Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. x - • GeoreE. Marshall. Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

The new excise law went into effect in South Carolina on the IstJ The amount of wine purchased for 1 sacramental purposes on the 30th of June is said to have been unparalleled in that State. Charity begins at home is practically illustrated by ex-Sen at or Ingalls. - He has dollar for an address delivered in Kansas, either political or literary, and says he never will. For all that, however, the prospects are that the verbose Senator will not soon represent that commonwealth in the halls of congress. Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, addressed the Sun day school children at Asbury Park, last week. In the course of his remarks he said that newspaper criticism seldom annoyed him, but he had serious objections to being accused of drunkenness, as had been recently done by some papers, when in fact he did not: .drin k at all and was strongly opposed to the liquor traffic. - A horse racing Duke and “Dookess” have been added to the list of notables who have come t > our shores in this Columbian year. They are the de Beauforts, and tKcy~arT rived at New York on the Ist. The Duke’s horses came in at the tail end of the procession at the Chicago races, but his ighness has cash that says they can lead at other trials that are- to take place in different parts of the country during the season. The directors of the Brooklyn bridge corporation have received an offer of $5,000 per year from an enterprising liquor dealer for the privilege of opening a saloon on the. bridge, but declined the proposition because they did not want the roadway blockaded by thirsty New Yorkers. This is a very uugentlemanly reflection on New York men,as it is notan established fact that they are any more given to intemperate habits than their Brooklyn brethren. Parisian dudes can give their American imitators a new point. Superlatively nice young men of that * gay capital now employ their surplus cash in having plaster casts of their legs construct®! for the purpose of keeping their trousers and underwear in proper shape. One young man is said to have sixty pairs of plaster counterfeits of his underpinnings standing around in a room especially devoted to that purpose. The effect is said to be startlingly uncanny. Pugilist Corbett advises Mr. Cleveland to run half a mile each dayy after which he should walk at least three miles with a blanket bound about the waist to make him perspire freely. As an additional flesh reducer he directs that the President perambulate the streets of Washington on a bicycle. In addition to the exercise the patient is to be limited to a strict diet and abstain from all liquids as far as possible. He guarantees that, if his advice is followed, Grover will soon be< the gamiest President that ever vetoed a bill. The sewer commissioner of St. Louis has recently been confronted with a condition of the underground channels in his charge that knocks but all of his previously conceived theories. A peculiar red gravel that has of late years been extensively used, on the thoroughfares of that city nas become a terror to his department because' of its being so largely composed of iron that, when ground up by the traffi of the streets, it becomes a powder that forms an adamantine cement when washed into the sewers by tbe rains. Huge piles collect in the arteries underlying the city that require the most strenuous exertions of men with sharp tools to remove. Ten thousand dollars is a large price for a handful of curled hair, yet that is the sum demanded by Mr. Arthur Massey from Moses King, of New York, for a slight souvenir which the said King plucked from the flowing beard of the aforesaid Massey during the progress of an animated argument over the possession of some photographs, taken by the said Massey for the aforesaid King. It all depend upop tbe locality whence ypu procure your su]> fdy of curled hair. £ ihattress man., ufaetured L ffWn i *wucli expensivtrcullings would comabigb) ang you don’t ba ve to Have that kind for a comfortable bed. If fence, people 1 fable to mi Men and uncontrollable, ebul it ions o! temper, and W destine Tor a Soft

bed, should procure, all the curled hair they are liable to need at the usual market rates before engaging in disputes with men whose flowing beards may tempt them to begin a collection of mattress material at such ruinous prices. The Edwin Booth, during the ■fast twenty years~oT his life, accumulated a fortune of nearly $700,000, all of his earnings previous to 1869 having been lost in the failure of the great theater which he endeavored to establish* in-New York, The- estate which he has left to his heirsconsists entirely of personal property. with the exception of a residence at Newport. This handsome return for a comparatively few years of professional effort has called attention to the thrifty habits of actors of great ability, which is in striking contrast to the profligacy which is characteristic of a majority of the common footlight favorites, whose mediocre talents often bring them very handsome incomes. The fact is recalled that Edwin Forrest and Charlotte Cushman both left very large fortunes, and Mr. Henry Irving, the eminent English tragedian. is also credited with being a wealthy man. This art of accumulation is rare among men of uncommon genius and ability, and very few w riters,’ no matter what their-abil-ity or distinction, have ever acquired a fortune from their literary productions. This is a very free country. The freedom of speech and action permitted to all, whether citizens or not, native or foreign bo,rn. is unknown in any other country on earth. It is a cardinal doctrine of our creed to allow this latitude of thought, expression and action in all things. Yet there is a point where liberty ceases to be a virtue, and where incendiary sentiment should not be allowed to insult the intelligence and patriotism of the great mass of our people who love their country and its flag. Socialism and anarchy have nothing in common with the aims and purposes of any free government, and when their advocates go to the length of publicly cursing a country and flag, whose benign blessings have insured to them a safe refuge from, in many cases, well merited punishment for crimes committed abroad, then if our laws can not reach them, our citizens will, at least, sympathize with and give their moral support to any man who. in the heat of passion, resents an insult to the stars and stripes as he would an assault upon bis own honor —by sturdy blows thaFarFacredit to his man - hood. Henep, it wlTr~be~axnffi<ult matter to obtain a jury that will punish John Schultze, of New York, who thus summarily dealt with one Frank Kraiger: of the same city, for cursing America and her starry banner. Mr. Kraiger died of the injuries received at the hands of the patriotic Schultze, as has been noted in our news columns, and there will be few who will not feel that his punishment, while severe, was well merited. / - - It is our aim to give our readers seasonable information at all times. In pursuance of this policy we note the departure of Lieutenant Peary for the Arctic regions in search of the North Pole.. Incoming steamers , arriving at New York on the 3d and 4th report encountering the most tremendous icebergs -ventable mountains of frigidity—on the trip across. In keeping with this cooling information we chronicle the arrival on one of these same steamers of the Governor of Siberia and his staff, who are making an American tour, and will visit the World's Fair. The assurance possessed by this official is in itself cool- very cool. He probably does not realize the detestation in which his government of that ill-famed and frigid region is held by the people of this country. Should he escape open insult at the hands of some hot-headed gathering of free American citizens before his tour is brought to a dose he will be fortunate This, however, is not germane to the object of this article, which primarily was to furnish cooling and soothing intelligence to our readers to thereby bet ter enable them to endure the heated term; to .hold out, in fact, the blessed assurance that there is ice and snow and frozen soil still in existence on this planet, and that in due course this seething, sweltering, sizzling, soul-destroying heat will puss away. '

A Deceptive Adage.

St, LouH djobe Democrat. The <rid adagfe. “a pint’s a pound the world around, ” js as untrue, as go»eral i>ayingFare apt to be. A pint of common coffee weighs twelve ounces; a pint of flour, one-naif a pound; pint of brown sugar, tbirteen Ouhc««; -pint of granulated, feurteep; a pint of chopped meat, ten, iri nOcase does a pint of anything exactly equal a pound, '.'l C j l

BUSINESS TRIALS,

And Di-inc- Consolation Fr Financial Ruin. The Desire for Rielles Laudable but Not All-Important -Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday. Subject: “Comfort for Business Men.” Text: “Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem.” He said: What an awful six wc n ks in commercial circles; - The crashing of banks from San Francisco to New York and from ocean to ocean. Some of the best men in the land have faltered; men, whose hearts are enlisted in every good work, and whose bands have blessed every great charity. The church of God can afford to extend to them her sympathies and plead before heaven with all availing prayer. The schools such men have established, the churches they have built, the asylums and beneficent institutions they have fostered, will be their eulogy long after their banking institutions are forgotten. Yet not only now in the time of financial disaster, but all through life, our active business people have a struggle, and I think it will be appropriate and useful for me to talk about their trials and try to offer some curative prescriptions. In the first place, I have to remark chat a great many of our - business men feel ruinous trials and temptations coming to them from small and limited capital in business. It is everywhere understood that it takes now three or four times as much to do business well as once it did. Once a few hundred dollars were turned into goods—the merchant would be his own store-sweeper, his own salesman, his own bookkeeper. He would manage all the affairs himself, and everything would be net profit. Wonderful changes have come. Costly apparatus, extensive advertising, exorbitant store rent, heavy taxation, expensive agencies, are only part of the demands made upon our commercial men. Arid when they have found themselves in iuch circumstances with small capital have sometimes been tempted to run against the rocks of moral and financial destruction. The small craft that could have stood the stream is put out beyond the lighthouse on .the great sea of speculation. Stocks are the dice with which he gambled. He bought tor a few dollars vast tracks of western lands. Some man at the Hast living on a fat homestead m eets the gambler of fortune and is persuaded to trade off his estate here for lots in a western city with large avenues and costly palaces and lake steamers smoking at the wharves and rail trains coming down with lightning Speed from every direction. There it is all on paper! I would not want to chain honest enterprise. I would not want to block up any of the avenues for honest accumulation that open up for young men. On the contrary. I would like to cheer them on and rejoice when they reach the goal, but when there are such multitudes of men to ruin for this life and the life tfyat is to come through wrong notions of what are lawful spheres of enterprise it is the duty of the ministers of religion and the friends-of all young men to utter a plain, emphatic, unmistakable protest. Again a great many of our business men are tempted to over anxiety and care. You know that nearly all commercial businesses are overdone. in this day. Smitten with the love of quick gain, our cities are crowded with men resolved to be rich at all hazards. They do not care how money comes. Our best merchants are thrown into competition with men of more means and less conscience, rind if an opportunity for accumulation be neglected one hour some on else picks it up. Men who are living on salaries or by the culture of the soil cannot understand the wear and tear of body and mind to which our merchants are subjected when they do not know but what their livelihood and their business honor are dependent upon the: uncertainties of the next hour. Oh, 1 wish I could to-day rub out some of these lines of care; that I could lift some of the burdens from my heart; that I could give relaxation to some of these worn muscles. It is time for you to begin to take it a little easier. Do your best and trust God for the rest. Do not fret. God manages all the affairs of your life and he manages them for the best. Consider the lilies— they always have robes. Behold the fowls of the air—they always have nests. The merchant comes home from the store. There had been great disaster there. He opened the front door and said, in the midst of his family circle: “I am ruined. Everything is gone. I am all ruined." His wife said, “I am left, 1 ’ and the little child threw up its hands and said, “Papa, I am here." The aged grandmother, seated in the room, said, “Then you have all the promises of God besides, John." And he burst into tears, and said: “God forgive me that I have been so ungrateful. I find I have a great many things left. God forgive me.” Again I remark that many of bur business men are tempted to neglect their home duties. »- A man has more responsibilities than those whkn are discharged by Euttmg competent, instructors over |s children and giving them a draw and music- teachffif. /The

physical culture of the ©hild will not be attended to unless the father iooks to it. He ffittStSOmetitnes lose his dignity. He must unlimber his. joints. He must .sometimes lead them out to their sports and- games. If you want to keep your children away from places of "sip, you can only do it by making your home attractive. You may preach sermons and advocate reforms and denounce wickedness, and yet your children will be captivated by the glittering saloon of sin unless you can make your home a brighter place than any other place on earth to them. ’ J 2 .._JL sympathize with the work being done, in many of our cities by which beautiful rooms are set apart by our Young Men’s Christian Association, and I pray God to prosper them in all things. But I tell you there is something back of that and before that. We need more happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian homes in America. Again, I remark that a great many of our business men are tempted to put the attainment of' money above the value of the soul. It is a grand thing to have plenty of money. The more you get of it the better, if it comes honestly and goes usefully. For the lack of it sickness dies without medicine, and hunger finds its coffin in the empty bread tray, and nakedness shivers for lack of clothes and fire. When I hear a man in canting tirade against money —a Christian man —as though it had no possible use on earth and he had no interest in it, I come to almost think thatathe heaven that would be appropriate for him would be an everlasting poor house! Have you ever ciphered out in the rule of loss and gain the sum, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?” However fine your apparel the wings of death will fluter it to rags. • But I must have a word with those who, during the present commercial calamities, have lost heavily or perhaps lost all their estate. If a man lose his property at thirty or forty years of age it is only a sharp discipline generally, by which later he coiries to larger success. It is all folly for a man to sit down in midlifediscouraged. The Marshals of Napoleon came to their commander and said: “Wo have lost the battle, and we are being cut to pieces.” Napoleon took his watch from his pocket and said: “It is only 2 o’clock in the -afternoon. You have lost that bat tie, but we have time enough to win another. Charge upon the foe!” Though the meridian of life has passed with you, and you have been routed in many a conflict, give not up in discouragement, There are victories yet for you to gain. But sometimes monetary disaster comes to a man when there is something in his age or something in his health or something in his surroundings which makes him know well that he will never get up again. Sons and daughters of God, children of an eternal and all loving Father, mourn not when your property goes. The world is yours, and life is yqurs, and death is yours, and immortality is yours, and thrones of imperial grandeur are yours, and rivers of gladness are yours, and shining mansions are yours, and God is yours. The eternal God has sworn it, and every time you doubt it you charge the King of heaven# and earth with perjury. Instead of complaining how hard ybu have it, go home, take up your bible full of promises, get down on your knees before God and thank him for what you have, instead of spending so mueh time in complaining a&out what you have not. Some of -you remember the shipwreck of the Central JWnerica. This noble steamer had, 1 think, about 500 passengers aboard. Suddenly the storm came, and the surges trampled the decks and swung into the hatches, and there went up a l hundred-voiced death shriek. The foam on the jaw of the wave. The pitching of the steamer as though it were leaping a mountain. The dismal flare of the signal rockets. The long cough of the steam pipes. The hiss of the extinguished furnaces. The walking of God on the wave! The steamer went not down without a struggle. As the passengers stationed themselves in rows to bail out the vessel hark to the thump of the buckets as men unused to toil, with blistered hands and strained muscle, tug for their lives. There is a sail seen against the sky. The flash of the distress gun sounded. Its voice is * heard not, for it is choked in the louder booming of the sea. A few passengers escape, but the steamer gave one great lurch and was gone! So there are some men who sail on prosperously in life. Alls well, all’s well. tJut at last some financial disaster comes—a euroclydon. Down they go to the bottom of this com mercial sea strewn with shattered hulks. But because your property goes, do not let your soul go. Though all else perish, save that. For I have to tell you of a more stupendous shipwreck than that which I have just mentioned. God launched this world 6,000 years ago. It has been going on under freight of mountains and immortals, but one day it will stagger at the cry of fire. The timbers of rock will burn, the mountains flame like masts and the clouds like sails in the judgment hurricane. Then God shall take th? passengers off the deck, and from the berths those who have long beep asleep in Jesus, and be will set them far beyond the read? of and peril. 1 But how many shall go down, thst will neyer be known until it shall be hritiouaced one. day in heaven, the shipwreck of a woridlj. 'u- swudiij

THE BREECHES BUOY.

An Efficient Aid no tbe Daring -Life Savers ot the New Jersey Coast, _ New York Sun, The sturdy surfmen of Long Beach, as they call the ribbon of sand south of Barnegat Inlet, separating the waters of the bay and the ocean, have made two gallant rescues in the past week with the Lyle gun and the breeches buoy. The opportunity to use these appliances is always welcomed, because it means a fight with the elements that stirs the blood and strains the muscle. Whenever the news that a ship is ashore is telephoned froin station to station over the beach wires, every surfman within twenty miles says envious things about the lucky patrolmen who are called out to make the rescue. The ordinary routine of the beach patrol is full ot hardship and monotonous in the extreme. A daring rescue makes talk for the rest of the winter.

IN THE BREECHES BUOY.

Considering the number of vessels which have to pass it, the New Jersey coast is the most dangerous on the continent, and many skips go ashore on the shelving sands there every winter. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, however, the surf will admit the launching of the lifeboats, and the surfmen bring ashore the shipwrecked in this way. It is only when a great storm is raging and the surf is so rough as to baffle the skillful oarsmen that the gun and breeches are resorted to. This does not happen very often. When the patroksees a vessel aground or in danger he hurries to the station and gives the alarm. The surfmen are out in jiffy. They always take all their apparatus so as to be ready for any emergency. If the lifeboat cannot be launched in the surf, they bring out the Lyle gun. This is a small brass cannon which has a projectile fitting over the barrel like a sheath over a sword. To the projectile is fastened one end of a stout cord, 'f he gun is aimed to throw the projectile over the ship and thus bring the cord within the reach of the men on the wreck. It seldom requires more than two shots to land the cord. The sailors then pull it in and get hold of the rope to which it is fastened. When the end of the rope is hauled aboard it is ; made fast to one of the masts. Meantime the surfmen are burying a sand anchor. This is a great square of planking, .whose surface grips the sand in which it is sunk. To it the shore end of the rope is securely fastened. Then comes the breeches buoy. This consists ,of a great ungainly pair of canvas trousers hung to a circular life preserver. It is suspended by stout ropes from a pulley which the surfmen quickly rig upon the rope connecting ship and shore in such a way that it moves freely back and forth. A guy line, one end of which was sent aboard the ffhip with the rope, is now fastened to the breeches buoy, and the surf - men pull on a line which starts the breeches buoy traveling seaward. As soon as it reaches the ship one of the shipwrecked gets into the pair of canvas breeches sticking a leg through each capacious hole, and grasping the life- preserver, which comes just under his armpits. He does upt need to be tied in, for his seat is secure. All being ready, the surfmen on shore began to haul in. The breeches buoy rolls rapidly shoreward, suspended from its hempen track. For most of the distance the man in the breeches is dangling just above the water. When he reaches the surf, though, he is bound to get a ducking. He holds his breath, takes a fresh hold on the life preserver, and in he goes. The! next minute he is on the beach, where a dozen strong hands reack out to pluck him out of his canvass breeches. The buoy is sent strait back for another, and so on until ‘all are rescued. A dozen men have been brought ashore in this way by a single breeches buoy in less than an hour. There have been many devices for rescuing the shipwrecked, including the life car with which the stations on our coast are provided, but no other appliance is of such tried utility as the breeahes buqy.

THE TROLLEY FOR CANALS.

The Idea to Be Tented In New York Thin Year. Baltimore SunThe Legislature of New York appropriated JiO,ooo to be used in experiments to test the practicability of applying the trolley system to moving canal boats. It is announced that the Superintendent df Public Works will shortly proceed to make the experiments. The matter is an interesting one in more places than lin New. York. The transportation of : Coal. Iron ore, and ..other heavy freights, When time .ja noh import*, ant, demands cheap rates.’ 411 In many

th© Kwuntpy industries are dependent ■onrateo which will enable them to compete with others more favorablygituated. The amount of freighting of a higher or moreprofitable class has so greatly increased Within recent years that many of the principal railroads have not sufficient facilities for the heavy freight at the low rates which competition demands. If the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, for instance, would put the freight on coal at anything like what it was twenty-five years ago, it would close every mine in Maryland. If the tariff on bituminous coal should be removed or greatly reduced, it would be essential to the prosperity of the George’s* Creek region to find .some cheaper method of transportation to the seaboard than any now existing. It is possible that the trolley system may be the solution of the great problem. It is true that some practical men declare the scheme chimerical. They contend that the proper way to deal with the Erie canal is to increase the depth to nine feet and use steam. No great improvement or invention in all probr bilitv has ever been made that some practical or scientific man has not declared it to be impracticable. A few years ago, before the Great Western made its pioneer trip, Prof. of Yale College, demonstrated by mathematical calculation that no vessel could carry sufficient coal to propel it across the Atlantic. Other instances of this charactei’ will recur to all. Gov. Flower is decidedly of opinion that the application of the trolley to the Erie canal will produce great results. He estimates that it will require $1,000,000; to equip the canal with the electric system, and that it will cost from $l5O to S2OO to provide each boat with a dynamo. He estimates that it would require a power house at intervals of thirty miles, or twelve in all, and that there is ample water power to operate them. It now qosts the boatmen an average, he says, of $2 a day for their motive power, and he thinks that this can be reduced by the trolley to 60 cents. He also estimates that an annual saving of SBOO,OOO would be effected by no longer having the towpath to keep in repair. The speed of boats, the Governor thinks, can be increased from five to six miles per hour. In this, however, he would probably be disappointed, as any considerable increase of speed would wash thebankssaway. Everything which can be done with the trolley on the Erie canal can be done, on the Chesapeake & Ohio. The length of our canal is about half that of the Erie, and if Gov. Flower’s figures are correct it would take about $500,060 for the equipment. Water power is convenient and abundant, and a power house at Great Falls might not only supply the canal with the required electric current, but aprofit might be made by supplying Washington. At other points along the line of the canal the water which falls over the dams ■ won’t propel the machinery; in some places, as at Harper’s Ferry, the power is magnificent. ‘

ATTACKED BY A WHALE.

A Sealing Schooner Meets With a Thrilling Experience. One Of "the most remarkable adventures with whales ever recorded was experienced by a sealing schooner off the coast of Japan not long ago. The vessel, the Mermaid from Victoria, B. C., was sailing under light canvas one day, the weather being rough. when the man at look>out caught sight of an immense whale lying asleep in the path of the vessel. Not wishing to disturb the big fellow in his slumbers, the schooner was steered to one side;

THE WHALE SUNK OUT OF SIGHT.

but his whaleship had been awakened and was mad at the interruption of his nap. He made for the vessel, which, however, managed to keep out of his way for some time. Finally he came for her head on and there was no avoiding the attack. The seamen were frightened nearly out of their wits when ‘the monster landed a heavy blow with his tail against the stem, breaking it and carrying away all the forward , rigging, the stem itsejf hanging by a few splinters. Bnt the vessel was not the only sufferer. Mr. Whale acted as if he was pretty badly hurt himself, and at once retired from the scene by sinking below the surface. No more was seen of, him by the crew. The schooner Was sailed as rapidly as possible to a Japanese port where she was repaired.

Hardly What She Meant.

Texas Sifting!'. * ' Edith—What a -tones mie spot a social gathering is where one is such a stranger! ~ . Harold—lt is. iudeep, ’pon honor, doncher know. Edith —I don’t know what I should have done but You are the oasis of the evening’s desert. Harold—Really I;jsr beholden to you, Miss Edith. Edith—Yes, dear Hfrcold, you are the evening’s oasis—the one green spot in all the drcpryyraste.