Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1893 — Page 2

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"' John G. Carlisle, who is concedbe the ablest man in Cleveland’s Cabinet, is not a college graduate, while all the remaining Secretaries have received diplomas from some collegiate institution. A St. Louis man overstepped the bounds of propriety to a remarkable extent, recently. He became so hilarious over the prospect of getting married, and indulged in liquid refreshments to such an extent, that he forgot all about the wedding. - The Emperor of Morrocoo has 6.000 wives and could give Solomon points on domestic trouble. The King of Siam has 000, and is supposed to sympathize with Brigham Young. Other Eastern potentates manage to worry along with a smaller number of helpmates ranging from 400 down to 250, To President Harrison personally belongs the credit of the car-coupling act which passed Congress and is mow a_ law. The railroads are_ given time enough to make the needed changes, and will suffer no hardship and but little additional expense, while many valuable lives will annually be saved. There is literally no end to the prepai’ations for the entertainment of World's Fair visitors, and the Inter-Ocean is authority for the statement that the competition will be so brisk, and the espionage of the press so strict in behalf of the public, that people can live in Chicago as cheaply and comfortably as at home, while seeing the sights. - TnE House of Commons has a wine cellar capable of holding some £40,000 worth of wine, and it is stated that in the average Parlia mentary session 7,830 luncheons and 10.650 dinners are served to members and 1,120 luncheons and. 1,190 in the stranger’s room. Legislators the world over seem prone to conviviality, and we should, not critizisc our own law makers too harshly when we read of their shortcomings in this respect.

A good man writes: “I have been a member of the M. F<. church for forty years, and have suffered with dyspepsia and insomnia. I took Blunkety Blank’s Balsam and am cured.” This implied reflection on that great denomination is rather sad, but all will rejoice that he has been cured of his piety and dyspepsia, and will hope that his slumbers may not in future be disturbed by visions raised by Calvin’s creed or champing colic’s crucial pains. The impression is said to prevail in England that America is given over to exhibitions of ill-manners and mob rule to a greater extent than any other civilized country in the world. Still we can hardly match the hoodlum exhibitions that have lately taken place in London. On a recent Sunday a mob followed Mr. Gladstone’s carriage from church and hissed and hooted at the Premier. Americans may be a little rough in some cases, but we seldom descend to such a despicable method of getting even with a political opponent.

The English aristocracy are said to be hard up, and many of the most ancient families are this season renting their town houses and elegant country seats to wealthy Americans, aijd are living in retirement instead of lavish magnificence as has been their life-long custom. Whether their irapecuniosity is real or assumed can not be ascertained, but they are at least p; ofiting by the free-handed American way of spending money and at the same time are experiencing a change from the monotony of an unending round of amusements which have been almost their sole occupation in the past.

Tiie Sault Ste. Marie canal carried a larger tonnage than the Suez canal last year and the bulk of the business originated in the United States. The tonnage was also largely in excess of the Mississippi river, and was almost as large as the entire ocean tonage of the ports of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It can easily be seen that in case of war with England what vast interests would be at the mrrjy of British batteries. England is the sovereign power on Canadian soil, and one bank of the Sault canal is in Canadian territory. In time of peace we should prepare for war, and the only proper protection in this case is the annexation of Canada. ~~ *" J Tri* Governor's palace at Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been historically famous for three-hundred years, and fe older than the settlement of

Jamestown or the landing at Plymouth Rock. Gov. Prince, in a recent report, has strongly urged the United States government to take some effective steps for its preservation. This should by all means be done, oven if New Mexico is to be admitted as a all indications are that this measure of justice Is likely toYTetaycd indefinitely. So valuable a relic of the! early history of this continent should not be allowed to tumble into mins for the lack of a comparatively small expenditure for its restoration, IyY::

PASSING OF THE COWBOY.

He Exists Still in Wyoming and Tc.x- ---■ as but Hts-CHory Has Departed. Boston Transcript. Texas produced the herder and cowboy. Texas produces him yet in his fullness, Last winter when the cattle “kings” of Wyoming were trying to kill off or drive off the actual settlers who were making homes on Government lands and breaking Up the vast ranges that had been used for years without permission, the settlers were found to be too strong for the “‘kings.” It became necessary to have help in- the work of depopulating the country, and Texas was called upon to furnish the men. They were of the herder or coWboy type; and no other State could produce their equals for that particular work. Before they “cut loose,” however, it was decided that the settlers had better be left in possession of the lands they had homesteaded for themselves. Utah has the best herders in the United States. They are as a rule, Mormons, and do not partake of the Texas characteristics of the same 1 class, in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado the. herder is no longer a “holy terror.” Twenty years ago he was all that phrase implies save the “holy.” I saw the cowboy element just as it was, never totally depraved, but always wild and often dangerous. There were Pawnee Indian women about the camps and equally barbaric white women in the village. The herders all drank and gambled. They would run accounts between pay-days, and a fair percentage of the debts were paid. At times a herd of herders would take possession of the village; that is, they would fire up on forty-rod whisky, mount their ponies, and with pistols cracking and lariats flying they would ride and run over the town like wild yelling Coinanches. Then it was dangerous to be out and about. Then doors were locked and such windows as had shutters were closed. Now and then a man would be hurt, but the law was afraid and nothing was done. When the whisky worked off, the boys would tell yarns on each other and laugh over their frolics. If they had been a murderous lot, I would not now be writing

Rich African Gold Fields.

Baltimore Sun. The announcement is made through the London Times of fabulously rich gold fields in the British possessions in Africa. For several years past it has been known that certain parts of Africa, and notably of East Africa and in Mashonaland,' were gold-bear-ing, and that the gold mines had "Been worked there in remote ages] by a people or peoples whose nationality is* either unknown or simply conjectured. The ruins of the famous hill fortress of Zimbabye, with its inclosing wall and the discovery there qf crucibles still containing particles of gold attest this, as well as many other similar ruins of less ’ extent scattered over East Africa. Some mines have been opened in these districts. Their yield, however, with the imperfect working of the few English in that country, was small, but in one of the mines which was most promising Lord Randolph Churchill, while on his visit to Africa, took stock. And now we have a report of the astonishing discovery of a gold field eleven miles long so rich in the precious metal that mines have already been opened there and the experts who have made’careful investigations testify that “there is gold in sight of the value of £315,000,000," or, in American currency, counting $5 to the pound sterling, of $1,575,01)0,000. It is also said that “the deposits are of a nature that presents no great difficulties to the working of them, aud that the entire amount can be placed on the market in about ten years, provided methods of extraction are employed and proper facilities for transportation furnished.”

The story appears to be almost incredible, yet the Times accepts it as true and asserts that it shows “a prospect of such an addition to the world’s stock of gold during the years immediately at hand as to up set a good many of the calculations of the economists and statistical.’ - The consequences may be readily understood when it is computed that the entire amount of Australian gold put upon the world’s market during the forty years that the mines of that country have been worked has not been much more than $2,000,000, 000. Of our own mines the total product of the Comstock lode in Nevada up to 1889 was but $80,000,000 and all the California mines in their palmiest day cMd not supply more than $65,000,000 j>er annum. The Nevada mines only produced in 1890 $3,500,000, the present gold Siroduct in California is about *l2, 00,000. •‘According to the Director of the United States mint the entire gold product of this country in 1891 was but a little over $33, 000,000, scarcely more than a fifth,” says the Providence Journal, “of the promised African annual supply.”

DREAMS AND VISIONS.

Lessons Drawn From Various Psychological Phenomena. Dreams of the Bible—Visions of To-riay of Doubtful Significance. ■ Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, Sunday. Subject: “Psychological Phenomena.” Text: Genesis xxvni, 11 —“He ■'took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lav" down in that place to sleep, and lie dreamed.” He said: Asleep on a pillowcase filled with hens’ feathers it is not strange one should have pleasant dreams. But here is a pillow of roc-k and Jacob with his head on it, and, lo! a dream of angels, two processions, those coming down the stairs met by those going up the stairs. ‘ It is the first dream of Bible record. __ '* God appeared in a dream to Abim-

elech warning him against an unlawful marriage; in a dream to Joseph, foretelling his coming power under the figure of all the sheaves of the harvest bowing down to his sheaf; to the chief butler, foretelling his disimprison men t; to the chief baker, announcing his decapitation; to Pharaoh, showing him first the seven plenty years and then the seven famine struck years, under the figure of the seven fat cows devouring the seven lean cows; to Solomon, giving him the choice between wisdom and riches and honor; to the warrior, under the figure of a barley cake smiting down a tent, encouraging Gideon in his battle against the Amalekites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under; the figure of a broken image and a iiown down tree, foretelling his overthrow of power; to Joseph of the New Testament, announcing the birth of Christ in his own household; to Mary, bidding her to fly from Herodic persecutions: to Pilate’s wife, warning him not to' become complicated with the judicial overthrow of Christ. We all admit that God in ancient times and under Bible dispensation addressed the people through dreams. The question now is, Does God appear in our day and reveal himself through dreams? That is the question everybody asks, and that question this morning I shall try to answer. You ask me if I believe in dreams. My answer is. I do believe in dreams, but all I have to say will be under five heads. Remark the First —The Scriptures are so full of revelation from Clod that if we get no communication from him in dreams we ought nevertheless to be satisfied. With twenty guidebooks to tell you bow to- get to Boston or Pittsburg or London or Glasgow or Man Chester, do von want, a night vision to tell you how to make the journey? We,have in thm-Scvipiure full direction -in regard to the journey of this life and how to get to the celestial city, and with this grand guidebook, this magnificent,directory we ought to be satisfied..

Sound sleep received great honor when Adam slept so extraordinarily that the surgical incision which gave him Eve did not wake him. But there is no such need for. extraordinary slumber now. and he who catches an Eve must ho wide awake. No need of such a dream as Jacob had, with a ladder against the sky, when ten thousand times it had been demonstrated that earth and heaven are in communication. No. such dream needed as that -which was given to Abimolech, warning him against an unlawful marriage. .when we have the records of the county clerk’s office. 1 can very easily understand why the Babylonians and Egyptians, with no Bible, should pul’so much stress on dreams, and the Chinese, in their holy book, Chow King, should think their emperor-gets his directions through dreams from Cod, and that Homer should think that all dreams came from Jove, and that in ancient times dreams were classified into a science. But why do you and I put so much stress upon dreams when we have a supernal book of infinite wisdom on all subjects? Why should we harry ourselves with dreams? Why should Eddystonc and Barnegat lighthouses question a summer firefly? Remark the .Second—All dreams have an important meaning. They prow that the soul is comparatively independent of the body. The eyes are dosed, the senses are dull, the entire body goes into a lethargy which in all languages is used as a type of death, and then the soul spreads its wings and never sleeps. It leaps the Atlantic ocean and mingles in scenes 3,000 miles away. It travels great reaches of time, flashes back eighty years and the octogenerian is a boy again in his father’s house If the soul, before it has entirely broken its chain of flesn, can do ali this, how far can it leap, what circles can it cut when it is fullv liberated?

Remark the Third —The vast majority of dreams are merely the result of disturbed physical condition and are not a supernatural message. Job had carbuncles, and he was scared in the night. He says, “Thou scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me with visions.” Solomon had an overwrought brain, overwrought, with public business, and he suffered from erratic slumber, and he writes in Ecqlesiastes. “A dream coinefh through the multitude of business.” Dr. Gregory in experimenting with dreams found that a bottle of hot water put to his feet while in slumber made him think he was going up the hot side of Mount Etna. But I have to tell you that the

majority of the dreams are m irely the penalty of outraged digestive organs, and you have no right to mistake the nightmare for heavenly revelation. Late suppers are a warranty deed for bad dreams. Highly spiced s’ijl.nds at 11 o’clock at night instead of opening the door heavenward open the door infernal and diabolical. You outrage natural law T , and you insult the God who made those laws. Lwili give you a recipe for ant dreams: Fill your days with elevated thought and unselfish action, and your dreams will be set to music. If all day you are gouging and grasping and avaricious, in your dreams you wifi see gold that you cannot clutch and bargains in which you were outshylocktd. If during the, day you are irascible, pugnacious and gunpowdery of disposition, you will have at night battle with-ene-mies in which they will get the best of you. If you are all day long in a hurry, at night you will dream of rail trains that you want to catch while you cannot move one inch toward the depot.

If you are always oversuspicious and expectant of assault, you will have at night hallucinations ofassasins with daggers drawn. The scholpoet’s dream is a rhythmic echo. Colerige composed his“KublaKlian v asleep in a narcotic dream, and waking up wrote down 300 lines of it. Tartini, the violin player, composed his most wonderful sonata while asleep in a dream so vivid that waking he easily transferred it to paper. All dreams that make you better are from God. How do I know? Is not God the source of all good? It doffs not T&ke u very logical mind to argue that out. Tertullian and Martin Luther believed .in dreams. The dreams of John Huss are immortal. St. Augustine, the Christian father, gives us the fact that a Carthaginian physician was persuaded of the immortality of the soul by an argument which he heard in a dream. The night before his assassination the wife of Julius Cmsar dreamed that her husband fell dead across her lap. It is possible to prove that God does appear in dreams to warn, to: convert and to save men. The Rev, Dr. Busline! 1 , in his marvelous book entitled “Nature and the Supernatural,” gives the following fact that he got from Captain Yount in California, a fact confirmed by many families: Captain Yount dream® twice one night that 150 miles away there was a company of travelers fast in the snow. He also saw in the dream rocks of peculiar formation.and telling his dream to an old friend the hunter said: “Why, I remember those rocks. Those rocks are in the Carson Valley pass, 150 miles away.” Captain Yount, impelled by this dream, although laughed at byhis neighbors, gathered men together, took mules and blankets, and started on the expedition, traveled 150 miles, saw those very rocks which he had described in his dream, and finding the suffering ones at the foot of those rocks brought them back to confirm the story of Captain Yount. Who conducted that dream? The God of the show, the God of the Sierra Novadas. Furthermore. T have to say that Jihere are people in this house who were converted to God through a dream. The Rev. John Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all Christendom, while a profligate sailor on. shipboard, in his dremjji.thought that a being approach®-Bm VH, &nd gave him a very beautiful ring and put it upon his finger and said to him, “As long as you wear that ring you will be prospered; if you lose that ring, you will be ruined.”

In the same dream another personage appeared.-and by a strange infatuation persuaded John Newton to throw that ring overboard, and it sank into the sea. Then the mountains in sight were full of fire, and the air was lurid with consuming wrath. While John Newton was repenting of his folly in having thrown overboard the treasure an - other personage came through the dream and told John Newton he would plunge into the sea and bring the ring up if He desired it. He plunged into the sea and brought the ring up and said to John Newton, '‘Here is that gem, but I think I will keep it for you, lest you lose it again,” and John Newton consented, and all the fire went out from the mountains, aud all the signs of lurid wrath disappeared from the air, and John Newton said that he saw in his dream that that valuable gem was his soul, and that the being who persuaded him to throw it overboard was satan, aud that the one who plunged in and restored that gem, keeping it for him, was Christ, and that drearr. makes one of the most wonderful chapters in the life of that most wonderful man. There are enough materials to make a dream. Enough voices, for there shall be the roaring of the elements and the great earthquake. Enough light for the dream, for the world shall blaze. Enough excitement, for the mountains shall fall. Enough water, for the ocean shall roar. Enough astronomical phenomena, for the stars shall go out. Enough populations, for all the races of all the ages will fall into line of one of two processions—the one as cending, the other descending; the one led by the rider on the white horse of eternal victory, the other led on by Apollyon on the black chargor of eternal defeat.

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OUR PLEASURE CLUB.

He was making friends with the policeman. “My good fellow,” he said, “you mustn't believe everything you hear about me.” “I don’t” responded the officer. ‘ ‘l4 1 did I'd run you in.” SUB ACIDITIES.

Gladys—Ob, Muriel dear, that heavenly frock! I think it looks lovelier every year! —From Punch. “Fred only puts on the smoking jacket I bought him when he is sick;’’ “1 did't know he was ever sick,” “He isn’t except when he tries to smoke,!’—— “Jagson says It's always a paradox of drink that- a man will get away with more than he can carry. She was the gayest of thfrg.Tjr For full a dozen seasons, And then she took to cats and tea For confidential reasons. Y—Do you believe Schiller when he says that the best woman is the one whom nobody talks about? Z - I rather think it is the one who talks about nobody. Hawson —ITaiew he was lyingjbut he offered to bet me $lO it was so. — Mawson— Did you take him up? Hawson—No. He is a lawyer, and I was afraid he could prove it. a great difference.

Mother; —“Arthur, this hurts me more than it does you!” Arthur —“Yes, mama, but not in the same place.” “Is his lordship at home?” asked a gentleman of a well-powdered flunky. “Don’t know, sir, I’m sure. I will just inquire.” He returned with the message; “No, sir; his lordship desires, me to say that- he has just gone out.” “Ah! thank you very much. Kindly give him my compliments and say I didn’t call !” “Good-bye, love. In ease I am really prevented from coming home to dinner I will send a telegram,” ■’You need not trouble to send it; I have already taken it out of your jacket pocket.”

“I suppose you can always tell when your husband wants to write; he shuts up ” Wise —No, but he don’t; I’m the one that always has to do that. “Poor Guzzler’s grief is no shortlived matter is it?” “No; he has tried every day for a year to drown it, too.” Clerk—Madam, is this the cash boy that took voflr parcel? Customer —I think not, fdr he was about the age of that boy when he started with it. “Did Miss Goldeoin look upon your suit with favor? “Oh, _yes, .she thought the clothes were all right, but she objected to the wearer.” She —Now you’ve looked over my music, what would you like to have pie play? He—Either euchre or cribbage. OVERWORK.

Roonev—Say,Pat, ye ’er a bit of a A skolard, kin ye tell me who it was ordered the sun to shtand still? Noonan —I dunno. Some son of a gun of a conthractor who wanted to got a big day’s work otit of a laborin' man, ye kin bet. —-Puck.

CHILDREN OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

TAD LINCOLN.

NELLIE GRANT.

MARY LODGE M'KEE.

BABY RUTH AND HER MOTHER.

(Drawn by Miss G. A. Davis from i sketch from life, at Lakewood, N. 1., expressly for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly.)

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

During the siege of Paris butter was sold for $lO a pound. An earthquake wave once crossed the Pacific in twelve hours, or over six miles a minute. Wheat taken from a mummy vase in Egypt 2,000 years ago was plant] 3d, and some of it grew. A sword has been found near Brenham, Tex., which has Sam Houston’s initials carved upon the handle. Henry Rochefort refuses to receive Advertisements for his paper from Germans under any circumstances. The banana seeds only in one spot m the earth —the Andaman’s islands. Everywhere else it must be raised from suckers. The oldest artesian well in Europe is found at Lillors, France. From its mouth water has flowed uninterruptedly for 246 years. Geologists consider kerosene to be tnimal oil. Hence what we burn in lamps is the remains of loqg extinct masters of the earth. Scotch whisky made in Germany is being largely imported into India. The wholesale price, delivered, is six pence per quart bottle.

Divinity St udent—“Then you consider my arguments sound? ,r Convict—“ Sound?” Dat’s all they are.”