress the Senate again passed the measure, but action in the House was delayed by parliamentary tactics. Again, in the present Congress, the motion to take up the bill for the admission of New Mexico failed in the Senate by a largo majority through methods best known to the enemies of the Territory. So that for more than forty years, a Territory which has in all respects conformed to the Ameri-

can system, has been denied admission to the Union on one pretext or another. Even in 1860 New Mexico had a population of 93,516, or more than Wyoming has to-day. Since that the Territory of Arizona has been establish©! from its area, depriving it oL6(l,000 inhabitants at the time of its creation, and yet at the census of 1890 it showed a popuatien more than three times that of Nevada, and exceeding by 8,500 that di Wyoming and Idaho combined. The natural resources of ' New Mexico are vast. The assessed valuation of property in 1891 was $45,329,563. The fruit crop is very great. Enormous herds of sheep find a congenial climate in her borders, and the annual wool crop has been estimated at 16,000,000 pounds. Silver, lead, gold, iron, marble, onyx are found in great quantities, and coal mining is one of her most important industries. Unaided by the United States government, as other Territories have been, New Mexico has built a university, agricultural college, insane asylum, and a handsome, capitol building. This last was destroyed by fire last year, and was not insured. These facts, and many others, have been set forth by Governor‘Princein a special communication to the Senate committee on Territories. In answer to the objection that has been raised against admission, on account of the Spanish origin of many of the people of New Mexico, Gov. Prince responds that she sent more men into the Union army than Nebraska, Oregon and Nevada combined. What have been the real influences that have prevented the admission of New Mexico in the past is not for us to state, but to an impartial observer it. would seem that the end so long sought for by her people should be no longer delayed. There is to be a movement inaugurated by the Governors of a number of Southern States looking to a systematic encouragement of immigration to that comparatively undeveloped section. This is well. Ts the Southern people, however, really desire an increase of population from the North they will make greater progress if they will for a time forego the amusement of negro lynchings and roastings. Such savage orgies as have prevailed in various sections of the South within the past six months will not attract the better class of emigrants, no matter what material inducements may be offered.

The Apple in Legend and Fable.

There are few objects which play so conspicuous a role in fable and story as the apple. Itjshone golden in the garden of the Hesperides, Aphrodite, like Eve, held it in her hand, and the serpent and the dragon mounted guard over it, Solomon sang its praises, and in Arab story it is the fruit of healing. Odysseus yearned for it in the garden of Alkinoos, and Tantalus strove vainly to reach it in Hades; and the Edda tells us that Idursa, the goddess of Virtue, treasured apples, the gifts of the gods, of such wondrous virtue that, K as age approached, she had onlyto taste them to renew her youth, until Raynoroks proclaimed universal annihilation. In many a northern story the golden bird seeks the golden apple in the king’s garden, and when the tree is reached and found bare of fruit does not Frau Bertha tell her love that it was because of a mouse that gnawed at the roots? In the mythology’ of the north the apple is ofttimes the tempter, and occasionally makes the nose grow so prodigiously that nothing but a pear will suffice to bring it once more into presentable shape.

Your Hone’s Not Stone.

St. Louis Globs Democrat “When I was in Ireland last summer,” said Henry P. Smyth at the Lindell, “I saw the strange lake out of which most of the razor' hones of the world come. The water of this lake has the power of petrifying any substance that may be to put into it. The product is not- actual stone, but stone material is deposited in the cells and hardens there, giving wood or anything else the appearance of having been turned to stone. An English cutlery firm had a man examine the lake —Lough Neagh is its name—with the result that they get their supply of hones frcin it. Pieces of hard wood are immersed in the lake and allowed to remain there about two weeks These hones are now a famous product of this firm, but the razor sharpening world little knows that the stone is, so t< speak, wood petrified in two weeks in the largest of the Irish lakes."

“Nominate Yer Pizen.”

St. Louis Globe-Df’nocrat. “There arc about 6,000 different way’s of getting drunk, ’ said Charle Haslam, of Toledo, “but the one that leaves the meanest headache and thf most miserable goneness to the system is to drink too much mixed ale. -I have tried it and I know. Mixei a’.c is strong; it is a stinger. Mexu-ai mescal, Japanese sakh and Russia:) vodky’ arc nothing to it fo*- taking hold of a fellow s brain and stomaci and tying the two together in th' hardest kind of a knot. Mixed al is a favorite drink among the tone j ment poor of the East. and it fill' the police courts with disturber, every day and rolls up a number o murders to its credit every night.”

THEY CROSSED OVER.

( The Miraculous Pathway That Led to Canaan's Shore. “Sweet fields Arrayed tn Lirins Green”— Crowing of the Jordan by the Israelite* —Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Dr. Talmage preached at Detroit, Mich., Sunday, at the Fort Street Presbyterian Church. Text: Joshua Ui, 17. “And the priests .that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the Israelities passed over on dry until all ths people were passed clean over Jordan.” He said: Washington crossed the Delaware when crossing was pronounced impossible, but he did it by boat. Xerxes crossed the Hellespont with 2,000,000 men, but he aid it by bridge. The Israelites crossed the Red sea, but the same orchestra that celebrated the deliverance of the one anny sounded the strangulation of the other. This Jordanic passage differs from all. There was no sacrifice of human life—not so much as

the loss of a linchpin. The vanguard of the host, made up of priests, ad-, vanced until they puttheir foot at the brim of the river, when immediately the streets of Jerusalem were no more dry than the bed of that river. It was as if all the water had been drawn off, and then the dampness had been soaked up with a sponge, and then by a towel the road had been wiped dry. Standing on the scene of that affrighted, fugitive, river Jordan, I learn for myseif and for you, first, that obstacles when they are touched vanish. The text says” that when these priests came down and touched the water —the edge of the water with their feet—the water parted. They did not wade in chin deep or knee deep or ankle deep, but as soon as their feet touched the water it vanished. And it makes me think that almost all the obstacles of life need only be approached in order to be conquered. Difficulties but touched vanish. It is the trouble, the difficulty, the obstacle far in the distance that seems so huge and tremendous. There is a beautiful tradition among the American Indians that Manitou was traveling in the invisible world, and one day he came to a barrier of brambles and sharp thorns, which forbade his going on, and there was a wild beast glaring at him from the thicket, but as he determined to go on his way he did pursue it, and those brambles were found to be on’y phantons, and that beast was found to -be ' a powerless Sjhost. and tin impassable river that forbade him rushing to embrace the Yaratilda proved to be only a phantom river.

Well, my friends, the fact is there are a great many things that look terrible across our pathway which when we advance upon them are only the phantoms, only the apparitions, only the delusions of life. Difficulties touched are conquered. Put your feet into the brim of the water and Jordan retreats. I always sigh before I begin to preach at the greatness of the undertaking, but as soon as I start it becomes to me an exhilaration. And any duty undertaken with a confident spirit becomes a pleasure, and the higher the duty the higher the pleasure. Good John Livingston. once on a sloop coming from Elizabethport to New York, was dreadfully frightened because he thought he was going to be dr*» med as a sudden gust came up. F eople were surprised at him. If any man in all the world was ready to die, it was good John Livingston. So there are now a great many good people who shudder in passing a graveyard, and they hardly dare think of Canaan because of the Jordan that intervenes, but once they are down on a sick bed then'all their fears arc gone. The waters of death dashing on the beach are like the mellow voice of ocean shells—the smell of the blossoms of. the tree of life. The music of the heavenly choirs steals over the waters, and to cross now is only a pleasant sail. How long the boat is coming! Come, lord Jesus, come quickly! One would have thought that if the waters of Jordan had dropped until they were only two or three feet deep the Israelites might have marched through it and have come un on the other bank with their clothes saturated and their garments like those of men coming ashore from shipwreck, and that would have been as wonderful a deliverance, but God does something better than that. When the priests’ feet touched the waters of Jordan and they were drawn off, they might have thought there would have been a bed of mud and slime through which the army should pass. Draw off the waters of the Hudson or the Ohio, and there would be a good many days, and perhaps many wejiks, before the sediment would dry up, and yet here, in an instant, immediately, God provides a path •through the depths of Jordan; it is so dry the passengers do not even get their feet damp. Oh, the completeness of everything that God does!

If God makes a Bible, it is a complete Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and delightful truths, you seem to be in the midst of an orchestra where the wailings over sins and the'rejoicing over pardon and the martial strains of victory make the chorus like an anthem of eternity. This book seems to you the ocean of

truth, on every wave of which Christ walks—sometimes in the darkness of, prophecy, again with the splendors with which he walks on Galilee. In this book apostle answersto prophet, Paul to Isaiah. Revelation to Gene-sis-—giorious light, turning midnight sorrow into the midnoon joy, dispersing every fog, hushing every tempest. Take this book; it is the kiss of God on the soul of lest man. Perfect Bible, complete Bible! God provided a Savior. He is a complete Savior—God-man —divinity and humanity united in the same person. He set up the starry pillars of the universe and the towers of light He planted the cedars and .AheTteavenly Lebanon. He struck out of the rock the rivers of life, singing under the trees, singing under the thrones. He quarried the sardonyx and crystal, and the topaz of the heavenly wall. He put down the jasper for the foundation, and heaped up, the amethyst, for the capital and swung the twelve gates, which are twelve pearls. In one instant he thbught out a universe, and yet he became a child, crying for his mother, feeling along the sides the manger, learning to walk. Oh, the complete Savior, rubbing his hand over the place where we: have the pain, yet the stars of heaven the adorning gems of his right hand. Holding us in his arms ■ when we take the last view of the dead. Sitting .iown with us on the tombstone, and while we plant roses there he planting consolation in our heart, every chapter a stalk, every verse a stem, every word a rose. A complete Savior, a complete Bible, a complete universe, a complete Jor- . daniac passage. Everything that God does is complete.

God didn’t intend this world for an easy parlor, through which we are to be drawn in a rocking chair, but we are to work our passage, climb masts, fight battles, scale mountains and ford rivers. God makes everything valuable difficult to get at, for the same reason that he put the gold down in the mine and the pearl clear down in the sea —to make us dig and dive for them. We acknowledge this principle in worldly things: oh, that we were only wise enough to acknowledge it in religious things! And so there is, my friends, a tug, a tussel, a trial, a push, an anxiety, through which every man must go before he comes to worldly success and worldly achievement. You admit it. Now-be wise enough to apply it in religion. Eminent Christian character is only gained by the Jordanic passage; no man just happened to get good. The Christian has passed the Red sea of trouble, and yet he thinks there is a Jordan of death between him and heaven. He comes down to that Jordan of death and thinks hojr many have been lost there. When Molyneux was exploring the Jordan in Palestine he had his boats knocked to pieces in the rapids of that river. And there are a great many men who have gone down in the river of death; the Atlantic and Pacific have not swallowed so many. It is an awful thing to make shipwrecks on the rock of ruin; masts falling, hurricanes flying, death coming, groanin gs in the water, rooanings in the wind, thunder in the sky, while God with the finger of the lightning writes all over the sky, “I will tread them in my wrath, I will trample them in my fury.” The Christian comes down to this raging torrent, and he knows he must pass out, and as he comes toward the time h ? 's breath gets

shorter, and dtis last breath leaves him as he steps into the stream, and no sooner does he touch the stream than it is parted, and he goes through dry shod while all the waters wave their plumes, crying: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” I remember my mother in her dying hour said to my father, “Father, wouldn’t it be pleasant if we could all go together?” But we cannot all go together. We must go one by one, and we must be grateful if we get there at all. What a heaven it will be if we have all our families there to look around and see all the children are present! You would rather have them all there, and you go with bare brow forever, than that one should be missing to complete the garlands of heaven for your coronal. One word of comfort on this subject for all the bereaved. You see, our departed friends have not been submerged—have not been swamped in the waters. They have only crossed over. The Israelites were just as thoroughly alive on the western banks of the Jordan as they had been on the eastern banks of the Jordan, and our departed Christian friends have pnly crossed over —not sick, not dead, not exhausted, not extinguished, not blotted out, but with healthier respiration,and stputer pulses, and keener eyesight, and better prospects —crossed over. Their sins, their physical and mental disquiet, all left clear this side, an eternally flowing, impassable obstacle between them and all human and satanic pursuit. Crossed over! Oh, I shake hands of congratulation with all the bereaved in the consideration that our departed Christian friends are safe.

Oh, ye army of departed kindred, we hail you from bank to bank. Wait for us when the Jordan of death shall part for us. Come down and meet us hall way between the willowed banks of the earth and palm groves of heaven. May our great High Priest go ahead of us’ and with his bruised feet touch, the water, and then shall be fulfilled the words of my text, “All Israel went over ou dry ground until all the people were gone clear through Jordan.”