Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. a—— i - ■ 1 i' ~ Gkori E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

Ltn is too short to eat oranges with a spoon. Ik the meantime, who is representing Col. Breckinridge’s district in Congress? Coxey’s Common weal Army has been called ‘‘The Army of Peace,” yet one fatality has already resulted. An Ohio farmer foil dead of heart disease when he saw the rugged hosts approaching. It is said to have been a heart rending sight.'* Prenderoast may be insane, but his ravings since tho stay of proceedings were granted that saved his neck strike the average mipd as being overdone, and are Very suggestive of collusion with his attorneys. Evidently he is acting a part and doing it well.

The interest on the bonds of the Mexican National Railway is payable in gold and that corporation suffered a loss in 1893 on this account — by reason of converting its revenues, which are almost entirely collected in silver,—of $761,929. The losses of American railways from this source are not apparent and can not be traced. The probability is that they did not lose any thing.

The bankruptcy of the Salvation Army of Kansas City is announced. It is not supposed that this will make any material difference in the city revenues. There has never been much money in salvation any place. Still the fact that the illiterate venders of free salvation are in v hard lines and can no longer continue their missionary efforts in behalf of the heathen on our western frontier is worthy of comment and perhaps regret.

April’s here, winter drear is a thing of the past and at last storm and frost we have lost on the way. Clouds and rain may remain, but they’ll bring and upon the earth will fling blossoms gay that will say: ‘'Only wait, sure as fate harvest comes to your homes and we’ll fill till they spill all your bins and the tins; you may eat fruit and wheat and the land great and grand Shall rejoice with one voice. Harvost home it will come and the garnered fruit and grain wiil remain as a sign of a favor divine.” So the spring hope doth bring to the gay and the £ad to the good and the bad, and we feel as upon our drowsy senses steal visions bright that delight, balmy airs that our cares do allay while the fragrant odors stay, that 'tis joy even tho’ it has alloy—just t-o live.

The peculiar phase of constitutional insanity that prompts people to scratch their names add initials upon public buildings, and in other less creditable places, is giving the Commissioners of the Soldiers’ Monument at Indianapolis a great deai of trouble. Notwithstanding several persons, including a half-dozen refined and elegant young ladies of the city, have been arrested and fined for the offense, almost every day a new infraction of the rules and iaw is reported, in spite of the watchfulness of the officers in charge. Why otherwise rational people will yield to an impulse, when they cannot but know that detection will surely be followed by nnplcasant consequences, is a mystery that has not vet been satisfactorily explained.

“Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” There cannot be two opinions as to which class “Gen.” J. S. Coxey belongs, Whatever one may think of his motives, methods or the principles advocated by him and brought into such prominence by his “march to the sea,” the fact remains that by this proceeding he has achieved notoriety, fame, a certain “honor”, and an assured place in the history of his country. “Coxey’s crusade” will at least rank with “Shay's Rebellion”, if it does not accomplish the reforms which its projector alleges he is striving for. Many people will be uncharitable enough to say that this is all that Coxey is airafng at. If that be thexase, then he will assuredly succeed in attaining the summit ofhis ambition. “Honesty' is the best policy!” This has been proved so often that it would seem that business men would have long ago made the proverb the inexorable rule that should govern all transactions. Yet some Olarkßvllle, Tenn., tobacco dealers, when shipping their consignments to Bremen, Germany, recently, thought they saw a chance to escape

from this old-time adage. Their shipments failed to tally with the samples that led to the sale in quaffty, and the Bremen tobacco importers in a body rose in arms against Clarksville tobacco, sending a communication to the Clarksville Tobacco Board of Trade that in the future they would positively refuse to buy the weed when it bore the Clarksville brand. The Board at once took action and sent a vote of thanks to the Bremen importers for calling their attention to the matter. “Chickens will come home to roost,” even if sent to the other side of the world. ' .— _

A suit of general interest, the result of which will establish a precedent of great importanoe, was begun at Indianapolis on the 3rd inst.,--be-ing a demand for $2,000 damages against the proprietor of a pool room, the plaintiff alleging that he had at various times lost sums aggregating $2,000, which he had wagered on horse races, in the defendant’s establishment. Other suits of a similar character are expected to follow. If it shall be finally established that parties can recover the sums lost in gambling rooms from their proprietors, the “industry” will probably languish and go into a decline. Very few men engage in the business “for their health” or for sport., but are generally fishing for “suckers” like the plaintiff in this case. If they can not “land their fish” they will likely engage in other avocations.

Mount Calbuco, a comparatively small elevation in Chili, which has not in historic times shown evidences of being a volcano, on Feb. 24, 1893, produced a phenomena showing that its long lost activity has been regained. From that time until the 23d of last October the mountain was incessantly in action with occasional outbursts that ruined the country for many miles around. On that day ashes fell at Orsono, sixty miles away, in such quantities as to obscure the sun, so that lamps were 'necessary in all the houses of the town. Mount Calbuco is located about 41 deg. s. lat., in such a remote and isolated quarter of the world that no advices later than October 23, 1893, have been received at New York. The little volcano is 1,000 feet lower than Mount Washington. Its “resumption of business at the old stand” is a surprise to scientific and geographical authorities.

PEOPLE.

Canon Wilberforce. it is said, thinks that animals, as well as man, have souls and will enjoy a future life. Since his recent attack of the grip the Czar has betrayed symptoms- of a permanent affection of the lungs. He will probably make his imperial residence at Kiev, where the climate is more favorable than at St. Petersburg. Senator George, of Mississippi, preserves the primeval customs ol the plantation in He goes to bed not long, after sundown —usually between 8 and 9 o’clock — rises in time for a 6-o’clock breakfast. and otherwise regulates his habits by the sun. Iu official dress the Sultan of Jahore wears, including his crown, $12,500,000 worth of diamonds. His collar, epaulettes, belts, cuffs and orders blaze with diamonds. On his wrists are heavy gold bracelets, and his fingers are covered with almost priceless rings. The Prince of Wales is in constant dread of being trampled beneath the feet of a crowd, and he rarely appears in public except in a carriage which affords some protection. His appearance is the instant signal for a great crowd to collect. Max O’Rell says he has found only two nations where women are the leaders —France and America. In Amerujd. from the age of eighteen , a girl is allowed almost every liberty —she takes the rest. In France the women are not frivolous, he maintains. as is commonly supposed. They have a knowledge of their husband’s business and a voice in the management of his affairs. Speaking of Alexander H, Stephens, whom he knew personally, Richard Malcolm Johnston says that he was not a good judge of men. “The poorest, meanest, shabbiest negro could impose upon him, and he was deceived again and again by beggars and frauds. He was the soul of generosity. He made, I venture, as much as $300,000 during his lifetime, but he died poor. He spent his money as fast as he made it and he didn't seem to appreciate its value. His law practice was large during a great part of his life, and he received a great deal of money from his books. His “Constitutional Views of the War” must have sold about seventy thousand copies. It was published in two volumes. His royalty was 25 cents a volume, and his receipts from it amounted to $35,000. Ho kept open house at Liberty Hall, his place in Georgia, and every train brought him guests, some of whom he had nevsr met before. He was fond of society and was a most oharming talker.

THE FAMILY ALTAR.

The Great Importance of Home ■ ' DevotionsAn 'SEloqnent Flea foe a Home Religion—- ; Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. At tho Brooklyn Tabernacle, Sunday, a great audience assembled. The Rev, Dr. Talmage chose for the subject of his sermon “Home Religion,” taking his text from Luke viii. 39: “Return to thine own house and show bow great things God bath done unto thee.” He said: After a fierce and shipwrecking night, Christ and his disciples are climbing up the slaty shelving of the beach. How pleasant it is to stand on solid ground after having been tossed so long on the billows! While the disciples are congratulating each other on their marine escape, out from a dark, deep cavern on the Gadarene hills there is something swiftly and terribly advancing. Is it an apparition? Is it a man? Is it a wild beast? It is a maniac who has broken away from his keepers, perhaps a few rags on his person and fragments of stout shackles, which he has wrenched off in terrible paroxysm. With wild yell and bleeding wounds of his-own laceration he flies down the hill.

Back to the boats, ye fishermen, and put out to sea and escape assasination. But Christ stands his ground; so do the disciples, and as this flying fury, with gnashing teeth and uplifted fists, dashes at Christ, Christ says: “Hands off! Down at my feet, thou poor sufferer,” and the demoniac, drops harmless, exhausted, worshipful. “Away, ye devils!” commanded Christ, and the 2,000 fiends which had been tormenting the poor man are transferred to the 2,000 swine, which go to sea with their accursed cargo. - The restored demoniac sits down at Christ’s feet and wants to stay there. Christ says to him practically: “Do, not stop. You have a mission to execute. "Wash off the filth and ’the wounds in the sea, smooth your disheveled locks, put on decent apparel, and go-straight to your desolated home and tell your wife and children that you will no more affright them, and no more do them harm; that you are restored to reason, and that I, the omnipotent Son of God, am entitled hereafter to the worship of your household. Return to thine own house and show how great things God hath done unto thee.”

W T hile I speak this morning there is knocking at your door, if he be not already admitted, one whose locks are wet with the dews of the night, who would take your children into his arms and wtjuld throw upon your nursery, and? your sleeping apartments, and vour drawing room, and your entire house a blessing that will make you rich while you live and be an inheritance to your children after you have done the last day’s work for their support and made for them the last prayer. It is the illustrious one who said to the man of my text, “Return to thine own house and show how great things God hath done unto thee,” Now, in the first place, we want religion in our domestic duties. ”

You need the religion of Christ in the discipline of your children. The rod which in other homes may be the first means used in yours will be the last. There will be no harsh epithets —“you knave, you villain, you scoundrel. I’ll thrash the life out of you; you are the worst child l ever knew.” All that kind of chastisement makes thieves, pickpockets, murderers and outlaws of society. That parent who in anger strikes his child across the head deserves the penitentiary. And yet this work of discipline must be attended to. God’s grace can direct us. Alas, for those who come to the work with fierce passion and recklessness of consequences. Between severity and laxativeness there is no choice. Both ruinous and both destructive. But there is a healthful medium which the grace of God will show to us. Your children are apt to think that what you do is right. They have no ideal of truth or righeousness but yourself. Things which you do, knowing at the time to be wrong, they take to be right. They reason this wav: “Father always does right. Father did this. Therefore this is right. That is good logic, but bad premises. No one ever gets over having a bad example set him. Your conduct more than your teaching makes impression. Your laugh, your frown, your dress, your walk, your greetings,your good-bys, your comings, your goings, yopr habits at the table, the tones of your voice, are making an impression which will last a million' years after you are dead, and thesun will be extinguished, and the \ mountains will crumble, and the woirld will die, and eternity will roll on m perpetual cycles, but there will be ho diminution of the force of youh conduct upon the young eyes that saw it or the young ears that heard ( it. Aristotle said that a boy should begin to study at seventeen years of age. Before that "his time should be given to recreation. I cannot adopt that theory. But this suggests a truth in the right direction. Childhood is too brief,and we hfcve not enough sympathy with its sportfulness. Wc want divine grace to help us in the adjustment of all these matters. Besides that, how are your childeren ever to become Christians if you yourself are not a Christian? I have noticed that, however worldly and sinful parents jnay be, they want their children good. When

young people have presented themselves for admission into our membership, I have said to them, “Are your father and mother willing you shall come?” and they have said, “Oh, yes; they are delighted to have us come. They have not been in church for ten or fifteen years, but they will be here next Sabbath to see me baptized.” I have noticed that parents, however worldly, want their children good. However worldly and sinful people are they want their children good. How are you going to have them good? Buy them a few good books? Teach them a few excellent catechisms? Bring them to church? That is all very well, but of little final result unless you do it with the grace of God in your heart. Do you realize that your children are started , for eternity? Are they on the right road? Those little forms that are now so bright and beautiful —when they have scattered in the dust, there will be an immortal spirit living on in a mighty theater of action, and your faithfulness or your neglect now is deciding that destiny. You say it is too early to bring them. Too early to bring them to God? Do you know how early children were taken to the ancient passover? The rule was just as soon as they could take hold of the father’s hand and walk up Mount Moriah they should be taken to the passover. Your children are not too young to come to God. While you sit here and think of theth ’ perhaps their forms now so bright and beautiful vanish from you, and their disembodied spirit rises, and you see it after the life of virtue or crime is past, and the judgment is gone, and eternity is here. Again, I remark, we want religion in all our home sorrows. There are 10,000 questions that come up in the best regulated household that must be settled. Perhaps the father has one favorite in tho family, the mother another favorite in the family, and there are many questions that need delicate treatment. But then there will be sorrows that will come, to the householdThere are but few families that escape the stroke of financial misfortune. Financial misfortune comes to a house where there is no religion. They kick against divine allotments, they withdraw from the world because they cannot hold as high a position in society as they once did. and they fret, and they scowl, and they sorrow and they die. During the past few years there have been tens of thousands of men destroyed by their financial distresses.

Sorer troubles come —sickness and death. Loved ones sleep the last sleep, A child is buried out of sight. You say: “Alas, for this bitter day I God has dealt very severely with me; I can never look up. O God, I cannot bear it!” Christ comes in, and He says: “Hush, O troubled soul; it is well with the child! I will strengthen thee in all thv troubles. My grace is sufficient. When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee.” But there are bund reds of families represented here this morning where religion has been a great comfort. There are in your homes the pictures of your departed and things that have no wonderful value of themselves, but you keep them preciously and carefully because hands now still once touched them. A father has gone out of this household, a mother has gone out of this, a daughter just after her graduation day, a son just as he was entering on the duties of life. -• And to other homes trouble will come. I say it not that you may be foreboding, not that you may do the unwise thing of taking trouble by the forelock, but that you may be ready. We must go one by one. There will be partings in all our households. We must say farewell. We must die. And yet there are triumphant strains that drown their tremulous accents; there are anthems that whelm the dirge. Heaven is full of the shout of delivered captives, and to the great wide field of human sorrow there come now the reaper angels with keen sickles to harvest the sheaves of heaven. Go home this day and ask the blessing on your noonday meal. Tonight set up the-family altar. Do not wait until you become a Christian yourself. This day unite Christ to your household, for the Bible distinctly says that God will pour out his fury upon the families that call not upon his name. Open the Bible and read a chapter; that will mako you strong. Kneel down and offer the first prayer in your household. It may be a broken petition; it may be oniv, “God be merciful to me, a sinner,” but God will stoop, and spirits will listen, apd angels will chant, “Behold, he prays!” Do not retire from this house this you have resolved upon this matter. You will be gone. I will be gone, many years will pass and perhaps your younger children inav forget almost everything about you, but forty years from now, in some Sabbath twilight, our daughter will be sitticig with the family, when she will stop, and peculiar sob emnity will come to her face, and a tear will start, and the children will say, “Mother, what makes you cry?” and she will say, “Nothing, only I was thinking that this is the very Bible out of which my father and mother used uo read at morning and evening prayer.” All other things about you they may forget, but train them up for God and heaven. They will not forget* that. May the Lord God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, tho God of our fathers, be our God and the God of our children forever!

A NEGRO LYNCHED.

Ravtoher Hashed Rapidly at Rushsj-Iva nia, O. Seymour Newlin. a negro, committed an assault upon an aged woman named Mrs. Knowles, Saturday night, at Rushsylvania, Logan county, Ohio. He was captured Sunday morning, but when the sheriff arrived from Beliefontaine to take charge of tho prisoner, a mob which had already collected refused to give him up. A call was then made on the militia and a company left Beliefontaine, Sunday afternoon, for the scene of trouble. The crowd at Rushsylvania was apprised of the departure of the military, and long before their arrival l,. r O3 armed citizens had massed around the calaboose. The men declared that the prisoner must not bo removed from the lockup. Sheriff Sullivan, who was in command of the soldiers, was informed that there were_six dynamite cartridges under the calaboose, and if any attempt was made to fire a gun or fix a bayonet the building and prisoner would be blown* into eternity. After parleying for some time the soldiers wer" withdrawn. At 9p. m. the mob made a raid on the calaboose. The building was overturned and tho struggling negro quickly taken from it. A rope had been provided, and tho noose was put about the neck of the trembling wretch in a jiffy. He was dragged to a cottonwood tree about one hundred yards distant, very little being said and no opportunity given to the prisoner to make a confession or statement. A dozen willing hands grasped tho rope and the negro was swung Into the air. As soon as tho work was finished the mob quietly dispersed.

DEATH OF SENATOR VANCE.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, died at his- home in Washington, Saturday night. lie had a stroke of apoplexy, Saturday morning. Mr. Vance had been a sufferer from paralysis and a complication of some time. Zebulon Baird Vance was born in Buncombo county, North Carolina, May 13,1530. Ho received his education at Washington College and at the University of North Carolina. At the beginning of the war ho entered the confederate army and served until 18(52, when ho was elected Governor us North Carolina, Ilis most notable ichicvcment while in the offico'of Governor was the securing of foreign aid forthe confederate cause.. He sent agents to Europe who purchased a fine steamboat which subsequently ran tho blockade, bringing in clothing, arms and stores for tho confederate government. In 1867 Mr. Vance received a pardon from President Johnson, and practiced law in Charlotte until 1876, when ho was again elected Governor of his native State. He was elected United States Senator in 1879, and has been a member of that body continuously since that time.

GEN. SLOCUM DEAD.

Gen. Henry W. Slocum died at Brooklyn, Saturday, after a week’s illness, of pneumonia. Gen. Slocum waS born In' Delhi, N. Y., Sept. 24,1827. Graduated, !rom West Point in 1852. Served five fears in the regular army, after which ho

GEN. H. W. SLOCUM.

practiced law in Syracuse until the outbreak _of_ the-rebellion, when ho again; filtered the service as Colonel of the Twenty-seventh New York Volunteers. Served continuously throughout the war, rising to the rank of Major-General. After the war he settled in Brooklyn, and has represented his district twice in Congress.

DE MELLO SURRENDERS.

The Brazilian Revolution Ha* Non Completely Collapsed, i Admiral De Mello and the 1,500 insurgent troops who disembarked on tho frontier of Uruguay, after having been driven out of the State of Rio Grande Do Sul by the troops of President Peixoto, have surrendered to tho Uruguayan authorities, and the rebellion in Brazil may be said to have completely collapsed. Tho authorities of Uruguay havo disarmed the Brazilian insurgents. Tho stato of the siege at Rio De Janeiro has been extended to Juno 13, but it is believed that, in view of the surrender of Admiral Do Mello and tho insurgent forces, the Brazilian government will shortly be able to raise tho stato of siege.

MISS POLLARD WINS.

End of the Famon* Breach of Promlia Cuc v The famous Pollard-Brccklnrldge case which has been in progress at Washington for several weeks, were given to tho jury at 3 p. m. Saturday. At 4:30 p.m. tho jury, after fifteen ballots, reached a verdict finding Congressman Breckinridge guilty of seduction and breach of promise, and assessed tho damage at t15.0;J0. The defendant made a formal moti >n for a new trial himself. Ben. Butterworth, Brock attorney, stated that the ense would bo fought to a finish.

MR.VOORHEES AND MR. HILL.

A Washington special to tho Chicago Record, April 14, says: Yesterday a newspaper correspondent sent his card In tc Senator Voorheos. Tho latter told the messenger who carried it to inquire what was wanted, as ho was very bsuy and could hot leave his seat unless It was s matter of importance. The correspondent wrote on a piece of paper: “I would like your ylows concerning Senator HlJl’f speech." Senator Voorhees turned tin paper over and wrote on the other side "Nobody bnt a fool would ask nr views upon Hill’s speech."

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Argentina has 6,100,000 acres in wheat. .. ' ' . 1 Almost one-half of the quinine produced is used in the Uniteq States. It is estimated that 40,000 own over one-half the wealth of the United States. Maine has 20,000 square miles o| pine forests, and annually sells 400,* OOOfOOO feet of lumber. There are few wild beasts more to he dreaded than a talking man hav-. ing nothing to say. —Swift. “West Virginia has 16,000 square miles of coal fields, an area greater than the coal region of Great Brit* ain. The king of the Pacific coast Gyp* sies is dead. His real name was Palmer, but he was known as “Bendigo." Plaster of Paris, mixed with ah equal portion of oatmeal and a small quantity of sugar, soon settles cockroaches. Something new in the art line is statuary made of paper pulp. Mrs. Cornelia -Shout, of Pittsburg, Kan., is the inventor. The flower of the death plant ol Java continually drips with a deadly poison which is distilled in the cup-like blossom. ___ _' m * Twenty-three agents for London tailoring houses are at present attending to the wants of the Willis boys in New York. Sam Wah King, a Chinaman, has started a cattle ranch in Montana with a capital of SIIO,OOO. He employes only Chinese on his ranch.

Several of the Chinese temple!* have a bell at the entrance, so that each devotee as he passes in may announce his arrival to the Deity. Hares are seldom eaten in Spain, because it is believed there that at night they enter graveyards, burrow into the graves and eat dead bodies. American girls should marry Americans, but Miss Fellows’s experience with an aboriginal should teach them not to marry original Americans. A North Carolina negro fell fifty feet from a balloon and was uninjured, but shortly afterward a horse ran away with him and both of his legs were broken. In 1830 a sailing car was tried on the South Carolina railroad. When going at the rate of twelve miles an hour the mast went overboard, with several of the crew. A Fulton (New York) hatter filled, two orders in one week that were in striking contrast. One was aNa 6 hat and the other was for a man whose size was BJ-. It appears as if the people of the United States were steadily reducing their consumption of quinine and other cinchona alkaloids. Year after year since 1887 the importations of cinchona bark have beeii diminished, Six deer made their way, some weeks ago, from the mountains to a farm near Brownfield, Me., and have there domesticated themselves, much to the delight of the owner of the farm. Mrs. Rebecca Tutherlv, of Manchester, N. 11., has seven living chil- ( dren, fifty-seven grand- children and eighty-seven great -grand-children. She was born March 4, 1799, in ElHot, Me.

Eminent medical authority asserts that a sudden immersion of a body in cold water, soon after meals, is extremely dangerous. It chills the digestive organs, and arrests digestion. The women in Canada who subscribed for a pair of horses, a sleigh and furs as a wedding gift to Princess May are highly indignant that the horses tails were docked before being shipped to England, and have telegraphed to the Princess asking her to refuse to accept the’ horses. They propose to prosecute the parties responsible for the docking. Nearly 36,000 tons of tobacco are annually consumed in France, according to recent statistics. Of this some 29,000 tons are used for smoking, 1,250 for chewing and the remainder for snuff. This is an increase of 7,000 tons over the consumption of twenty years ago, but there has been little change in the last ten years, except that the quantity of snuff used is giadually diminishing. Nearly a ninth of the tobacco is consumed in Paris and its suburbs. < The total catch of Pacific fur seals delivered last season at the ports of this country and British America was about 140,000 skins. About fifty vessels from British Columbia brought in nearly 70,000 skins from the coasts of British Columbia, Japan and Russia. Twenty schooners delivered 3.000 skins at San Francisco, nearly 7,500 skins were sent to that port from the Pribyloff islands, and the Russian Sealskin Company sent to San Francisco from Petropaulovski nearly 33,200 skins., The Chrysorrhoas canal >in the planet Mars is 3,3524 miles lobg and' aver 400 miles wide. It exceeds all the labor that man has ever performed on tho earth. The owl’s steady stare, which is considered indicative of wisdom, i» the result of a physiological peculiarity, its eyes being fixed immovably in their sockets. t Ah augur completed by an Ansonia (Conn.) firm, measuring four-’ teen feet long and three inches in circumference, is reputed to be one of the largest ever mode.