Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. George E M arshall. Editor. • I. “ --- RENSSELAER - INDIANA

It is too bad —also too late to be helped—but it is now authoritatively stated that a portion of the money with which the Dutch paid the Indians for Manhattan Island was counterfeit. >. ■ Two Memphis editors have for sometimebeen neglecting their business and furnishing rivals with much reading matter by bellicose manifestoes and bloodthirsty threats against their own peace and safety. Such men are unfit for the newspaper profession, whose business it is to •chronicle and not to commit sensational erimes. Mr. Gladstone is said to be shrinking in stature perceptibly, so much so as to excite general comment. That he has retained his physical vigor to such an advanced age is remarkable, and the fact that old age is beginning to make serious inroads oa his stalwart frame ought uot to surprise anyone. In the natural course of events his phenomenal career must soon "terminate. Paderwski, the celebrated Polish pianist, closed his engagement in this country at Chicago, and sailed for England on the 6th inst. His American tour began in New York in January and although his time was not entirely occupied, the gross receipts were SIBO,OOO. Perhaps no musician ever met with so generous a reception. The women of New York became with him, and shed tears “by the barrel’’ over his departure.

A wealthy merchant of St, Louis takes great delight in disguising himself and marching with the Salvation Army. The Caps and tightfitting uniform are so different from his customary costume, that, with the addition of a pair of side-whisk-ers, he has no difficulty in marching past his most intimate friends with out being recognized. His only object in marching is for amusement, and he takes no interest in the religious side of the Salvation Army movement. The Empress of Austria suffers terribly from insomnia, and walks thirty miles a day in the hope of obtaining relief, but in vain. She obtains upon an average only three hours of broken sleep nightly, and it is feared that she will become utterly worn out. She firmly refuses to take opiates, and her physicians still hope that she will be restored to health. She travels restlessly from place to place and is now in Switzerland. It is doubtful if she ever again permanently resides in Vienna.

The progress of naval architecture is one of the wonders of the century. The new Cunarder. Campania, which arrived at New York, last week, on her maiden trip, is a giantess among a mighty race of ocean liners. She is 620 feet long, and carries a crew of 415 men. Her smoke-stacks would serve as streetcar tunnels if necessary, for they are nineteen feet in diameter. The fittings and machinery of the vessel are marvels of elegance and efficiency. An ingenious or ingenuous office seeker recently sent President Cleveland a $lO bill to ' pay for any time that might be lost in considering his application. The letter was referred to Private Secretary Thurber, who was at first inclined to be indignant at the apparent attempt at bribery, but investigation convinced him that the applicant was “very green,” but perfectly sincere, and he returned the money to the sender with a little advice as to the proper way to apply for positions under this administrasion.

“Similla sinqilibus curantur,” is an axiom with a certain school of medicine, but the rule that like cures like is not often applied to remove other evils that afflict humanity. A business man of Cincinnati, however, succeeded to his entire satisfaction when he forced an amateur piano-player, who made life a burden in his neighborhood, to move by applying a sort of counter-irritant in the shape of a boy with a handorgan, whom he employed by the day to play at an open window close to the objectionable musician. The pianist stood it two days and then moved; ->■- The largest newspaper ever published was the edition of the New York Sunday World, of the 7th inst. It contained 100 pages, and was a wonderful example of what can be accomplished by the system and appliances now in use in the “art preservative". It contained an almost

inexhaustible fund of literature and information, the most notable fea-ture-being" a poem written expressly for the edition by Sir Edwin Arnold, entitled the “Tenth Muse.” An edition of 362,000 copies was exhausted on the day of publication, -and a special edition was printed, 10,000 of which were engaged in advance. ■ .. - Flatobooen Ms its name. Flatobogen is coming to the World’s Fair in a man-of-war and will be guarded day and night by soldiers while it remains in Chicago! Flatobogen is a book from the Royal Library of Copenhagen. It was begun in 1370 and finished in 1380, by two monks named Magnus Thorhallson and Yon Thordason, of Fla toe, Iceland. One chapter deals with the story of Erick the Red, and Lief the Happy, the two navigators who discovered this continent in the year 1000. This is taking the wind out dfSIMF sails of Columbus, in whose honor the Exposition is being conducted. Still it is not likely that Chris, will get out an injunction to prevent the exhibition of documentary proof that he was only a second-hand discoverer after all.

Ex-Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is violently opposed to the annexation of Hawaii. The Senator, who has been spending the winter in southern California, in the course of an interview at San Francisco, recently, said: “I do not believe in annexing the islands, and then in a few years give them two United States Senators, the positions to be filled by whoever has the money to bid for them. Besides, I am opposed to giving the islands, with their small and scattered population, as much representation in the Senate as one of the heavy populated States. This is what annexation would mean, and I am against it. Let the United States protect the islands, and then let them have a republican form of government, or put the Queen back on the throne. Anything, so the islands are not annexed.” Great men in all countries have had their family troubles and domestic scandals, and a high official or social position seems to be no safeguard against the annoyances that afflict the common herd. Few men of great national reputations have, however, been so sorely tried by the outrageous conduct of their own progeny as has Sig. Crispi, the ex-prime minister of Italy, who has recently been forced, as a matter of protection, to have his own son arrested and placed in a house of cor*1 ® rection because of his debauchery, and a very unpleasant habit he had formed of purloining his father’s private papers and selling them to his political enemies. The affair has created a great commotion in government circles, and many important letters from Garabaldi and other Italian notables have found their way into a public notice for which they were never intended. Efforts have been made to secure the return of the documents but without success.

PEOPLE.

Archbishop Corrigan celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his consecration as a bishop last Wednesday. He was one of five brothers. Three went into the priesthood. His only sister became a nun. Professor Pickering, of Harvard, sailed the other day from Valparaiso for Europe. He goes to confer with scientific men in regard to results obtained from the observations of the recent solar eclipse. □ Last Sunday Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, of St. Bartholomew’s, New York, told his congregation that he wanted a collection of SBO,OOO for church improvements. In the four and one-half years of his pastorate St. Bartholomew’s have paid out $1,035,000 for charity and expenses, and this from voluntary contributions.

W. D. Howells denies the report that he is going abroad for a few years. Mr. Howells says that he finds an abundance of charming characters in American life, in whom he is chiefly interested, and about whom to write; and that he has no need to go abroad to study European models. The election of ex President Harrison to the office of commander of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion is thought to mean that he will, after all. succeed the late ex-President Hayes as commander-in-chief of the order Some months ago a State commandery failed to elect him as commander, an act which delayed his election to the higher office. This office has been vacant since Mr. Hayes' death. W. C. Lane, who has been chosen librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1881. He then went into the university library and was a few years ago apjiointed assistant librarian. Mr. Lane was last year president of the Massachusetts Literary Club, is secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Dante Society, and treasurer of the publication section of the American Library Association.

CHRIST'S MAGNETISM.

The Sublime Circuit of Healing Power. The Origin of Christian Science—Medicine '~fSr Nervous Invalids—Dr. Tai. Rev.'Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text: “Who touched me?”— Mark v, 31. A great crowd of excited people elbowing each other this way and that and Christ in the midst of the commotion. They were on the way to see him restore to complete health a dying person. Some thought he could effect the-cure, others that he could not. At any rate, it would be an interesting experiment. A very sick woman of twelve years’ invalidism is in the crowd. Some say her name was Martha, others say it was Veronica. Ido not know what her ram? was, but this is certain—she had tried all styles of cure. Every

cine on it. Shejiad employed many of the doctors of that time when medical science was more rude and rough and ignorant than we can imagine in this time, when the word physician or surgeon stands for potent and educated skill. Professor Lightfoot gives a list of what he supposes may have been the remedies she had applied. I suppose she had been blistered from head to foot and had tried the compress and had used all styles of astringent herbs, and she had been mauled and hacked and cut and lacerated until life to her was a plague. Besides that, the, Bible indicates her doctors' bills had run up frightfully, and she had paid money for medicines and for surgical attendance and for hygienic apparatus until-her purse was as exhausted as her body. What, poor woman, are you doing in that jostling crowd? Better go home and to bed and nurse your disorders. No! Wan and wasted and faint she stands there, her face distorted with suffering, and ever and anon biting her lip with some acute pain, and sobbing until her tears fall from her hollow eyes upon the faded dress, only able to stand because the crowd is so close to her pushing her this way and that. Stand back! Why do you crowd that poor body? Have you no consideration for a dying woman? But just at that time the crowd parts and this invalid comes almost up to Christ, but she is behind him and his human eye does not take her in. She has heard so much about his kindness to the sick, and she does feel so wretched she thinks if she can only just touch him once it will do her good. She will not touch him on the sacred head, for that might be irreverent. She will not touch him on the hand, for that might seem too familiar. She says: “I will, I think, touch him on his coat, not on the top of it nor on the bottonpjf the main fabric, but on the border, the blue border, the long threads of the fringe of that blue border; there can be no harm in that. I don’t think he will hurt me; I have heard so much about him. Besides that, I can stand this no longer. Twelve years of suffering have worn me out. This is my last hope. ” And she presses through the crowd still farther and reaches for Christ, but she cannot quite touch him. She pusnesstill further through the crowd and kneels and puts her finger to the edge of the blue fringe of the border. She touches it. Quick as an electric shock there thrilled back into her shattered nerves and shrunken veins and exhausted arteries and panting lungs and withered muscles health, rubicund heilth, God-given and complete health. Christ recognizes somehow that magnetic and healthful influence through the medium of the blue fringe of his garment had shot out. He turns and looks upon that excited crowd and startles them with the interrogatory of my text. “Who touched me?” - - -

Are you curious to know how that garment of Christ should have wrought such a cure for this suppliant invalid? I suppose that Christ was surcharged with vitality. You know that diseases may be conveyed from city to city by garments, as in case of epidemic, and I suppose that garments may be surcharged with health. I suppose that Christ had such physical magnetism that it permeated all his robe down to the last thread on the border of the blue fringe. But in addition to that there was a divine thrill, there was a miraculous potency, there was an omnipotent therapeutics, without which this twelve years’ invalid would not have been instantly restored. Now, if omnipotence cannot help others without depletion, how can we ever expect to bless the world without self-sacrifice? Notice also in this subject a Christ sensitive to human touch. We talk about God on a vast scale so much that we hardly appreciate his accessibility— God in magnitude rather than God in minutiae, God in the infinite rather than God in the infinitessimal. We talk about sensitive people, but Christ was the impersonation of all sensitiveness. The slightest im print of the smallest finger of human disability makes all the nerves of his head and heart and hand and feet vibrate. It not a stolid Christ, not a phlegmatic Christ, not a preoccupied Christ, not a hard Christ, not an iron-cased Christ, but an exquisitely sensitive Christ th it my text unveils. Is your trouble a home trouble? Christ shows himself especially sympathetic with questions of domesticity, as when at the wedding in

Cana be alleviated a housekeeper's predicament,, as when tears rushed forth at the broken home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Men are sometimes ashamed to weep. There are men who if the tears start will conceal them. They think it isun manly to cry. They do not seem tc understand it is m a nAi n ess an d evidence of a great heart. I am afraid of a man who does not know how to cry. The Christ of the text was not ashamed to cry out over human misfortune. Look at that deep lake of tears opened by the two words of the evangelist, “Jesus wept!” Behold Christ on the only day of his early triumph marching on lerusalem, the domes obliterated by the blinding rain of tears in his eyes and on his cheek, for when he beheld the city he wept overit. Oman of the many trials, O woman of the heartbreak, why do you not touch him? When I see this nervous woman coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, I say she is making the way for ah nervous people. Nervous people do not get much sympathy. If a man breaks his arm, everybody is sorry. and they talk about it all up and down the street. If a woman has an eye put out by accident, they say, “That’s a dreadful thing.” Everybody is asking about her convalescence. But when a person is suffering under the ailment of which I am now speaking they say, “Oh, that’s nothing; she’s a little nervous; that’s all,” putting a slight on the most agonizing of suffering. A Christian woman went to the Tract House in New York and asked for tracts for distribution. The first day she was out on her Christian errand she saw a policeman taking ah intoxicated woman to the station house. After the woman was discharged from custody this Christian tract distributer saw her coming away, all unkempt and unlovely. The tract distributer went up, threw her arms around heh neck and kissed her. The woman said, “Oh, my God, why do you kiss me?” “Well,” replied the other, “I think Jesus Christ told me to.” “Oh, no,” the woman said, “don’t you kiss me. It breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed me since my mother died.” But that sisterly kiss brought her to Christ—started her on the road to heaven. The world wants sympathy. St. Yoo of Kermartin one morning went out and saw a beggar asleep on his doorstep. The beggar had been all night in the cold. The next night St. Yoo compelled this beggar to come up in the house and sleep in the saint’s bed, while St. Yoo slept all night on the cold doorstep. Somebody asked him why that eccentricity. He replied: “It isn’t an eccentricity. I want to know how the p00r... suffer. I want to know their agonies that I may sympathize with them, and therefore I slept on this cold stone last night." That is the way Christ knows so much about our sorrows. He slept on the cold doorstep of an inhospitable world that would not let him in. He is sympathetic now with all the suffering and all the tried and all the perplexed. Oh, why do you not go and touch Him? I preach a Christ so near you can touch him—touch him with your guilt and get pardon—touch him with your trouble and get comfort —touch him with your bondage and get manumission. You have seen a man take hold of an electric chain. A man can with one hand take one end of the chain, and with the other hand he may take hold of Hie other end of the chain. Then a mmdred persons taking hold of that chain will altogether feel the electric power. You have seen that experiment. Well, Christ with one wounded hand takes hold of one end of the electric chain of love, and all earthly and angelic beings may lay holc| of that chain, and around and around in sublime and everlasting circuit runs the thrill of terrestial and celestial and brotherly and saintly and cherubic and seraphic and archangelic and divine sympathy. So that if this morning Christ should sweep his hand over this audience and say, “Who touched me?” there would be hundreds and thousands of voices responding; “I! I! I!”

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

In the rock of Gibraltar there are seventy miles of tunnels. A calf in Lumberton, Conn., captures and eats chickens. Parchment glued to leather makes a belting which will not stretch. In a human body weighing 140 pounds there are 105 pounds of liquid and 35 pounds of solid matter. A tunnel 13,168 feet long is to be constructed under the Cascade Mountains, in Oregon and Washington. A Vermont judge has decided that when a lady discards a lover she must return the engagement ring. The colored people in the United States maintain seven colleges, seventeen academies, and fifty high schools. — ; — A bright boy in a Red Bank school defined a sausage to be “a few inches of food tied up at both ends to hide the contents.” Five minutes after receiving her divorce papers, a woman in Paris, Texas, faced the same judge with another man and whs promptly married to him. < The trial trip of a “flying machine, ’’ in Brenham, Texas, caused the inventor to take a tumble from a vast height. He is likely to be a sick man for months. Some Parisian shopkeepers attract spectators to their windows by emitting delightfully acented warm air from openings at the base of the window frames. ,

ANOTHER LYNCHING.

A Seymour Mob at Brownstown Hangs Lou Trenck. ATrain PressedXntoService-The Terri tory Famous for Mob Law r,v " eK1 eT- - With the blood of John Turley on their hands from the Bedford lynching, Monday morning, the Seymour lynchers,about the same hour Tuesday morning, went to Brownstown, and swung into eternity the murderer, Lou Trenck, who shot and in : stantly killed landlord Henry Feadlera week ago Sunday, in Seymour. The first Intention of the mbb had been to wreak vengeance on the two murderers the same night, but the distance between the two county seats was too great. Those who had been with the desperate men who, with unswerving determination, took Turley from the Bedford jail, knew that it would be Trenpk’s turn next, and waited in secret places for the time to arrive when they should make the journey to Brownstown. All Monday evening the streets of Seymour were crowded with excited, expectant people who felt what was coming, but who knew nothing of the arrangements. The mob was being quietly organized, and its movements were carefully veiled until midnight. At that hour the leader led the way.tCL the Ohio & Mississippi yards, and with no noise, every man knowing his duty, anengine and two cabooses were seized and the mob piled on. Experienced men were on the engine, and the throttle being pulled out to its limits the train plunged down the road toward Brownstown, eleven miles distant. Arriving opposite the town the train was halted and the men descended and marched almost a mile across the country to the jail. Here they met their first opposition. The sheriff, not to be tricked, had left, and no keys could be procured to fit the locks. The turnkey was routed out, but he had no keys. There was nothing to do but to batter down the doors, which the mob at once proceeded to do. A rude battering-ram was constructed, and with no fear of interruption, pickets having been sent out to patrol the streets in all directions, the heavy iron doors were soon forced to give way to the ponderous blows. Heavy iron sledge-hammers assisted in making an opening, after which the men crowded in under a nervy leader, who soon located Trenck’s cell. Forcing an entrance to his small apartment was only play to the determined men, and the doomed murderer was dragged from a corner out 'in the corridor and from there to the side of the court house.

It was all a matter of grim business. The man with the rope was ready, and the loop being quickly adjusted to his neck,the other end was tossed over a limb of a convenient tree. One man spoke to him and said: “Have you anything to say?” With trembling voice, al most choked, the wretched victim said: “Oh, this is awful! You are not treating me fair.” “Pray!” commanded his executioner. “Oh, God! Bless my soul,” said Trenck, huskily. The next instant the signal was given and he was jerked from his knees to which he had half fallen as he started to pray, and Ms further utterance was only a gurgle. It was just 1:20 a? m. when he swung in the air. The rope was wound around tho tree, leaving the body suspended, and tho crowd filed back to where the waiting train was standing without a dozen citizens of Brownstown knowing that a tragedy had taken place. The mob.JJmn_returned to Seymour, aud the story was given to newspaper correspondents in waiting by masked men who had accompanied the mob.

A FALLEN MONARCH.

A Hoosier Giant Falls Before Civilization’s Onward March, The New York Sunday Sun says: An oak log remarkable for its size and weight is lying on the dock at the foot of East Eleventh street. It is the property of George Hagemeyer & Sons. The log w-as cut on the farm of Uncle Sammy Scoggens,

two and a half miles southeastof Bedford, Ind. It was intended for exhibition at the World’s Fair, but after felling it the •base was found to be rotten and had to be cut off. This materially lessened the size of the log. It is 40 feet long, feet in diameter at the base, 4% feet at the top weighs 17X tons, and is thought to be 400 years old. The log was brought from the West on two flat-cars. It will have to be blasted to cut it in two, as no sawmill tn New York can handle a stick over twentyeight feet in length. The mbnster will be cut up into counter tops. Ben Serinfe, a young traveling man from Madison, arrived in Columbus, Thursday, and registered at the Belvedere hotel. Upon asking if any mail had arrived for him he was given a letter, which he opened in the presence of Landlord Johnson. It contained a check on the Madison National BariKfor 135, signed by Bering’s father, an ex-banker of Madison. The landlord cashed the check, but when he sent it to Madison for collection it was pronounced a forgery. Bering's father refused to make the amount good, and the forger was arrested Saturday in Indianapolis, where he was going under an assumed name. ‘

THE GEARY LAW SUSTAINED.

The Supreme Court, Monday, through Justice Gray, sustained the decision of the New York courts in favor of the constitutionality of the Geary Chinese exclusion act. Justice Brewer dissented. ________ Several days ago William Springer, of Hobart, was given a dfvorco because of abandonment by his wife, who, like himself, is seventy years old. She left him because he would not buy her a hew dress. Last week* they were remarried, and immediately after the Ceremony Mr. Springer presented his wife with •0.000.

IN OPEN COURT.

Atrocious Murder in the Court Room at 1 Danville. Cola Brown, president Of the Lebanon gas and light company, was the defendant in a Jamage suit brought by a man named Hoe, who was injured in a gas explosion. C. L. Wesner, also of Lebanon, was Hoe’s attorney. The case was taken to Danville on a change of venue. In his argument Saturday morning, Wesner made several remarks concerning Brown, much to the latter’s displeasure. Court adjourned shortly “after 12 o’clock, and Attorney Wesner was standing directly in front of the Judge’s bench when Brown stepped forward, drew his revolver and fired two shots. The first bullet hit Wesner in the arm and the second struck him below the ribs, passing through the body. The injured man died fifteen minutes later. The scene in the court room baffled description. Brown was immediately taken in custody and confined in jail. Excitement was great and it was thought best to transfer Brown to the Marion county jail at Indianapolis for safety. Brown claims to have acted in self-defense.

'RAII FOR BR'ER TALMAGE.

Tho Brooklyn Divine Cheered on His An; nouneing the Liquidation of the Tabernacle Debt-: Tn the presence of the congregation that crowded the immense tabernacle to the doors, Sunday morning, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage officially announced that the floating debt of the tabernacle had been liquidated and that his remaining with the church as itspastor was assured. It had been pretty generally understood that the necessary money had been raised but the announcement coming from the doctor himself created a furors of excitement among the congregation. Cheer upon cheer was given by the large congregation and it was some time before he could continue. The cheering was repeated with emphasis when the divine added that he would continue as pastor

FOREST FIRE FATALITY .

A Michigan Lumber Camp Destroyed and Ten Lives Lost. A forest, fire destroyed Lous Sand's lumber camp near Lake City, Michigan, Saturday afternoon. Out of a total crew of sixty men forty-nine escaped uninjured. One, Edward Sullivan, wAs seriously burned, and ten are dead. Of {those eight took refuge in a well and were cremated there by the timbers and curbing fulling in upon them and burning. Two tried to run the gauntlet and were, burned to a crisp.

NEWS FROM HAWAII.

The steamer Oceanic arrived-at-Francisco, Wednesday, bringing the latest news from Hawaii. All was quiet. Soldiers are still maintained as guards about the city and, aside from these, no one would suspect that political troubles exist. It is now a waiting game with both sides confident. Commissioner Blount goes about his labors quietly. His presence has ceased to be a novelty and both factions are satisfied that he has been presented with all the evidence possible. The most important event of the past few days is the appointment of Lorin A. Thurston as Minister to Washington to succeed J. Mott Smith. Thurston’s acceptance of the mission was received May 4, and he was immediately appointed. Thurston was chairman of the committee sent to Washington by the provisional government to negotiate an annexation. He was the prime mover in the revolution and his selection is very popular with the annexationists.

WAR WITH CHINA.

A Washington special to the Now York Post says: “The outlook for a war with China is now regarded in naval circles as not unfavorable. It is believed that the Emperor will resent the conclusion arrived at by the Supreme Court, and wilt issue a decree enforcing strict rules against the entry of any more Americans into China and probably ordering the removal of our missionaries out of his territory under pain of forcible deportation. Meanwhile there is danger of Insurrections of Chinese against the white immigrants which the imperial authorities will not be able to check. Those, taken together with the outbreaks which the attempts to enforce the Geary law on our west coast will bring about, it is thought will putthe two nations on such a footing as to make war inevitable. The decision is a great blow to the Chinese legation here, where it has been hoped down to the last moment that the act would be declared unconstitutional. ’

WILL OPEN ON SUNDAY.

Directors Vote to Kun the. Full' on Sunday And Return Govern met. Ixxui. A resolution to open the World’s Fair-on Sunday and to return the loan advanced bjr the Government was adopted by the board of directors Tuesday evening by a vote of 34 to 3. First an informal vote was taken on a resolution to open the Fair without saying anything about refunding the Government loan. This was carried by a vote of 31 to C. When the roll was called on the resolution there were but two votes in opposition to Sunday opening. These were cast by Directors Dawson and Camp. A proposition to make the admission fee on Sundays 25 cents instead Of 50 cents wm voted down. The resolution provides for open buildings with machinery not running, with religious services on the grounds and sacred music in the choral halls.

A Few Truths Tellingly Put.

Votes should not be counted, but weighed. To be content with littleness is already a stride toward greatness. The small writer gives his readers what they wish, the great writer what they want Th 6 mischief of opinions formed under irritation is that men feel obliged to maintain them even after the irritation is gone. Men are equally misunderstood, from their speech as well as from their silence; but with this difference: Their silence does not represent them; their speech misrepresents them.—CrsAupt-