Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — Page 6

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

jijEjr = tatyßi,dnDs. L What the distant future may briny to the United States in the way of changed industrial conditions is largely a matter of conjecture. Not being gifted with prophetic powers, nor endowed with the erudition of the ancient seers, we must be content to judge the future by the past, and to set down as a moral certaintv that causes, whieh have invariably resulted in baneful effects will, under similar conditions and without some powerful antidote or restraining influence. produce again a crop of unsatisfactory results. Nearly all readers of history will agree that the downtrodden condition of the European peasantry, of every nationality, is more largely the result ■of the feudal rule of the Middle Ages which entailed vast estates in the male succession of the baronial rulers of the mountain fast nesses, whose word for centuries was the hrw~to their' dependent a mlwhoseirori heel andfi rmer grip was ever kept upon the necks of every peasant born beneath their sway than to any other single cause.

The darkened patches represent areas within which alien landlords have large holdings.

Feudal rule has to a great extent disappeared from the map of Europe, pet there are still survivals of the ancient regime. But although these petty rulers have in the main themselves become subjects to mere cenIralizedformsof government, thev ° 7 .. j ind their ancestors have so skillfully bargained with the “powers that; De” that they retain their great anded domains, and the law of en- ' tai I still sur vi ves to ac t as a clog and lindrance to the larger freedom of she masses. The United States does lot suffer from the evil effects of the aw of entail, but we are io an extent in danger from the grasping tendency of English land- i -ords who for lack of room and op-i sort unity in their native land are ■•caching out after our available icres at a rate that is alarming to ill who believe in moderate holdings ind numberless independent home- - steads. The New York correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, I h a recent article, shows up this n at ter com pl e tely.gi vingal ist of breign landowners, the extent and: 'ocation of their holdings, and other terns of interest in the same connection. The most extensive English landlords are: Lord Houghton, Lord Dunraven, Duke of Marlborough, Lady Churchill and Baron- . »ss Burdett-Cputts. There are many stbers whose investments are not so I extensive. Viscount Scully owns ?,000,000 acres in Illinois, lowa and . Nebraska and maintains an elab- ■ Irate system of rack Tenting that 1 irould be suitable on Irish soil but s quite out of place in a land of | coasted freedom. The Texas Land . Union owns 3,000,000 acres. This s a syndicate of English aristocracy i »posed .of Baroness Burdett-j Doutts, Earl Cadogan, H. C. Fitzroy Somerset ( this 1 is the Duke of Beau-' iort), William Alexander Lochiell Stephen Douglas Hamilton, Duke of Beaudon; rhe Duke of Rutland; | Ughtaed J. Kay-Shuttleworth and; Band Ethel Cadogan (maid in wait-i jng to the Queen.) This syndicate'. ->wns whole counties in Texas, and ;ens of thousands of persons pay it rentals. Sir Edward Reid. 2,000,000 teres. This is a syndicate which jwns land in Florida only. It in- 1 ■jludes the present Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Randolph Churchill ind Lady Lister-Kaye. Another English syndicate owns 1.800,000 tetes in Mississippi. It includes the Marquis of Dalhousie, George Henry Howard Cholmondeley (Viscount C holmoi i d eley), Georgian a, Visco unt* ess Cross: Hon. Lady Hamilton Gordon and Hon. Lady Biddulph. Other -extensive English land owners are: Marquis of Tweedale, 1,750,000 acres; Phillips, Marshal & Co., 1,300,000 acres.; Anglo-American Syndicate. 750,000 acres; B. H-TEvans, 700,000 acres iu Mississippi; Duke of Sutherland, 125,000 acres; British Land 'Company, 420,000 acres in Kansas; W. Whalley, 310,000 acres; Missouri Land Company (beadqurters at Edinhurgh), 300,000 acres; Robert Tennant, 200,000 acres; Dundee .Land Company, 247,000 acres; Lord Dunmore, 120,000 acres; B. Newgate, 100,000 acres; Lord Dunraven, (in Colorado) 00,000 acres;

English Land Company, (in California) 50.000 acres, (in Arkansas) 50,000 acres. A t~least a dozen other English landlords hold from 35,000 to 600.000 acres each in various parts of the country. It is ‘claimed that fully 20,000,000 acres of American land are thus owned by great land owners in England and Scotland. This does not include the Hoiland syndicate, which owns 5,000, 000 acres of grazing land in Western States, nor the German syndicate, owning 2.000,000,-1. .ufacres in various States. These great land owners positively refuse to sell. They.prefer to establish uj system of agencies and bailiffs with the result that various serious complications, have resulted. The State Legislatures have done their best to deal with the question, but heretofore with only indifferent success. Viscount Scully is, rightly or wrongly,., made the scapegoat of this whole business. Ile has for years been a thorn in the path of one State administration after another and his shrewdjjess in evading every provision of law directed against him has extorted the unwilling admiration of thousands. Thus Scully

practically owns, in Illinois, the best parts of the counties of Logan, Livingston and Tazewell. The State in 1887 passedran alien land law, directed solely against Scully. To evade it he insisted beforehand upon a clause in his leases stipulating that the lessee should, pay all taxes accruing against the property leased. The result was the creation of a large and solid body of voters in the Scully counties, as they are called, opposed to propositions of public improvements by taxation. The war against Scully has thrown the other English landowners into a panic. A committee representing the American tenantry has been sent to London to try to obtain the favorable consideration of the landlords, and their appeal had a marked effect on the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. who is said to have insisted that no more evictions of American farmers should take place on lands in which she is interested. An association has been formed in Illinois, lowa, Nebraska and Kansas to resist to the. utmost the unreasonable demands of' English landlords, “and the State Legislatures are likely to interfere and hamper the “bloomin’ Britishers” in a way they will despise. In any event an open war is now in prospect between English landowning aristocracy and their free-born American tenantry which will probably result in still further demonstrating the superior force and determination of the American character when brought face to ( face with adverse and obstinate conditions.

Napoleon Dreamed of Service in Turkey.

Prof. Sloane's Life of Napoleon in the March Century, , . 1 What could be more, amusingly characteristic of this persistent man than to read, in a letter to 4 Joseph under date of the folk wing day, Aug. 20: "I am attached at this moment to the Topographical Bureau of the Committee of Public Safety for the direction of the armies in Carnot's place. If I wish, I can be sent to Turkey by the Government as general of artillery, with a good salary and a flattering title, to organize the artillery of the Grand Turk.” Then follow plans for the appointment of Joseph to the consular service, for a meeting at Leghorn, and for a further land speculation. At the close are these remarks, which not only display .great acuteness of observation, but are noteworthy as displaying a persistent quality of the man, that of always having an alternative in read'iuess:.‘Tt is quiet, but storms are (gathering, perhaps; the primaries : are going to meet in a few days. I shall take with me five or six officers. * * * The commission-and decree of the Committee of Public Safety, which employes me, in the duty of directing the armies' and plans of campaign, bying most flattering to me, I fear they will no longer allow me to go to Turkey. We shall see. I may have on hand a campaign today.. * * * Write always as if I wede going to Turkey." It is said that when water fails td remove the stains on eggs, a little vinegar will be found to answer the pyrpo.se, It is quite as profitable to give skim milk, buttermilk or curds to poultry as it is to birds.

A GHOST STORY.

.Texas Siftings.

who put him in his coffin. Although inclined to be cynical, he was never morose. He was a pessimist and a humorist at the same time. Frank Aldrich, on the other hand, wore the air of settled melancholy. He, however,- had the- unmistakable bearing of-a-g-entleman and was in good financial circumstances. He was a man of few words, and Oakley was the only person with whom hewas ' intimate. As for female acquaintanees, he had none whatever. He came to New Vork from Chicago, and nobody knew anything of his previous life.. Both were bachelors and they lived in New York. One evening Oakley called at the luxurious apartments of his friend. Aldrich was seated in front of a

cheerful fire in the grate, but was more depressed and gloomy than ever. In fact, of late his melancholia had been steadily increasing, and to dispel it, if possible, was really the object of Oakley's visit. After the latter had made several ineffectual attempts to cheer him up, Aldrich said, earnestly: “Oakley, do you believe that the dead ever revisit the earth?” Blowing a cloud of smoke at the ceiling, Oakley replied with great solemnity: “Yes,when the party who sees the celestial visitor has been eating lobster salad for supper.”“Oakley, will you try and be serious once —just once.” “Yes, I’ll try; but I am not an expert at the business. To be serious, however, I will say that I do not believe the dead ever revisit the earth. Possibly they find the angels so much more entertaining that they have no further use for such scrub stock as inhabits this earth, or else they can’t come back. If they can, why don’t they do it?” “They do,” replied Aldrich, earnestly. ‘T know of a well authenticated, case. A young man of good circumstances in a Western city loved a beautiful girl——” “And she amusqd herself by making him believe that she loved him and then quietly dropped him. Is that the way to story runs?" “It was more serious than that. They were actually engaged, and she really did love him.” “And they were separated by a cold wave of realism,” interrupted Oakley.

“She made the acquaintance of an English lord, the prospective heir of a great title, she was very rich and ambitious of social distinction, so she jilted the American lover.” “Of course. She was a typical American heiress. A monkey with a title would not be entirely safe with her. Well, it was plucky escape for the American.” “He didn’t look at it in that way,” replied Aldrich, gloomily. “The iron entered his very soul. He plunged in the forests of the wild West and lived far away from civilization. He wanted to be alone with his misery.” “And my lady?” “She became a lady, indeed, for she married her English lord. The wedding was a great social event. After a brief tour of the American cities, the bridal couple sailed from New York for Englands” “Aldrich, this is not as interesting as a dime novel. If you have a ghost, ple'ase trot it out. By the way, dftl it ever occur to you that ghosts are not fools. They never appear to more than one person at a time and then always at night.” . Aldrich did not appear to hear Oakley's remarks, and continued his story. “he neglected her almost from the day he married her. On the steamer he spent most of his time in drinking and gambling and flirting with the lady passengers.” “Well, you see, being an English nobleman, he had a reputation to sustain. ”

“One night they had a quarrel it their stateroom, He probably tolc her that lie only married her-for hei money, and, leaving returned-to his cards. Then in the | utter wore of her desolation she re■jnernbgred her discarded lover anc thought of~what might- bavFbeeh.'’ “What an imagination you havt got, Aldrich. How did you “know that she ever felt the slightest re morse?” “By what happened half an houi later. The night was foggy anc ■ 'rainy. The steamer was in raid- ; ocean. The man at the wheel hapi per.ed to look.up. and he saw a fig- ' ure in white standing on the rail. i raised its bands above its head anc he heard an agonized voice cry out “Frank, Frank! where are you?” “Anybody else see it?” ; “Yes,” said Aldrich, in a low, intense —voice, “thousands of milet away, in the wilds of Oregon, a lone camper was lying on his pallet, gaz ing through tear-dimmed eyes at the unutterable glory of the star-be-spangled firmament, when he heart; a too familiar voice call his name, and for haira“moment 11 e saw the radiant - vision- of a never-to-be-forgotten face, with the love light in her eyes, and all was dark and. sijenf as before.” , “Frank!” eqelaimed Oakley, grasping his friend's hand, “forgive me.

ETHO U G H opposites in temp er a m e n t, they were friends. John Oakley was always cheerful. It was said of him that he might smile at the undertaker

Had I known you were telling me the tragedy of your own life no jesting word would have escaped my lips:” “Oakley, I know you better than you know yourself. I realize that you have a warm, sympathetic heart. ' “Aldrich, might it not have been a dream?” “What is life but a dream from which Death awakens the sleeper? That dream was ten years ago. Last night I had the same dream, only her face was sad and mournful and her eyes said reproachfully: ‘Why do you stay away from me so long?’ ” Thefd was a silence for several 7 minutes. Then Oakley arose to his feet and said, earnestly: “Frank, shake off these morbid fancies. They have given even me the blues. What won’t they do for you if you encourage them? Never give up hope. Hope is the dream of the living. Despair is the nightmare of the dying. Hope is every where. You can pluck it from the bushes: you can grasp it in the air; you can' dig it out of the ground. Do something. Plunge inter business -try politics —in a word, do anything except brood over the dead past.” Aldrich shook his head, but said nothing.“Well, I’ll bid you good night. By the way, I have a suggestion to make. lam going South. ■ Supposq: you go along with me. You need a change. A change of climate and other associations will do you a world of good. What do you say?” “I expect I do need a change. I’ll think it over,” and the friends parted. And Aldrich did conclude to take the advice of his friend, for they found him next day dead in his bed. with his glassy eyes fixed on the photograph of a beautiful woman. The coroner's verdict was “suicide by morphine."

Quelling a Tumult by Presence of Mind.

Prof. Sloane s Life of Napoleon in March Cen iury. The first manifestation of reviving Jacobin confidence was shown in the attack made on May 20 upon the convention by hungry rioters why shouted for the constitution of '93. and were assisted in creating disorder by the Radical members. The tumult was quelled by the courage and presence of mind shown by Boissy d'Anglas. a calm and determined moderate, who had been commissioned to act alone in provision*ing Paris, and bravely accepted hi? responsibility by mounting tinPresident's chair in the midst of .the tumult. The mob brandished in his face the bloody head of Ferait', a fellow unember whoip they had just murdered. The chairman uncovered his head in respect, and bis .undaunt-, ed mien cowed the* leaders, whe slunk away, followed by the rabble. The consequence was a total anniliil ation of the Mountain on Mav 22. convention committees wen disbanded, their artillerymen were temporarily dismissed, and the constitution of 1793 was abolished.

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