Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — Page 6

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. Matob Alexjeff, of Moscow, who was assassinated last month, was a half brother of the present Czar of Russia, being the natural son of Alexander 11. A woman at Sparta, Wis., last .year, raised 200 bushels of strawberries and 1,300 bushels of blackberries on seven and one-half acres of ground, making an income of $3,378.77. We have some large-hearted men in this country, but the Greenland whale has a cardiacal organ that would make a philanthropist green with envy, its dimensions reaching the prodigious proportions of a yard in diameter. I —^ Thc London underground electric wire system was made a success by the co-operation of “Strip, the Electrician." Strip is not a man, but a tiny fox Aerrier, trained to crawl th roughen A conduits with a wire attached ta.h<y collar. The city of Burnley, England, recently suffered from a violent epidemic of smallpox, and the health .authorities were puzzled to account for the rapidity with which new cases developed. Full investigation disclosed the fact that the bartender at one of the leading hotels had been for several days attending to his usual duties while suffering from a fully developed case of the loathsome disease. Stealing lightning is an industry that is not fully developed as yet. A pioneer of progress in this direction, however, has been discovered at St. Petersburg. He had a small factory contiguous to the electric plant and bored a bole through the wall and tapped the wire from the dynamo and drew off enough power to propel his machinery. He will doubtless be sent to Siberia for his enterprise and ingenuity, and if he can devise an equal ingenious plan for escape, from that inferno, humanity may yet regard him as a gCeat benefactor to the race. New York papers have been agitating the question of annexing Brooklyn for some time. Many residents of Brooklyn do not take kindly to the idea and retort that Brooklyn will annex New York. They hack their prediction with some strong arguments for its fulfillment, stating that Brooklyn in twenty years will be the largest city, and still have room to grow; that its commerce is already larger; that its docks are more spacious with ample room for their enlargement, and that in short Brooklyn has the best situation, the best air and is nearer to Coney Island.

The estate of Jay Gould is likely to be mulcted to the tune of $720,000 under a new law of the State of New York which levies a tax of 1 per cent, on all estates having personality worth over SIO,OOO. This is tough. The medium who recently discovered Jay in the Great Beyond should at once be called upon and requested to communicate the exasperating situation to the departed financier. He would no doubt be able to devise a scheme to circumvent the levy as was his wont to do in the past. Such a calamity was quite beyond his anticipation or he would have attended to it before passing over. Some of the most distinguished men whose names adorn the pages of our country 's history have" held the credentials of the United States as ministers to the Court of St. James, and their acts have helped to influence the course of public events in many instances. Among them have been John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, Edward Everett, George Bancroft. James Buchanan, Charles Francis Adams and James Russell Lowell, with others of lesser note. Mr. Bayard is the last American to be accredited to this court,' and in point of rank he stands at the head of all our foreign representatives, being our first ambassador to any court. The late Gen. KirbV Smith commanded the Confederate forces in tl e last battle fought defense of the rebel flag. The conflict took place on tiie historic battle-ground of Resaca de la Palma, in Texas, May 13, 1865, and resulted in the defeat of the Union troops. The 34th Indiana Infantry, commanded by Col. Barrett* assisted by four companies of United States colored infantry, attacked the rebels, with the object of capturing Brownsville, but were repulsed. To escape eapture the color-bearer of the Indiana regiment tore the flag

from Ibe staff, and, wrapping It around his body, jumped into the Rio Grande and swam to the Mexican side. The New York Sun of a recent date devoted more than |wo columns to a fulsome description of the various - suits qt dothes; necktia&r shirts and other “duds’’ that are affected by the Earl of C raven, an English sprig of nobility, who married the daughter of Mr. Bradley Martin, of that city, going into details concerning the daily life of his highness and generally catering to the latent foolishness which seems inherent in so many people. The young earl may be a very nice young man and may be shedding a vast amount of luster on New York society by his presence in that city, but it strikes the average western reader that a description of his store clothes and night shirts together with an accurate programme of his daily routine, giving the hour at which he retires and arises, was just a trifle overdone.

Dust is almost an omnipresent nuisance, but there are different qualities of the scourge; the higher up one ascends the better he finds the sanitary condition of the atoms pervading the atmosphere. Scientific investigations have been conducted in New York, the various tail buildings affording ample opportunities, to arrive at the exact chemical composition of the dust deposits on window-sills at various altitudes. The deposits on the sills iof the ground floor were found to contain all sorts of unwholesome particles. The deposit on the next floor was less and of a more wholesome quality, and thisJmprovement was continued until only a thin and comparatively harmless layer of dust was found on the upper window-sills. Some dust, however, collects on the top of the very highest buildings.

Secretary Gresham has decided that Benavides, whose extradition was demanded by the government of Mexico, for traitorous crimes in that country, must be tried for violation of neutrality laws before he can be surrendered to Mexican authority. The Secretary holds that the offence of Benavides was primarily against the laws of this country, as it was from Texas that he made his way into Mexico at the head of au armed force. If he should not be held guilty of infringing the neutrality law he can be extradited to Mexico under the decision already rendered. In any case Mr. Benavides seems to be “in it” to such an extent that he will find plenty of employment iu the future without organizing murderous bands of marauders to slay anch burn innocentpeople in alleged attempts to overthrow an established government.

Poland as a nation ceased to exist as a result of the Napoleonic campaigns, being parceled out to Russia, Germany and Austria. Nevertheless the Poles have retained distinctive social peculiarities, and. like the Jews in all countries, still cling to their native land and assert that they are not Germans, or Austrians, or Russians, as the case may be, but are only Poles, as if their country still had a place upon the map of the world as a separate nationality. Much dissatisfaction has been created among the native Poles in this country over the action of the census bureau in refusing to credit them to Poland instead of to the German or Austrian or Russian provinces from which they came. This is especially noticeable in Wisconsin, where there are large numbers of Pqles. While their complaints seem just, there is uo remedy, as there is no such country as Poland, and government officers can not do otherwise thau to accept the facts as they exist.

A Papier-Mache Hospital.

Papier-mache, which can be compressed almost to the solidity of iron, promises to come into vogue as a building material. A portable hospital large enough to accommodate twenty beds has be,en made of compressed paper. Every part of the building is numbered, and the whole can be packed in such a way as to be carried by three transfer trucks. The trucks are so planned as to form the basis of the hospital. T-shaped joists of iron keep the foundation in place. Over this comes a floorin'* of compressed and varnished pap r boards, which adapt themselves aumirably to cleanliness. The walls and ceiling are of the same material, while the beams, composed of thin galvanized iron wire, connect the parallel walls. Holes are bored between the walls and the ceiling for the purpose of ventilation, and the windows are made of wire gauze with a transparent coating. Such a building would be of great service in tropical countries, especially if in addition to its lightness and strength it can be made fireproof. The best opals are obtained from Hungary ana Honduras. London has 11,500 public cabs; 2,500 arc driven by the owne rs. ,

REMINISCENT.

Twenty - Fourth Anniversary of Dr.Talmage’s PaatorateThe Brooklyn Pastor Explains the Financial Standing of the , . ■' ■———. Tabernacle. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, last Sunday. The occasion was an unusually interesting one, .and the great audience waft- visibly impressed during the services. Over the pulpit in flowers were the figures “1869” and “1893.” The text was Revelation iv, 4, “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders.” This text I choose chiefly for the numerals it mentions—namely, four and twenty. That was the number of elders seated around the throne of God. — But that is the number of

years seated around my Brooklyn ministry, and every pulpit is' a throne of blessing or blasting, a fchrone of good or evil. And to-day, in this, my twenty-fourth anniversary sermon, twenty-four years come and sit around me, and they speak qut in a reminiscence of gladness and tears. Twenty-four years ago I arrived in this city to shepherd such a flock as might cane, ana that day I carried in on my arms the infant son who, in two weeks from to-day, I will help ordain to the gospel ministry, hoping that he will be preaching iong after my poor work is done. We have received into our membership over 5,000 souls, but they, I think, are only a small-portion of the multitudes who, coming from all parts of the earth, have in our house ■>f God been blest and saved. Although we have as a church raised $1,100,000 for religious purposes, yet we are in the strange position of not knowing whether in two or three months we shall have any church at ill, and with audiences of 6.000 or 7,000 people crowded into this room >r the adjoining rooms we are conronted with the question whether I shall go on with my work here or go to some other field. What an Mwfnl necessity that we should have been obliged to build three immense churches, two of them destroyed by are!

A misapprehension is abroad that the financial exigency of this church s past. Through journalistic and personal friends a breathing spell has been afforded us. but before us yet are financial obligations which must promptly be met, or speedily this house of God will go into worldly uses and become a theater or a concert hall. The $12,000 raised cannot •ancel a floating debt of $140,000. Through the kindness of those to whom we are indebted $60,000 would set us forever free. I am glad to say that the case is not hopeless. We are daiiy in receipt of touching evidences of practical sympathy Torn all classes of the community ind from all sections of the country, and it was but yesterday that by my own hand I sent, for. contributions gratefully reoe ved, nearly fifty acknowledgments east, west, north and south. In this city I have been permitted to have twenty-fc ur years of pastorate. During these years how many heartbreaks, how many losses, how many bereavements! Hardly a family of the church that has not been struck with sorrow, but God has sustained you in the past, and he will sustain you in the future. I exhort you to be of good cheer, G thou of the broken heart. “Weeping may endure for the night, but joy Cometh in the morning.” I wish over every door of this church we might have written the word “Sympathy” —sympathy for all the young. We must crowd them in here by thousands and propose a., radiant gospel that will take on the spot. We must make this place so attractive for the young that a young man will come here on Sabbath morning, put down his hat, brush his hair back from his forehead, unbutton his overcoat and l<sok around wondering if he is not, by mistaice got into heaven. He will see in the faces of the old people, not the gloom which some people take for religion, but the sunshine of celestial peace, and he will say, “Why I wonder if that isn’t the same peace that shone out on the face of my father and mother when they lav dying?” And then there "will come a dampness in his eyes through which he can hardly see, and he will close his eyes to imprison the emotion, but tn& hot tear will break through the fringes of eyelashes and drop upon the coat sleeve. He will put his head on the back of the pew in front and sob, “Lord God of the old people, help me 1" We ought to lay a plot here for the religious capture of all the young people in Brooklyn. Yes, sympathy for the old. They have their aches and pains and distresses. They cannot hear or walk or see as well as thev used to. We must be reverential ih their presence. On dark days we must help them through the aisle and help them find the place in thehymnbook. Some Sabbath morning we shall miss them from their place, and we shall say, “Where is Father So-and-so to-day r" and the answer will be: “What, haven’t you heard? The King’s wagons have taken Jacob up to the palace where Joseph is yet alive.” Sympathy for business, men. Twenty-four years of commercial life in New York and Brooklyn are enough to tear one's nerves to Eieces. We want to make our Sabath service here a rescue for all these martyrs of traffic, a foretaste

of that land where they have no rents to pay, and there are no business rivalries, and where riches, instead of taking wings to fly away, brood over other riches. Sympathy for the fallen, remembenng that they ought to"‘be ‘pitied" as much as a man rim over with a rail train. The fact is that in the temptations and misfortunes of life they get run over. You and I in the same circumstances would have done as badly; we should have done worse perhaps. If vou and I had the same evil surroundings and the same evil parentage that they had and the same native born proclivities to evil that they had, you and I should have been in the penitentiary or outcasts., of society. “No,” says some seif righteous man, “I couldn’t have been overthrown in that way.” You old hypocrite, you would have been the first to fall! We want in this church to have sympathy for the worst man, remembering he is a brother; sympathy 4qr -the worst woman, remembering she is a sister. If that is not the gospel, I do not know what the gospel is. Let it thrill in every sermorn -Let it tremble in every song. * Let it gleam in every tear and in every light. Sympathy! Men and women are sighing for sympathy, groaning for sympathy, dying for sympathy, tumbling off into uncleanliness and crime and perdition for lack of sympathy. May God give it to us! Fill all this pulpit with it from step to step. Let the sweep of these galleries suggest its encircling arms. Fill all the house with it from door to door and from floor to ceiling, until there is no more room for it, and it shall overflow into the street, and passersby on foot and in carriage shall feel the throb of its magnificent benediction. I must, in gratitude to God, also mention the multitudes to whom I have been permitted to preach. It is simply miraculous, the attendance morning by morning, night by night and year by year and long after it has got to be an old story. I know some people are dainty and exclusive in their tastes. As for myself I like a big crowd. I would like to see an audience large enough to scare me. If this gospel is good, the more that get it the better. : —— — During these twenty-four years there is hardly a family that has not been invaded by sorrow or death. Where are those grand old men, those glorious Christian women, who used to worship with us? Why, they went away into the next world so gradually that they had concluded the second stanza or the third stanza in heaven before you knew they were gone. They had on the crown before you thought they had dropped the staff of the earthly pilgrimage. And then the dear children! Oh, how many have gone out of this church! You could not keep them. You folded them in your arms and said, “O God, I cannot give them up; take all else —take my property, take my reputation —but let me keep this treasure. Lord, I cannot bear this. ” Oh, if we could all die together; if we could keep all the sheep and the lambs of the family fold together until some bright spring day, the birds a-chant and the waters a-glitter, and then we could altogether hear the voice of the good Shepherd and hand in hand pass through the flood. No, no, no, no! Oh, if we only had notice that we are all to depart together, and we could say to our families: “The time has come. The Lord bids away.” And then we could take our little children to their limbs and say: “Now, sleep the last sleep. Good night, until it is good morning.” And then we could go to our own couches and say: “Now, altogether we are ready to go. Our children are gone; now let us depart.” No no! It is one by one. It may be in the midnight. It may be in the winter, and in the snow coming down twenty inches deep over our grave. It may be in the strange hotel and our arm too weak to pull the bell for help. It may be so suddenly we have no time even to say good-by. Death is a bitter, crushing tremendous curse. When a woman was dying, she said, “Call them back.” They did not know what she meant. She had been a disciple of the world. She said, “Oh, call them back!” They said, “Who do you want us to call back?” “Oh,” she said, “call them back, the days, the months, the years, I have wasted. Call them back!” But you cannot call them back. You cannot call a year back, or a month, or a week back, or an hour back, or a second back. Gone once, it is gone forever. Roll on, sweet day of the world’s emancipation, when “the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the wood shall clap their hands, and instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be unto the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that cannot be cut off. ’’

An Appetizing Dish.

Those raising their own wheat can have an inexpensive, yet very nutritious, breakfast dish by grinding three or four coffee mill’s full of it, and cooking the same as oatmeal. Eat with sugar and cream. Prepare a quantity at a time, say a dishpan half full, by washing in two or three waters, floating off all chaff and beards, and drying in the sun. The soft wheat »>■•«* Bunting—Can t you me back that S2O I let you ‘have six months ago? Larkin —You surely don’t expect a man to pay debts in Lent!

OUR FINANCIAL POLICY.

Secretary Carlisle Makes a StateV J„ ment. TheCredlt of the Notion Mart Be Meto. talned—Parity of Gold and BUver WBl Be FmAncdr Secretary Carlisle, Thursday, made a statement regarding the financial situation, from which we make the following extracts: In the exercise of the power conferred by the act of July 14,1890, the Secretary has been paying gold for coin treasury notes issued for the purchase of silver bullion. Bv this process the Government has been paying gold for silver bullion and storing the same in its vaults, where it is Tiseless-for circulation or redemption. No order has been issued to stop the payment of gold upon these no,tes. The total stock of gold coin and gold bullion now in this country, including what is held by the treasury, as well as what is held by the banks and individuals, amounts to about 8746,006,006. When I came into the Treasury Department, on the 7th day of March, the amount of free gold on hand had been reduced to $987,000, hut by arrangements with Western banks it was increased until, on the Ist of April, it amounted to nearly $8,000,000. Then heavy shipments began to be made,-and two days ago we had only about $40,000, but now it amounts to f8}5,000, after deducting what has been withdrawn from the sub-treasury for shipment. There is gold enough in the country to meet the requirements of the situation, and if all who are really interested in maintaining a sound and stable currency would assist the Secretary of tho Treasury to the extent of their abilities, the existing difficulties would soon be removed.

THE NAVAL REVIEW.

Rendezvous Day at Hainptcm Roads. Warships of Many Nations Gather for the Review In New York Harbor, • The imposing festivities which are to mark the opening of the Columbian celebration by the United States government, began at Hampton Roads, Monday, that being the rendezvous day for tho navies oi the various powers that have signified their intention of participating. At Norfolk, Va., the programme includes various local celebrations. On Wednesday the international rowing matches took place. On Thursday tho military and competitive drill and military parade, and the week was filled with demonstrations of various kinds. Tho fleet will start from Hampton Roads Monday, tho 24th, and will anchor at night at Sandy Hook. Tho fleet will get Into review formation on .the morning of April 25. April 26th the vessels will come dip the ‘harbor of New York and get into line and come to final anchorage off Eighty-ninth street. The final ceremonies will take place In a grand review April 27. President Cleveland will embark iu the Dolphin and pass along tho lino of ships. When the Dolphin’s bow is opposite to each ship’s stern the officers and crew will salute, the band will play, and a twenty-one gun salute will be given. Twenty-four foreign men-of-war, representing the Argentine, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia and Spain, have arrived. The United States review fleet consists of seventeen vessels.

TROUBLE IN TENNESSEE.

Free Miners Attack the Prison Stockade at Tracy Cltv. Free miners attacked the prison stockade of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Rail-' road Company at Tracy City, Wednesday night, and attempted to release the 500 convicts confined there. The attack was due to the strong hostility on the part of the miners to the convict leaso system, under which convict labor is brought Into competition with free labor. The guards at the stockade resisted tho attack, and after several hundred shots had been exchanged the miners fell back. It was then found that one of the miners named Robert Irwin had been killed and that four or five of his companions, whose names have not yet been learned, had been severely wounded, one fatally. Deputy Warden Shryer, who was in charge of the stock- 1 ade, was shot in the head, and tho wound is considered a serious one. One of the guards, S. A. Walden, was shot, and it is believed tho wound will result in his death. He was in a critical condition at last accounts. The guards made a gallant defense. The attacking party was composed of between seventy-five and one hundred miners. The comparatively small number of men in the party leads to the belief that tho other miners were opposed to the attack being made, as they had agreed to preserve peaco and order and were apparently satisfied with the action of the Legislature, which recently took practical steps for the abolition of the lease system and instituted measures for tho establishment of a penitentiary system on State account. State troops were sent from Nashville to Tracy City by special train, Thursday.

WESTERN MINE HORROR.

Accident to Ten Miner*, Only One of Whom Kicaped. Fire broko ont In the five hundred-foot levol of shaft No. 2 of tho Silver How mine at Butte, Mont., Friday morning. There were ten men in the mine and only one escaped. This was John Kramer, the pump man, who gave the alarm. The other men, it is believed, haye perishod. Mr. Kramer was slightly Injured.

THE CZAR'S EASTER EGG.

The Russian Czar, now in the Crimea, is said to havo found an exquisitely painted egg on bis table Easter morning. It contained a spiall silver dagger, two Ivory death heads and a slip of paper bearing tho words: "Christ has risen; wo, also, shall rise again." Tho egg must havo boon I placed on tho tablo by one of the Czar’s | household, as nobody elso had access to I tho room In which It was found. The guilty person has nolbeen apprehended. A fight between Mexican brigands and • soldiers resulted In the doath of four of the former and one of the latter.

DISFIGURED FOR LIFE.

Victims of the Cruel College Sport ol , Hewing. Last Wednesday night, at Delaware, 0.. the sophomore class fraternity of the college located at that place, by fora oranded the faces of lha junior fraternity itudente in tho maimer indicated in tht eat, with nitrate of silver. The guilty young .race were expellod from the college and are under arrest. They are In- [ telligcnt and the 1 sons ol wealthy aat hlgh'y respectable parents, and have heretofore stood well in the college. Th« cases have been continued and the boys ar« under 5300 bonus. Tho la.--isof thc victim? present a honible app arance with the letters “D. O. A.” burned on each cheek

and the picture of horns ou the foreheadThe 1 otters . e burned black and are festering, and to look at them reminds one ol a tatooed Indian chief with bis war paint on. The young men upon whom the outrage was committed w-re before exceptionally good looking but are now quite the reverse, and will be disfigured for life.. The perpetrators of the outrage affect to treat the matter as a huge joke. In all eight boys were dismissed from the college. Previous hazing outrages have occurred at Delaware in this college, as well as in the young ladl-s’ seminary located at the same place, anu tho college faculties seem powerless to check the evil. There is great excitement and indignation in the community.

CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT.

C. A. King & Co., of Toledo, have received reports from 3,T23 leading grain doalers and millers, covering every county the six great winter wheat States, which raise two-thirds of the winter wheat in the Union. Ohio makes tho most favorable showing Two-thirds of - the reports say and the remainder report an average crop. Ohio raises about 40,000,000 bushels peFYear, Most of the reports note an improvement since April 1, and the average condition is somewhat better than a year ago. Tho area sown was almost as large the previous fall, and very little was winter-killed. Kansas, which last year raised 71,000,000, or nearly as much as Illinois, Missouri and Michigan combined, now has the poorest prospect, not much over half a crop. The condition is still growing worse; while tho area sown was increased a little, there is a much larger amount than unsual boing plowed up. Indiana reports indicate fully an average crop. The condition has been improving, but does not average quite as food as a year ago, when the State raised *0,000,000 bushels. Tho area sown there was a tria* loss, but not over the usual amount has been plowed up. Illinois, Michigan and Missouri now promise below an average, and all about the same. They raised about 25,000,000 last year. Missouri and Illinois show nq material change recently, but Michigan has been improving. Illinois and Missouri have a poorer outlook than a yoar ago, and Michigan only a trifle worso. Tho area sown in Missouri was. fully as much as thc previous fall, and almost as much as in Illinois or Michigan. Illinois reports nearly a quarter plowoi, Missouri I nearly a fifth, and Michigan a trifle more than the usual amount. About a quarter of the last crop yet remains in these States. Michigan has tho largost percentage loft, Ohio nearly as much, while Illinois and Missouri have tho least.

PROGRESS OF HOME RULE.

Bill Passed to Second Beading—Liberal* Win 347 to 304, In the House of Commons, Friday, the debateon theseeond reading of thu Horn# Rule bill was very exciting. Mr. Balfoar on entering tho House at 10:30 was received with cheers. At 11 he rose to op* pose the measure, denouncing it as a crime, Mr. Gladstone rose to reply at tho conclusion of Balfour’s address. He was In splendid form. Tho membors recolved him with a splendid ovatiou. Mr. Glad* stone’s closing words were: You cannot be surprised that we hare undertaken the solution of this question, and, as on the one hand, it Is not the least of the arduous efforts of the liberal party, so on tho other hand it • Jl have its place in history—aye. and not remote but oarly history—as not tho least durable, fruitful and blessed among its accomplishments. Mr. Morley moved tho closure and H was adopted. The announcement that the bill had passed to second reading by a vote of 317 to 304 was received with groat enthusiasm. Among tne visitors in the gallery was Miss Rose Cleveland.

"WHAT'S IN A NAME?”

A startling Instance of total depravity has developed In the Pigg family at Terre Haute. George Plgg is under arrest, accused of murdering his sister, an infant four months old. Uls father, A. J. Plgg, has also been arrested, charged with criminally assaulting his step-daughters, eleven and nine years old. Mrs. Pjgg knew of this last offense, but claims that she didn’t know that she had any right to Interfere.

FREE GOLD EXHAUSTED.

The gold reservo fund of $100,000,000 in (ho United States Treasury was invaded Friday, to tho extent of $3,000,000. When the day opened there was in the treasury $185,000 es free gold. The amount was increased by offers from Wall street to aboat $1,7 10,000. But the large foreign demand soon exhausted this, and tho reserve was invadod to the extent of nearly $3,000,000. A Cabinet meeting was held to discuss the situation, but there was no evidenoo of a panic on Wall street or elsewhere. This is the first time In many years that the reserve fund has bees leeched-