Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gkokk E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

A' i.rf v.i touas i» reported from Maine. Is it possible that the Maine liquor law is a failure? The tall lighthouse on Lon# Island, near Shinnecock Bay, was recently struck by lightning, and the keeper's rooms were badly demoralized. ; : ■ " -T7'

New York City is continually agitated over the alleged pollution of its Croton water supply, and the leading journals wage a vigorous crusade against the evil.

Frenchmen, having become tired of fighting duels that result in the destruction of gun-powder only, ex - cept where an occasional bystander stops a bullet, by accident, are now talking of a resumption of work on the Panama canthe coming winter, and recent dispatches state that there is already 50,000,000 francs subscribed for that purpose.

The New York Tribune defies the Colorado silver agitators who have been proposing to fight till blood shall rise to the horses bridles, and asserts that New York State tJO»ld place in the field and maintain more armed men than all the silverproducing States combined. This information is no doubt correct but entirely unnecessary. There, is no probability that there will be a civil war in this country again.

The Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory have a very simple way of dispensing justice when it becomes necessary to execute the death pen alty! Two men hold the criminal’s hands, while the sheriff, charged with the duty of executioner, knee s five paces in front, aims a rifle, at a bit of white paper pinned over the victim’s heart, and shoots him dead without further ceremony. All things considered, tho proceeding is

an improvement on the usual hanging, accompanied, as it often is, with bungling machinery and spectacles of the most revolting cruelty and horror. Mr. C. W. Harrington writes to the New York Sun from Olivet, Carrpll county, Arkansas, stating that there are thousands and perhaps millions of acres of good land subject to entry under the homestead act in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri within 150 miles of St. Louis. He urges people desiring comfortable homes and independent incomes to investigate the healthful and undeveloped country so long neglected and so easily accessible. Lands through the southern tier of Missouri counties are rated at from $2.50 to $7 per acre in settled communities much nearer to markets than the homestead lands, and can be bought on favorable terms. There is a government land office at Harrison r Ark. -----—- ■ * 1 rThe modern innovation of Safety Deposit vaults in our large cities is believed to be very largely responsible for the financial stringency which has gradually throttled the current of business transactions. These Safety Deposits, containing private apartments which any one can rent, afford a secure hiding place for untold wealth that not only escapes the assessor, and thereby fails to contribute its due proportion to the support of the government and the maintuinance of civilized society that rendered its accumulation possible, but currency in large sums is thus withdrawn from the channels of commerce and thus inflicts a two-fold injury to the community that protects and Cherishes the fortunate owners. The Safety Deposit is in some respects a financial heaven, for treasure placed within its ponderous and protecting walls is in a refuge where “neither moth nor rust corrupt nor thieves (and bank cashiers) break through and steal.’ 1 I Cabi e dispatches from Paris state that riots in that city have largely been caused by the excessive heat, and that all of the historic outbreaks of the past have occurred during extremely heated terms. The high temperature, it is alleged, drives the lower classes to a desperate frenzy that is unknown when the thermometer acts in a reasonable manner. The populace confined to the squalor of heated streets, without possible relief, become temporarily madmen to wliom consequences—life or death-—are of little moment, and they fight and kill from sheer wantonness —without reason and with no real grievance that is within the power of humcr. authority to remedy or set right. Country people will find it difficult to believe this, but fttdfaf.of ounAmorlcau <*s* who

end the streets like so many ovens for weeks at a time,, that leave people limp, panting, damp, unpleasant" wrecks of their former selves, can realize that a very slight increase o' misery, squalor and discomfor’ temporarily turn them from peaceable citizens into flamingincen diaries or organized mobs. Lightning rod peddlers continu; to make forays upon the rural popu lation in various parts of the country, and continue to call down upon their class the maledictions of numerous victims of their treacherous wiles r - There seems to be no safeguard from the ravages of these pestiferous vermin except to submit to an attack, pay the bill and acquire the rod and the experience necessary to insure immunity from future attacks. Like victims of smallpox and some other diseases, persons seldom sutler a second attack, one siege being an effective prophylactic for all time. Our advice, therefore, would be to all householders in the unprotected districts to buy a lightning rod at once, on the best possible terms, for if it is not. a safeguard against the thunderbolts of heaven, it will at least act as a protection against the emissaries of the lower regions in the guise of rod peddlers, who annually prowl about, seeking whom they may devour. Investigations conducted by a correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean seem to establish the innocence of Seay J. Miller, the negro lynched at Bard well, Ky., for the outrage and murder of the Ray sisters near that place on the sth of July. The lynching was accompanied by extreme brutality, Miller being hung to a telegraph pole by a log chain, after being elevated on a forked stick, and then let fall to break his neck, which was done at the first drop. The crazy mob fired numberless shots into the insensible body, and the toes were cut off, after which the body was burned on a pile of timber collected for that purpose. All efforts to induce Miller to confess failed, and it is the solemn belief of many of the best eitizens of Bardw r ell that an innocent man was sacrificed to appease the infuriated mob that demanded a sacrifice for the atrocious crime that had been committed in their midst. Such occurrences are not calculated to give thinking people an increased respect for American civilization, Savages could do no worse, Lynch law is. fast becoming a reproach to American society, and is indefensible even in the most aggravated cases, where the guilt of the criminal is already established beyond a doubt.

PEOPLE

Justice Field is the only supreme justice remaining who sat in the famous electoral commission. o' *s> Prof. C. K. Jenness, of the Lei and Stanford University, the sociologist,• in order to more thoroughly familiarize himself with tramp life, dressed himself as a tramp and lived among the profession. He was, however, q uickly- detected hnxT forced out of the ranks of the fraternity. The oldest officer in the French army is General Mellinet; he is ninety-five years of age. The officers of the garrison of Nantes, where he resides, visited him the other day in a body, and gave him an ovation. He received the grand cross of the Legion of Honor after the battle of Magenta.

Mr. Selons, the famous traveler, said in a peeent lecture that during his twenty years’ traveling in South Africa with a few unarmed followers he was only once attacked by the na tives. This was in. 1888, when in the dead of night an attack was made on his camp by the Mashukulumbwe. who were incited to the * attack by some rebel Barotse.

President Cleveland's new catboat will be finished for him before long, and will be sent to Buzzard’s Bay, where the President is eagerly awaiting it. The new catboat will be finished in quartered oak throughout. There will be plenty of brass trimmings, and everything will bt bright and attractive, yet very practical and serviceable. There will be a small cabin. The length of the bout over ail will be 18 feet 6 inches. Its water line will be l4feet 4 inches, and it will have a beam of 8 feet 6 inches. Its rigging will be that of the ideal catboat type. The mast will be Its feet high. The boom will be 20 feet long, and the gaff 12 feet, whir-’- will allow 27 feet for the outsid( Ic gth.

Tlfci heroic conduct of a young negro named Basil Lockwood, the day of the Ford Theater disaster, has been remembered by the gift tQ him of a handsome watch, suitably inscribed. This man, passing along at the moment of the horror, ran and brought a ladder, and, climbing up, held the ladder horizontally for persons to escape out of the windows of the ruined building. The ladder being too short, Lockwood, who is a powerful man,’ fastened his feet in it by some means and bore on the strength of his legs the weight of several persons, who one by one crawled out of the window upon the

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS.

Warning to the Rash—Suggestions to Parents. P»thetlc Story of .Jephthah and HU , Daughter—'Training In Childhood. Dr. Talmage, who is now on a vacation tour in the West, chose for a topic, last Sunday morning, “Children’s Rights.” the text being. Judges xi, 3t>—“My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me accordingly..to that which' hath proceeded out of thy mouth.” He said: Jephthah was a freebooter. Early urned out from a home where he

ught to have been cared for, heebnsorted with rough men and went orth to earn his living as best he ■ould. In those times it was considered right for a man to go out on in- . lependent military expeditions, lephthah was a good man according to the light of his dark age, but Jirough a wandering and a predatory life he became reckless and pre r ffpitate. The grace of God changes i man’s heart, but never reverses nis natural temperament. The Israelites wanted the Ammontes driven out of their country, so hey sent a delegation to Jephthah, isking him to become eommander-in-hief of all the forces. He might -ave said,- “You drove me out .vhen you had no use for me, but low you are in trouble, you want me jack.” But he did not say that. He takes command of the army, sends nessengers to the Ammonites to tell them to vacate the country, and getting no favorable response narshals his troops for battle. Before going out to the war Jephthah makes a very solemn vow that if ever the Lord will give him the on his return home Whatsoever first comes out of his loorway he will offer in sacrifice as a burnt offering. The battle 'pens. It was no skirmishing on the edges of danger, no unlimbering if batteries twro miles away, but the hurling of men on the. ” point of swords and spears until the ground could no more drink the blood, and the horses reared to leap over the ole of bodies of the slain. In those >H times opposing forces would fight antil their swords were broken, and then each one would throttle his man anti! both fell', teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death stare to death stare, until the plain was one tumbled mass of corpses from which the last trace >f manhood had been dashed out.

Jephthah wins the day. Twenty cities lav captured at his feet. Sound the victory all through the mountains of Gilebd! Let the trumpeters call up the survivors! Homeward to your wives and children! HomeWard with your glittering treasures! Homeward to have the applause of an admiring nation! Build triumphal arches! Swing out flags . all over Mizpeh! Open all your doors to receive the captured treasures! Through every hall spread the banquet! Pile up the vivands! Fill high the tankards! Tie nation is redeemed, the invaders are routed, and the national honor is vindicated!

Huzza for Jephthah,the eonquerer! lephthah, seated on a prancing steed advances amid acclaiming multitudes, but his eye is not on the excited populace, Remembering that he had made a solemn vow that, returning, from victorious battle, whatsoever first came out of the doorway of his home, that should be sacrificed as a burnt offering, he has bis anxious look upon the door. 1 wonder what spotless lamb, what brace of doves will be thrown upon the fires of the burnt offering. Oh, horrors! Paleness ofdeath blanches his cheek. Dispair seizes his heart. His daughter, his only child, rushes out the doorway to throw herself iu her father’s arms and shower upon him more kisses than there were wounds on his breast or dents on his shield. All the triimphal splendor vanishes. Holding back his child from his heaving breast and pushing the locks back from the fair brow and looking into the eyes of inextinguishable affeetiou. with choked utterance, lie says: “Would God I lay stark on the bloody plain! My daughter, my only child, joy of my home, life of my life, thou "art the sacrifice!”

The whole matter was explained to her. This was no whining, hollow hearted girl into whose eyes the father looked. All the glory of sword and shield vanished in the presence of that girl. There may have been a tremor of the lip as a rose leaf trembles in the sough of the south wind. There may have been the starting of a tear like a raindrop shook from the anther of a water lily, but with a self Sacrifice that man may not reach and only woman's heart can compass she sur : renders herself to fire and to death. She cries out. in the words of my text, “My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lo % rd, do unto me whats ever hath proceeded from thy mouth.”

She bows to the knife, and the blood, which so often at the father’s voice bad rushed to the crimson cheek, smokes in the fires of the burnt offering. No one can tell us her name. There is no need that we know her name. The garlands that M .zpeh twisted for Jephtha the warrior bad gone into the dust, but all iges ai»c twisting this girl’s chaplet, ft is well that her name came not to as, for no one can wear it. They may take the name of Deborah or Abigail or Miriam but no one in all the ages can have the title of this daughter of sacrifice. « Of course tlus o*eH„, «. nut

pleasant to the Lord, but before you hurl your denunciations at Jephthah’s cruelty remember that in olden times when “vows were made men thought that they must execute them, perform them, whether they were wicked or good. There were two wrong things atbout Jephthah s vows. First, he ought never to have made it. Next, having made it, it avere better broken than kept. But do not take on pretentious airs and say, “I could not have done as Jephthah did.” If today you were standing on the banks of the (ranges, and you had been born in India, vou

might have been throwing your children to the crocodiles. It is not hut because"”ve have more gospel light. Now, I make very practical use of this question when I tell you that the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter was a type of the physical, mental and spiritual sacrifice of 10,000 children in this day. There are parents all unwittingly bringing to bear upon their children a class of influences which will as certainly ruin them as khife and torch destroyed Jephthah’s daughter. While I speak, the whole nation, without emotion and without shame, looks upon the stupendous sacrifice. In the first place I remark that much of the system of education in our days is a system of sacrifice. When children spend six or seven hours a day in school and then must spend two or three hours in preparation for school the next day, will you tell me how much time they will have for sunshine and fresh air and the obtaining of that exuberance which is necessary for the duties of coming life? No one can feel more thankful than I do for the advancement of common- school education. The printing of books appropriate for schools, the multiplication -of philosophical apparatus, the establishment of normal schools, which provide our children teachers of largest calibre, are themes on which every philanthropist ought to be congratulated. But this herding of great multitudes of children in :11-ventil-ated school rooms and poorly equipped halls of instruction is making many of the places of knowledge in this country huge holocausts. Politics in many of the cities gets into educational affairs, and while the two political parties are scrabbling for the honors Jephthah’s daughter perishes. It is so mueh so that there are many schools in the country to-day which are preparing tens of thousands of invalid men and women for the future, so that in ftiany places by the time the child’s education is finished the child is finished! In many places in many cities of the country there are large appropriations for everything else, and cheerful appropriations, but as soon as the appropriation is to be made for the educational or the moral interest of the city we are struck through with an economy that is well nigh the death of us. In connection with this I might mention what I call the cramming system of the common schools and many of the academies. Children of delicate brain compelled to tasks that might appall a mature intellect; children going down to school with a strap of books half as high as themselves. The fact is, in some of the cities parents do not allow their children to graduate, for the simple reason, they say, “We can not afford to allow our children’s health to be destroyed in order that they may gather the honors pf an institution.” Tens of thousands of children educated into imbecility. So connected with literary establishments there

ought to be asylums for the wrecked. It is push, and crowd and cram, and stuff and jam until the child’s intellect is bewildered; and the memory is wrecked, and the health gone. There are children turned out from the schools who were once full of romping and laughter and had cheeks crimson with health who are now turned out in the afternoon, pale faced, irritated, asthVnatic, old before their time. It is one of the saddest sights on earth—an old manish boy or an old womanish girl. Girls ten years .of age studying algebra! Boys twelve, years of age. racking their brain over trigonometry! Children unacquainted with their mother tongue crying over their Latin, French and German lessons! All the vivacity of \their na ture beaten out of them by the heavy beetle of a Greek lexicon! And you doctor them for this, and you give them a little medicine for that, and you wonder what is the matter with them. I will tell you what is the matter with them. They are finishing their education! In ray parish in Philadelphia a little child was so pushed at school that she was thrown into a fever, and in her dying delirium all night long she was trying to recite the multiplication table. In my boyhood I remember that in our class at school there-was one lad who knew more than all the rest of us put together. If we were fast in our arithmetic, he extricated us. When we stood up for spelling he was at the head of the class. Visitors came to his father’s house, and he was almost always brought in as a prodigy. At eighteen years of age he was an idiot. He lived ten years an idot, not knowing his right hand from his left or day from night. T ( he parents and the teachers made him an idiot. You may flatter your pride by forcing your children to know more than other children, but you are making a sacraflce of that child if by additions to its intelligence you are making* a subtraction fronMts f uture.

their children by putting tuem into the arms of an idol which thrust forth its hand._ The child was put • into the arms of the idol, and no sooner touched the arms than it dropped into the ' fire. But it was the art of the mothers to keep the children smiling and laughing until the moment they died. There may Se & fascine tion and hilarity about the styles of education of which I am speaking, but it is only laughter at the moment of sacrifice. Would God there were only one Jephthah’s daughter! _.

Again, there are many parents who are sacrificing their children with wrong systems of discipline—too great rigor, ortoo great leniency There are children in families who rule the household. They come to the authority., The high chair in which the infant sits is the throne and the rattle is the scepter, and the other children make up the parliament where father and mother have no vote. Such children come up to be miscreants. There is no chance in this world for a chijd that has never learned to mind. Such people become the botheration of the cnurch of God and the pest of the world. Children that do not learn to obey human authority are unwilling to learn to obey divine authority. Children will* not respect parents whose authority they do not respect. Who are these young men that swagger through the street, with their thumbs in their vest, talking about their father as “the old man.” “the governor,” “the squire,” “the old chap,” or their mother as “the old woman?” They are those who in youth, in childhood, never learned .to respect authority. Eli, having heard that his sons died in their wickedness, fell over backward and broke his neck and died. Well he might. what is life to a father whose sons are debauched? The dust of the valley is pleasant to his taste, and the driving rains that drip through the roof of the sepulcher are sweeter than the wines of Helbon. But, on the other hand, too great rigor must be avoided. It is a sad thing when domestic government becomes cold military despotism. Trappers on the prairie fight fire with fire, but you cannot successfully fight your child’s bad temper with your own bad temper. We must not be too minute in our inspection. We cannot expect our children to be perfect. We must not see everything. Since we have two or three faults of our own, we ougnt not be too rough when we discover that our chilcreu have as many. If tradition be true, when we were children we were not all little Samuels, and our parents were not fearful lest they could uot raise us because of premature goodness. You can not scold or pound your children into nobility of character. The bloom of a child’s heart can never be seen under a cold drizzle. Above all, avoid fretting and scolding in the household. Better than ten years of fretting at your children is one good, round, old-fashioned application of the slipper! That minister of the gospel of whom we read in the newspapers that he whipped his child to death because he would not say his prayers will never come to canonization. The arithmetics can not calculate how many thousands of children have been ruined forever either through too great rigor or too great leniency. The heavens and the earth are tilled with the groans of the sacrificed. In this Important matter seek' 'Divine cUrection,'OTather,h.Q. mother. Some one asked the mother of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield if she was not proud to have three such eminent sons, and all of -them

so good. “No,” she said, “It is nothing to be proud of, but something for which to be very grateful.” Further on thousands and tens of thousands of the daughters of America are sacrificed to worldliness. They are taught to be in sympathy with all the artificialities of society. They are inducted to all the hallowness of what is called fashionable life. They are taught to believe that history is dry. but 50-cent stories of adventurous love are delicious. With capacity that might have rivaled a Florence Nightingale in heavenly ministries or made the father’s house glad with filial or sisterly demeanor, their life is a” waste, their beauty a curse, their eternity a demolition.* I congratulate all parents who are doing their best to keep their children away from the altar of sacrifice. Your prayers are going to be answered. Your children may wander away from God but they will come 1 back again. A voice comes from the throue to-day encouraging you. “I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.” And though when you lay your head in death there may be some 1 wanderer of the family far away from God. and you may be twenty years in heaven before salvation shall come to his heart, he will be brought into the kingdom, and before the throne of God you will rejoice that you were faithful. Come at last, although so long postponed 1 his coming. Come at ast ‘

PORTUGUESE PROVERBS.

Philadelphia Call. Everything white isn’t flour. Four eyes see more than two. A man is known by his laugh. - Love is work, not sweet words. A wrong confessed is half forgiven. You can’t make a dart of a pig’s tail. ’ •• - - - A scalded cat is afraid of cold water. The love of a boy is water in a

IN MEMORIAM.

Carroll County Unveils a Beautiful Memorial to Departed Heroes. Tha Little Wabmh City a Blaze WHk Glory and Patriotism, Thursday was a day that will be historic In Delphi and Carroll connty. Before daylight the crowd began to arrive for the unveiling of the Soldiers Monument. The streets of tho little city were densely packed, and a conservative estimate places the number of visitors at 13,OCO. G. A. K. posts from Logansport, Lafayette, Erankfork Bring—hurst, Pittsburg, Flora, Burlington and other places turned out large numbers of the survivors of the great army that saved the Nation’s life to do honor to the memory of their comrades who laid down their lives in that great struggle or have slqce passed away. They

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came with banners flying and'bands playing, and were cordially received by the poDulace of the city and surrounding country. Gen. Wm. Gibson, of Ohio, was the orator of the day. Gen. M. D. Manson, Gov. Matthews and many distinguished soldiers and citizens were in attendance. A magnificent parade was conducted by A. B.Crampton, grand marshal, with clock-work precision, but it was so unexpectedly large that the route had to be changed to keep it within the city limits. The unveiling exorcises took place at 1 p. m. and were conducted by State Commander Johnson and staff. The cord holding the bunting enshrouding the monument was pulled by Miss Min* Crarapton.the bands struck up “America!” the artillery boomed, and the assembled thousands sent up caecr after cheer. Governor Matthews then delivered address, and was -followed by General Gibson in a splendid'-ora-tion. The monument is located in the southeast corner of tho square. It is constructed of Vermont granite, and is a beautiful and artistic piece of work. It stands fifty-one feet high and is surmounted by a color-bearer of heroic size in bronze. It was built by A. A. McKain, of Indianapolis, at a cost of *12,000.

BATTLE WITH TRAMPS.

No LiH titan Thirty or Them Take I'c» nation of an E. & T. H. Train. About thirty tramps boarded a northbound freight train on tho Evansville & Terre Haute railroad about 10 o’clock Wednesday night, and when ordered off by tho conductor gavedihn to -understand that it would take a larger force than he could command to “lire” them: Being unable to rid the train of them the conductor telegraphed to Princeton authorities for assistance. On their arrival at Princeton a pitched battle occurred be- ■ tween the trxmps on one side and the railroad crow and the city marshal and deputies on tho other. Sevoral on both sides received severe injuries, but none fatal. As tho train pulled out from Princeton the tramps again attempted to board it, when one of their number fell under the wheels, and his body was ground to pieces. On his person was a card issued by M. T. Williams to C. E. Trostor, of Paducah, Ky., showing him to be a member of tho cigarmakers’ union, and it Is supposed he is the owner of the card. At the death of one of their members the tramps quit the train, and are camping in the woods near by- -

REVIVAL OF GOLD MINING.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange, Wednesday, adopted a resolution to the effect that during tho next sixty days the gold mines can be listed on exchange without paying the customary fee of 1503. Heretofore only a very few gold mines bad been listed, Blit now operators expect a revival of gold mining in California that will make the industry as Important as In the early days.

LOST HIS ROCKS AND SOCKS.

Not long since a car-works employe of Jeffersonville drew his salary, paid his tobacco and beer bill, and then divided the balance and hid it in his socks. In the meantime his wifo, who sews for the government, drew her pay and purchased her husband a new pair of socks and threw the old pair containing his money into the stove, and four *5 bills were cremated.

Ex-Secretary Whitney, In a lengthy Interview at Beverly Farms, Mass., Thursday, heaftllv Indorsed President Cleveland's policy bf urging a repeal of the Sherman law, and condemned ex-Presi-dent Harrison for predicting fresh disaster from any attempt to change existing tariff laws. Mr. Whitney thinks that an overwhelming majority of representatives of all the people of this country can be trusted to legislate In the Interests of the people as a whole. Tlio Siamese foreign minister, Devawongse, expresses astonishment at the movements of France in the withdrawal of diplomatic relstihqs. He sayslt was •impossible to give a definite answer to an indefinite proposition. The king hag deto abandouj^Maa