Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. . i. Gb<’Rß K. Marshall, Editor. •RENSSELAER - INDIANA

Onio, lowaJMassachusetts and a few other States hold important , elections this year. “~*‘As-the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.” St. Louis will establish a great jotton manufacturing industry and reach out after the constantly increasing trade of the New South. Three hundred! thousand persons »nd corporations will be compelled k) report their incomes and pay a lax on the same. Their remarks when making their reports will not t>e reported, to the Government at '‘east, but officials are*expecting to •ear some choice profanity. Chas. T. Yerkes, the Chicago itreetcar magnate, has secured a franchise for a trolly line on Skate street, between Randolph and Lake, »nd on North Side thoroughfares. There is great indignation, although the action of the city council appears •>o have been nearly unanimous in she matter.

' Cotton growers of the South see a sew danger ahead for their favorite product. The "Land of Egypt,” ilways fertile, threatens to build an rrigation dam on ithe Upper Nile, ind this means a large increase in ;he cotton production of that country , which already, with its “fellah” ;heap labor, is an important factor 'or keeping prices at a low figure.— The tomb of the late Mrs. William Waldorf As'or, at Washington Heights, New York, is to be decolated daily for one year with a blancet of fresh lilies of the valley and jther choice flowers at a cost of SIOO ior every day. Mr. Astor has employed a man whose only duty it will be to see that the florist faithfully' .parries out his contract. The floral decorations for Mrs. Astor’s funeral in Trinity church, recently, cost 14,000.

A Paris publishing' house has ssued a miniature bock, entitled, ■‘Little Hop o’ My Thumb,” that is probably the smallest volume extant, ft is smaller than a two-cent postage stamp, yet the storyis pr in teacornplete, and can be read by the aid of a microscope. It is much smaller than the famous “dw.arf” book at* the World’s Fair. It contains eighty pages and four engravings, and is to be the.smallest bock in the world. We note with regret that “Gip,” the most famous rat terrier in the State of Texas has passed to eternal rest, aet. fourteen years. When in his prime “Gip” killed 500 rats in thirty minutes by the watch. He is now at rest at Denison in a rosewood coffin-lined with satin, and is sadly mourned, by his heartbroken owner, Henry Gray. To many this Information will appear frivolous, but the Associated Press thought it of sufficient importance to telegraph all over the country, and we do not assume to be greater than that remarkable news agency. Lovers of good cheese will read with interest and alarm, the report that comes from Wisconsin that 300 factories in that State are making what is called “filled cheese,” which is said to be decidedly injurious as an article of diet. The milk is

"separated,” cottonseed oil is then added to the skimmed milk, and by the application of heat the mixture h made into cheese. “Filled cheese" fe said to produce obstinatedyspeplia in a very short time, and users of that delicious dairy product would jo well to know what they are eating.

There appears to be a vast amount if misinformation floating ’round among the common people. For inIfance. a reader of the Indianapolis News propounds to the editor the following: “Why is the birthday of Jeff Davis celebrated in Wisconsin and Oregon?” As soon as the presiding genius of that able journal recovered from the temporary paralysis that ensued, be wrote. “Because it is not and never was." The remarkable part of this episode is that the idea of such a celebration ihould have obtained sufficient currency to warrant any’ sane person in writing to find out tne “why” of it, is if it was an established custom that did not admit of a doubt as to its real existence. NXtural phenomena on Lake Michigan on the night of January 18 are said Co have alarmed the mariners sailed that inland sea between Grand Haven and Milwaukee. The appearances resembled two sunIhaped disks and the light was equal

to. the brightest noonday. At 2 a. m.. the lights, flashed, there was a terriffic rumbling like the most vio-: lent thunder, and-the-lights .disappeared. Inst an tiy a tremendous wave swept thersurTace of the lake and the phenomenal display was over. These facts are vouched for by the captain of a regular Detroit' & Milwaukee packet plying*between ; Grand Haven and Milwaukee, and ■ were a part of his official record. M, Faure, the new President of ' France, is said to be a tanner by i trade. Shakespeare says “a tamheF : will last you nine years.” It is really I to be hoped for the good of France that the adage will prove true in this case. Even if M. Faure’s administration docs not prove altogether ! satisfactory it will be better for the ■ new Republic to acquire the reputa- [ tion for stabil-itv that such a tenure j of office would give. Gen. Grant was a tanner, and his' reputation as A' : “sticker” was always well sustained. The harsh discipline necessary to tearn/tin'cl follow the trade of a tanner Very naturally develops any latent will that may be in a man, and the wisdom of Shakespeare was probably from actual observation and not a fine spun theory.

London continues to grow at a prodigious rate! Americans pride' themselves on their boom towns that acquire a population Of several thou-sand-people in from six to twelve months. These exhibitions of progress are puerile in comparison with the surging tide of people that are annually added to the world’s metropolis. Recent estimates place this at 105,000. The present population is placed at 5.943.300. It is not ap * casan t thing to con template the results that must surely follow this terrible , congestion of population in the near future. Poverty < and wretchedness already appall humanitarians in every large city, and especially in London. What must the situation in this respect become within twentv years, when at the lowest calculation 2,000,000 more people will have been added to the English Babylon?

THE RIVER CHICAGO.

A Learned Treatise on Its Very Wonderful Flora and Fauna. Judge. , ' The Chicago river is one of the immortals; it has a personality. Some people claim it is wet. A Hock of ducks plunged into it, and, to their great astonishment, slid across. A man who fell from the Clark street bridge broke his leg on the surface,. He sued the city for damages. The bricks of which Chicago is builtare made of the river cut in sections and baked. There are wild animals in this stream. A restaurantkeeper swears that he can't make a stew of this water; the animals eat the oysters. TheSe animals themselves complain that there is not enough liquid in the river to keep "themi'cleam“~dficago signs tell you *to boil the water, but add, “If it won’t boil, fry it.” The odor of thi,s stream has been admiringly compared to Samson and Sandow; not, however, when either was present. The Chicago people are fond of the odor Con that account; it adds strength to the city. Some say the Chicago river flows up hill. As there is no- hill in - Chicago, this proposition is a poser. The United States Coast Survey detailed an engineer to test this peculiarity., The engineer planted his apparatus in the river, but never saw it again This was his report: “The Chicago river does not flow; it stands still. It has no banks, except the First National and-others. It has no bed like other streams; its bottom is always on top. The merchant marine traverses it on rollerskates. In summer the city is filled with dust. I asked a civilian whence it came. ‘Why,' said he. ‘you must be a stranger in these parts. That dust blows from the Chicago river.”’

White Deer.

White deeb, which probably are albinos, and which figure so often in wild Western superstition and romance, are net unknown m Maine forests. There, however, no mysterious and supernatural attributes are ascribed to them. Many a Western hunter fears to shoot a white deer lest it bring him misfortune, but when tw’o hnnters in the wilds of Piscataquis county came in from the woods the other day one of the two fine deer they brought with them as trophies of their marksmanship was a white one.

Yet She Had.

Chicago Tribune , ■ “I never supposed, Lobelia," said Mr, McSwat, stiffly, when the argument had becomesumewhat personal “that you m vrried me with the idea that I needed reforming.” With a womans swift intuition, Mrs. McSwat- saw her advantage and pounced upon it in a flash. “Oh, but I.did, you know, my dear,” she replied, with gracious condescension. “Before I married you your necktie's were simply infamous.” , The Circuit Court of Appeals of Kansas City baa decided that death by suicide is cause for not paying a Masonic insuranco polldy.

NOT A MONOPOLY.

No Sect or Denomination Endowed With an Exclusive Franchise. •’Other Sheep I Have -Which Are Not of This If old*'—Dr. Talmage's.Sermon. Dr. Talmage was again permitted to address an audience that completely filled the New York Academy of Music last Sunday.' It .was estimated that three thousand people were turned away, being unable togain admission. Dr. Talmage’s subject was: “A Call to Outsiders.”. Text,’ John x. JG—“Other sheep I have which are not Of this fold.” He said: , In my boyhood, next the country school house, there was an orchard of apples owned by a lame man, who, although there were apples in the place perhaps decaying and by and scores of bushels, never would allow any of us to touch the fruit, One day in the sinfulness of a nature inherited from our first parents, who were ruined by the same temptation, some of us invaded that orchard, but soon retreated, for the man came-after us ata speed reckless of making his lameness worse and cried out, “Boys, drop those apples, orH’ll set the dog on you!” . Well, my friends, there are Christian men who have the church under severe guard. There is fruit in this orchard for the whole ’world, but they have a rough and unsympathetic way of accosting outsiders, as though the Lord wants them all to to come .. and take the largest and ripest fruit on the premises. Have you an idea, because you were baptized at thirteen months of age and because you have all your life been under hallowed influence, that therefore you have a right tp one whole side of the Lord’s table, spreading yourself out and taking up the entire room? I tell you no. You will have to haul in your elbows, for I shall place on either side of you those who you never expected would sit there, for, as Christ said to his favored people long ago, so he says to you and to me, “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.” So Christ says to us. Here is a knot of Christians, and there is a knot of Christians, but they make up a small part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold, the Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Congregational fold, the Presbyterian fold, the Baptist and Pedobaptist fold, the only difference between these last two being the mode of sheep washing, and so they are scattered all over, and we come with our statistics and say there so many thousands of the Lord’s sheep, but Christ responds: “No, no. You have not .seen.more —than one.out of a.thousand of my ffoclc. They are scattered ail over the earth. ‘Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.' ”

In the first place I remark that the heavenly shepherd will find many of his shee.p among the non-church goers. There are congregations where they are all Christians, and they seem to be completely finished, and they remind one of the skeleton leaves which by chemical preparation have had all the green ess and verdure taken off them and are left cold and white and delicate, nothing wanting but a glass case to put over them. The minister of Christ has nothing to do with such Christians but to come once a week and with ostrich feather dust off the accumulation of the last six days, leaving them bright and chrystalline as before. But the other kind of a church is an armory with perpetual sound of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the Lord of Hosts. We say to every applicant: “Do you want to be on God’s side, the safe side and the happy side? If so. come into the army and get equipped. Here is a bath in which to be cleansed. Here are sandals to put upon ytftir feet. Here is a helmet for your brow. Here is a breastplate for your heart. Here is a sword for your right arm and yonder is the battlefield. Acquit yourselves like men.” I remark agaiif, the heavenly Shepherd is going to find a great many of His sheep among those wfio are positive rejectors of Christianity. I do not know how you came to reject Christianity. It may have been through hearing Theodore Parker preach, ior through* reading Renan’s.“Life of Jesus,” or through the infidel talk of some young man in your store. It may have been through the Trickery of some professed Christian man who disgusted you with religion. Ido not ask you how you became so, but you frankly tell me that you do reject it. You do not believe that Christis a divine being, although you admit that H n was a very good man. You do ni t believe that the Bible was inspireu o>f God,although you admit that there are some very fine things in it. You believe that the scriptural description of Eden was only an allegory. There are fifty things that I believe that you do not believe., And yet you are an accommodating man. Everybody that knows you say that of you. If I Should ask you to do a kindness for me, or if anyone else should ask Of you a kindness, you ’ would do it, Now, I have a kindness to ask of you today. It is something that will cost you nothing and will give me great delight. I want you by experiment to try the pbwer of Christas religion. 1 Will you try thatexperimentnow’ Ido not at this point'of my discourse

say that a there is anything in religion,'but I simply say try itc—try it’/ Do hot take my counsel or the counsel of-any clergyman, if you despise clergymen, Perhaps we may be talking professionally. Perhaps wq may in the matter. PeFEaps we may be hypocritical in our utterances. Perhaps our advicefe not worth taking. Then take the counsel of some very respectable layman, as John Miltqq, the poet; as William Wilberforce, the statesman; as Isaac Newton, the astronomer, as Robert Boyle, the philosopher; as Locke, the metaphysician. They never preached or pretended to preach, and yet putting down, one his telescope, and another his parliamentarj' scroll and aroother his electrician’s wire, they all declare the adaptedness of Christ's religion to the wants and troubles of the world. If you will not take the rec/ ommendation of ministers of the gospel then take the recommendation” of highly respectable laymen, O men, skeptical and struck through with unrest, would you not like to have some of the peace which broods over our souls today? I know all about your doubts. I have been through them all. I have gone through all the curriculum. I have doubted whether there is a God—whether Christ is God. I have doubted the immorality of the soul. I have doubted my own existence. I have doubted everything, and yet out of that hot'desert of doubt I have come into the broad, luxuriant, sunshiny land of gospel and peatee and comfort, and so I nave confidence in preaching to you and asking you to come in. Again,l remark that the heavenly shepherd is going to find a great -m.any sheep among those who have flung of evil habit. It makes me sad to see Christian people give up a prodigal as lost. There are those* who talk as though the grace of God were a chain of forty or fifty links, and after they-bad run out there was nothing to touch the depth of a very bad case. If they were hunting an<Tgbt off the trackof the deer, they would look longer among the brakes and bushes for the lost game than they have been looking for that lost soul. People tell us that if a man have delirium tremens twice he cannot be reclaimed; that after a woman has sacrificed her integrity she cannot be restored. The Bible

has distinctly intimated that the Lord Almighty is ready to pardon 490 times—that is 70 times 7. There are men before the throne of God who have wallowed in every kind of sin; but, saved by the grace of Jesus and washed in His blood, they stand there radiant now. There are those who plunged into the very lowest of all hells in New York who have for the tenth time been lifted up and finally, by the grace of God, stand in heaven gloriously rescued by the grace promised the chief of sinners. I want to tell you that God loves, to take hold of a very bad case. When the church casts you off, when the club rooms cast you off, and when society casts you off, and when business associates cast you

off, and when father casts you off, and when mother casts you off, and when everybody casts you off, your first cry for help will bqnd the eternal’ God clear down into the ditch of your suffering and shame. ' The Good Templars cannot save you, although they are a grand institution. The Sons of Temperance cannot save you, although they Pre mighty for good. Signing the temperance pledge cannot save you, although I believe in it. Nothing but the grace of the eternal

God can save you, and that will if you throw yourself upon it. There is a man in this house who said to me: “Unless God helps me I cannot be delivered. I have tried everything, sir, but now I have got into the habit of prayer, and when I come to a drinking saloon I pray that God will take me safe past, and I pray till I am past. He does help me.” ■ ‘‘There are families represented in this house that are wrapped in the martyrdom of fang and scale of venom—a living Laocoon of ghastliness and horror. What are you to do? lam not speaking to the air. lam talking to hundreds of men who must be saved by Christ’s gospel or never saved at all. What are you going to do? Do not put your trust in bromide of potassium or Jamaica ginger or anything that apothecaries caff mix. Put your trust only in the eternal God, and He will see you through. When I have hope for all prodigals there are some people in this house whom I give up. I’mean those who have been church-goers all their life, who have maintained outward morality, but who notwithstanding twenty, thirty, forty*years of Christian advantages, have never yielded their heart to Christ. They arc go - pel hardened. I could call their names now, and if they would rise up they would rise up by scores. Gospel hardened! A sermon has no more effect upon'them than the shining moon on the city pavement. As Christ says, “The publicans and harlots will go into the kingdom of God before them," They have resisted all the importunity of divine mercy and have gone during these thirty years through most powerful earthquakes of religious feeling, and they are farther away from God than ever. After awhile they wi'l lie down sick, and some day it will bo told that they are dead. No hope! But I turn to outsiders with a hope that thrills through my body and soyj. “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." You arc not gospel hardened. You have not heard or read many sermons during the last few years. As you came in today everything was novel, and all

the services are suggestive of your early days. How sweeCHhe opening hymn sounded in your ears, and how blessed is this hour! Everything suggestive of- heaypn. You do not weep, butthesbower is not far off. You sigh, and you have noticed that there is always a sigh in the wind before the rain falls., There are those here who would give anything if they could find relief in tears. They say; “Oh, my wasted life!,. Oh, the bitter past! Oh, the, graves over which I have stumbled! Whither shall I fly? Alas for the future! Every thingis dark—so dark, so dark. God help me! God pity me!” ‘ Thank the Lord for that last utterance. You have begun topray, and when a man begins to petition that sets all heaven flying this way, and God steps in and beats back the hounds of temptation ’to their kennel, and around about the poor wounded soul putsdhe covert of His pardoning mercy. Hark,- I hear something fall! What was that? It is the bars of the the fence around the sheep-fold. The shepherd lets them down,and the hunted sheep of the mountain bound in,some of them their fleece torn . with the brambles, some of them their feet lame with dogs, but bounding in. Thank God! "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.”

STEEL INSTEAD OF WOOD.

Metal Now Extensively U.-el as a Substitute for Lumber. New York Telegram. Since iron and steel are so universally used as a substitute for lumber there has been an enormous increase in the capacity of the iron and. steelworks of the world. The German Iron Trade Association has lately taken the pains to point out, for the benefit of all concerned, the many advantages to-be gained by. then to steel; and it would seem that tiici".■ frbarely aLsmgle useTeft for wood in constructive- detail, and not much in ornamental finish, except genuine carving. The modern edifice is nearest perfection in point of durability and safety, according to the proportion in which metal has excluded wood. It is now proposed that wood shall be dispensed with entirely in the framework of railway rolling stock, and this means something when we remember that there are about 2.500.01)0 railway vehicles,

exclusive of locomotives. In mines metal is doing away with wood, and the use of iron pit propsfln France has shown that they need to be renewed only half as often as those of wood. At the same time metal lias its own special risks, and it is suggested, for example, that unless carefully insulated a large building full of steel and iron might be as susceptible to electrolytic action by stray currents eating it up as though it were rail, forming part of an electric rail way circuit,“or-gas -w water pipes adjacent thereto. If this new danger exists its remedy should be readily discoverable.

SMALLEST BOOK IN THE WORLD.

The Story of Perrault, Printed in Paris. Is Smaller Than a Postage Stamp. New York Sun. The smallest book ever printed has just been issued by Messrs. Pairault, of Paris. It is the story of Perrault, Little Hop o’ My Thumb. This diminutive volume contains four engravings, and it is printed iu movable type. It contains eighty pages of printed matter. The book is 38 millimetres long by 38 millimetres wide. The thickness of this volume is 6 millimetres, and its weight is only 5 grammes. The “dwarf book" of the Chicago Exhibition could be held on a postage stamp of the Columbian variety, but it is quite surpassed by this product of - the French press. The little French volume, with its illustrations and its eighty pages of printed matter, is not ranch larger than a one-cent piece. It is a complete book in every respect, the binding being perfect, the pages duly numbered, and the titlepageappearing with all the formality of the most dignified volume. The pages can only be read by the use of a microscope, but then it is found that the printing is clear and that the proof-reading has been excellently done. Several French swells are carrying these volumes inside their watch covers. A copy presented to a French library has been duly entered in the catalogues and placed on the shelves.

Literary Notes.

At last it has been made known that the death of Emin Pasha was due solely to the pride of a petty African chieftain, who wished to show his more powerful neighbors that he was not afraid to take the life of a white man. The first detailed account of the murder of perhaps the most picturesque figure among explorers is written for the February Century by R. Dorsey Mohun, U. S. agent in the Congo Free State. Mr. Mohun’s sergeant, who was a member of Stanley’s Emin Relief Expedition, discovered two of the assassins. Mr. Mohun arrested them, and very ingeniously extracted a full confes- 1 - sion,. which he has given in their own graphic language. Both were hung just a year after they had cut off Emin’s head. President Faure was once a tanner.. He won’t be quite as thinskinned os Caslmir-Perier.

THE LOSE OF THE NOSE.

What Happened to a Man Who Re* placed That Organ Wrong. The presence of mind shown by ai Ohio physician saved, a man a nose, says the Pittsburg Bulletin. That useful member was severed by a fall upot a sharp corner, and the attendant M. D., by promply placing the sundered piece where it belonged, secured a healing “by first intention,” and the subsequent restoration of the or-“ ganyplus an ugly scar. ■ Less successful was the replacing ol a nose by a young man of this city many years ago. While engaged in playfully “fencing” with a companion a reckless pass cleanly cut . off. the young fellow’s nose. He had not studied physiology for nothing, and acting upon this knowledge grabbed the severed organ and clapped, it on the bleeding surface it had just quitted. Then his nose was bound-firmly on and nature was left ‘totake her course. She did this admirably. When the bandages were removed the- two parG were lound to be grown together beautifully. Nothing could be nicer, except that the unfortunate young man had put his nose on upside down! The nostrils stood as open tp heaven-as the flues at the apex of a chimney. The memories that come down through a vista of thirty years, since this sad affair took place, are a trifle misty and unreliable as to the subsequent career of the man with the inverted nose. He is believed to be dead. During his life, however, he was known to declare that for purposes of snuff-taking he had the very finest nose in the world, but that to be caught in a heavy shower without aE umbrella was tantaihount to drowning. 1 hose that are suddenly deprived of a nose should be careful to replace il with the perforations down. Hu mat life is made up of trifles, and some oi these have power to engender discomfort when it comes to an upside down nose.

Skill and Grace in Rowing.

Nothing looks easier than to see a practiced oarsman sweeping along in his .shell, while his oar blades, a J.the recovery send up showers of beautiful feathers, but while this is actually easy, the occupant of the shell has not only to balance himself’ in his cranky craft, but must observe the laws of physics in many other ways. He must pull steadily, with equal power on each 68T. How many green hands dan do this? Look at the party yonder iu the skiff with his ‘ best girl.” He seizes the heavy, badly matched oars, digs deep into the inoffensive water, makes a.semi-circular motion with his arms and one oar flies out of the rowlock, while the other is dragged through the water and the boat leisurely goes about. He flushes and readjusts the obstinate oar and after a few ineffectual efforts Starts off, with his oars playing alternately in the water and the sunlight with a rotary motion like thepaddles of a sidewheel steamer, while a few strokes suffice to put him in a profuse prespiration. . This is because he violates the laws of natural philosophy and converts the easiest and most graceful of all sports into a wild, disconnected struggle. He soon finds th-t the _ arm that he is most accustomed to using controls the direction of his boat and in spite of his struggle forces the bow around in an opposite direction.— Kansas City Referee.

The Growth of Athletic.

For ourselves we think we disceri signs of growing interest among al classes of men in athletics. We di not refer to the craze for professionalism which crowds base ball grounds makes pugilists wealthy, and keeps the single scull championship flitting fron nation to nation, like an embezzle, fleeing from justice. But the eastern cities are full of amateur athletic clubs, and institutions of the same sort an springing up all over the country Professional men, bred in colleges, come out with a wholesomeadmiratior for skill and strength, and are spread ing the gospel of muscle over the land. The old idea that a bucksaw is the bos gymnasium is losing strength, and wel appointed gymnasiums are springing up everywhere. There is even hopt that in the near future many minister, will be able to pitch a base ball will all the force and accuracy that Martii Luther exerted when he threw his inkstand at the devil. —Kansas City Referee.

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