Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — Page 2

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

“Unto the pure all things are pure; but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.” New York saloon keepers bait their customers with free lunches in which radishes hold a prominent place on- the bili of f a re. It. they can persuade a* man to eat a few radishes they feel sure of his custom for all the beer he can buy that day. As a thirst-compellcu. it is alleged that fiery radishes have no equal. German soldiers are trying a new shoe sole, or,rather a preparation for increasing the durability of the ordinary leather sole. It consists of a paste composed of linseed oil. varnish and iron filings with which the sales of new shoes are painted. It is said to keep the soles of shoes flexible and gives a resistance greats er than the best steel nails. E. E. Griffiths, Superintendent of the State Asylum for the Blind at Indianapolis, who recently resigned, deserves a passing word of recognition for disproving the old adage concerning holders of good official positions, i. e.. “Few die and none resign.” Such actions on the part of office holders are extremely rare, and arc worthy of emulation.

From Martinsville, Ind., com. s the Story that David; a poor man. was. recently overjoyed to receive a cheek for $2,000 on the First Na® tional Bank of Denver, Colo., from his sister-in-law. who wrote that she was a millionaire and was soon to marry a wealthy second husband. The cheek has just been returned marked not paid for want of funds. The woman has been declared in--sane. " The Count of Paris is dead of jancer of the stomach. His malady was diagnosed at Paris, last year, to a certainty by means of a small electric light introduced into Iho stomach. The room being darkened the surgeons were enabled to letect an incipient ulcer, which failed to respond to the usual remedies. It was proposed to remove the entire stomach and substitute the stomach of a lamb, an operation bnce successful in French surgery, but it was finally determined that the risk was too groat.

Indianapolis has a “Neigbborbood Magazine Club." The members jointly subscribe for all the leading magazines, the cost to each not being over $4 per year. The magazines are listed, and each member may leep a copy three days, when it is to be passed to the next on the list. If i second reading is desired it is so marked on the succeeding list, and After the round has been made the oook again comes back to the person drst expressing a desire for the sec=~ ond reading. All the most prominent American and forqjgn reviews ire by this method placed at the disposal of the members. The idea is ivorthy of imitation. Almost any town or small community may profit oy the example and keep abreast of the current literature of the day at kverysmallou tlay.

The National Irrigation Congress rill assemblein Denver, next month, n its third annual session. The pro:eedings of this body will be awaited with interest by the Nation at arge. The unparalleled exodus from ;he arid lands of the has arought home to the people the ur- • sent necessity of relief in this direction if our uncultivated Western iomain is to become civilized —to be ■eclaimcd from the desert waste it is today -and made a fert He land- of alooming tields and lowing herds and peaceful homes and firesides. Water, water alone can bring the transfortnatijmli That it will certainly bring the ends so ardently desijred and longed fordoes not admit of a doubt. To devise a practical solution of the problem will be the duty of this Congress. That it may successfully Kse to the emergency will be the nope of every good citizen. An authority on pianos states that there is not a piano made that will hold its tone for more than six months if used to any Owners of the instruments, even if musically well educated, may not be able to detect the gradual lowering in tone, but it goes on nevertheless and is readily recognized by an expert. No first class pianist will give a recital on an old in.strument. Pianos are supposed to last a lifetime, andjfor ordinary uses good ones do, but for artistic purposes they last but five or six months. Pianos are at best imperfect iuscru-

ments. The hammers of the middle octaves are worn down sooner than thoseof the upper and lower, and an unevenness is the natural re suit. The sounding board even wears out and loses its resonant quality. This authority urges the importance of securing a good warran t when purchasing an instrument. Petroleum in paying qualities has been discovered in different parts of Calif or n ia, principally along the coast grange, and the belt appears to run parallel with the ocean. An oil boom is looked for. Californians believe that no line of development of the natural resources of the State can be brought about without a boom. They have had a gold boom, a wheat boom, a wool boom, a raisin boom, an orange boom, etc. Now they want a petroleum bdbm.

September the golden, the beautiful, the grand? now rules in hazy splendor, rejoicing all the land, the horr d heat is tempered by nights of grateful rest and twilight follows early as the sun sinks in the west. The harvest moon in glory her magic over all brings back the living story of years beyond recall,—of cycles, ah, how many, since earth bega.ii to: roll, of seasons gone forever, no record, not a scroll,—of ages past whereof the bards have sung and” history their glory to all the world has rung, —of years we all remember when war and ruin red presented to her vision great fields all strewn with dead-, a harvest home sodreadful we shudder at the thought and stop to think our liberties have been too dearly bought —of hope and peace and safety for all the sons of men, then homeward came the thousands of armed and homesick men —of all the glad reunions that since have come together, bringing " joyful thoughts in bright Septemberweather,—so has the harvest moon in glory onward rolled since man began the story that has not all been told, so may she shine for ages oncoming, yet to be. upon a peaceful nation that spreads from sea to sea.

The extraordinary measures for the suppression of anarchy in France have so far had but one result: That is to make its votaries more insanely defiant and reckless of consequences to themselves or others. Every exe<*ution of criminals for anarchistic crimes has been followed by an apparent increase of the number of people who not only avow their sympathy for the criminals, but threaten a bloody vengeance for their taking off. There is apparently a sympathetic plot among anarchists to drive the authorities to desperation and plunge the Republic into a reign of terror. Every mail brings to President Casimir-Ferier threats of assassination, and every day anonymous hints .reach police headquarters that plots are hatching. The worst of the situation is that the police have every reason to believe A.'iat these threats, hints and plots are genuine Many of them are a view of throwing the authorities off the scent of the real -criminals, but enough of truth is known to warrant the assertion that the siti'.at'..m in France is serious, and that the security of free institutions in that country is in more danger from the deadly canker of anarchistic and socialistic thought than from all the royalist princes of every dynasty combined.

Great wealth does not al ways bring immunity from trouble and vexation. There are Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, the proud possessors of palaces, estates and untold millions, quarreling and letting the great and curious publicknow about it, just like any of the incompatible couples who throng our divorce courts every day. What one wants the other won’t have. Mrs. V. appears to have a t remendously exalted idea of her own value from a monetary point of view.—Not-bin-g on this green earth seems to be quite expensive and royal enough for her magnificent tastes. Her dutiful husband has placed the grandest mansions and a queen’s retinue at her disposal, and yet she is not satisfied and asks for more. When they went to Paris Mrs. Vanderbilt was not pleased with the furnishings of the suite provided for her at she Hotel Continental. She had the rooms emptied and furnished them richly at her own expense, or that of her husband. Mr. Vanderbilt did not like this. Then, it is alleged, Willie Van looks longingly at other representatives of the fair sex and strives to “while away the happy four’s” when out of sight of his loving spouse by betting on horse races and giving his winnings to sirens whose charms have lured his fancj to roam far from his own triJb love. It would really seem that people with 1100,000,000 might have pa tehee up a peace in some way without al this magnificent scandal. There hai as yetrbeen no legal separation.

iiiter Ocean.

Mr. Cleveland’s experiment in aeronautics the start and the finish.

IT HAS COST BILLIONS.

What the Nalien Has Paid for Cleveland's Election. Decrease in General Business of $3,000,000 a Day and a Disaster "Whose End Is Not Yet In Sight. New York Press. It has been stated more than once, and almost as often denied, that the money losses suffered in the United States during the period of depression caused by Democratic tariff juggling have amounted to more than a million dollars a day. In hard, ?old facts the loss has been much in excess of the enormous sum suggested by that statement —just how much it would be impossible to conelude. Some figures have been gathered, however, and are given below. Their careful perusal will no doubt convincimthc' reader that the aggregate loss has been several instead of a comparatively insignifi-. can t sin gle in illibn dollars a day. For instance, take the bank clearances of fifty-five cities in the United States. The figures below were collected by Bradstreet's, the great commercial agency, and can, therefore, be relied on as being entirely accurate, unprejudiced and nonpartisan. The Democratic administrip tion came into power March 4, 1893, and the vear im med iately foilowi ng that date is therefore taken, as the first year of the country’s existence under Democratic domination, for comparison with the corresponding and immediately preceding twelve months, during which the Government was in Republican hands. In order that the reader may study the matter somewhat in detail, Bradstreet's figures for each monthin the years from and including April to and including March of 1892-3 and 1893-4 are given. Month ’ 1893, 1892 $5,066,679:409Mav. ... • 5244 502 329 5,011.020,107 June 4.524 606 767 4,915.758,398 Julv 1.137.669861 5.527,501.773 August 3.340,2’13.938 4.513 1(58.512 September. 3311.6:5 037 4.779.284,710 October 3.983 596 563 5.470,307.243 November 4.051.057.546 5.443.235.518 December 4.022 103 857 5.969.609,520 1891. 1893. January 4.029.847,098 5 920.159 631 February 3.188 430.434 5.056,076 352 March .... 3.728.682.71 1 5.391.187,000;

Totals 548.487,169.816 J 62.167.984.476 It will be seen that the loss of clearances in the Democratic year was and one-half billions. It will help to explain the baleful significance of this table to state that it represents the distribution of over S2OO less money throughout the United States for every individual man, woman and baby, native born, naturalized alnd alien, in the entire country. It means that considerably more than $1,000,000,000 less was circulated through business channels in this -R <? p u bite o very in ith tlt <> f tfrtr-frrst-year of Democratic, rule than was circulated during the corresponding month in the preceding year of Republican rule. It represents a loss, of itself, of several times more than $1,000,000 a day. for a billion is a thousand millions, and therefore the business men of the United States handled a thousand million dollars’ worth less of goods every month, or 830.000.000 less everyday during the year beginning April 1, 1893, than they did during the year beginning April 1, 1892.' Comparative figures for the three months of April, -May and June, in 1892, 1893 and 1894, will also be interesting. because they show that the clearances so far in 1894 have been even smaller than they were in 1893 —in other words we are living •in an age of cumulative disaster. Thus, the clearances for April* 1892, were $5,083,410,784; for the same month, 1893. they were 84,926,292,886, while for the same month this year they were but $3,097,845,428. The clearances for May, 1892, were' $5,029,964,325: for May, 1893, $5,259,329,352; for May* 1894. $3,859,809,661. 'For June, 1892, thev were $4,931,513,923; June, 1893, $4,529,538,-

HE LOST HIS GRIP.

341: .Tune, 1894, $3,576,315,339. The total for the three, months of 1892 was $15,044,889,037.; for the three months of 1893, $14,715,160,559; for the three months of this year, sll,133.970,328. .While the aggregate shrinkage of business for these three months in 1893 below the same period of 1892 was less than a billion dollars the business done during the same period of 1894 was almost four billions less than in 1892. Figures taken , from Bradstreet's concerning failures will doubtless be found quite as interesting and significant as those give of the bank clearances. These figures are from the reports of four years —1890, 1891, 1802 and 1893, the first three years of the McKinley law. In 1890 there were 10,673 failures, the tota liabilities being $175,042,836; in 189] there were 12,394 failures, with liabilities of $193,178,000; in 1892 there were 10,272 failures, with liabilities of $108,595,248. It will be seen that the tendency in amount of liabilities was so far downward. In 1893, however, the first year of Democratic domination, when it was evident that Congress and the chief executive had decided that the McKinley law must go. there were 15.508 failures, withliabilites of $382,156,076 — more than $200,000,000 more than was lost by failures in 1892, or about two-thirds of a million dollars a day. These figures seem almost incredible, but they are true and cannot be wiped out. Bradstreet's analysis of them is interesting but: cannot be given in full. It brings out these facts 7 proportion of thosefailing in 1893, reported in good credit, was 27 percent., more than | four times that in the preceding years. It further appears that those who failed in 1893, -while reckoned in very good credit or higher, numbered more. than three times us many as in 1892. Again, failures due to disaster precipitated by stringency, financial crisis and panic, numbered, in 1893, 3,463, the liabilities of this class being $173,542,090 —almost one-half of the total liabilities for the year, and more than six times the corresponding total in 1892.”

The decrease in value of live stock alone in the United States in 1893 below that of 1892 was almost a mil lion dollars a day. Only one class of stock, milch cows, increased in value, the detailed' figures being, according to the Department of Agriculture, as follows: Value Per Head Decrease Stock. 1893. 1891. in value Horsess6l 22 $47.83 $13.30 Mules... 70.68 02.>7 8.54 Milch cows 21.73 21.77 *.04 Oxen and other cattle 15.21 14.66 .58 Sheep 2.66 1.98 .68 Swine 6.41 5.98 .43 ♦lncrease. The entire loss to the farmers of the country in shrinkage of live stock values was $312,266,495. divided as follows: Horses, $223,000..000; mules, $18.500,000;oxen and cattle, $11,000,000; sheep. $36,700,000; .hogs, $25,000,000. The American Protective Tariti' League has gone carefully into the figures concerning the loss in value of sheep and wool, and they make the total loss in these twodirections nearly $50,000,000, or $58.65 hard cash lost on an average to each farmer in the country who was so unfortunate as to own sheep when the Government was given over to the party that favors foreigners and hates Americans. Here are the figures of losses in detail, based on reports carefully gathered and submitted ou Jan. 1. lf*93, and Jan. 1, 1894: ' Loss by Sections. Total Sheep. Wool. Loss. New England $1,805,824 $ Middle States 793 661 1.901,491 2.69>,152 Sth rn States 4.769.159 4.279.021’ 9,011?R<0 W sCrn States 9,793.710 7,386.074 17.179.781 Pacific State* 4.427.238 4.446.987 8,874.228 All others 4.070521 4,7u0.5«3 8.771.101 Total U. 5.W5..660,113 $23 073.596 $48.733 709 These really saddening figures might be carried through several columns, and those relating to losses of wages would be especially significant. "More than eight thousand less men are now employed’hl seven-ty-five Rhode Island factories alone than were in 1892. The men who work on buildidgs in New York

draw $7,000,000 less io wage I every three months than they | did in 1892. These are two isolated instances taken at random. Any one can see that if these figures were got together Mor the entirecountry the aggregate would be appalling. But enough has been given to make it clear to every reader that the statement that Uncle Sam has lost a million dollars a day since the Democrats came into power is an exceedingly moderate one.

DEMOCRATIC DISHONOR.

The Question to Be Settled at the Polis Not Economical but Moral. The Outlook. It is a tariff conceived in corruption and passed in dishonor. There are three fatal objections to the Senate bill. It violates the plighted word of the Democratic party. > It does this to enhance the profits oi wealthy corporations. And there is good reason to believe that this result has been purchased and paid for—if not d’rectly. their indirectly. For the feeble pretense of investigation and the report of “not proven” -have rather confirmed than dispelled the publit? suspieion-of— Such protection is both a •’fraud” and a “robbery.” The party dishonor is not lessened by the promise to pass in the House separate bills making sugar, coal and iron free — for the purpose of “putting the Senate in a h01e..” A triple dishonor is not so easily atoned, nor will public indignation be so easily appeased. Nor is it relieved by saving that this is “the best the party can do,” In that fact lies the dishonor of the party. The issue to’ be met in the fall elections is not economical, but moral. The Outlook does not demand a “tariff for revenue only” nor denounce “Republican protection as a fraud.” but it demands the honorable fulfillment of the party pledges and denounce as fraudulent men who characterize protection as a fraud in 1892 and enact it in 1894.

A THRILLING DETECTIVE STORY.

The Exploits of Two Government Sleuths Told in a Public Document. Washington Evening Star. The Government publishes a great variety of matter in the course of a year, from Presidential messagesto a history of diseases of the gadfly, and the variety of reading matter has been increased within the past few days by the publication of a real detective story, with diagrams according to Gaboriau. This is a history of the sandbagging and robbbery of a stamp clerk in the Chicago Post Office one dark night last winter, when tlie*”wTn(lwas whistling round the corner and the sleet dashing against the windows. The story of the crime and the vain search of two government sleuths for the criminal are given at great?* length and in the minutest detail. All of this is contained in a pamphlet of eleven page.s, accompanying a claim of the late Postmaster for the amoitntof the robbery, which he was compelled to make good. There are a number of diagrams to illustrate story. One of them shows “where the body of the clerk was found,” “the door where Miss Jones came in,” “the window where the robber escaped” "the door where the robber entered.” and other minute details. Another diagram shows the postal clerk as he stood at his desk, but fails to represent the robber and the sandbag,- although everything else, even to Miss Jones's desk, is portrayed vividly. ■? Many pages of closely printed type are filled with the history of the effort of the Government sleuths. “There were two theories to work upon.” writes one of them: “First, that Robinson had robbed himself and inflicted upon Kirnself the in~ juries to cover up his crime,or that some one familiar with the officer and with the" habits of Mr. Robinson had planned and successfully put into execution the robbery. I called to my asistance the superintendent of the Pinkerton agency of this city, who rendered me every assistance in his power, without cost,, to get some clue to the perpetrators of this bold robbery. We have worked upon every plausible theory, but have failed to get any clue to lead us on a successful trail.” The outcome of the work on these two theories is reported as follows: “The result of the investigation in this case has convinced me of two things: First, that it was a bona fide robbery: second, that if was conceived and planned, if not perpetrated, by some one perfectly familiar with the workings of that branch of the Postal Department in this city; but the plan was so well executed that up to the present moment we have been unable to get a single clue that would fasten the guilty party.” So the robbery remains a mystery, and the thrilling story of the two Governmentsleuths goes on file in the annals of Congress.

The Latest Swindle

Greencastle Star-Press. Keep your weather eye peeled for this new swindle that is now being worked in Indiana. The scheme is to go to a miller for the purpose of borrowing sacks in which to bring wheat. When the miller asks them how much wheat they have they will tell him four or five hundred bushels. They always got the sacks and started away. Then one of them comes back with the statement that they had come to town without any money and needed a few dollars until they brought in the wheat, The schems always worked, and it is said they got ssl in that way in one county.

BRECKINRIDGE BEATEN.

Close of the Contest in the Lextngton, Ky., District. The Breckinridge Owens campaign for the Democratic Congressional nomination in the Lexington (Ky’.) district, which has attracted national attention because o! the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, closed Friday night, Sept. 14. The primaries to decidb the contest were held on Saturday Sept. 15, and the scenes of excitement and disorder throughout the district were unparalleled. At Faywood a pitched battle between Breckinridge and Owens men occurred. No less than twenty men were implicated; One man received wounds that may prove fatal. Unofficial returns from_tlie primaries received by a Cincinnati paper late Sunday night, give totals for candidatgs as follows: Owens, 7,990; Breckinridge, 7.670; Settle, 3,405; Owens’s plurality, 320. Corrected returns will probably vary but little from these figures • Charges of fraud are freely made by the supporters of Breckinridge. They figure out a plurality for Owens* on the returns, of but 168. Their detectives are at wojrk and a contest may result. Col, Brekinridge was seen by a reporter but absohit“ly refused to talk. The Owens people field a great ratification meeting at Georgetown, Ky. Mr. Owens addressed the people briefly, saying that ‘'the work of the men and the tears and prayers of the women” had brought the victory, :

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

There are nineteen millionaires in the (r. A. R. " Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, visited New York city last week for the first time in his life. The Western yearly meeting of the Friends’ church began at Plainfield,' Sept. 15. A colony is being formed in Crawford county to emigrate to Bastidas, Columbia, South America. A perfect pearl, five and one-half carats In weight, was found in the Wabash river near Logansport. 1 Secretary Carlisle has made a rulir/; that salt imported for fisheries shall be admitted frefe of duty. Mrs. Anna E. Grubb, treasurer of the W. R. of tiie G. A. R., is officially charged with misappropriating $560 of the order's money. , iltnry Zimmerman, of Vigo county, exhibited corn stalks at Terre Haute, which' measured fourteen feet in bight, with good ears eight feet from the ground. < Black anthrax, as it is known among breeders, has appeared among the cattle ‘in the vicinity of Florida, and there is considerable alarm among stockmen. Saturday a number Jof cattle belonging to Brazil llillfgos were quarantined. The Department of Agriculture prints this statement of the condition of the crops in Indiana: The condition of the corn crop varies greatly in different counties. The drought of the past sixty days ulmost ruined the crops in some counties, while in others there has boon sufficient rain to mature a good average crop. Rains have been local and light during tho corn growing season. Wheat is an excellent crop. Conditions were favorable for maturing and harvesting the crop in firstclass order, The oats crop is of good quality and nearly up to the average in yield. Oats are being sold at one dent per pound in the local markets throughout ’ the State. The celebrated suit for $25,000 brought against Congressman E. A, Morse, of Canton,'Mass., by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, the temperance and woman suffrage advocate of Lafayette, Ind., terminated at Boston, Sept. 14, in a victory for the defendant. Tiie jury, after being out an hour and forty-five minutes, rendered a verdict of acquittal. Hon Harvey N. r Sheppard, MfsTGoiigar’s counsel, immediately made application for a new trial. Henry Zimmerman, who owns a farm ten miles south of here, brought to Bell & McCain’s store stalks of corn raised oh* his farm which measures fourteen feet, with good ears eight feet from the ground, —Terre Haute Gazette. Ike Levig, aged seventy-five, a notori pus outlaw, was captured, by Cincinnati officers at, Osgood, Sept. 14, in the act of turning out spurious coin in the shape of silver (Quarters and halves, A peck of the “queer” was captured, together with ai quantity of tools and dies. Levi has been known as a horsethief and counterfeiter for fifty years, having “done time” inOhio and Kentucky for these offenses, and : it has been an open secret at Osgood for some time that he was up to his old tricks? because of his local purchases of plaster of paris and silver polishers. He has, been an active participant in many of the daring deeds that startled and terrorized southern Indiana years ago.

The new religious denomination which lias been proselyting in southern Indiana for months, and which is known as the “Saints, - ’ and again as the “Evening Light,” continues to increase in membership, particularly in Washington and contiguous counties. The new sect professes to be guided entirely by the Bible. No controversies are indulged in with non-be- ’ lievers, and communion, feet-washlng and nro among the cardinal points of the new theology? In simplicity oUiTress, frugality of life, honesty in business affairs, and the non-consideration of self,' the sect somewhat patterns after the Mennonites. All converts are annotated with oil, and every .convert is urged lirst to make restitution if he has' wronged anyone in a business transaction in times past. A serious riot occurred at Muncie, Sept. 15, between the Street Railway Company and the forces of tho Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Company. The Street Car Company’s property was damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars and a big legal contest has been commenced. The trouble was caused from the failure of the railway company to get its new rails in" place in time for the paving. The paving company were determined to proceed with their work. The street car peo J pie were determined they should not, Hence the riot. Walnut street was fenced up-by tho paving company. The street cars were run In full speed against the fence- Fifteen motor cars were wrecked in the melee. The police interfered and the trouble will be settled in tho counts. 'n discussing lager Over u uerpuan qritie insists that there is in the German vocabulary no such word as lager, which ho believes to be purely a Viennese expression.. There is also very little lager about a great deal of beer that is put out. 4 i