Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1893 — Page 2

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Signs of September “Fresh vaccine virus/’ Seven States in all hold general elections in November 1 -—lowa, Maryland,. Massachusetts, Mississippi. New York. Ohio and Virginia. One million paid admissions to the World’s Fair is the record of last week. But one other International Exposition has surpassed this —the Paris Exhibition of 1889. At the Centennial and also at Paris thd' attendance was increased with each month, and there is every reason to suppose that each succeeding week will show increased gate receipts until the close of the Fair. The receipts will exceed those of the Paris exposition, the admission to that fair being but one franc or about twenty cents. Naturally the management of the World’s Columbian Exposition feel encouraged as to the final outcome of the enterprise which has taxed their energies to the utmost, and on the success of which they have staked so much.

That was a most remarkable gathering at Chicago last Sunday when representatives of nearly all religions met at the First Presbyterian Church in that city. Five Buddhist priests assisted at the «orthodox Christian service, and there were present theologians of nearly all the creeds known to civilization or bar--barism-“-Hebrews,Buddhists. Calvinists, Catholics. Baptists. Methodists, Unitarians, Mohammedans, Confucians, and so on throughout the list. These people, all wanting to go to heaven, but differing as to the most desirable and practicable route, were drawn to Chicago by the parliament of religions born of the Columbian Exposition, and if they succeed in escaping from that seething vortex of sin with any remnants of their creeds in presentable condition it will certainly be conceded that their religions have a foundation of a substance more substantial than the “staff” of which the wonderful structures of Jackson Park are composed.

The world moves, and the dime novel o f our boyhood, replete with Indian scouts, trappers, dead loads of game and an occasional maid of ravishing beauty and wondrous charms, interspersed with the most blood-curdling and .horrible cruelty and bloodshed, has been replaced by the 5-cent detective novelette that thrills its readerswith impossible crimes filled with improbable scoundrels giving to tlje wonderful hero an unheard of reward "for his superhuman shrewdness in running down crimes wherein he is shown to be himself an adept. Recent investigation has shown that there are six firms engaged in the business in New York city, and their combined production is 200,000 volumes of blood-curdling literature every week’, and their yearly output is believed to be not less than 10.000,000 volumes for the entertainment of American youth. Such books are a travesty on literature whose influence is far-reaching, and baneful to the last degree, filling the vivid imaginations of youth with false ideas that years of education on higher lines mav never be able to eradicate.

Governor O’Mallyo( Roby called on Governor Matthews of Indiana at the Capitol, the other day. The interview that ensued was not altogether satisfactory to the Governor of Roby. The Governor of Roby called the attention of the Governor of Indiana to the direful results of the recent raid of the forces sent into his domain by the Governor of Indiana aforesaid, and represented to hiij excellency that his action was likely to result in great injury the tax duplicate of Lake county, which was to be materially swelled by the investments of the Governor of Roby within territory tributary to the Governor 6f Indiana. The Governor of Indiana, while appreciating the advantages likely, to accrue to the commonwealth by reason of the enterprise of the Governor of Roby, was firm in his determination to use the constitutional prerogative vested in him to see that the laws are faithfully executed —in this at least —and the thrifty citizens who have looked forward to extended employment as deputy sheriffs to keep the peace among a multitude of Chicago toughs while viewing athletic exhibitions of so-called science and alleged skill in defiance of statutes made and provided, are likly to find themselves out of a job by reason of ! a higher pewer that proposes to do the duty that their chief has seemingly failed to even attempt. The Governor of Roby was very much

displeased at the attitude of the Gcvfirnor of Tndiftnft but thr* fyrnnt body of our citizens are likely to take a different view of the matter, and will rejoice that the State of Ihdiana is no longer to be disgraced by brutal exhibitions—long since outlawed in all civilized communities—without an attempt on the part of the the constituted authorities to prevent the same. Roby’s reign as a fistic arena is over. “May its shadows ever grow less.” A substitute for ice has been invented by a French newspaper m an, but it will only be used in skating rinks, as it is not cold. The latter qualitv of a normal temperature is one of the great points urged in its favor for skating purposes, as it permits the feet of the skater to circulate in an atmosphere of the same degree Fahrenheit with the balance of the body—quite a desideratum in hot weather. Artificial ice skating rinks have been successfully operated in different places—notably at Jackson Park, but the lower limbs of the skaters would freeze while their bodies sweat profusely — a very unhealthy combination. This new substitute has all the practical advantages of ice for carrying skate blades; is not cold, does not melt and is practically indestructible. The process of manufacture is a secret,of course, stolen from nature as it is alleged, and is likely to remain concealed. Jt can be made in three days, under 4he hottest sun. The one thing necessary for its manufacture and preservation, is good ventilation. M. Leo Anatole Joque is the name of the inventor, and he proposes to build one of his rinks at the Sair Francisco Mid-winter Exhibition, and will prove to the world that h,is invention-is not a “joque” if his name is a synonomous term for a laugh-provoking incident.

His Honor Convinced.

Courier-Jou-nil. It has not been so very long since the old English court rules passed out of observance, and when they were in vogue nowhere were they observed more strictly than in South Carolina. The rules provided that a lawyer when he spoke must wear a black gown and coat, and that the sheriff must wear a cocked hat and sword. On one occasion a lawyer named Pettigrue arose to a speak in a case on trial. “Mr. Pettigrue,” said the Judge, “you have on a light coat. You cannot speak, sir.” “Oh. your Honor,” Pettigrue replied, “may it please the court, I conform to the law.” “No, Mr. Pettigrue,” declared the i Judge, “you have on a light coat. You cannot speak, ” “But, your Honor,” insisted the lawyer, “you misinterpret. Allow ; me to illustrate: The law says that , the barrister must wear a black ; gown and coat, does it not?” “Yes,” replied the Judge. ! “And does your Honor hold that it means that both gown and coat i must be black?” j “Certainly, Mr Pettigrue, cer , tainly, sir, ’-answered his Honor. “And the law further says,” con- ! tinned Mr. Pettigrue, ‘‘that the sheriff must wear a cocked hat and 1 sword, does it netyt“Yes, yes, Mr. Pettigrue,” replied I the court, impatiently. I “And do you mean to say, your i Honor,” queried Pettigrue, “that ■ the sword must be cocked as well as ; the hat?” “Eh? —er —h'm!” mused his Honor, ( “you er —continue your speech, i Mr. Pettigrew.”

An Age of Copper.

L n lon Iron. M. Berthelot, the French technist, in a recent communication to the Academic des Sciences, states his belief in the some time existence of an age of copper in addition to the three recognized archaeological eons of stone, bronze (copper and tin) and iron. He bases his opinion chiefly upon an analysis of a piece of copper which had been found by M. de Sarzec in the court of antiquarian investigation in Mesopotamia or Al Jezira. as the Arabs designate the famous stretch of country between the Euphrates and the Tigris. The fragment thus chemically determined proves to have neither tin nor zinc entering into its composition, there being simply traces of lead and arsenic. water and the atmosphere hacTmade ravages into the specimen, which was practically a sub-oxide or a compound of protoxide and metallic copper. As the ruins from which the piece of metal was taken are authoritatively considered to be more ancient .than qven those of Babylon, M. Berthelot does not hesitate to promulgate the theory that an age of copper preceded the bronze and iron periods, especially as the examination of the component parts of a portion of a metallic scepter which, it is alleged, belonged to a Pharaoh who reigned in Egypt some 3,500 years before Christ, showed no sign of the presence of tin.

A Parent's Hope.

Texas Siftings, “What's papa’s boy going to be when he grows up?" —— “Policeman.” “And what’ll he do when he is a great big policeman? “Club the stuffin’ out of papa."

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

“SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.” The Hoosier commonwealth is celebrated for its common school system the world over, and it is doubtful if any organized community in the United States can show a larger percentage of intelligence, culture and refinement. The State has kept in touch with the progress of the century in all the best developments of the time, and our universities, cblleges and higher institutions of learn - ing, fostered and encouraged by public appropriations and private "benefactions, - vie with each other and successfully compete with the institutions of the older States that have-had the curftulative advantage of age and experience that naught but time can bring. We can point with pride to one of the most popular poets of the day as a product of Indiana —Riley's songs being as indigenous to the soil as the bluegrass sod and fragrant clover of which he sings—while all native Hoosiers who have read Ben Hur are proud of the fact that its talented author was born and reared in conditions similar to those amid which they have themselves grown to years of maturity. Yet with all this and’ more in our favor,—-presenting a roseate picture that can hardly be overdrawn,—with a public sentiment powerful for all good things and eagerlor the welfare of tlfe State and its people, with laws 'ample "for th§ protection of our citizens in their lives, property and honor, with every external circumstance apparently tending to the ways of pleasantness and the paths of peace, we have within the past three or four months been disgraced by the most shocking outlawry possible to the Yazoo bottoms or the most desperate settlement of the Western frontier. The mining camps of the mountains, the plains of Texas, or the most illiterate regions of the sunny slave-cursed South have furnished no more revolting —none so totally inexcusa-ble-exhibitions of an utter disregard for honor, right and common decency, than have occurred within the borders of the great and enlightened commonwealth of Indiana during the present year. Murders and outrages of the most revolting character followed by lawless lynchings that would shame South Africairsavages, white cap visitations—and anti-white cap receptions that were the one redeeming feature of the whole disgraceful catalogue—with the crowning infamy of the greatest prize-fighting ring in the United States, where riot and ruffianism defied the law —where the offscourings of the great city on Our northern border frothed over into our jurisdiction to exhibit its unlovely presence simply because it dare not do so at home, and because by reason of official procrastination and the laws delay it was permitted to have a brief reign upon our soil. Fortunately our Governor has at last been aroused to a sense of his duty and we are not to be disgraced in this way again—at least it is improbable that so flagrant and exten--stvean exhibition-will again be attempted. Seemingly this appalling array of unlawful and disgraceful exhibitions had filled our measure of woe to the brim, but it was reserved for us to furnish the world in addition to the foregoing register of crime, the most daring and successful train robbery that has occurred in this or any other country—one in which the largest number of outlaws were engaged, and if the truth was known, the largest sum of money was secured. In view of all these disgraceful and unlawful exhibitions, the peaceful citizen of Indiana —who has flattered himself that he was living in a State where culture, and refinement and all the finer attributes of modern civilization were largely in the ascendant, where life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness were assured and safecan only ask, “Where are we at?”

INDIAN COTTON. Not onlv has India become a formidable competitor in the markets of the world with her surplus of wheat, but the cotton production of that country threatens to ruin, or at least greatly retard that industry in the United States and England by its unwholesome competition. The cotton plant has been cultivated in the land of the Hindoos for twen-ty-three hundred years, and Herod-otus-tells of its wild trees bearing fleeces like sheep. In the last century, as late as 1793, the annual import of Inian haAd-wove cotton goods into Great Britain was valued at ♦6,250,000, despite laws prohibiting the wearing of Indian muslins and calicoes. Indian fabrics continued in general use in England and on the Continent, and veen in America, until machine-made goods drove them from the markets of the world and greatly lessened their consump-

tion in India itself. The change from the hand to toe power - loom worked no lasting hardship to European or American people, but the baleful effects of the change in India brought great suffering to millions of people, and forced into the ranks of agricultural labor a vast surplus of underpaid slaves to compete with laborers already subsisting on wages so low that starvation was always imminent. Naturally relief was sought and some thirty years ago the first cotton mill was established in the Bombay district. Therte are at this time 135 mills in all Indiu. with twenty others in process of construction. All have been phenomenally successful, and the consumption of raw cotton has increased 300 per cent, in the last ten years. It is an industrial revolution that threatens the very existence of the great English manufacturing centers, with a sympathetic influence that bodes no good to American industries of a similar character. The Indian mills are equipped with machinery of the best construction, directed by trained European experts. The operatives are quite as expert as Europeans and far more tractable, having never learned to strike and having no other idea than to work like slaves for a mere existence. The hours of labor are longer and the wages less than onefourth paid to operatives for the same task in England. The great drawback to the ultimate success of the Indian cotton industry seems to be a lack of fuel, which must be im■ported from England. But this difficulty seems likely to be obviated as coal has been discovered in Assam. Indian coal is of very poor quality, however, and fuel will have to be imported for some time at least. The advantages of the Indian manufacturers over European mill-owners are great in many ways. Not only has he cheaper raw material and labor, but he can buy his cotton and sell his goods for silver, and pay for his labor in the same coin—as all must in the Eastern markets —without any abatement in its value by reason of adverse exchange. Whenever the capacity of Indian cotton mills shall equal the demands of the Orient for goods of all grades it can be safely said that English, or even American, competition for that trade will come to an end, and that day can not in the nature of things commercial be far distant.

MODERN MUNCHAUSEN’S. The press dispatches during the entire summer have been burdened with alleged information concerning President Cleveland’s health, the inference naturally to be drawn from the mass of collated intelligence seeming to tend toward the inevitable conclusion that Mr. Cleveland was in reality suffering from some mysterious malady that it was deemed absolutely necessary should be concealed from the people of the country. So persistent and ingenious did these almost dailj manifestos become, and so circumstantial ■were the details given, that, in spite of repeateddenials from persons-in - position to know the truth, the public finally accepted them as substantially true and began to consider the probable consequences of the President’s demise. Promptly at the time announced, however, Mr. Cleveland returned from his summer vacation, rosy, rugged and robust, arriving at the White House at 4 o’clock a. m- and without retiring took breakfast and proceeded at once to the consideration of public business, serenely unconscious that by so doing he was proving numberless correspondents to be unconscionable liars and Munchansens of the most versatile and prolific powers. Now that the enterprising journalists have had their innings, an intimate friend, who has been a constant visitor at Buzzard’s Bay during the summer, states that the only foundation for the entire aggregation of misinformation printed about the deadly malady said to be carrying the President to an early grave was a very bad case of toothache, and that Mr. Cleveland’s prolonged summer vacation was necessary because of his increasing flesh and the excessive heat always prevalent in Washington during the summer solstice. Such enterprise is, a curse to modern journalism, and one against which readers and editors have no adequate safeguard. Editors must print the news as it is reported to them and trust to the rereliability of correspondents and telegraphic reports for its truth. Readers can do as they please about believing what the read, and it is quite as well to take with several grains of reservation any newspaper story that seems at all extravagant or improbable. The Duke of Westminster is said to have expended about <5,000,000 in rebuilding Eaton Hall, now one of the palatial private mansions in England.

CAPITOL CENTENNIAL.

A Notable Celebration of an Histone Event. Addreasea by President Cleveland and William Wirt Henry and Others. The centennial anniversary of the laying of the corner-stone of the Capitol was celebrated solemnly and impressively on the broad plaza that stretches out from the east front of the building, Monday afternoon. One hundred years ago. Washington. the first President of the Republic, as grand master of the Free and Accepted Order of Masons, wearing an apron and sash woven by the wife of Lafayette, laid the foundation of the great marble pile that is now the admiration of the world. Over the same route, Monday, President Cleveland was escorted by dashing cavalry. marching infantry, blaring bands, and a vast multitude of people to add his presence and words to the celebration of the anniversary of that event. Arriving at the Capitol, the parade disbanded and the ceremonies of tlicday were begun on the stand erected at the east front of the Capitol. After the preliminary exercises Lawrence Gardner, tire chairman, made a brief address and closed by introducing President Cleveland as the worthy successor of Washington. The President was given an enthusiastic greeting. He said: While I accept with much satisfaction the part assigned to me on this occasion,

I can not escape the sober reflections which these ceremonies suggest. Those who suppose that we are simply engaged in commemorating the beginning of a magnificent structure devoted to important public uses have overlooked the most useful and improving lesson of the hour. Wo do, indeed, celebrate the laying of a corner-stone from which has sprung the splendid edifice whose grand proportions are the pride of every American citizen, but our celebration is chiefly valuable and significant because this edifice was designed and planned by great and good men as a place wherh the principles of a free government should be developed in patriotic legislation for the benefit of a free S' a. If representatives who here ase to make laws for their fellowcountrymen forget the duty of broad and disinterested patriotism and legislate in prejudice and passion, or in behalf of sectional and selfish interests, the time when the corner-stone of our Capitol was laid and the cir;-.;m t -tances surrounding it will not be wor.h commemorating. / The sentiment and the tradititions connected with this structure and its uses belong to all the people of the land. They are most valuable as reminders of patriotism in the discharge of public duty, and steadfastness in many a struggle for the public good. The inexorable application of this standard will always supply proof that our countrymen realize the value of the free institutions which were designed and built by those who laid the corner stone • of the Capitol, and appreciate the necessity of constant and jealous watchfulness as a condition indispensable to thepreservation of these institutions in their purity' and integrity. I believe our fellowcitizens have no greater or better causefor rejoicing than is found in the assurance that their public servants who assemble in these halls will watch and guard the sentiment , and traditions that gather around this Celebration, and that in the days to come those who shall again commeminoratc the laying of the corner stone of their Nation's Capitol will find in the recital of our performance of public duty no less reason for enthusiasm and congratulation than we find in recalling the wisdom and virtue of those who have preceded us. Following the President’s brief address, William Wirt Henry, a descendant of Patrick Henry, was introduced as the orator of the day and spoke in an impassioned strain worthy of his illustrious ancestor. The address is of too great length for our_ columns, and of necessity we are compelled to omit all but the closing peroration, which was as follows: When we entered the family of nations as a republic it was predicted that our government would bo snort lived, but now the ablest writers point out elements of permanency in our institutions, chief among which is the devotion of our people to their form of government. Our forefathers trusted the permanency of the government they founded to the virtue and intelligence of the peoplevirtue and intelligence. Divine attributes given to man when he was made in the image of God. As the two cherubims with outstretched wings covered and guarded the holy oracle in which was deposited the Ark of the Covenant, so may these guard and protect our constitution in which is deposited the priceless jewel of liberty, as it is transmitted from generation to generation till time shall end. And, filled with the patriotic spirit of our fathers, may those who administer the government come year by year to this Capitol, and by wisadm in council do continued honor to their memory in contribuing to the happiness of this great people. •‘lllustrious founders, ages on ages shall your fate admire. No future day shall your name expire, While stands the Capitol’s immortal dome.'* Other speeches were made by VieePresldent Stevenson, Speaker Crisp, and M. M. Parker A grand chorus of 1,500 voices rendered numerous selections and the Marine Band was on duty to add interest to the occasion.

A BIG FOUR WRECK.

Frightful Causalty Due to Carelessness Near Kankakee. Eight Killed and Sixteen Injured, Many of Whom Will Die. At 9:20 Monday night, the second section of the south-bound Big Four passenger train crashed into the rear of the first section, that had stopped unexpectedly at a point ten miles north of Kankakee, teleescoping one sleeper and two coaches, killing eight people and seriously Injuring a large number, some probably fatally. The rear cars of theft rst section were the Ohio <fc Mississippi sleeper and tiyo chair cars, all fairly well filled with passengers. As soon as the extent of the disaster was realized physicians were telegraphed-for to Kankakee and Manteno, and ten arrived *t 11:40. The work of rescue was Immediately begun, and one by one the horribly mutilated bodies of the dead were removed

from a pile of wreckage, in n in the forward can. although tuey -received a severe shaking up, and many were badly cut and bruised, were foremost in the work of caring for the injured. They were taken as soon as possible to Manteno, where they are being cared for under the direction of the railroad officials. f None of the trainmen are ableto account for the wreck, as a man was sent back from the first section as soon as the stop, which was made necessary bysome defective machinery in the locomotive, was made. This flagman has not been seen since the wreck, and he is probably the only man who can give the real cause of the disaster. It is thought by the railroad officials that the second section was running at a pretty good speed, having no intimation that the first section would stop at this unexpected point, and that the flagman failed to get back a sufficient distance to enable the engineer of the second train to reduce, his speed. .’ The coroner’s inquest at Kankakee, Tuesday, developed the fact that Thomas Amos, the engineer of the second section was criminally negligent. The evidence showed that both sections of the train were late. The details of the casualty are heartrending to the last degree. The ; Big Four officials believe that the responsibility for the wreck will not fall upon their employes, as the accident occurred on the leased tracks of the Illinois Central. Trains of the Big Four on that division are run by motive power burnished by the Central and all trains are run under its rules and subject to the orders of its dispatchers.

BLOWS HIS OWN HORN.

Nominations by the President for Associate Justice and Minister to Italy. The President, Tuesday sent the following nominations to the Senate: William B. Hornblower, of New York, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme

WM, B. HORNBLOWER.

Court of the United States, vice Samuel Blatch ford, deceased. James U. Van Alon, of Rhode Island, to be ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary toltaly. Judge Hornblower Is a graduate of Printeton University and one of the foremost lawyers of New York city. He has never been active in politics, and has made his excellent reputation purely by his attainments and labors as a lawyer. He is a decendant of Josiah Hornblower, a famous English engineer.

The Electric Launch in Australia.

Australia is following the English lead of the electric launch to its waters. An Australian correspondent gives a de--scription of a handsome model of this class of craft, 45 feet long, with a capacity of carrying over forty passengers. When going at full speed the launch travels at from ten to eleven knots. She is also constructed to carry sail and has already created considerable wonder and excitement among Sidney boat* ingmen, especially when she has been sailing along dead before a northeaster in company with some of the crack 24-foot half deckers, which carry an enormous spread of canvas and have very little draught, and which travel almost as fast as the wind itself. On occasions like these the Haidee, as she is called, has a way of hoisting sail and pretending that she is an innocent sailing craft with none too much speed. The half deckers come sailing after her, picking her up hand over hand, and as they get along side perhaps commence to throw out sarcastic hints as to towing, etc. This is the skipper’s opportunity. He reaches forward and gently and almost imperceptibly puts on the switch. Very shortly there is a change in the state of affairs and the crew of the halfdecker stare in wonder at this new forni of the Flying Dutchman which is propelled by an invisible power.

A Sad Case.

Texas Siftings. “I see that you are in mourning again. Have you had another death in the family? 1 ' said Mr. Riverside Park to a Harlem Widow. “Not that I know of. The last death in my family was that of my husband about a month ago.” “But last week you were dressed in bright colors.” “Yes: but that was a special occasion.’ “What special occasion?” “I was going on an excursion with some gentlemen up the Hudson. Now that that is over I have resumed my habiliments of woe,” and here the poor creature broke down and sobbed convulsively. The smallpox at Muncie continues to give a great deal of trouble. Three new cases were reported, Tuesday.