Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — THE JUDGE’S OPINION. [ARTICLE]

THE JUDGE’S OPINION.

*TE sfTaTT diligently keep the commandments of.lhe Lord your Go<3, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee.” _____ Those gay old Kentucky gentlemen, aged anywhere from eighty - fiveio one hundred yearK. continue to attract the affections of blooming j maids of about fifteen or sixteen years experience in this cold and /‘holler” world . The latest case of note, is that of “Col.” (of course) Cody Bourne, aged ninety-three, who married Rose Brown, aged sixteen, at Lawrenceburg, Ky. Col. Bourtfe has now “stood up and fined hands for better or worse” seven'times.

The New York Herald has received a letter of thanks from a native Japanese merchant at Tokio, heartily expressing the gratitude of his countrymen for what he is pleased to call “the sympathy and strong moral support given to the Japanese cause by the people of America,” and the Herald. The little Japs are verj r apt scholars in the ways of modern civilization, and it is this quick perception and ability to “catch on” that has enabled them to achieve such phenomenal victories against such apparent odds. There is a firm in Washington City that deals in human skulls. They are also prepared to furnish plaster casts of the craniums of celebrated people. For instance, a cast of Guiteau’s head may be obtained for $5. For $2 each you can get a cast of Napoleon, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and other noted men. The firm has in its collection the largest human skull ever known. Its circumference is over three feet. It is guaranteed to be the head of James Cardinell, an Englishman, who was afflicted with water on the brain.

The great Brooklyn street car strike cost the interested’ parties at least $2,000,000, and no benefit accrued to any class or individual. There is nothing remarkable in this result, ae the outcome of all, or nearly all, great uprisings of labor against capital have resulted in about the same way. When society shall have been organized on a proper basis such unfortunate inci dents will become a thing of the past impossibility. Some form of arbitration will, in time, surely result from the costly experiments of violent strikes. It was quite a “spell of weather.” One day’s fatalities will do for a sample. Feb. 9. a family of four at Jacksonville, Fla., died oLexposure; a negro wandered from near Hopkinsville, Ky., and was frozen death; a miner was frozen to death at Rutland, Ill.; two persons froze to death at Hazelton, Pa., and several sleighparties were reported missing; frozen sailors dropped dead from the rigging of an unknown schooner off the Long Island coast; four men trying to escape from a fishing schooner on the Atlantic coast were drowned because of theirtnability to row the boat.

A new dime museum attraction of great drawing powers has loomed into public notice in the person of Miss Boecker, the only woman who was rescued from the Elbe. She is received every where with thegreatest sympathy and hospitality, and has even been honored by an audience with Queen Victoria, who received her with unusual attentions. It ik not known that Miss Boecker will ..turn her desperately won fame into cash by going on the stage, but if she docs not avail herself of the “tide’’ in her affairs at this time it will be because she does not care for wealth which would flow into her exchequer for the simple asking. People who have kept in touch with the Christian Science movement. whether believers or not, have doubtless a recollection of the name of Mary Baker Eddy,- who Las been a"sort of “high priestess" from the inception of the attempt to do away with drugs and substitute “will” in the treatment of human disease. Except among a comparatively few of the more earnest advocates the belief has gradually ceased to attract attention, and Mrs. Eddy has dropped “out of the sight.”. But the lady was not content with this state of affairs. Her books were not selling fast enough, and a new Ecl;eme..-for notoriety must bo devised. Her ownJmmediate circle of followers in scw York city have accordingly been notified that Mrs. Eddy is now posing as a female “baity,” or rather as an incarnate

manifestation of Christ, and that) the scheme of Christian Science healing was a direct divine ‘revelation to that astute authoress. Tha followers oL this “.cult” aro in q quandary, but have about decide t that, it would be sacrileyious to deify Mrs. Eddy, which on the whole is a very considerate and sensible conclusion. ‘ New York city is wrestling with the rapid transit question to an extent' seldom attained by any city. The present methods and facilities have been rapidly falling behind it) rtiw effort to rise to the emergeneyj until it may be said that a crisis it) | transportation affairs in the me I tropolis has been reached. The surface roads, the elevated roads and 'bus lines all combined are inadequate to satisfactorily handle the people, and the”great depots for the . railway lines fall under the-same ban of condemnation. It is now proposed —the Herald gives.drawings and details of the plan—to double-deck the elevated roads and build a great Union Depot above the Harlem at IGlst street. The scheme is vast anc in keeping with the wonderful development of the great metropolis.

The stories that have been told o! the great Elbe disaster reflect little credit upon the crew or officers bl that unfortunate vessel. The Captain, Von Gossel, it is true, went down with his ship, ami the testimony goes' to show that he acted the part of a brave and unselfish man in the last moments, but to judge from I Cue reported actions of the crew I they were entirely without discipline and were not properly amenable to orders in any sudden emergency. This fault must be laid at the Captain's door, while due honor is yielded to him for his heroism in the great crisis in whip)} he gave up his life. All accounts agree that the surviving officers and members of the crew acted in a brutal and selfish manI .-.er. The indignation against them i is.great at all European ports, and , Emperor William has improved the j occasion to denounce them for theii ' cowardice and inhumanity in only saving one woman out of all the bunI dreds on board. Not one child was saved 1 The loss of life in this great disaster was simply due to negligence of the ordinary precautions that should never be relaxed on shipboard, and in view of the near proximity of the coast becomes inexcusable and criminal.

“Labelle Paree,” the Frenchman’s paradise and the loadstone ol ultra-fashionable life the world over, is keeping up with the procession in material development as-well as in the arts and scien ecsmmd frivolities for which it has always been noted. Few Americans are aware that Paris is a walled city, yet such is the case. But it has outgrown the walls, and what were regarded as adequate defenses in the war of 1870-71 have become obsolete and utterly useless. Territory adjacent to the capital has been built over in all directions and French military engineers have presented to them a problem that promises to become difficult of solution. Walls are no longer considered a defense against modern cannon, and new means to check invading armies and protect the heart of the nation must be devised. IV is now proposed to pull down the old walls, annex avast extent' of suburban territory and inclose the whole with a wide moat, the river Seine to be utilized for the water supply and its :V"p«irt of the .system of defense. In this connection, and as affording some idea of the wealth and resources of the French people, it may be stated thqt the sum of $775,000,000 has been expended upon the fortifications of Paris in the last twenty-three years. The results of this vast expenditure, if the scheme now proposed by Gen. Riu is carried out, will be demolished, and, for all practical purposes, thrown away.

He Thought It Unlikely that tho Patent Would Ever B: Renewed. Detroit Free Press. A lawyer who makes a specialty of patent business, no matter just where his office is located, was called to the further West in a case involv ing a mortgage on a farm. T t 1 preliminary hearing was beforo- an. ; old-fashioned Justice of the Peace, who had no high regard for the ways !of men from tho city. At some point in tho case the magistrate put ' in a few remarks and the visiting : lawyer collided with him. The disI eussion grew warm, and at last the ! magistrate forgettinghi, dignity and , his position, became personal. j “Who are you anyway?” ho blurtj ed out. I “Well,” replied the lawyei', “I’m ' an attorney.” i “P’raps you are, but I never t heard one talk like you do. What kind of a one are you?” “I’m a patent attorney.” x • Tho magistrate rubbed his chin for 1 thought, r-w.y l i j “Well, all I’ve got to say is,” he said, slowly, “that when thq’patent expires I don't believe you can ever get it renewed again. '