Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. “ E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

“Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked." Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, b on the war-path and announces his determination to enforce the lfquor Jaw of that State to the letter even if it requires the entire militia force at his command to successfully carry out its provisions. He will brook no opposition to or competition with the legally authorized State dispensaries of alcoholic beverages. Tnn exclusive and dignified United States Senate rejected Mr. Hornblower. Mrs. Emily S. Nelson, of New York, took a different view of bis merits and married him. He will doubtless be. a very good husband, if he cannot be a Supreme Cqurt justice, as the lady was the 6ister of his deceased wife and had lived in his family for seven years, the most of the time a widow.

It is stated for a fact that Hon. W. H. English, of Indianapolis, has such a prejudice against elevators that he has never rode in one, and he avers that he. would Climb 500 feet of stairway rather than take a risk of accident which he feels is always hanging over the reckless mortals who daily soar and plunge betwixt heaven and earth to save a little time and extra exertion.

The 90th birthday of Gen. NealDow. March 20. 1804. is to be generally observed throughout the United States by meetings in the interest of temperance reform. Neal Dow was born in Portland, Me., March 20, 1804, and there are few men of seventy who are to-day so active and well preserved in every way as he is at eighty-nine. His entire manhood has been devoted to an earnest advocacy of total Abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Representative citizens of the aouth of Ireland will soon hold a meeting at Cork to urge the British government to maintain the Queenstown mail route to and from America. The British Postmaster-General is said to favor the Southampton route, but the people of Cork and contiguous territory hope to be able to bring sufficient pressure to bear to prevent a change from the present order of things. The Japanese sire models of candor and frankness. They call a spade a spade, and sign their names to their sentiments. A Jap in Sendai recently became convinced that wine drinking was ruining his financial prospects, and thereupon announced in the local newspapers that in-the future he intended to abstain uuless somebody u set 'em up," and signed the remarkable ad. “Takanashi Rvozabaro.”

Indianapolis papers are howling for a pest house, quarreling over the donation of $5,000 to Mr. Fortune, secretary of the Commercial Club, for alleged extra! services during the encampment, finding fault with the quality of meat donated to the poor, sneezing at the Police Superintendent, pitching into the Board of Works for their inaction in improvement matters, abusing the Street Railway Company for inadeqate service—and altogether seem to be in a most unhappy ‘ 'frame” of mind. The possibilities of chemical research are imperfectly understood. Every year new triumphs are achieved in this direction. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that chloroform can be made from natural gas for ten cents a pound. Other chemical compounds are* also to be obtained from this wonderful product of nature, such as methyl and alcohol, at a cost trifling when com- , pared to that of other processes. A company to manufacture such articles will be organize 1 in Indianapolis by a Pittsburg chemist.

The old saying “As cheap as dirt," will hereafter have to be used with qualifying specifications. In other words you must locate the dirt that you intend to use as a simile for a low price on any article. The rate at which extremely small pieces of terra firma have recently been selling in Chicago and in New York has destroyed the usefulness if the time worn adage to a certain extent. The last and most remark-able-sale on record in .this country was for a small block in New York City bounded by Broadway, Cedar, Liberty and Temple, streets, which was knocked down to a Chicago syndicate for $2,700,000. The property was owned by several persons and measures 117 feet on Broadway, 159

feel on Liberty. 115 i feet on Temple. and 152 feet on Cedar street. The block is covered by old build* ings and they have all changed hands within the past three years at prices which would only aggregate $1,490,000, leaving the handsome profit to the foriunate purchasers' who have just “let go" to the Chicago capitalists of $1,210,000 Some dirt is not cheap, even in these hard times.

Germans are proverbially slow going, phlegmatic and disposed to let the world jog on in the old ruts rather than be troubled with modern innovations, but a Berlin stenpg* rapher has lately discovered a trick that even a down east Yankee from the land of wooden nutmegs might emulate and view with envy. Being without sufficient employment be developed a taste for reporting funeral sermons, of which he prepared elaborately ornamented copies, finding a ready sale for his work among the friends of the deeased subject of the discourse. This should serve as a valuable pointer to many of the unemployed graduates of our numerous stenographic institutions.

The evil of smoking*, and especially of cigarette smoking, among the youth of the country, has grown to alarming proportions, and is seemingly rapidly increasing. The effects of all kinds of nicotine poisoning upon boys of immature age has long been known to be ruinous in the extreme. A French physician has recently investigated the effect of smoking on thirty-eight boys of from 9to 15 years of age. Twentyseven were found to exhibit distinct symptoms of nicotine poisoning. In twenty-two there were serious disorders. dullness of intellect and a marked appetite for strong di ink. Four had ulceration of the mouth. “They do these things different in France." It has not been generally known in this country that the late Emperor Louis Napoleon had a son, previous to his marriage with the Empress Eugenie, whose mother was entirely unknown to the records of the aristocracy, as she is to this chronicler, whom he acknowledged publicly as such, bestowing upon him a large tract of territory and the title of Count d'Orx on his accession to the throno of the groat Corsican. Count d’Orx has recently died of the grip, and his demise has brought to public notice the anomalous position that he occupied on account of his descent from an imperial father and an unknown mother of plebian birth and uncertain social position. The late Count is said to have borne astrikiug resemblance to his father, which likeness he took great pains to preserve and enhance jjJnrfe\q»ry way by wearing the imperial and mus4ache.eliaEaaterisUc«aL Louis Napoleon, also imitating his style of dress in all particulars so far as possible, but, unlike his distinguished parent, he at no time evinced any interest in politics, but devoted the years of his manhood to agricultural pursuits.

PARTISAN COURTIERS.

jßuropcun Queens anil Their Peculiar ' Influence. Marquis de Fontenoy in Chicago Record. At Paris, during the time of the empire, the entourage of the Empress Eugenie was in permanent opposition to the cabinet of the day, the policy of her majesty being in tiagraut contradiction to that of the Emperor with regard to Spain, Rome, Austria and Mexico. Indeed, the disastrous wars of Mexico and Germany, the first of which weakened and discredited the Napoleonic regime, while the second brought about its overthrow, were entirely due to thej,Empress’ party having temporarily gained the upper hand. It was owing to her antagonism to the King of Italy and her pronounced sympathies in favor of the Vatican that Victor Emmanuel declined to come to the rescue of his quondam ally and benefactor, Napoleon 111., in 1870. In Servia Queen Natalie and her entourage were invariably in political opposition to her husband’s ministers, and the same may be said of Carmen Sylva, the Queen of Roumania. In Austria the Empress has always made a point of holding aloof from politics, but her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie, a woman of most reactionary instincts and of masterful mind, permitted her friends and her followers to make her palace the headquarters of the opposition to the progressive and enlightened policy of her ministerial advisers. In Holland, during the reign of the late King, his wife apd be® frifends so openly opposed him and his ministers on all matters of domestic and foreign policy that ho was several times on the point of banishing her from the kingdom. Neither in Belgium nor in Sweden nor in any of the minor German Kingdoms, nor yet in Portugal, does the court of the Queen play any political role, while in Russia both the present Empress and her predecessor, the late Czarina, have followed the example of the Empress of Austria, and have declined to paSrmit their entourage to interfere in any way with the administration of government by the ministers of their husbands.

LIGHTS OF THE SEA

Undying Influence of Maui’s Most T ri vial Acts. I'be Journey of'Life an<l the Ph<>«[>hnrr«-cem-e of Good Dt-cd* That 21 »y Be Left Behind—l»r. Sermon. 1 Dr. Talmagc preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: “Lightning of the Sea." Text: Job xii, 22—“ He maketh a path to shine at- | terhifn.” He said: If for the next thousand years min- | isters of religion should prea h from - this bible, there will vet be texts; unexpounded and unexplained and i unappreciated. What little has been said concerning this chapter in Job from which mv text is taken bears on the controversy as to what was really the leviathan described as disturbing the sea.. What creature it was I know not. Some say it was a whale. Some say it. was a crocodile. Mv own opinion is it was a sea inonst tr now extinct. No creature now floating in Mediterranean or Atlantic waters corresponds to Job’s description. What most interests me is that as it moved through the deep it left the waters flashing and resplendent. In the words of the text, “He maketh a path to shine after him." What was that iliumined path. It was phosphorescence. You find it In the wake of a ship in the night, especially after rough weather. Phosphorescence is the lightning of the sea. That his figure of speech is correct in describing its appearance I am certified by an incident. After crossing the Atlantic the first time and writing from Basle, Switzerlagd, to an American magazine an account of my voyage, in which nothing more fascinated me than the phosphorescence in the ship's wake, I called it the lightning of the sea. I Returning to rn.v hotel, I found a i book of John Riiskin, and the first sentence my eyes fell upon was his description of phosphorence, in which he called it “the lightning of the sea.” Down to the postoffice I hastened to get the manuscript, and with great labor and some expense got possession of the magazine article and put quotation marks around that one sentence, although it was original with me as with John Ruskin. This phosphorescence is the appearance of myriads of the animal kingdom rising, falling, playing, flashing, living, dying. These luminous animalcules for nearly 151) years have been the study of naturalists and the fascination ar.d solemnization of all who have brain enough to think. Now, God. who puts in His Bible nothing trivial or useless, calls the attention of Job. The greatest scientist of his day. to this phosphorescence, and as the leviathan of the deep sweeps past points out the fact that “he maketh a path to shine after him.” What influence will we leave in this world after we have gone through it? “None,’’ answer hrtn-dreds~of~voiees;-‘.‘w(> are not one.ciL tfreimmortafe Fifty years after we are out of the world it wiil be just as though we had never inhabited it.’’ You are wrong in saying that. I pass down through this audience and up through these galleries and I am looking for some one whom I cam it find. -r I am looking for-one who will have no influence in this world 109 years from now. But I have found the man who has the least influence, and I inquire into his history, and I find that by a ves or no he decided some one’s eternity, In time of temptation he gave an affirmative or a negative to some temptation which another, hearing of, was induced to decide in the same wav. Clear on the other side of the next million years may be the first you will hear of the long-reaching influence of that yes or no, but hear of it you will. Will that father make a path to shine after him? Will that mother make a path to shine after her? You will bewalkingalongrthe.se streets, or along that country road, 200 years from now in the character of your descendants. Better look out what bad influence you start, for you may not be able to stsp it. It does not require very great force to ruin others. Why was it that, many years ago, a great flood nearly destroyed New Orleans? A crawfish had burrowed into the banks of the river until the ground was saturated, and the banks weakened until the flood burst. But I find here a man who starts out in life with the determination, that he will never see suffering but he will try to alleviate it. and never see discouragement but he will try to cheer it, and never meet with anybody but he will try to do him good. Getting his strength from God, he starts from home with the high purpose of doing all the good he can possibly do in one dav. - Whether standing behind the counter, or talking in the business office with a pep behind his ear. or making a bargain with* a fellow trader, or out in the fields d iscussing with his next neighbor the wisest rotation of crops, or in the shoemaker’s shop pounding the sole leather, there is something in his face, and in his phraseology, and in | liis manner that demonstrates the j grace of God in his heart. For fifty or sixty years ite leads | that kind of a life and then gets t through with it and goes into heaven ! a ransomed soul. But I am not going to describe the port into which ; that ship has entered. I am not 1 going to describe the Pilot who met him outside at the “light ship.” T am not going t/> grv a-i-thing about the crowds of friends who met him on the obrystalhuo wuarveu, up

which he goes on steps of chrysoprases. For Godin His word calls me W?look at the path of foam in the wake of the Ship, and I tell you it is util agleam with splendors of kindnesses done and rolling with illumined tears that were wiped away-and adash with congratulations, and clear cut to the horizon in ad directions is the sparkling, flashing, billowing phosphorescence of a Christian life. “He maketh a path to shine after him?" Have you any arithmetic capable of estimating the influence of our good and gracious friend who a few days ago went up to rest —George W. Childs, of Philadelphia? Prom a newspaper that was printed for thirty years without one word of defamation or scurrility or scandal and putting chief emphasis on virtue and charity and clean intelligence he reapeid a fortune for himself and then distributed a vast amount of it among the poor and struggling, putting his invalid an i aged reporters on pensions,until his name stands everywhere for large heartiness and syrnpat'iv and help and highest style of Christian gentleman. In an era which had in the chairs of its journalism a Horace Greely, and a Henry J. Raymond, and a James Gordon Bennett, and an Erastus Brooks, and a George William Curtis, and an Irenaeus Prime, none of them will be longer remembered than George W. Childs. Staying away from the unveiling of the monument he had reared at a large expense in our Greenwood in memory of Prof. Proctor, the astronomer, lest I should say something in praise of the man who had paid for the monument. By all acknowledged a representative of the highest American journalism. If you would calculate his influence for good, you must count how many sheets of his newspapers have been published in the last quarter of a century, and haw many people have read them, and the effect not only upon those readers, but upon all whom they shall influence for all time, while you add to all that the work of the churches he helped build, and of the institutions of mercy h i helped found. Better give up before you start the measuring of the phos' phorescence in the wake of that ship of the Celestial line.

But I cannot look upon that luminosity that follows ships without realizing how fond the Lord is oi life. That fire of the deep is life, myriads of creatures all aswimand aplay and aromp in parks of marine beauty laid out and parterred and roseate:! and blossomed by omnipo tence. What is the use of those creatures called by the naturalists “crustaceans" and “copepods," not more than one out of hundreds of billions of which are ever seen by human eye? -God created them forthe same- reason that He creates flowers in places where no human foot ever makes them tremble, anno human nostril ever inhales thei redolence, and no human eye evei sees their charm. In the botanical world they prove that God loves aaEfflmcJ&lft the. marine world the •• play, life in brilliancy of gladness, life iu exuberance. Can you do as much as one of the phosphor! in the middle of the At lantic ocean, creatures smaller than . the point of a sharp pin? “Oh, yes,’ you say. Then do that’ Shine' Stand before the looking-glass and experiment to see if you • caiiuol get that scowl off your forehead, that peevish look out of you; lips. Have at least one bright ribbon in your bonnet. Embroider at least one white cord somewhere in the midnight of your apparel. Do not any longer impersonate a funeral. Shine! Do say something cheerful about society and about the world. Put a few drops of heaven into your disposition. Once in a wtiile substitute a sweet orange for a sour lemon. Remember that pessimism is blasphemy, and that optimism is Christianity. Throw some light on the night ocean. If you cannot be a lantern swinging in the rigging, be one of the tiny phosphori back of the keel. Shine! “Let your light so shine before men that others, seeing good works, may glorify your Father, whith is in heaven.” Shine! You know of a family with a bad boy who has run away from home. Go before night and tell that father and mother the parable of the prodigal son, and that j some of the illustrious and useful I men now in church and State had a j silly passage in their lives and ran j away from home. Shine! You know j of a family that has lest a child andj the silence of the nursery glooms tho whole house from cellar to garret. Go before night and tell them how much that child has happily escapeJ. since the most prosperous life on earth is’ a struggle. Shine! You know of some invalid who is dying for lack of appetite. She cannot get well because she cannot eat. Broil a chicken and take to her* before night and cheat her poor appetite into a keen relish. Shine!* You know of some one who likes you" and you like him, and he ought to be a Christian. Go tell him what religion has done for you, and ask him if you can pray for him. Shine! Oh, for a disposition so charged with sweetness and light that we cannot help but shine! Renumber that if you cannot be a leviathan lashing the ocean into fluyr you can bo one of the phosphori, doing your part toward making a path of phosorescence. Then I will tell you what impression you will leave as you pass tnrough this life and after you are gone. I will tell it to your face and not leave it for the minister who officiates at your obsequies. - I

A KEY NOTE.

Ax-President Harrison Starts the Music for ’94. UpnbUew Ham Meeting n Tomlinson Hall, IndlanapolU. A Republican mas 9 meeting was held ai Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Tuesday vening, as a finale to the Lincoln League’mniial convention. A good audience was iresent in spite of the extremely unfavortbie weather. Groat enthusiasm prevailed, and all present were imbued with ho spirit of the victory alleged to be waiting for the Republican party next all. Shortly after 8 o’clock President Sulzer appeared on the platform with exPresident Harrison, who was received with the greatest enthusia-m. After some brief preliminaries, President Sulzer introduced the ex-President In a fitting

BENJAMAIN HARRISON.

speech. Upon coming forward General Harrison was given an ovation. Waiting until the storm of applause had passed, he spoke as follows: Mr. President u.id Fellow-Citizens— There are some people who hold that an ex-President should be a political deal mute. [Laughter.] Ido not accept that theory. A man who has been honored by his fellow-citizens with the highest civil place in the Government ought-net tc have less interest in those tilings that concern the prosperity and happiness oi the people or the glory of the country than he had before he took the ollice. [Applause.] Upon S’Mtablo occasions, when it is agreeable to the people and convenient to mo. I shall feel at liberty to address my fellow-citizens. The present condition of our country is not one of prosperity. Wo wero recently prosperous; and the recent prosperity was not due to any man, but to a great policy that had been put into law and long malnia ne 1. The present distress whicli we enjoy [laughter] is not due to any man, ut, as 1 think, to the imminent threat of a reversal of the old policy and the institution of a now one. [Applause.]

1 am not one of tho ancient landmarks but my memory easily runs back to a time when Thomas A. Hendricks and Joseph E. McDonald were representative Indiana Democrats. I have heard my csteemod and lamented friend, Mr. McDonald.-ex-pound the Democratic views of tho tariff 110 said that it was tho accepted principle of the Democratic party that the expenses of the gov< rnment should be raised by customs duties and that it was propel and right thafin laying these duties they should be imposed upon such articles and In sncli a way as to givo incidental i rotoction to the American manufacturer and laborer. That was tho old Democratic doctrine. If it wero applied now-*-if Hit Wilson bill had been constructed on tlios* lines—it would not have been so hurtful because tho present necessities of the government are such, the demand is for sc so large a sum to meet our annual expenditures, that if this sum were flow.to .be. cdile‘ctc;u fay customs duty. and those duties imposed by men who had no theoriei to exploit, and who wero sinceroly friendly to tho American manufacturer and laborer, wo might get along pretty well. (Abplauso.) Wo used,to hoar a great deal about the war tariff and tho war taxes. They wore onerous in tho extreme; thoy searched out every source of revonue, foreign and internal. The tax gatherer lajd his claim upon every man and upon all property. Hut so soon as tho government had recovered itself from the stress of the war Republican Congresses entered upon the woric of removing those war taxes. I well remember while I was in tho Senate the passage of a bill repealing tho law imposing stamp dut’es upon patent medicines, perfumery and such like articles. It left remaining »f the internal tax only the duties on whisky, heer and tobacco. And now. by thoso who have so often and sc vigorously denounced war taxes, we are invited to use some methods of taxation that have been generally thought by the whole people to be such as were t.i be used only in time of war. What is the explanation of this? Is it that duties cannot be so laid as to raiso the necessary revenue? Not at all. It is that there are thoso who are not willing that even the incidental protection that results from tho collection of tho revenue necessary to the support of the government shall goto the benefit oi the American manufacturer and laborer. [Applause.] Whether we are right in thinking that this threat of a severe reduction in the customs duties Is the cause of the present distri st or not is a question to which the attention of these Lincoln League clubs miirhfc profitably be given. Tt would be we'l if.-fn vour meetings, this nnrs’ion were look d into, and the root of all those inlluences that have brought about tho present condition of things were dug out, if nd examined. The Republican theorv has been all along that it Mas rieht.to so legislate as to give work, employment, comfort to tho American workman. We believe that tho National Government has a dnt.v in this respect as well as the city council and hoard of conntv commissioners [applause]; and that that duty fa hest discharged by so legislating that American mills can keep their fires going. [Applause.] Other speeches wero made by Hons. Titos. H. Nelson, S. N. Chambers, and Col. Frank Posey.

STATE LINCOLN LEAGUE.

The annual meeting of the State Lincoln League was held at Indianapolis, Tuesday. President Sulzer delivered a lengthy address setting forth the prospects of the Republican party, which he considered especially bright, and depleting tho demoralization of tho Democracy, which he said was entirely hopeless. He referred in eloquent terms to the Utopian prosperity that prevailed under Harrison’s administration and compared It with tho reign of Grover Cleveland. In which ho reflecte 1 severely upon the latter. At tho afternoon session President Sulzer was unanimously re-elected. Robert Mansfield was elerted secrn'ary. Dnlb rates to the national convention at Denver wero •elected. Several timely speeches were made. Resolutions wero adnnted affirming faith in Republican prin-lpleg; rnmmpn'Mwr the administration of Presll»nt Harrison; Indorsing tho McKinley bill; denouncing the present administration; expressing sorrow and humiliation jver Cleveland’* Hawaiian policy; recommending the widost circulation of Republican newspapers.

THE FAIR SEX.

Mexican women never wear bonnets. A Cleveland laundry is run by girls. ’ — ■ " In Holland women tend the railroad swithes. New York has gambling houses for women, where they go and lose their money like men. A girl may be almost pardoned for throwing herself at a man if he is a good catch.

A NEGLIGEE OF PRIMROSE CREPE OR MOSS-GREEN VELVET.

The death of Rosina Yokes takes out of the world one of the most delightful bubbles of laughter it ever knew, says the New York World. Her laugh made her. Other actresses of the same grad© sang, * talked and recited charmingly; she bubbled. Nobody could ever quite imitate that lau/h. It was like a > little vocal rocket shot off by her teeth. It mounted on a scale of its own and burst in a high note into a thousand sparkles. The gayety of heart that had defied a thousand misfortunes was chilled by aa Amer ican winter.

VELVET, SILK AND LACE.

Miss Virginia Dox in a recent address before the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Baltimore Presbstery tatked in an interesting way about the Mormons, among whom she has spent many years "in mission work. “In a little Mormon town in which I resided for a time,” said she, “my next door neighbor had seventeem wives, and this was not by any means an exceptional case. Tho Mormon people as a rule are deplorably ignorant, but they arc eager to learn, and it is through this eagerness that we are enabled to uplift them.” There lives near Bunnsville, Va., a colored woman eighty-three years old, whose name is Lavina Hayler. Years ago she lost her teeth, but is now cutting another set. Some months ago her gums became very sore, and now two teeth have mado their appearance and several more are nearly in sight. The old woman s much pleased with her new teeth, and has expressed great delight at so soon being able to “chaw hard ag’in.” NEW PATTI SLEEVE. This is a novelty in sleeves, being a combination of the gigot and puff. It is cut all in one; but for narrowwidth material, such as silk, the extra width can be put in separately. Very small pleats, placed one on top

of the other, reduce this fullness t« the size necessary for completing the seam, which extends from elbow to wrist. At the armhole the extra fullness is put into pleats, back and front, the remainder being gathered to the required size.