Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — Page 2

- THE REPUBLICAN, j-—. ■ ______ ' „ . XL... K. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about^tEy - neck; write them upon the table of thy heart. So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.” “After the Ball” ha> been raging in an epidemic form at Mankato, Kan., and the city council has passed an ordinance declaring the song to be a public nuisance, and fixing the penalty at fifty cents fine for each offense. Any person whistling or singing the air between the hours of 6 o’clock in the morning and 10 o’clock at nightlsliable to arrest.

* Mr. S. A. Andree. Chief Engineer of the Swedish Patent Department, recently sailed from Stockholm across the Baltic in a balloon. He was in mid-air. for twelve hours and landed in Finland in a very demoralized condition. His story is almost incredible, but valuable from a scientific point of view because of various recorded observations. The Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at Indianapolis has been provided with glass doors and a custodian. Visitors are now admitted, a fee of 23 cents being charged. Those people pining for pedestrian exercise are permitted to ascend to the top of the shaft by the stairway —if they can. An elevator will be built, after which the admittance fee will be 25 cents. It is hoped to pay the salary of the custodian from this source.

The great Yerkes telescope which was exhibited at the World’s Fair in the Manufacturers’ Building, will be located permanently in a” observatory at Geneva, Wis. This observatory is to be an annex to the University of Chicago, and it§, location at Geneva was decided upon because of the smoke and haze in the atmosChicago. It was the original intention of Mr. Yerkes to have the instrument placed in an observatory tower on the campus of the university, west of Jackson Park.

; Amelia Foi.soj, who was the favorite wife of Brigham Young, still resides at Salt Like City. She is now over seventy years of age. Mrs. Folsom-Young is a second cousin of Mrs. Cleveland, and was the eorlylove of the great Prophet, but on account of parental opposition failed to marry him. After the death of Mr. Folsom, Young returned to New York State, near Palmyra, and Amelia went with him to Utah, where she was established as the favorite wife in “Amelia Palace.” Richard Croker, the Tammany chief sachem, of New York, smarting under the repeated assaultsand insinuations of the press, has given out an authorized interview in which he states that he has never received a dishonest dollar from a political or any other source, adding significantly that if those who mhke these charges will make them specific he will find means to compel them to prove their statements. He denies emphatically the charge that Tammany has assessed saloons, gambling houses and evil resorts for political purposes. Mr. Croker will remain at the head of the Tammany organization.

A nephew of Queen Liliuokalani, named Kameiua, is now being educated at Oberlin, O. He is a native of the Sandwich Islands. In a well written article to the Indianapolis Sentinel he gives a resume of the history of his native land and its people from the first discovery by white people up*to the present time. His conlusions are that his race has been sadly wronged in many ways, but he speaks in complimentary terms of the missionaries, who, he. says, have endeavored to undo as far as possible, the wrongs inflicted by others. Naturally, he regards the dethronement of his aunt as an outrage, and he holds ex-Minister Stevens, and through him the Government of the United States, responsible for the present situation. Fakes continue to flourish, but now and then a wbll-laid plan of this •haracter “gangs aft a-gley.” A deep and determined plot to impose upon the credulity of the American people has just been exposed by Maj. Powell, of the Geological survey at Washington, the case being a “petrified” woman, whose history was supposed to be shrouded in the gloom and dark oblivion of an unknown pabt, as Dr. Talmage would say. The matter-of-fact military man promptly decided that the mysterious • l She” was made of ordinary Portland cement, and the prospect-

!ve museum attraction suddenly ceased to cast any ‘ ‘glamour” around the environs, while a greater genius than Haggard’s would be required to draw an inspiration from the cold remains. C hildren . who bite their nails have long been reprimanded for the fault, but few people suppose that the habit has its origin in nervous disease. The recent investigations of a French physician have proved this to be the case, and the affliction has been given the pmnious name of “Onycophagie.” Children suffering from “Onycophagie” are in need of medical treatment for incipient nervous degeneration. Statistics carefully prepared by this medical expert have demonstrated to his satisfaction that nail biters are perceptibly inferior in mental power to other children, and are fit subjects for rigid dicipline as well as the most careful and intelligent regulation of diet and the most expert medical treatment.

Chicago jurymen seem to have a “snap” in the way of hotel accommodations. The Revere House has been dubbed the “Jury Box” and the landlord has instructions “to see that the jury is well taken care of.” The host has several juries “on his hands” at times, and it is needless to say that his instructions are carried out and Cook county foots the bill and recoups itself from litigants when possible. The famous Coughlin and Prendergast juries were each given four connecting parlors, furnished with handsome folding beds, organs, billiard tables, and all conveniences. The jurors naturally did not complain about their confinement. Jury service under such circumstances is not the unpleasant experience that often fells to the lot. of the “good men and true” who serve as targets for legal eloquence in the rural districts.

Police Superintendent Byrnes, of New York, has recently added the j sixth gold stripe to his coat sleeve, which indicates that he has been in continuous and active service on the New York police force for thirty yours. The Superintendent is also the proud and happy possessor of five valuable medals voted to him at different periods of his career by the police board. Thomas Byrnes was born in Ireland in 1842. Dec. 10, 1863, he became a policeman in New York. Oct. 22, 1868, he was made a roundsman for meritorious services. He continued to rise to the various ranks of sergeant, captain, inspector, chief of detective bureau, the latter position being reached April 23, 1880, in which capacity he served until April 12, 1892, when, Superintendent Murray retiring, he was placed at the head of the department by the unanimous vote of the commissioners.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. It is said that thirty-two thousand varieties of goods are manfactured from wood. In Boston they are getting to call afternoon teas “smoke talks,” be cause the hostess usually has incense burning in a little Oriental incense burner. According to the statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission, a railway passenger stands but one chance in 10,823,153 of being killed while traveling. A sharp lawyer secured the release of a bunco steerer who had robbed one of his pals on the ingenious plea that he had only taken confederate money. □ The common snail is said to have 150 rows of stout, serrated teeth. The whole palate contains about 21,000 teeth, it is Claimed, while a fullgrown slug has over 26,000 of these silicious spikes. □ The Probate Judge of Cowley eounty, Kansas, has announced that he will make a special rate to clubs of ten or more who will procure marriage licenses and secure him to perform the ceremony during the holidays. The manufacturers of paper rowing shells say they do not fear the competition of aluminum shells. Still many aluminum boats are now beine constructed. In 1885 aluminum waworth >9O a pound; now it can be purchased for about 75 cents a pound. Five brothers of the Weeks fami ly, of Albion, Ind., have been th? victims of fatal accidents. One wakilled by falling from a tree, another died of lockjaw, caused by a wound, a third met his death by swallowing a copper cent, a fourth leaped from a train and was killed, and a fifth cbmmitted suicide. A sixth brother went west some years ago, and all trace of him is lost. Alhthe guests were assembled for a wedding at Williamstown, Mass., and the bride became restless at the absence of the groom. ! Two hours passed, the clergyman went home,and the guests were dismissed. At midnight the laggard was found concealed under a mass of hay in a stable. He coolly said he had lost his money on a horse race, and could not afford to marry.

TALMAGE'S TALK.

A Fafewell Sermon to the Dying Year. The Brooklyn Divine Drawl Consolation From an Early Demise. Dr. Talmage,preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday, Subject: “Shortened Lives of, A cheerful Good-by to 1893." The text selected was Isaiah Ivii, 1, “The righteous are taken away from the evil to come.” If I were agnostic I would say a man is blessed in proportion to the number of years he can stay on “terra firma.” became after that he falls off the docks, and if h«j is ever picked out of the depths it is onlj’ to be set up in some toergve of the universe to see if any body will claim him. If 1 thought God mademan only to last forty or fifty or one hundred years, and then he was to go into annihilation. I would say his chief business ought to be to "keep alive and even in good weather to be ven' cautious, and to carry an umbrbl’a and take overshoes and life preservers at d bronze armor and weapons of defense lest he fall off into nothingness a.id obliteration. But my friends you're r.ot agnostics. You believe in immortality and the eternal residence of the righteous in heaven, and, therefore. I first remark that an abbreviated ‘earthly existence is to be desired, and is a blessing because it makes one's life work very compact. Again, there is- a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that moral disaster might come upon the r»n if lie tarried longer. A man who had been prominent in churches, and who had been admired for his generosity and/Ti in tin ess everywhere, for forgery was sent to State prison for fifteen years Twenty years before there was no more probability of that man committing a commercial dishonesty ihan thatyou will commit a commercial dishonesty. The number of men iv'ru fall into ruin between fifty and se - en ty years of age isZ.sH.ipiy appalling. If they laid u.cd thirty years before it would have been better for them and bettor for their' families. The shorter the voyage the less chance for a cyclone. The great pressure of temptation comes sometimes in tins direction. At about forty-five years of age a man’s nervous system changes and some one tells him he must ’ake stimulants to keep himself up. until the stimulants keen him down, ora man has been going along for thirty or forty years in unsuccessful business, and here is an. opening where by one dishonorable action he can Jft himself and his family fsom all financial embarrassment. fie attempts to leap the chasm and he 'alls into it. Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that one is sooner taken off the defensive. As soon as one is old enough to take care of .himself-be is

put on his guard. Bolts on the Jour | to keep out the robbrs. Fircpiuof safes to keep off the, flames. Life in su ran ce and fire in sura nee agn in s t accident. Receipts lest you have to pay a debt twice. Lifeboat against shipwreck. Westinghouse air brake against railroad collision. There aroj many to overreach you and take all i you have. Defense against cold, de-I sense against heat, defense against I sickness, defense against the world’s j abuse, defense all the way down to the grave, and even the tombstone sometimes is not a sufficient barricade. Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that one escapes so many bereavements. The longer we live the more attachments and the more kindred, the more chords to be wounded I or rasped or sundered. If a man i live on to seventy or eighty years of j age, how many graves are cleft at his feet! In that long reach of time father and mother go. brothers and sisters go, grandchildren go, personal friends outside the family circle whom they had loved with a love like that of David and Jonathan. Sol reason with myself, and so you will find it helpful to reason with yourselves. David lost his son. Though David was king, he lay on the earth mourning and inconsolable for sometime. At this distance of time, which do you really think was the one to be congratulated—the short-lived child or the longlived father? Had David died as early as that child died he would, in the first place, havg escaped that particular bereavement: then he would have escaped the worse bereavement of Absalom, his recreant son, and the pursnit of the Philistines, and the fatigue of his military camphigns, and the jealousy of Saul, and the perfidy of Ahithophel, and the curse of’Shimei, and the destruction of his family at Ziklag, and, above all, he would have escaped the two great sins of uncleanness and murder. David lived to be of vast benefit to the church and the world, but so far as his own happiness was concerned does it not seem to you that it would have been better for him to have gone early? Again, my friends, there isa blessing in an abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that it puts one sooner in the center of things. All «astronomers, infidel as well as Chris tian, agree in believipg that the universe swings around some great center. Anyone .who has studied the earth and studied the heavens knows that God’s favorite figure in geometry is a circle. When God put forth His hand to create the universe, fie did not strike that hand at right angles, but He waved it in a circle and kept on waving it in a cin le until systems and constellations and

galaxies and all worlds took that motion. Our planet swingingarouud the sun, other planets swinging around Other suns, but somewhere a great hub around which the wheel of the universe turns. Now, that center is heaven. That is the capital of the universe. That is the great metropolis of immensity. We stick to the world as though we preferred, cold drizzle to warm habitation, discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal purple—as though we preferred a piano with four or five keys out of tune to an instrument fully attuned —as though earth and ; heaven had exchanged apparel and ■ earth had taken on bridal array and. heaven had gone into deep mourning. all its waters stagnant, all its harps broken, all chalices cracked at the dry' wells, all the laws sloping to the river plowed with graves, with dead angels under the furrow. Oh, I want to break up my own infatuation and I want to break up your infatuation for this world. I tell you, if we are ready and if pur work is done, the sooner we go the better, and if there are blessings in longevity I want you to know right well there are also blessings in an abbreviated earthly existence. If the spirit of this sermon is true, ' how consoled you ought tc feel about ; members of your family that went ! earlyl “Taken from the evil to • come,” this book says. What a fort- ! unate escape they bad! How glad we ought to feel that they will never have to go through the struggles which we have had to go through! They had just time enough to get out of the cradle and run up the springtime hills of this world and see how it looked, and then they started for a better stopping place--They were like ships that pub into St. Helena, staying there a sufficient time to allow passengers to go up and see the barracks of Napoleon's captivity and then hoist sail for the port of their own native land. They only took this world “in transitu.” It is hard for us, but it is blessed for them. And if the spirit of this sermon is t rue, then we ought not to go around sighing and groaning because another year has gone, but we ought to go down on one knee by the milestone and seethe lettersand thank God that we are 365 miles nearer home. We ought not to go around with morbid feelings about our health or about anticipated demise. We ought to be living not according to that old maxim which I used to hear in my boyhood, that you must live as though everyday were the last. You must, live as though you were to live forever, for you will. Do not be nervous lest you have to move out of a shanty into an Alhambra. One Christmas morning one of my neighbors, an old sea captain, died. After life had departed his face was illuminated as though he was just going into harbor. The fact was he had already got through the “narrows.” In the adjoining room were the, Christmas presents waiting for his distribution. Long

ago, one night wnen he bad narrowly escaped with his ship from being run down by a great ocean steamer, he had made his peace with God, and a kinder neighbor or a better man you would not find this side of. heaven. Without a moment’s 1 warning the pilot of the heavenly harbor had met him just off the light- * ship. - ■ The captain often talked tome of the goodness of God, and especially of a time when he was about to go into New York harbor with his ship from Liverpool, and he was suddenly i impressed that he ought to put back to sea. Under the protest of the crew and under their very threat he put back to sea, fearing at the same time he was losing his mind, for it did seem so unreasonable that when i they could get into harbor that night i they should put back to sea. But i they put back to sea, and the captain sajd to his mate, “Youtcall me at 10 o’clock at night?” At 12 o’clock at night the captain was aroused and said: “What does this mean? I thought I told you to call me at 10 o’clock, and here it is 12.” “Why,” said the mate, “I did call you at 10 o’clock, and you got up, looked around and told me to keep right on the same course for two hours, sand then to call you at 12 o’clock.” Said the captain: “Is it possible? I have no rememberance of that.” At 12 o’clock the capain went on deck, and through the rift of the cloud the moonlight fell upon the sea and showed him a shipwreck with 100 struggling passengers. He helped them off. Had he been any earlier or later at that point of the sea he would have been of no service to these drowning people. On board the captain’s vessel they began to together as to what they should pay for the rescue and what they should pay for the provisions. “Ah,” says the captain, “my lads, you can’t pay me anything. All I have on board is yours. I feel too greatly honored of God in having saved you to take any pay.” Just like him. He never got* any pay except that of his own applauding conscience. Oh, that the old sea captain’s God might be my God and yours! Amid the stormy seas of this life may we have always some one as tenderly to take care of us as the captain who took care of the drowning crew and passengers. And may we come into the harbor with as little physical pain and with as bright a hope as he had. and if it should happen to be a Christmas morning, when the presents are being distributed and we are celebrating the birth of him who came to save our shipwrecked world, all the better, for what grander, brighter Christmas present could we have than heaven?

SAVAGE SUPERSTITION.

It Still SnrvlTM on American Soil—Horrible Story From the Far West. A horrible story of the savage laws and superstitions of the Mojave Indians is toldjiy J. F. Saunders, who arrived at Los Angeles, Cal., Monday night, from the Needles, a town on the Colorado river. The Mojaves have theiy own laws and igperstitions. On Tuesday a triple murder was committed, under the plea of a superstitious tradition, by the Indians. One of the prettiest squaws of the tribe, named Lonetta, was married according to the savage rites about a year ago.. She was only eighteen years old. Sunday she gave birth to twins and, as a result, a rrand pow-wow was called, for, according to the Mojave tradition, the squaw who has twins is a witch and a consort of evil spirits. The penalty has always been death for the babies and mother. Lonetta’s husband was so fond of her. however, that he made a strong plea for her and her babies, but It was of no avail, and the two little ones were brought forward and brained with a club. Lonetta’s personal belongings were gathered and put Into her “shack” and she was ordered inside. She bade her husband farewell and went in. The entrance was closed and straw and brush was piled around the frail structure, and in two hours but a few embers remained to tell the tragic story.

A BRITISH ROUT.

King Lonbengnla and Ills Matabcle Warriors Too Much for British Bed Coats, A London cable Dec. 27, says: A terrible disaster is said to have occurred to the scouting party under the command of Capt. Wilson, which has been in pursuit of King Lobengula and which has not been heard from for some time past. Several South African merchants in this city have received cable messages announcing that Capt. Wilson’s force had been completely annihilated by the Matabele, who are said to have cut them to pieces. It i c now stated that in addition to Wilsons party the party under Capt. Barrow, sent out to reinforce him, has been cut to pieces. The number of men composing the Wilson detachment is said to have been from forty to 100. and the Barrow detachment is reported to have been composed of about the same number of men. The news has caused great excitement throughout the city, and is being magnified on all sides.

WAR IS ENEVITABLE

(Inlets the Thunderer is Very Much Mistaken, —— _ ■ • I The London Tinies, reviewing the general political situation, dwells upon the discord at home and says that circumstances throughout the world generally appear to favor the prevalence of peace and good will equally as little as in South America, where the political movement is conducted with the aid of shot and shell adding “while everwhere the great powers stand watching each other with incessant suspicion, straining their resources to the utmost in preparing for the anticipated action. Happily there is no immediate danger of war, but it is idle to deny that in many quarters and between manv~peo-' ple the tension is greater now than it was a few months ago.” The Times thenproceeds to urge that the safety of the empire demands urgent attention being paid to the defenses.

5,021,841,056 PIECES OF MAIL.

A statement prepared at the Post Office Department shows that during the last fiscal year the total number of pieces of letter mail sent in the domestic mails of the United States was 2,407,810,175, of which 2,321,314,563 were paid at letter rates and 86,495,512 were sent on official business. Teere were also 535,917,839 postal cards handled. The number of newspapers and periodicals mailed by others than publishers and news agents, 71,078,777. The total second-class matter handled was 1,434,245,632 pieces; third-class matter, books, pamphlets, etc., 595.134.179 pieces; fourth-class matter, 48,733,181 pieces, making a grand total number of pieces of domestic mail matter handled 5,021.8-11,056.

THE TREASURY VAULTS.

Uncle Sam Has Considerable Wealth on Hand for Emergencies. There are eight vaults in the Treasury Building at Washington. They contained a total, Dec. 27, of $742,193.0)0. m part consisting of coin weighing 5.000 tons. The following is a list of the various kinds ol money and its value now deposited In the vaults: Standard silver dollars, $149.860.000:gold coin. $11,503,000; fractional silver, $333,u01; national bank notes received for redemption, $3,510,000; mixed money received daily for redemption, $1,000,000; mixed money for daily use, $1 0.0 0C0; bonds and securities for national bank circulation, $250,003,000; hold as a reserve to replace worn and mutilated notes unlit for circulation, 8325,000,000. ,

COUNTY SEAT CHANGED.

It Will Go From Leavenworth to English— Appraiser*. X The Crawford county war over the location of the county seat has been settled and the county seat will be moved from Leavenworth to English. The real estate in Leavenworth must now be appraised and its value paid to the town as an indemnity. Under the law of 1889 this musi be done by three disinterested, non-resi-dent persons. The Governor has appointed John L. Rutherford, of Washington county; C. D. Ridley, of New Albany, and J. Offut, of Jackson county. They will meal at Leavenworth, Jan. 16.1894.

RACE TROUBLES IN FLORIDA.

Negroes Killed and Wounded—The Troopt Ordered Oat. At Wildwood. Fla., Monday night, a fight started between armed forces of negroes arid white men, and the local authorities were not able to stop it. Four negroes were Icillod and fifteen wounded. Gov. Mitchell has sent the Tampa Riflbs to the scene to restore order. Much bloodshed is feared, >

HOW WE DIE.

The Final Departure of the Spirit Described by a Clairvoyant. Dr. Cyriax, of the Spiritualistiiche Blatter, delivered »» address some time ago in Berlin oa the subject of death. After dealing with the vegetable and animal king lores in a general way he referred t. death in man in the following terras: “In man the manner in which death is revealed has been described by hundreds of clairvoyant persons, who agree in saying that the spirit leaves its earthly envelope by the top of the cranium. They observe immediately after that a kind of a vaporous mass rises from the head and, taking human form, condenses more and more, and finally becomes a faithful portrait of a dying person. When the complete form has left the body they have seen that the spiritual element still remained attached by a kind of fluidic ligament originating in the region of the brain and heart. This form endures for five or six hours and after it is severed the man feels no more. We should not break out in lamentations beside a death bed, nor speak of the dying person, nor attempt to retain the life which is escaping. Outbursts of grief always produce a disagreeable impression upon a person who is passing away, because, although internal sensations are blunted, the impressions are nevertheless made. Death itself is nothing, but there are difficulties in dying just as in being born. Some people die fully conscious: others are half conscious that life is abandoning them, and each comprehends and hears what is passing around. For all death is similar to a dream produced by narcotics. To those who die in full consciousness, the interruption of life appears like a sudden swoon. Those who are only partially conscious are speedily insensible to pain; feel, in general, pretty well, and fall asleep like a man after a hard day’s work. The latter circumstance accounts for the fact that many spirits on awaking fancy themselves for the moment still in the flesh, until the sight of their own body stretched out before them brings the conviction that they have just entered the world of spirits. By death man suffers no change of form, of organization or of character. He is neither better nor worse; knows neither more nor less; has neither gained nor lost in any point, nor in any aptitude. He has only acquired com ditions more favorable for his ultimate development. The object of spiritualism is to call attention to these facts. Death is simply a progressive evolution under the dominion of natural laws. It is a blessed liberation which frees man from the slavery of earth, dissipates the fogs which here obscures his vision and a.cLear field to all his aptitudes.”

Ups and Down.

Now York Sun. When, twenty years ago, Stephen W. Dorsey, then a United States Senator from Arkansas, purchased the Uno De Gato grant in New Mexico, to which, a few years later, he went to live, he was a very wealthy man. This tract, lying in Colfax county, twenty-five miles east of the railroad town of Springer, comprises about 30,000 (acres of valuable grazing lands, and upon it he expended more than 1300,000 in improvements. His residence, a palatial one, with complete and luxurious appointments, contained a fine art gallery, adorned with rare pictures ■ collected in many trips to Europe, and his gardens and greenhouses were filled with rare exotics and native flowers. Gas, the telephone, and all the trades and appliances of a complete urban community were part of the equipment of the headquarters of this powerful cattle king. The hospitality of the owner was unbounded* He kept open hduse. and among bis guests were notable men and women from every part of the world. But the expense of the Star-Route trials, bis lavish generosity, and the depression in the cattle industry impaired his resources, and he abdicated his reign as cattle king in the recent sale of his great New Mexican estutp, with all its belongings. His numerous irrigation, mining, arid land investments in Colorado have proved disastrous, and it is now reported that he is a poor man.

A man who was a prosperous country merchant up |o 1867, then became a banker in a flourishing northern Indiana town, and in 1872 was elected a member of the Indiana Legislature, now fills the position of church janitor at a salary of $8 per month. He considers himself in luck to have succeeded in getting the latter position with its small pittance of compensation. Fate has dealt severely with him —undeservedly so for he was not and is not now a bad man.—South Bend Times. Woman's rights are rapidly making headway in the Old World, for ,in England a lady by the name of Miss Loch, holding the position of superintendent in the Indian Military Nursing Service, was called upon at a public dinner to respond to the toast of “The Army”, while the Russian government has just appointed as principal medical officer of the trans-Caspian town of Kassirnan, Mme. Bibi-Radya-Kondlouia-row, the first Mohammedan who has ever succeeded in passing the examination entitling her to a diploma of doctor of medicine.