Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN, HNBSELAIR imiUSJ

TVoiiES continue to forge to the front. The last Legislature c? Maine granted suffrage to the fair sex in local elections. Totai abstinence advocates claim that this will be more effective in checking the evils of intemperance in that State than the prohibition law, which of late years has been a dead letter in many localities. A very shrewd swindler has been profiting by the ignorance ©f th& Mexican greaser. He succeeded in disposing of an unknown quantity of confederate money before he was arrested. The scheme was original and worked well, and the probability is that it was largely profitable, as the penalty can not be extremely Tc* Pope intends to beatify Joan of ArS;' but it is not known that this oeremony tPPHI be of any benefit to Jenny or anybody else. However it Is very kind in the Pope to announce his willingnessyo confer this honor on a heroine deaathese many years, as he is the only person on the face of the globe who can beatify anybody dead or alive.

President Carnot lias also raised 1 the rank of the French Legation at Washington to an embassy. Congress recently passed a bill giving the President power to raise the rank of our Ministers to Ambassadors, and President Cleveland will doubtless avail himself of the privilege in the case of our Minister to France as well as to England; Four thousand women have registered for the spring elections in Topeka, .2,354 in Leavenworth, 1,000 Jr. Ijawrencc, and a full registration has taken place in other leading cities in Kansas. Kansas politics certainly needs straightening out. The male sex has proved themselves entirely incompetent to conduct the government and the ladies should now be given a chance.

Uxcle Sam will soon have reason to be proud of the navy which in the past has been a fruitful source of •trouble and in many cases of positive disgrace. In armor and projectiles our navy now leads the world. The cruiser New York has recently broken the record for speed, and progress and a spirit of enterprise is a characteristic of the new era which may bo said to have begun within the past four years.

Whiskers or no whiskers is a question that agitates British army circles, and to the discussion of which the various army publications are devoting considerable space. The regulations on the subject are clear, but exceptions and evasions are constantly coming to the surface. The rule provides that officers and men shall Hot shavetheupper Np at all. Some officers of high rank wre said to disregard this regulation and thereby set a bad example to the service by a clean shaved face. Chicago sharps have devised a new trnd highly profitable scheme for doping unwary and credulous people who have a desire for elegant articles at a nominal outlay of cash, and their victims are numerous among the class who are “tco poor to sub scribe.”. A man living in Spencer, Mass., saw an advertisement that on receipt of one dollar an eiegant engraving of the “Landing of Columbus” would be sent. He forwarded the amount and received by return mail a Columbian two-cent stamp.

Were it not for the semi-annual revolutions which eventuate in South America with all the regularity of the equinoctial storms, many of its capitals would become health resorts of great popularity with people of wealth and leisure. One of the capitals possessing superior advantages of this character is Bogota, the seat of government of the United States of Colombia. It is located on the San Francisco river, on an elevated plateau, 8,863 feet above the sea. Two lofty mountains tower to the heavens above the city, and the climate is described as a perpetual autumn, the temperature seldom rising above 50 degrees. Tite greatest and most picturesque international naval _ review ever known in the Western Hemisphere will be held in the waters of New York Bay on the 27th inst. The great development of our navy in recent years makes it possible for our government to make a creditable display without recalling war ships from foreign stations, consequently no duty is likely to be neglected in

order to participate in the pageant. There are also quite a number of new war ships that have never yet been on station—duty. The —navy will after the review be dispersedto various quarters of the globe, but a strong fleet will guard our own seaboards. t Geographical boundaries assume various fantastic shapes,and the gerrymander boundaries of legislative and congressional districts in various States ha ve been the source of a vast amount of newspaper common t and ill-feeling. Perhaps the most uniqueoutline of this character in the United States is that of Warren county, Tennesse, whose boundary is almost a complete circle. The county is almost exactly in the geographical center of the State, and McMinnville, the county seat, is almost exactly in the geographical center of the county, and the roads radiate from the court house like spokes from the hub of a wheel.

Laws of a restrictive character still remain unrepealed on the statute books of many eastern States, many of them dating back as much as two hundred years. Occasionally a spite work prosecution is brought under their provisions, but in the main they remain a dead letter, and serve only as an amusing reminder of the strait-laced ideas of the Puritans. England still has many of these practically obsolete laws, and recently a wholesale prosecution of small tradesmen for Sunday violators was instituted at Birmingham under an old act of Charles 11. Two hundred summonses were out at last accounts and the end was not in sight.

The mutton industry of New Zea land has grown to vast proportions. There are now twenty-one freezing establishments in the colony, with a capacity of 4,000,000 sheep a year. A new cold storage warehouse recently built on the Thames in London has a capacity of 200,000 carcases, John Buil has of late years changed his diet to a great extent and eats more mutton and less beef than in the days of war and con* quest. Whether this change has anything to do with the more pacific temper of that great power, and whether it has changed the disposition of the domineering Briton to such an extent that home rule for Ireland is nearly in sight, we leave for some more learned dietist to de termine.

The M. D.’s down East have invoked the aid of the law as a protection of their interests and, as they allege, for the protection of the health of the people as well. Two bills have been introduced in the New York Legislature looking to the restriction and regulation of the sale of patent medicines. One bill authorizes the State Board of Health to analyze chemically any compound offered for sale in the open market on receipt of a fee of 650, and to determine whether the use of such compound will likely prove detrimental to the public health, and also making it unlawful to sell or offer for sale any such mixture or compound not prescribed by a regular physician, uuless the same shall have received the approval of the State Board of Health after such examination as prescribed by law. The second bill makes it a misdemeanor to offer for sale an}’ proprietary medicine not preseribed by a regular physician. Such restrictions are the worst kind of class legislation and can not be productive of much good to the community. Some safeguards in this direction may be proper, but such iron-clad laws as these proposed statutes will only make matters worse.

Hans Christian Andersen.

Chicago News. Johannes Gelert, the sculptor, has just completed a model in clay of his new statue of Hans Christian Anderseh. It was unveiled yesterday in his studio at 333 Oak street and* a select company of friends gathered around

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.

to view the new work. It is of heroic size and represents ttie famous old teller of fairy stories sitting reflectively on a stump of oak. One knee is slightly drawn up. Between the fingers of one hand there is e pencil, and an open book rests light ly on the knee. Just behind th« stump there is a swan, with neck, gracefully curved backward.

THE WEDDING FEAST.

The Many Guests Who Did Not Come. - Baseless Eicoim That Men Make for Sot Becoming Christians—Dr. Tal- , ■ mage’s Sermon. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn. last Sundays— Subject: “The Wedding Feast.” Text: Luke xiv, 18—“ And they all with one consent began to make excuse.” He said: After the invitations to a levee are sent out the regrets come in. One man apologizes for nonattendance on one ground, another on another ground. The most of the regrets are founded on prior engagements. So in my text a great banquet was spread, the invitations were circu-

lated, and now the reports come in. Apology the First—-I am not sure there is anything valuable in the Christian religion. It is pleaded that there are so many impositions in this day —so many things that seem to be real are sham. A gilded mrtsidp. may have a hollow inside. There is so much quackery in physics, in ethics, in politics, that men come to the habit of inereduHty , and after awhile they allow that incredulity to collide with our holy religion. Nothing in religion! Why, then all those Christians were deceived when in their dying moment they thought they saw the castles of the blessed, and your child, that with unutterable agony you put away in the grave, you wili never see him again nor hear his sweet voice nor feel the throb of his young heart. There is nothing in religion! Sickness will come upon you. Roll and turn upon your pillow. No relief. The medicine may be bitter, ThtT night may be dark, the pain may be sharp. No relief. Christ never comes to the sick room. Let the pain stab. Let the fever burn. Curse it and die. There is nothing in religion. There are others who got into skepticism by a natural persistence in asking questions—why or how? How can God be one being in three persons? They cannot understand it. Neither can I. How can God be a complete sovereign and yefrman a free agent? They cannot understand it. Neither can I. They cannot understand why a holy God lets sin come into the world. Neither can I. They say: “Here is a great mystery. Here is a disciple of fashion, frivolous and godless all her days—she lives on to be an octogenarian. Here is a Christian mother training her children for God and for heaven, self-siacrifieing, Christianlike, indispensable, seemingly, to that household—she takes the cancer and dies.” The skeptic says: “I can’t explain that.” Neither can I. If, therefore, I stand this morning before men and women who have drifted away into skepticism, I throw out no scoff; I rather implead you by the memory of those good old times when you knelt at your mother s knee and said your evening prayer, and those other days of sickness when she watched all night and gave you the medicines at just the right time, and turned the pillow when it was hot, and with hand long ago turned to dust soothed your pains, and with that voice you will never hear again, unless you join her in the better land; told you nevermind —you would be better by and by—that dying couch where she talked so slowly, catching her breath between the words —by all those memories I ask you to come and take the same religion;, It was'"go6ff“"enougE''Wr her; it is good enough for you. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not effect the change. It takes a mightier hand to bend evil habits than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a lasso stronger than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A man cannot go forth with any human weapons and contend successfully against these Titans armed with uptorn mountains. But you have known men into whose spirit the influence of the gospel of Christ came, until their disposition was wholy changed. Peter, with nature as tempestuous as the sea that he once tried to walk, at one look of Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich harvests of grace may grow on the tiptop of the jagged steep, and flocks of Christian graces may find pasturage in the fields of bramble and rock. Though your disposition may be all a-bristle with fretfulness, though you have a tempm- a-gleam with quick lightnings; though your avarice be like that of the horse leech, crying, “Give!” though damnable impurities have wrapped you in all comsuming fire, God can drive that devil out of vour soul, and over the chaos and the darkness he can say, “Let there be light.” Cbnverting grace has lifted the drunkard from the ditch, and snatched the knife from the hand of the assassin and the false keys from the burglar, and in the pestiferous lanes of the city met the daughter of sin under the dim lamplight and scattered her sorrow and. his guilt with the words, “Thy sins are forgiven—go and sin no more.” For scarlet sin a scarlet atonement.

There are tens of thousands of people who decline being religious because there are so many unworthy Christians. Now, I say it is illogical. Poor lawyers are nothing against jurisprudence, poor physicians are nothing against medicine, poor fanners are nothing against agriculture, and mean, contemptible professors of religion are nothirjg agaifcst our glorious Christianity. Sickness will come, and we will be

'pushed out toward the Red sea which divides this world from the next, and not the inconsistency of Christians, but the rod of faith will wave back the waters as a commander wheels his host. The judgment will come, with its thundershod solemnities attended by bursting mountains and the deep laugh of earthquakes, and suns will fly before the feet of God like sparks from the anvil, and ten thousand burning worlds will blaze like banners in the track of GocFoim nipotent. Oh, then we will not stop to say, “There was a mean Christian; there was a lying Christian; there was an impure Christian.” In that day, as now, “If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself, but if thou scornest thou alone shall bear it.”

Other persons apologize for not becoming Christians because they lack time, as though religion muddled the brain of the accountant, or tripped the pen of the author, or thickened the tongue of the orator, or weakened the arm of the mechanic, or scattered the briefs of the lawyer, or interrupted the sales of the merchant. They bolt their store doora against it and fight it back with towels and yardsticks and cry, “Away with your religion from our store, our office, our factory!” Did religion make Raleigh any less of a statesman, or Havelock any less of a soldier, or Grinnell any less of a merchant, or West any less of a painter? Religion is the best security in every bargain. It is the sweetest note in every song; it is the brightest gem in every coronet. No time to be religious? Why, you will have to take time to be sick, to be troubled, to die. Our world is only the wharf from which we are to em • bark for heaven. No time to secure the friendship of Christ? No time to buy a lamp and trim it for that walk through the darkness which otherwise will be illuminated only by the whiteness of the tombstones? No time to educate the eye for heavenly splendors, or the hand for choral harps, or the ear for everlasting songs, or the soul for honor, glory and immortality? One would think we had time for nothing else. But while we as Christian people are bound to take a cheerful view of life we must also confess that life is a great uncertainty; and that man who says, “1 can’t become a Christian because there is time enough yet,” is running a risk infinite. You do not perhaps realize that this descending grade of sin gets steeper and steeper, and that you are gathering up a rush and velocity which after awhile may not answer to the brakes. Oh, my friends, be not among those who give their whole life to the world and then give their corpse to God. Here is a delusion. People think, I ‘l can go on in 3in and worldliness, but after awhile I will repent and then it will be as though I had come at the start.” That is a delusion. No one ever gets fully over procrastination. If you give your soul to God some other time than this, you will enter heaven with only half the capacity for enjoyment and knowledge you might have had. There will be heights of blessedness you might have attained you will never reach; thrones of glory on which you might have been seated, but which you will never climb. “This morning voices roll down the sky, and all the worlds of light are ready to rejoice at your disenthral 1ment. Rush not into the presence of the King ragged with sin when you may. have this robe of righteousness. Dash not your foot to pieces against the throne of a crucified Christ. Throw not your crown of Tife- etT the battlements. Ail the scribes of God are this moment ready with volumes of living light to record the news of your soul emancipated.

Ram’s Horn Wrinkles.

When sin hides it forgets that it can not cover up its tracks. Sinners never feel comfortable where they are not in the majority. The man who believe that God loves him will respect himself. Every Christian’s walk ought to have as piany italics in it as his talk. It is as hard for God to bless a stingy man as it is for rain to fall on a desert. One of the first things a backslider does is to pray for the Lord to give him more work. There isn’t any more sense in expecting to get without giving than there is for a loafer to look for a good crop where he has planted nothing. When the devil goes fishing he baits for hearts, not heads. Too many preachers do just the opposite. Some parents take their ch ldren to see the procession, and then whip them if they want to go to the circus. The Lord wants us to be witnesses, but about half the people in prayer meeting undertake to be advocates. There is not a mansion in heaven that would not be a thousand times hotter for the sinner than the lowest place in the pit.

Fitted for the Post.

Njw York Weekly. Hotel Proprietor—Yes; I want a clerk at once. What do you know about hotel keeping? Applicant—Know? See here! Unless you’ve got four or five years to spare for a little chat, ask me what I don’t know. It'll take less time. What do I know about hotel keeping. Well, I should smile. I know it all —more than all. I could run forty hotels and play ten games of chess blindfolded. Why, man, ] used to be a commercial traveler.

A PLUCKED PARDRIDGE.

A Famous Chicago Plunger Squeezed Hard. The bull clique in the Chicago wheat market were after big game, Tuesday.and tney bagged some of it. The famous plunger, Edward Pardridge, seemed to be the person aimed at, and he was crowded unmercifully. Pardridge was found ton slow to respond to calls for margins, which brokers with whom he had deals showered

upon him, and forthwith the broken bought in a lot of Pardridge’s wheat in the pit. The scene in the pit was very wild, while the brokers were buying Id the big plunger’s wheat. John Cudahy Is the ostensible head of the bull clique. Pardridge sent an embassador to him to his office suing for terms. He was accorded a settlement on from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 bushels of May wheat, it is said, at 87 cents per bushel, which settlement it is thought leaves Pardrldgo a poorer man by about $760,000 than he was before.

A BLOODLESS COUP D’ETAT.

Alexander of Servia Grasps the Belns of Power. A bloodless coup d’etat was effected at Belgrade, Servia, Friday night, and King Alexander I, the youthful ruler of Servia. who has heretofore governed the country through regents, rules in his own name. A grand banquet was given at the palace to celebrate King Alexander’s success in passing the examination prescribed for Servian students. Affairs had become so bad that the king determined to take the reins in his own _ hands. In accordance with this determination, plans were secretly laid by means of which the regents and ministry would be ousted without opportunity for opposition. Unsuspectingly the regents and ministers attended the banquet, and while they wore enjoying themselves at the palace detachments of soldiers and bodies of police took possession of the ministers’ houses and occupied the government building. At midnight, while the festivities were still in progress, King Alexander proclaimed that he had attained his majority and that he had assumed the government of the country. As a matter of fact the king had not attained his majority. According to the Serviac law he does nat become of age until he is eighteen years old, and as he was born Aug. 14,1876, he will not be eighteen for considerably, over a year. The act of the king meets the approval of the populace, but there was asharp decline in Servian securities on the European money markets, and the si tun tion is viewed with apprehension by the various powers.

A NEW LIBERTY BELL.

Rare coins and souvenirs of gold and silver, are accumulating in large quantities in Troy, N. Y., where they will enter Into the composition of the 13,000 pound Liberty Bill, which the Daughters of the Revolution propose to place on exhibition at the World’s Fair. This great bell will be cast on April 30, that date being the anniversary of George Washington’s first Inauguration as President. It Is expected that Mrs. Cleveland will on thatday press an electric bell in the White House which shall give the signal in the foundry at Troy to let the molten metal flow. Contributions of valuable metallic articles, some of peculiar historic interest, have thus far been received from various sections of the country. They include gold rings and bracelets, old coins, silver spoons, cups and sword hilts and bronze ornaments. Robert T. Lincoln sent a link from the gold watch chain worn by the martyred President at the time that he was shot. A patriotic woman forwarded a bronze cup once used in the family of Thomas Jefferson. Each of the express companies has agreed to carry articles given for this bell from any part of the country to Troy free of charge, if weigh? ing less than ten pounds. \ ' ■■ The Russian treaty, which has not as yet been ratified by the United States Senate, granting extradition for political offenses, 1$ being discussed by men of all stations. G. Stepnick, the noted Russian patriot, now in Now York, Tuesday, issued a lengthy address to the American people in favor of the right of asiylum for Russian political offenders. He condemns the treaty in the strongest terms and declares that its provisions in effect make the United States, if it shall be ratified, a party to the perpetuation of the most infamous and inexcusable tyranny ou the globe.

The bureau of American Reoubllcs Is Informed of the arrival In New York of the steamer Newport from South America on Saturday bringing twenty-two Bolivian Indians, direct descendants from the Incas, who resided within the confines of their nations on one of the islands in Lake Titicaca. The Indians are fairly well civilized, following for a living agricultural and mining pursuits, and all of them havo landed possessions and money at hand. Among the numbor Is a giant measuring more than seven feet, who is a powerful chieftain among 4ils people. 'Ao President, Tuesday, sent to the Senate the names of Daniel M. Moraan, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer of tho United States, vico E. 11. Nebcker, resigned; Conrad N. Jordan, of New Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York; E. 11. Stroble,of New York, to bo Third Assistant Secretary of State. A considerable list of comparatively unimportant nominations was also transmitted.

MISCELLANEOUS BOTES, lowa raised 222,000,000 bushete of corn last year. The United States produces 46 - ~ 000,000 tons of hay. Tin United States still 836,757 square miles of public land. Three thousand marriages are performed every day all over the world. There are 125,000,000 hens in this country, which lay every year 6,000,000 eggs. j The ice harvest in Maine for this year is ended, with 1,425,000 tons of ice put in. Room rent for offices is 61 a square foot per year around Madison Square, New York. v A Cincinnati boy earns at high as 63 to $5 a day by singing popular airs on ihe street cars. There are twenty-eight cities in this country having each more than 100,000 population. A store at Cannonsburg, 0., was burglarized for the fifth time inside of six years on Saturday. One thousand eight hundred and fifty cities and towns in this country are equipped with electric lights. The Christopher Columbus Easter egg has a portrait of that worthy on it and is broken at one end so as to stand erect. A stone house built at Tontana, Lebanon county, Pa., in 1766, and reddened with the blood of several Indian fights?- was razed to the ground last week. For the first time in the history of Belgium, it is said, the principle of a monetary compensation for breach of promise of marriage has been established.

It takes light eight minutes to travel from the sun to the earth. Sound traveling in the a’r would require about fourteen years to go the same journey. West Indian people eat alligator eggs. An example of one of the laws of rotation is furnished when it is considered that alligators eat West Indian people. The settlers on the Quillayute prairies in Washington are afforded tine sport in thousands of wild geese that come there in the fall and make the region their winter home. A cow owned by James Dreary, of Hillsdale, Mich., has for some time refused to chew her cud. An examination was made and a needle was found lodged in the animal’s tongue. Enough-diamonds to load two large coal trains and having a total weight of 50,000,000 carats and a valuation of $350,000,000, have been taken out of the Cape diamond fields since their discovery in 1807. Smoked herring, cranberries, skiff boats and towels are the pupular things in wedding presents on Cape Cod. Four chickens, two geese, and a pig were among the gifts received by a Grundy County (Mo.).bride.

One of the visions of Jules Verne is likely to become a reality. Experiments have! demonstrated to the satisfaction of experts of the navy that a ship can be constructed with a capacity for submerging itself and moving below the surface of the water rapidly and under strict control. ■ Of all the various legal measures that have been adopted in order to discourage suicide none has worked very well. Since the New York law was passed but a single conviction Jias bfiea. had. jmdfir. it, This. .was. twelve years ago, when a man undertook to drown himself. He was rescued and sentenced to Sing Sing, and he is there yet. In the April Century the last of “The Letters of - Two Brothers” — General and Senator Sherman —are of striking interest, since they give an intimate account of the relations between General Grant and General Sherman after the war, including the trouble between President Johnson and General Grant, involving General Sherman, and Grant’s candidacy for the Presidency. People who are interested in knowing what the temperature of their feet was after traveling over street ear tracks and other places where salt was used to melt the snow during the past winter should remember that a mixture of two parts of pounded ice and one of common salt will reduce the temperature of a body surrounded by it from 50 degrees to zero,

A. J. McGill, of King’s Mountain, N. C., was injured in a queer manner the other day. A door banged to and a shotgun hanging in a rack above tell to the floor. The gun was discharged, the load going through the door, several shot i taking effect in Mr. McGill’s leg and chest, and his little boy and the son of a neighbor standing by were also wounded. While the wounds are painful they are not dangerous. It is interestingly illustrative of the Temarkable progress in this era that the first station on the first line of railway built south of Liverpool, and on which Stephenson run his famous engine, the “Rocket,” was superseded by a new structure only last week. The lino runs from Leicester to Swannington. It has always been a local line, with little traffic, and it remains to-day in almost the primitive condition of early flays of' railroading. The “Rocket" was brought to Leicester by canal for service on this road, 'fhe station f woe-"opened July 17, 1832. Railway tickets of metal were used, and some of theso are still in existence.