Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gxgrx E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

"Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall be received of the Lord, whether be be bond or free.” - j. ■ * ■■■ A sugar trust would be valuable in any family where they do not keep a cow. Mr. Matthiesson, one of the principal promoters of that famous aggregation of capital, is quoted as saying that for a number of years his profits were 200 per cent, at least.on his investment.- — There is a “financial" depression” in Russia that appears cavernous in comparison with the financial difficulties with which the people of the United States are struggling. Corn is so abundant and the price so tow that many farmers are sending their cattle into the fields to save the expense of gathering. In the Caueasus barley and ■wheat are cut green and given to the cattle.

G. F. Swift & Co., of the Chicago Stock Yards, have begun the shipment of live cattle to England and other European countries. Mr. Swift made this experiment once before, but the success was not flattering. A Chicago cattle expert will now superintend the sales abroad, and other conditions being regarded as more favorable, this second venture, it is believed, will prove successful. St. Louis possesses the unique . distinction of being the only place in the world where horse racing can be seen at night. The track is a —regulation daylight course lighted by a bunch of incandescent electric lights every twenty-five feet. Twenty thousand candle power is expended on the coiirse. The venture has been a success from the start, and and the grand stand will not accommodate the crowds.

A remarkable phase of Western enterprise was exhibited at SequoyaErmU Aug. 8 the “city” consisted of a court house in the woods and a few isolated shanties. The population was of no consequence. Aug. 15 the Cherokee payment began. On that date Sequoyah was a thriving city of 2,003 inhabitants with every branch of business well represented. Tbe “city” consisted largely of tents, but was laid off in squares and boasted of nearly all the metropolitan attractions, including dance halls, gambling houses and two blacksmith shops. The payment of $700,000 continued for a week. . A correspondent of the New York Sun accuses Br’er Talmage with making a gross misstatement in a recent editorial article in the Christian Herald, in which he said that Nahor was seventy years older than Methusaleh, giving the age of Methusaleh at 969 years and crediting Nahor with 1,039 years. Genesis xi, 24, 25, very tablishes the age of Nahor at one hundred and forty-eight years. The Sun correspondent is disposed to be very merry at the blunder, —which might be pardoned in an ordinary couiitry parson, but in a minister of such great pretensions as the Brooklyn divin« is justly regarded as ridiculous.

The South Park Commissioners, at Chicago, are wrestling with the proposed improvement of the Midway Plaisance. According to the plans drawn by Frederick Law Olmstead there is to be a canal directly through that famous thoroughfare GOO feet wide and about one mile long. On either side at present is an unimproved street —fifty-ninth street on the north, Sixtieth street —on the south. —It is proposed to make boulevards of these streets, and the estimated cost of these road ways is $150,000. The total cost of thecanal and road ways is placed ati $530,000. Property owners propose to divide the cost with the commismissioners, and are urging immediate action. The Commissioners are disposed to go slow. Lord Rosebery, the English Prime Minister, is accused of downright hypocrisy in all his public utterances. Foreign correspondents state that but little importance is attached tohis speeches. He appears to be a sort Of mouthpiece for contending factions in the radical party. Careful students of his official acts and unofficial oratorical efforts, state that his first opinions may be safely set down as his owtj. Then follow sentiments often in direct contradiction of his effort to satisfy his own conscience, while ‘‘carrying a bucket” for people that he is known to de-

spise. English politics, from all accounts. are quite as ‘’tricky” as our own efforts in that line of human endeavor. There is a very practical “woman’s Tighter” in Stark county. The young lady don’t belong to Sorosis, don’t care to vote or make speeches, but believed she had a right to raise corn in addition to her usual duties of cooking and milking, and washing and ironing for four persons. Accordingly she “put in” fifteen acres on her own hook. She has “dun laid hy de corn" and is living in pleasant anticipation of—the extra luxuries that she will be able to purchase with her oqtput of that valuable staple,

Indiana, already lavishly endowed with educational advantages, has of late received an important addition to these facilities in the CuiveF|Mjjlitary Academy, recently located at Lake Muxinkuckee, in Marshal ■county. This institution has been established through the efforts of Mr. Harry Adams, of Indianapolis, and 11. 11. Culver, a retired St. Louis "business man, who has—been investing in real estate around the lake since 1883. The school has been in operation on a limited scale since 1888, and has gradually grown to be an institution of importance. At present the academy has three buildings. the main structure being a huge frame of three stories in height. Permanent buildings will be erected next year. The rules and regulations of. the school are based noon those of the United States Militate Academy at West Point. Rev. Dr. J. H. McKenzie is the principal of the academy. The Brooks Locomotive Works, of Dunkirk, N. Y., have an order for sixty locomotives from the government of Brazil for the Brazil Central Railway. The first was completed Aug. 21, and is a mastodon twelvewheeler of elaborate finish and design, and is built for a five-foot three inch gauge. As fast as completed and Tested the locomotives will be taken on flat-cars to New York, where they will be loaded into steamers chartered for the purpose and taken to Brazil in charge of old and experienced men of the Brooks Locomotive Works, who will put them together again and place them in service. An idea of the quantity of material may be gathered from the fact that it will take about three hundred flat-cars to -transport the sixty locomotives to New York after they are packed, each engine requiring from four to five cars. The Brazilian government has paid a handsome compliment to the United States Government by requesting that one of the locomotives be named “The Fourth of July.”

Chinese Methods of Tillage,

Messrs. Alien and Sachtleben, the American students who crossed Asia on bicycles, were close observers of native manners and customs. In the September number of the Century they say: Apart from the “Yellow Lands” of the Hoang-ho, which need no manure, the arable regions of - China seeril to have maintained their fecundity for over four thousand years, entirely through the thoughtful care of the peasantry in restoring to the soil, under another form, all'that the crops have taken from it. The plowing Of the Chinese is very poor. They scarcely do more than scratch the surface of the ground with their bent-stick plows, wooden-tooth drills, and wicker-work harrows; and instead of straight lines, so dear to the eye of a Western farmer, the ridges and furrows are as crooked as serpents. The real secret of their success seems to lie in the care they take to replenish the soil. All the sewage of the towns is carried out every morning at daybreak by special coolies, to be preserved for manure; while .the dried herbs, straw, roots, and other vegetable refuse, are economized with the greatest-care for fuel.—The Chinese peasant offsets the rudeness of his implements with manual skill. He weeds the ground so carefully that there is scarcely a leaf abo>re the ground that does not appertain to the crop. All kinds of pumps aud hydraulic wheels are worked, either by the hand, animals ar the wiud. The system of tillage, therefore, resembles market-gardening rather than the broad method of cultivation common in Europe and America. The land is too valuable to be devoted to pasture, and the forests nearly everywhere have been sacrificed to tillage to such an extent that the material for the enormously thick native coffins has now to be 'imported from abroad. ' 1 Rev. Dr. Griffith John, an American missionary at Shanghai, sayt that the opium habits of the Chinese will tell against them in case of war. A native writer, speaking of the enormous deportation of opium from IndU.to.China, says: “It is hot only thus the foreigners abstract so many millions of our money, but the direful appearances seem to indicate a wish on their part to utterly rool out and-extirpate us as p people."

THE CAMPAIGN.

The Struggle Now On—Democrats Are Already Beaten. The Probable Effect of the New Law, ’ Indianapolis Journal. Speculation is general as to what , the effect of the passage of the new tariff bill will be. Business has been paralyzed so long and the public tension has been so great pending the agitation and uncertainty that the country would prefer almost ' nysettieiiicinTof“thequusdiiwttiat promised to be even tolerably pernmnent to continual suspense, and busT ness would adjust itself to almost any conditions. Unfortunately, however, the new law is not offered as a finality or as an end of agitation. Chairman Wilson distinctly i foreshadowed that the passage ►of -the Senate bill was to be merely a stepping stone to further agitation and further legislation in the same direction. _ So, too, Speaker Crisp said: “While these schedules are not all we wish, they are, and we want the country to understand it, the best we can now get. The moment we get this we intend to mo ve for ward: we do not intend there shall be an v backward steps in tariff reform.” The popgun bills passed by the House for free coal, iron ore. barbed wire, and sugar, foreshadow the samepolicy. The fall elections may cause the Democratic leaders in the House to reconsider chis policy, but it will not do to build any hopes on Democratic intelligence or responsiveness to public opinion. As -new,—fereshadowed the Democratic policy 7 is continued agitation and warfare on American-industries. Under ..these circumstances no great d'r genera' r.?vi-val of bus iness~ can be expected under the new law. Ex-President Harrison diagnosed ■ the situation correctly when he said “the determination of the. House to report special tariff bills will ten'd strongly to prevent that business improvement which may have resulted from any definite settlement of the tariff question.” Nevertheless, the passage of the law will be followed by a sense of relief and some improvement, at least in some lines of. business.l The adjournment, of Congress is almost always a relief to I the country, and under present con-I ditions it will be particularly so. If. the bill, as bad as it is, had been : passed and Congress had adjourned j four or five months ago, fall trade! might have experienced a degree of j improvement which call not be hoped l for now. . j One the first effects of the now law will be a sudden, influx of foreign goods, which may almost glut the market. The government bond-J ed warehouses in all the larg's‘l ports of entry are full of goods of ; foreign manufacture, which the irn- | porters have left hi bond in antici- j pation of lower duties. As stocks are now at a low ebb and as importers will get the. benefit of the lower duties they will hasten to get their goods out of bond and put them on the market. They will be I followed by large orders, which for- j eign manufacturers are ready to fill and are anxiously awaiting. Thus the first and perhaps the only benefits of the law will be reaped by importers and foreign manufacturers. As a result of taking the large stocks of goods out of bond and of the large importations which will follow, there will be a very considerable increase in the government revenue from customs duties. As thes» for some months past have been distressingly small an increase will be gladly welcomed by the government. The new law will kill some industries, cripple others and put an end to all hope of an increase of wages in any. If the price of manufactured products of any kind is reduced it. will be because the market will be glutted with foreign goods

HOW THE CONFOUNDED THING WORKED. Democratic Orator in 1892 Drop your ballots in the slot and see better wages and higher prices for wheat come out.

and because American manufactui ers are trying to compete with thei foreign rivals on falling wages. An seeming revival of business whic may accompany the reaction fror long prostration can only be tempt rary, or, at least, can only be mair tamed on a scale of .wages lowe than has ever been known in thi: i country. j- — The c en t ra i Fact. i Indianapolis Journal. It is not that there is less mone; in the country than two years ag I that there are silent factories am I workshops and idle and half employee " men in every erfy. There was neve • more money in the banks, and, lik j the would-be wage-earners of th country, it was never so idle. It ha i fared as badly as labor, because hun ! dreds of millions have not had a day’ . work since the country becanr aware that Mr. Cleveland’s part; 1 was really intent on destroying th . protective features of the tariff more than a year ago. If the money which the people of all kinds have put into the banks could be taker out and invested in material and wages to set the factories and workshops at work, there would be nc complaint about the scarcity of money by any except those who demand that the government shall practically give them all the money they can spend. But what prudent man would borrow money to set any of the 1 arger factories or shops in this and other cities in Indiana al work? Factory owners with idle l plants are only too anxious to start up, but after searching the country over they can find no orders and no certainty of orders. Even if any man of the party in power, and which is responsible for this distressing situation, should have so muck faith in the future wisdom of his party as to start up a large industry and take the risks of selling the product, it is very doubtful if he could - find a Democratic banker who would discount his notes of sered to raise the money which is always necessary to make goods for th. iiiarket. unh'ss he shouid put up gilt edge collaterals. Democrats as well as Republicans, alleged freetraders as well as urotectionists,dare not start the industries which give employment and put money into cir-culatioir-to pay wages. Half the people have no money with which to buy, and they can have none until the varied-industries of the country give employment. When employment shall be full, the great volume of all wane money will be in circular tion. If wages are good, the channels of trade will be filled with the purchases of such -wages. If wages are so low as to compete with European co’mpetitors on what Senator Mills has called the “same plane” >he channels of trade will run low in the banks because the aggregate .wage is not enough to fill them. Now the st ream of traffic is smitten with the fierce August drought of the Democratic Congress. There is nothing new in these observations. On thecontrary,they are old economic and practical axioms. Still, they may be forgotten by some who listen to the chatter of demagogues and cranks to the effect that Congress can create prosperity by printing millions of pieces of pa;>er stamped with dollar marks and figures. They cannot. Miracles are not performed in the realm of values. Mr. Nufich —I See by this morning’s paper there’s another great slump in The corn market. Mrs. Nurich —Good land! You’d better hurry down and buy it. We need soriiething to fill up that empty corner in the library. “Don’t the children in the flat above annoy you?” Lady—No; they quarrel and fight most of the time. “Do you enjoy that?” Lady —Yes; it keeps the parrot cross the way from talking.

SALVATION'S FREE.

“Without Money and Without " Price.” Taul'a Advice to tbe Philippian Jailor — Dr. Taimace’s Sermon For the Press. The Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent in the south Pacific, selected as the subject of last Sunday’s sermon through the press “The Rescue,” the text chosen being Acts xvi, 31. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thoushalt be saved.” loathsome places even now, but they were worse in the apostolic times? I imagine today we are standing in the Phillippian dungeon. Do you not feel the chill? Do you not hear the groans of those incarcerated ones who f or ten years have not, seen the sunlight and the deep sigh of, women who remember their father's house and mourn over their w’asted estates? Listen again. It is the J cough of a consumptive or the struggle of one in the nightmare of a great horror. You listen again and hear a culprit, bis chains rattling as he rolls over in his dreams, and. you say, “God, pity the prisoner.” But there is another sound in that prison. It is the .song of joy and gladness. What a place to sing in! The music j comes winding through the corridors j of the prison, and in all the dark ' wards the whisper is heard. “What’s that? What’s that?” It is the song of Paul and Silas. They-cannot sleep. They have been whipped, very badly whipped. The long gashes on their backs are bleeding yet. They lie fiat on the cold ground, their feet fast in wooden sockets, and of course they cannot sleep. But they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing with these people? Why have they been put in here? Oh, they have been trying to make the world better. Is that all? That is all. A pit for Joseph, a lion’s cave for Daniel, a blazing furnace for Shadrach, clubs for John Wesley, an anathema for Philip Melanchthon, a dungeon for Paul and Silas. But while we are standing in the gloom of the Philippian dungeon, and we hear the mingling voices of sob and groan and blasphemy and hallelujah, suddenly the doors swing open. Then I see the jailer running thrbugh the dust and amid the ruin of that prison, and I see him throwing himself down at the feet of these Prisoners, erving out: “What shall do? What shall I do?” Did Paul answer, “Get out of this place before there is another earthquake. Put handcuffs and hopples on these other prisoners before they get away?” No word of that kind. His compact, thrilling, tremendous answer, an : swer memorable all through earth and heaven, was, “Believe, on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.” There arc- some documents of so little importance that you do not care to put any more than your last name under them, or even your ini • tials, but there are some documents;' of so ■ great importance that you write out your full name. So the Savoir in some parts of the Bible is called “Lord,” and in other parts of the Bible He is called “Jesus,” and in other parts of the Bible He is called “Christ,” but that there might be no mistake about this passage all three names come together, “the Lord Jesus Chnist. ” Now, who is this being that you want me to trust in and believe in? Men sometimes come to me with credentials and certificates of good character, but I cannot trust them. There is some dishonesty in their looks that I shall be cheated if I confide in them. You cannot put your hearts confidence in a man until you know what scuff he is made of, and am I unreasonable when I stop to ask you who this is that you want me to trust in? No man would think of venturing his life on a vessel going out to sea, that had never been inspected. When, thei/, I ask, you who is this you want me to trust in you tell mo he is a very attractive person. Contemporary writers describe his whole appearance as being resplendent. There was no need for Christ to tell the children to come to Him. “Suffer little children to come unto Me." was not spoken to the children. It was spoken to the disciples. The children came readily enough without any invitation. No sooner did Ji sus- appear than .the. little ones jimped from their mothers’ arms, an avalanche of beauty and love, into His lap. Christ did not ask John to put his head down on His bosom. John could not help but put his head there. I suppose a look at Christ was just to love Him. How attractive His manner! Why, when they saw Christ coming along the street, they ran into their houses, and they wrapped up their invalids as quick as they could and brought them out that He might look at them. In addition to this softness of character there was a fiery momentum. How the kings of the earth turned pale! Here is a plain man with a few sailors at his back coming off the Sea of Galileo, going up to the palace of the Cmsars, making that palace quake to the foundations and uttering a word of mercy and kindness which throbs through all the earth and through all the heavens, and through all ages, Oh, He was a loving Christ. But it was effeminacy or insipidity of character. It was accompanied with majesty infinite and omnipotent Lest the wqrld should not realize his earnestness, this Christ mounts the cross. I think there are many under the influence of the spirit of God who are

saying, “t will trust Him if you wfD only tell me how,” and the < uestion asked by many is, “Haw, how?" And while I answer your question I look up and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the midst of his sermons- “ Master, help!” How are you to trust in Christ? Just as you trust any one. You trust your partner in business with important things. If a commercial house gives you a note payable three months hence, you expect the payment of that note at the end of three months. You have perfect confidence in their word ana their ability. Or, again, you go home today, You expect there will be food on the table. You have confidence in that. Now, I ask you to have the same confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. “Oh,” says some one, in a light way, “I believe that Christ was born in Bethlehem, and I believe that he died on the cross.” Do you believe it with your head or your heart? I will illustrate the difference. You are in your own house. In the morning vqu open a newspaper, and you read how Capt. Braveheart on" the sea risked his life for the salvation of his passengers. You say: “What a grand fellow he must have beenl His family deserves very well of the country.” You fold the newspaperand sit down at the table and perhaps do not think of that incident again. That is historical fath. But now you are on the sea, and it is night and you are asleep, and you are awaked by the shriek of “Fire!” You rush out on deck. You hear amid the wringing of the hands and the fainting, the cry: “No hope! No hope! We are lost! We are lost!” The sail puts out its wing of fire, the ropes make a burning ladder in the night heavens, the spirit of wrecks hisses in the wave and on the hurricane deck shakes out its banner of smoke and darkness. “Down with the lifeboats!” cries the captain. “Down with the lifeboats!” People rush into them. The boats are about full. Room only for one more man. You are standing on the deck with the captain. Who shall it be? You or the captain? ‘ The captain says, “You." You jump and are saved. He stands, there and <j,ies. Now, you believe that Capt. Braveheart sacrificed himself for his passengers, but you believe it with love, with tears, with hot and long continued exclamations; with grief at his loss and joy at your deliverance. Oh, was there ever a prize proffered so cheap as pardon and heaven; are offered to you? For how much‘a A million dollars? It is certainly! worth more than that. But cheapen than that you can have it. Ten thousand dollars? Less than that. Five thousand dollars? Less than! that. One dollar? Less than that. One farthing? Less than that. “Without money and without price.” No money to pay , no journey to take. No penance to suffer. Only just one ! decisive action of the soul, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.” Shall I try to tell you what it is to be saved? lean not tell you. But I can hint at it, for my text brings me up to this point, “Thou shall ber saved.” It means a happy life here; and a peaceful death and a blissful eternity. It is a grand thing to go to sleep at night and to get up in the morning and to do business all day, feeling that all is right between my ! heart and God. No accident, no sickness, no persecution, no peril,,no sword, can do me any permanent damage. lam a forgiven child of God, and He is bound to see me through. He has sworn He will, see me through. The mountains may depart, the earth mayj burn, the light of the stars may bo; blown out by the blast of the judg-l ment hurricane, but life and death,j things present and things to come,; are Mine. Yea, further than that; it means a peaceful death. Death is loathsomeness and midnight and thd wringing of the heart until the tendrils snap and curl in the torture unless Christ shall be with us. T confess to you an infinite fear, a consuming horror of death unless Christ shall be with me. I would rather go down into a cave of wild beasts or a jungle of reptiles than into the grave unless Christ goes with me. Will you tell me that I am to be carried out from my bright home and put away in the darkness? I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming of the evening I must have the gas lighted, and the farther on in life I get the more I like to have my friends round aboofrmeu™- -r- ——— And so there are hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereavements of life. I point you today to the eternal balm of Heaven. > Oh, aged men and women who have knelt at the throne of grace for threescore years and ten, will not your decreptitude change for the leap of a heart when you come to look face to face upon him whom having not seen you love? Oh, that you will be the Good Shepherd, not in the night and watching to kdep off the wolves, but with the larb reclining on the sunlit bill. will be the captain of our salvation, not amid the roar and crash and boom of battle, but amid his disbanded troops keeping victorious festivity. That will be the bridegroom of the church upon his iirni while he looks down into her face and says: “Behold, thou art fair, my lovel Behold, thou art fairl”

The New Word “Hobo."

Phtladelphia Press. The new word for tramps, “hobos,” is a corruption of “hoe-boys,” a phrase used in the South for “the peripatetic agricultural laborers” employed in the South during thq season when cotton is growing.