Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — HE LOST HIS GRIP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HE LOST HIS GRIP.

“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.

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