Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — Page 6

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

TITLED JONATHAN. I George Ticknor Curtis, the celebrated author, iu a lengthy communication to the N. Y. Sun, protests agaist being called “Hon.” “L. L. D.,’’ “Judge,” “Col.” etc., stating that he has never held a public Of- i fice of any kind, or had a college de- ; gree of any grade conferred upon j him. He deprecates the tendency Qf Americans to confer titles upon people indiscriminately, without regard to their fitness or adaptation. Some of our embryo statesmen and ambitious clergymen who fish for titles and “honors” with a grab net would add greatly to their strength of character by a similar course. Every callow youth who has been admitted to the bar in the woolly west deems himself slighted if his letters fail to come addressed to the "‘Hon. Y. G. Noodlehead,” and if the village Weekly Wheezer fails to speak of the “brilliant forensic effort of the Hon. Y. G. N.” in his maiden speech, then —well —“stop my paper”— and the poor editor is forever squelched. Every red-faced and blushing boy who by reason of a little surplus cash and an unaccountable popularity among his fellows in secret societies rises to the rank of f'Major” or “Col.'' believes that Fame is already standing at the head of the avenue with a laurel wreath to crown the Conquering 1 •Hero embodied in his fragile form, and if be lives for fifty years he will cherish the proud title that caused his youthful heart to throb with joy. The number of obscure ‘‘D. D.’s.” whose alma maters in a fit of aberration have conferred the title that should only crown superior merit and transcendent ability upon well meaning but egotistic “Doctors” who will thenceforth feel themselves as among the “elect,” is realized by few. Possibly all this is a harmless exhibition of human vanity and weakness. It certainly is a useless one. OUR NEW SISTERS. The sisterhood of States seems likely to gain several new members during the term-of the Fifty-Third Congress. It is with the history and future of Okalahoma, however, that this article will deal. Its admission as a State seems assured. The people of the Territory are said to be rather indifferent about the inatter and are fully occupied with matters of pressing interest, without caring at present to peer into an unknown future of dignity and glory as an integral and potent part of the great American Union. Nevertheless Congress is going through the preliminary parliamentary stages necessary for the transformation, and in due time Okalahoma will be ''one of us. ” By the terms of the bill now pending Okalahoma will have two members of the House of Representatives, and, of course, two Senators. The new State will contain 23,265,709 acres, or 36,353 square miles. There are twelve States smaller than Oklahoma. Indiana has 36,350 square miles, thus ranking as a smaller commonwealth by three square miles. The population of the Territory is now believed to be about 250,000. This is a larger population than that of any other State at the time of its admission. There are now thirty banks in Oklahoma. The education- I al facilities are remarkable for such i a pioneer community, and are rapidly growing better. The climate is unsurpassed. Wheat, in 1893, averaged twenty bushels to the acre. As yet there have been no State buildings erected, but the preliminary steps have been taken to provide the necessary edifices. With the admission of Oklahoma, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico the number of States west of the Mississippi river will reach twenty-two. “Westward the Star of Empire takes its way,” to plains where nature blossoms in her virgin pride. The overflow of a .mighty people is fast transforming the wilderness into a garden. Not in our day will the problem have to be solved, but in the future, when the mighty west is subdued and settled, will the question arise, Where shall the surplus energy and vigor of the race find a congenial field?

OUR NAVAL FORCE. Manj’, thousands of people who viewed the brick and mortar battleship off the coast of Cook county. 11l nois, during the summer will be —iatt reslel with the information that five powerful modern vessels belonging to our navy are now massed ip the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. They are the Newark, Charleston, the armored cruiser New York and the double-turret monitor Miantonomah. , They are all supplied with modern methods of offense and defense and are supposed to be able to hold their own against any force that can be brought against them on the high «eas. The object of thus massing a powerful fleet of war vessels In the

harbor of Rio is not clearly aoparent. | American interests in Brazil are of [ comparatively small importance, and it is not probable that the United Stateswill-attempttointerferewith the internecine struggle now in progress in Dom Pedro's old domain. The information is interesting, however, in a general way, to Hoosiers I wtio are apt to forget that we have a ! navy that still carries the Stars and Stripes to the remotest ports of the earth. J

VANISHED GLORIES. Our idols have fallen! Our dream of beauty has ended! Our hope of further dalliance in the intoxication that so long enthralled us has forever passed away! With the destruction of the Peristyle, the Casino and Music Hall, with the practical ruin of the mountainous Manufactures Building, the glory of the Court of Honor has been so sadly marred that a visit to its once enchanted precincts would seem but mockery —a painful reminder of departed joys that never more shall gladden the hearts of those who love the The Beautiful. Like the pale and ghastly corpse of a departed friend that lies a helpless, hopeless wreck before us, wringing our hearts with dnguish as we recall the loving look or gentle word or kind caress that ever greeted us from the fast dissolving remains, so will , the wreckage of Jackson Park appeal to all the favored mortals who beheld its glory and who now behold the funeral pyre from whence ascended to the heavens all that triumph of the mind and soul that made it so complete a joy. Not for one brief year could it be spared to us, nor again a bright succession of halcyon days be given us to disport ’twixt the lake and land—amid the glamour of the waters blue, triumphal arch and columns white that held aloft to lingering view the sculptor’s art and legends that could stir the ’ heart. Alas, that to memory and the intangible record of the canvass and the graver’s art must we forever turn to see again man’s greatest triumph in our day. “Still o'er those scenes mv memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser-care; Time but the impression deeper makes As streams their channels deeper year.”

PROGRESSIVE BENEVOLENCE. The ladies—“ God bless ’em,” ol course—have a new idea. Not that a new idea is at all remarkable with the American contingent of the sex. Quite the reverse. Still church fairs, kissing bees, fish ponds, etc., have so long served to catch the elusive dollar for the furtherance of all missionary enterprises, such as whitewashing the church edifice, buying a new Bible for the pulpigt, or a new carpet for the aisles, as well as to send Bibles to the heathen to counteract the influence of the unlimited quantities of whisky going by the same ships—that an innovation on these established customs is worthy of note. And such an innovation l Should the fad become a fashion,' then, indeed, are. our troubles but commenced, and we shall see the loving maids and matrons gay “wax grey and ghastly ere their time.” The scheme is simple and deals with dimes—a ten cent ante, sc to speak—but the ultimate result, if carried to its logical conclusion, wil] bring to the church “wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.” To begin, a lady writes to her friends requesting each to remit a dime “for the good of the cause,” etc., and further asks that the friend addressed shall aid the cause by writing to her friends, making substantially the same demand; and so on, until the series oi begging letters shall reach the number of thirty—all letters and remittences to be sent to the originator of the series. It is a grand scheme, but the inventor probably had no conception of its vast possibilities. Should it ever be actually carried out to the end, the number of let ters that would have to be writ ten would reach 617.673,385,755,144! Each man, woman and child in the world would receive and answer 22,J 059 letters. The amount realized would reach $30,883,669,282,757.20. The Government would receive in postage $2,353,467,713,102.88 forever settling the pension and tarifl questions. Yes, the ladies have made “a hit, a palpable hit,” this time. If you don’t believe it, take a vaca tion and figure it out for yourself

Not Out Mind.

New York World. Husband (off for a journey)—Do you often think of me when I am gone? Wise —Indeed I do. It takes me a week to get the smell of sr.oko out of the house.

Prudent Advice.

Brooklyn Life. • Blinks—Have you read that article on “How to Tell a Bad Egg?" Winks—No, I have not, but my advice would be: If you have anything important to tell a bad egg. break it gently.

Where Bullion Goes.

Europe consumes upward of thirty million dollars’ worth of gold and silver annually for plate,’ jewelry and ornaments.

FARMS AND FARMERS.

Pure Bred Animals. Prof. L. Q. Roberts. The strictly pure-blooded animals of the best.quality are high priced". No breed can fit perfectly into every condition on but few farms. An infusion of the mixed blooded cattle of any locality is likely to give stamina and vigor to the pure bred, and such stock can be preserved more cheaply and more easily. Therefore, it is safe to advise the farmer to breed a variety of animals to suit his particular locality and wants. He should start with the best of the animals on the dam side Avhich he already has, because of necessity have in time adapted themselves to the food they have received, the land upon which they have grazed and the uses to which they have been put, and it is not good policy to introduce animals of different characteristics and qualities without very good and sufficient reasons. Success lies always in improving that which is already at hand, and I know of .no better way than to unite the successes of the plain farmer with his plain-bre<| cattle to those of the more skilled breeder of good-bred animals. To the man who knows how to use them, the pure breeds are of inestimable value. To the man who is steadily improving his animals, success comes quickly, and he finds that he is not only possessed of grades, but of valuable families of cattle, sheep, swine, etc. To this of domestic animals the pure-bred animal is a necessity, if he would accomplish his purpose quickly and cheaply. But the pure bred to the man who has plenty of money and little experience is a snare to the man who has little money and little experience the grades and varieties of animals are better than pure bloods. Since all breeds and varieties have been formed by steady and slow advancement. so all valuable qualities in any breed, variety, family or mongrel animals, must be secured by the same slow, painstaking process. The plebeian animal can easily be raised in a few generations to the dignity of a variety, and some of the best specimens will form as good foundation stock for new breeds as those which formed the beginning of the breeds which we already have. The United States needs a far greater number of breeds; the farmer needs tin infinite number of varieties; in fact, every farmer Should have a variety of cattle all his own, suited to his pastures, his feed bin, his skill, his climate and the purposes to which he desires to put them. The cattle should not be better than their owner —in time they will not be.

Lean Pigs. In spite of the general admission that the day of fat pigs have gone by, farmers are slow to learn the lesson, and the following circular, issued in England, is equally instructive reading in this country. “In consequence of so "many feeders continuing to make their pigs too fat, and the great difficulty we find in disposing of over-fat bacon, combined with the constantly increasing competition from foreign curers who are able to supply leaner meat such as the public require, we are obliged to take some very definite step to obtain leaner pigs. “We would impress on farmers the desirability of breeding or buying only such stock as are of good frame and growth, and refusing to feed, for bacon purposes, all short, thick pigs, which must prove as unsatisfactory to them as to us. They will undoubtedly best serve their interests by studying the public taste, thus creating an increased demand and consequently higher standard of prices for their pigs.” Money In Saddle Horses. Farmers should give attention just now to the breeding of saddlehorses, says the ‘‘Breeders’ Gazette,” for there has seldom been a time when the demand for good saddlery has Deen stronger than it is now in large cities. A handsome, well-trained saddle horse will bring from $250 to tst)o. There are two distinct kinds of saddle horses, each having its admirers. One is the type most fancied in England, and by American admirers of English fashions, the gaits being simply the walk, trot and canter. The other kind is the Kentucky saddler, which in addition to the above gaits, has the running walk fox-trot, rack«and pace. There is a good demand for both kinds, but both should have a certa ; n amount of training before they are ready for the market. It is not difficult, however, to do this, and where

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH IN INDIANA. - Built in 1803- Still eluding three miles north of Charlestown.

there is someone about the farm who has a taste for riding, the raising of a few saddle horses and preparing them for market can be profitably accomplished. Separating the Cream. There is perhaps no division of farm economy in which greater progress has been made within the past 20 years than that of the separation of cream from the milk. The old mode of setting the milk away until the separation was completed more are less imperfectly, by variations in specific gravity, is by far too slow for the modern dairyman. Now the cream must not only be taken from the milk with great rapidity, but it must also be accomplished by the use of machinery, which has been so complete that the milk may be drawn from the cows, the cream taken out by rapidly running machinery and the milk and cream, in separate vessels, put away to cool in as little time as was formerly required for the operations of straining and putting the milk away. The application of centrifugal force for this separation was first discovered and applied to the separation of fatty matters from water and to the separation of liquids from the malt in European breweries. Slowly and by steady lines of improvement machinery has been adapted by the new want, and now the freshly drawn milk is poured into the vat, a faucet opened and it is run through the cent trlfugal at the rate of 1,500 pounds per hour and the cream delivered at one spout and the skim milk is another. So nicely has this machinery been adjusted to the needs of the dairyman that by the movement of a single set-screw t one. half or any portion of the cream may be taken out and the remainder be left in the skim-milk, or any desired proportion of the milk may be taken out with the cream. For several years past more or less complicated machinery, including a steam engine, was necessary to transfer the motion to the rapidly revolving centrifugal separator, but by the latest invention, now in practical use near Harrisburg, machineryis entirely removed, and the machine is now driven by a jet of steam direct from the boiler, and without the intervention of machinery of any kind, and, complete as this appears to be, it is still further improved by the use of a current of compressed and cold air instead of the steam.

The Production of Manure. Bulletin No. 56 of the Cornell University Station is devoted to th? discussion of the cheaper methods of producing valuable manure by feeding various domestic animals with different feeding stuffs. In the experiments the animals were kept upon tight floors and were littered enough with cut straw to keep them dry and absorb all moisture- The value of the resulting manure was estimated on the basis of prices paid for commercial fertilizers in the market, namely, nitrogen, 15 cents per pound; phosphoric acid, 6 cents, and potash 41 cents. The experiments showed that over 70 per cent, of the manurial value of the food consumed was recovered in the manure. It must be remembered, however, that the value is found chiefly in the liquid portion which is generally wasted. The values of manure recovered from 1,000 pounds live weight of animals, fed per year were, for sheep, $28.09; for calves, $24.45; for pigs. $60.88; cows, $29.27; horses, $38.94, The superior value of the pig manure is explained by the fact that these animals were largely fed on meat scraps. The tables contain valuable suggestions to the farmer and empha size the importance of practicing greater economy in the' care and management of barn manure.

Poultry Notes. Size in poultry is usually influenced by the hen. A change of diet is essential to good condition. Cleanliness keeps away disease and avoids loss. The Minorcas are said to be the coming breed. The medium-sized breeds are the most active and robust. If you want eggs you must make your poultry exercise, Dry-picked turkeys bring better prices than scalded ones. Raw onions chopped fine are said to be excellent for colds.. All kinds of poultry are very fond of milk, whether sweet or sour. Fowl that feather and mature early are usually good egg producers. Fowl d vi lea up into small flocks do better than when crowded together.

“ABT,” YET AWFUL.

Fremliet’s Famous Statue of the “Maiden and Gorilla” in Wax. New York World. ■Fremiet’s sculpture of a gorilla earrying off a maiden is world-fa-mous. Even the marble is sufficiently horrible. The ferocity of the huge beast and the deadly terror of his victim contribute to make it re pulsive. Yet the lover of art can not but admire the sculpture, while he feels a thrill of disgust. There was published not long ago, in a German art journal, a story about this bit of sculpture. The story was true and the names of the people were given. The story ran thus: “A friend of Fremiet’s was engaged to marry a beautiful girl who lived in Munich, but the girl was poor and her parents sought a richer husband for her. While her lover was absent his sweetheart was, perforce, married to a very vulgar and ugly but immensely wealthy banker. When the discarded suitor learned that, wild with anger and jealousy, he modeled in wax a group that showed to the life the abduction of a beautiful girl by a gorilla.” It was more lifelike than Fremiet’s marble, for the girl’s features were the features of the banker’s bride. That group was placed on in this city, Saturday, at the Eden Musee. It is almost inexpressibly horrible. It stands in a dimlylighted chamber in the middle of a grove of trees. The full moon is coming up above the

THE MAIDEN AND THE GORILLA.

horizon. Clasped in the gorilla’s right arm and pressed tight to his shaggy bosom is the form«of a girl. Her eyes are closed, for she has swooned, but even in her fearful dread she seeks with all her feeble power to free herself from the embrace of the monster. Her shapely figure, scantily draped, seems to be not a feather’s weight in the gorilla’s powerful grasp. One hand she presses against the gorilla’s hairy chest, in the vain attempt to free herself.- Either the monster’s tusks or his nails have torn long gashes in her soft white flesh. Her long hair floats in the wind; she is limp, almost inanimate. Her bosom heaves gently as the last sighs of her life escape her. The beast himself is a nightmare. If drunkards saw -him in their dreams, no need for lectures on temperance. His long, muscular left arm hangs to his knees. In that hand he bolds a rock that he has grabbed up to hurl at his pursuers. For he is pursued. The feathers of an arrow that has struck him in his ruthless flight, and part of the arrow shaft project from his paunch. -Hehas death wound. Moved by hidden mechanicism, he turns, now to scowl upon those he has left behind, now to gloat over the hapless maiden in his grasp. His eyes roll as much in anticipation as in anger and in the agonies of the fate that he feels will take him away all too soon. He grinds his teeth, gnashing his jaws in a very ecstacy of rage. .He is a very Satan of beasts, a mammon of gorillas. There was a crowd about this group all last evening. Some women look at it —most of them looked only for a moment. “Dreadful! horrible!” they exclaim, and hurried away.

PEOPLE.

Odd, but true, that Boston has a statue of Theodore Parker in a warehouse waiting for a w pedestal and a site. Butterworth, of Yale, who won the game for his team at Springfield, last Saturday, is the son of Ben Butterworth, of Cincinnati. W. D. Howells is said to have enough literary wbrk mapped out and contracted for the next year to assure him, with the royalties on his published books, an income of $30,000.

What can a young man of barely twenty-five years of age want with 14,000" worth of shirts? Among the liabilities of the eldest son of Sir Robert Peel, who has just become bankrupt, is an item of that amount. His debts amount to some $250,000, while his assets are practically nil. The youngest child of a Revolutionary soldier is suppposed to be ex-Judge Jeremiah Smith, an instructor in the Harvard Law School. He is fifty-six years old. His father was Judge Jeremiah Smith, of New Hampshire, who was one of the most prominent figures in the early, history of that State, and who entered the Revolutionary army at the age of 17. His son was born when he was seventy-eight years old. The present Judge Smith has been a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, but resigned on account of ill-health in 1874.

OUR PLEASURE CLUB.

'* ‘Charles Sos tleigh is a regular milk and water kind of a person, isn’t he?” “Yes: I suppose that’s why he’s always talking about his blue blood.” Wise —What are you on a strike for now? 1 Hbsband —I don’t know. I didn’t go to the last meeting. But I must have some grievance that I hadn’t noticed or I wouldn’t have been ordered out. Pugilist—Say, young fellow, is you the sporting editor who writ this article callin’ me a bully? Sporting Editor (very much agitated) —No, sir, I didn’t write that you were a bully. That is a typographical error. What I wrote was that you were a bully fellow. Pugilist—ls dat so? Come have one wid me. THE OUTWITTED DOG. Frlegende Blaetter.

Watts—l don’t-believe Jonah was swallowed by a whale. A whale’s throat is too narrow for any such performance. Potts —But think how small the man must have felt when he realized that he was the original Jonah. i Annie—You should be excused .when you leave the table. Little Nephew—Should I? I thought from the way you acted about that third piece of pie you would be glad to see me go. “Your neighbor appears to have failed a good many times.” ' “Just twenty-four times. The next will be his silver bankruptcy,” Lady of the House —I think you would suit; but have you a recom-. mendation from your old place. Applicant—l lived with her two years, but as we were never intimate she did not feel that she could conscientiously recommend me.

Georgie—Here’s 10 cents more for my Christmas money; Mr. Staylatc gave it to me. Mamma—What did you say to the gentleman, dear? Georgie —Oh, I just Nero loose if I saw any other fellow cornin’ to call. Teacher —We have been reading about the flags of the different nations; now, Johnnie, you may tell what Turkey has. Johnnie — Why— er —cranberries an’ mince pies an’ everything good. “Biggs’ wife has, wonderful selfcontrol, hasn’t she? He--What did she do? She —When she went home from calling last night and found her husband very ill she called up the doctor by telephone before she locked at herself in the mirror.

Terre Haute Wit.

Dan Micauley. lu Washington Post. Senator Voorhees, Col. Tom Nelson and Boudinot, the well-known Cherokee chief, were trying to locate themselves in a jerky street car which Boudinot only succeeded in doing after being thrown headlong over one lady then violently back on another. “Why, Boudinot,” said the quiet Senator, “I »t bought you were a Cherokee, but it seems that you are really a paw-knee.’’ “No,’’said the dignified Nelson, “he’s a lau-lander.”