Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. j Gsore E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

A light trust is forming, bu there is no cause for uneasiness. Th, * combination will not endeavor t< shut off the sunlight, the intentioi only beinj? to corner The “penny in the slot” machines in New York are said to be the most depraved lot of counterfeit coin cir~Wlatbrs in evil' lias assumed dangerous proportions and Cashier Muhleman of the Sub-Treas-ury has warned the public to be on their guard. English capitalists know a good tiling when they see it if American people do not. It is stated that they are investing heavily in all classes of American securities at this juncture. and are eager to take advantage of the low prices that have for sometime prevailed in the stockmarkets. ~ One result of the prevailing hard times in the United States has been a decided falling off in the tide of immigration to our shores, a result longed for and seemingly unattainable. This is a consummation that is not likely to cause general mourning throughout the land, but rather . thanksgiving that the clouds are not without a silver lining. It has been suggested that the financial excitement of the past few weeks is not a panic at all, but rather a sort of brokers’ clearance sale —a “bargain day,” so to speak —to clear up odds and ends that have been aecumlating for years, after the fashion of city merchants who mark their hosier}’ “Fast Black Sox —Former price 50c; To-day 19c.”

Senator John Sherman thinks the business outlook is good. This may be true, but what people are especially anxious for at this juncture is not an outlook, but actual results of a beneficient character. However, it is well to “live in hope if we die in despair.” If the “outlook” is regarded as good by such able financiers as John Sherman, we may “get there” by and by. Experiments are being made with a portion of the convicts of the Clinton, (N. Y.,) State Prison as road makers. The State Engineer reports that the results are satisfactory in every way. Only a small per centage of convicts received at State prisons are fitted for such work, but the expense of guarding those who are is light while they are at work on the highways, and “their employment in this manner promises to be profitable to the commonwealth. The French people are very vivacious and energetic, and their extreme nervousness and excitability would lead to the conclusion that they are a short-lived people. Such, however, does not seem to be the ease, if such conspicuous examples as De Lesscps and Sir Edward Blount may be taken as representatives of the race. More than fifty years ago Sir Edward Blountstarted the first train on the oldest railway in France —the line between Paris and Havre. A. week ago. he as president of the road, inaugurated a new fast train on the same route that now makes the tri]) in three hours and a half.

Maj. Pangborn. president, of the Associated American Exhibitors, had a tilt at the Exposition Commissioners, the other day. The Director General and all his chiefs were present. Maj. P. had many grievances.. He charged the commissioners with making an architectural picture and not a World’s Fair, classed the Midway Plaisance as a “Conglam oration of fakes,” the dancing girls in the streets of Cairo sis “the scum of the brothels of the Orient,” accused restaurant owners with employing a gang of thieves as waiters, and cited several cases of extortion and robbery practiced on himself and others. The moral of all this is: “Keep your eyes very wide open when you go to the Fair.” People who long for notoriety have strange methods, frequently. of attaining their desires. Rev. John T. James, of Loudon, county. Va., however, recently struck out in a new direction, and stands before the world in the white light of fame, as the only man who ever smashed a display of Irish whisky at the World’s Fair. Rev. Mr. James has a unique record for eccentricity extending over a long life, and might well be termed the Prince of Cranks,” having been an accomplished scholar, m'mbder of the Methodist, church of superior’ d^atorof

gambler of unusual depravity, and finally a reformed man who has walked in the st raight and narrow way for years, only to add another phase to his checkered story by a criminal action that may land him in prison. One of the most dangerous and notable phases of modern life is the extreme carelessness of mobs in the matter of identification. The fury of an angry concourse of people only needsan apparent victim of suspicious circumstances to arouse it to deadly action. With an undoubted increase in the-criminal tendencies of- a certain class r and this fatal tendency to summarily avenge the outrage and murder of numerous victims, life can hardly be said to be as secure as in the past. All law-abiding citizens owe it to themselves and the country to discountenance mob law on all occasions. Our only hope of safety is in legal revenge for infractions of the code. , The “job” of the President of the United States is not a bed of roses. There is a very large amount of downright hard work in connection with its honors, dignities and emoluments. Besides the duties which by law are made incumbent on a President. he is frequently called upon to actas arbitrator between foreign countries, and is compelled to listen to vexatious complications of no possible interest to his own country, just now President Cleveland would appear to have quite enough to attend to without acting as a referee for foreign nations, yet Brazil and Argentine are anxiously awaiting his decision in what is known as the “Misoiies case,” a matter that has nearly precipitated war between those two countries many times in the past few years. Mr. Cleveland’s responsibility is very serious in this case, and he must strive while harassed by the silver and tariff questions, office seekers and mugwumps, to render a decision equitable and just to all parties concerned.

Recent investigations give reasons for the belief that the desert lying between the Nile and the Red Sea was in past ages a pleasant laud of forests and all green and living things. Various places in the arid waste have from time immemorial borne Arabic names signifying various kinds of green herbage, most of them referring to trees or groves, although the country is entirely destitute of every species of vegetation. Rain is unknown as a result of the lack of trees. It is thought that the trees and grass were destroyed by untold generations of Arabs and Jheir camels, whose voracious appetites are won t to feed on all green things, after the manner of the billy-goat. The same desolating process is taking place in Russia to-day. Forests are being destroyed, and as a result in vast regions there is hardly a tree to be seen, the streams are drying up. and fierce storms, piercingly cold in winter, scorchingly hot in summer. sweep with full fury over the plains, withering the corn and bearing with them drifts of sand that will ere long turn the fertile soil into permanent deserts.

Fishing By Electric Light.

New York Telegram. The success which attended the use of the electric light fishing off the California coast last year, has led to the devising of various improved apparatus .for that purpose. One of these consists of a large iron frame interlaced with netting.which can be opened and closed at the will of the operator. An electric light encased in a lantern is lowered into the net, the electricity being furnished by a moter in the bow of the boat. As the boat moves along the network is thrown open, and the bright light of the lamp, which is seen at a great distance in the clear water, arouses the curiosity of the fish, which readily swim into the. trap. This is the modern variant of the old method of destroying the fish from a canoe by torchlight.

He Was Only a Savage.

Chicago Inter Ocean. Over by the Anthropological Building there is a highly educated Indian who speaks in a very quiet way about the “uncivilized whites.” The other day while he was making his toilet the curtain to his tent was lifted, and two women, wearing badges and from Boston —stood there and watched him go on with his dressing. He finally turned around and said to the one holding the curtain: “Madam. how would you like to have me walk into your private dressing-room and watch you make your toilet?” She looked astonished nt Lis pure English, blushecrand walked away. In evening gowns in London black trimmed with white is the favorite. and hair is the most elaborately dressed. To be in the fashion one must wear flowers according to the season. The

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPO- • . SITTON. ” Miracles have been wrought. Triumphs have been won. Marvellous things have been accomplished. Visions of the night and day dreams bright have taken solid form and assumed a tangible substance. Forth from the matrices of human thought complete and perfect have been cast shapes of beauty that are near divine. Palaces of cloud land and vistas of enchantment charm the eye and enthrall the soul. The bewildering beauty, fhe7rnagnificent grandeur. the vast extent, the sense of yet other unreVealed splendors that may lay beyond the soaring dome and swelling arch that yet obscure the view of further glories on the gulden the thoughtful beholder as perhaps no earthly view and not until he shall st and before that Great White Throne is he likely to again look upon so noble a perspective, so exalted an outlook. Dull, indeed, is he who can stand in the Peristylegazing westward toward a setting sun in silence upon that aggregation of temples and palaces and domes, with its shining perspective of glistening w’aves and golden statues and imposing monuments, and glittering pinacles and waving flags and streaming banners —and remain unawed, unmoved and uninspired with nobler thoughts and brighter hopes and thrill of great desires. Saddened he may be by the thought that all that beauty is but a fleeting show, as evanescent as the clouds from which the scene might well have dropped —but the impression on a sensitive mind is lasting, ennobling and refining to the last degree. “Life is short and time is fleeting.” Soon, too soon will this opportunity of a life time have joined the great procession of the things that were. Go now. Go soon, if but for a day, while yet you may.

LEGAL TECHNICALITIES.

Industrious and honest people who work year in and year out for 11.50 a day 0r.... eX£a_leSS,.pay their way and still retain an interest in life, though “Jordan may be a hard road to travel,” will find it difficult to express their feelings of detestation and contempt for such pitiable specimens of the genus dude as have lately developed .in New York, but can hardly lack for language to condemn a Judge that would decide that these effeminate creatures were a sort of privileged class, endowed by reason of their descent from wealthy ancestors with certain prerogatives not accorded to the common herd. One case in point is that of young Lloyd Aspinwall, who can not make both ends meet and obtain what he considers the “necessities of life” on an assured income of $60,000 per year, even having been driven to the extremity of soiled lined and ragged underwear. As a last resort he committed forgery to obtain more funds, and defends himself against creditors, who sought to garnishee lis income, on the ground that the Supreme Court of New York has held in a similar case, brought be:ore that tribunal, in which one Osoorne, whose income of $35,000 per annum had been garnisheed by credtors, that the amount is necessary to maintain him in his station in ife. If such incomes are to be held sacred from the clutches of the law in order to maintain the dissipated egatees in all manner of riotous living, then honestv and industry aave no proper place in this country ind anarchy has indeed a cause and ?ood excuse for organized existence.

UNDEVELOPED GOLD MINES. Western miners, like all producers, are amenable to .the universal law of supply and demand, although they have been very reluctant to obey its mandates.and have persisted the overproduction of silver in the face of a long continued, steady and ruinous decline, in the markets of the world, in the price of their commodity. But a new era seems to have set in throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Miners in many places are turning their attention to the development of gold and copper properties with gratifying results. The Helena, Mont., Independent estimates that at least $1,000,000 more gold will be produced in that State this year than last. Fresh and valuable gold and copper discoveries are being constantly made, and longneglected properties, allowed to remain undeveloped because the production of silver seemed to be more profitable, are now given the attention that should have been bestowed in the past. The Independent sees in the financial depression ayd the ruinous price of silver a divide influence at work to punish the people of Montana properties

this may be, if the outcome of the present financial depression and silver agitation shall result in the dis-; covery and development of unlimited gold mines, th ere wil 1 be fe w indeed who will not be able to see that it has been a blessing in disguise. Nor is the hope of such a culmination unreasonable or chimerical. Gold in large quantities has been known, for many years, to exist in the almost inaccessible fastnesses of the mountains, but modern progress has brought these reseviors of wealth within man’s reach, and quartz and ore that a few years ago were value--1 css and a positive obstruction to working silver mines, have become, by reason of recent improvements in machinery and methods of working, a source of a gold- supply of the greatest value. It is now possible to mine gold in worked out silver mines at a fine profit, and this new field of enterprise is only limited by the possible development in the efficiency of machinery and the energy of miners and prospectors. Now that dire necessity compels, great things may be with reason hoped for in the near future in this direction, and we can all join in the hope that the promised and assured relief may not be too long delayed. ILL-BRED NOBILITY. The descendants of Christopher Columbus in our day appear to be imbued with a very evident desire to profit in a financial way by the interest which has been awakened among the American people in their ancestral line. While in this country the dignified Duke of Veragua permitted it to. be understood that the fortunes of his family were greatly reduced through disastrous speculation, and closely following his departure for home a movement toward raising a fund for his “benefit was started, with every prospect of success, among a certain class of capitalists and men of wealth. Recently the leaders of the movement have cabled the Duke asking if such a fund would be accepted in case it was tendered. The reply was promptly received that it would be very agreeable indeed. Now comes the Marquis de Barboles, a younger brother of the Duke of Veragua, and a member of the party that but recently were the Nation’s guests, and complains to a correspondent that the subscription should not have been entirely for the Duke's benefit, as he, himself, was also a descendant of Columbus, had spent a large sum of money during his recent visit to the United States, and was, in fact, poorer than the Duke of Veragua. The Marquis thinks he should have a share of the “swag. ” It appears to be a bad case of family jealousy on the part of the. Marquis, and a rather matter-of-fact indifference to the finer proprieties, as Americans are accustomed to look at such things, on the part of the part of the Duke of Veragua. While the Duke can hardly be blamed for accepting a gift of such munificence as is contemplated, the natural conclusion will be that he values money more than the honor of His position and the glory of his ancestral line. American nabobs can certainly find a better use for their superfluous w’calth than to give it to the glittering representatives of European nobility. With the want and misery that stares them in the face on every hand, they might well heed the proverb that “charity begins at home.”

Just What a Texas Norther Is.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “What is a Texas norther?” The question was put to Major B. M. Vanderhurst, of Texas. “A Texas norther, my inquiring friend, is an extremely damp and disagreeable wetness that crawls up out of the hole where the north pole used to be and swoops down upon the sometimes sunny southland at a Nancy Hanks gait, catching you with your mosquito bar underclothing on and your overcoat in soak. It is more penetrating than ammonia, and requires.but ten seconds to work its way to the most secret recesses of a fat man’s soul and cause him to regard the orthodox hell of fire as the one thing in all the world most to be desired. “When a norther has a vipjtim in its grip he feels that he has a combination of buck ague and congestive chills. It is the custom in Texas not to make a fire until somebody freezes to death. It would be a slam on the “most delightful climate on earth.” .Few houses built prior to the war have any provision for heating. The custom was, when a norther announced itself, to keep piling on coats until it got discouraged and gave up the contest. That custom is still generally followed. Northern people regard this eccentricity of the Texas climate with extreme disgust. They go down there expecting to find ten months of summer and two months of early fall weather; tc revel in the glad sunshine, and tc inhale the unctious perfume of magnolia buds all the year. They get into their picnic clothes and send theii heavyweights back home to be given to the poor or paeked away in camphor. Just about that time a northei arrives,,and for three days they lonj tQatfo,to Manitoba to get warm."

OHIO DEMOCRATS.

“Larry” Neal Will Lead the Ticket Agalnat IMTcRfI ■ ........... .......- The Ohio Democratic convention to nominate a State ticket, met at Cincinnati, Tuesday. Chairman Crites called the convention to order. Prayer was offered by Rev. George Thayer. Gilbert M. Barger, the temporary ehairman was

LAWRENCE T. NEAL.

greeted with cheers and made a brief address. The committee on resolutions then reported as follows: 1. We hereby approve the platform of the Democratic party adopted by the national convention at Chicago. 2. The financial situation is the unfortunate legacy of Republican administration. It is the natural result of the Mcr Kinley tariff and Sherman silver law, extravagance of the revenue of the party lately in power, and the creation and'fostering of trusts and corrupting combinations by that party. 3 We recommend that national banks may be permitted to issue their currency to an amount equal to the par value of the United States bonds. 4. The interests of every true soldier and pensioner demand that the pension roll should be made and preserved as a roll of honor. We believe in a just and liberal recognition of claims of, veterans, and favor grantinc them all that patriotism could ask, all that National gratitude would demand. The Democratic party Fin ion soldier to a pension shall be ?e?decL and the allowance of any worthy pensioner shall not be disturbed. 5. We condemn the unbusinesslike administration of State affairs under Governor McKinley; deplore the official scandals and defalcations under it and denounce the condoning of official crimes which have brought humiliation upon our people. 6. The Democratic party expresses its confidence In the ability of Hon. Calvin S. Brice, of the United States Senate. 7. The country has abiding faith in the integrity, patriotism and exalted courage of President Cleveland, True to the people and watchful of their interests, he will enforce honest and economical methods in the condnctof public affairs and secure to every scctioirof the country the blessing of good government. Nominations for Governor were then declared in order. James ~P. Seward placed in nomination Lawrence T.'Neal, of Chillicothe. W. J. Clark presented the name of Col. Wm. A. Taylor, of Columbus. John H. Clark, of Youngstown, was put in nomination without a speech. At the close of the roll call Neal had 40SX votes, and his nomination was made by acclamation, the forces off the other candidates changing their votes, giving Neal on final count 887 X; necessary to a choice, 405. Wm. H. Taylor was nominated for Lieut. Governor. A full State ticket wasnominated. Mr. Neal has been a prominent figure in Ohio politics for many years.

HOW THEY DIED.

Stary of the Harrison County Ambuscade by William Conrad. The Conrad brothers, who dealt so hardly with the Harrison county White Caps who attacked their home, Saturday ■ night, were seen at Mulbrough, Ky., on Monday. They disclaimed having anything to do with their father's death. Last Saturday morning they found theirdogs poisoned, and accordingly prepared for a raid Saturday night. They slept in a corn patch adjoining the house until ? a. m., Sunday morning, when they were awakened by a noise, and soon forty men filed past within fifteen feet of them. “We decided not to shoot,” said William Conrad, “until we could see what they intended to do. One of them picked up u rail and began battering in the door. Our mother and sister were dragged out, and a rope was placed about sister's neck. We raised up and would have shot, but we were afraid of hitting mother and sister. Finally some of the party went on the porch, one of them carrying a light. Two were standing between ns and the light, and we thought this would be a good time to shoot. I cock°d both barrels, which were heavily loaded, and pulled one trigger. The light went out and three men fell. As soon as they saw the flash, the raiders shot in our direction, but we had moved to new positions and I fired again. Their bullets continued to whistle through the corn and then we emptied our guns Into the crowd. I’m sure more men were wounded than were killed. I don’t see how each shot could have failed to hit five or six men. They fired several times at us, but by changing our positions they missed us ever time Before the shooting commenced they dragged mother to the cistern and threatened to throw her in. Nam killed the man who carried the rope. After this we did not shoot any more, but raw up the side of the hill, the raiders going another way. Alter they were gone we went back to the house and looked at the five dead men. I knew their faces, but I had never spoken to one of them. I told mother to go and tell Mrs. Jones, and have some one come and take care of the bodies. Two of them were on the porch but the others had crawled some distance away. We could have killed more of them without being hurt, but we didn't want to. Sunday afternoon we rowed across the river. We sent our mother and sister away, and they are here In Mulbrough.” Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the Conrads, but they are in hiding and there Is a reign of terror In the Mosquito Creek valley. The White Caps are in constant fear that the Conrads will pick them off. The Conrads have many friends who will aid them in avoiding arrest, and it Is doubtful If they are captured without further bloodshed.

WORLD’S FAIR ROMANCE.

A Wheel Chair Guide Weds His Fair __ Passenger. . The Adonis of the wheel chair department has gone, write® a World's Fair correspondent of the Philadelphia Press. He was a fine strapping fellow, six feet tall and handsome enough to have been the model of Praxiteles’ Hennes in the Greek department, except that he was far from 2,300 years old. He was a hero from one of the large Michigan colleges working out his vacation. Last summer he worked as a waiter at Lake Minnetonka and did so well -that he liad enough money to carrv him through his winter term at college quite sumptuously; The chances of doing even better at the Fair this year seemed very good, and he went to the wheel chairs. Of course, as he knew so much more than everybody else and was so good looking, he was in universal demand. The other wheel chair men hated him, but he didn’t mind that so long as the women adored him. I fancy most of them really did adore him, too. In any event, his wheel chair was never empty, and they do say that ladies sometimes continued to sit in it after they had seen every thing, and for no reason except to hear him talk. He was most polite, and never wearied of telling people how the magnificent buildings are all made

out of a composition that is as pliable as clay, and that all the pictures of Columbus can’t be because no two of them in the Fair look alike; and a thousand and one other things that showed how observant he was and how much he knew. He got a customer about a week ago, who seemed ta hang on his words. He couldn’t tell her the same thing too often, and after a bit she got a note book and jotted down all his most precious sayings. It went on for four or five days and came to be a matter of general remark among the other Wheelers. She was quite young and as pretty as a picture, and, indeed, the two of them, as they glided along the walks, < were the cynosure of all eyes. Of course it was all on her account that the Adonis took his departure. He didn’t turn up at all one morning, and while the superintendent was wondering what kept him late a messenger handed him a note. The note was from Adonis, and simply read: “I shall not report any more. I can not. lam going to be married.” Was the superintendent thunderstruck? Well, hardly. He had had his weather eye open and wasn’t exactly astonished when he heard what had occurred. . But he was amazed when he found out, later in the day, that the future bride of Adonis, who was the lady of the wheel chair,, is a widow from California so enormously rich that she does not know what to do with her money. She inherited her fortune from her late husband, a rathet elderly man, who had made it in the rise in land values in the Golden State, but only lived six months after he had taken his sweet bride to his bosom. Adonis will finish his term at college, and then he and his bride will go abroad to remain five or six years. Perhaps they may enter into competition with the Astors and the Mackeys for the social approbation of the aristocracy. It was the first genuine romance of the Fair, and has filled the 30,00(1 World’s Fair attaches with delight and hope.

A Gasoline Steamer.

Baltimore Sun. The Pocomoke Gasoline Boat Company is the name of a corporation recently organized and chartered by the court at Pocomoke City. Md. For the past two months they have been engaged in building a boat to ply between that place and the eastern shore of Virginia. It is now nearing completion and in about two weeks will make her trial trip. Her measures are: Keel, 90 feet; beam, 24 feet; draught, 21 inches. She is a as ide-wheeler, and is built t) move smoothly over the mud at the mouth of the" river. She will be propelled with a thirty-five horsepower “Otto gas engine,” and is expected to make ten miles an hour. She is said to be the only gasoline boat of this model ever built and her final trial is watched with great Interest, as there are several companies in distant places that intend to adopt the same model if this one proves a success. The William A. Winant, as the boat is called, sits gracefully to-day upon the waters of the Pocomoke, and is a subject of general conversation. The section to which this boat will run, or at least a part of it, has been entirely cut off from the outside world by reason of having heretofore had no railroad or steamboat communication. This boat will supply the demand to these points, and will no doubt prove a great blessing to the country through which it passes. The boat is expected to make daily trips from Pocomoke to Messongo Creek, Accomac county, Va., and return. „

Great men are usually said to have great memories, but it does not follow that all who have great memories are'great men. I remember an idiot in Ohio whowas a great curiosity many years ago. He knew the whole bible by heart from beginning to ?nd, and if any verse was read or repeated to him he Could tell exactly tn what book and chapter it was to be found, and its verse number in the chapter. He was considered a <reat marvel in this particular,’ but in every other he was a mental imbecile, and could not be trusted even to feed himselL