Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gh-hi E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIAN?

*’And the Spirit and the bride say come. And let him that heareth eay, come. And letuhim that is athirst, come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” Quern Victoria is said to be especially fond of photos. You might _aend her yours and request a rctur-n of the compliment, but if vou do be sure to pay postage and enclose stamps for the hoped-sot portrait. Queen Vic. is of an economical turn and will hesitate about paying out postage unneccessarily. Some of this paragraph is “sarkasm,” as AT Ward used to sav. 1 The Pennsylvania railroad has paid the average dividends all through the hard times. This company keeps up with the times. In the neighborhood of the large cities on its various divisions 5-cent suburban tratins will be put on to compete with or prevent the building of trolley lines. This is amove that eould be profitably imitated by nearly all rail way com pan ies. New Orleans appears to be leading the Southern procession and is keeping pace with the times in material progress. Statistics at hand show that during the twenty-five years between 1870 and 1895 the number of factories has increased from 554 to 3,595; the capital invested in manufactories has increased from $5,429,140 to $40,057,000; the number of employes from 4,411 to 46,046: and the value of the output from $8,450,439 to $70,089,546.

Fakes and fads fill up the measure of the news from day to day, fashions follies, hidden treasure, ships that linger by the way, war and bloodshed far away, ghosts that charms will never lay, gold reserve that will not stay, toppling trains that tumble over, ducks that fall before great Grover, murder, arson, riot in the Legislature, crime of every other nature, of each and all there surely Will be quite enough without poor Trilby. The shrinkage of immigration to this country has been remarkable, and gratifying to a majority of our people,, because the immigrants who have arrived during the past year have been of the better class. The restrictions of recent legislation, to -. gether with the hard times, has had the effect of sifting out the paupers and criminals who formerly came to our shores in such almost unlimited numbers. Figures for 1894, only recently obtainable, show that 311,- I 404 immigrants arrived in that year. In 1893, 497,933 came over, and in: 1892 we were simply overwhelmed i with.a human tide which numbered 623,084. The United States may yet be able to dictate terms to the “gold bugs” of the world. The demand for gold payments and the depreciation of silver has already resulted in a marked increase in the output of our gold mines, and in the discovery of sew ones. The gold mines of Georgia are being worked with profit, but the leads can hardly be termed bonanzas. Three hundred men are said to be making good living wages In Lumpkin county, Georgia, though the average yield is but $2 a ton from the “dirt” worked over. Indiana ought to produce gold in paying quantities. The “stuff” is in our soil at various points. We have gas, oil, coal, iron and almost every other valuable mineral product. It stands to reason that we have gold—if we van pnly find it.

The editor of an exchange has made the following valuable discovery: “The stationary printed at this shop is giving the best of satisfaction. We printed statements for f>ne of our business men a shcrt time ago and he has already collected a small fort une. Two months ago a young man bought some paper and envelopes of us to write to his sweetheart. Now he is married, Another man forged the nanwfof a friend on a note printed here, and he is now In the penitentiary. By using our stationary one can collect old accounts, teli fortunes, make rain, change the c6tot of the hair, have their teeth extracted without pain, find out the name of your future husband or wife, be successful in business, triumph over their enemies and get elected to office. Call early and avoid the rush." Relations between Germany and Trance do not appear to be at all strained, if recent dispatches may tee taken as an indication of existing additions. The German Ambassador at Paris has unofficially informed

.IheFrench. Minister of Foreign. Affairs that Germany will take part ia the French exhibition in 1300. Everything points to a continued peace between these old-time ene mies. The government of Franct has also accepted-Germany's invitation to send war ships to the opening of the North Sea and Baltic canal “and this action was the occasion foi a heated debate in the Deputies many members takifig the grounc that the act of accenting Germany f hospitality was a bitter humiliatioi for France.

The Cuban revolution in said t] have already “petered out.” It wai was not even suppressed, but simply fell to pieces, as all such ill-advises ventures must do. The Cuban “pat riots” in this country, of whom then, are many both in New York and Nev Orleans, are said to be industrious!] explaining that the recent movemen; was simply a “campaign of education.” They promise important de velopments in the near future, buy the probabilities are that if Cuba ii ever freed from the dominions Spain, that result will have to bi brought about by the interventiot of the United States. The climate and soil of Cuba are prolific in ah sorts of vegetation, but the nativi population appears to be incapable of producing any great mastei minds capable of leading the rac< in their efforts' to shake off the Span ish yoke. • . 1

A correspondent of the Nev .York Herald, who assumes to be at authority, writing from Madison Wis., states that the reduction it duties has resulted in a large reduction in the price of all the smal goods in the music trade—notabh harmonicas, flutes, violins, strings, etc. This has helped the trade while it has in no way interfere! with the manufacture of Americai goods in the same line. A natura barrier exists, he says, 1 to the im portation of foreign made guitars, mandolins and kindred instruments, as climatic differences render it certain that instruments made abroac will “go to pieces” in this country, The same is also true of pianos, Foreign made pianos and organs cannot stand our changeable climate. Our manufacturers of pianos and organs, because of this climatit peculiarity, will always be assured of a market throughout the world regardless of tariff conditions, be Cause their work is made to stand any climate. It might be advisabls for our manufacturers to invegtigats these statements, instead of investing all their spare capital in creameries and canning factories. There will be no war between Germany and France in the neas future, for the simple reason that Germany’s superiority as a military power, so well established in t.h< war of 1870-71, is more than evei apparent in the light of receni statistics. Even the most radica French statesmen are said to fully comprehend this unpleasant truth. In the Chamber of Deputies, recent ly, M. Roche stated that German] could at any time place an army o, 550,000 effective men in the field, while France could count only 406,000. This proportionate strength o! itself gives Germany an immense advantage even if the fighting qualities of the rank and file and the abilities of the commanding officers were the same. The chances seera to be that the Kaiser, or his successor, will be able to realize hie dream of making independent kingdoms of Alsace and Lorraine t< serve as political “buffers” betweer the traditional enemies whos,e antagonistic interests have involved Europe in so many wars.

A Hoosier Recluse.

In a little clearing surrounded by dense woods, on the banks of Clifty Creek, about six miles from Greensburg, says the Hope News-Journal, lives a queer and interesting person. His name is Frank Doggett, and foi more than thirty years he has made this place his home. He is now sixty years of age,and, like most reeluses, has a love story at the bottom of the tale. When a young man,he and his sweetheart; started to a minister’s tc be married. The horse ran away arid the young woman was hurled against a rock. She was killed instantly. He never cared to show himself again to the world, and sought this secluded place in which to spend the remainder of his life. In the thirty years the old man has spent here he ha? never shaved, and his long black hair, which reaches to his waist, has not been cut for twenty years. Doggett is a powerful man, six feet five inch** height, and has a commanding appearance. He cultivates about fifty acres of land and raises all of his otvn food. He has a housekeeper who works for he? board and clothing, but he has nc other'human companions. He lore? rats and has his house full of V He also has a pair of goats over fit <y years old which furnish him mint, and from which he raises his meal supply. He takes no papers nor has he any printed matter in the house. He goes to town only o? election day, and then only when sent for. He keeps no record "of time and works every day, allowing ncithei himself nor oxen a noonday meal.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

MODERN Readers of ancient history are always horrified at the atrocities, the utter disregard of human life, the cruelties and torture perpetrated upon the living and the. indignities cast upon the dead, * which go to make up soMarge a part of the details of wars and conquests.'Civilized warfare no longer recognizes what was at one time regarded as a necessary part of any victory—the disgrace and final execution of the vanquished foe. Such atrocities are no longer permitted. Only a few hundred years ago the heads of the leaders of defeated factions in EngJand werg cut off and carried about the streets of London on poles, I 'finally adorning London Bridge and ■ Temple Bar. The Chinese war has ! revived to an extent some of these obsolete customs, and the struggle has been -marked by the utmost cruelty and indecency on numerous occasions. Admiral Ting was in cpnrmand of the Chinese naval forces at Wei-Hai-Wei. After his defeat he committed suicide, knowing that the Emperor would hold him responsible, and that he would probably be executed in any event. Evidently Mr. Ting knew the temper of his Majesty, for when the Admiral’s body arrived at Tientsin the coffin was pened and in obedience to orders from Pekin the head was severed from the body* stuck upon a pike and fastened above the gate of the city prison. Defeat and death was not enough fora man who probably did all he could do in defense of his country. He must be disgraced, as if that atrpcious action could help the Chinese cause. We do not need to go back to ancient history, it would seem, for horrible reading. We are getting enough and to spare ‘in the news of the day, and unfortunately it seems that these occurrences are well established and do not rest upon an author’s imagination for verification.

“When Admiral Ting's body arrived in Tientsin the coffin was opened and in obedience to the orders from Peking the head was severed from the body, stuck upon a pike and fastened above the gate of the city prison.’’— Special correspondence of The World from Tokio, Japan.

CHICAGO’S DREAMS.

The World’s Fair is Chicago’s greatest dream of the past, but that beautiful vision does not occupy the minds of her millionaires to the exclusion of dreams of future possibilities. The visions of today consist largely of canals and waterways of various kinds. The drainage canal is about completed, and the city’s engineers are now talking about the proposed ship canal from the great lakes to the Atlantic. A 'company to construct such a canal has already been chartered in Can ada, and a national charter will be obtained from the next Congress at Washington. The original promoter of £he scheme is Chauncey F. Dutton, of Pittsburg, who is the inventor of a canal lock with which he claims be can raise and lower ships a distance of 160 feet. The idea is to run the ships into locks containing just enough water to float them. The change of level is accomplished by the weight of another lock connected by means of tubes filled with compressed air. The route of the proposed waterway is via the lakes and the Welland canal, which will be deepened and used in part. A portion of the canal system of New York State will be also used. It is estimated that not more than seven ot these great locks will be necessary on the entire route. It is estimated that vessels * \ '

will be qble to steam from Chicago ’tb'New York Ici f^~j3^ysT r ”*lSe es-” feet of this improvement’, if ii ia ever carried out. can hardly be estimated, but all can understands whal an advantage it would be to farm products in the wav of reducing freight charges. Mr. AUispn and other public men are said to be much interested in the plans, and pronounce them altogether feasible. Mr. Allison introduced a resolution in the Senate in February, which was not acted upon, to create a com' mission conjointly with Canada to investigate and report upon the "matter. The project may some day assume a tangi^§L?drmU"but — tEe" chances are that railway stocks will not be depressed because of it for some years, at least.

CHAUNCEY’S COMMON SENSE

The reputation of Chauncey Depew as an orator, and as an after-dinner talker, or perhaps world-wide, in extent. Chauncey is. generally very level--headed, and was never more so than Tn a'recent atTdressHTefore an~assd-“" ciation of farmers in the interior of ■ the State. Various papers had been read by members of the club on tuberculosis as connected with milk. Mr. Depew, speaking'to the same subject, said that in his early life he lived on a farm, and mil k was a common food, and was considered the healthiest. No one ever heard of tuberculosis or microbes. The. milk was obtained from what would. now-.a-days_.be termed scrub cows ' that were turned ouu in the sum- | mer to browse for what they could ' get, and in the winter to exist if they could, and the children of the day were brought up on the milk. ( In conclusion, Mr. Depew said: “I think I may add? without fear of > contradiction, that the children i brought up in this way made the sturdiest, most indomitable and most intelligent race of men the world has ever seen. It was rough training both for the cow and the bov. but it was effective; and it is just as effective today. The tend-

ADMIRAL TING.

ency of the times, and the great danger of the times, whether to man or our domestic animals, is over refinement, increasing de'icacy, and the lack of constitutional vigor. Our ancestors and their domestic animals all suffered more than is now necessary; but a larger infusion of primitive simplicity, and a larger use of nature’s best food, produced under natural conditions, would render unnecessary so careful a watch over the germs of disease.”

Dinner-Party Etiquette.

A dinner-party is a formal function, and specially demands dignity of manner, writes Ruth Ashmore, in the April Ladies’ Home Journal. If the Continental fashion is followed, and ladies and gentlemen leave the dining-room at the same time, you go out as you came in. If the English fashion obtains, and the gentlemen remain to smoke and talk, rise when your hostess gives the signal, stand quite still until you see vour chaperon, and then fall in line behind her, passing, not too quickly, the gentlemen, who are all standing up and allowing you to walk out before them. Learn to walk well and not to “trot.” A dinner invitation should be acknowledged, and either accepted or declined within three hours, and the changing of one’s mind about it is never permitted. A witty Frenchman said, “Only death is an excuse for not keeping a dinner engagement, and even then a polite man would send the undertaker to apologize for him.” Killing time is the commonest kind of fool suicide,

"GATES AJAR.”

An Endless Throng of the Re -deemed Is Passing Through. ”1 Saw the Twelve Gates and They Were Twelve. PearJsts—Dr. Talmaf e's •N Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the New York Academy of Music, last Sunday. Subject —“The Gates of .Heaven,” the text being -Revelation xxi, 13: “On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; on the west three gates.” Hesaid: ■ Our subject speaks of a great metropolis, the existence of which many have doubted. Standing on the wharf and looking off upon the harbor and seeing the merchantmen coming up the bay, the flags of foreign nations streaming from the- topgallants, you immediately make up your mind that those vessels come from foreign ports, and you say, .“That is from Hamburg, and that is from Marseilles, and that is from Southampton, arid that is from Ravanna,” and your supposition is aceurate. —Butfrpmthe whielr I am now speaking no weatherbeaten merchantmen or frigates with battered bulkheads have ever come. There has been a vast emigration to that city, but no emigration from it, so far as our natural vision can cry“There is no such city,” says the undevout astronomer “I have stood in high towers with a mighty telescope and have swept the heavens, and I have seen spots oh the sun and caverns in the moon, but no towers have .ever arisen on my vision, no palaces, no temples, no shining streets, rio massive walls. There is no such city.” Even very good people tell me that heaven is not a material organization, but a grand spiritual fact, and that the Bible descriptions of it are in all cases to be taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this what Christ said, and He ought to know, “I go to prepare^ —” not a theory, not a principle, not a sentiment, but “I go to prepare a place for you.” The resurrected body implies this. If my foot, is to be reformed from the dust, it must have something to tread on. If my hand is tmbe reconstructed, it must have something to handle. If Thy eye, having gone out in death, is to be rekindled, I must have something to gaze on. You r. ad verse theory seems to imply that the resurrected body is to be hung on nothing, or to walk in the air, or to float amid the intangibles. You may say if there be material organisms then a soul in heaven will be craihped and hindered in its enjoyments, but I answer, Did not Adam and Eve have plenty of room in the Garden of Eden? Although only a few miles would describe the circumference of that place, they bad ample room. And do you not suppose that God, in the immensities, can build a place lame enough to give the whole race room, even though there be material organisms?

As a conquering army mSr'ching on to tak.e a city comes at nightfall to the crest of a mountain from which, in the midst of the landscape, they see the castles they are to capture, and rein in their war chargers, and halt to take a good look before their tents for the night, so now, coming as we do on this mountain top of prospect, I command this regiment of God to rein in their thoughts and halt, and before thev pitch their tents for the night take one good, long look at the gates of the great city. “On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.” In the first place I want you to examine the architecture of those gates. Proprietors of large estates are very apt to have-an ornamented gateway. Sometimes they spring an arch of masonry, the posts of the gate flanked with lions in statuary; the bronze gate a representation of intertwining foliage, bird haunted, Until the hand of architectural genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen into the stone. Gates of wood and iron and stone guarded nearly all the old cities. Moslems have incribed upon their gateways inscriptions from the Koran of the Mohammedan. There have been a great many fine gateways, but Christ sets his hand to the work, and for the upper city swung a gate such as no eye ever gazed on, untouched of inspiration. With the nail of his own cross he cut into its wonderful traceries stories of past suffering and of gladness to coine. There is no wood or stone or bronze in that gate, but from top to base and from side to side it is all of pearl. Not one piece picked up from Ceylon banks, and another piece from the Persian gulf, and another from the island of Margarette, but one solid pearl picked up from the beach of everlasting light by heavenly hands and hoisted and swung amid the shouting of angels. The glories of alabaster vase and porphyry pillar fade out before this gateway. It puts out the spark of feldspar arid diamond. You know how one little precious stone on your finger will flash under the gaslight? But, oh, the brightness when the great gate of heaven swings, struck through and dripping with the light of eternal noonday! Oh, heaven is not a contracted place. Heaven is not a stupid place. “I saw the twelve gates, and they were twelve pearls.” In the second place, I want you to number those gates. Imperial parks and lordly manors are apt to have one expensive gateway, and the others are ordinary, but look

around at these entrances to heaves arid'ebuh t them. One, two, th r ee, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, hear it all ths earth and all the heavens. Twelve gatesL— ■ Well, now, I see all the redeemed of earth coming up toward heaven. Do youthink they will all get in? Yes. Gate the first, the Moravians come up; they believed in the Lord Jesus; they pass through. Gate the second, the Quakers come up; they have received the inward light; they have trusted in the Lord; they pass through. Gate the third, the Lutherans come up; they had the same grace that made Luther what he was, and they pass through. Gate the fourth, the Baptists ■ pass through. Gate the fifth, the free will Baptists pass through. Gate the sixth, the reformed church passes through. Gate the Seventh, th e Con gregationalTsts pass th rouuh. Gate the eighth, the German- reformed church passes through. Gate rhe ninth, the Methodists pass through. Gate the tenth, the Sabbattarians. Gate the eleventh, the Church of the Disciples pass through. Gate the twelfth, the Presbyterians pass through. But there are a great part of other denominations who must come in, and great multitudes who connected themselves with no visible church, but felt the power of godliness in their heart and showed it —in their life. Where is their gate? Will you shut all the remaining hosts out of the city? No. They may come in at our gate. Hosts of G od, if you can not get admission through any other entrance, come in at the twelfth gate. Now they mingle before the throne. While I speak an ever increasing throng is pouring through the gates. They are coming up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from Madras, from Hong Kong. “What,” you say, “do you introduce all the heathen into glory?” I tell you the fact is that a majority of the people in those climes die in infancy, ancßnfants all go straight into eternal life, and so the vast majority, of those who die in China and India, the vast majority who die in Africa, go straight into the skies —they die in infancy. One hundred and sixty generations have been born since the world was created, and so I estimate there must be 15,000,000,000 children in glory. If at a concert 2,000 children sing your soul is raptured within you. Oh, the transport when 15,000,000,000 little ones stand up in white before the throne of God, their chan ting drowning out all the stupendous harmonies of Dusseldorf and Leipsic. Pour in through the twelve gates. Oh. ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved battalion, until the city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp! Crowd all the twelve gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones. Room in the mansions. Room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded until all the earth’s mountainshear the shrill blast and glens echo it. Let missionaries tell it in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across the western prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on his swift sled, halloo it the Bedouin careering across the desert. News! News! A glorious heaven and twelve gates to get into it! Hear it! Oh, you thin-blooded nations of eternal winter—on the north three gates. Hear it! Oh, ye bronzed inhabitants panting under equatorial heats —on the south three gates,

Once more I want to show you the gate keepers. There is one angel at each one of those gates. You say that is right. Of course it is. You know that no earthly palace or castle or fortress would be safe without a sentry pacing up and down by night and by day, and if there were no defenses before heaven, and the doors set wide open with no one to guard them, all the vicious of earth would go up after awhile, and all the abandoned of hell would go up after awhile, and heaven, instead of being a world of light and joy and peace and blessedness, would be a world of darkness and horror. So lam glad to tell you that while these twelve gates stand open to let a great multitude in, there are twelve angels to keep some people out. Robespierre cannot go through there, njr Hildebrand, nor Nero, nor any of the debauched of earth who have not repented of their sins. If one of those nefarious men who despised God should come to the gate, one of the keepers would put his harid on his shoulder and push him into outer darkness. There is no place in that land for thieves and liars and whoremongers and defrauders and alt, those who disgraced their race and fought against their God. If a miser should get in there, he would pull up the golden pavement. If a house, burner should get in there, he would set fire to the mansion. If a libertine should get in there, he would 1 whisper his abominations standing on the white'coral of the sea beach. Only those who are blood-washed and prayer-lipped will get through. Ob. my brother, if you should at last come up to one of the gates and try to get through and you had not a pass written by the crushed hand of the Son of God, the gatekeeper ;j would with one glance wither you forever. I stand here, this hour, to invite you into any one of the twelve gates. I tell you now that unless your heart is changed by the grace of God you cannot get in. I do not care where you come from, or who your father was, or who your mother was, or what your brilliant surroundings—unless you repent of your sins and take Christ for your divine Savior you cannot get in. Are you willing, then, this moment, just where you are, to kneel down and cry to the Lord Almighty for his deliverance?