Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gbgre E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA'

Webster Revised: Industrialist —A man who don’t work. “He that gathereth in the sumner is a wlffe son; but he that sleep»th in the harvest is the son that iauselh shame.” Mr. John Jacob Astor, whose rrandfather was rich, having an abundance of leisure and ready cash, las devoted his leasure moments to writing a romance and a portion of lis wealth to the publication of the nmo. The book is entitled: “A fourney in other Worlds: A Ronance of the Future. ” The timeisthe rear 2000. and the volume describes in imaginary journey to Jupiter. The work is copiously illustrated.

Dr. Talmage will sail from Sau ?rancisco oa the steamship Alaneda, Maj' 31, on his long-contem-jlated tour around the world. His Brooklyn pulpit will, be occupied luring his absence by various “supflies.” but the Talmage sermons for ;y n dicate publication will be con - linued from the various points at which the famous preacher may deiver them,’ being cabled to this •ountry regularly every Monday. This series of discourses will be of mrpassing interest, and the impressions cleaned by such a remarkable ind intelligent observer will be iwaited by his admirers with the Host cheerful anticipations. Theodore Westmark a Scandi-

aavian, who has mad 2 two explorations of the Congo Free Slate under rhe auspices of the King of Belgium, a recent lecture at Chicano, charged Henry M. Stanley with having lunched on human flesh in Africa in 1884, to satisfy his curiosity as to the taste of human flesh. The “meat” was said to have been procured by his servant, fried in butter f.nd served with pickles. Stanley f renounced the flesh tasteless. Staney’s great success appears to have groused the animosity of all the African explorers, and apparently this Is only one of the lot of trumped-up i barges which have from time to time, been brought against him.

* May is a maiden so passing fair Chat the heavens smile and the balmy air fragrant with all the blossoms of spring greets the joyous find winsome thing; and each won- ’ (irous day a laurel wreath brings to fleck her brow and with garland firings of budding flowers bestrews |ier way, while the azure vast is f vercast with the plumes of clouds hat sailing past, play hide and seek with the god of day. Green is the parpet beneath her feet and the morning’s dawn that her dewy eyes greet is bright with the light of a passionate fire that grows with the heat of her heart’s desire to be merged and married, her heart in tune, with her lover gay, warm leafy June.

Indiana has quite a number of citizens who seem fully determined that their families shall not go to the almshouse after they have ceased to exert themselves in their behalf, and as a means to that desirable end they are carrying life insurance policies for large amounts. Among the most notable art 1 ': J. M. Studebaker, South Bend, 1250,000; Clem Studebaker, South Bend, $250,000; A. H. Nordyke, Indianapolis, over $200,000; J. C. Wright, Indianapolis, $150,000; D. P. Marmon, Indianapolis, $130,000; C. W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis, $100,000; Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, SIOO,OOO. Quite a long list of well known meh are insured for sums ranging downward from SIOO,OOO to $50,000. The fabulous goose that laid the golden egg, and was slaughtered by its avaricious owner that he might possess himself of all the eggs at once, has had a modern prototype in the great auk, but this wonderful bird has also ceased to exist as a distinct species. The eggs of the great auk are now more valuable than the fruit of the fabled goose, as the few existing specimens readily sell for more than their weight in gold. Only sixty-eight eggs are known to scientists in the world, and but ten of these are in perfect condition. The first recorded sale of the great auk’s egg was in 1853, when they sold at $l5O each. The last sale of redord was in London a few weeks ago, when h specimen brought $1,550. The auk became extinct in 1844. Irishmen, and all those who sympathize with the cause of Home Rule for Ireland, and with the woes and misfortunes of that unhappy arid brilliant race, will be gratified at the fury exhibited by Lord Salis-

bury in a recent speech’ delivered in Parliament in which he cpmplimented the Irish in America by characterizing 'them _as “the most bitter, Unscrupulous and permanent cnemies of 'cvcry thing British “that can be found4n America/’ Neither Irishmen nor their friends in this country—and that term embraces well-nigh the entire population —are likely to lose any'sleep because of the celebrated peer’s bellicose wrath. They will cheerfully agree with him in the position assumed and endeavor by their future actions to merit a continuance of his animosity.

Coxey’sday of fame is overstrange how things will come to pass —when he thought he’d, be in clover he was told, “Keep off the grass.” Yet he tarried, and he blustered, gave the coppers talk and “sass”—all unheeding, never flustered, blue-coats said, “Keep off the grass.” Then the gentle, hopeful hero calmly 'said, “I want no fight, but from far-off fair Ohio I have come to get my rights.” Stolid, stern relentless ininions of-a mighty nation’s power, all unheeding of his pleading, would not. let him talk or pass, and as calm as ’Gyptian sphinxes only said, “Keep off the grass.” So, dear reader, heed the lesson .if you hope a point to gain, in this land of law and order you will oft hear this refrain, and its meaning all-eam- gather—nothing brought to pass if you waver from the right way and thereby “tread on the grass.”

The mystery surrounding the death of Albert T. Beck, a well 1 - known attorney of Indianapolis, deepens. Mr. Beck was found dead, in his bed, with ,a bullet hole in his head. A revolver lay at the foot of the bed several feet from the dead man’s hands, with one barrel empty. An autopsy developed the fact that Mr. Beck’s skull was fractured — splinters of bone being driven into the brain —at a different place from the bullet wound. Either injury was sufficient to have caused death. Expert medical testimony proved that it was a physical impossibility for Mr. Beck to have inflicted both wounds upon himself. If by any means he could have fractured his own skull he would have been incapable of shooting himself—vice versa, if he had shot himself he could not have broken his skull after the shooting. The coroner of Marion county has returned a verdict that Mr. Beck was murdered by an unknown person. Detectives cling to the theory of suicide in spite of the contradictory character of the two injuries; It is a most interesting case from a detective’s standpoint, all the evidence to be obtained simply tending to increase the mystery in which the tragedy will probably forever remain shrouded.

PEOPLE.

i A Richmond friend of the late General Early, who because of his profanity was known during the war as “Lee’s Bad Old Man,” says that in his later years the General was ! “a daily reader and a thorough student of the Bible.” On Oct. 11, 1863, A. H. Sutherland, of Saugus, Mass., received a bullet in the neck at Culpepper, Va. ! It remained in his body over thirty years,causing frequent hemorrhages. A few days ago he coughed it up from his lungs. Dr. Ochse has invented a new cartrfde, the charge of which is acidulated water. This, on decomposition by electricity, gives oxygen and hydrogen, and an ignition of these gases suddenly devolops a pressure of 5,800 atmospheres. Congressman Blair,of New Hampshire, has consented to identify himself prominently with an inebriate asylum in Washington. He thinks that his prominence in the cause of temperance will give value to his indorsement of the institution. ■ Baron de Hirsch has again distributed the gross winnings of his horses last year—amounting to $37,500 —among London hospitals; but, not content with following his own precedent, he has this year “gone one better” by giving the same amopntin “added money,” making a total of $75,000.

An Interesting Sight.

It is a most interesting sight to watch an orang-outangmake its way through the jungle, writes an African traveler. It walks slowly along the larger branches in a semi-erect attitude, this being apparently caused by the length of its arms and the shortness pf its legs. It invariable selects those branches which intermingle with those of a neighboring tree, on approaching which it stretches out its long aim. and, grasping the boughs opposite,seems first to shake them as if to test their strength, and then deliberately swings itself across to tho next branch, which it walks along as before. It does not jump or spring as monkeys usually do, and never appears to hurry itself unless some real danger presents. Yet, in spite of its apparently slow movements, it gets along far quicker than a person running through the forest be 4 neath.

TALMAGE’S TOUR.

First Sermon of the Great eraryThe Brooklyn Divine Stops at Little Rock amiPrcachos to a Great Audience. Dr. Talmage. y en route to California on his round the world journey, stopped at Little Rock. Ark., over Sunday, and preached to a large audience. Subject —“Recovered Families/' The text chosen was I Sam~uel- xxx, ,'4, ISj/^-UThen- -David an d: the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. * * * David recovered aH.” He said: There is intense excitement in the village of Ziklag. David and his men are bidding good-by to their families and are off for the wars. In that little village of Ziklag the defense-

less ones will be safe until the warriors. flushed with victory, come home- But will the defenseless ones be safe? The softarms of the children are around the necks of the bronzed warriors until they shake themselves free and start, and handkerchiefs and flags are waved and kisses thrown until the armed men vanish beyond the hills. David and his men soon get through with their campaign and start homeward. Now they come up to the last hill that overlooks Ziklag, and they expect in a moment to see the dwelling places of their loved ones. They look, and as they look their cheek turns pale, and their lip quivers, and their hand involuntarily comes down on the hilt of the sword. “Where is Ziklag? Where are our homes?” they cry. Alas, the curling smoke above the ruin tells the tragedy? • The Amalekites have come down and consumed the village and carried the mothers and the wives and the children of David and his men into captivity. The swarthy warriors stand fora few moments transfixed with horror. Then their eyes glance to each other, and they burst into uncontrollable weeping, for when a strong warrior weeps the grief is appalling. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces. They “wept until they had no more power to weep.” But soon their sorrow turns into rage, and David, swinging his sword high in the air, cries, “Pursue, for thou shalt overtake them and without fail recover all.”

Very soon David and his enraged company come upon the Amalekitish host. Yonder they see their own wives and children and mothers and under Amalekitish guard. Here are the officers of the Amalekitish army holding a banquet. The cups are lull; the music is roused; the dance begins.* The Amalekitish host cheer and cheer and chCpr over their victory. But without note of bugle or warning of trumpet David ami his 100 men burst upon the scene. David and his men look up. and one ■.dance at their loved ones in captiv-, ity and under Amalekitish guard throws them into a very fury of determination. for you know how men will fight when they fight for their wives and children. Ah, there are lightnings in their eye, and every finger is a spear, and their voice is .ike the shout of the whirlwind!

Now they are coming home, David Ind his men and their families—a iong procession. Men, women and children, loaded with jewels and robes and with all kinds of trophies that the Amelekites had gathered up in years of conquest-- everything now in the hands of David and his men. When they come by the brook Besor, where staid the men sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the robes and all kinds of treasures are divided among the sick as well as among the well. Surely the lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Here is a robe for a pale-faced warrior. Here is a pillow for this dying man. Here is a handful of gold for the wasted trumpeter. Some mean fellows objected to the sick ones having any of the spoils. The objectors said,‘‘These men did not fight.” David, with a magnanimous heart, replies, “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” This subject is practically sugestive to ibe. Thank God, in these times a iuan can go off on a journey and'be gone weeks and months and come back and see his house untouched of incendiary and have his family on the step to greet him if by telegraph he has foretold the moment of his coming. But there arc Amelekitish disasters, there are Amelekitish diseases that sometimes come upon one’s home, making as devastating work as the day when Ziklag took fire. There arc families you represent broken up. No battering rain smote in the door, no iconoclast crumbled the statues, no flame leaped amid the curtains, but so far as ail'the joy and merriment that once belonged to that house the home has departed. Armed disease came down upon the quietness of the scene—scarlet fevers or pleurisies or consumption or undefined disorders came and seized upon some members of that family and carried them way. Ziklag in ashes! Why these long shadows of bereavement across this audience? Why is it that in almost every assemblage black is the predominant color of the apparel? Is it because you do not like saffron or brown or gray or violet? “Oh, no!’ you say, “The world is not so bright to us as it once was.” and there is a story of silent voices and still feet and of loved ones‘gone, and when

you look over the hijls expecting only beauty and loveliness you find only devastation and woes Ziklag in ashes! - _ ;■ I preach this sermon to-day because I want.Xo .rally you as David rallied his men, for the recovery of the loved and lost. I want not only toxvin 'hcaven. birtr l want .all this congregation to go along with me. I remark, in the first place, if you want to join your loved ones in glory, you must travel the same way they went. No sooner had the half dead Egyptian been resuscitated than he pointed the way the captors and the captives had gone, and David and "hts’''Tncri'foliowed'afterr-"*’Su , ''Trar Christian friends have gone into Rnother country, and if we want to reach their companionship we must take the same road. They repented; we must repent. They prayed: we must pray. They trusted in Christ; we must trust in Christ. They lived a religious life; we must live a religious life, They were in some things like ourse.l ves. I know, now that they are gone, there is a halo around their names, but they had their faults. They said and did things they ought never to have said or done. They were sometimes rebellious. sometimes cast down. So

I suppose that when we have gone some things in us that are now only tolerable may be almost resplendent. But as they were like us in (deficiencies we ought to be like them in taking a supernal Christ to make up for the deficits. Had it not been-fgr 2 Jesus-they-would-haveallperislied,-but Christ confronted them and said, “I am the way,” and they took it 4

I remark, again, if we want to win the society of our heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of faith and a path of tribulation, but we will also have to positively battle for their companionsnip. David and his men never wanted sharp swords and invulner-able-shields and tETck breastplafes' so much as they wanted them on the day when they came down upon the Amalekites. if they had lost that battle, they never would have got their families back. I suppose that one glance of their loved ones in captivity hurled them into the battle with tenfold courage and energy. They said: “We must win it. Everything depends upon it. Let each one take a man on point of s pear or sword. We must win it.” And I have to tell you that between us and coming into the companionship-of our loved ones who have departed there is an Austerlitz, there is a Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. War with the world, war with the flesh, war with the devil. We have either to conquer our troubles, or oui 1 troubles will conquer us. David wi 11 eit her si ay the Am al ek i tos, or the Amalekite will slay David. And yet is not the fort to be taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the besiegement? If this morning while I speak you could hear the cannonade of a foreign enemy whiph was to despoil your city, and if they really should succeed in carrying your families away from you, how long would we take before we resolved, to go after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old and rusty in the garret, would be brought out, and we would urge on, and coming in front of the foe wo would look at them and then look, at our families, and the cry would be, “Victory or death!’, and when the ammunition was gone we would take the captors on the point of the bayonet or under the breech of the gun. If you would make such a struggle for the getting back of your earthly friends, will you not make as much struggle for the gaining of the eternal companionship of your heavenly friends? Oh, yes, we must join them. You say that all this implies that our departed Christian friends are alive. Why, had you any idea that they were dead? They have only moved. If you should go on the 2d day of May to'a house where one of your friends lived and find him gone, you would not think that he was dead . You would inquire next door where he had moved to. Our departed Christian friends have only taken another house. The secret is that they are richer now than they once were and can afford a better residence. They once drank out of! earthenware, they now drink from I the King’s chalice. “Joseph is yet alive,” and Jacob will go up and see him. Living, are they? Why, if a man can live in this damp, dark dungeon of earthly captivity, can he not live where he breathes the bracing atmosphere of the mounttin; of heaven? Ob, yes, they are living. But I must not forget these two hundred men who fainted by the brook Besor. They could not take another step farther. Their feet were sore; their head ached; their entire nature was exhausted. Besides that, they were broken-hearted because their homes were gone. Ziklag in ashes! And yet David, when he comes up to them, divides the spoils among them. He says they shall have some of the treasures. I look over this audience this morning, and I find at least two hundred who have fainted by the brook Besor —the brook of tears. You feel as if you could not take another step farther, as though you could never look up again. But I am going to imitate David and divide among you some glorious trophies. Here is a robe. “All things work together for good to those who love God.” Wrap yourself in that glorious promise, ilere is for your neck a string of pearls, made out of crystalized tears, “Weeping may endure fora night, but joy cometh in the morning." Hebe is a coronet. “Be thou faithful

unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” Oh, ye fainting ones by the brook of Besor, dip your blistered feet in the running stream of God’s mercy. Bathe your brow at the well of salvation. Soothe your wounds with the balsam that exudesfremtreesof life. God will -not utterly cast-^ou-ofL-O-broken-hearted woman, fainting by the brook Bezor. A shepherd finds that his musical pipe is bruised. He says: “I can’t get any more music out of this in - strument, so I will just break it, and I will throw this reed away. Then I will get another reed, and I will play music on that.” But God says He will not cast you off because all the hnisic your soul. “The bruised reed He will not break.” As far as 1 can tell the diagnosis of your disease, you want divine nursing, and it is promised you, “As one whom his mother comforteth. so will I comfort you.” God wllEsecryAu~atl“tlre"'W3y J tinwugh““G troubled soul, and when you come down to the Jordan of death you will find it to be as thin a brook as Besor. May God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, bring us into the companionship of our loved ones who have aiready entered the heavenly land and into the presence of Christ, whom, not having seen, we love, and so David shall recover all, “and as his part is that goeth down to the battle,so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff,”

A NEW STAGE ILLUSION.

A Simple and Ingenious Way ol Presenting an Aerial Lady With No Visible Means of Support, New York Sun. Visitors to the big Midwinter Fair in San Francisco have been able recently to enjoy among the Midway HttractionT,“a“very effective illusion? accomplished by the use of a giant mirror set at an angle upon the theater stage. The illusion is called “The Aerial Lady.” When the curtain rises a comely young woman appears to float into view suddenly from the back of the stage and remains poised in mid-air, floating from side to side as if resting before the surface of a lake. After a few moments her arms and legs go through a number of complicated but graceful gyrations, and her body assumes a variety of postures. She dances, and finally turns

a complete somersault in mid-air. The somersault is executed slowly, and puzzles the spectator, for it is readily seen that the body of the performer has no support upon which to turn. None of the spectators know that what he is looking at is not the agile woman athlete, but a reflection of her in the giant mirror, which is set at an angle of nearly forty-five degrees over an open pit built in the stage, at the bottom of which the performer lies on her back upon a circular revolving platform. The platform is made of thick plate glass and revolving metal casters. The platform fits into an opening in the side of the pit, and as it is slid through the opening into place, the illusion is produced of the woman coming into the view of the audience suddenly, and apparently floating upon air in defiance of all her natural laws. As the woman lies stretched on her back her image is reflected upon the mirror as if she were standing upright, and the positions are changed by simply revolving the glass platform one way or the other. The mysterious somersault illusion is effected by turning the mirror completely around.

Standing on His Rights.

Albany Morning Express. A west-bound train had just pulled out of the Union station, and the conductor .was harvesting tickets. All the seats were taken, and several passengers were obliged to stand. Among the latter was a diffidentlooking, mild-mannered man, who, much to the conductor’s surprise, refused to give up a ticket. “When I get a seat you get a ticket,” he remarked, mildly but firmly; “you are probably aware that the company cannot collect fare from passengers whom it does not provide with seats.”

“Oh, come now, that don’t go; I want your ticket, see?” Thus spoke the conductor, in a tone that indicated that he believed he would intimidate the mile-mannered man. “No seat, no ticket,” laconically observed the latter. “We’ll see about that,” growled the conductor, who was becoming quite warm in the region of the collar. “I would if I were you.” remarked the passenger, still mildly, smiling pleasantly. Then theconductor hustled around and finally found a brother conductor who was going up the road a way, whom he induced to give up his seat to the mildly firm passenger. “There’s a seat for you; now give me that ticket,” said the conductor in a ferocious tone. “Certainly, here it is!” And the mild but firm passenger banded out a pass good to Chicago.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

President has gone fishing} Sown the Atlantic coast, and expects to; Jrom Washington ten or twelve days. The industrial Wool Working Company, jf Philadelphia, Pa„ offers to remove its plant to Richmond if sufficient inducements are offered. * The United States Supreme Court,Monday, decided against John Y. McKane r . the Gravesend boss, on every point of his appeal and he will have to serve out his sentence. One of the most destructive cyclones ?ver known in the Chickasaw nation has passed-over that country.—No less thantwenty houses were blown down. Several persons were hurt, - A beautiful bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, by Sunol, was unveiled in Central Park, Saturday. Chauncy M. Depew was the orator of the day, and Vice President Stevenson also made a short speech. The Rew Myron W. Reed, perhaps the best known minister in Colorado, in a sermon, Sunday night, at Denver, on the Coxey movement, said: “I would like to see a half million of the unemployed camped' in and around the National Reservation, called the District of Columbia. From there the most of our woes have come. To there let them return. Let. chickens hatched in Washington go home to roost/’ An anti-Ereckinridge mass meeting was held at Lexington, Ky., Monday. Several hundred women were in attendance. Red hot resolutions denouncing Col. Breckinridge’s candidacy for Congress were adopted. Senator Blackburn was called upon to come homeand taketherdstrum against Breckinridge. A cyclone passed over Kunkle, 0., Thursday afternoon, killing five persons. Many others are believed to be fatally injured. The violence of the funnel-shaped cloud was unprecedented, but its path in which the people were killed was so completely demolished that not even the foundation was left, the site being marked, only by a. huge hole in the ground.

FOREIGN.

One hundred German Baptists from Kherson and Volhynia have embarked Tfbm Eibiin Tor America. Rel igious persecution forced them to emigrate. As the vessel on which they sailed left Liban, the emigrants sang a hymn which greatly affected the crowd gathered oh the wharf. The strangest strike on record is that of the wet nurses .of Vienna. All their grievances and demands can not be discussed, but the financial side of the question is that the registry offices get too large commissions. ;> President Peixoto has severed the diplomaticrelations between Brazil and Portugal. and has sent the Portuguese minisistcr his passports. The Portuguese legation at Rio de Janeiro is now in the hands of the British minister.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Thursday, the Lodge bribery resolution, which cameover from Wednesday, was laid before the Senate by the Vice-President, and Mr. Lodge took the floor and said that if there was any truth in the charges that attempts to bribe. Senators had been made the public'should know it. After several amendments had been offered and agreed to the resolution was p issed and a committee of live Senators was appointed to investigate the charges. Tim tariff bill was then taken up. The Republicans continued the filibustering tactics alreadyinaugurated. Various amendments wero considered. Numerous attempts to force an adjournment were made my Republicans which the Democrats defeated.

At 8:20 p. m.l no quorum being present, Sorgcant-at-Arms Bright submitted his report, which showed that of the absentees on the roll call ten Senators were absent from the city, two could not be found, one. Mr. Morrill, had declined to attend arid nineteen wete either present now or had roported that they would immediately respond to the request. This did not satisfy Mr. Harris, lie was in favor of adopting more heroic measures. He moved tocompel the attendance of the absentees. At 10:49, after sitting for eleven and a half hours, and after some very sharp and plain talk on both sides, the Republicans succeeded in forcing an adjournment, although the battle was in reality a drawn one. 'A compromise had been practically agreed upon before adjournment by which the sessions of tiip Senate are to begin at 10 o’clock after Monday, The Senate. Friday, passed eleven pages of the tariff bill in five hours. The Republicans won their first victory in the efforts to secure higher rates than those granted by the majority. They induced the Democrats to take rough building and monumental stone, limestone, freestone, granite, sandstone, etc., from the free list and place them on the dutiable list at 7 cents per cubic foot, and to increase the duty on this class of dressed stone from 20 to 30 per cent, ad valorem. The feature of the day was the denial of half a dozen Republican Senators that any agreement had been reached to allow the bill to ultimately come to a vote and the bold announcement of Messrs. Frye and Dolph that they stood ready to go to any length and use any parliamentary methods to defeat the passage of the bill. Mr. Morgan’s resolution calling upon the At-torney-general for Information as to the existence of a sugar trust in violation of the law was adopted. At 4:50 the Senate went into executive session.

In the House, Friday, the sugar bounty question was brought up. Mr. Boatner gave notice that he would offer an amendment providing that the Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant-at-Arms should respectively deduct from the monthly pay of each member and delegate the amount pf his pay for every day ho was absent without leave, except on accourft of sickness of himself or family. Representative Cannon questioned the propriety and courtesy of the House, declaring by its actions to Senators that there was not poing to be any sugar bounty lu the next fiscal year. Mr. Bingham, taking at bis fext the appropriation of 9300,003 in the last appropriation bill for investigating the alleged pension frauds, made an attack on the pension policy of President Cleveland and Commissioner Lbchren. At 9 o’clock a recess was taken until 8 o'clock, when private pension bills wore discussed.