Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — Mr. Harrison's Strategic Neighbor. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Harrison's Strategic Neighbor.

“And the mouth of the righteous know what is acceptable; but the nouth of the wicked speaketh frowirdness.”

Chicago elevator men are reported as determined to withdraw Tom the Board of Tradd and form a aew association of their own if the Board insists upon the enforcement the vote preventing the mixing of "rain or the buying and sell ing of it ay elevator proprietors.

Chauncey M. Depew has been interviewed on the subject of hot weather and his recipe for keeping ?00l may be epitomized as follows: “Keep heating topics .out of the mind and hot things out of your insides, and above all never look at the thermometer or discuss the subject of exceptional heat with any one.”

Cook’s Arctic Excursion from New York touched at St. John’s, N. F., July 15, and took on board an experienced arctic navigator. The party is doubtless “on ice” by this time. This information is given with the hope that the thought of thelucky people who are now sailing amidst unnumbered ice bergs may help us all to keep cool.

In the winter there are no less than four hundred regularly organized theatrical companies in the United States that travel from one place to another. Less than fifty of these are at this time on the road. It has been estimated by a competent authority that no less than 8,000 theatrical people are now out of employment. Of this number at least 5,000 are stranded in New York city without money and, without prospect of anything until the season opens.

The Government reports 355,401 maufacturing establishments having an aggregate capital of $6,524,475,305 with an annual miscellaneous expense account of $630,954,058. That 4,711,832 receive wages annually aggregating an average of $2,282,823,265; that 445,757 other persons employed on piece work receive 122,661,209. That the product of the combined labor is valued at $9,370,108,624. That there are 1,193.113 business concerns in the United States. The natural products of the fields, mines, forests and waters, including" vegetable, animal and mineral, aggregate a value of about $8,500,000 yearly. The total aggregate amounts to over seventeen billions annually; 10 per cent, are exported and 90 per cent, used at home.

It will hardly cause ‘‘widespread sorrow to descend like a pall,” etc., over the entire country, yet it may be of passing interest to note that a tremendous storm swept over Newport, R. L, Jiily 14, wrecking villas, ‘‘cottages,” hot houses, conservatories and all the festive structures of that swell resort in a manner never before equaled. The storm seems to have been somewhat of a respecter of persons, however, for we are told that the properties of the Astors and Vanderbilts escaped without injury. This again exemplifies the “luck” which “shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will.” The quotation calls it “divinity,” but the proper rendering of the truism should just be plain “luck,” without which no man ever achieved fame or fortune. *

The constant drafts of the royal family on Scotland Yard for special police to guard the various members of the reigning house whenever they see lit to travel has reduced that noted headquarters to desperate straits of late, and the most urgent appeals have been made for an increased force. At least a dozen officers acbdmpany the Prince of Wales when he leaves London. The Queen and the Russian Czirovith. now visiting in England, the Duke of Coburg and other digntiarics are said to have required so many special detectives on the 12th inst., because of the great military review at Aidershot, that London was absolutely denuded of its detective force for thir-ty-six hours. It was a golden opportunity for anarchists, but they failed to “catch on.” It is said that the French detective force is five times as numerous as the English staff. Martin Irons, who was quite as prominent as ja.labor leader in 1886 as Mr. Debs is tb-day, is now said to be.a common drunkard in a little ■village in the heart of the Ozarks in j Missouri. his career has been steadily downward since he acted as a dictator and strangled the com- 1

merce of the country for a short time. Dennis Kearney, the “sand lot” agitator of San Francisco, lives in the outskirts of that city on a lot of his own. He is forgotten by the great public and regarded as a crank by those who still recognize triiß. Recently he hired a hall and announced that he would speak on the Chinese registration act, but the audience failed to materialize and he again lapsed into obscurity.

The sympathies of all right thinking men go out to Adjt. Gen. Tarsney,of Colorado,. There may be differences as to the justice or propriety of the conduct of the State administration of which this gentle-, man forms a part, but these are not and can not be a justification, much less an approval of the shameless conduct of a pack of men who have smirched the fair name of- the Cen-tennial-State, Strenuous measures and emphatic denunciation will be required on the part of Colorado citizens in order to make it clear that they despise the contemptible act. This is necessary to preserve the estimate generally awarded to the State as being up to the level of an order loving community, and not -a barbarous agglomeration of brutalized elements, inferior to the Arrapahoes and Cheyennes displaced within the memory of the living. Tar and feathers are poor political arguments.

Other vroesdcthrwatew vs. While the hard times in this country have had the effect of checking immigration and also of causing a positive loss of some parts of our foreign population, greatly to the general satisfaction, another effect not so desirable has begun to flow from the same cause. The great Atlantic steamship lines having lost their most desirable customers are making bids for anything in sight. Steerage rates from Liverpool and continental ports have been reduced to $9.00 to New York. In many cases the cost of a railway journey from London to Liverpool is thrown in, together with all the necessary bedding, andnther conveniences foi the trip, which has always been customary. As a natural consequence the few immigrants now arriving are of the most undesirable class and the evil is likely to continue and increase.

“Counting the cost” is sometimes a very disagreeable and unsatisfactory pastime. It is useless now to count the cost of the great Pullinac strike unless the facts obtained bj the proceedings are used in the fu ture to prevent similar losses. Railway managers and others more 01 less interested from various reasons, are engaged in figuring up the aggregate financial cost of the troubles incident to the strike and, although the data so far is somewhat unsatisfactory, enough is known to warrant the statemen tby the railway man agers at Chicago that it will reach at least $8,000,000. Nearly six hundred Pan Handle cars were destroyed ir one blaze. Of these ninety-eight an known to have contained merchandise. Counsel for many of the railroad companies are already drawinc up papers for suits for damage; against the city of Chicago and Cook county. Large loss also re suited to many interests that can not hope for legal redress. Th; California fruit trade was ruined. Outside shippers at various point; endeavored to get in produce it large quantities while the troubi; was at its height, and it was scattered all over the country and be came a dead loss. The estimate O: $8,000,000 loss is believed to be : very conservative one. This is foi the loss of property only and doe; not take into account the loss of hu man life which can not be computed in dollars and cents.

Searsport News. One of the legends of Searsport A man named Harrison was mucl bothered by bears that invaded hil planted fields. Meeting a neighboi one day he applied to him for ad vice as to what could be done to kee] them out. The neighbor replied: “Bears are fond of molasses. Yoi just make a trough and fill it witl molasses and rum, and put it when they come into your field, and the] will drink it for the sake of the mo lasses, and the rum will make then drunk, so you can go in the morning and knock them on the head.” Mr. Harrison followed this advict and went to the field the next morn ing. There he found, not a bear, bu his neighbor drunk. >- Rev. Dr. John L. Scudder, o Jersey City, son of Rev. Dr. Henn M. Scudder, once pastor of . Ply mouth, Chicago, had for a part o his audience last Sunday a band o 100 cyclists who stored their wheels in the chprch gymnasium, anc marched to hear him preajh on thi “Relation of the Church to Ath letics and Recreation." * lErnest Longfellow, a son of thi poet, who lives in Manchester, Mass, has no literary bent, but is a gop<, painter.