Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1893 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS

Pygmalion and Galatea, tonight. “Hard times came knocking at the door,” of tbe section hands Monday morning. Orders received—‘‘reduce time to eight hours, pay twelve cents per hoar.” We’ll wager doughnuts to dimes, that ere another year rolls around, the common laborer will have to put in 14 hours for four shillings. It was a change people wanted—have they got it?—Hebron Leader. The Rensselaer Republican. .$1.50 The New York Tribune. .... SI.OO The Weekly Inter Ocean. .. .SI.OO Makes a total of $3.50 Our “Hard Times” clubbing price for all three is ONLY ... .$2.00 I have 5 shares in the new series of the B. L. & S. Association, which I will sell. Anyone desiring to make a good investment should call and investigate.

George K. Hollingsworth. , The Inter Ocean , in speaking of the evidently crooked charge of Comptroller Eckles’ law firm, in the case of the Columbia National Bank, says: For weeks there were rumors of fraud on the part of President D wiggins, but it is but fair to Mr. Dwiggins to state that nothing of this kind has so far been shown. In the opinion of a good many persons his judgment was frequently at fault, but both the bank examiner and the receiver have denied that any trace of crookedness was found. V ' X ; • ' v '■ \ ' ' As may be noticed in the little card to his beloved “Milk Church” Uncle Alfred McCoy is preparing to “shell out” handsomely to the poor, at Christinas as usual. Uncle Alfred is ~ ~ • - t -not exactly a Chesterfield in-his-man-ner of conversation, nor even at all times, in personal adornment, but he is a mighty public spirited citizen, and the heart in him occupies its full proportionate share in his very capacious interior. Uncle Alfred is a good Citizen, and we wish the county had more like him. “With all his faults we love him still,” as the saying is—and we may add, when he isn’t “still” either—which is saying a good deal more for he is mighty seldom still.

Pygmalion and Galatea, tonight. Estey organs and pianos, and Estey ACt mp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. • Rensselaer having no factories to close down or run on half force, because of impending “tariff reform” is therefore lucky in not having any such appalling conditions of destitution and suffering among a former prosperous working population as now exists in nearly all the manufacturing and mining centers, large and small, all over the country. Still there may be some few cases of destitution even in our unusually fortunate community. And if there are none now there will probably be some before the winter ends, especially if it proves to be * winter of more than ordinary severity. There is no doubt plenty of the spirit of charity among our people to relieve all cases of suffering from destitution, when they are known. But the trouble is that often people who have been used to earning their own livings, and have come to want will often suffer privation, almost to death itself, before they will ask for charity, and what is much less excusable, let their helpless children suffer also. We therefore urge all charitable minded people to be on the look-out for such cases; and if they find any, to bring them to the attention of those who are willing and able to furnish relief. If no other better and shorter course presents itself, report the facts to The Republican. We will not publish . the names of the needy ones, but we will publish sufficient of the facts to call the attention of charitable societies and people to the case; and thus through publicity obtain the proper relief.