Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — Page 6

THE CAMPAIGN.

The Enemy Is On the Run Before the Fight Has Well Begun. An Unprecedented Triumph. Indianapolis Journal The overturns in Indiana, Tuesday, have nowhere a parallel this year of Democratic reverses except in New Jersey. More than sixty cities. usually more than half Democratic, held elections Tuesday, and not over a half dozen of them show Democratic ascendency. Local issues and controversies entered into some of the contests, but these usually affect one party as much as the other; but on Tuesday it was the Democratic policy which" has paralyzed business, destroyed employment and brought loss or want to paany thousands that the people were determined to condemn and they did it. As a whole, the Demoeracy has gone down in Indiana as a party has hever been submerged in this State. {lities which have never had Repubican Mayors elected them on Tuesday. Cities which for a generation have had a succession of Democratic councils broke that succession this year. Every Democratic Senator or {Representative living in a city voting on Tuesday, received a special stroke; but the protest of Senator Voorhees’s city was the loudest and most angry. , Victory involves responsibility, jf n power in most of the cities of Indiana, the Republicans elected and those who have influence should see

that the people are given intelligent and clean administrations. The offices are few. and but few people £an be rewarded by their bestowal, jbut there is not a citizen so humble .that a judicious management of municipal affairs and an intelligent enforcement of the laws and ordinances will not be to his advantage. No city can long be prosperous with a defective and wasteful management of municipal affairs. In no other way can the Republicans in cities retain the advantage which they gained in Tuesday’s elections. We now have throughout Indiana the long sought but never hitherto attained opportunity of proving the superiority of the Republican party for the management of local affairs. Let us make the most of it and thus perpetuate party ascendency. At the same time let us seize upon the opportunities offered by these inspir in gvic tor ies to Strengthen our lines for the- contests of November. Senator Turpie’s Strange Speech. Chicago Inter-Ocean. It is long since an exhibition so derogatoryto its dignity was made in the Senate of the United States as that in which Mr. Turpie was the principal performer. It is strange that the presiding officer did not call the Senator from Indiana to order before he had eructated the most offensive part of his matter Mr. Turpie is a very scholarly and very ro i_ cluse person, and under normal conditions is gentlemanly in debate, though always needlessly satirical intone. It would have been charitable toward him to have checked his utterance as soon as it became apparent, as it did in the very' exordium of his speech, that he was in in abnormal condition. Senator Aldrich, pgainst whom Senator Turpie’s violent diatribe was leveled, closed the debate “by a dignified exculpation of the Demo--cratic majority in the chamber from ipproval of the unseemly violence of the gentleman from Indiana. "He speaks for himself alone," said the gentleman froln Rhode Island, "and under other circumstances and conditions I do not believe that he would have made, the speech that he has made." It is a charitable conclusion. Senator Turpie should prove that it is a just one by a voluntary apology to the Senate he has insulted. We say the Senate because his Offense was against the dignity of the whole body. No individual Senator can consider himself insulted by such a speech made under such circumstances. A Vote on the Main Question. The Republican convention, acted

Uncle Sam—Gosh! Somebody must have changed that egg—that ?in't no free-trade chick!—Philadelphia Inqurer.

wisely in making the issues affecting the industrial and business situation the only ones in its platform and ia its canvass. They affect the wellbeing of all the people, and are, therefore, the most important. They are the issues which the people are all interested in. and which should be considered by themselves and

without distracting adjuncts. The Republican convention representing the party has put itself in a position to demand the support of every voter in Indiana who believes or suspects that the present conditions are due to the tariff policy of the Cleveland administration. There was universal prosperity when Mr. Cleveland came and announced his policy; there i§ depression and distress throughout the country now because of the fear of the Cleveland policy. In view of these facts, the Republican party in Indiana has placed itself where it can ask with assurance the support of every man who desires to put an end to the disastrous policy of Clevelandism by the result of the election of November, 1894. It is right to make this issue, the main feature of the campaign, for the reason that no issue or demands for legislation in other directions can be taken ud with success while

business depression deprives all wage earners either of full employment or of fair wages and production affords no profit. The general condition of prosperity is the only one in which the people are prepared to give proper attention to plans and policies for the improvement of society. Moreover, these seasons of i depression are seasons of demorali- ; zation, as intelligent people must i realize who read of Coxeyism. Men without employment who see the comforts of themselves and families depart are tempted to lawlessness. ‘ The conditions which compel an in- -■ dustrions man to wear a ragged coat j who wears a good one when he has ! employment are demoralizing from amoral point of view, because men suffer in self-respect and lose courage. Consequently, to change the conditions so that the industries of the country will revive and give emI ployment and wages is to put an end Ito the demoralization we now see about us, and is the highest moral duty a party organization can undertake. If there are good men who cannot join the Republicans of Indiana in this work because their personal views and convictions of what are essential are not made a prominent feature of the Republican platform, y they must go their way and become the allies of Clevelandism and the party which is responsible for presI ent conditions. The one issue which | overshadows all others is involved in i the question: “Shall the tariff policy i of Cleveland and the solid South be • adopted?’’ The Republicans of InI diana invoke the aid and the votes i of all men who believe that it should I not, and when they ask the support ; of all men who are hostile to that I which is the first step to free trade, , they do not propose to ask such men * to commit themselves to the approval or disapproval of any other i theory or policy.

Driven to Loud Display.

Detroit Tribune. ! The girl whb was not beautiful i but interesting displayed anima- ’ tion. “ “I would greatly prefer,” she was saying, “a quiet wedding, but it is ' impossible." The maiden with a low broad fore- ■ bead, upon which the auburn curls i clustered despite, the humidity of • the atTOosphere,~turned in surprise, j “Why impossible?” she asked. I “Because —” Her look was one of cnlm resigna- ' tion. “ —dear George is so hard of hearing, poor fellow.” It appeared to be a case of necessity.

An Effective Remedy.

Texas Siftings “It was a severe punishment," said the father self-reproach fully, “but it answers the purpose. It keeps Johnny from running on thestreet." “You didn’t cripple the boy, did you?" "No, I had his mother cut liiShair’ for him. You ought to see the poor bov,” and the proud father wept bitterly.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

PROPHETIC EGGS. Farmers near Marshall, Mich., were greatly agitated, recently, over an apparently supernatural warning, □n several farms in that vicinity eggs were found bearing the inscrip-’ tion: “Look out for May 4, 1894.’ The letters of the inscription were light brown and perfectly legible. In all the cases the legend was the spme, and were doubtless made by the same stencil plate in the hands M the same practical joker with the Taeh’ameeiid in view, ire. - ; to cateh the same gudgeons with the same bait. To carry out the joke the hens disappeared for a period of several days, when thev as mysteriously reappeared on their accustomed roosts. The only really unaccountable feature - of the entire transaction was the reappearance of the hens. Why any one who would take the trouble to abstract the hens from the coop should ever go to the additional trouble of returning them is indeed a mystery. It is needless to say that nothing unusual occurred in all that region May 4, and up to date we have no returns to indicate that anything remarkable transpired in any part of the globe on that date — barring, of course, the appearance of the Great Coxey in the Washington police court. The joke is not altogether new, eggs having been used as a medium to frighten credulous people both in Europe and America at various times. As far back as 1808 an egg was found in a Lisbon church on which was foretold the destruction of the French, who then had control of the city. Great excitement resulted, but the wily French thwarted the scheme by having several hundred eggs engrossed with a flat contradiction of the propheey found in the ehurob and scattered them in aUXhe hen’s nests throughout the city. The preponderance of miraculous testimony ap-. peared to be in favor of the French, and the phlegmatic Portuguese deferred their revolt against French authority to some more favorable occasion.

ESOTERIC BUDDHISM

Dr. Heinrich Hensoldt, of New York, a traveler of renown, so said, has been entertaining Indianapolis people with his observations of the Far East during his residence of eleven years in India, Thibet, Biirmah and Ceylon. The Doctor claims that he is the solitary white man who has been able to penetrate to the celebrated Lhase —the inaccessible city of Thibet since lgf?s. Lhase is the center of the Buddhist faith, and all attempts to reach it by foreigners of late years have failed; Dr. Hensoldt’s tales border on the incredible and marvelous. We do not vouch for their truth, but give a brief resume of the more startling statements. The doctor prefaced his remarks with the statement that he is not a Theosophist, although he claims that esoteric Buddhism has furnished the basis for the present fad that is designated by that term. Dr. Hensoldt knew Mme. Blavatsky, and states that she was a remarkable woman, but her claims to supernatural power were mostly fraudulent, although he says that she really could hold almost any light object to the ground by the force of her will so that the strongest man could not lift it, and that she was capable of performing several other remarkable feats. But the feats performed by the Buddhist adepts, which Dr. Hensoldt says he witnessed himself, discount the wildest tales of imagination. These 'adepts for the most part live a life of seclusion, occasionally appearing ip the cities to perform miracles and preach their faith. They suddenly appear in the street, wave their hands a few times, and in three minutes a large tree will grow right before the eyes of all. Dr. Hensoldt has seen this done several times, and climbed the tree in order to test its reality. Then the tree will disappear as mysteriously as it came. Then the adept would deliver a sermon, after which he would throw the end of a rope into the air, where it, would hang. Up this rope the adept would climb and disappear. Dr. Hensoldt claims to have seen this performance four different times, and believes that it is accomnlished by a species of hypnotism, although several thdusand people were present in each case and saw the same things. The Doctor claims, too, that the Hindoos are possessed of a telepathic potfer which would knock out the Western Union Telegraph Company if it should become epidemic in this country, as by its aid they acquire intelligence of events transpiring at a great distance at once. It took six weeks for the news of the burning of Moscow to reach Paris by courier, yet the event is claimed to have been known throughout India in two hours. The Doctor thinks ou£ boasted civiliza-

tion Is a good deal of a fraud—that we are in darkness, in comparison with the Hindoo, in all the higher attributes of the mind and soul. There is, in fact, nothing real, he says, but mind itself —all dutward objects being mere visions. The Doctor is fully convinced, from what lie has seen abroad, of the immortality of the soul, or Ego, as he terms it — a fact which he was inclined to doubt previous to his investigations in Lhase and the East.

MASHONALAND.

That geographical division of “the Dark Continent known as Mashonaland, has developed great possibilities for the adventurous financier. Less than a dozen years have elapsed since that portion of South Africa was an unbroken wilderness, unknown to white men, a terra incognito that inspired the explorer with consuming desire and the romancer with the wildest fancies. Exploration proved the existence of goldun paying quantities and an influx of miners slowly drifted into the country, but until three years ago no set_tlements“bf “importance had been made. British gold at that time saw the opening and speedily poured in. Now we read of the important cities of Salisbury, Victoria and Umtali, where but two years ago building lots sold at from $125 to $250, asking and receiving for the same lots $l,50(; from people who have located there for permanent residence. The Standard Bank of South Africa has for some time been open for business at. Salisbury, and already the money changers have full possession of “God’s first temples.” Salisbury may be reached by cable and wire from any point in Indiana--at some considerable expense--and any one wishing the latest quotations can. communicate with AmEnde&Mack, Salisbury. Mashonaland- A boom of a comparatively mild description is prevailing in that portion of the good Queen’s empire, and this firm have issued a handsome circular giving full details. It is printed in Salisbury and is typographically the equal of similar work issued from Wall street. Salisbury has not as yet the advantage of railway transportation, but the Beira railway has reached out seventy-five miles in that direction from the Indian ocean—about one-quarter of the way. The day of deliverance is undoubtedly at hand and a trip to the interior of South Africa is one of the attractions held out by the future to those who can wait in patience a comparatively short time before disposing of the wealth they intend to squander in a vain attempt to “see the world.’’

CONCERNING COXEY.

The erratic and spectacular proceedings inaugurated by Coxey the Great have aroused considerable interest and called the attention ol the people everywhere to the legal aspects of the propositions made by that visionary character and his numerous proselytes and imitators. Whatever the people may think of the grievances that have resulted in the crusade, few will be found who

will maintain that it should be encouraged in defiance of law. The case has not, and is not likely to be presented to any court having jurisdiction in the constitutional questions involved, yet eminent counsel have given opinions that are in the nature of decisions, and foreshadow the result if a case involving the questions is ever submitted to the court of last resort. Judge Cooley, of Michigan, who is regarded as an authority on constitutional law, in a recent address before the senioi law class at Ann Arbor, referred tc the Coxey movement. He stated that, in fact, we have not a democratic form of government. Powei is delegated to representatives, and the citizen's power ends with the selection of these representatives. Representatives can not be coerced by the citizen. The idea that petitions can be presented to Congress in person is preposterous and not ir keeping with our form of government. If such a right were ever granted to the people all legislation could be brought to a standstill by a preconcerted movement to present petitions for that purpose only. The demands now being made. Judge Cooley holds, do not fall within federal jurisdiction at all. They are all as illegal and on the same line of popular attempts to enforce justice through lynchings. The de mands are outside of the regular authority of the Government, and are therefore anarchistic and revolutionary.

Jason Brown, son of John Brown, of Ossawatqmie, is now living, at the age of seyenty-one, on a spur ol the Sierra Madre mountains, not far from Pasadena, Cal. He makes hit living by exhibiting a little museum of animals, most of which he captured himself, and by acting as a guide to tourists who ascend Mount Lowe and other peaks of the Sierra Madre in that locality.

A Decoration-Day Parade.

Youth*! Companion. i “I’ve alius keered for children," laid Aunt Hannah, looking pensivey down the shady lane as she might lave looked back through the quiet ;horoughfare of her past days. ‘They’re a sight of company, an’ some has the wisdom of the angels, in’ them that knows children’s lives ind ways won’t call them no irrevirence. . “Two years ago come the Ist of AprU the Baileys mov§d inter that jailer house to the’ cross- roads. Bailey, he was misfortunate alius — naturally shiftless—an’ Benny, the boy, ’bout eight years old, was one of them solemn-eyed, quiet an’ not meddlin’ children that a single woman, advanced in years, generally takes to. “Benny an’ me was great friends, and he worritin’ because I had no grandchildren, an’ hisgran’ma bein’ dead, he adopted me, an’ alius called me ‘Gran-.* “Two years ago come Decoration day I looked up from my knittin’ an’ there stood Benny in that very kitchen door. He had queer homecut trouters on, an’ a gingham waist, an.' little copper toed, boots that he set great store by. Behind him was his sister Susie, six years old, an’ Betty, the two year-old toddlin’ along, an’ two freckled boys that lived in the neighborhood. They all ’peared drefful solemn an’ important. ‘"Up to some mirchief, I’ll be bound’, I says. “No, Gran,” says Benny, his lips, That had the baby curve to ’em yet, trem blin’. “It’s Deeumration Day, an’ there ain’t no p’rade like there used ter be to Gardiner'fore we moved —we alius moved —an’ these boys says there ain’t no Decumration here’t all. ‘ ‘Ain’t no soldiers’ graves, ” I says, cheerful like, goin’ to my cooky-box. “Oh, there is!” he calls out breath-" less. “Over to the graveyard in the pine woods there’s a Cap’n Dean that was a Union soldier, an’ fit in the war. Johnny’s mother knowed him, an’ there’s another grave, too — a old. old one that’s got a funny face on the stone, an’ that a revolutionary one. “Wanter know!” I says, giving each one a sugared cooky with a round hole in it, that I knowed they’d appetite for it in spite of the excitement. “An’ we’re goin’ to p’rade,” cries Benny, “and I thought mebbe you’d imake us flags, little miter ones that no trouble. Susy’s got her apron full er Mayflowers we got yes* terd’y' an’ Billy kin do ‘Marcnin’ Through Georgy’ on his mouth-organ beautiful! “With tremblin’ fingers I made five little flags somehow and fastened them on sticks for the regiment.

“ ‘Couldn’t we have,’ says Benny,' kind o' hesitatin’ and lookin’ with •longin’ eyes at my flowerpots, ‘some red geraniums, them that most ■wilty ? ’Cause th ey’re gro wd Ho we rs, an’ our’n we jest found!’ “Where’s your manners?’ says Susy, scoldin’, woman fashion. “ ‘They’re for soldiers,’ Benny insists, an’ I cut him my choicest blossoms. Surely there wa’n’t never a sweeter use for ’em.

“Away went that p’rade, then, Benny ahead with the flag an’ the •bouquet, Billy with a mouth organ, an’ Johnny, straight an' stately, with the biggest flag staff, an' Susy, with her apron full of- sweet smellin’ May blossoms, an’ the todlin’ baby fetchin’ up the rear, keepin’ in line with the rest of ’em.

“Wai, somethin’ bright and beautiful bloomed on them two lone graves under the pines by the side ,of them little flags wavin' in the wind, an’ the best was the little bud of patriotism in them children’s hearts.

“‘What’s that fandango?’ says Jason Mead, - drivin’ by while I watched the p’rade go over the hill to the pine woods. “ ‘Wai. I svan!' he says when I told him. Both of us couldn’t speak then.

“Last Decoration Day I went to the graveyard alone. It was a solitary p’rade all to myself. The Baileys had moved away an’ there wan’t no one to remember the day. I carried three bouquets of my best flowjers. No, I couldn't forget them soldiers’ graves. My best blossoms I laid onto a little mound by that grave of the revolutionary soldier, who’d been at rest near a century. “The Baileys didn’t take Benny away, for the Father wanted him. He lays in God’s acre. I call it that ’cause them is such hopeful words to us all. He was alius an angel child. “I’d like to think that them dead soldiers knowed of that decoration p’rade an’ that little act of reverence an’ love as pure an’ free as sweet wild roses onto a grave."

Wore Some of Queen Bess's Lace. London Cor. Chicago Herald.

It is not often that a woman»is able to array hersolf in a fabric which three hundred years ago was the property of a of England. The Countess of Pembroke had this privilege at Friday’s drawing room when her white and silver gown and light peach velvet train were trimmed with old Point de Flandre, which had been worn by Queen Elizabeth. It was in admirable preservation, and consisted of deep flounces, partly of floral designs, and also displaying a terrace walk with birds on pedestals, most quaint and curious.

MAN WITH A HISTORY

The Terrible Experience that BefeP John W. Thomae, of Theta, Tenn. .' 1 : __ Afflicted with a Peculiar Disease, HU Body Covered with Lcuaps, Cculd Not Kat* < and Tiielight He Wus Going to . Dry Up—His Keto very the Marvel of Tennessee. I [From the Nashrille (Tenn.) Banner.) Mr. John W. Thcmas, Jr., of Theta, Tenn., is a man with a most interesting history. At present he is interested in “blooded horseSj for which Maury County is famous. . < r “Few people, I take it," said Mr. rhemas to a reporter who had asked him for the story of his lile, “have passed through as remarkable a chain jf events as I have and remained alive to tell the story. “It was along in 1884, when I was working in the silver mines of New Mexico, that my troubles began: at drat I suffered with indigestion, and so icute did the pait.s become that I went to California for my health, but the - trip did me little good, and fully imoressed with the idea that my last day had nearly downed upon me, I hurried back here" to my cld home to die. “From simple indigestion my malady Icveloped into a chronic inability to -take any substantial food, ! was barely ible to creep at out, 1 and at times I was prostrated by spells of heart palpitaiioh. This ‘condition continued until

one year ago. “On tho 11th of April, 18P3, I sudienly collapsed, and for days I was un.■onfeious, in fact 1 whs not fully myself until’July. My condition on Sept. I was simply horrible; I weighed but seventy pounds, whereas my normal veight is 11:5 pounds. All over my body there were lumps from the size jf a grape to the size of a walnut, my lingers were; cramped so that I could not morqjihan half straighten them. I nad entirely lost control of my lower imbs and niy hand trembled so that I :ould not drink without spilling the liquid. Nothing would remain on my stomach, and it seemed that I must lry up before many more days had passed. : ~~ “I made another round! of the physicians, calling in one after the other, ind by the aid of morphine and other tnedlcines they gave me, I managed to live, though barely, through the fall." Here Mr. Thomas displayed his irms, anti just above the elbow of each there was a large irregular stain as targe as the palm of the hand and of a purple color; the space covered by the mark was sunken nearly to the bone. ‘That,” said Mr. Thomas, “is what the doctors did by putting morphine into me. “On the lfth of December, 1893, just eight monf hs after I took permanently “s 1 ted—l shall never forget the date—my cousin, Joe Foster, of Carter’s Creek, called on me and gave me a box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, saying they had cured himof partial paralysis, with which I knew lie had all but died. I followed his directions and began taking the cine. As a result I stand bo.ore you to-day the most surpr.sed man on aarth. Look at my hand—it is as steady as yours; my face has a healthy look about it; I have been attending to my duties for a month. Since I began taking the pills I have gained thirty pounds, ami I am still gaining. AU the knots have disappeared from my body except this little kernel here in my palm I have a good appetite and I am almost as strong as I ever was. “Yesterday I rode thirty-seven miles on horseback: I feel tired to-day, but not sieK. 1 used to have from two to four spells of heart j alpitation every night. Since I began the use of the pills I havo had but feur spells altogether. “J knew positively that I was cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and I believe firmly that it is the most wonderful remedy in existence to-day, and ivory fact I have presented, to you is known to my neighbors as well as to mys-elf, and they will certify to the truth of my remarkable cure. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are net a patent medicine in the sense that name implies. They were first compounded as a prescription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician. So great was their efficacy that it was deemed wisoftff them within the reach of ml. ' They are now manufactured by the Dr. VV’illiams’ Medicine Co r.pany, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes incver in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape) at 10 cents a box. or six boxes for $2.5', and may be had of all dr: ggi ts or direct by mail from Dr. Wiil.ams' Medicine Company.

Measurement of Great Lakes.

The greatest length of Lake Superior is 33d miles; its greatest breadth la 160 miles its mean depth, 688 feet; elevation, 827 feet;, area, 82,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Michigan is 300 miles; its greatest breadth, 108 miles; mean depth, 690 feet; elevation, 506 feet; area, 23,000 square miles. The greatest length of Luke Huron is 300 miles; its greatest breadth,6o miles; mean depth, 600 feet; elevation, 274 feet; area, 20,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Erie is 250 miles; its greatest breadth, 80 miles; mean depth, 84 feet; elevation, 261 feet; era, 6,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Ontario is 180 miles; its gre itest breadth is 65 miles; its mean depth is 500 feet; elevation, 261 feet; area, 6,000 square miles.

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