Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gb&xb E. Mawhall, Editok RENSSELAER - INDIANA)

“The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of gjen shall be bowed down, and the Lord ftbose shall be exalted.” “Chinbse flee,”’ “Chinese flee,” Jugson,as glanced over his morning paper. .“Well, what’s the difference 'tween a Chinese flea and any other, near ? _ TIIE once famous organization known as the Grangers, has become somewhat of a reminiscence in this part of the United States, yet the order is by no means extinct. It is yet a power in the New England States, and is notably strong in Maine. The political schemes have been largely eliminated from the programme of exercises, and the meetings are exclusively devoted to social matters and topics especially interesting to the farmers. Science continues to progress in practical ways. The cumbersome refrigerator car, so long the absolute essential for successful transportation of fruit and meat, will soon give place to a car charged with carbonic acid gas, A recent test shipment from San Francisco to Chicago was entirely successful. The car was delayed en route,and was not opened for nine days, yet the consignment of fruit was put on the market in perfect condition. —_—ci-

Forty million silver dollars is an aggregation of valuable mediums of exchange not easy of comprehension to the average mind. A genius has figured out that if that number of silver dollars was placed edge to edge they might be made to cover the entire boundary line of Indiana, including even the crooked river lines. The same genius has figured out that Indiana’s bill for intoxicating beverages annually foots up about that amount. The statement is a trifle doubtful though possibly true. At five and ten cents a dram the Hoosier population would have to be pretty industrious to succed in gulping down $40,000,000 worth of liquor per annum. Perqusites pertaining to official positions sometimes amount to more than the stated salaries attached to the commission. For instance, the salaries of all French Ambassdors are the same —$8,000 per year—yet these lucky diplomates manage to draw large sums from the French treasury, ostensibly to keep up an official residence and maintain the dignity of their country in the eyes of the world. At St. Petersburg the French Ambassador is allowed 134,000 a year; at London, $32,000; at Constantinople, SIB,OOO. and at Washington SIO,OOO. Any of our readers who contemplate running fqr any office would do well to “fig ger” on the amount of “perquisites” that can be abstracted from the treasury in connection with the’ salary of the position to which they aspire.

The vice-presidential]“busts” continue to slowly assemble around the gallery of the chamber where their living prototypes were once the central figures, their to begin a sleepless vigil that will last through coming ages-just how long no prophet has yet been able to accurately foretell. Before Congress reconvenes in December four additions will have been made to the collection. These four will be effigies of Adlai Stevenson, Aaron Burr, Geo. M. Dallas and Elbridge Gerrv. The Stevenson bust is said to be especially fine. It was modeled at Rome. The collection is by no means complete. There is yet lacking the representation of Daniel Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, John C. Calhoun, R. M. Johnson, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, W. R. King, John C. Bnrckinridge, Andrew Johnson and Schuyler Colfax. The busts are provided under an act of Congress, passed in 1886. The cost is limited to SBOO each ■ ■■ ■ 1- ■■■■ 1 A “long felt want” has again been satisfied. As a rule this statement would pass as an indication that a “new journalistic venture had embarked upon the troubled sea,” etc. In this case, however, we use itas a prelude to a statement that two Chicago physicians imagine that they arq endowed with a mission to cure mankind of the inclination to prevaricate —i. e., lie—which they elaitn is merely a mental disease — more so than drunkenness. M. D.s have established themrelvas In” New York and may possibly ppen a hospltal. Their first batient in Chicago was a St. |uouis merchant, who acknowledged that he bad been tormented with a

positive passion for untruthful statements from childhood. The merchant was treated—successfully,., sc the Doctors thought, and discharged as cured before they left. Chicago The senior of the neW,firm Tor medical cure for lying, in describing the case to a reporter, remarked, that it was a very interesting .one. Cas-. ually opening his pallet to show a check they had received for the cure, the Doctor exclaimed, “Well, by Jove; here’s a check for $5, and he told me before iy<? left Chicago thai i "jt, was for $500.” , A pATHKTic ease is reportcd from Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Kusch, who resided near Muskego Lake, Oct. 30, bad ten chltdreb. -'Alrnos 1 the entire family, except Mr. Kusch, were taken with smallpox. The entire care of the family fell upon the husband and father. Three of the children died, one after the other, and were buried by the worn out and distracted parent. Kusch's neighbors were afraid to go near the house. Day and night Mr. Kusch continued his lonely vigil, caring as "best he could for his sick wife and children and his helpless mother-in-law, an aged invalid, who had lived with the family for-years. and heroism seldom make a more pathetic exhibition than this, yet people will be slow to recognize the strong points in the play and the heroic self sacrifice of such a man. Martyrs do not always receive theit due reward of honor, in this world, at least.

Petroleum Bricks.

New York Sun, Something of an industry has been established in J taly in. the production of fuel bricks ofcrude petroleum, the size and form being similar to the coal briquettes extensively used in France and Germany. It is made in the proportion of one liter of petroleum to ten per cent, of resin, 150 grammes of powdered soap and 333 grammes of caustic soda- The mixture is heated and stiired at the same time. Solidification begins in about ten minutes and the operation is then watched with special care. If there is a tendency to remain liquid a little more soda is added, the mixture being stirred continuously until the mass becomes nearly solid. After this the thin paste is poured into the moulds, these being placed for ten or fifteen minutes in a drying stove, The briquettes are then cooled and and are ready for use in a few hours. As a matter of economy, as well as as to insure greater solidity. 20 per cent, of wood sawdust and 20 per cent, of elay or sand is practiced in some cases. The advantage of these for marine use, as compared with coal, are the absence of smoke and a large reduction m the bulk ol fuel that must be carried.

The Poverty of the Bonapartes.

Century for November Some time before the death of his father, Gen. Marbeuf had married, and the pecuniary supplies to his boy friend seem after that event tc have stopped. M. de Bonaparte was left with four infant children; the youngest, Jerome, but three months old. Their great uncle, Lucien the archdeacon, was kind, and Joseph, abandoning all his ambitions, returned to be, if possible, the support of the family. Napoleon’s poverty .was therefore no longer relative or imaginary, but real and hard. Drawing more closely than ever within himself, he became a still more ardent reader and student, devoting himself with an industry akin to passion to the works of Rousseau, the poison of whose political doctrines instilled itself with fiery and grateful stings into the thin, cold blood of the unhappy cadet.

Interested in an Arrival.

Worcester Gazette, A Worcester deacon sent to represent his church at the receni Congregational Conference at Pittsfield, in presenting the report of his performance of his duties, at the midweek prayermeeting of the church recently, told a very amusing story of childish confusion of terms. A little Pittsfield girl had evidently been greatly impressed by the preparations at her home for the entertainment of her delegate. She was earnestly watching, in common with the others of the family, for his arrival, and finally broke nut with the question, “Hasn’t the hypocrite come yet?" The family told the story to the delegate. He knows a good thing when he hears it, and reperted it to his church.

Short on Rags; Long on Bottles.

C licago Post. Evanston can always be relied upfQC h good story. Between the university and the enforcement of the prohibition laws something is always happening that is unique. Even the tho ragpickers in the college town are able to contribute to the general entertainment, if they do not realize how pointed their reinarks are. A few days ago one of Evanston's philanthropic citizens, who has a heart big enough to take in the interests of every one, from the highest to the lowest, asked an old rag peddler who has been around there for years Low he found business. ‘‘Well, Evanston ain’t much of a place for rags, but its a great place for bottles!” wap the reply.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

“CHRISTIAN UNITY.” ; Zealous Christian s halve for ages dreamed of a united church —one vast aggregation of believers who subscribe to one creed, to be actuated only by an unswerving devotion to the,.cause of Christ. Minor differences, according to this great plan, wgpe to disappear and the church was to bpyorne united on a basis of mutual concessions, Advocates of this propaganda were—and are—generally sincere in their opinions, generally, if not always, Probes tan ts, and u nfortunately for the final success of their ambitions, almost always tenacious in advocating the adoption, by the church triumphant of their dreams, of substantially all of the cardinal doctrines of the particular denomination to which they happen to have attached themselves. The great universal church —that is to be —when the plans laid down for its inauguration are followed to their logical conclusion—i&found to be MethodisL or Baptisty-or Presbyterian, or Christian, as the case may be, according to the creed of the particular propagandist, who in the greatness of his heart hopes to see his own ideas-be-come the universal rule. Who does not know such good people? Who but can smile good-naturedly at their innocent and even praiseworthy enthusiasm. As we have said these dreamers have heretofore, almost as a rule, been of the Protestant faith. Yet this desire for“the abolition of unseemly wrangles and immaterial differences from dmong the followers of the lowly Nazarene appears to have penetrated intothe Romish cloister. Cardinal Gibbons, at the Baltimore Cathedral. Nov. 4, preached a very remarkable sermon on Christian unity, from which we extract the following: Thank God there is a yearning desire for the reunion of Christianity among many noble and earnest souls. This desire is particularly manifest in the En-glish-speaking world. It is manifest in England and in the United States. I myself have received several letters from influential Protestant ministers expressing the hope of a reunion and inquiring as to the probable basis of reconciliation. Reunion is the great desire of my heart. I have longed and prayed for it duringall the years of my ministry. I have prayed that as we are bound to our brethren by social and family and by natural and commercial ties, so may we be united with them in the bonds of common faith. The conditions of reunion are-easier than are generally imagined. Of course there can be.no Compromise on faith or morals. The loctiine and moral code that Christ has .'eft us must remain unchanged. But the church can modify her discipline to suit the circumstances of the cause. May the lay be hastened when the scattered hosts 5f Christendom will be reunited. Then, indeed, they would form an army which jifidelity cannot long resist and they would soon carry the light and faith of Christian civilization to the most remote ind benighted part of the globe. Mjay the day soon come when all who profess ;he name of Christ may have one Lord, me faith and one baptism; when all shall be in one fold and under one she phord.

EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION.

The question of foreign immigration has of late years become an important one. There is a substantial unanimity of sentiment among people of all parties that something must be done to check and regulate the great stream of humanity constantly being poured into this country from every foreign shore. True, the hard times have sent thousands back to their native land, and prevented other thousands from coming to us. But this condition can hardly remain permanent. In the very nature of things a readjustment will be reached, and in due course the tide of foreigners will again become oppressive—a menace to the perpetuity of our institutions, a festering canker in the body politic that must be dealt with before the evil becomes a monster beyond control. Superintendent Hermann Stumps, of the Immigration Bureau, returned to Washington, Oct. 25, after a six weeks’ tour of European cities, during which he collected a mass of valuable information bearing on the subject. Strange as it may seem, he found all foreign governments willing to co-operate with the United States in wiping out the vicious padrone system of immigration, which has been the means of bringing so many foreign criminals to our shores. The Italian government officials stated that Italians in the United States were in the habit of remitting large sums, in the aggregate, to relatives, but they agreed to co-operate with the United States in preventing their criminals from coming here. In Germany, official swere already taking unusual precautions to prevent the embarkation of the prohibited classes, and the steamship companies have imposed heavy fines upon their agents who sell tickets to persons not allowed to land in the United States. Mr. Stumps had peverai interviews with the agents of Baron Hirsch in. regard to the

Jewish exodus from Russia, and. was assured that Russian persecution ot Jews had practically ceased. In any event, he was assured, the bulk ol Jewish immigrants from that country would go to the Argentine in preference to the United States. In the opinion of the Superintendent the emigrants now coming to this country are a far better class of people than at any time in the past.

WHERE INSECTS THRIVE.

Experience of a Traveler Through the Mountains of Montserrat. New York Suii. One of the first things that struck i me at Montserrat was that nearly I all the plantation houses were sur-l rounded by white sand. When I asked about it I found the reason sufficiently startling. There are serpents in Montserrat, and great spiders as big as a child’s head, and centipedes and scorpions and myriads of small green and brown lizards. It is to keep these creatures away that the sand is brought up from the beach and spread around the houses. Snakes and spiders and other crawling things do not like to make themselves too prominent, and they hesiL tatT? "tO’cTbss a wide strip of white sand. When they try it they are easily seen and killed. - I had a chance to spend only one night in the of Montserrat, but then I learned the necessity of surrounding the house with white sand. Of course no such pains were taken with the mountain cabins, and I made the acquaintance of a fine variety of insects. My arrival at the cabin was very different from the way in which 1 *vent to the Jamaica cabins. There the colored people, though In spi table, were entirely independent, and knew that they could either take me in or send me about my business, as they chose. In Montserrat they are much .more dependent upon the planters; and when Moses, my valet, rode ahead to tell the people of the cabin that behind a guest of- ‘Maws Colonel” would dothem the honor to spend the night in their house, the effect was very much as if some Englishman in New York should receive a cable saying that the Prince of Wales would be over in the Campania to spend a week with him. Moses made no bones about having everything taken out of the room we Were to occupy and making a thorough search for insects. He even pulled up some of the floor boards and poked into the thatch. The first thing he unearthed was the most savage-looking tarantula I ever saw. This fellow, in motion, looked quite as large as the crown of a derby hat; but when we killed him he coiled up into a lump about as bigas your fist. After killing the ground spider, as the negroes call it, Moses found a panful of centipedes and scorpions in the walls and thatch and drove out a few hundred small lizards. I did not mind the lizards, for they are playful as kittens. They are not slimy like our northern liz..ards, but clean and always very pretty. They are precisely like the chameleons the New York girl had a fancy for wearing,, a few months ago. >

Not the Judge's Usual Size.

New York Tribune. A Southern judge who was in a New York case, the other evening, ordered for bis drink whisky. The waiter brought it in a glass. The judge looked around, probably foi the decanter, and then, pointing to the glass with the whisky in it, in quired: “What’s that?” “Whisky, sir,” answered the waiter. “Wasn’t that what you ordered?” The judge pushed the Eflass away impatiently and, sitting erect in his chair, gave the waiter a smile that was beautifully frank and eloquently impressive: “My son,” he said gravely, “when I take a drink of whisky I leave more than that in the glass.”

GOV. CLEAVES, OF MAINE.

Rough on Chinamen.

Texas Siftings. I Gus De Smith —I should think tht Chinese in this country would feel pretty blue in consequence of thest Japanese victories. Mr. Western—No wonder. Out West they have lowered the price o' killing a Chinaman down to threi dollars.

No Doubt About It.

. Chicago Tribune. Dearing a faint rustle in the hall way below, the elder sister, suppos ing the young man had gone, leanec over the balustrade and called out “Well, Bessie, have you landed him?’* Thete was a deep, sepulchral si lence for some moments. It was broken bv the hesitating, constrained voice of the young mau “She has.”

AWFUL MASSACRE.

Unparalleled A t rocities by Mohammedan Fanatics. Nrnrly 10,000 Armenian Christian* Butchered and a Score ot Villages Destroyed. The chairman of the American Patriotic Association, G. Hagopian, in London, has sent a letter to the Earl of Kimberly, Sc“cretary of Foreign Affairs, that was re(••ived recently from an American in Armenia, which gives details of one of the most atrocious massacres known to hisThe letter is dated Bitlis. Ort. 9, End states that in the beginning of the trouble the Kurds carried off Armenian i xco and refused satisfaction. A fight i.l jllo-.vcd. Two Kurds were killed, The I i?~? the Governor, declaring that the /-raieiiian soldiers had overrun the land, Idllingand plundering Kurds. This furpished a pretext for massing the troops •.om far and near. The troops W'i’e coui- ; a ruled by a pasha and a marshal, and ; re hurried to the district. The pasha I said to have hung from his breast,after j-cading it to his soldiers, an order from i mstantinople to cut the Armenians up, | >ot and branch, and adjuring them to do | if they loved their king and government. ’■Jhe carnageTliSVTi>Hdwed is Tioyonff de-" i ription. Six to ten thousand persons L'l.'t such a fate as overt the darkest ages > darkened Africa hardly witnessed, for {Acre women- and- tender babes might at | ast have had a chance of a life of slavt -y, while here womanhood and innocence >.-ere but a mockery before the cruel lust I rat ended its debauch by stabbing women i > death with the bayonet, while tender I ibes were impaled witli thesame weapon j i their dead mother’s breast or perhaps I ized by tho hair to have their heads | pped off with tho sword. In one 'place | iree hundred or four hundred women, i hey being forced to serve vile purposes by I ie 'merciless soldiery, wore hacked to i ieces by sword and bayonet in the. valley below. In another place, some two hnn- > red weeping and wailing women bcggcil | or compassion, falling at the commander’s ! *et, but tho bloodthirsty wretch, after > rdering their violation, directed hts solJ iers to dispatch them in a similar way. ; n anot her place some sixty young lirides >nd tho more attractive girls wore j-rowded into a church and. after viola’ion, were slaughtered, and human gore was seen flowing from the church door. ’ ' Another letter says that some of tho regular soldiers themselves admit that i hey killed one hundred persons each in a ■iendish manner, and that rape was followed by tho bayonet. Twenty or thirty Artneifiah villagesTdFAvonld seem, have been wholly destroyed, and some persons ivero burned to death with kerosene in jheir own houses.

FIERCE FITZSIMMONS

Lu.oeks the I.'fn Ont ot Con Riordan, His Sparring Partner. ■ At Syracuse, N. Y„ Friday night, Bob /'■'itzsimmons knocked out Con Riordan, i <is sparring partner in tho first round of his usual exhibition at the close of his vaudeville show. Riordan was hit so j aril that lie died at 3:15 a. m,, Saturday, i 'he accident occurred at 10:30 p. m. At 2 Saturday tho physicians declared I hat Riordan would probably die, and

Fitzsimmons sa-> place-1 under arrest and taken to jnl’. I’ltwiinmons was very low spirited over the .-natter, and xlcclarcd that he had no ide». ho had hurt Riordan. Riordan had been drinking, an-l is supposed to have been partially Intoxicato-l. At 11 a, in. Saturday Fitzsimmons was arraigned In pollen conrt on * charge of manslaughter In the second degree. He pleaded “not guilty,’* and waived examination. He was then taken before Judge Northrup, who released him on liO.fr.K) bail. Thejiulk of evidence tends trt show that the blow that killed Riordan was a now “punch.” which rttzslinmoiis discovered a few weeks ago, and has been practicing in anticipation of his coming bout with Corbett. A committee of twelve, representing live hundred merchant millers of tho country, met at Chicago, Nov, 16. to devise means for decreasing the output and raising tho price of flour. An agroem n was formed to shutdown the mills for a period of six weeks, within throe months, beginning Dec 10. Tho agrooincntVill bo in force when mi 11$ representing a production of 150,OJ) barrels a day have tigned the same. The Roby Racing Association opened Its winter engagement, Friday, Nov. 16. Four thousand people were in attendance. The track was in good condition, and the neat her was fair. Never before has there been so many horses at tho track. Already more than seven hundred stalls arc filled. Two hundred more stalls will be erected at, once. i J. J. Higgins; an electrician, at Chicago, Friday night, killed his landlady and then shot, himself. Higgins was behind with his rent, and had been threatened with •joctment. t A syndicate is said to be organising at Denver to control the silver market of the* world. The syndicate proposes to dictate prices to an extent that will prevent sud--1 4»n fluctuations. t

GIVEN AWAY BY A GOOSE.

Which Broke Up a Young Man. His Girl and Her Father, A young man over in Brush Valley Township was desperately in love with, i farmer’s daughter, says the Punxsutawney (Pa.) Spirit. She reciprocated the tender passion, but her fa--ther was sullen and obdurate, and’; »ave the young man to understand, in: the most emphatic terms, that if hel ever entered that house it would be at; his peril. He would, he said, “kick! the daylights put of him.” One night recently, when the old? gentleman had gone to Indiana to bej absent over night, the young man took) advantage of his absence to visit thei daughter. They were sitting, in the I front room, both beaming with joy. It' was nearly midnight. Presently the daughter heard a noise which she re-j cognized as her father’s footsteps., There was a bed in the room, and thei girl drew back the Called curtains and' told the young man to hustle under.l He did so. She had forgotten to tell’ him that there was a goose under! there engaged in a motherly effort to hatch out a dozen young gos-j lings. Scarcely had the young man’ gotten himself securely stowed away,’ when the girl’s father entered. Just l about this time the old goose made a hissing noise, drew back its long neck! and struck the already frightened intruder a smart blow on the left ear,* nipping a piece out. That was enough.; He was sure he had been bitten by at snake, and, with a blood-curdling yell,! the young man rushed from his hiding place screaming at the top of his voice: “Sn:ike! Snake! I’m bitten by a; snake! and I don’t care a dang whoi knows it!” And the clandestine lover made a break for the door and ran home with furious speed, yelling at every jump. The old man was at first very much startled at the strange apparition, but, he soon realized the situation, and both himself and his daughter laughed heartily. __ __ ' ■

Women Who Fight the Tiger.

Gambling among some of our fair women says a New York letter has become such a craze that in several instances they have had to sell their jewels in order to obtain money enough to pay their debts. Poker is their favorite game, and it hns played sad havoc with many a dainty, wellstocked jewel casket. Two well-known society women, one young and the, other rather advanced, have been especially unfortunate. A considerable difference in their appearance at the opera and whatever places they have been wont to flash their gems in will be noticeable. Both husbands have refused point blank to settle their wives’ “debts of honor.” At a big hotel on the sound, which, perhaps, hits a scarcely enviable reputation, every evening during the summer was spent by married women and young girls in tho rather dainty card-rooms, making a business of card-playing. At first the limit was kept at a low figure, just enough to make it interesting} but as the season passed and the women became more infatuated it was gradua'ly allowed to become larger. Some of these devotees were mothers of large families, and needed rest after their winter’s social and household duties, but they gambled with a reckless nervousness that is always observable in a woman at a poker-table. They frequently played until morning, and were a nervous, dragged-out set when the hotel closed its doors and they came back to town.

NICOTINIZED NERVES.

The Tobacco H-iblt Quickly Broken ani Nerve Force Restored—A Boon to Hu manlty. A number of our great and most inveterate tobacco smokers and chewon have quit the use of tho filthy weed! The ta'lsmanic article that does th< work is no to-bac. Tho reform wai started by Aaron Gorb r, who was 1 confirmed slave for many years to th< u e of tobacco. Be tried the usi of no-to-lac, and to his greal surprise and delight it curei him. Hon. C. W. Ashcom, who hai been smoking for sixty years tried no-to-bac and it cured him Col Samuel Stoutener, who would ea up toba-co like a cow eats hay, triei this wcnderful remedy, and even Sani uel, after all his years of slavery, lo j the desire. J. C. Cobler, Lessing Evans} h rank Dell, George B. May, C. <* Skillington, Hansen Robinett, Fran) Her t h,erger, John Shinn, and other! have since tried no-to bac, and in ever} case they report not only a cure of the tobacco habit but a wonderful im provement in their general physical and mental condition, all of wh cl goes to show that the u-e of tobacci had been injurious to them in mort ways than one. No to bnc is popu'ai with the druggists, as they all sell un der absolute guarantee to euro or rc fund the money. —From the Press Everett, Fa.

The New Religion.

The new religion which was ven-i dlated during the international gross of spiritists and spiritualists, in Paris, says the London Telegraph, ha 4 been lost sight of in the reports of thd assembly, but it deserves a few lines a novelty. It is a compound of Judiasm and Christianity, and its apostle is d priest, the Abbe Rocc , who has been suspended by his bishop us being heretic 1, but who, like Pere Hyacintbej insisted that be did not want to leave the real true church as it existed according to his own lights and convictions. The abbe appeared at the congress in a semi-ecclesiastical costume,i and while most of the speakers were| curtailed he was allowed full leave and' license to pound away with his exposk tion of doctrine, and his terrible ful* mi nations against what he called the) Vatican Christ According to the abboj every man was an involunt ry Christ —a deity, in fact. There was a Christ-' medium, St Paul, St Luke and the! Prophet Isaiah being also of thatorder.i Spiritualists, he contended, could well' afford to adopt this religion of thd general Christ since it was in ance with their, doctrines.