Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1894 — Page 2

--THE REPUBLICAN. J. 6iou E. Marshall, Editor. “ISNSSBLAER - INDIAN;

“Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away - backward.” Copper cents are legal tender for nil amounts of twenty-five cents and under. A good many people “kick” when asked to take pay in such currency for anything above the Falue of a postage stamp, but they can’t help themselves if the customer cares to insist on his legal right. Fortunately, no one can make any person accept more than twentylive pennies in any single transaction. The vivacious Frenchmen of Paris save heard about the Lexow committee at New York and are said to “hone” for a similar ‘organization, ft is charged that the police force of Paris could give their New York Drethern pointers in official corruption. They are past masters of the art of blackmail, and the efforts of New York’s “finest” in this line are regarded as very crude and clumsy on the gay boulevards beside the Seine. ■ A full grown, antlered buck, hotly pursued by a hound, was chased into Ashland, Wis., Oct. 23, and after a run of several miles through the streets, dashed into a window and up a stairway of a residence where it was killed after a desperate struggle. An attempt to take the annimal alive was made, but he had received a broken leg md other serious injuries and it was thought best to kill him. Where the dog scared the deer up was untnown.

The celebrated steamship Majestic m her last trip over from England lad a hole in her hull during the entire trip. Strange as it may seem, jo disaster resulted. This remark - ible immunity from serious eonsejuences is, however, easily explained the "hole” being the very Rev. Samlel Reynolds Hole. D. D., dean of Rochester Cathedral, England. The lean is one of the most popular preachers of England. He was an mtiroate friend of Dickens a*d Thackeray. Mr. Hole will lecture m this country and doubtless hopes io ‘‘hole up” some of our superfluous :ash for winter use. French politics appear to be very much like the American article. The ntw President, Casimir-Perier, has already become unpopular and the Parisian press seem to have ’ormed a conspiracy to abuse hirh to jhe best of their ability. The President is accused of being cold and haughty, proud to arrogance, unapproachable and a lover of military display. Rochefort writes to L’lntransigeant from his London exile: I have been accused of comparing Casioir Perier to the commander of a band of tonvicts. 1 recant, He is simply the dull •ergeant. ThatriAa falr example of the tone &f all that class of French newspapers toward the President. Chicago continues to sail through leas of tribulation. Anarchistic rioters have been succeeded by deteptive horse butchers who skillfully tvade the efforts of the health offi♦ers to suppress the traffic. A regular “hoss sausage” factory is said to be in operation at Hammond, that finds its principal market in the ?reat city of which it is a suburb. The broken down horses of the netropolis are bought, ground up, ind sent back to regale the unsuspecting lovers of winerwurst and >ther forms of encased nourishment. Too bad! And yet, who knows how tong Indiana cities will be allowed to tat legitimate flesh? Chicago enterprise seldom stops with a “home market.” These harpies, ghouls and piratical tradesmen are sure to seek a wider field.

v The vicissitudes—the ups and downs —prosperity and adversity—of human life were strikingly illustrated in the case of the late David Buchanan, who died at the Delaware county poor farm Oct. 21. At one time Mr. Buchanan was one of the best known men in Muncie, prosperous, honored by his partyiwith a nomination for sheriff. The day before that election his wife died, the next day he was defeated. Later on he became financially involved. Shortly after that he became blind and was paralyzed on one side. His health becoming partially restored he married a widow lady, in spite of the protests of his six children, although they are said to have refused to care for him. Skillful treatment jestored his eyesight, and Mrs. Bu-

chanan for a time managed to maintain him, but last July she was compelled to send him to the poor farm. When the county undertaker brought the remains to the widow's home the children demanded possession of the body, and a most unpleasant scene resulted. A compromise was finally agreed upon and the body remained in charge of the undertaker until the funeral took place at the M. E. church. Clodwig Carle Victor Hohkn=esh* Prince „vo& SdSiLLiJioyciaat, a remote uncle of the German Kaiser, has, through a combination of more or less fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, succeeded to the Chancellorship of the empire, and will try to sustain the dignity of the position whose first incumbent was the only Bismarck. He also succeeds to the Premiership of Prussia —a position made "vacant by the resignation of Zu Eulenberg—thus “killing two birds with one stone,” so to speak. If the German people can “stand it” to commit the destinies of their country to a man with a name like that we can surely put up with the situation. It is a wonderful titular aggregation, the like of which Americans are fortunately not compelled to contend with. It settles one thing, however, beyond dispute: That the new Chuncellor is a Dutchman will hardly be denied by his worst enemies. Even in death superfluous oi ample wealth follows the fortunate owner with blessings and privileges that poverty-stricken humanity can not hope for or aspire to. There was Mr. Joachim Infante, a wealthy gentleman of Spanish descent, a citizen of New Orleans, who died on shipboard while returning from foreign parts. Ordinary mortals would have been “buried at sea” —to find an unknown grave beneath the surging wave. The captain of the ship proposed to dispose of the body in the customary way, but the wife and daughter pleaded for leniency, and it was finally decided -expenses being no object—to take the body tc New Orleans. The ship’s carpentei made a rough coffin, and lined il with tin. The corpse was placed in the “tank” and was covered with brandy—twenty-four casks being used. When the improvised coffin was opened at the undertaker’s in the Cresent City the remains were found to be in a perfect state ol preservation.

Literary Notes.

The Russian cowboy is what Poultney Bigelow calls the Cossack iD Harper's Magazine for November. In Mr. Bigelow's opinion, the Cossack will not again figure heavily in European warfare. The most picturesque of the Czar’s soldiers is dis‘ appearing, like the cowboy, under the combined influence of discipline and advancing civilization. A charming calling costume f rom Paris, engraved in Baude’s characteristic style, several beautiful evening toilettes, house gowns, and street dresses are the distinguishing features of Harper’s Bazar for Oct. 27. Other noteworthy features area very timely paper on “Dinner Customs,” a description of the Shaker community at Mt. Lebanon, N. Y., and a forecast of musical events in New York city during the winter. Ha"rper’s Weekly for Oct. 27, contains timely articles on the war in the East, giving illustrations of Port Arthur, one of the strongholds of ihe Chinese navy that is now being besieged by a land and sea force of Japanese, and also giving portraits of the Japanese military leaders. A full page is devoted to the Japanese navy yard at Yokosko. “The Judgment ißooks,” a story ol two installments by E. F. Benson, an English writer, besrins this week. It is a live story that cannot fail in keeping the interest of the reader. “The Master” is continued, and the career of its unfortunate hero is strongly drawn in this issue. James Barnes contributes the second series of the battle pieces of the war ol 1812—a very interesting letter, hitherto unpublished, giving a pictture of the rejoicings after the victory of the “United States” in its conflict with the “Macedonian.”

The Queen’s “Cemetery.”

London Letter. “Grandmamma’s Cemetery” is the name given by the younger generation of Queen Victoria’s immense family to a large volume bound in black morocco with silver mountings, in which the old lady inscribes the name, the age, the date and place of interment of all those of her friends and acquaintances who have passed over to the majority. > As b&r life has been a singularly long one, it may be imagined that the volume is of a buiky character, and each time that she looks at it Her Majesty cannot fail to be struck by the astonishing number of those who have preceded her into the great unknown. What lief Object, can be in keeping so mournful a register as this is difficult to understand unless she expects to take it witk her into another world for the pur pose of being ready-posted as tc /whom shye is likely to meet there. Bolata, the product of a tree in Su matra. is becoming a rival of Indit robber and gutta percha.

THE PRODIGAL SON.

Lessons Drawn From the famous Parable. ChrlfitlaDft and Anct-1* Rejoice Over the Conrert—l>r Sermon for tlie Prc»s. ». 1 The Rev. Dr. Talmage, having completed his round the world tour, selected as the subject for last Sunday’s discourse through the press, “Home Again,” the text chosen being Luke xv, 23, “Bring hither the patted calf and kill it.” _ In all ages of the world it has been customary to celebrate joyful events by festivity—the signing of treaties, the proclamation of peace, the Christmas, the marriage. However much on other days of the year our table may have stinted supply, on Thanksgiving Day there must be something bounteous, and all of the comfortable homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joy ful events by banquet and festivity. • Something has happened in the old homestead greater than anything that has ever happened before. A Favorite son, whom the' world supposed would become a vagabond and outlaw forever, has got tired of sightseeing ami has returned to his father’s house. The world said he never would come back. The old man always said his son would come, fie had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come back. Now, having returned to his father’s house the father proclaims celebration. There is a calf in the paddock that nasbeen kept up and fed to the utmost capacity, so as to be ready for some occasion of joy that might come ilong. Ah, there never will be a grander lay on the old homestead than this Jay. Let the butchers do their work and the housekeepers bring in to the table the smoking meat. The musicians will take their places, and the gay group will -move up and Jown the floor. All the friends and neighbors are gathered in, and extra supply is sent out to the table of the servants. The father presides at the table and says grace and thanks God that his long absent boy is home again. Oh, how they missed him! How glad they are to •have him back! One brother indeed stands pouting at the back door and says: “This is a great ado about nothing. This bad boy should have been chastened instead of greeted, i Veal is too good for him!” But the Father says, “Nothing is too good; ! nothing is good enough.” There sits the young man, glad' at the" hearty reception, but a shadow of sorrow flitting across his brow at the remembrance of the trouble he had seen. Allready now. Let the covers lift. Music. He was dead, and he is alive again! He was lost, and he is found! By such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merrymaking when a soul comes home to God. First of all there is the * new convert’s jov. It is no tame thing to ! become a Christian. The most tre- i mendous moment in a man’s life is when he surrenders himself to God. i The grandest time on the father's homestead is when the boy comes ’ back. Among the great throng who j in the parlors of my church professed Christ one night was a young man, 1 who next morning rang inv doorbell and said: “Sir, I cannot con- ' tain myself with the joy I feel. I came here this morning to express it. I have found more joy in five minutes in serving Gpd than in all the years of my prodigality, and I came to say so.” • Just pass over from those tame joys in which you are- indulging—iovs of this world—into the raptures of j the gospel. The world can not sat- j isfy you, you have found out —Alex- | ander longing for other worlds to j conquer, and yet drowned in his own bottle; Byron whipped by disquietudes around the world; Voltaire cursing his own soul while all the streets of Paris were applauding him; Henry II consuming with hatred against poor Thomas a Becket —all illustrations of the fact that this world can not make a man happy. The very man who poisoned the pommel of the saddle on which Queen Elizabeth rode shouted in the street, “God save the Queen!” One moment the world applauds, and the next moment the world anathemtizes. Oh, come over into this greater jov, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude! But I notice that when the prodigal came there was the father’s joy. He did not greet him with a formal “How do you do?” He did not come out and say: “You are unfit to enter. Go out and wash in the trough by the well, and then you can come in. We have had enough trouble with you.” Ah, no! When the proprietor of that estate proclaimed festival, it was an outburst of a father’s love and a father's joy. God is your father. I have not much sympathy with that description of God I soipetimes hear, as though he was n Turkish sultan—hard and unsymj at'.i ‘tic and listning not to the cry of his subjects. A man told me he saw in one of the eastern lands a king riding along, and two men were in altercation, and one charged the other with having eajten his rice. And the King said, “Then slay the man, and by post mortejn examination find whether he has eaten the rice.” And he was slain. Ah, the cruelty of a scene like that! Our God is not a sultan, not a despot, a father—kind, loving, forgiving—and he makes all heaven ring again when a prodigal comes back. “I have no pleasure,” he says, “in the death of

him that dieth.” If a man does not get to heaven,ii it because he wilPnot go there. No difference the color, Tio difference the history, no difference the antecedents, no difference the surroundings, no difference the sin. When the white horses of Christ’s victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph, you may ride one of them, and as God is greater than all his joy is greater, and when a soul comes back there is in his heart, the surging of an infinite ccean of gladness, and to express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the thrones of pomp, apd all the ages of eternity. It is a jov deeper than all depth, and higher than alt bight, and wider than all width, and vaster than all immensity. It overtops, it undergirds, it outweighs all the united splendor and joy of the united splendor and joy of the universe. Who can tell what God’s joy is? For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot. His son went off in aggravating circumssances, but the father said, “He will come back.” The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and three times a day the father went. In the early morning he watched the train —its arrival, the stepping out of the passengers and then the departure of the train. At noon he was there again watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. At night there again, watching the coming, watching the going, for ten years. He was sure nis son would come back. God has been watching and waiting for some of you, my brothers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years, waiting, waiting, watching, watching, and if this morning the prodigal should, come home what a scene of gladness and festivity and how the great Father’s heart would rejoice at your coming home! You will come, some of you, will you not? Von will! You will! When I see a man whp is bound hand and foot in evil habit emancipated,rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. When in our communion service such throngs of young and oid stood up at the altars, and in the presence of heaven and earth and hell attested-their allegiance to Jesus Christ. I felt a joy akin to that which the apostle describes when he says: “Whether in the body, I cannot tell, or out of the body I cannot tell. God knoweth.” Life insurance men will all tell you that ministers of religion, as a class, live longer than any other. It is confirmed by the statistics of all those who calculate upon human longevity. Why is it? There is more draft upon the nervous system than in any other profession, and their toil is most exhausting. I have seen ministers kept on miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations, who wondered at the dullness of the sermons, when the men of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of "livelihood, and had not enough of nutritious food to keep any fire in their o temperament. No fuel, no fire. I havd sometimes seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen—never accepti ing theiy hospitality, because they can not afford it —but I have seen ; them struggle on with salaries of #SOO and #6OO a year, the 'average less than that, their struggle well depicted by the western missionary who says in a letter: “Thank you for your last remittance. Until it came we had not any meat in our house for one year, and all last winter, although it was a severe winter, our children wore their summer clothes.” =

And these men of God I find in different parts of the land struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable, some of them week after week entertaining agents who have maps to sell and submitting themselves to all styles of annoyance, and yet without complaint and cheerful of soul. Hoy/ do you account for the fact that these life insurance men tell us that ministers as a class live longer than any others? It is because of the joy of their work, the joy of the harvest field, the joy of greeting prodigals home to their Father’s house. I notice, also, when the prodigal comes back all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on a promontory, and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward the rocks, and you saw people get ashore in the lifeboats, and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could not control your joy. And it is a glad time when the church of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of their sins plant their feet in the rock Christ Jesus. Once more I remark that when the prodigal gets back the inhabitants of heaven keep festival. lam very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart, you have no idea how many cities are connected together and how many lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the world seem reticulated, and news flies from city to city and from continent to continent, but more rapidly go the tidings from earth to heaven, and when a prodigal returns it is announced before the throne of God, and if these souls today should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the heavenly kingdom to say, “That’S my father," “That's my mother,' “That’s my son," “That’s my daughter,” “That’s my friend," “That’s the one I used to .pray for," “That’s the one for whom I wept so tears,” and one soul would say “Hosanna!” and another soul would say “Hallelujah!” J'•

WHAT THEY SAY.

fcpress Comment and Personal In- • terviews on the Absorbing Topic, Various Views and Expressions from Partisans and Independents on the November Elec ' tions. Ex-President Harrison, in an interview at Indianapolis, Wednesday, said: “It is the most extraordinary political revolution the country has ever witnessed. Wherever there was a free ballot the vote of confidence given in 1892 to the Democratic party (if one was given) has been recalled, and a vote of utter and final repudiation substituted. The incoherence of the Democratic party was revealed the moment power was given to it to deal with National affairs. The insincerity of its platform-makers was exposed when ‘Be it enacted’ took the place of - Be it resolved.’ For thirty years party expediency had been substituted by its leaders for party principles, and expediency had as many Faces as there were Congressional districts. Every eccentric ■> crosscurrent of popular prejudice was followed as if it were the gulf stream. No passion was too wild or violent for a Democratic mount. Classes were created and inflamed to outbreak and disorder. In one State a debauched currency and in another a socialism that was near to anarchy were given a bed. Property, espe-( eially mills and factories, was invested and assaulted in one section, and in another trusts were secretly coddled. The old Democratic doctrine that favored the levying of customs duties to the limit of an adequate revenue was abandoned. A deficiency to be made good, by bond issues or bv internal taxes, was preferred to the ‘incidental protection’ that adequate customs duties would give. The silver question was dealt with in the most vacillating and irresponsible manner. “Mr. Cleveland described the sitution perfectly when he said in his letter to Mr. Wilson, ‘They (the democracy) are downcast under the assertion that their party fails in ability to manage the government.’ A vast majority of our people believe in a protective tariff—never so many and never so strong as now. They differ as to rates and schedules, but not as to principle. They believe in reciprocity as the first method of getting foreign markets. They believe in a progressive and American foreign policy. “The workingmen voted their prejudices in 1892; this year they voted their patriotism and their love of home. “The enormous falling off in the democratic vote everywhere is not less imphatic in its meaning than the majorities. “The great victory secured by the reformers in New York city ought to have men tion in the Thanksgiving proclamation—perhaps it would if it had come earlier. It gives the assurance so much needed that there is an adequate recuperative power in the most ring-ridden communities; that popular government is equal to its severest test —the control of great cities. “The lesson? Trust the people. The duty? Exercise the offices they have confided to us with the highest fidelity and patriotism. “About Indiana? Well, language fails me. lam proud of her.” Vice-President Stevenson, in an interview at Bloomington L Wednesday, November 7, gives his views -as follows:

“My opinion can be briefly stated. The result is due in part to the financial depression which came upon the country soon after the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland. While the Democrats were in no wav responsible for this, they were made the scapegoats. It was also in part due to the delay of congress in passing the tariff bill. Had the bill become a law ninety days earlier than it did, it is quite probable that the business conditions of the country would have so adjusted themselves that the political result would have been different. Congressman Springer, of Illinois, to an interviewer, at Springfield, 111., said: The manufacturers of the country who have been receiving large benefits from a protective tariff were not disposed to give up any of the privileges which they had on joyed heretofore. They naturally resented any efforts to curtail their rights to tax the toiling millions for their own benefit. The business interest of the country were appealed to by republican partisans to make large contributions to their campaign funds. There were many evidences in this part of Illinois to prove that such appeals were not made in vain. The Republican managers in the congressional districts were supplied more liberally with campaign funds than ever beforo known in this State. Never before were Republican politicians so active and persistent in party affairs as during the campaign in this district. The managers of the Democratic party were active and aggressive. They never made a more gallant fight, but we were defeated. The stay-at home vote among the Democrats was very large; so large in some localities as to raise the suspicions that voters had been paid to remain away from the polls. Governor Waite, of Colorado, at Denver, conceded the defeat of his party early Wednesday: “To my mind," he said, “it proves conclusively that the money power has

dominated this election from begihning to end, and the ■ Democratic! party is not responsible from the 1 fact that many Democrats voted the Republican ticket instead of their own. I made up my mind several; years ago that there was only one way to rescue the country from the| conditions now existing, aDd for ; which the money power is responsible, and that was to fight it. Consequently I have never made any ; bones of declaring that the controlling power which it has exercised: over all legislation is destroyed. I; believe that the influence of Wall, street must be removed from Con-: gress. The result in Colorado can, be accounted for from the fact that* the Democrats have, almost to a man, voted for the Republican ticket.’ It proves to me that there is absolutely no difference in the financial policy of the Democratic and Re- ■ publican parties. Colorado Democrats undoubtedly voted the Republican ticket on account of orders received at Washington. It was the same in ■ New York. While the Democrats there may not have received explicit orders there is >no doubt but that their conduct was influenced largely by a secret understanding between the leaders. The purpose was to perpetuate and continue the gold standard for which Walk street has been contending so earnestly.” PRESS COMMENT; Henry Waterson, the distinguished editor of the Louisviile Courier-Journal, in a leader in that paper, Nov, 8, said: “Never did a great party go to the people under such haudicaps as were carried by the Democrats into the campaign just ended. The hard times were bad enough. But they might have been parried. The faction fights among small claimants and rival place men were bad enough but parties have met and overcome such obstacles before now. But with the record of ‘perfidy and dishonor,’ as Mr. Cleveland aptly described it, to face and defend in a hand to hand fight with the united Republicans, led by Harrison, McKinley and Reed, it was disheartening for the Democrats to have to face also the dull, self-sufficiency and stolid indifference of an administration that made no sign, uttered no word, and, at least in the State of New York, seemed to desire the defeat of the regular Democratic nominees.” AlWhat wonder that so much apathy in the official head should breed disaffection in the rank and file? What wonder that with so many knives whetted at Washington there was blood upon the moon down in the precincts? But it is over, and, let us hope, it is well over. We shall have time to look about us and whilst burying our dead to cast some balance for the living. “The battle for tariff reform will have to go down foot and take a new start. The battle over the money issue will soon be upon us. We shall see whether there is Democracy enough left of the true and blue stripe to make a greatcoat good against all weather, or whether we must still wear a coat of many colors, covering not a homogeneous party, inspired by faith and truth, but a mere bundle.of factions thrown together by the upheaval of the times. “The Republicans have mado the issue that the Democrats cannot successfully govern the country. Upon the lines of our recent experience it would seem that at least the men we have at the front cannot. At any rate that seems to be the opinion of a majority of the voters, x But no more can the Republicans govern it. except by money or by force. When they were in power they could only get along by the aid of boodle, backed by bayonets.”

Ex-Senator Ingall's Children.

Kansas City Star. There have been eleven children born to John James Ingalls and Mrs. Annie Louise Kearney Chesebrough Ingalls, and none of them has been given a middle name. The oldest of the children is Mr. Ellsworth Ingalls. He is twenty-eight years old, has his father’s figure, and they'say he has his mother’s “ways.” He is a Kansas product, and belongs to a generation of handsome young fellows out in Kansas that is going tc raise the Kentucky standard of manly beauty about three points and stand pat. Young Ingalls is a better “mixer” than his father ever was. It makes young Ingalls inexpressibly tired to be introduced as “Senator Ingalls’son,” and called a “chip of the old block;’’ not because he doesn’t admire the “old block," but because he wants to be a block on his own account, and the “chip” business handicaps him. In passing, it may be as well to state that it was not Ellsworth but Ralph, hie brother, who nominated his father for the presidency before the State convention at Wichita in 1888.

A. Cat That Could Jump 775 Font.

Pall Mall Gazette. A most remarkable cat flitted vaguely across our ken the other day. No one appears to have seen TE/But an elderly and querulous man lamented its loss at the Thames police court. It had gained a prize, he said, of £400; which was little enough, considering that it could jump, according to its owner, 775 feet. Beehives should be kept in a dry place and where the temperature will be even. Cold does not kill bees as quickly as will dampness, i They create a large proportion of animal heat in the hive, and should not be in a location that is too warm.