Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — Page 6

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

“Treasures of wickness profit’ - ®othing;but righteousnessdelivereth from death.” The report that every man, woman or child who may have one or more packs of playing cards, soiled or unsoiled. in their possession, will be compelled to report the same to theinternal revenue officersand pay a tax of two cents a pack, is without foundation. Only those cards in the stocks of dealers are liable to the provisions of the now law. English sportsmen have formed a plan for a gigantic game preserve in South Africa. They propose to enclose 100,00 b acres and will stock it with even’ species of “critter” known to the wilds of the Dark Continent. many varieties being threatened with extinction by the insane’ methods of slaughter now in vogue with hunters in that part of the world. Toe suspicion among police au* thpritigidji-alkef-the large cities of the world that there was constant communication being carried on between anarchists of all nationalities has been fully confirmed by recent 'disclosures. The situation is regarded as a serious menace to almost i every city of importance in Europe I and America. What measures to I suppress the evil may be taken is* not as yet disclosed. Evidently we i may expect a series of atrocities that have neveiybeen equalled-

The law in New York city makes it obligatory on the Police Board to retire on half pay any officer' who, after twenty years' service, applies for such retirein-'ll t s if no charges are pending against him. Since the Lexow committee began its investi gations the Commissioners have refused all applications of this character. There are now said to be one hundred o'" ec’s eligible to this privilege who will seek retirement, and if necessary will resort to legal measures to compel tiie Board to act. Jermatitis Exfoliativil They have got it in a London work house. It is a brand new disease and the peculiar bacteria has already been interviewed with as unsatisfactory ; results as a candidate for President who won’t talk. The mortality of patients attacked at first was 50 per cent., but few deqjjis now occur. The first symptoms ar cm flam mation of the skin, which peels off in large patches. In some cases large blisters are formed. The disease frecontinues several weeks and ibe patient becomes very weak and and emaciated. The best authorities believe it is contagious, but the medicos confess themselves completely puzzled, as the disease is distinctly a new one. I A gentleman was once.in adilem- • ma about his choicejof ' present for a .young lady of his acquaintance and called upon a friend for advice, stating that he wanted to purchase something that would make a big show for his money. The friend suggested a load of hay. Probably a similar desire prompted Prince Kucku Edukuma, of West Africa, recently, to send to the Princess of Wales as a roval present a huge log of mahogany forty feet long and forty-two inches in diam- * eter. Prince Ed certainly made as big a show for his money as was possible under the circumstances. The Prim ess did not find the present at all unacceptable, as might have been supposed, and has given orders for a variety of furniture to be manufactured from the log. It has often been said L|hat life consists principally of ups and downs- mostly downs. Qlt is only a question of time with all men. The 1 ...J?roude^ t powerful potentate at last lie on a common level with the most poverty stricken and humble of their fellow men. No reasonable man but fully appreciates the awful truth pf this the inexorable doom of every living thing. Life is a journey toward a common goal—a mad race for the grave that covers all. Yet there are other vicissitudes besides the final act in the drama that startle and astonish by their agreeable or otherwise. that seem impossible. A more remarkable example of this is seldom afforded than the respeo- 1 tive careers of the late George W. Childs and George R. Graham, both men of distinction and ability. Geo. , W. Childs worked for Graham as an office boy when the lattei' was making 150,000 a year. Afterwards misfortune assailed Graham, his j magazine failed, his fortune disappeared. he became blind, and finally iwas gmd to live on the charity of

the bo.v who had envied him in his prosperity, and outlived him to die as a pauper a few days ago. The great career of Geo. W. Childs is known to all. Seldom are two such conspicuous examples of success and failure brought into contact before ‘ the public eye. i There is an impending crisis in i Madagascar. This news may seem I a trifle “far fetched.” In fact Mad- • agascar is a good ways* off, and hosi tilities might proceed to the extinc- • tion of the races of that country and • not disturb the United States in the least. Yet the insignificant savage government in that far-off island is a factor in the diplomatic world. France is the dominant power and England views the inroads of the i French with a jealous eye. London ! advices state that diplomatists look upon the situation as very uncertain, and fears are entertained that the differences that are now seemingly ! certain to result, may end in actual hostilities between England and France. Americans have been reading of hostilities in Europe for so many years that this information will hardly be considered worth tte^ rea ding. We don’t believe any of the great powers care to fight any more. It is entirely too expensive now-a-days. The local situation in New York City is said to be alarming. The police are apparently paralyzed and powerless, and make arrests with extreme pleading" that the i sweeping charges of corruption made i against the whole force has made I their positions almost unbearable. ' The officers are said to express the ’ sentiment that they will be censured ; no matter what they do, hence they ! feel like doing as little as possible. They claim that they have never

been given credit for the long years |.of efficient service that has made the streets of the metropolis secure for all. and their indifference has led to j the natural result. Organized bands ’ of highwaymen parade the street’. 1 A procession of toughs will form headed by a band; the crowd will fill the street from house to house and sweep everything before it, slugging and robbing as they pro- : coed, and before the authorities can reach the scene of the disturbance the gang has dispersed, leaving the I victims bruised, bleeding and minus their valuables, as useless witnesses of the raid. Even Fifth avenue has been disgraced by such scenes. Rear i Admiral Erbon was“held up” in front of the Manhattan Club. An Eighth avenue car was held up and the passengers robbed. AH these happened early in the evening. Superintendent Byrnes, in an interview,.said: “There are pauses for this. It is getting tn be so now that a policeman is afraid to arrest anybody. He is ‘catching it’ from the courts on ( One hand and the newspapers on the otter hand.” There have been nu -j m/rous instances of late where potee officers have been rebuked in the courts for making certain arrests. In many cases the persons arrested by them have been discharged, and they forthwith proceeded to lodge complaints against the officer. The | Lexow investigation has been charged with the responsibility for' the situation, and with some reason. Every person having a grievance against an . officer has gone before ! the commission to get revenge, and very often with success. The result has beena practical demoralization' of the police force, and the end is not yet.

A Snake Living ian Irish So it.

Hartford Times. People in passing the Times office today have been attracted by tho sight of a lively striped snake, two feet long, in a glass iarwith a perforated covering. —Ttie jar is hall filled with earth, and his snakeshin is having a lively time wriggling and burrowing in it. The snake is an American product, but the earth is from Ireland, where tradition says snakes can not live since St. Patrick banished them. Whatever opinions may be held in regard to the truth of the story "aßopt the exodus dTshakcs"Tr6m”~tho Green Isle at the command of the patron saint, the fact is that nowhere in Ireland can a snake bo found. The damp climate of the country is uncongenial to them. Mr. Patrick N. Burke, of this city’ read some time ago in the Times an article stating that a test had been made in New London, and.a snake was unable to live on the soil. . He recently visited the country of his birth, and it occurred to him to test the story o£-the inability of snakes to live on Irish soil. He brought with him from Galwav, Ireland, the earth shown in the Times window. He has been making efforts to se, cure a jhcalthy snake, and on Tuesday two boys found one in Tariffvilie. Mr. Burke, anxious to the fatal effect of Irish soil on reptiles, gave the boys a dollar for thpii snake. He put the snake in the jar this morning. The breeding stock must be healthy and vigorous or the egg will be lacking in vitality ana the cliicki will be weak and debilitated.

DEMOCRATIC PERFIDY.

Gov. McKinley’s Great Speech at Bangor, Me, The Dishonor and Disgrace of the Gorman Bill —A Scorching Review. A Bangor, Me., special to the Assoc ia ted Pi es. Sept. 8. says: Governor McKinley, of Ohio, delivered here this afternoon' what many believe to te the best speech of his life. Today the campaign in this State was closed preliminary to the election,. Monday, and the event was made the occasion of the greatest cutpouring at a political meeting in the b's lory of Di.rchester ccnnty. It was but a straw, perhaps, showing the way the wind is blowing, but the political leaders present declare it to be the forerunner of the largest Republican majority Maine has ever given. ! Long before the hour set for the meeting, the city hall was packed to suffocation. It would hold but 2,500 people, but these in their enthusiasm made up for their enforced lack of numbers. An overflow meeting was held at Y, M. C. A.,hall, at which Governor McKinley delivered an abridged edition of his city hall speech. Hundreds were obliged to stand in both places, but they forgot about their discomforts in their rapt attention to the speaker as he discussed, the National issues of the day. , Congressman Boutelle, who pre- j sided at the city hall meeting, intro- 1 duced the Ohio executive and pro- I tectionist leader in an eloquent ' manner. After paying glowing tributes to James G. Blaine and Hannibal Hamlin, Governor McKinley said: j “The Democratic President and Democratic CongrcsSs have been running the Government for eighteen months, during which time littl' else has been running. Industry ! has been practically stopped. Labor has found little employment, and when emoloyed it has been at great- i ly reduced wages. Both Govern- j tr-ent and people have been draining ‘ their reserves and both have teen ' running into debt. Tab Government has suffered in its revenues and the j people in their incomes.

The total losses to the country in business property and wages are beyond human calculation. There has been no cessation in the waste of wealth and wages. No contentment, brightness, or hope has anywhere appeared- The appeals to charity have never been so numerous , and incessant nor their necessity everywhere so iqanifest. Congress has disappointed the people, trifled with the sacred trust confided to it, exgated distrust and disgust among Constituents, and impaired their investments. 1 Pledged, if platforms mean any- | thing, to overthrow our long-contin- I ued policy of protection, the Demosrats have quarreled and compromised, and, upon their own t.esti- ’ tfiony, have baeii compromised. The i result of their long wrangle is a tar- { iff law with which nobody is satis- ' 3ed. I A law which even those who made it apologize for. A law which the chairman of the ways and means aneff almost, the entire Democratic side of the House condemned by a yea and nay vote only a few days before its passage, affirming their intention in the most j solemn manner not to permit it to be enacted. j A law which all factions of the Democratic party are agreed is the work of a monstrous trust, which Chairman Wilson confessed in the House, amid the applause of his confederates, with deep chagrin, “held j Congress by the throat.”' A law of which the House of Representatives was so thoroughly ashamed that it had no sooner passed it than it made hot haste to seek its immediate amendment by passin g su ppi emen tu ry bi lls wh iclr put their tariffed sugar, coal, lead, iron and barbed wire on the free list, under threats of still further similar assaults on the much disturbed and distressed industries of the country, utterly heedless of the stupendous ruin al ready wrough t . A law which the President condemned before its passage, and from which, when passed, he withheld his approval. A law which was characterized before its passage by the greatest leaders in the Democratic party, the senior Senator from New York, as a “violation of Democratic pledges and principles,” and which was denounced by the official head of the government as such an act of “party perfidy and party dishonor” that if the Hoose should at least concur in it “they would not dare to look the people of the country in the face,” and which the Executive still condemns since their surrender as the “Very' communism of pelf.” The President, in his letter to Congressman Catchings, of Mississippi, says: “The millions of our countrymen who have fought bravely and well for tariff reform (not accepting this bill) should be expected to continue this struggle, boldly challenging to open warfare and constantly guarding against treachery Und half heart cd boss in their camp." Still he permitted the bill to become a law, lacking the moral courage to veto it. If the country was disposed to accept this bill as final, and could permanently adjust business to it, the party’ in power would not have it so. It has so declared with boldness and unanimity. This means, unfortunately, a constant agitation

until March 4, 1895, at the least and for two -years longer after that unless the people in the congressional elections this year make the House Republican, in which event no further’ wrecking of our industries or interference with the labor of our people can occur during the administration of President Cleveland. What will your verdict be? • Governor McKinley then gave a history of the new tariff legislation. He said the bill, as it passed the House would have created, according to the estimates he had seen of its revenue raising power, a deficiency of from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. The “self-constituted adjustment committee” of the .Senate, to which the bill was intrusted after it came back from the Senate finance com--mittee, was unknown to the Constitution, unauthorized by the rules, o! the Senate or by party caucus, tradition or custom. The manner of the making of the bill should con; demn it. He then continued: It was traded through without regard to principle, public policy, public interest, or public morals. The adjusting committee went through the whole list of Senators very patiently, They gave Senator Murphy his duty on collars and cuffs. They gave the Senators irom Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia and West Virginia the duty on coal and iron ore. They gave the Senators from Louisiana and elsewhere, and the great sugar trust of the country, the duty-demanded on.sugar. They gave the Populists the income tax. They did not give to Senator Brice a protective tariff on wool for his Ohio constituents for the Senator did not demand it. He says he did not. He does not tell us what concessions were made to him nor by whom they were made, but the people of Ohio, looking upon their distressed industries, have fully deter-mined-'that not one them received consideration at his hands. 'lt gives some protection. It has some free trade in it here and soma there, but mostly hero in the North. There is a tariff on peanuts, but free t rade in cot ton ties; there is a tariff on sumac, btu free trade in wool; there is a tariff on mica, but.free trade in lumber. In every schedule there is the grossest exhibtion of sectionalism and unjust discrimination. Governor McKinley was especially severe in his characterization of the case of the Louisiana Representa- , tives who were promised protection ; for their sugar interests and then left out in the cold. He devoted considerable time to comparison of the tai iff bill of 1890 with the new law to the great disadvantage of the latter. The law of 1894, he said, had struck the farmer right and left. HednesrbeCTrShown no mercy whatever. The deadliest blaw is against the wool growers. The concluding portion of the address was an arraignment of the Democratic party for what were described as its false pretenses, for its ; treason to. pensioners of the Union 1 army and navy, and for its incapacity to conduct the affairs of the nation. i

The Greatest. Fortress in the World.

Harper's Young People. In 1779 combined French and Spanish land and sea forces besieged Gibraltar, closely investing the place until September 13, 1782, when the most, memorable attack that history records was made upon it. Forty'six line-of-battle ships, 300 gun and mortar boats, together ! with a great fleet of specially con- | structed armored floating-batteries ' encircled the rock, and daily hurled' thousands of tons of iron against its scraggy sides. This frightful assault was maintained and successfully resisted for several months, and it was not until , 1783, when peace was declared, that | the siege was raised,and the English left masters of the place that they had defended without cessation for four weary years. The great rock of Gibraltar is of limestone formation, and is honeycombed with caverns and subterra- ; nean avenues. Some of the caves have been given such names as St. Michael’s, -Martins-, Fig-Tree, Monkey, Beefsteak, and Judges. The first of these is on the western side, and its entrance is about 1,100 feet above the sea. It is the most remarkable and interesting chamber of them all, and the particular cave that tourists make a point of exploring. The earth slopes rapidly from the entrance, and the passage opens into a hall 200 feet long, of varying width and seventy feet in height. The roof of this cave has the appearance of being supported by the enormous stalactite pillars that reach from the floor and spread out where they mingle overhead. These columns areof wonderful beauty, and form every imaginable shape —trees, animals, human figures, etc. From St. Michael’s Cave passages radiate and lead to four smaller chambers, known as Leonora’s Caves, one of which ; s fully 300 feel below the surface. Th? first of these four v.a given the name of Victoria's Cave, in honor of England's Queen, by Captain Brome, of the Royal Engineers,to whom the credit of thf discovery is due. Pierre Loth the famous Frencl novelist, who saw Li Hung Chanj when in China a year or two ago, de scribes him as a tall, slender, bony distinguished looking rian with s beard and long mustache. When ot horseback it would be difficult t< imagine a man more dignifiec iu appearance. '

DANGERS OF DANCING.

. it An Influence for Evil that Can Not Be Estimated. A Famoni Danunege nnrt Her Bloody Reward—Dr. Talmage’s Eloquent Appeal for Social Purity and ------ Moderat.ou. ~ The Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his round the world tour, selected as the subject of last Sunday’s, sermon through the press “The Quick Feet,” the text chosen being Matthew xiv, 6, “When Herods birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod.” . It is the anniversary of Herod’s birthday. The palace is lighted. The highways leading therto are all ablaze with the pomp of invited guests. -Lords, captains, the merchant princes, the mighty men of the land are coming to mingle in the festivities. The table is spread with all the luxuries that, royal purveyors can gather. The guests, white robed and annointed and nerfumed, come in and sit at the table. Music’ The jests evoke roars of laughter. Riddles are propounded. Repartee is indulged. Toasts are drunk. The brain is befogged. The wit rolls on into uproar and blasphemy. They are not satisfied yet. Turn on more light. Pour out more wine. Music! Sound all the trumpets. Clear the 1 floor for a dance. Bring in Salofne j the beautiful and accomplished princess. The door opens and in bounds the dancer. The lords are enchanted. Stand back and make room for i the brilliant gyrations! These men never saw such “poetry of motion.” Their soul whirls in. the reel and bounds with the bounding feet. "

Herod forgets crown and throne and everything but the fascinations of Salome. Ail the magnificence of i his realm is as nothing now compared with the splendor that whirls on .tiptoe before him. His body sways from side to side, corresponding with the motions of the enchantress. His soul is filled with the pul-' sations of the feet and bewitched with the taking postures and attitudes more and more amazing. After a while he sits in enchanted silence looking at the flashing, leapi ing, bounding beauty, and as the i dance closes, and the tinkling cym- ; bals cease to clap, and the thunders of applause that shqok the palace begin to abate, the enchanted monarch swears to the princely performer, “Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me I will give it thee, to the half of my kingdom.” Now, there was in ’ prison at that time a minister of the gospel of the name of John the Bap- j tist, and he had been making a great deal of trouble by preaching some very plain and honest sermons. At the instigation of his mother, Salome takes advantage of the extravagant promise of the king and says, “Bring rnethe head of John the Baptist on a dinner plate.” Hark to the sound of feet outside the door and the clatter of swords, j The executioners are returning from I their awful errand. Open the door. 1 They enter and they present the ■ platter to Salome. What isenthisj platter? A new glass of wine to continue the uproarious merriment? No. Something redder and costlier—the ghastly, bleeding head of John the Baptist, the death glare still in the eye. the locks dabbled with gore, the features still distressed with the last agony. This woman,who had whirled so gracefully in the dance, Wnds over the awful burden without a shudder. She gloats over thwblood, and with as much indifference as a waiter might take a tray of empty glassware out of a room after an j entertainment Salome carries this ' head of John the Baptist, while all the banqueters shout with laughter ; and think it a good joke that in so etsy and quick a way they have got rid of an earnestand outspoken minister of the gospel. Dancing is the graceful motion of the oody adjusted by art to the sound j and measures of musical instrment j or of the human voice. All nations have danced. The ancients thought I that Cantor and Pollux taught the art the Lacedaemonians. But whoever started it all clime have adopted it. ' In ancient times they had the festal i dance, the military dance, the mediatorial dance, the bacchanalian dance, and the queens and lords swayed to and fro in the gardens, and the rough backwoodsman with this exercised awakened the echo of the forest. There is something in the sound of lively music to evoke the movement of the hand and foot, I whether cultured or uncultured. | Passing down the street we uncon- i sciously keep step to the sound of ' the brass band, while the Christian ! in church with his foot beats time while his soul rises above some great harmony. While this is so in civilized lands, the red men of the forest have their scalp dances, their green corn dances, their war dances. In ancient times the exorcise was so utterly and completely depraved that the church anathematized it. But we an; not to discuss the customs of the olden times, but customs now. We are not to take the evidence of the ancient fathers, but our own conscience, enlightened by the word of God, is to be the standard. Oh, bring no harsh criticism upon the young. I would not drive out from their soul the hilarities of life. Ido not believe that the inhabitants of ancient Wales, when they stepped to the sound of the rustic barp, went down to ruin. I belfbve God intended the young ] e >ple to laugh and romp and play. Ido not believe God would have put exuberance in the soul and exuberance in the body if he had not intended they should in some wise exercise it and

demonstrate it. If a mother join hands with her children and cross, the floor to the sound of music, I se< no harm. If a group of friends cross and recross the room to the sound oJ piano well played, I see no harm; B a company, all of whom are known to host and hostess aS reputable, cross and recross the room to the sound of musical instrument. I see no harm. I tried for a long while tC see harm in it. I could not see any harm in it. I never shall see any harm in that. Our men need to be kept young—young for many years longer than they are kept young. Never since my boyhood days have I had more sympathy with the innoi cent hilarities of life that I have now. What are the dissipations jf social life today, and what are the dissipations of the ball room? In some cities and in some places reachingall the year round, in other places only ' in the summer time and at the watering places. There are dissipations of social life that are cutting a very wide swath with the sickle of death, and hundreds and thousands are going down under these influences, and my subject in application is as wide as Christendom.

Social dissipation is the abettor o! pride, it is the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue ollust, and it is the curse oL every town on both sides of the sea. Social dissipation. It may be hard to draw the line and say that this is right on the one side, and that is wrong on the other side. It is not necessary that we do that, for God ' has put a throne in everyman’s soul, and I appeal to that throne today. When a mtm does wrong, he knows he does wrong, and when he does right he knows he does right, and to that throne which Almighty God lifted in the heart of every man and woman I appeal. As to the physical ruin wrought by the dissipations of social life there can be no doubt. What may we expect of people who work all day anddance all night? How many people have stepped from the ballroom into the graveyard! Consumptions and swift neuralgias are close on the track. Amid many of the glittering scenes of social life diseases stand right and left and balance and chain. The breath of the sepulcher floats dp through the perfume, and the froth of death’s * lips bubbles up in the champagne. I am told that in some of the cities there are parents who have actually given up housekeeping and gone to boarding that they may give their time inimitably to social dissipations. I have known such cases. I have known family after family blasted in that way in one or the other cities where I preached, father and mother turning their hacks on all quiet culture and all the amenities of home, leading forth their entire family in the wrong direction. Annihilated, worse than annihilated—for there , are some things worse than annihilation. If there is anything on qarth beautiful to me, it is an aged woman, her white locks flowing ■ back over tho wrinkled brow—locks not white with frost, as the poets” say, buy whit© with the blossoms of the tree of life,, in her voice the tenderness of gracious memories, her face a benediction. As grandmother passed through the room the grandchildren pull at her dress, and she almost falls in her weakness, but she has nothing but candy or cake ora Jcind word * for the little darlings. When sh© gets out of her wagon in front of the> house, the whole family rush out and cry, “Grandma’s come!” and when she goes away from us never to return, there is a shadow on the table/ and a shadow on the heart. But if there is anything distressful it is to see an old woman ashamed of the fact that she is old. What with alt the artificial appliances, she is tqp much for my gravity. I laugh even in church when I see her coming.! The worst bird on earth is at peacock when it haslost its feathers.! I would not give one lock of my old 1 mother’s gray hair for 50,000 sueb caricatures of humanity. , With many life is a masquerade ball, and as at such entertainments gentlemen and ladies put on the garb of kings ahd queens or mountebanks or clowns and at the colse put off the disguise, so a great manv pass their whole life in a mask, taking off the mask at death. While the masquerade ball of life goes on thev trip merrily over the floor, gemmed hand is stretched to gemmed hand, and gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On with the dance! Flush and rustle and laughter of immeasurable merrymaking. But after awhile the languor of death comes on the limbs and blurs the eyesight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with spulehral echo. Music saddened to a wail. Now the maskers are only seen in the dim light. Now the fragrance of the flowers is like the sickening odor that comes from garlands that have lain long in th© vaults of cemeteries. Lights lower. Oh, how many of you have floated far away from God through social dissipations! And it is time you turned. For I remember that there were two vessels on the sea and in a storm. It was very, very dark, and the two vessels were going straight for each other, and the captain knew it not. But after awhile the man on the lookout saw the approaching ship, and shouted, “Hard a larboard!” and from the other vessel the cry went up, “Hard a-larboard!” and they turned just enough to glance by and passed in safety to their harbors. Some of vou are in the storm of temptation? and you Are driving on and coming toward fearful collisions unless you cha ige your course. Hard a-larboardi Turn ye, Urn ye, for “why will y« die. 0 house of Israel?”