Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — Page 6

THE REPUBUCAN. Giosb E, Marshall, Editor. . * l RENSSELAER - INDIANA \

“But lay up your treasures in | heaven where neither moth nor rust j doth corrupt and where thieves do I not break through and steal. " ' The pneumatic idea originally adapted to car pillows, later extend■ed to bicycle tires and track sulkies. Ss now being applied to a new form of sleeping and parlor ear'. The cushions and mattresses are all connected with the air brake apparatus and may be distended or collapsed at will. » Mayor Strong, of New York, “sets ’em up" to his intimate friends quite frequently in the rear room at his office. The very best of “store tea" is served by a sable servant and the beverage is said to be exquisite but entirely innocent of alcoholic reinforcent. This report was “run down" by the New York Herald and may be regarded as a reliable pointer for “reform” candidates and officeholders. The Detroit Free Press tells a fishy story about a man in that city beating a gas meter. The details are circumstantial, and the yarn is given to the public as truth, but the reputation of the Detroit Free Press as a humorous journal is so well established that the public confidence in this,narrative as one of fact will be much imuaired. The scheme is said to have been extensively worked in Detroit, Several arrests have been made. Oklahoma may be a little lax on divorce matters, but the Legislature of that territory has just naturally throttled the cigarette evil. The public sentiment against that particular form of nicotine poisoning is so strong in the territory that apti-cigarette leagues hive been formed by the young ladies of the partly civilized commonwealth, at different society centers. This Is an advance, certainly, but it is a little strange that these 'Western moralists should begin a crusade on such a comparatively insignificant evil while greater ones are permitted to flourish without reproof or attempts toward reform. That Interstate Commerce Commission appears to entertain very practical ideas in reference to what constitutes a “minister,” and has re-tused-do recognize E. W. Emerson, a spiritualistic teacher, as coming within.. the meaning of that term. Mr. Emerson brought suit against the Chicago & Northwestern railway to grant him the reduced rate accorded to ministers of the gcfepel. The case was referred to the Interstate Commission. The Commission dismissed the complaint, holding that Emerson was in no sense a min - ister of the gospel. This may be termed a decision that decides. It establishes a precedent of some value, but spiritualists will enter a general demurrer. Drake, Parker & Co., of the Grand Pacific Hotel at Chicago, have announced that they will close the hotel, April 3. and vacate the building, May 1, because of a disagreement with the owners about the amount of rent. Drake, Parker fc Co., have paid SIOI,OOO a year and the owners have held the rental of the ground floor except the lobby, which is understood to yield about as much as the hotel. In this connection it is stated that Frank Parmalce has lived at the hotel for twenty-one years, during all of which time he has paid SOO,OOO a year for his rooms and board. Mr. Parmalee is said to be “all broke up” because of the circumstances which compel him to seek other quarters. Cuba has been a very troublesome possession to Spain for many years •—as is quite proper and natural. The revolt in the island in 1870-71 tost the mother country $02,000,000, besides cutting down the revenue for several years. During Polk’s administration the United States offered $100,000,000 for Cuba, but Bpain declined with thanks—a great mistake for Spain from a financial itandpoint. As long as the loyalty of Cuba to Spain has to be spiked together with bayonets the island will prove very unprofitable as a colonial possession. The United States will in due time acquire the Island, and the cost will in all probability be far less than the original offer by Piesident Polk's administration. The old world spins, the clouds toll by, the March winds blow and tpring begins again to cast that

wondrous spell o'er all the land*?ap< —-why non£ can tell, but only gaze it awe and joy to see again the bud ding tree that -tells_ of wondrom power free. Within its veins again the life that 'yielded to the winter’! strife Comes coursing on to feed th< leaf—and fruit and flower and tbr sheaf will crown the life so strangely brought thSt to all, thougk never sought, a~miracle beyond pin ken, an annual puzzle to alPmen. Sc while Ave struggle with the showers that April brings—long for tin bowers of leafy June and all the brilliant birds in tune, let patience rule vour bed and board and gather up s little hoard against that time when sweat will stream and torrid skies make life a dream of that perdition where the gleam of fire unquenched will make you seem to be halfcrazy for ice cream. The Democratic candidate foi Mayor of Chicago, Mr. Frank Wenter, is something of a philosophei but disclaims being a politician. In an interview (for campaign purposes, of course,) last week he said he would be elected in spite of the apparent odds against him. ,becausc he had never failed in any enterprise. Speaking of enemies, he said lie had never undertook to “got even” with any man. “Life-was too shqrt for such foolishness, and any man who cherishes hatred against any one to. the extent ol trying to get even for wrongs real t)r fancied will-injure -himself fat more than he will hurt the object ol his hatred.” This would be a better world if ail men would adopt that plan. Let bygones be bygones. It is not even necessary to forgive, much less forget the wrongs inflicted upon us, but we can choose a better pare than petty revenge, and “sail on and on” to more peaceful . scenes, and may be sure that if we do we shall achieve a greater triumph and a sure reward.

The positions occupied by the Northern and Southern armies at the battle of*Shiloh, April G and 7, 18G2, will be definitely determined and marked at the reunion of the survivors of that bloody battle, - this year. About 3,000 acres,, that was fought over is to be preserved as it waq then as nearly as possible. Thu graves of 4,000 Confederate soldiers who were buried on the field will bo marked. The Shiloh Battlefield Association. formed April 10, 1893, has charge of all arrangements this year, and it is expected that the present ! thi rtv-third anniversary will be of unusual interest in many ways. Thq bill to provide for the park at Shiloh ! was fathered by Representative Ilen- | derson, of lowa, who. was chosen as one of the supporters of the project ! in Congress by the Shiloh Battlefield Association. The measure passed j both houses readily and was signed j by the President last December. The ! Chickamauga Park, also in Tennesi see, will be dedicated in September, j The State of Tennessee was one vast battlefield throughout a large part of the. civil war, and the historic sites of bloody struggles and heroic deeds are in fact too numerous to mention, much less to properly honor ' with monuments and enduring tablets for future generations to gaze j upon and wonder at the madness that brought about such fratricidal ! strife between their ancestors.

Trickery of the Camera.

Strand Magazine. One of the most eminent archie tects in the Kingdom once showed a photo of a column and capital to a number of his colleagues. Had they ever seen such a capital? They had not, and they said so. Then arose disputes as to the precise nature of the architecture. Finally sundry big wagers were maae, and then the architect proceeded gravely to/ e.\; plain the structure of the column and its capital. This he did by producing his Malacca walking stick and a few sprigs of succulent broccoli. Naturally enough, however, after many abstruse disquisitions on mediaeval architecture had been i given on the subject of the mysterij ous pillar, this explanation of the ! photograph wasr.received with silent disgust. An equally amusing case of the duplicity of the camera was i found in a law case in London when 'suit was brought to tear down a ! court, which, it maintained, was ' dingy, dirty, and haunted by loafers of questionable character. The conn- | sel on the other side, representing merchants having offices in the 1 court, maintained that the passage | was wed lighted and eminently re- | spectable. Photographs'were hand - led in from both sides. The first i showed a narrow, disreputable look' , ing alley, strewn with rubbish and fallen boarding; tht** other picture, ! however, showed the court in dispute to be a fairly broad, well lighted city I thoroughfare, frequented by merchants of thriving appearance. As soon as the snow clears away it is advisable to make preparations for applying fertilizers to the strawberry beds. If th e land is liable to be washed by heavy rains it will be well to delay the work until latch, but it should be done before the new shopti begin to appear. % '

THE GOSPEL SHIP.

The Ark the Prototype of the ChtirciL JXU«_AIL-Embraclng Power of Christ to Sate—l Jr. -Talmag-e's 8«rmo&: ■ .■ - - Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Now York Academy of Music, last Sunday. * Subject — “The Gospel Ship.” Text—Genesis vi, 12: “ThoiF shalt come "into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons’ wives with thee.” He said: Infidel scientists ask us to believe that in the formation of the earth there have been half a-dozen deluges, and,yet they are not. willing to believe the Bible story of .one deluge. In what way the catastrophe came we know not—whether by the stroke of a comete-or by flashes of lightning. changing the air into water, or bv a stroke of the hand of God, like* the stroke of the ax between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catastrophe God ordered a great ship built. It was to be without a prow, for it Was to sail to no shores. It was to be without a helm-, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three modern steamers. It was the Great Eastern of oldenrtimes. The ship was done. ' The door is open. The lizards crawl in-. The cattle walk in. The grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” Just one human family embarks on that strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. • A great storm sweeps along the hills and bends the cedars until all the branches snap in the gale. • There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The blackness of the heavens is shattered by the glare of the light-' nings that look down into the waters and throw a ghastliness on the face of the mountains. How strange it looks! How suffocating the air seems! The big drops of rain begin to plash upon the upturned faces of those who are watching the tempest. Crash go .the rocks in convulsion! Boom go the bursting heavens! The inhabitants of the earth, instead of flying to housetop and mountain top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. for when God grinds mountains to pieCe'S. and lets the ocean slip its cable there is no place for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tumble in the surf, while from its windows the passengers look out upon the shipwreck of a race and th"e carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe to the sea! ' I am no alarmist. When on the 20th of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the northeast, you prophesy that the equinoctial storm is .coming, you simply state a fact not to be disputed. Neither am I an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming compared with which Noah’s deluge was but an -April shower, and that it is wisest and safest for you and for me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears, “Come thou and and all thv house into the ark.” . *

The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now it is through the side of Christ—the pierced side, the wide-open side, the heart side—that ■ we enter. Aha, the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear into the Savior’s side, expected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in. Oh, what a broad Gospel to preach! If a man is about to give an entertainment he issues 200 or 300 invitations carefully put j up and directed to the particular j persons whom he wishes to enter- | tain. But God, our Father, makes a banquet, and stretches out Hfs hands over land and sea, and with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice castle, and Brazilian grove, and English factory, and American home, cries out, ‘’ooolo, for all "things are now ready! ” It is a wide door. The old cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the doorposts so far apart that all the world can come in. Further, it is a door that swings both ways. Ido not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on hinges, but this door of Christ opens both wavs. It swings out toward all our woes. It swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It swings in to let us in. It swings out to let our : ministering ones come out. All are one in Christ—Christians on earth and saints in heaven. But, further, it is a door with fastenings. The Bible says of Noah. “The Lord shut him in.” A vessel without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of the door of ,the ark, they were very glad. Unless those doors were fastened, the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed them, and they might as well have perished outside the ark as inside’ the ark. “The Lord shut him in.’ Oh, the perfect safety of the ark ! But he was safely sheltered from the storm. “The Lord shut him in.” A flood of domestic trouble fell on him. Sickness and bereavement came. The rain, pelted. The winds blew. The heavens are aflame. All the gardens of earthly delight are washed away. The, mountains of joy are buried fifteen cubits deep. But standing by the empty crib, and in the desolated nursery, and |in the doleful hall, once a-ring with ! merry voices, now silent forever? he 'cried: “The Lord gave; the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the

name of the Lord.” “The Lord shut fainjin.” . Oh, what a grand old door! So wide, so easily swung both ways and with such sure fastenings. No burglar’s key can pick that lock. Ncr swafthy arm of hell can shove back that bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask you to come aboard a cratV craft, with leaking hulk and broken helm and unfastened door, but an ark fifty cubits long, and a door so 1 large that the round earth without' grazing the poSt might be bowled in. So rrren now put off going into the ark. They say they will wait twenty years first,. They will have a little longer time with“their worldly associates.' They will wait until they tret older. ~Tbey say: “Yott cannot expect a man of my attainments and of jny position to surrender himself just now. Hut before the storm comes I will go in. Yes, I will. I - know vdiat .I—am abouL Trust me.” After awhile, one night about 12 o’clock; going home, he passes a scaffolding just as a gust of wind strikes it, and a plank fails. Dead, and outside the ark! Or, riding in the park, a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horse becomes unmanageable, and he shouts:. “Whoa! Whoa!” and takes another twist in the reins, and plants , his feet against the dashboard, and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the avenue that he flies as on the way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the crash his body is drawn, but his soul is not picked' up. It fled behind a swifter courser into the great future. Dead, and outside the ark! But do not come alone. The text invites you to bring your family. It says, “Thou and thv sons and thy wife.” You cannot drive them in. If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and the doves into the ark, ho* would only have scattered them: Some parents are not wise about These things. They make iron rules about Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down the throat as they would hold the child’s nose and force down a dose of rhubarb and calomel. You cannot drive children into the ark. You can draw vour children to Christ, but you cannot coerce them. Come in and bring your wife or your husband with you —not by fretting about religion or dingdonging them about religion, but by a consistent life and by a compelling prayer that shall bring the throne of God down into your room. Go home, and take up the Bible and read it together, and then kneel down and commend your soujjs to Him who has watched you all these years, and before vou rise there will be a fluttering of wings over yourffiead, angel cry-

ing tp-angel, “Behold, they pray!” But this does not include all your family. Bring the children, too. God bless the dear children! What, would our homes be without them? We may have done more for them. They have done much for us. What a salve for a wounded heart there is in a soft palm of a child's hand! Did harp or flute ever have such music, as there is in a child’s “good-night?” From our coarse, rough life the angels of God are often driven back. But who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around? Tliey who'die in infancy go straight into glory, but you are expecting your children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question. then, that rings through all the corridors and windings and bights and depths of your soul, what is to become of your sons and daughthers for time and for eternity? How to get them in? Go in yourself. If Noah had stayed out, do vou not suppose that his sons — Shem, Ham and Japheth—would have staid out? Your sons and daughters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ yourself, and the probability is that your children will reject him. Oh, ye who hu've taught your children how to live, have you also taught them how to die? Life hero is not so important as the great hereafter. It is not so much the few furlongs this side of the grave as it is the unending leagues beyond. O eternity, eternity! Thy locks white with the ages! Thy voice announc-

ing stupendous destiny! Thy arms reaching across all the past and all the future. O eternity, eternity! 1 On one of the lake steamers there were a father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gentleman, stepped up to the poor man to proffer some form of relief and said, “you seem to be very poor, sir.” “Poor, sir,” replied the man, “If there’s a poorer man than me a troubling the world, God pity both of ys.” “I will take one of vour children and adopt it if you say so. I think it would be a great relief to you.” ‘‘A what?” said the poor man. “A relief! Would it be a relief to have'the hands chopped off from the body or tbe heart torn from the breast? A relief indeed! God be good to us! Whit do you mean, sir?” However many children we have, we have none to give up. Which of our family can we afford to spare out of heaven? Will it be the oldest? Will it be the youngest? Will it be that one that was sick some time ago? Will it be the husband? Will it be the wife? No, no! We must have them all in. Let us take the children’s hands and start them now. Leave not one behind. Come, father! Come, mother) Come, son! Come, daughter! Come, brother! Come, sister! Only one step and we are in. Christ, the door, swings out to admit us, and it is not the hoarseness of a stormv blast that you hear, but the voice oi a loving dnd patient God that addresses you, saying, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” And there inay the Lord shut us in! j

THE FAIR SEX.

The Chinese now find it more profitable to raise their female infants than to strangle them. In I'B7o the average price of a wife in the flowery kingdom was £5. Now It is £SO. _ . ... I ■ - ■ Tadsu«|>ugie Is the name of a Japan se young woman who has been .- udying iu Wellesley College for three years, and who is now teaching in Osaka in a Christian school for girls.

Although it can hardly be said that Bueen Victoria edits the Couyt Circular, Her Majesty as a rule jlances through the proofs- and freely cuts outs anything that lo.es not meet -with the royal approval.

Dr. Charlotte Ellabv has just come back to England after completely restoring the sight of the Maharani of Jamnagar, whose court is en fete over the event. The operation was for cataract. The Maharani, ing toa correspondent, can now read small print with ease. The EmDress Dowager of Russia has a jointure of $500.(100 per annum, and a palace in St. Petersburg, la country place, and the villa Livalia, where the Czar died, for life, all the establishments to be kept by the state, quite independent of her income. The young daughters get 1200,000 a year when they come of ige.

One of the latest housekeeper's fancies is the Dutch bed room, furnished with a set of old holland mar“ qu ‘try. The snowiest bed covers and window curtains must be used in the room. All the fittings possible in the room are of Delft'chtna. Even the mirror frame of the toilet table, with its draperies, is -nade of this quaint old pottery. There are Delft candelabra, and a quaint little Flemish writing desk, with a blue Deify inkstand and writing set. There are blue Delft jardinieres in the windows, planted with growing tulips, to complete the picture.

ACUTE DYSPEPSIA

SYMPATHETIC HEART DISEASE OFTEN ATTENDS IT. _ fte Modern Treatment Consists in Removinif the Cause. (From the RepublUan, ‘t'edar Rapids, Imoa.\ Mrs. V. Curley, who has resided in Clartr.ee, lowa, for the past twenty-two years, (ells an interesting story of what she <*onliders rescue from premature death. Her narrative is as follows: ■‘For ten years prior to 1894, I was a constant sufferer from acute stomach trouble. I had all the manifold symptoms «f acute dyspepsia, and at. times other (roubles were present in complication —I lid not know what it was to enjoy a meal. No matter Trowcareful I might be -as. lo -thfe-flualitv. quantity and preparation of my food, distress always followed eating. I was despondent and blue. Almost to the point of insanity at times, and would have been glad to die. Often and often ! could not sleep. Sympathetic heart (rouble set in and time end again I was ebliged to call a cjoctor in the night to relieve sudden attacks of suffocation which Would come on without a moment’s warning. . sr ‘‘My troubles increased as time wore on rind I spent large sum's in doctor bills, being compelled to have medical attendants almost constantly. During 1892 and 189.8 it was impossible for me to retain food, and water brashes plagued me. I was reduced to a skeleton. A consultation of physicians was unable to determine just what did ail me. The doctor* gave us as their opinion that the probable trouble was ulceration of the coats of the stomach and held out no hope of recovery. One doctor said, ‘All I can do to relieve your suffering is by the use of opium.’— “About this time a friend of mine, Mrs. Symantha Smith, of (Hidden. lowa, told me about the case of Mrs. Thurston, of Oxford Junction, lowa. This lady said she had been afflicted much the same as I had. She had consulted local physicians without relief, and had gone to Davenpoft for treatment. Giving up all hope of recovery, she was persuaded by, a friend to take I)r. Williams’ I’ink Fills. Tbe result was almostijnagieal. “I was led to try them from her experience, and before many months I felt' better than I had for a dozen years. I am now almost free, from trouble, and if through some error of diet I feel badly, this splendid remedy sets the right again. I have regained my strength and am once more in my usual flesh. I sleep (veil and can eat without distress. I have no doubt that I owe my recovery to Dr. Williams’ I’ink Pills. I only vvish that I had heard of them years ago, thereby saving myself ten years of suffering and much money.” Dr. Williams’ Fink Pills contain all th# elements necessary to give now life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams’. Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for 50c. per box, or six boxes for S.9Joa. ______

PROGRESS OF ELECTRIC SCIENCE.

*The Wonders of Electricity bul j*- Half Disclosed as Yet. I The adoption of el ectricity as a m# tive power marked an epoch in th< inechanical and industrial world, Electricity is an ever-present giants ready to do the work _of the world at soon as men learn to put the harness oi him. lie is now partially harnessed, and what he does is a faint prophecy o! what he will accomplish as soon a» ,men have learned to bind him more thoroughly. He is a giant of infinite strength, of infinite desp tch, and un» imaginable possibilities. The numberless uses to which electricity may b« put is beginning to bo understood. The large buckle in the harness about this tireless monster was fastened when he was made a message bearer over tin telegraph wire and across the submarine cable. Another buckle wat fastened when he was not only made to carry the messages of men, but to carry their tones .and voices by means of the telephone, lie was still further under the domination of man when ho was made a toreh-bearer at night, and the electric light flooded oui cities with nearly the brilliancy of noonday. Electricity is now largely supplanting horses on our street-cars, and the time is nearly at hand when it will have entirely superceded them. The greatest authorities on the subject say that the electric motor Will 3oon supercede the locomotive, and that steam, like a tardy laggard, will be dismissed for the more messenger, electricity. ft is also predicted that electricity will soon be used to impel our ocean steamers, to run our mills and turn our factory wheels. It has been predicted that within Bfty years there will be many long rows of electric lights across the Atlantic, so that collisions in fogs and darkness wiil bo made impossible. It has also been predicted that farmers will sometime light their farrnt by night with electric lights, and thus produce two crops a year, as, it is said, crops grow much faster in the light iban in the darkness. No ono will accuse a man of such ’gigantic accomplishments as Mr. Edison of being wildly theoretical or visionary. Yet he believes that serial navigation will, in a short time, bo made practicable by means of electrical appliances. Perhaps this will bo the next great invention which will startle the world. Electricity is ono of the modern forces that is transforming the industrial condition of the world. Electrical science is still in its infancy, bul snough is already known of this subtle and cdysterous force, for us to predict that, through its agency, an industrial and mechanical revolution, such as the world before has never seen, wiil soon be accomplished. Reassurfhg. Guest (nngrlTy) “Confound your awkwardness! You’vi spilt half that soup down my back. 11 YVaiter at restaurant (heartily) “Don’t mind it sir. I’ll bring som« riSore. Bless you, thoro’s plenty of soup!”

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