Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gborge E M'AMBaLL EDITOR. 7 RENSSELAER INDIANA

There are thirty thousand acres of' watermelons growing in Georgia this season. The tide of colored emigration from that section is now at a low stage. The colored man and brother knows a good IhiUg when he sees it and proposes to stay fey “dem millyuns” till the last juicy lore has parted from its encircling rind and gone gurgling down into the dusty depths beneath the ea-. paeious cavern of his woolly dome of thought. , . A modern St. Patrick has blossomed out in the State of Washington. but so far his missionary efforts have been confined to his own chicken raneh. Great numbers of snakes i made the poultry industry' very unprofitable, and he tried various expedients to save his feathered-bipeds, but without success. His eggs and young chickens disappeared in alarming numbers until he was struck by the happy thought of feeding the reptiles on porcelain nest-eggs. The snakes were thoroughly deceived and -died-ofindiffestion in 1 arge numbers..

Prof. Koch, the famous scientific bacteriaologist, of Berlin, is iuvolved in a scandal. His wife has obtained a divorce from him because of his intimacy with Bertha Forten, an actress. Miss Forten is but 32 years of age and very handsome, while Prof. Koch is a grandfather. The actress has no “fortin” but her face, figure and name, but the aged scientist is said to be “mashed” badly, and the actress threw over a young and handsome lover because of her preference for the microscopical expert. Notwithstanding the low price of wheat and the panicky condition of the market for some time past, European advices indicate that short crops will be the rule in all foreign countries at the harvest of 1893, Italy is threatened with an uncommonly short crop of all staples, while Russia, heretofore a large export country, will not have enough wheat for her own use. As a natural consequence this country must be largely drawn upon to supply the deficiency, and wheat at 68 to 70 cents on the Chicago market would seem to be an especially good investment for surplus cash. Chicago papers are finding fault with the stubborn policy of railway magnates in maintaining rates to the World’s Fair, and their criticisms seem to be well founded. If, as they allege, rates are reduced during the heated term, just when a crowd of visitors are least desired in the city, and when the crowd itself would prefer to stay at home, people will look back with regret to the pleasant June weather when they could have gone to the Fair in comfort at the same outlay for transportation had the railway officials been disposed to be reasonable. Railway managers seem to have stood in their own light in the matter.

The war ship New York, recently completed for our navy, is probably the fastest man-of-war in existence, but progress in naval architecture will undoubtedly rob it of this honor in the near future. The government \of Great Britain has already contracted for ships of much greater capacity and power, and they are expected to develop a greater rate of speed. The rapid strides of science in this direction render it practically impossible for any Nation to maintain the supremacy of the seas for any great length of time. War on land or sea no longer remains a question of valor and personal bravery, but has rather become a contest of dollars and mechanical genius.

Senator Sherman recently moved with his family into a beautiful new white stone house on the north side of Franklin Park at Washington, which he has built at a cost of $150,000. It is one of the most elaborate private residences in the capital city] and the Senator's friends are at a loss to account for his motive in burdening himself and wife with such an establishment, as they are childless and are not known as “society” people. Senator Sherman is known as a very wealthy man, and the bulk of his fortune has been made in dealing in Washington real estate. It is supposed, therefore, that this latest move is with a view of selling the residence at a profit, a process which he has repeated several times. The Senator owns a large amount of Washington realty which yields him handsome returns. In these times of financial uncertainty it is well to remember that it Is the duty of all who are able to ac-

cumulate a hoard Of cash against the possibilities of a rainy day to promptly liquidate all small claims that may be honestly brought against them. In this category comes the amount due on subscription to the county paper. If not a subscriber, then ar cash subscription will go a great ways toward relieving the stress of Unfavorable conditions in this direction. Now is the time to subscribe. A cash subscription to this journal will prove to be an investment that will return a larger percentage on the capital Involved than was ever promised by Dwiggins, et al., to their unhappy creditors, with this advantage added, that all will be satified with the transaction —neither will a receiver have to be appointed In order to realize upon the investment. The extent of the Pullman sleep-ing-car monopoly is realized by few people, even when they patronize the expensive accommodations furnished by that corporation and contribute their dollars to swell its already plethoric exchequer. The company has 15,000 employes, of whom 8,000 to 9,000 are mechanics. The dining cars between the St. Lawrence and Texas yearly serve 4,500,000 meals, every one of which is accounted for by a voucher in the Chicago office. They have built 400 cars for the World’s Fair traffic alone, at a cost of $5,500,000, and the corporation owns between 2,200 and 2,300 palace cars, which carried last year more than 5,000,000 passengers. At Pullman, last year, $10,000,000 worth of cars were manufactured for outside orders, and 13,000,000 in wages are annually paid at that place. The Pullman savings bank has over $500,000 of deposits.

Insurance in all its various branches has become a recognized factor in modern business transactions. It is now customary in the case of men taking positions of responsibility, when formerly they would have involved their personal friends in giving a bond, to go to a company that makes a business of insuring proprietors and employers of all kinds against loss from the possible shortcomings of employes whom they find it necessary to trust with the custody of large sums of money. The latest development of this phase of business life is the farming out, or settling for possible damage suits,. by railroad companies for a specified sum per annum. Certain responsible attorneys in several instances made bargains with railroad companies to defend all cases and settle with all who obtain judgments for a fixed amount of money. They are understood to have cleared a handsome sum, and the railroad officials express themselves as well pleased, as the plan relieves them from all care and anxiety as to the outcome of what has always been vexations and in many cases spiteful litigation.

The entrances to the “White House grounds have recently been closed from 2 to 4 o’clock each afternoon by order of the President, in order, as has been officially explained, to allow Baby Ruth and her nurse the freedom of the same for two hours each day. People have insisted on roaming over the campus at all hours, and have with equal pertinacity insisted on talking to the child and her nurse, kissing the baby, pressing her with unlimited quantities of peanuts and candy, until Mr. Cleveland deemed it necessary to re move the child or have the gates closed for a certain time so that his daughter could be given an airing in safety. In this connection it is recalled that Gen. Grant once ordered the gates closed so that the grounds and s lawn might be temporarily used as a pasture for a favorite pony that was indisposed. The public at that date complained loudly and bitterly, but the pony was allowed to graze at will until, one night, an indignant qjtizen poisoned the General’s pet. The next morning the hero of Appomattox realized that it was bad policy to oppose the will of a free people, the pony was buried and the gates were opened. It is hoped and believd that no such unpleasant occurrence will arise from the present order, as the gates are kept closed but two hours and are promptly opened at 4 p. m.

Her Mistake.

Detroit Free Press. “Well,” queried the Third-street woman as she opened the side door about, an inch and peered at the man on the steps. “You are making a sad mistake, ma'am,” he answered. “How so?” “Why, I’m not your husband, as has heen out on a spree all night and is just getting home to promise never to do the likes again, but a sober, respectable gentleman, who wants to know if you can spare him a cup of coffee and a crumb of bread to stay his stomach till the mayor invites him to dinner.”

“FAIR CANAAN.”

Grapes From Beyond the Brook of Eschol. Typical of t*»e Hopes and Prospects of the Gospel Plan-Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Dr. Talmage preached at Brook- - lyn last Sunday. Subject: “Grapes From Canaan,” and the text, Numbers xiii, 23, “And they came unto the brook of Eschol and cut down from thence a branch with one cl us ter of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff.” He said: The long trudge of the Iraelitos across the wilderness was almost ended. They had come to the borders of the promised land. Of the 600,000 adults who started from Egypt for Canaan, how many do you suppose got there? Five hundred thousand/-- Oh, no. Not 200,000, pot 100,000, nor fifty, nor twenty, nor ten, but only .two. men. Oh, it was a ruinous march that God’s people made, but their children were; they were on the inarch. and now that they had come up to the borders of the promised land they were very curious to know wha t kind of a place it was, and whether it would be safe to go over. So a scouting party is sent out to reconnoiter, and they examine the land, and they come back bringing specimens of its growth. Strabo states that in Bible times and in Bible lands there were grapevines so large that it took two men with outstretched ~ arms‘to reachround them, and he says there were clusters two cubics in length, or twice the length from the elbow to the tip of the long linger. And Achaicus. dwelling in those lands, tells us that during the time he was smitten with fever would slake his thirst for the whole day. But this morning I bring you a larger cluster from the heavenly Eschol—a cluster of hopes, a cluster of prospects, a cluster of Christian consolations, and" I am expecting that one taste of it will rouse up your appetite for the the heavenly Canaan. First, I console you with the divinely sanctioned idea that your departed friends are as much yours now as they ever were. I know you sometimes get the idea in your mind, when you have this kind of trouble, that yoiir friends are cut off from you and they are no longer yours. Oh, it is a consolation to feel that when men come and with solemn tread carry you out to your resting place they will open the gate through which some of your friends have already gone and through which many of your friends will follow. Sleeping under the same roof, at last sleeping under the same sod. The autumnal leaves that drift across your grave will drift across theirs, the bird songs that drop on their mound will drop on yours, and then in the starless winter nights, when the wind comes howling through the gorge, you will be company for each other. The. child close up to the bosom of its mother; the husband and wife remarried; on their lips the sacrament of-the dust.

Brothers and sisters who used in sport to fling themselves on the grass now" again reclining side by side in the grave, in flecks of sunlight sifting through the long, lithe’ willows. Then at the trumpet of the archangel to rise side by side, shaking themselves fi-om the dust of ages. The faces that were ghastly and fixed when you saw them last ail aflush with the light of in corruption. The father looking around on his children and saying, “Come, come, my darlings, this is the morning of the resurrection.” But I console you again with the fact of your present acquaintanceship and communication with vour departed friends. I have no sympathy, I need not say, with the ideas of modern spiritualism, but what I mean is the theory set forth by the apostle, when he says, “We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.” Justus in the ancient amphitheater there were 80,000 or 100, - 000 people looking down from the galleries upon the combatants in the center, so, says Paul, there is a great host of your friends in all the galleries of the skv looking down upon our earthly straggles. Perhaps during the last war you had a boy in the army, and you got a pass, and you went through the lines, and found him, and the regiment coming from your neighborhood you knew most of the boys there. One day you started for home. You said: “Well, now, have you any letters to send? Any message to send?” And they filled your pockets with letters and you started home. Arriving home the neighbors came in, and one said,

“Did you see my John?” and others, “Did you see George?” “Do you know anything about my Frank?” And then you brought out the letters: and gave them the messages of which you had been the bearer. Do you suppose that angels of God, coming down to this awful battlefield of sin and sorrow and death and meeting us and seeing us and finding out all about us, carry back no Message to the skies? You ask me a great many questions I cannot answer about this resurrection. You say, for instance, “If a man’s bpdy is ' constantly changing, and every seventh year he has an entirely new body, and he lives on to seventy years of age, and so has had ten different bodies, and at the hour of his death there is not a particle of flesh on him that was there in the days of his childhood—in tho resurrection which of the ten bodies will come up, or will they all rise?" • ‘ . You say, “Suppose a man dies, and his body is scattered in the dust,

and out of that dust vegetables grow, and men eat the vegetables, and ean nibals slay these men and eat them, anA cannibals fight with cannibals Until at last there shall lie 100 men who shall have within them some particles that started from the dead body first named, coming up through the vegetable through the first man who ate it, and through the cannibals who afterward ate him, and there be more than 100 men who have rights in the -particles of that body—in the resurrection how can they be assorted when these particles helnagtothemaU?'’ You say, “There is a missionary buried in Greenwood, and when he was in China he had his arm amputated—in the resurrection will that fragment of the body fly 10,000 miles to join the rest of the body-?” You sav, “Will it not be a very difficult thing for a spirit coming back in that- day to find the myriad particles of its own body when they may have been scattered by the winds or overlaid by whole generations of the dead —looking for the myriad particles of its own body, while there a thousand million other spirits doing the same thing, and all the assortment to be made within one day?” You say, “If a hundred and fifty men go into a place of evening en-, tertainment and leave their hats and ; overcoats in the tjall, when they come back it is almost impossible for them to get the right ones, or to get them without a great deal of perplexity, and yet you tell me that -myriads of spirits in the last day will come and find myriads of bodies. Have you any more questions to ask. any more difficulties to -any more mysteries? Bring them on! Against a whole regiment of skepticism I will march these two champions: “Marvel not at this, for the hour Is coining when all who are in their graves shall home forth.” “The Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” You sec I stick to these two passages. Who art thou, O fool, that thou repliest against God? Hath he promised, and shall he not do it? Hath he commanded, and shall he not bring it to pass? Have you not confidence in his omnipotence? If he could in the first place build my body, after it is torn down can he not build it again? Before the resurrection takes place everything will be silent. The mausoleums and the labyrinths silent. The graveyards silent, the cemetery dlent, save from the clashing of hoofs and the grinding of wheels as the last funeral procession comes in. No breath of air disturbing the dust where Pcrsepolis stood, and Thebes, and Babylon. No winking of the eyelids long closed in darkness. No stirring of the feet that once bounded, the hillside, . No opening of the hand that once plucked the flowers out of the edge of the wildwood. No clutching of swords by the men who went down when Persia battled and Rome fell. Silenee from ocean beach to mountain cliff, from river to river.

While I present these thoughts this morning does it not seem that heaven comes very near to us, as though our friends, whom we thought a great way off, are not in the distance, but close bv? You have sometimes come down to a river at nightfall and you have been surprised how easily you could hear voices across that river. You have shouted over to the other side of the river and they have shouted back. It is said that when George Whitefield preached in Third street, Philadelphia, one evening time, his-voice was heard clear across to the New Jersey shore. When I was a little while chaplain in the army, I remember how at eventide we could easily hear the voices of the pickets across the Potomac just when they were using ordinary tones. As we come to-day and stand by the river of Jordan that separates us from our friends who are gone it seems to me we stand on one bank and they stand on the other, and it is only a narrow stream, and our voices go, and their voices come. Hark! Hush! I hear distinctly what they say: “These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.” Still the voice comes aci'oss the water, and I hear: “We hunger no more; we thirst no more; neither shall the sun light on us, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne leads*us to living fountains of water, and God wipeth away all tears from our eyes.”

Pay of the President.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat, There is a general idea that the President’s salary of $50,000 a year is all that he receives, and that, when compared with the salaries paid the sovereigns of Europe, this sum is not enough. This is a mistake, In addition to his salary, the President receives $36,064 to pay the salaries of his clerks and subordinates. His private secretary has $3,250; his assistant secretary $2,250; the stenographer gets $1,200, the steward SI,BOO, each of the two doorkeepers, $1,200, while other employes are paid in proportion, down to the man who takes care of the fires, who receives $864. In addition, s£,ooo are allowed for incidentals, such as stationery and carpets, $12,500 for repairs and refurnishing, $2,500 for fuel, $4,000 for the green; house, $15,000 for the stable, gas and other incidentals. In all the President and his house cost the country over $125,000. It Isn't definitely known yet how fur the seal negotiations have got.

THE FAIR SEX.

Queen Margherita of Italy on tbe occasion of her silver wedding day received among other things 22,000 begging letters. v Probably the oldest illustrious pianist in the world is Mme. Clara Schumann, who is known abroad as the “queen of players." She has been before the public nearly as long as the biblically allotted lifetime, having made he” debut in Leipsic three score and five years ago, at the age of eight. Mrs. Lewis, the English woman who discovered the Syriac gospels, is mistress of ten languages. She began with Latin in her childhood, took up French, German and Italian and began Greek ten years ago. After the death of her husband she plunged again into the study of the dead languages, took up Greek and then went on to Syriac and Arabic. She discovered the gospels in the convent of St. Katherine, on Mount Sinai, to which she and her sister obtained admission. and where they were treated with all imaginable deference by the monks. a garden iiat. In the matter of headgear there is apparent, at times, an inclination to run to the highly picturesque, but the persistence with which the broad-brimmed sailor hat has held its place has really • quite disconcerted the summer girl. She has considerable courage, but she does not care to stand up like Arnold Winkleried, one against a thousand. For those longing for something pic-

turesque, the large white chip hat, trimmed with long white ostrich feathers has come in very opportunely. Gray hats in the same line are likewise very becoming, there being two long gray feathers fastened in front with a small white wing and a crystal buckle. Instead of the wing you may substitute a Dointed bow of gray velvet ribbon. The picture shows a very pretty garden hat. The trimming is of pleated crepe set off with lace, and surmounted by a twisted roll of the crepe with a crest of the same material ornamented with a sprig of rose. New honors have been heaped upon the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry. She has been admitted by the Archdeacon of Merioneth as church warden for the parish of Machynlleth. When Queen Victoria left Florence she rejoiced the heart of at least one woman. Lady Colnaghi, the wife of the British Consul, was presented by her with a bracelet bearing in blue enamel her initial and the motto “Honi soit qui mal y pense.” - The dinner party has been viewed from the ethical point by Lady Magpus in a recent article. She says that “the ideal dinner party, the one conducted on ethical principles, gives due thought to its dinner and due thought to its party,” and she brands as vulgar and pretentious the habit of. hiring people to entertain guests. A FRENCH TEA GOWN. A tea gown decidedly French in its combination of color has a foundation of sky-blue crepon, shot with mauve. The soft, loose front is of mauve peau de soi. At the waist it Is confined by a girdle of woven gilt.

Over the shoulders are wide mauve velvet epaulettes, which form a canopy for the puffed and fluted sleeves, the upper part of which is silk. When Queen Victoria makes a journev by rail she pays the companies at the rate of 7s 6d per mile for herself, besides first-class fare for every one else traveling in the royal train. The journey involves a temporary stoppage of traffic on the line, and perhaps a good deal of delay in goods traffic, but, reckoning the companies’ loss on this account, Her Majesty is certainly by no means an unprofitable passenger.

BRUIN AS A SEALER.

The White Bear’s Fiendish Instinct. James Carter in the New York Ledger, ’ Like produce -similar habits in men and animals. During the cold and darkness of the polar winter in Greenland there are no other substances than ice and snow that can be used as building materials and no possibility of making extended: journeys to procure better. Consequently the Esquimaux, or, as they are now called. Innuits, build, as is well known, their win- * ter habitations of ice and snow. The Greenland seal does the same, for the temperature of the Greenland winter is too severe for hejf unsheltered young. Breaking a hole through the snow-covered ice before it is too thick, the female seal digs out with her flipper a space sufficient for her purpose, a space which she forms into a dome-shaped apartment resembling the interior of an Innuit hut. Here the young seal is born, and here it rests upon its ice-shelf until the feeble arctic sun melts away the snow that shelters and protects it, after which it is old enough to take care of itself. One of the most incomprehensible circumstances connected with this seal nursery is the manner in which the mother is able to feed her baby. Diving through the hole, which she always keeps clear, breaking the new ice as soon as it forms, Ae travels for miles, and is not only able to return directly to the hole near which her young one awaits her, but catches fish in the utter darkness, below many feet of ice and snow, of the water in which she swims. How this is possible is an unsolved problem in natural history. Her nursery is well hidden. Abgve her stretch miles upon miles of untrodden snow that betrays no sign of her retreat, except a very small aperture, from which issues a thin and almost invisible stream of warm vapor, the breath of the seals. The unaided intelligence of man would be unable to discover a seal iglu, as the nursery of these animals are-called. The Innuits discover it by.means of their dogs; The white bear finds it out himself. When he encounters a “blow-hole,” or breath-ing-hole, he not only digs about it with all the might he has, but leaps up and down, using his ponderous weight to crush in the snow that roofs the seal’s iglu. Having effected an enterance, the savage housebreaker catches the baby seal, the mother easily escaping before he can get to her. He now commits a cruel deed —so barbarous and fiendish a stratagem it would seem that po animal but man could be guilty of it. Catching the helpless little seal baby by one flipper, he deliberately reaches down and plays it about in the water beneath the ice in order to tempt its mother within reach. The fisher is always successful. Drawn by maternal love and solicitude, the mother-seal rushes to the rescue of her offspring, the bear catches her with his disengaged claw, and gets a supply of meat that satisfies even his voracious appetite,.,, and enables him to live a while without food, for, with bears and Innuits in Greenland, it, is often a long time between meals. The Innuits themselves have learned this trick of the white bear.

BAITING THE MOTHER SEAL WITH HER YOUNG.

When a young seal is captured, a cord is attached to a hind flipper, and the little creature is let down through the ice, while the hunter watches the opening in the ice, ready to spear the mother as she appears to help her little one.

A Live Western Boy.

Texas Siftings. The teacher of a school in a western town had occasion to rebuke one of his pupils, little Tommy Roundup, for laziness and neglecting to learn his lessons. He said to Tommy: “If you don't learn your lessons better I’ll call on your mother and tell her what sort of a boy you are.” “I wish you would try it, Professor.” “You do?” “Yes; pa is awfully jealous. He is laying with a shotgun right now for a man who called on ma. I’ll tell him what you said about calling to see ma, and I reckon you had better go and buy a lot in "the cemetery, for pa is awful on the shoot.” Tommy has not yet told his pa, and he says he is not going to say a word about the matter as long as the Professor lets him do as he pleases in school and gives him a quarter every Saturday afternoon for candy.