Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — Page 6

WIDE OPEN.

Fcrmal Opening of the Columbian Exposition. President Cleveland Sets the Machinery In Motion—Bad Weather and Stir- - *. rliiß Scenes. The day long anticipated for the formal opening of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago dawned Monday morning with skies sodden and bleak,, and a chilled mist filled the atmosphere. The weather conditions seemed not to have 7 yielded to “Cleveland luck." Hunting throughout the city was damp and listless, and a general tone of gloom pervaded the air and streets. But to Chicago, whoso, day of history this was, weather conditions counted for naught, and early thovpeople were asj,ir. The btisj,ling™eagftf, rektleSS spirit of the great West was bounding through every artery of this, its capital city. The consummation of an enterprise, the location of which was bitterly contested with its oldest rival eastward by the sea, took place when the myriad wheels began their turning in response to tho touch of the Nation's President upon a golden key that reached out through an electric train to the mighty engines, which are:to the Columbian Exh ihitinn thA vft.ftV moving energy. Rain or shine, wet or dry, the people of this prairie city were bound to be early upon their feet, filled

with one desire, Imbued with one purpose—to witness the practical Inauguration of the stupendous undertaking and to give it all the prestige and interest that comes with the indorsement by popular presence at any function at which the people at large are partners. The centers of interest in the early part of the day were at the Auditorium Hotel, where was stopping the Duke of Veragua. and the Lexington, which had entertained President Cleveland and the Cabinet over Sunday. The halls and office of the Auditorium Hotel presented a lively scene as the members-of the World’s Pair commission of the local Exposition directois and innumerable members of a hundred and one committees* every man with a big flapping badge, rushed around as duty called,or sat in a chair as inclination led him and fervently wished that “the Duke would hurry up.” For all these

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.

gentlemen, ornamented with gay ribbons and dignified with high silk hats, were waiting for His Excellency, the Duke of Veragua, to perform tho act of riding down in an elevator, and riding off in a carriage to the Lexington Hotel, where the parade to the World’s Fair grounds was to be formed. There were dozens of other people there, too—people who had invitations to sit on the grand-stand, see the President press tho button and watch the great ongine do the rest. They wore for the most part tho wives, daughters and male relatives of tho gentlemen who were behind the ribbons. The-Duke and his party were scheduled to leave the hotel at 8:45 o’clock and prompt to the minute the doors of his apartment on the parlor floor swung open and out came the Duke in an attire that would have caused a rainbow to merge all its colors In an envious green. He wore a dark blue uniform, almost every square Inch of which was decked with golden lace; massive golden epaulets ornamented his shoulders, and across his breast was a ribbon three times as wide, twenty times as long and a thousand times as gaudy as any that dangled on any member of any committee that was gathered In his honor. Other members of the Ducal party were equally gorgeous in their attire. boon after 9 o’clock President Cleveland

and hijs associates left their rooms at the Lexington Hotel, and were conducted to carriages, tiro Spanish guests also adding to tho notable company embarking for the ride to the great Fair. Standing like mounted figures In bronze., a platoon of

police horsemen waited between the curbs to lead the procession. Behind them were companies B. and K, Seventh United States Cavalry, under command of Captain Vamum and Hare. Next were the Chicago Hussars, with Troop A of the 11--Bnots National Guard. The ganizations and carriages which had been assigned to positions in the parade which was to escort President Cleveland and his Cabinet. Vice-President Stevenson, tho

ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, IN FRONT OF WHICH THE CEREMONIES WERE HELD.

Duke of Veragua, and other distinguished guests in the World’s Fair grounds, began gathering in the vicinity of the Lexington Hotel, the President’s domicile, at Michigan avenue and Tvvcnty-sesond street. After a hasty breakfast the President and his party, having been joined by the Duke' of Veragua and the other distinguished guests who were to appear in the parade, they-entered their .carriages, and the procession proceeded on its way to Jackson Park. On reaching the Park the procession moved to the Administration Building, where tho ceremonies of opening the Fair were held. Entering the building the notables passed out upon the great platform erected for the event, and looking upon the plaza, beyond which the waters of the main basin reached out between the Manufactures and Agricultural Building, beneath a noble and grand colonnade which connects othe Music Hall and the CasiniL . Most of the invited guests were seated when Mr. Cleveland appeared and faced a crowd of people that thronged every atom of earth upon which human feet might rest, save the dark green turf which formed a setting for the blue waters of the basin, nature being able thus to combine clashing colors with • exquisite effect.

Already the lady managers and other officials not in the procession were seated, and as the President moved down the aisle to the stand prepared for him at the outer platform, a tumult of cheers shook the air and well-nigh made the builings tremble. Fifty-five people were clustered immediately around Mr. Cleveland when he took his seat. The Duke of Veragua was among them, also members of the Cabinet and of the diplomatic corps; legislators, consuls and other officials were banked up behind them; The opening ceremonies were begun soon after 10 o’clock with the performance of John K.Paine's Columbian march, followed by an invocation by Chaplain Milburn, of the United States Congress. “The Prophecy,” a poem written for the occasion by W. A. Crollut, of Washington, was then presented. Following the reading of Mr. Croffut’s poem, Director-General Davis made the opening speech which closed with the presentation of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland having arisen, was kept several minutes waiting until the applause should subside, after which ho, with bared head, began speaking. HeJsald: “I am here to join my follow-citizens in the congratulations which befit this occasion. Surrounded by the stupendous results of American enterprise and activity, and in view of magnificent evidence of American skill and intelligence, we need not fear that these congratulations will be exaggerated. We stand to-day in the presence of the oldest nations of the world and point to the great achievements we have here exhibited, asking no allowance on the score of youth. “The enthusiasm with which we contemplate our work intensifies the warmth of the greeting we extend to those who have come from foreign lands to illustrate with us the growth and progress of human endeavor in the direction of higher civilization. Wo who believe that popular education and the stimulation of the impulses of our citizens lead the way to the realization of the proud national destiny, which our faltn promises, gladly welcome the opportunity hero afforded 11s to see the results accomplished by efforts which have been exerted longer than ours in the field of man’if employment; while

THE LATE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

in appreciative return we exhibit the unparalleled advancement and wonderful accomplishments of a young nation, and present the triumphs of a vigorous.self-re-liant and independent people. We have built these splendid edifices, hut we have also built the magnificent fabricof a popular go\ eminent whose grand proportions are seen through that work. We have made and gathered together objectsjjf use and beauty, tho products of American skill and invention; we have also made men who rule themselves! “It is an exalted mission In which we and our guests from other lands are engaged. as we co-operate in the inauguration of an enterprise devoted to human enlightenment. and in the undertaking we hero enter upon we exemplify In the noblest sonso tne brotherhood of nations. “Let us hold fast to the meaning that underlies this ceremony and let us not lose the impressiveness of this moment. As by a touch the machinery that gives life to this vast exposition is now set in motion, so at the same instant let our hopes and aspirations awaken forces which in all time to come shall influence the welfare, the dignity and the freedom of njankind.” As the President delivered the last word of his speech he reached forward his arm, and rested his forefinger upon the button of the golden telegraph key, which communicated to the engineer in charge of the great boilers which communicated Its power terthe machinery of the great Exposition, The scene of historic interest was on the outside, however. At this instant the men at the ropes at the foot of each of the great flag-staffs laid hold with a vim, tho monstrous American flag, in a balloon-liko wad at the top of the center pole, broke forth and broadened out in the

air, while at each of the poles at the corners of the Administration Building stout men hauled aloft the great banners, upon which respectively were blazoned the arms of Castile and Aragon. The center banner was that of the United States, and the others represented the colors of old Spain. Simultaneously flags were flung to tho breeze from all the buildings, and the groat throng knew that the World’s Fair had begun. At tho W’oman’s Building an address was delivered by Mrs. Potter Palmer, and tho hymn “America” and a benediction brought the exercises to uulose. The buildings aro yet in a chaotic and incomplete condition, and visitors who desire to see the Fair and do not care par-

THE KEY PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TOUCHED.

(The key is of solid gold, with ivory handles. It is mounted on a handsome base covered with plush in the colors of America and Spain. The figures “1492—1892” appear on the base.) ticularly for the city will do well to postpone the trip for some time at least. The amount of money which has been expended for tho purposes of the Fair is $33,000,000. The stockholders in the World’s Fair corporation and the city of Chicago have contributed about one-third of the money. Nearly $5,000,000 have been borrowed on Fair detonture bonds. From other sources a few millions of dollars have been obtained. Mote than half the entire cod of the Fair came from this immediate neighborhood. Tho Unit id States Governmenont appropriated about $5,000,000, and then confiscated nearly $500,010 of Fair funis, scalping one of its appropriations for that purpose. The several States of the Union gavo about SG.OKI,OOO. Foreign nations paid about $6,0 0,000 for their di: plays. These sums mako up tho amount of Fair expenditures to tho date of opening, and the full completion of all tho buildings, with the preparations required until every part of the enterprise shall be fully established and in active operation.

What Vegetarians Say.

Vegetarians say it is a popular fallacy that meat is needed for strength. One prominent exponent of the faith says it is a fact that the strongest animals in the world are vegetarian and not carnivorous. It is the ferocity of the lion rather than his strength that makes him formidable. An elephant is a match for several lions, and is a vegetarian. The animals with most speed and endurance, the horse, the reindeer', the antelope, and others, are also vegetarians. Dog trainers, says this authority, always feed their trick animals on a stictly vegetarian diet, and man v hunters So the same thing. Senator Palmer is said to have a vegetarian dog that is 22 years old.

The Master of Ballantrae

By Robert Louis Stevenson.

CHAPTER XXXl— Continued. A narrow plateau, overlooked by the White mountains and encompassed near at hand by woods, lay bare to the strong radiance of the moon. Rough goods, such as make the wealth of foresters, were lying here and there upon the ground in meaningless disarray. About the midst a tent stood, silvered with frost; the door open, gaping on the black interior. At one end of this small stage lay What seemed the tattered remnants of a man. Without doubt we had arrived upon the scene of Harris's encampment; there were the goods scattered in the panic of flight; it was in yon tent the master breathed his last, and the frozen carrion that lay before us was the body of the drunken shoemaker. It was always moving to come upon the theater of any-tragic incident; to come upon it after so many days and to find it (in the seclusion of a desert) still unchanged must have impressed the minebof themost cawless. And yet it was not that which struck u§ into pillars of stone, but the sight (which yet we had been half expecting) of Secundra ankle deep in the grave of his late master. He had cast the main part of his raiment by, yet his frail arm and shoulders glistened in the moonlight with a copious sweat; his blows resounded on the grave as thick sobs, and behind him, strangely deformed and ink black upon the frosty ground, the creature’s shadow repeated and parodied his swift gesticulations. Some night birds arose from the boughs upon our coming and then settled back; but Secundra, absorbed in his toil, heard or heeded not at all. I heard Mountain whisper to Sir William, “Good God, its the grave! He’s digging him up!” It was what we had all guessed, and yet to hear it put in language thrilled me. Sir William started. “You damned sacrilegious hound!” he cried. “What's this?” Secundra leaped in the air, a breathless cry escaped him, the tool

flew from his grasp and he stood one instant staring at the speaker. The next, swift as an arrow, he sped for the woods upon the further side; and the next again, throwing up his hands with a violent gesture of resolution, he had begun already to retrace his steps. “Well, then, you come, you help—” he was saying. But now my lord had stepped to the side of Sir William; the moon shone fair upon his face, and the words were still upon Seeundra’s lips when he beheld and recognized his master’s enemy. “Him!” he screamed, clasping his hands and shrinking on himself. “Come, come,” said Sir William, “there is none here to do you harm, if you are innocent; if you be guilty, your escape is quite cut off. Speak, what do you here among the graves of the dead and the remains of the unburied?” - • “You no murderer?" inquired Seeundra. “You true man? You see me safe?” “I will see you safe if you be innocent,” returned Sir William. “I have said the thing and I see not why you should doubt it.”

“There all murderers,” cried Secundra, “that is why! He killmurderer,” pointing to Mountain; “there two hire murderers” —pointing to my lord and myseif —“all gallows murderers! Ah, I see you all swing in a rope. Now Igo save the sahib; he see you swing in a rope. The sahib,” he continued, pointing to the grave, “henot dead. He bury, he not dead.” My lord uttered a little noise and moved nearer to the grave and stood and stared in it. “Buried and not dead?” exclaimed Sir William. “What kind of rant is this?”.. . “See, sahib!” said Secundra. “The sahib and I alone with murderers; try all ways to escape, none good. Then try this way; good way in a warm climate, good way in India; here in this damn cold place, who can tell? I tell you pretty good hurry; you help, you light fire, help rub.” “What is the creature talking of?” cried Sir William. “My head goes round.” “I tell you I bury him alive,” said Secundra. “I teach him swallow his tongue. Now dig him Up pretty good hurry, and he not much worse. You light a fire.”

Sir William turned to the nearest of his men. “Light a fire,” said he. “My lot seems to be cast with the insane.” “You good man,” said Secundra. “Now I go dig the sahib up.” He returned as he spoke to the grave and resumed his former toil. My lord stood rooted, and I at my lord’s side, fearing I knew not what. The frost was not very deep, and presently the Indian threw aside his tool and began to scoop the dirt by handfuls. Then he disengaged a corner of a buffalo robe; and then I saw hair catch among his fingers; yet a moment more and the moon shone on something white. For awhile Secundra crouched upon his knees, scraping with delicate fingers, breathing with puffed lips; and when he moved aside I beheld the face of. the master wholly disengaged. It was deadly white, the even-closed, the ears and nostrils plugged, the cheeks fallen, the nose sharp as if in death, but for all he had lain so long under the sod, corruption had not approached him, and (what strangely affected us all) his lips and chin were mantled with a sWarthy beard. “My God!” cried Mountain, “be was as smooth as a baby when we laid him there.” _/

“They say hair grows upon th* dead," observed Sir William, but his voice was thick and weak. Secundra paid no attention to our remarks, digging swift as a terrier in the loose earth; every moment, the form of the master, swathed in his buffalo robe, grew more distinct in the bottom of that shallow trough; the moon shining strong, and the shadows of the standers-by, as they drew forward and back, falling and flitting over his emergent countenance. The sight held us with a horror not before experienced. I dared not look my lord in the face, but for as long as it lasted I never observed him to draw breath; and a little in the background one of the men (I know not whom) burst into a kind of sobbing. 1 Now;” said Secundra, “you help me lift him out. ” Of the flight of time I have no idea; it may have been three hours, and it may have been five, that the Indian labored to reanimate his master’s body. One thing only I know, that it was still night and the moon was not yet set, although it had sunk low and now barred the plateau with long shadows, when Secundra uttered a little cry of satisfaction, and, leaning swiftly forth, I thought I could myself detect a change upon the iey .countenance of the unburied. The next moment I beheld his eyelids flutter; the next they rose entirely, and the week old corpse looked me for a moment in the face.

So much display of life I can myself swear to. I have heard from others that he visibly strove to speak, that his teeth showed in his beard, and that his brow was contorted as with an agony of pain and effort. And this may have been; I know not, I was otherwise engaged. For, at that first disclosure of the dead man’s eyes, my Lord Durrisdeer fell to the ground, and when I raised him up he was a corpse. Day came, and still Secundra could not be persuaded to desist from his unavailing efforts. Sir William, leaving a small party under my command, proceeded on his embassy with the first light; and still the Indian rubbed the. limbs and breathed in the mouth of the dead body. You would think such labors might have vitalized a stone; but, except for that one moment (which was my lord’s death), the black spirit of the master held aloof from its discarded clay, and by about the hour cf noon even the faithful servant was at length convinced. He took it with unshaken quietude. “Too cold” said he; “good way in India, no good here.” And, asking for some food, which he ravenously devoured as soon as it was set before him, he drew near to the tire and took his place at my elbow. In the same spot, as soon as he had eaten, he stretched himself out and fell into a profound slumber, from which I must arouse him, some hours afterward, to take his part as one ofc the mourners at the double funeral. It was the same throughout; he seemed to have outlived at once and with the same effort, his grief for his master and his terror of myself and Mountain. One of the men left with me was skilled in stone-cutting, and before Sir William returned to pick us up I had chiseled on a bowlder this inscription, with a copy of which I may fitly bring my narrative to a close: J. D., neir to a Scottish title, A master-of the arts and graces, Admired in Europe, Asia, America, In war and peace, In the tents of savage hunters and the Citadels of kings. After so much Acquired, accomplished and Endured, lies here =~-~ Forgotten. ILD., His brother, After a life of unmerited distress, Bravely supported, Died almost in the same hour. And sleeps in the same grave With his fraternal enemy. The piety of his wife and one old Servant raised this stone To both. THE END.

THE WORLD IS MINE

Perplexed is the “copper" never. From worry he e’er retrains.; Because he only cudpels The other fellow's brains. Mrs. McDufftgan— Have ye taken yer little gerrel away from the school? Mrs. O'Diffigan —I have; she was gettin’ that smart that I cudn’t open me mouth that she wouldn’t be correctin’ me speech, so I thought it was time for her to be earnin’ her own livin’ an’ I sint her to work in the factory.

THE FAIR SEX.

The mother, grandfather, great- , grandfather, and great-great-grand-father of a six-months old baby at Rural Retreat, Va., all live under the same roof. Frau Cosina Wagner has been stricken with paralysis. She is a daughter of Franz Liszt, and, before the composer married her, was the wife of Hans Von Bulow. One of Charlotte Bronte’s most intimate friends, Miss Mary Taylor—the Rose Yorke of “Shireley” and the * M." of Mrs. GaskeU’s “Life"— has just died at the age of 76. The ladies of Dresden have been holding "a riding tournament, the honors of the ]oust being won bv a voung English girl, Miss Theresa Brooks. □ Her final exploit was the driving of a pair of horses tandem, while riding her own hprse at full speed.

WALL POCKET. Nearly five hundred women are employed as station agents in France but they get only half as much pay as men in the same positions.

BLACK VELVET JACKET. The infant daughter of the Duchess of Fife has already entered upon her duties as a philanthropist. She has joined the Children’s League of Pity.

NEW SPRING HAT. During the last, year 300 women took scholast c degrees or passed tripos examinations in England and Ireland, sixty-one of these having been placed in the first division of the London University.

AN ELEGANT NEGLIGEE. It is said that Maxwell Gray, who .vrote “The Silence of Dean Mait ’and,” is not a man, but a woman* and an invalid at that. Miss Tuttrell is her name, and most of her work is done up«n her couch.