Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER | INDIANA

4am<ms -rope-jvalker, . who amnsed our forefathers by walk? ing a rope at Niagara, celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday at Londo'n, on the 28th ult., by walking’ a rope 200 feet above the ground. Not with standing his age he is still a robust and active man. : Word comes that we are to have a Russian fleet- in Now York harbor this spring. -The Czarevitchis coming along to see the Fair. ViceAdmiral KasnakSff will be in command, and he will doubtless be accorded a hearty reception, with cordial inquiries as io the cause of his “Kof.” - It has been announced that. Bus-. fgia Bill has bnftn chT>sOjvas~ a-tnodhl fora statue of the■' 'typical American” that Utah will have cast in silver for the World's Fair. This ideal will suit the small boy. but it is to hoped that Gel. -Cody will not be considei'ed an embodiment of the highest American manhood. S. W. Allerton, the millionaire pork packer, has withdrawn frnnr the swell Chicago club because there is too much- drinking indulged in by the members. Mr. Allerton is not a temperance reformer, but objected to the constant temptations to indulge in the intoxicating beverages that were placed--before .him at the club rooms. - A most remarkable gathering was that in Carnegie Hall, New York, recently, when a Roman ,Catholic . priest, a Jewish rabbi, ministers of nearly all the Protestant denomination s,and an infidel lawyer, sat in harmony on the same stage and made eulogistic speeches' in honor of Phillips Brooks, a deceased Episcopal Bishop. Verily, “the lion and the lamb shall lie down together.” Etgitt hundred million Collars are invested in electrical enterprises in this country. One-half of this enormous capital is bound up in electric light and power plants, and onefourth in factories for their produccion. The balance is employed in miscellaneous enterprises that are dependent on the others. Every electric railroad in the United States is said to be paying a handsome return on the capital employed, and new projects of almost unlimited possibilities are daily being organized. New York City is agitated over the continued burials in vaults belonging to the old Knickerbocker families in Trinity churchyard, on Broadway at the head of Wall street. The burial place has been in use since colonial times. Grave digging was prohibited fifty years ago, but a number of the old-time families owning vaults in the ii&flosure have: continued their use, until they are a veritable charnel house, shocking to the sensibilities of the passersby, as wcil as seriously detrimental to the public health. President Harrison brought the great Hoosier commonwealth into some prominence before the country at large, and Indiana has not been a loser thereby in the public estimation. Now the State has been honored in a permanent way by the naming of the battle-ship “Indiana", which was launched on the 27th ult. This great vessel will not be fitted for service for a year, but When she sails forth on the waves, bearing the name of the great State she honors, the backwoods Hoosier will be justified in feeling that she is the peer of any land beneath the starry banner or beneath the glittering vault above.

Tnr exclamation point was brought into court in London, recently, one Mrs. Austin claiming t ha *e been seriously injured in character by the use of three of them consecutively by a British nobleman in a private letter to a friend. In the epistle the noble lord, in speaking ci Mrs. Austin, wrote that .‘.‘she wanted to bring her daughter to France'.!The jury could not be made to sec that damage had been inflicted and found for the defendant. Intelligent people, however, can easily understand how. under certain circumstances, this simple little orthographic character can be made very offensive. There art a few gentlemen at the White House who are fixtures which each succeeding .administration inherits. They arc Colonel O. L. Pruden, assistant secretary, who entered the service during the early days of the war; Colonel W. H. Crook, who }ias witnessed eight different inaugurations; B. F. Montgomery, telegrapher of the Weather Bureau; Thomas F. Wendel, usher

since November 1864; C. D. O. Loeffler, appointed by Grant in 1872, and William Du Bois, usher appointed by Hayes in 1880. Neither one will likely be disturbed as they were found acceptable during the former administration of Mr. Cleveland. Time, like an-dbetriccar, waits for no man, but plunges forward to the nextcrossing, taking on new x passengers and leaving old ones behind in mud or wind or storm, heedless of the frantic -cries—of—those—who- fail -te catch on with its swift flight, Now it is a mighty man of war that falls by the wayside, and again it is a motley throng who are passed by. Onward it- rolls-, antF- on history's scroll the record of its deeds are told. Men puss away, but day by day time keeps' the track and ne'er turns back, but while we fall beneath the pall.. we need not quail but set our sail Tpr'■higher" Spheres beyond life’s fears, where time no -more heads on the shore the fragile bark we can"nbtpt’eer. '

High judicial authority has decided that a person who can" 1 play a good game of -poker is not insane, and can not be held in an insane asylum where he has been imprisoned after haying demonstrated his ability in this direction. Young Mr. Cunningham, of New York, had so many peculiarities, —among which was his hatred for collar buttons, refusing to wear (’ollarslieeause4he.-buttons-got-lost—that his step-father secured his commitment to an insane asylum. But friends rallied to his rescue, and it was .proven that he was an expert at the game of poker. Mr. Cunningham was declared sane notwithstanding his intense, hatred of the elusive collar button. Vindication is what-unlueky mon have always longed for and seldom attain. Down in Georgia they appreciate this very human—feeling to a more perfect degree than has perhaps been attained in any other region, in the United States at least. A postmaster in the land of Hoke Smith made fraudulent use of the mails and was sent to the penitentiary for so doing. On his return from serving out his sentence his admiring friends met him with brass bands and escorted him in triumphal procession through tne town. They afterwards elected him Justice of the Peace as a further expression of thci r disapproval of Uncle Sam for the incarceration of their beloved fellowtownsman. Five hundred millions of the human race wear a complete outfit bf clothing. Seven hundred millions cover part of their bodies, while two hundred and fifty millions adhere to the primitive fashions said to have been inaugurated by Adam and Eve when they started in business, and seem from all accounts to be enjoying life quite as well as the fortunate or unfortunate millions who wear clothes and work hard to pay for them. Happiness is largely a matter of education and comparison; and it is not altogether an established fact that the highly civilized nations of "the world are better off in this respect than their naked fellow’ mon. “Where ignorance is bliss ’tis iojly to be wise.”

Trolling With Live Fish Gait.

Scientific American. The improved fishing device shown in the accompanying illustratioii is designed to keep the bait used alive for an indefinite period. The hooks, inslead of boiny attached to the line in the stial way, are white, and arc secured by a swivel and white wire leaders to an annealed, flanged, flintglass tube, through which the water circulates, and in which is held alive minnow or other living bait, the glass magnifying the size of. the fish in the tube, and its effect being such that, at a distance of a foot, only the bait fish in the tube is seen by the

fish in the water ntits'.de. the hooks escaping observation. An opening in the front of .the tube and one in the cap closing its rear provide for a free circulation of water through jit, so that one small bait fish may last for a day, the fish being inserted in the tube by unscrewing the rear tap. It is said that this device has been successfully employed in catching muskalonge, pickerel, pike and bass, being equally adapted for taking either salt or frosh water game fish, whose natural bait consists of small fish. The tubes are preferably made of different fmm 3* to 54 inches long, and proportionately trimmed with hooks, according to the kind of. fish it is proposed to catch. k ——===«»»■ Dealer — madam, is a horse I can recommend, sound, kind— Old Lady—Oh, I don’t want that kind of a horse. He holds his head Mhigh. . Dealer- Eh? t Old Lady—l like a horse that holds his nose ckxie to the ground so that lie can see where he's gain’.

A NEW STYLE SERMON.

A Homily For the Press—*!‘Ke- i iigioa <i.t Home?* The Mothers of drcat Ulen—.To'Uina.S Kesolve—The* FtxtuJUy Altar—Dr. Ta 11.... .... th. ■ ma;e s Dtcourso. .. H— —— Rev. Dr. Talmage was in Ch eago last- Sunday, but did not preach, lie prepared for the press the ft How- J ing discourse? Subject: “Religion i •at Home.” Text: Joshua xxiv, 15 — “As for me and my house, we will serve ti-.e Lord. ” Al-.-u-.cl, Jr.shua! You will have ' no time for family rMlglr>TU _ 'Y7ml area military charuvtei. and y.iur time will be tala n up with a 'fairs connected, with the army. Yo i are the,'Washirgtor.. the Wellington, the McMahon of the Israelitish host: you w.ill.haiYesa..great many questions toJ cuttle: you will nave no time fdr re- I ligion. But Joshua, with the same woicir sun and moon to halt and stack Anns grcnmiTorlKe" i’.eavens.ma.giq.xfAs- for:'biri7aii?Hny house, wo will serve the Lord.” .i »’■ It is a groat d»-al easier to invite .a (iisagreeable gu-’St F:r.:i him. If you do not want 'religion you had better not ask ih to come, for after coming it mtsymlny a great. - while: —Isaac Wat ts went -to vis • t Sir Thomas and Lady Abney tit their place in Theobald and to stay a week, and stayed 35 years, and if r«.-ligion once gets into your household the probability is it will stay there forNow. the question I want to discuss is: What will religion do for ■<lio household? Question the. first! What -did- it- "do. for your fathers house if you were brought up in a Christian home? That whole scend has vanished, but it comes back to-day. . The hour for morning prayers came. You' were invited in. Somewhat fidgety, -you.sat and listened. Your fathermade no pretension of rhetorical reading, and lie just went through the chapter in a plain, straightforward way. Then you knelt. It was about the same prayer morning by morning and nigliy by night, for he had the same sins to ask pardonjor, and he had the same blessings for which to be-grateful day after day and year after year. Was that morning and evening exercise iii your father's house debasing or elevatingls it not among the most sacred reminiscences? Yqu were not as devotional as some of the older members of your father's house who ■were kneeling with you at the time, and you did not bow your, head as closely as they did, and you looked around and you saw just the posture your father and mother assumed while kneeling on the floor. The whole scene is so- photographed on your niofnery that if you. were an artist you could draw it now just as they knelt. The broken prayer of your father has had more, effect upon you than aii you ever read iir Shakespear ? and Milton and Tennyson and Dante. You have gone over mountains and across seas. You never for a moment got out of sight of that domestic altar. Oh, my friends, is it your opinion this morning that the ten or fifteen minutes subtracted from each day for family devotion was ait economy or waste of time in your father’s household? I think some of us are coming to the conclusion that the religion that was in our lather's house would be a very appropriate religion for our own ht-mes. If family prayers did not damage that household there is no probability they will damage our household. i ‘Washington’s mother was patriotic. Samuel Budget's mother was a thorough Christian. St. Bernard’s mother was noble minded. So you might have guessed from their children. Good men always have good mothers. There may once in ten or twenty years be an exception to the rule, but it is only an exception. Benjamin West’s, mother kissed him after she had seen his first sketch with the pencil.- Benjamin West afterward said, “That kiss made me a painter.” The young people may- makea wide curve from the straight path, but they are almost sure to come back to the right road. It may not be until the death of one of the parents. How often it is that we hear someone say, “Oh, he was a wild young man, but since his father’s death he has been different!" The fact is that his father's coffin, or the mother’s coffin, is often the altar of repentance for the child. Oh, that was a stupendous day, the day of father’s burial. It was not the officiating clergyman who made the chief impression, nor the sympathizing mourners; it is the father asleep in the casket. Oh, young man with cheek flushed with dissipation! how long is it since you have been out to your father’s grave? Will you not go this week? Perhaps the storms of the last few days have bent the headstone until it leans far over. You had better no out and see whether the lettering has been defaced. You had better go out and see whether the gate of the lot is closed. You had better go out and see if you cannot find- a sermon in the springing grass. Oh. young man, go out this week and see your father's grave! They do not know much about the Eobility of the western trapper. A traveler going along was overtaken by night and a storm,and he entered a cabm. He was alarmed. He had a large amount of raone.V with him,but •he did not dare venture out at night Into the storm. He did not like the

' ---p--— < 1 looks of the ho.seMld. After awhile the father—the western trapper—camein, gun on shoulder, and when the traveler looked at him he was still more affrighted,' ' After awhile the.fam ly were whisp-~ ■'erihg togethcr in hfeek-ebrner of the room, and the j traveler thought to himself, “Oh! now hiy.time ha. come: the night rather than here, ” But the swarthy man came up to him and said: “air, we are rough peopk: we get our living by bu:.ting, and we are very tired when night .<•bines,’ but before going to bed v. e have a habit of asking prayers, and I think w<> will have our usual ‘ cusioin tonight, and if you don’t believe in that kind of.thing .if you will just .step outside the door for a little whi 1e I will be much obi iged to you. ’ ’ There was in my ancestral line an incident so strangely impressive that it seems more like, romance than reality. It has sometimes been so inaccurately put forth that 1 nov/ give you the true incident. My grandfather and .grandmother, living at Somerville, N. J., v.-ent to Basking Ridge under the Rev. Dr. Finley. They came home so impressed with what they had seen that they resolved on the sjialya--tion-of-their children. - ■ _ The. young people of the house were to go off for an evening party, and my grandmother said: "Now, when you are all ready for the. party, come to my~room, for I have something very important to tell you.” All ready for departure, they came to her room, and she said to them, “Now, I want you to remember, while you-two away-this cv en’ing, that I am all the time in this room praying for your salvation, and J shall not cease praying until you get back. ” The young people went to the party, but amid the loudest hilarities of the night they could nbt forget tliat their mother vz>s praying for them. The evening passed, and the night passed. The next day. my grandparents heard an outcry in an adjoining room and they went in and found their daughter imploring the salvation of the gospel. The daughter told them that her brothers were at the barn and at thft wagon house under powerful conviction of sin. They went to the barn. They found my uncle Jehiah, who afterward bdcame a minister of the gospel, crying to God for mercy. They went to the wagon house. They found their son David, who afterward became my father, imploring God’s pardon and mercy. Before a great while the whole family were saved, and David went and told the story to a young woman to whom he was affianced, who, as a result of the story, became a Christian, and from her own lips—my mother’s—l received the incident. There were twelve of us children. I trace the whole line of mercy back to that hour when my Christian grandmother sat in her room imploring the blessing of God upon her children. Nine of her descendants'became ministers of the gospel. Many of her descendants are in heaven, many of them still in the Christain (•outiict. Did it pay for her to spend the whole evening in prayer for her household? Ask her before, the throne of God surrounded by her children. Jn the presence of the Christian* church to-day I make this record of ancestral piety. Oh, there is a beauty and a tenderness and a sublimity in family religion. Oh, that family Bible! The New Testament in small type i s not w’orthy of being called by that name. Have a whole Bible in- large type, with the family record of marriages and births and deaths. What if the curious should turn over the leaves to see how old you are? You are younger now than you will ever be again> The curious will find out from those with whom you have played in your childhood how' old you are. Have a family Bible. It will go down from generation to generation full of holy memories. A hundred years after you are dead it will be a benediction to those who come after you. Other books worn out or fallen apart will be flung to the garret or the cellar, but this will be inviolate, and it will be your protest for centuries against iniquity and in behalf of righteousness. There are two arms to this subject. The one arm puts its hand on all parents. It says to them: “Don’t interfere with your children’s welfare. Don’t interfere with their eternal happiness. Don’t you by anything you do put out your foot and trip them into ruin. Start them under the shelter, the insurance, the everlasting help of Christian parentage. Catechisms will not save them, though catechisms are good. The rod will not save them, though the rod may be necessary. Lessons of virtue will not save them, though they are very important. Becoming a through and through, up and down, out and out Christian yourself will make them Christians.” The other arm of this subject puts its hand upon those who had a pious bringing up, but who as yet have disappointed the expectations excited in regard to them. I said that children brought up in Christian households, though they might make a wide curve, were very apt to come back to the straight path. Have you not been curving out long enough, and is it not most time for you to begin to curve in? I feel anxious about you; you feel anxious about yourself. Oh, cross over into the right path! If your parents prayed for you twice a day —each of them twice a day for 20 years—tliat would make 20,000 prayers for you. Think of them! By tlie m’einory of the cradle in which your childhood was rocked with the foot that long ago ceased

to move, by the crib in which your own children slumber night by by the two graves in which sleep, those tvzo old hearts that beat with love so long for your-welfare, and by the two graves- in. .which you. nowthc .living father and mother, will find your last repose, I urge you to tlig* of ynny (Infry. .Ok, you departed Christian ancestry .fathers ar d mothers of glory, bend from the ski?s to-day and give new emphasis to what you told us on earth with many te=ifs and anxieties! Keep a place for us by your blissful side, for to-day, in the presence of earth and heaven and hell, and by the help of the cross, and amid overwhelming and gracious memories, we^resolve, each one for himself,. “As for me and my house, wo will servo the Lord.”

THE MYSTERY OF DEATH.

Is There a Moment of Conseionsne»s When the Soul Quits thcTJody? “I was reading an article this morning on how it feels to diej” said Dr. W. H. Ep woe th I o a r epor ter-of -- the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “No living man can I i/tl how death feels, or whether tlie actual act of dissolution is accompanied by sensation or not. A man, who through disease or casualty, has kstrconsciousness- - has become to ali appear:».:icos dead and is then resuscitatedr-ean really tell us nothing about it, for he did not die. Thu machinery did not coirie to a complete standstill—the life force-dul-not leave the body. It may be that he has descried terrors not visible to the eyes of the medical man, who interests himself only in the-condition of the animal mechanism. “I have stood by the deathbed of men who told me they wore going to hell, and then saw them pass peacefully to their long sleep. I have looked at their dead faces a few minutes later and saw thereon a look offear,"of horrorHhStAyas not visible, when the heart gave its last faint throb and then stood still. I have had others tell me almost with their last breath that they were going to lieaven. They passed away with wan, weary faces that were pitiful to contemplate, but before they becamerigid a smile sweet as an angel’s dream overspread the pallid features. The deep lint o of suffering faded put, and the aged looked almost youthful, the weary and worn became radiant. What causes this change, Which every physician has noticed? When does death occur? We say when the animal machinery stops, when the breath and pulse cease. “This is what the doctor calls death, but it may not be death after all. The spirit may not leave the body, may not take its departure from earth with the last breath, the last faint heartbeat. It may cling for some moments to its shattered •tenement before it takes flight, before it faces those terrorsenters into those transcendent glories which the poet has painted. The death of the body, with which the doctors only deal. may bo but. the prelude to a more important act, the departure of the spirit. Science has gone far. but it has not yet lifted the veil of mystery which the Almighty has hung over the couch of death. ”

American Women and Hotels.

Pittsburg Dispatch. The swellest-looking women can be seen about the Fifth Avenue Hotel every day. They are guests of the house and come from various cities throughout the union. It used to be that American women were chary about being seen about the hotel corridors frequented by. guests and loungers of the male sex, but this is all chanegd. note that these women bear the stamp of the cosmopolite. They have the air of women of the world, who are not afraid of the world and who are rather glad that they are in it. The matrons have a charmingly “comfortable, look between fashion and benevolence, of thesortof people whose position in the great game of life is assured. The young women are comely to look upon as a rule, and are oftencr downright handsome than downright plain. It is pleasing to the eye that they dress, for the most part, with excellent taste, being given to plain, well-fitting traveling, street and carriage gowns, and in this respect form an agreeable contrast to the American women of twenty years ago. When I see them hovering around the post office end of the office counter, or at the bookstall, or in front of the hotel theater ticket desk, I recall the similar knots of stylish femininity one meets about the office of the continental hotels. The American woman is known abroad for her independence of character and her ability and willingness to look after herself, as well as for her fine figure and facial beauty. In the big New York hotels you will see the same fine types, doing the same thing in the same quietly effective lady-like manner. At the Windsor, Brunswick, Savoy, Holland, Murray Hill and other swell modern hotels that partake of the continental type you will always see these woll-bred and attractive women about the ground floor, lending a charm to New York life but a few years ago unknown.

The Matter Explained.

Lite. She —Why is it, when physicians get sick they never attend to their own cases? He —I don’t know, but I should say it was because they can’t charge them selves Anything for it.

THE FAIR SEX.

“The Rev; - Mrs. Emily Woodruff was brdained as pastor of a Congre national chureh. aL Jainestowh, N. Y., on a recent Sunday. Miss Benfrey, a Chicago elocutionist, memorizes an entire novel or play and assumes each character in her readings. i 1 A scientific authority has just'* given out that.a woman’s beautjr arrives at its maximum only after* she has passed her thirtieth year. Miss Herbert, the daughter of theSecretary of the Navy, who presides oyer her father’s home, is the youngest lady in the Cabinet circle. A LITTLE GIRL'S COAT. The fashionable small girl's coat mav be a thing of beauty both inside and out. A coat recently seen was of bengaline, with a full pelerine of white Angora fttr. H was made .rather full, with large sleeves finished with a cuff. The bengaline was of a creamy white tint, the cuffsand ribbon bow in light blue. It was-JlnedjffiitlL-asoft blue brocaded silk, with a design of white daisies.

COAT OF CREAM-WHITE BENGALINE.

■ The buttons which fastened the coat in front were of light blu# enamel, encased in silver rims. The hat was of cream white felt. The flaring brim was outlined with a band of Angora fur and the crown was smothered with loops of pals blue ribbon. When the weather ber comes too warm for the fur pelerine, then it is to be replaced by four graduated capes of blue bengaline, each one finished with a tiny ruffle of rare old lace. The , Association of “Colonial Dames” has been in existence for some time in one or two of the. Middle Slates and in Rhode Island, and has recently been organized in Massachusetts. Among the conditions of membership is ability to give names in full of six ancestors in America for six generations back respectively (mentioning incidentally any acts of public benefit one or more of them have performed.) The Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs has 1100 members. Mrs. Sarah Kipple, of Scranton, Pa..has enjoyed her pipe for seventynine years, and thinks it soothes many of the ills of life. She is in her ninety-ninth year. ■ Marshy N. Lyles, a colored woman of Sylvania, Ga., has begun the pursuit of learning at the local school. She is seventy years old. Boston, always advanced, has discovered still another profession for women. Mrs. Julia Brown has opened an undertaking establishment there. The “Golden Rose” of virtue will be bestowed this year by the Pope upon the Archduchess Margaret of Austria, niece of the Emperor and abbess of a convent near Prague. The magnificent vestments worn by Mr. Irving as the Archbishop in “Becket” were designed by Mrs. Cornyns Carr. They are said to be the most splendid ever worn by him.

Mrs. Lease's Complaint Against Womankind.

Kansas City Journal. In the course of an interview concerning her candidacy for a seat in the United States Senate, Mrs. M. E. Lease gave utterance to the following: “The strange part of this all is, that of all the congratulating letters I have received not one of them is from a woman. I am the on y woman ever suggested for the office of United States Senator, and it is very funny that none of my congratulations should come from women.”

The Long Headed Man.

Portrait of a Russian Detectivt now on exhibition at a New York museum.' Head measures 14 inches from ear to top of head.