Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gbobx E. Mabshall, Editob. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

• “Jack the Tack Thrower” is making life a burden to city bicyclists. “For promotion Cometh neither f rom the cast nor from the west, nor from the south. But. God is the judge;. He putteth down one. and 7~~ sitteth up another." The great whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus, one of the special attractions of the Columbian Exposition, is on duty this summer is a regular daily packet between __ Chicago and Milwauhee, Icaving the . Randolph street pier at 9:30 a. m. every morning except Saturday and Sunday. The boat does not leave until 1:30 p. m. on Saturday. Sundays it starts at 10 a. m. ——— 1 In times past the “fever’n ager" gave Indiana an unhealthy reputation. Since the advent of the tile mile and the era of big ditches the State has become especially healthy, and probably no commonwealth can show a larger per centage of octogenarians. The hot weather or some other cause has dealt somewhat harshly of late with these venerable nioneers, no less than five women laving died in Randolph county in the last week in August whose combined ages footed up a total of 420 (rears. Gotham is doomed—again. Prof. Falb, the Australian earthquake sharp, has decided to have the final •atastrophe come off Aug, IG. He predicts that New York city will be destroyed by a seismic shock on that late —which is a lit'tle rough on the Lexow committee. that»body having Adjourned till September. If the prophecy is fulfilled we may miss further revelations of official rottenness and private crime, but the country can illy afford to pay such a price for the immunity from the apparently endless stream of immoral i iterature that has emanated from that investigation. Paste this in vour hat and watch the Associated Press reports for the utter humiliation of this pretended prophet —or the final establishing of his reputation as a gifted scientific seer. Jealousy may stalk rampant Ihroughout Great Britain if the negotiations now in progress between Lord Randolph Churchill and certain New York manufacturers culninate in a bargain and sale. The ■English peer evidently believes .in Yankee ingenuity as well as Chicago sanitariums. Lord Ijlandolph came to this country to be cured of the uorphine habit, and being a personal friend of the royal family he con?luded to see what -New York carriage builders could do in the way of building a suitable perambulator for the new heir to the throne if England—the baby boy recently jorn to the Duchess of York. Several designs have been submitted to His Lordship, and it is understood that one to cost $4,000 will be accepted. The presentation will be a matter of some ceremony, and will be awaited with interest. Naturally British manufacturers will view the proceeding with a jealous eye. “Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul” is an old scheme and good enough—provided you always succeed in finding -'‘Peter” at the proper time. “Peter,” however, in these days of depression, is apt to change his name to “Paul” without warning. The whole philosophy of panics is involved in ’“this figurative transaction. As long as a sufficient number of “Peters” continue “on deck,” “Paul” is quite indifferent. “Paul” knows “Peter” quite well and shapes his business life by “Peter’s” actions. If “Peter” takes snuff “Paul” will sneeze with the greatest pleasure. If “Paul” embarks in new enterprises, of doubtful outcome “Peter” is ready to advance the cash until it begins to dawn upon him that he is an actor in a peculiar transformation scene and realizes that his name is “Paul.” The newly fledged “Paul" don’t waste any thne asking, “What are the wild waves saying, sister?" but frequently indulges in violent profanity that would make the. Great Apostle very nervous about the future welfare of his modern namesake could he “catch on." “Peter” is a very important individual. “May bis tribe increase.” The postage stamp craze among the rising generation continues to rage with unabated force throughout the land. Postage stamp albums have become a staple article of trade and a standard center table attraction that vies in interest with'

the portraits or caricatures of family friends and relatives. Childhood seems to contemplate with rapture ’each fresh acquisition, and blissfu) hours speed away while happy faces gazeAindpohderoiithetalismairffiair may have borne a message from beyond the seas. All countries, zones and continents contribute to the childish storehouse of these peculiar treasures.{Harmless and may the passion stiHcontmue to enthrall the childish mind and fill with wondering awe the youthful heart. Fraught wirh wonderful possibilities, the fashion may inaugurate a new <>ra in literature. The suggestive ness of a postage stamp from New Zealand is something to think about. What tales, by deduction might be •wrought and woven by a skillful mind; what visions of land of swarthy tribes and naked savages, of coral —reefs’ and I’ippling waves, of gleaming isles and waving palms, of savage beasts and fiercer sharks, of torrid heat and quivering calm and all the power of ail Ocean storm. When the science of psychology shall have been fully mastered and the process of suggestion fully understood then will the value of this youthful infatuation be more valued and appreciated. “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Ambitious men frequently aspire to a seat in Congress in order that they may have an opportunity to achieve greatness—or notoriety, they are not particular which. There is Mr. Quigg. of New York, who has suddenly achieved notoriety by an impassioned speech in which he referred to “gladiators booted and spurred for conflict" to illustrate one of his alleged points. The country at large has been “laffing” ever since, more or less. Almost any ten-year-old school boy could inform Mr. Quigg that typical gladiators never saw a pair of boots or spurs—much less wore them. The ancient Roman gladiators always wore sandals. Representative Caruth interrupted the speaker with an inquiry as to what period in history gladiators were accustomed to wear boots and spurs. The question was a poser for the gentleman and the House enjoyed his confusion immensely. Mr. Caruth has also achieved notoriety by his peculiar ability in “taking down” members in their spreadeagle flights. Another instance of his quick perceptions in this line was his interruption of Mr. Dolliver of lowa. The Western Congressman was addressing the House in an eloquent way about the home-sick emigrants from. Europe; he said: “I have had them in my office, and while I was writing letters for them to their old friends across they were shedding tears —” at this point a voice from the rear chimed in: “What were they crying about?” It was Representative Caruth, and his ill-mannered but humorous interruption brought down the House and ruined the effect of Mr. Dolliver’s speech.

OLD BUT BUSY.

Men Whom the World Honors Spent a Profitable Old Age. New York Evening Sun. “In my 80th year,” wrote Humboldt in 1849, “I am still enabled to, enjoy the satisfaction of completing a third edition of my work, remolding it entirely to meet the requirements of the present time.”—Five years later Humboldt was hard at w 1 ~*’>ng his “Cosmos.” Dr. Johnson when 73 years old, au., UU..V. . under an attack of paralysis sufficiently severe to render him speechless, composed a Latin prayer in order to test the loss or retention of his mental faculties. A few years before his death he applied himself to the study of the Dutch language. In one morn - ing shortly before his death he amuSed himself bv committing to memory 800 lines of Virgil. Arnauld translated Josephus when 80 years old, and at the age of 82 was still referred to as “the great Arnauld.” Sir Henry Spelman, who passed his early life as a farmer, began his scientific studies at 50 years of age, and before his death came to be known as the most learned antiquary and legal authority of his his time. Dante proposed to translate the whole “Iliad” when in his 08th year, and his most pleasing productions were written in his old age. Michael Angelo preserved his creative genius to extreme old age. His favorite motto is said to have been, “Yet I am learning.” Sir Christopher Wren, who retired from public life at the age of 80? spent the next five years in literary, astronomical and religious studies. “The era of three score and ten is an agreeable age for writing,’ ’wrote Decker. “Your mind has not lost its vigor and envy leaves you in peace.” The opening of one of La Mothe le Yegor’s treatises is as follows: “I should but ill return the favors God has granted me in the 80th year of my age should I allow myself to give way to that shameless want ol occupation which Fhave condemned all my life.”

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

I NEW NATIONAL PARK; A memorial to Congress for a new Na t ion a I Pa rk on the Pacific, near Puget Sound, to surround' and include the celebrated Mount Ranier, aas been presented by Senator Squire, of the State of Washington. The proposed reservation is of •special interest to scientific men md the project has been cordially indorsed by eminent men of dll callings. The territory is rich in nat■iral attractions. The great mountain abounds with ~ curious formations of various kinds, including jight glaciers. Mount Ranier is 14,000 feet high and is superb and inique in its boldness outline and the magnificent grandeur of its attitude. At one point the elevation reaches 11,000 feet within a dissublime sentinel there exists an entire colony of Arctic animals and slants as effectually isolated as if ocated on an island in mid-ocean. The same impenetrable forests that listinguish that entire section of country extend far up the mountain fide. To preserve these forests is in all-important object to the enure Pacific coast. In no other way ?an they be maintained in their jrimival condition. They are of un;old value to the plains below as vater preservers. Ex-Senator Edmunds, in honor of whom one of the glaciers is named, once spoke of the ocality. He said:

I never believed there was anything in America comparable in grandeur to the -cemory. I have-been -through 4hei»wiss naunt’ains, and I am compelled to own hat, incredible as the assertion may appear, there is absolutely no comparison between the finest effects that are ex hi bted- there and what is seen approaching jhis grand isolated mountain. 1 would be villing to go five hundred- miles again to: •ee that-seeno. This continent is yet in gnorance of the existence of what will be me of the grandest show places as well as i sanitarium.

Under the law by which this tract s now reserved, it cannot be entered >y any person, and remains the property of the United States, but he object of the scientific men who irepared the memorial is to have a National Park in which the governnent may prevent the destruction >f timber and the natural features nay remain undisturbed.

RENEWING GAS FIELDS.

hat appears on first glance to >e a purely visionary undertakng—i. e. to renew the natural gas ields, that have failed, by artificial neans —has actually been inaugurated in the Findlay district. Mr. Yilliam Heckert, an expert engiicer of Findlay, has formulated a jeculiar theory. He believes that f a sufficient quantity of air is breed down into abandoned gas veils that it will permeate the oillearing rock? from which the gas iriginally flowed, and be transormed into gas which may be utilzed to an unlimited extent. An expensive plant has beenpurchased md the test will be made at an early late. Capitalists from Pennsylvania and experts from various flaces in the country have been favorably impressed with the theory md are on the ground in person or >y representative to watch the exjeriments. The possibilities of the jxperimentsare almost beyond commutation. If successful, gas can be urnished cheaper than natural gas n the, past, with the additional advantage of an assured supply and a low that can be regulated at will to my degree of pressure. Every ibandoned well in the country will lecome valuable property 7 if the experiments are successful instead of being a dead loss as at present, while the future prospects of every 7 gas :own will become an assured reality, nstead of a vague uncertainty ever launtedwith a dread of collapse at Tome unknown date in the future.

CO-OPERATION.

Hie science of co-operation is well inderstood by all managers of great nonopolies and corporations. It is oy a practical application of this knowledge that they succeed in their vast undertakings. By combining the productive capacity of a large lumber of men in any given line of industry and securing even a very small margin ot profit from the efforts of each individual astonishing results are arrived at. A gefiius for this is what«constitutes a suc?essful business man, and the Jack of it is what keeps the toiler bound to his daily task. Laboring men are prone to inveigh against the enormous gains of monopoly, and in many cases their complaints are just. Yet they generally overlook the plain fact that the same route is ppen to them by which theiremploy?rs have mounted to such heights of what they deem desirable suefiesk. In ai large majority of cases monopflists have only availed themselves pf existing conditions. All men :an not hope to become monopolists, jut the reasons for their failure to

attain the supreme heights lie within themselves—spring from their own failures to observe the laws of success—coupled, indeed, in many cases with ill luck, bad health and a few minor drawbacks that only prove the general rule. For instance, a case has been reported from a rural district where the entire neighborhood sent off $1 each to New York for a recipe to kill potato bugs without poison. The people all received their recipes promptly, and they all read: “Kill them with a club.” An indignation meeting was held and legal advice was taken, but the irate agriculturists were told that they had no redress, as "potato bugs could undoubtedly be killed with a club without the use of poison. The farmers were alone to blame for failure to co-operate. Had they chipped in five and ten cents apiece tion for $1 instead of S4O or SSO. Lack of co-operation led to aggravation and loss. So it will prove in a majority of cases. Farmers generally should heed the lesson. If a smooth tongued stranger appears in your neighborhood with a new scheme of any kind that appears to offer gilt-edged inducements and glowing prospects of phenomenal profit and advantage—investigate on the co-operative plan. Don’t all bite at once. If it is a good thing you will have plenty of opportunities to invest after you have proved its merit. If it is a swindle you will only lose a small amount —one small shard in the co-operative venture.

MIDSUMMER MADNESS.

The absolute determination of a certain per cent, of the human race to be swinded out of their honest dollars by some, species or form of trickery or deception, the certainty that almost any scheme that promises phenomenally large returns from phenomenally small-investments of labor or capital will attract a certain number of human moths who flutter"into danger and get singed or perish like their insect prototypes, still continues to receive verification throughout the country. This peculiar trait in human nature has been supposed to be indigenous to the ru-. ral districts, and “Johnny Hayseed” has been the typical dupe of the typical confidence man for a generation. Recent events, however, show that the innocent agriculturalist is not alone the easy victim of the con. man’s cunning wiles. The latest exhibition of the implicit confidence of mankind in the honor of entire strangers, so necessary to a successful confidence game, was furnished by the officers of the First National Bank of Albuquerque, N. M. These ‘ ’astute” officials purchased an alleged gold brick weighing 5G6 ounces from alleged miners for SII,OOO. The bank sent the brick to the Denver mint in the usual way, and shortly after received the assayer’s report which stated that the brick was a mixture of copper and zinc without a trace of gold in its composition. As these bank officers were in the business of buying gold and silver their “greenness” may be set down as being monumental and can only be accounted for on the theory of “midsummer madness.”

The Syndicate Engagement Ring.

Detroit Free Press. The girl in the white duck suit was sitting on the piazza of the hotel waiting for the girl in the fluffy gown to take a stroll across the lawn. She hadn’t long to wait, and the girl in the fluffy gown came out looking radiant. “My!” exclaimed the White Duck, “how nice and cool you look.” “Thanks,” responded Fluff, “and I fee! like I look,” and she patted her flounces and furbelows affectionately, as women are wont to do. The White Duck during the performance saw something. “Oh,” she said with a little scream, “where did you get that ring?” “That,” said Fluff, laying her hand out before her and contemplating it carefully. “That? Why, that is my engagement ring.” “That can’t be;” contended the White Duck. “And why not?” “Nobody ever heard of a cluster for an engament ring.” “Well, they will hear of it now, for this is an engagement ring.” “Why didn't you select a solitaire?” Fluff shrugged her shoulders prettily: “Because,” she twittered, “it isn’t that kind of ah engagement. This is a summer engagement ring, and nothing but a cluster could be appropriately emblematic.”

Quite a Difference.

Sunday Mercury. Remsen Court--1 have hired a new typewriter - *, Mrs. Remsen Court —I suppose it has lovely brown hair and a peachj complexion and killing blue eyes anc all that! Remsen Court—Well, no; hair to speak of, has a face the coloi of a lemon and wears specs; besides “jt" happens to be a man. Texas is to have a colony of Holanders.

CAMPAIGN ON FACTS.

Republican Conference Discusses the Situation. - Gen. Harrison to Open the Campaign at —lndianapolis in September. A conference of Renublicau District Chairmen, the advisory com_miYtee, a&dAhccandidates for Congress and State offices, with a few other Republicans, was held at Indianapolis, July 31st. Chairman Gowdy acted as chairman, and Secretary Seeds was present. Of the State Committee the following were present: T. J. Brooks, ot Bedford; E. H. Tripp, of Mount Vernon; A. A. Newlin, of Lawrenceburg; W. WLambert, of Columbus; George W. Cromer, of Muncie; J. W. Fester, of Indianapolis;, N. Fiibeck, of Terre Haute; S. A. Ward, of Angola; G. A. Osborn, of Marion; R, B. Ogles—bee; of Ply mouth. The fol low in g members of the ad visory committee' were present: M. G. McLain, of Indianapolis; Robert Mitchell, of Princeton; Geo. W. Self, of Corydon; A. C. Lindemuth, of Richmond; W. I. Overstreet, of Terre Haute; Cloyd Loughery, of Monticello, and G. Z. Hubbell, of Elkhart. L. P. Newby, of Knightstown, and A. W. Wishard, of the executive committee, were also in attendance. The following Congressional candidates were present: J. A. Hemenway, of the First; A. M. Hardy, of the Second; Jesse Overstreet, of the Fifth, and Major Steele, of the Eleventh. All of the State candidates were present except the two candidates for the Supreme Court. Among the others who were on hand by invitation were Hon. C. W. Fairbanks. Hon.SN. Chambers and Hon. Jefferson Clqypobl. Every section of the State was represented by men who are thoroughly familiar with the situation. Each representative spoke of his own locality and the nature of the work which should be dbtmTo secure the best results. The reports were of the most encouraging character. Excellent feeling is general? and in certain localities the Republican voters have not waited for the party committees, but have gone ahead and held meetings. From no section were the reports more encouraging than from the Democratic strongholds, where bad county management will be as potent an ally for the Republicans as the National issues. The reports regarding the Populist movement were all to the effect that nine-tenths of the additions this year would come from the Democrats. In the southern part of the State this statement was based upon the membership of several clubs. In one of these clubs of forty-three members all but two had been Democrats. In a larger organization in one city in the First district more than four-fifths were Democrats in 1892. The coal miners in two counties in which inquiries were made indicated that nearly two thousand who had voted for Cleveland would vote the Populist ticket.

In Vigo county most of the railroad men in sympathy with Debs voted as did Debs in 1892 —the Democratic ticket —but now'it has been ascertained that they will vote with the Populists. In the manufacturing towns in the northern part of the State the gains for the Republicans will be large. The canvass shows in some localities that the changes are larger than the Republican organizers can expect to realize. Hon. W. D. Owen, in private conversation, spoke enthusiastically for a cautious man of the present prospects in the Tenth district. “The late contestants are falling into each other’s arms to secure harmony,” he said, “and whoever is nominated for Congress will have a "good majority.” The policy to be pursued in the campaign was discussed at length, and there was a striking unanimity of sentiment, which was stated by one speaker as follows: “Let us go to the people with the Republican cause, present the Republican side clearly and candidly, show what Republican ascendancy did for the Nation in a quarter of a century, and that Democratic failure has involved the country in disaster. Give facts and arguments: avoid abuse and detraction. Let us go to the people in the schoolhsuses with plain talks, and not with oratory.” One candidate for Congress in the southern part of the State said that the only way to get to the people was in the township meeting, and that he proposed to speak in every township in his district. Another, who had been a good soldier, said that it was no longer good sense or good politics to go back to the war except to demand decent treatment for the brokendown veterans. It ■fcas the general opinion that the campaign should be opened by speaking between the first and middle of September, and the opinion was quite unanimous and emphatic that Gen. Harrison should be urged by the State committee to give the keynote of the campaign in Indiana.

There was no wild boasting, no wildfire enthusiasm, but a confidence that under the existing conditions.' the general harmony and earnestness, the indications of the spring elections and the action of the Democratic regime, the Republicans, by earnest work, can carry Indiana by a good majority and lay a foundation which will make It as surely Republican as Ohio. The conference was followed by a meeting of the State central committee. Acting upon the suggestion oi the conference, the committee voted to open the oaitfpaign with a meeting in Indianapolis Sept. 5,

and that Gen. Harrison be invited to make the opening speech; ’ which should be regarded in the nature of a keynote. The meeting will be followed by other meetings in the larger places, to be. addressed by exSpeaker Reed, Gov. McKinley ard such other speakers of national rejs utation as can be ob:ained. The district and county committees will make arrangements to have home spe'a^rs""Tb _ adclf£s4meetmgs" in al 7 most every schoolhouse in the State

The Republican Revival.

Indianapolis Journal. There are indications that the Republican party is about to experience a great revival and enter on a new era of political prosperity. In a republican government it is that political parties should have their ups and downs. The peqple, though level-headed in the main, aV< whimsical, and they sometimes followafter 1 strange gods for a while just for the sake of finding—their way back.— They never get very fai from the right path. During the last decade they have been experimenting wll htn e Demoera tic party, apparently with a view of seeing if it was possible to get any good out of it. The party begged so hard to be given a trial and made such unlimited promises of good behavior that the people, “for a change,” concluded to try it. The result has been so dismally disastrous they are now tumbling over each other to get back into the right path. There has never been a time in the history of the country when the indications were so clear in the second year of an administration of the complete dissolution of the party in power as the present. It is not merely the ordinary apathy of an off "year or the transient disaffection that always follows a new deal in the offices. These arc expected and discounted. The present condition is very different. Instead of a mild apathy and partial disaffection there are deep disgust and complete demoralization. The Democratic paiW is not threatened with disruption; it is“ already disrupted. It is not in danger of being stampeded; it is already panic-stricken. It is not drifting on the rocks; it is already wrecked. It will be a miracle if it pulls itself together sufficiently to stand up in the next election and be -knocked down.

The nieasure of the popular disgust with the Democratic party is a fairly approximate measurement of the extent of the Republican revival. An unbroken record of Republican victories in all the elections of thelast year. State, district and municipal, shows how irresistibly popular sentiment is running the Republican way. Progressivists and conservatists, professional men an<J business men, and workingmen, old voters and young ones all seem to have reached the common conclusion that the only hope of good government lies in the Republican- party. — Especially are the y uiug men rallying under the Republican standard- -The un-Ameri» can and unpatriotic policy of the Democratic party, its hostility toAmerican interests at home and abroad, seems to have made a deep impression on the minds of th(i young men of the country. Workingmen who have been voting tK\, Democratic ticket are coming into the Republican party by thousands. The contrast between the prosperity enjoyed before the Democratic party came into power and the terrible depression and uncertainty that now prevail has been a powerful jobject lesson to all who depend upon their daily labor for their daily bread. So has the contrast between the promises and the performances of the Democracy. As a consequence the workingmen are leaving the Democratic party in droyes, and a large majority of them are-joining the Republican ranks. The net result these various influences is an unmistakable Republican revival which promises to give the partya nothei long lease of power.

Kipling Talks.

New York Tribune. In his pleasant little speech at th« banquet lately given, partly in his honor, by the Authors’ Club in Lon, don, Mr. Rudyard Kippling told his hosts that they had done him a very great honor indeed, and he did not know in what words he could thank them, for they were all men of his own business and trade, and they! knew how very much a man valuec the opinion of his fellow professionals. But they also knew that v those things that brought a mar luck, the little things that carriec his work forward, came frog the outside. Man could take nt credit for his best work; it carat from without, and he could not say how he did it. At the same dinner Mr. H. H Johnston, the African explorer, in voked a Kipling for Africa, on th« ground that she presented sue! unique opportunities for a writer with her high contrasts between ut ter savagery and civilization. “Yot sometimes found,” he said, * ; a stock ade decorated with newly stfuck u human heads not half a mile from ; mission station with crochet arUi mtjpassars,” ’

How He Knew.

The Major—So the Gubbingto girls are back again. The Captain—Oh; and you hav seen them? The Major—No—not as yet. The Captain—Then how do yo know? | The Major (crimsoning)—Well - I noticed the clothesline the oth< day.