Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

The salmon trust is the latest combination or conspiracy to divert unfair profits from the pockets of the consumer to the safety deposit vaults of capitalists. The new organization will control the entire output of the Columbia river canneries. -The output will be limited to 465,000 cans annually and prices will be advanced. Vice-President Stevenson has received the degree of L. L. D. from the college at Danville. ’Ey., of which he is a graduate. It is said that this honor will be of benefit to Mr. Stevenson in the discharge of his duties as presiding officer of the Senate, but it is difficult to sec how so common a title can be of any especial benefit to any man, however gratifying it may be to his vanity. Oh, where are we at, with Grover so fat, and Adlai a doctor of laws, with silver so plenty and money so scanty that traffic has come to a pause? With banks without cash and things going to smash, and wheat that is cheaper than corn, men are prone to be rash and drink sour mash and wish they had never been born. But the clouds will soon clear and the mist disappear from the view that seems doubtful and dim, and sD>n with a roar tide will turn to the shore, so hasten to ‘‘get in the swim."

“Necessity is the mother of invention” is an old adage that has seldom had so peculiar an illustration as the very novel method of changing bank bills that has long been in vogue in Bolivia. Years ago when bank notes were first issued fractional currency was scarce and it became a recognized custom to tear up the larger notes in order to make change. To such an extent has this practice been carried tha t a perfect bank note of any denomination is a rarity in that country. A decree, however, has been issued that after June 30, of this year, mutilated notes will not be redeemed. Holders of notes were warned by legal advertisement to present their old and mutilated bills for redemption before that date, failing in which they must stand the loss. A dairyman near New York was for a long time annoyed by his cows returning from pasture at night with full stomachs and empty udders. Strong suspicions were aroused that certain families in the neighborhood were fattening at the dairyman’s expense, but careful watching failed to detect the offender. Matters became desperate. The profits of the dairy went glimmering into the unknown like deposits in a Dwiggins bank. Standing recently in a despondent mood by the side of a mill race that ran through the farm, the dairyman saw his favorite cow enter the water Until it touched her body. After cooling off the animal emerged from the stream with a fifteen-pound carp hanging to her ~ udder. The fish had absorbed every drop of milk. The mystery was explained.

The delightful Frenchmen are still quarreling about the Panama scandal. Longwinded debates occupy the time of the Deputies, and members arise and frantically demand that the Chamber vindicate their injured honor. Mock duels are of frequent occurrence. M. Clemencau is ready to fight all comers and guarantee the personal safety of the combatants and spectators. Dr. Herz continues too sick to be extradited and certificates to that effect have been made by his physicians in London. In the meantime the promincnt men who were con vic ted and sentenced to imprisonment “ have been released on technicalities practically without prejudice. So the great farce goes on and no man ean safely predict the end. The French are very “funny.” A determined and organized effort has been inaugurated in England to protect and promote the rural simplicity of nature’s works, in country—and architectural works of note in town —on rivers or mountains, where the same have been, or are threatened with, the vandal desecra-. tions of enterprising, advertisers. The patent medicine advertiser has become a pest in that country, and even in Ireland the lakes ides, and the cliffs and glens of Scotland and Wales, are disfigured with horrible daubs and prints setting forth the virtues of medicines, corn plasters apd corsets. Some of the most famousarid beautiful scenery in the world is thus disfigured, and it has unsightly evidences of the ill-advised i. ' ■ «

enterprise of the men whose ideas are so far beneath a correct ’ conception of what is proper and fitting that they would paste a handbill on the dome of St. Paul’s or place a floating signboard in famed Loch Lomond. An Indianapolis Shylock who does business under the pseudonym of Chas. G. Ludwig, was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment and fined SSO for his share in an outrageous transaction beside which highway robbery is chivalrous and respectable. A lady borrowed $lO from this philanthropist (?)' giving a chattel mortgage as security. After paying S3O in interest, Ludwig demanded ,2*2 more in order to square the account, sending her a threatening letter to enforce payment. The lady caused his arrest for sending the threatening letter, not having any legal recourse for her financial injurthe shark’s victims having in the past submitted quietly, that he was overcome and begged for mercy. The court remitted the jail sentence. A London cablegram to the New York World brings the depressing intelligence that the ’‘Blarney stone" now on exhibition at Chicago is a ‘•fake.” The English are actually laughing at bur simplicity. No one believed the American people could be so easily fooled. Our consul at Queenstown made a journey to Blarney’ Castle for the express purpose of satisfying himself, and found the old stone in the exact spot where it has reposed for centuries. This is serious and perhaps sad, and will have a. tendency to cast discredit on all foreign exhibits. They will be telling us next that the Duke of Veragua and the Princess Eulalie were “bogus.’’ Relics, and specimens of the nobility, are worse than useless if not genuine, and the substitution of imitation articles, unless it is so stated and understood, is an insult to the popular intelligence. “Honesty is the best policy.” in this as in other matters.

There is something wrong in a system of jurisprudence that permits the arrest of a man on a charge of murder on the most flimsy evidence and holds him a prisoner for weeks without trial and then tells him to go, as there is no evidence against him. The law grants a man no remedy for such an outrage, or at least if there is it is so difficult to get at that a poor man is practically without recourse. Samuel Guinn, temporarily a visitor a 4 Haughville, was arrested and incarcerated in the Marion county jail for the alleged murder oFJohn Tarpey. Notwithstanding his protestations of innocence and a demand for trial he was kept locked up for two weeks, and was then kindly permitted to go, the theory of the police having been knocked out by the voluntary evidence of a woman implicating a burglar in the Indianapolis city hospital, who Subsequently made a full confession. Officers who allow themselves to commit such outrages should be rigorously dealt with, and their victims should have some recourse for the indignities which they may suffer from the over zealous efforts of amateur detectives.

Riley will bring out some poems in the fall with the title of “Poems at Home." The town council of Gueda Springs, Kan., is composed entirely of married women, and the Mayor is also a woman. Thomas Nelson Page and bride will make their winter home in Washington, but will ehoo+e a place equally convenient to Washington and Richmond for their permanent abiding place. The Emperor of Russia has very unexpectedly announced his intention of sending the czarewitch to represent the imperial family at the English Royal wedding, having probably been induced to do so by nearing that. Prince Henry of Prussia was to attend on the part of Emperor William. Luke Smith, of A< to i, Mass., who took a prominent pari in the recent Bunker Hill celebration in Boston, is said to be the only man living whose father fought at Bunker Hilu Mr. Smith, over eighty years old, was also one of the first to volunteer in 1861. Quauah Parker, the old chief of the Comanches, brought his newest squaw into Vernon, Texas, the other day to have her photograph taken. .The redoubtable chief has become highly eivilized. though in a Mormon way, since he buried the tomahawk. He has seven wives, lives in a fine house, drives a horse and carriage and eats the best food the market provides. He is a tall and bony but not unhandsome man.