Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. **»-•*»« K, MaB«HiMiT., FiPTTPB RENSSELAER - INDIANA

John Pigta/l Chinaman is reported to be cheerfully coming forward to register and have his “picture tuk” out west, notwithstanding the efforts of the high binders, and ather Chinese influences, to prevent his eonjpliance with the law.

**How much less to him that aceepteth not the persons of princes oor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work oi his hands. In a moment they shall die and the people shall be troubledatmidnight and pass away.”

Colorado women, having succeded to the dignity of voters, have also, when registering, been accorded the honor of having a recognized occupation, and put themselves on record as “Housewives." This “dodge" is credited to the inventive powers of the wife of ex-Gov. Routt, and is said to have relieved many ladies, as well as election boards, from much embarrassment.

Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, has directed Comptroller Ackerman to retain ten per cent, of his salary every month and turn it into the general fund. The city finances of the western metropolis are in a bad way And this action of the Mayor is commended by papers who strenuously opposed his election. It is said that other high-salaried officials will follow the good example set by their ' chief. Ir the recent decision of the MarvJ land Court of Appeals should become fcn accepted interpretation of law throughout the country and its rigid enforcement be insisted upon the Seventh-Day Adventists will have reason to regard themselves as a persecuted sect who are made to suffer for opinion’s sake. Members of that denomination in the rural districts of Maryland have been arrested and fined for husking corn on Sunday snd the court of last resort has affirmed the verdict.

The cheering information given to the public on the 10th by the New York mercantile agencies that for the week ending Feb. 9th three * hundred factories/VOL’gddle, throughout the country, bad resumed operations, should be an assurance to every one that an era of prosperity has already set in. May the day soon dawn that shall see it fully established —the wheels of industry all in motion, idle men only those who are idle from choice—and want and destitution banished from our land.

The fate of the British warship . Victoria has called the attention of naval architects throughout the world to the fatal weakness of modern iron-cluds. The up-to-date manof war is almost universally unfitted for sailing, if not actually dangerous to its crew when in motion. All are top-heavy and liable to be overturned by any chance wave that is at all out of the ordinary. The resent acquisitions to the navy of the United States come under this class, and a movement has been inaugurated looking to a thorough investigation of the matter.

Mbs. Lease, of Kansas, announces that she does not propose to release her lease on the Kansas State Board of Charities for the simple reason that Gov. Lewelling is determined to release the distinguished lady from further public service that has been so inadequately recompensed in the past. Mrs. Lease publicly states that the salary attached to the position is no object, but as her continuance in office appears to be distasteful to those she considers her enemies she will “hold the,fort” indefinitely “just to spite ’em,” and incidentally to vindicate her own character from the aspersions shied in her direction by the aforesaid enemies. Mrs. L. is evidently a sticker from Stickerville, and this is her time to stick.

Tni last Indiana Legislature passed a law providing !that township officers shall hereafter be elected at general elections to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1894, and every four years thereafter, which election shall be conducted by the provisions of the law governing the said general election. A law Was also passed and approved providing fqr the appointment of road supervisors by township trustees. This law had an emergency clause and took effect before the law changing the time for holding township •leotions and cannot be construed to extend the terms of road supervisors then in office. The names of the ttndidate* for township offices

are to bp printed on separate ballots of a yellow color, and are to be deposited in separate ballot boxes are to be painted yellow. People whp have been accustomed to watch the April elections for political “straws” will in the future be compelled to get their pointers from some other source.

Editor Stead, who is still in Chicago as a sort of John the Baptist "evangelist, has given Mayor Hopkins' a certificate of character in a recent public address, in which he said that “at present the Mayor’s face is set toward Zion.” Partisan opponents have taken exceptions to the statements of Mr. Stead, and continue to reflect severely upon Mr. Hopkins in many ways, principally, however, upon local matters of administration that are not of especial interest to outsiders. The remarkable circumstance to be noted by people at a distance is this statement that a Mayor of Chicago “has his face set toward Zion.” “Can any good thing come out of Chicago?’^

Lovers of canned salmon will regret to learn that there are unmistakable evidences of a diminution and possible failure in the supply of their favorite staple, because of wasteful and highly improper methods of fishing now in vogue on the Columbia river. The supply of fish in those waters has always been regarded as inexhaustible, but, with characteristic American profligacy, the fishermen in that part of the world rose to the emergency and can now philosophically view the situation brought about by their own disregard of even common prudence in the management of the vanished wealth that is now but a spendthrift’s dream. The catch for the past year has not been a tenth as large as in former years on the Columbia, but on the Fraser river, in British Columbia, where adequate laws for the protection of the fish are strictly enforced, thfe„ catch has exceeded that of any/previous year. One big packer has removed his business from the State of Washington to British Columbia, j

PEOPLE.

Henry Labouchere thinks that it ought to be the custom for women to make proposals of marriage. He that when a bachelor became acquainted with a charming woman, he would exert himself, by good conduct, to win a proposal frojrf her. The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Who preached Sunday on prize-fighting and denounced it, has knocked out his man-more than once. He started his career as an actor, biffed his man under the ear and abandoned the stage for the pulpit. He is six feet two and all steel, and comes of Georgia fighting stock. —New York World.

Senator Perkins, of California, is booked for a lecture before the geographical society of Washington on the whale fishery. The Senator was a whale fisher in his early days before he went to California,. William Lane Booker, the British Consul-General, who has just been knighted, remains thoroughly British in outward aspect after nearly forty years’ residence in this country,. He is above the medium hight, neither stout nor spare, ruddy, grizzled, blue-eyed, and slightly bent at the shoulders. He walks rapidly, and pays little attention to persons or things upon the street. It used to be said that one of his duties wa to receive the rents from Queen Victoria’s real estate in New York.

Switzerland has within a few mbnths lost two of her most eminent theologians, M. Auguste Bonvier, who for many years was at the head of the moderate liberal party in the Geneva University and Church, and M. Augustin Gretillat, who was at Neuchatel the representative of orthodox evangelical theology. James Robinson, who for a long time held the title of champion bareback rider of the world, is spending his declining years on his farm in Missouri. He is by no means an old man, but has retired from the circus arena. He stilL has many of the valuable gifts that he received in many parts of the world, including those from Queen Victoria and the old Emperor William of Germany. Mr. Robinson is the same little, wiry man that he always was, and, except for his hair, has not the appearance of being more than forty years old. Jay Cooke, the financier, is spending the evenings of his life at Ogontz, his suburban home, near Philadelphia. He is seventy-three years old and in excellent health. He spends his summers in Gibraltar Island, in Lake Erie, which he owns.

A little matter like Sabbath desecration does not bother President Carnot, of France. A few Sundays ago he gave a shooting party, at which 400 pheasants, 209 rabbits and 1,500 roebucks were bagged. The game was distributed to the Paris hospitals. Dr. Tatanage now declares his intention to preach his farewell sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the first Sunday in March, and shortly afterward he will set out on a journey around the world, going from San Francisco to Honolulu,and then to Australia, New Zealand and India.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

\ - TYRANNICAL LAWS. This is a very free country, but some astonishing acts of tyranny are occasionally perpetrated by means of laws at variance with the spirit of our institutions! Striking illustrations of this great injustice are not hard to find. One of the most pitiful cases of this kind was that of Anna Wagner, who was arrested on the charge of poisoning a whole family at Indianapolis, After nearly a year’s imprisonment she was unanimously acquitted by the jury, and by public sentiment as well, at the close of a protracted trial, in which her friends were compelled to defend her at great trouble and expense. The innocent and ignorant Herman handmaiden has no recourse whatever upon any onr tar all her trouble and anxiety and ner weary months of imprisonment, and of course, was thankful to escape as well as she did. The great injustice and wrong that was done to an undoubtedly innocent person, however, remains unatoned for. Again, there have been numerous instances where witnesses, who were so unfortunate as to be unable to give bond for -their.-appearance, .being strangers in the community whero their testimony was valuable to plaintiff or defendant —have been detained as prisoners for many months for no offense whatever. But one of the most aggravated cases of this character was that of an unfortunate young man at Indianapolis, who but recently went to the station house —being out of employment—to sleep, because he did not wish to longer impose on friends. While he was at the station house his friends secured em-

ployment for him and sent a messenger to notify him to report for duty. The messenger'was refused-admis-sion by the turnkey, and the next morning the boy, in ignorance of the fact that work had been found for him, pleaded guilty to vagrancy and the maximum fine of SSO was imposed. Being unable to pay, he was sent to the work house. The poor victim served sixty days and came out worse off than before, his chance for work gone, guilty of no crime but poverty. Evidently there is something very wrong with a system that makes such outrages upon personal liberty possible.

THE PUGILISTIC CRAZE.

The prize-fighting furore that has of late years prevailed to such an alarming extent in America, and which has culminated in the remarkable meetings between the champions, both at New Orleans and Jacksonville, is an evil that is seemingly impossible to check with the means at present available, Every State is not blessed with an Executive like Indiana, to whose determined stand and prompt action the commonwealth owes its escape from the stigma of placid permission of the brutal exhibitions that have from time to time occupied the public mind to the exclusion of less exciting subjects. The effect of these contests for what is the reverse of all that is refining and enobiing can hardly be calculated, and is especially marked upon the vivid imaginations of the rising generation. Col. Alexander Hogeland, a prominent Chicago philanthropist, prior to the CorbettMitchell fight sent an earnest protest to Gov. Mitchell, of Florida, in which he urged the absolute suppression of the contest on the ground that long observation had convinced him that every such meeting was the direct inspiration of countless quarrels and fistic encounters that would not otherwise take place. Exactly the same rule that causes the boy reader of the delirious dime novel to strive to emulate the hero of the impossible tale in all his maudlin adventures holds good in the nauseating details that are given in the daily press to be eagerly devoured by the multitude who delight in these fights to a finish with all their sensational features. On every street corner it is an absorbing topic,' and embryo pugilists fill the streets, with yells and cries as they “slug’ each other in a weak imitation of the wonderful encounter they so long to see. That their minds should be thus inflamed by an ambition as wicked as that of the champions themselves is but a natural consequence of the sentiment that has been fostered by the failure of our laws to effectually suppress the evil that all good citizens condemn.

A BANKRUPT KINGDOM.

Greece, since the dawn of civilization, has been a most interesting country. The scene of some of man’s greatest triumphs in arms, in art, and literature and song. Tragedy and religion, mythology and necromancy, have thfre had their birth, and growth and maturity. Socrates and CicAro and Diogenes and Paul and Dionysius are names forever as-

sociiated with its history. The glamour of an ancient past that stretches back and back and ever backward ta an unknown source still hangs about its urtcient temples and histone hills. The average reader finds it. fliffimiH to comprehend the fact that the same race of people that gave to the world its literature and its first lessons in architecture still survive upon the soil that nurtured their heroic ancestors whose works still remain as monuments to almost superhuman skill. Yet such is the incontestible fact. Nor are they a degenerate race. Physically, they are still remarkable for their beauty and symmetrical proportions—with Jovian heads and Apollo limbs. Mentally they are still ambitious and often learned beyond the common lot of men, acquiring languages with a facility unknown to other races. The little Kingdom has simply become overshadowed by the great world that has grown and spread, waye following wave, from its enchanted shores to lands beyond the seas. Ambitious yet, its statesmen have perfected and carried to completion great public works that were inaug-* urated before the beginning of the Christian era, and in so doing have saddled the ancient Kingdom with a debt that has made it practically bankrupt. The most eminent statesman of Greece, M. Tricoupis, has given notice to bondholders that, until the finances of the country can be placed in better shape, but onethird of the interest will be paid. Grecian statesman have evidently overrated their ability to pay for their vast system of public works, forgetting or ignoring the fact that all the triumphs of their ancient builders of vast public structures were accomplished by despotic edicts whibh secured a servile obedience from countless slaves to work a tj-rant's will.

THE VANISHING CITY.

The malignant and persistent attempts to destroy the remaining World’s Fair buildings at Jackson Park are discouraging to those who believe in the progress of mankind, and saddening to all who were enchanted by the beauty of those wondrous structures as well. Commencing with the destruction of the Peristyle there have already been six incendiary fires in different buildings, and there is apparently no reason to hope that they will cease until the last vestige of that great architectural picture has disappeared or been hopelessly ruined. No one has even been arrested for these criminal attempts, let alone punished, and it is evident that there is no great desire to preserve the buildings on the part of the Park Commissioners, in whose charge they now are, There has been a spirit of animosity exhibited at aIL times since the close of the Fair on the part of certain distinguished citizens of Chicago who were not identified with the Exposition that it is hard for outsiders to comprehend, and to this spirit is undoubtedly due the frequent attempts to destroy the monuments that remained to tell of the great triumph achieved by those who may be possibly considered as rivals for the public esteem with those who failed to catch the public ear and eye.

David Crockett cas He Really Was. Galveston, Tex., News. Mrs. Ibble Gordon, of Clarksville, Tex., who was born in 1805, was introduced to David Crockett. Describing the incident, she says: “It was in the winter of 1834, not long after Crockett had been defeated for Congress in Tennessee. We heard Crockett had crossed Red river, and fearing that he might not come through Clarksville, butlreep on the old Trammell trail, we intended to meet hinu Jane Latimer, then a girl of eighteen, rode behind me,and Betsy Latimer followed on a pony. We overtook Crockett and his party at the house of Edward Dean, abouf four miles from Clarksville. It was early in the morning, and when Mrs. Dean saw us she said: ‘Mrs. Clark, what brings you here at this time ol day?’ ‘My horse brought me,’ I answered, and then I told her I wanted some breakfast. We went into the house, and a friend, who had known Crockett in Tennessee, introduced us. Crockett was dressed like a gentleman and not as a backwoodsman. He did not wear a coonskin cap. It has always disgusted me to read these accounts of Crockett that characterize him as an ignorant backwoodsman. Neither in dress, conversation nor bearing could he have created the impression that he was ignoraut or uncouth. He was a man of wide practical information, and was dignified and entertaining. His language was about as good as anji we hear nowadays.”

A Parisian thief entered a cab without baggage and directed the driver to convey Kim to an address some two miles distant. On the way thither he afterward requested the driver to halt at the store of a dealer in second-hand goods. The passenger entered the store bearing in his arms a large paper-covered parcel. He had ripped open the cushion 0 , stolen ths horsehair, aai sold it

“THE HUMAN FACE”

The: Tell-Tale Izfdex of the Soul. A Discourse Upon the Varied Physloffo- , mien Produced by Varied Thonghts and Actions—Dr. Talmago’s Sermon. » ■ The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowded, 'Sunday, to hear Dr. Talmage discourse upon “The Human Face.” Text: Ecclesiastes viii, 1— “A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the his face shall be changed.” He said: In all the works of God there is nothing more wonderful than the human countenance. Though the longest face is less than twelve inches from c.he hair line of the forehead to the bottom of the chin, the broadest face is less than eight inches from cheek bone to cheek bone, yet in that small compass God hath wrought such differences that the 1,600,000,000 of the human race may be distinguished from each other by their facial appearances. The face is ordinarily the index of character. It is the throne of the emotions. It is the battlefield of the passions. It is the catalogue of character. It is the map of the mind. It is the geography of the soul. You at the first oShce make up your mind that some man is unworthy of your friendship, but afterward by circumstances being put into intimate association with him you come to like him and trust him. Yet. stay with him long enough and you will be compelled ~to return to your original estimate of his character, but it will be after he has cheated you out of everything he could lay his hands on. It l is of God’s mercy that we have these outside indexes of character. Phrenology is one index, and while it may be carried to an absurd extent there is no doubt that you can judge somewhat of a man’s character by the shape of his head. Palmistry is another index, and while it may be carried into the fanciful and necromantic, there is doubt that certain lines in the palm of the hand are indicative of mental and moral traits.

Physiognomy is another index, and while the contour of the human face may sometimes mislead us we can generally, after looking into the eye and noticing the curve of the lip, and tho spread of the nostril, and the correlation of all the features, come to a right estimate of a man’s character. If it were not so, how would we know whom to trust and whom to avoid? Whether we will or not, ohysignomy decides a thousand things in commercial and financial and social and religious domains, Prom one lid of the Bible to the other there is no science so recognized as that of physiognomy, and nothing more thoroughly taken for granted than the power of the soul to transfigure the face. I do not wonder that when an opposing attorney in a Philadelphia court room cruelly referred to this personal disfigurement Bcjamin F. Brewster replied in these words: “When I was a babe I was a beautiful blue eyed child. I know this because my dead mother told me so. But I was one day playing with my sister when her clothes took fire and I ran to her relief and saved her, but in so doing my clothes took fire and the fire was not put out until my face was as black as the heart of the scoundrel who has just now referred to my disfigurement.” Heroism conquering physical disabilities! That scholarly, regular features are not necessary for making powerful impression witness Paul, who photographs himself as in “bodily presence .weak;” and George Whitefield, whose eyes were struck with strabismus; and Alexander H. Stephens, who sat pale and sick in an invalid’s chair while he thrilled the American Congress with his eloquence, and the thousands of invalid preachers and Sabbath school teachers and Christian workers. Ave, the most glorious being the world ever saw was foreseen by Isaiah, who described his f ace as gashed and scarified, and said of him, “His visage was so marred more than any man.” So you see that the loveliest face in the universe was a scarred face.

And now I am*going to tell you of some of the chisels that work for the disfiguration or irradiation of the human countenance. One of the sharpest and most destructive of those chisels of the co'untenace is cynicism. That sours the disposition and then sours the face. It gives a contemptuous curl to the lip. It draws down the corners of the mouth and inflates the nostrils as with a malodor. What David said in haste they say in delibration, “All men are liars." Everything is going to rum. All men and women are bad or are going to be. Society and the church are on the down grade. Tell them of an act of benevolence and they say he gave that to advertise himself. They do not like the present fashion of hats for women or of coats for men. They are opposed to the administration, municipal, State and national. Somehow, food does not taste as it used to, and they wonder why there are no poets or orators or preachers as when they were boys. But let Christian cheerfulness try its chisel upon a man’s countenance. Feeling that all things are for. his good,, and that God rules, and th|at the bible being true the world’s floralization is rapidly approaching, and the day when beer mug and demijohn and distillery and bombshell and rifle pit and seventy-four poundera and tables and corrupt

book and satanic printing press will have quit work, the brightness that comes from such anticipation not only gives zest to the work, but shines in his eyes and glows in bis cheek and kindles a morning in his' entire countenance. Those are the faces I look for in the audience. Those countenances are sections ol millennial glory. They are heaven impersonated. They are the sculpturing of God’s right hand. They are hosannas in human flesh. They are hallelujahs alighted. They are Christ incarnated.

Here is another mighty chisel for the countenance, and you may call it revenge or hate or malevolence. This spirit having taken possession of the heart, it encamps seven devils under the eyebrows. It puts cruelty into the compression of the lips. You can tell from the man’s ldoks that he is some one and trying to get even with him. There are suggestions of Nero and Robespierre and Diocletian and thumbscrews and racks all up and down the features. Infernal artists, with murderers’ daggers, have been cutting away at that visage. The revengeful heart has built its perdition in the revengeful countenance. Disfiguration of diabolic passion! But here comes another chisel to shape the countenace, and it is kindness. There came a moving day and into her soul moved the whole family of Christian graces, with all the command has come forth from the heavpns that that woman’s face shall be made to correspond with her superb soul. Her entire face from ear to ear becomes the canvas upon which all the best artists of heaven beein to put their finest strokes, and on the small compass of that face are put pictures of sunrise over the sea, and angels of mercy going up and down ladders all aflash, and mountains of transfiguration and noonday in heaven. Kindness! It is the most magnificent sculptor that ever touched human countenance. All kindness comes back to us in one way or another; if not in any other wav, then in your own face. Kindness! Show it ta. others, for the time may come when you will need it yourself. People laughed at the lion that spared the mouse that ran over him, when in one motion of his paw the monster could have crushed the insignificant disturber. But it was well that the lion had mercy on the mouse, for one day the lion was caught in a trap and roared fearfully because he was held fast by ropes. Then the mouse gnawed the ropes in two and let the lion go free. You may consider yourself a lion, but you cannot afford to despise a mouse. When Abraham Lincoln pardoned a young soldier at the request of his mother, the mother went down the stairs of the White House, saying: “They have lied about the President being homely. He is the handsomest man I ever saw.” All over that President’s rugged face was written the kindness which he so well illustrated.

No man ever indulged a gracious feeling, or was moved by a righteous indignation, or was stirred by a benevolent impulse, but its effect was more or less indicated in the countenance, while David noticed the physiognomic effect of a bad disposition when he said: “A wicked mad hardeneth his face,” and Jeremiah must have noticed it when he said of the cruel, “They have made their faces harder than a rock.” Oh, the power of the human face! 1 I warrant that you have known faces so magnetic and impressive that, though they vanished long ago, they still hold you with a holy spell. “Well,” you say; “if she had lived she would have been ten years old now, or twenty, or. .thirty years.” But does not that infant face still have tender supremacy over your entire nature? During many an eventide does it not look at you? In your dreams do you not see it? What a sanctifying, hallowing influence it has been in your life! You can say in the words of the poet, “Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Or was it vour mother’s face? A good mother's face is never homely to her boys and girls. It is a Madonna in the picture gallery of the memory. What a sympathetic face it was. Did you ever have a joy, and that face did not respond to it? Did you ever have a grief, and no tears trickled down that maternal check? Did you ever do a bad thing, and a shadow did not cross it? Oh, it was a sweet face! The spectacles, with large, round glasses, through which she looked at you, how sacredly they have been kept in bureau or closet! Your mother’s face, your mother's smile, your mother’s tears! What an overpowering memory! Though you have come on to midlife or old age, how you would like just once more,, to bury your face in her lap and have a good cry! But I can tell you of a more sympathetic, and more tender, and more loving'face than any of the faces I have mentioned. “No, you can not;" says some one. I can, and I will. It is the face of Jesus Christ as he was on earth and is now in heaven. What a gentle face it must have been to induce the babes to struggle out of their mothers’ arms into His arms! What an expressive face it must have been when one reproving look of it threw stalwart Peter into a fit of tears! What a pleading faoe it must have been to lead the Psalmists in prayer to say of it, “Look upon the face of thine annotated!" What a sympathetic face it must have been to encourage the stale woman who was beyond any help from the doctors to touch the hem of his garment!