Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gxgrx E. Marshall, Editor. | RENSSELAER ■ INDIANA:

; “And Isaac was forty~yeafF*otcF J when he took Rebekah to wife, the (daughter of Bethuel, the Syrian of jPadan-aram, the sister to Laban the j Syrian.” -,y ‘ 1 Boston Christian Scientists have 'dedicated a church costing $200,000. I The ground on which the building stands was given by the celebrated Mary Baker Eddy, and is valued at $40,000. The Society is composed of some of the wealthiest people at the “Hub,” and their church is entirely (free from debt. j, ■ f New York State has two mayors [who answer to the name of Strong. IStrong No. 2 deals out alleged justice in the executive department of I Cohoes. Strong No. lis said toen;vyhis extremely soft job. Mayor (Strong, of New York City, is under stheitripresslbhthaUhehasemTered npon a verj r large contempt. * The Indiana man continues to ;“get there." Geo. W. Aldridge, the Inew Superintendent of Public Works lof New York State, recently appointed by Gov. Morton, was born jin Michigan City. Mr. Aldridge’s 'home is in Rochester, N. Y. He has served five terms on the executive board and has served p.ue %i term as (’mayor of that city. i' Electric lights for carriages are jin common use in France and Gerftnany, The accumulator for a carriageis carried in a box only i inches long by seven high and four wide, and the cost is very much lesg i than for oil lamps, while the quality ■of light is vastly superior. We ap’pear to be at the tail end of the profession in this respect. I New Jersey temperance people arc very much agitated over the dis•'covery that a “speak easy” saloon lis being operated in the State eapijtol building at Trenton, at which, it lis alleged, officials of high and low 'degree obtain all the whisky and ibeer they want at all hours of the i day or night, Sundays included. A {vigorous crusade will be waged (against the institution. i • I Sept. ByePnes is beginning to (“shakeup" the New York police. 'Saturday,. 12, the Police Com■missiouers, on tho recommendations o f the Superintendent, “transplanted” six captains. In jotber, words he took them off the districts where they had flourished for an-in-defi ni t e period a rrcl’ placed -1 be i tr; hr (charge of other districts. “For the (good of the service” was the lplanation'Mr. Byrnes condescended to make. ‘ ‘’’Every cloud has a silver lining,” but poor, weak human nature finds jit very hard to believe the adage (when in the immediate throes of adjversity. The orange growers of ♦Fiyridaxthe morning after the great ic<sd wave that made iceballs Cf their ■product sent up a pitiful wail of utter despair. Yet already the “silver ning" has appeared, as it is known nt the orange scale and the white r, the worst insect pests with .which they have had to contend in the past, have been annihilated. What fruit was saved also commands a higher price, so that what promised to be the cause of total bankruptcy is likely to prove only a trivial annoyance. The somewhat surprising informatian that deer meat is abundant and cheap in nearly all Gorman cities has been transmitted to the State Department by Consul General De. Kay. now in charge of the Berlin United States consulate. The consu 1 calls attention to the recklessness with which Americans have destroyed the wild antffifils of our forests find urges tlfat our great reservations in different parts of the •country be restocked and-protected .by more stringent. laws. The German forests arc largely the property iof noblemen and hunting can only be prosecuted in these domains by permission of the owners. Deer and other wild game therefore flourish tiecir.se they are protected, and as they cost nothing for food and care, the venison can be and is sold at a moderate priqe. It may help us to endure these ‘low down” thermometers to be told that Australia has been sweltering for some time in a temperature entirely unprecedented. Q.u,eLun= dred degrees in the shade has been » common experience, and at one point 112 degrees Fahrenheit was 'reported Jan. 13, Corn is withering and wheat s being cut for hay. An epidemic of a peculiar fever also prevails and the mortality is alarmfay. The grass and bush fires add

additional terrors to the woes of the, unhappy people. This terrestrial! I ball is a very uncomfortable abiding! I place at .times and in spots. Hoosiers 'should congratulate themselves onj jtheir comparative immunity fromj ■these great calamities and try toj induce the trivial annoyances that eventuate from time to time with a becoming spirit of resignation. We really ought to take Newfoundland in “out of the wet.” The territory of that province equals thq State of New York in extent, and the population is only about 300,000. That leaves room for Undeveloped possibilities that only needs thq touch of Yankee enterprise to givcj us a great and powerful State—4 most desirable acquisition' to thd Union on the oast. We need it, not only in a commercial sense." but as a strategic vantage ground of great importance in the future. If “manifest destiny” points to the final .ac- 1 , quisition of the entire North American continent by the United States, as,it doubtless does, we may as well begin on Newfoundland. There is said to be already a formidable sentiment in the province, in favor of annexation to the United States, and the colonial government refuses to be merged into the Dominion of Canada. Business is in a bad way in Newfoundland, owing to depressed conditions in the single industry of importance —the fisheries—and also in a great measure to a depreciated currency. In 18G9 Dr. James Rush, one of Philadelphia’s foremost citizens, died, .leaving a bequest of $1,000,000 for the erection of the Ridgway Library. The building, a magnificent copy in granite of the— Parthenon, was erected by the executor on a site which proved to be unsuitable, bejng too remotq to suit the people of the city, and it stands to-day in the midst of acres of green lawn, surrounded by a high wall, practically 'deserted, save by the janitors. withstanding.the wealth of literature a,t the disposal of students whole days pass without a visitor. The splendid architecture, rare historic treasures and over 400.000 volumes of rare and costly books are not a sufficient attraction . to draw people in any appreciable numbers from their -beaten paths. A writer in the Inter Ocean urges the same objection to the location of the Field Columbian Museum on the site of the World’s Fair at Chicago, averring that the great treasures being collected there are of no practical value, and that the museum will be a failure on account of its unfortunate location. » .......... It is estimated that there are still fiflfißussian...s;ims.in„tliis—meun t, ry. although a large number have been recalled since the accession of the new Czar, whose policy has been and is to relieve his country from police oppression as. far as he considers it safe. The idea that the Russian autocrat has dared to extend his autocracy into our domain seems absurd and „impertinent. That he has done so is susceptible of-proof. The mission of these Russian spies in this country is supposed to be to look after the plans of Nihilistic emigrants to our shores, of whom there seems to be large numbers. With every influx of this class of emigrants it is now known there has come a squad of secret police. The other objects kept in view bv these emissaries cannot be definitely stated, but they probably go upon the theory that all knowledge is use-ful,-and send in their reports accordingly. It is not especially creditable to our sagacity that .these spies are permitted to go unchallenged, while known to the authorities. Their attitude and intentions should be clearly stated and understood by our officials.

The Light of Other Days,

Tcxnr, Siftings. A -man by the name of Seabold was riding in a street car. An acquaintance said tohim: -“Why, Seabold, how are you? I am sorry for you, Seabold. Since you got a divorce from your*wife I declare I Ld awake nights—" .1 ust at this juncture Seabold broke from the car and retreated. Two years afterward Seabold met tho same person on the street. “Howdy! howdy!” exclaimed the inquirer of two years. “As I was saying, I was sorry about yonr divorce troubles. I would fike to suggest—” But as Seabold had fled there were no more Suggestions io make.

His Aim in Life.

Boston Tfsnscript. “It has always .been my aim in . life,” said the dark-skinned man, “in , all my business transactions to seek the happiness pf the other party rather than my.own.” ’ “What is your asked the man with the long nose. “I am a smuggler; that is to say, I sell domestic goods by convincing my customer that they wtra ttnug-i gied." ‘ M ■

KING DAVID'S HASTE.

His Compliments to the Human Race, rhe Dangers of Pessimistic Views Eloquently Depicted by Dr. Talmage. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Academy of Music, New York, last Sunday, to an audience such as is seldom seen in America. His subject was: “Dangers of Pessimism.” Text, Psalm, cxvi, 11 —“I said in my haste all men are iyars.” Swindled,- betrayed, persecuted, I)av.id, in a paroxysm of petulant-e ind rage, thus insulted the human race. David himself falsified when he said, “All men liars.” He apoligizes and Says he was unusually provoked, and that he was hasty when he hurled such universal denunciation. “I said in my haste,” and so on. It was in him only a momentary triumph of Pessimism. There is ever and anon, and never more than now, a disposition abroad to distrust everybody, and because some bank employes defraud to distrust all bank employes, and because some police officers have taken bribes to believe that all policemen take bribes, and because divorce cases are in the court to believe that most, if not all, marriage relations are unhappy. ' Although we are not very jubilant over a municipal reform that opens the exercises by a doxology ta rum, we have full faith in God and the gospel, which will yet _sink all iniquity as the Atlantic ocean melts a flake of snow. What we want and what I believe we will have is a great religious awakening that will,moralize and Christianize our great populations and make them superior to temptations, whether unlawful or legalized, So I see no cause for disheartenment. Pessimism is a sin, ind those who yield to it cripple themselves for the war on one side of which are all the forces of darkness, led on by Apollyon, and on the other side of which are all the forces of fight led on by the Omnipotent. I risk the statement that the vast majority of people are doing the best they can. Nine hundred and ninetv-ai-ne out of a thousand of the officials of the municipal and the United States governments are honest. Out of a thousand bank presidents and cashiers 299 are worthy the position they occupy. Out of a thousand merchants, mechanics and professional men 999 are doing their ditty is they yjidersta’nd it . Out of 1,000 engineers and conductors and switchmen 999 are true to their responsible’positions. It is seldom that people arrive at positions of responsibility until they have been tested over and over again. If the theory of the pessimist were accurate, -society nave gone to pieces, and civiliaution.would have been submerged with barbarism, and the wheel of the centuries would have turned back to the lark ages. A wrong impression is made that because two men falsify their bank accounts those two wrongdoers are blazoned: before the world, while nothing is said in praise of the : mid reds of bai.k clerks who rt hqvc stood at their desks year in and year cut until their health is well nigh gone, taking not a pin’s worth of that which belongs to others for themselves, though with, skillful stroke of pen they might have enriched themselves and built their ?ountry seats On the bank of the Hudson or the Rhine. 11 is a mean thing in human nature that men and women are not praised for doing well, but only excoriated when they lo wrong. By divine arrangement the most of the families of the earth ire at peace, and the most of those united in marriage have for each other affinity and affection. They may have occasional differences and icre and there a season of pout, but the vast majority-of-tho Te. imthe conjugal relation chose the most appropriate companionship and are happy ’n that relation. You hear nothing if the quietude and happiness of such homes, though nothing but Jeath .will them part. But one sound of marital discord makes the >ars of a continent, and perhaps of i hemisphere, alert. The one-letter :hat ought never to have been written, printed in a newspaper, makes nore talk than the millions of letters :hat crowd the postoffices and weigh iown the mail carriers with expressions of honest love, Look at the groat Bible picture gallery, where Isaiah has set up the pictures of aborescence, girdling the world with cedar and fir and pine md boxwood, and the lion led by a child, and St. John’s pictures of waters, and white horse ' cavalry, and tears wiped away, and trumpets blown, and harps [struck, and nations redeemed. [While there are ten thousand things 1 do not like, I nave not seen any\ discouragement for the cause of God for twenty-five years. The kingdom is coming. The ?arth is preparing to put on bridal irray. We need to be getting our mthems. and grand marches ready, (n our hymnology we shall have ■nore use. for “Antibeh" than for ‘Windham,” for “Ariel" than for ‘Naomi.” Let “Hark, from the Tomba Doleful Crv!” be submerged with “Joy to the World, the Lord Is ?ome!" Really, if I thought the hunan race were as determined to be ?ad, and getting worse, as the pestimists represent, I would think it ras hardly worth saving. If, after lundreds of yetirs of gospelization, io improvement has been made, let is give it up and go at something ■lse beside praying and preaching. If religion has been to you a peace, I defense, an inspiration and a joy. my so. Say it by word of mouth,

by pen in your right hand, by face illumined with a divine satisfaction. If this-wofld to be' taken for God, it will not be by groans, but by hallelujahs. If we could present the ' Christian religion as it really is in its true attractiveness, all the people would accept it and accept it right away. The cities, the nations would cry out:—faGive tis that! Glvf it-so-us in all its holy magnetism and gracious power! Put that salve on our wounds! Throwback the shutters for that tnorning light! Knock off these chains with that silver hammer! Give us Christ —His pardon, His peace, His comfort, His heaven! Give us Christ in sermon, Christ in bookpChrist in living example!” y ' ' There is an old-fashioned mother in a farmhouse. Perhaps she is somewhere in the seventies; perhaps seventy-five or seventy-six. ..It is the early eveniag hour. Through spectacles No. 8 she is reading a newspaper until toward bedtime, when she takes up a well worn book, called the Bible. I know from the illumination in her face she is readingone of the thanksgiving psalms, or in revelation the story of the twelve pearly gates. After awhile she closes the book and folds her hands and thinks over the past and seems whispering the names of her -children, some of them on earth, and some of them in heaven. Now a smile is on her face and now a tear. The scenes of a long life come back to her. One minute she sees all the children smiling around her, with their toys and* sports and strange questionings.' Then she remembers seveVUt of them down siefc with infantile disorders. Then she sees a short grave, but over it cut in mar- * ble, “Suffer them to come to Me.” Then there is the wedding hour, and the neighbors in, and the promise of n I wiU,” and the departure from the old homestead. Then a scene of hard times and scant bread -anfi struggle. Then she thinks of a few years with gush of sunshine and flittihgs of dark shadowsand vicissitudes. Then she kneels down slowly, for many years haye stiffened the joints, and the illnesses of a life-: time have made her less supple. Her prayer is a mixture of thanks for sustaining grace during all those years and thanks for children good and Christian and kind, and a prayer for the wandering boy, whom she hopes to see come home before her departure. And then her trembling lips speak of the land of reunion, where she expects to meet her loved ones already translated, and after telling the Lord in very simple language how much she loves Him and trusts Him and hopes to see Him soon I hear her pronounce the quiet “Amen,” and she rises up—a littlemore difficult- effort than kneeling down. And then sEe?puts"HerTjead on the pillow for the night, and the angels of safdty and peace stand sentinel about that cduch in the farmhouse, and her face ever ,a_nA_anon shows signs - or dreams abou t the heaven she read of before retiring. In th_e morning the day’s work has begun down stairs, and seated at the table the remark is made, “Mother must have overslept herself.” And -theo grandchildren also notice that ■graadmbtheb is absSa£ f renn bee usual place at the table. One of the grandchildren goes to the foot of the stairs and cries, “Grandmother!’ But there is no answer. Fearfog something is the matter they go up to see, and all seems right—-the speetae’es and the bible on the stand, and the covers on the bed are smooth, and the face is calm, her white hair on the white pillow case like snow on snow already fallen. But her soul is gone up to look upon the things that the night before she bad been reading of in the scriptures. What a transporting look on the dear old wrinkled face! She has seen the “King in His beauty.” She lias been welcomed by the “Lamb who was slain.” And her two oldest sons, having hurried up stairs, look and whisper, Henry to George, “That is religion!" and George to Henry, “Yes, that is religion!” There is a man seated or standing very near you. Do not look at him, for it might be unnecessary embarrassment. Only a few minutes ago : he came down off the steps of as hapny a home as there is in this or any other city. Fifteen years ago, by reason of his dissipated habits, his home was a horror to wife and children. 4 What that woman went | through With in order to-qjre= serve respectability, and hide her i husband’s disgrace is ’ a tragI edy' which it would require Shakspeare or Victor Hugo to ; write out in five tremendous acts. ; Shall I tell it? He struck her! Yes, I the one .who at the altar he had ■ taken with vows so solemn they ! made the orange blossoms tremble! jHe struck Tier! He made the bcau- ; tiful holidays “a reign of terror.’-’ I Instead of his supporting hei* she ; supportshim. The children had often . heard him speak the name of God, but never in prayer, only in profanity. It was the saddest thing on earth that I can think of—a destroyed home! Walking, along the street One day, an impersonation of all wretchedness, he saw a sign at the door of a Young Men’s Christian Association, “Meeting for Men Ohly.", He went in, hardly knowing why he did so, and sat down by the door, and a young man was, in a broken voice and poor grammar, telling how the Lord had saved him from a dissipated life, and the man back by the door said to himself, “Why cannot I have the Lord do the sam? thing for me?" and he put hid ha’pds, all atrembte, over hi’s bloated face and said; “OGod, I want that! I must have that!" and God said, “You shah' have it, and you have it now:” And the man came out and went home a changed man, and though

I the childyeji at first shrunk back and looked to the mother and began to cry with fright, they soon saw that the father was a changed man. That home was turned-from “Paradise Lost,” to “Paradise Regained.” Why. my hearers from all parts of the earth, do you not get this bright and beautiful and radiant and triurn phant an dbl iss fu 1 thing for yourseives, then go home telling all your neighbors on the Pacific, or in Nova Scotia, or in Louisiana, or Maine, or Brazil, or England, or Italy, or any part of the round World, that they may have it too; have it for the asking. |jave it now? Mind you, I do not start from the pessimist standpoint that David did when be got mad and said in his haste, “all men are liars!” br from the creed of others that every man is as bad as he can be. I rather think from your looks thaLyou are going about as well as you can in the circumstances in Iwhich you are placed, but I want to invite you up into bights of safety and satisfaction and holiness, as much higher than those which the world affords as Everest, the highest mountain in all the earth, is higher than your front door step. Here he comes now. Who is it? I might be alarmed and afraid if I had not seen him before and heard his voice. I thought he would come before I got through with this sermon. Stand back and malm Way for him. He comes with sears all around his forehead; scars in the center of both hands stretched out- to greet you; scars on the instep of both the feet with which he advances; scars on* the breast under which throbs the great heart of sympathy which feels for -you. I announce him. I introduce him to you, Jesus of Bethlehem and Olivet and Golgotha, .Why comest thou hither this winter day. thou of the springtime► and summery heavens? He answers; To give all this audience pardon for guilt, condolence fo'* grief, whole regiments of.help for day of battle and eternal life for the dead! What response shall I give him? In your behalf and in my own behalf I fiail Him with the ascription: “Unro Him Who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made us kings and priests un-to God and his Father —to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” .

PSYCHIC SURGERY.

The Operation That Cured a Case of Imaginary Lameness. Rochester Democrat and Ohronlcle. “Imagination is not to be sneezed i at,” said a prominent surgeon the other day, as his eyes followed the brisk movements of a middle-aged woman who was passing. “Three years ago,” said he, “that woman came to one of the hospitals of the city and engaged a private room. She drove to the institution in a carriage and .was carried to her bed on a stretcher. She insisted that one of her ankles was helpless and that she could not walk. ■ The house surgeon made an examination -and could not discover that she had the slightest ailment. The next’’ day the head surgeon looked her over carefully and came to tire same conclusion. What is more,. being a somewhat brusque and outspoken person, he said as much to her. At this she was very indignant and insisted upon keeping her bed. No amount of persuasion could induce her to make any effort to walk ,and she insisted that her ankle was helpless and so sensitive that the slightest touch of her foot to. the ground -.caused her the most acute pain. “Finding all efforts to persuade her to do anything for herself fruitless, the surgical staff held a consultation and determined tahumor her. Consequently the following day the woj man'was told that she was suffering from a serious ailment, and prepations for an operation were made with a great parade of nurses, instruments and the like. The patient was then placed under the influence of an anfosthetic’'and a slight incision was made over the anklejoint. This was merely superficial, although it was several inches in length. It was immediately sewed up, carefully bandaged and the patient removed to her bed, where she found herself when~she recovered consciousness, After this she was subjected to the j same care that would be given to the ' most serious cases for two weeks j “Tho wound was dressed daily; ! the patient was enjoined to remain |in one position and her diet was ; cffrefully prescribed. At the end of i this time the bandages were removed, the stitches taken out, and a lew davs Jlater the woman walked out of the hospital as well as you see jher today. “There has never been the slight- ■ est thing the matter with her, but j she thought there was. and the pretended operation satisfied her." i I Among the. spoils recently captured from dh African chief were 7,000 cases of Rotterdam gin. The available export of rice from Burmah is estimated at 1,200,000 tons, or 15 per cent, below that of last year. In the spring of 189 G the State of Texas wilt be fifty years old, as,also will bo the name of Fort Worth, the military post established by General Worth after the Mexican war. i Mrs. Henrietta M. King, of Corpps Christi, Tex., owns 1,875 square miles of land in Texas, or about a million and a quarter of acres. She inherited this vast domain from her husband,* Richard King, who was bora in this State in 1825.

WHERE ICE FORKS IN SUMMER.

A Remarkable Cave in" lowa la ’ Whieli Nature Exhibits a Curious Freak. ■ D 1 On the northeastern bank of the upper lowa river, opposite the city*of Decorah, la., is a remarkable cave. Says Prof. S. E. Meek, in z letter from thatssection of the country: “During the warmer days of sum- - mer ice is formed on its sides anc floor. The rest of the year, when it Is freezing outside/nn te-q 1so rmed i n the TpWlsifefi tHi? cave in July. The temperature ol the outside air was 85 degrees, while* in the cave the temperature was 31 degrees. The walls were covered wpb frost, and there was probably * one-half a ton of ice in the cavd. In a few places where the water was slowly dripping, icicles were being formed. From-the entrance to .the ice the distance is about ninety feet. The entrance was veiled with a cloud I of mist. There was no' perceptible current of air in the cave. “This is the explanation of this phenomenon: Itisawell established law of .nature that the evaporation of any liquid requires heat. To evaporate one gallon of water at 212 degrees requires as much heat as to raise sixty-seven gallons from freez- * ing point to boiling point. If we suppose the water dripping into the cave to have a temperature of 60 degrees. every gallon of it cooled and converted into ice will give 4)ff enough heat to change one gallon from CO to the boiling point and convert into vapor. In other words, one gallon of water evaporated will take enough heat away from five gallons of water to change the latter into ice. Thus every gallon of water evaporated from the outer wall of the cave changes five gallons of water in the cave into ices So the warmer the day and the faster the evaporation; the more ice will ,be ’ r ound in |he cave. On cold days the evaporation is only sufficient to reduce the temperature inside the cave ♦ to some point, above the freezing. So no ice is formed. And the colder ind damper the weather, the higher th'tf temperature in the cave becomes. But on hot. dry days in the summer, when evaporation is going, )n rapidly, one will always find icethere. “When this cave was discovered it was said to have been used by an Indian chief fora cold storage, in which he placed hot-headed warriors )f nations to which 4ie«wqs-4iostTei And/ dlwsting .ng, let them perish from the cold.”

EXPLOSION BY MUSIC.

fibration of G String of a Bass Viol Explodes lodide of Nitrogen. One of the most dangerous of al! explosives is a black powder called' odide of nitrogen. When it is dry die slightest touch will often cause it io expiod^-with- great, viol<nefi f -r There appears to be’h certain rate )f vibration which the compound' cannot resist. In experiments to letermine the cause of its excessivo, ax plosiveness some damp iodide of. ntrogen was rubbed on the strings' of a bass viol. It is known, says tho j Youth's Companion, that the strings, jf such an instrument will vibratei when those of a similar instrument,: having an equal tension, are played upon. In this case after the explosive lutd become thoroughly dry upon the strings, another bass viol was brought near, and its strings were sounded. At; a certain, .note, tho iodide on the prepared instrument' jxplodod. It was found' that the explosion .■jccurred a rate of vibration of sixty per second was communicated to the prepared strings. Fibration of the G string caused an explosion, while that of the E string had no effect. ■

Even the Tramps Ara On to It,

ludga. “Lady." said Breezy Bytes,“we are on our wayqlikq the migratory leetle birds, to a hos pi table Tw in ter resort, when with an unparalleled generosity you regale us with this pie." Then he finished the second piece and burst into convulsive soW! “Bub good heavens, lady, this is a grape pie with seeds in and I have twice,, been threatened with appendicitis!” and ho wiped his eyes, with his whiskers. “Boor man!" said the old lady, giving him a silver dollar; “I never thought of that." Around the corner of the orchard he frescoed the white dog following at his heels by smashing the pie over his head and sent, him buck looking as if he hud cut his throat.with a wire fence. “Sudden inspiration,” said Brecay, “is better than slow»_wiadom, and'a nimble dollar is better than a steady job in a phosphate factery.”

Certain Remedy.

Washington Star. « , *•[ wish.” said Mrs. Corntossel, “that they wuz sum way ter keep people from talkin’ about ye behind yer back.” “They is,” replied her husband. “What?” “Run fer office. Thon they’ll talk about yer ter yer face.” Mrs. Brockhoist Cutting prides herfelf on having the most perfect drawing room of the period of one of the Louis, in New York city.