Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — Page 2

GvuU E. Marshall, Editor. . RENSSELAER - r INDIANA

"But avoid foolish questions, ant genealogies, and contentions, : n strivings about the law; for they an unprofitable and vain.” Antitoxins, the new remedy foi diphtheria, has caused one death ii New York City. The patient, a gir seventeen years of age, died in tei minutes after the fluid was in joe tec into her arm. It is feared that tin fluid bad been poisoned in some way. — ~ . zzz: Since the organization of thi United States as a separate nation olitywe have been involved in l war of some kind on an average q about twenty-five years betweei each struggle. Thirty years hav< now passed since the close of thi civil war. Never before in our history has there been so long a perioc of profound peace. Happily, ii would seem that the average is to bi badly broken, for we certainly havi no prospects of being involved it any complications likely to result ii an appeal to arms.

Gov. Morrill, of Kansas, ba; warned the people of his State, in 3 recent message to the Legislature, that the laws on the statute book* which discriminate against capitalists by making it possible forßorrow ers to delay collection of debts for twe or three years, must be repealed, ii the credit of the State is to be re stored. Such a policy, he says, drives capital away and puts interest up to the highest rate. That is plait common sense, and it is a wondei eomebody in Kansas had not thought of it before Scientific observers of the Chi-nese-Japanese war are disposed to lay the blame for China’s over whelming defeat on old Confucius who departed this life some 2,40( years ago leaving a set of axiomt and moral rules for the guidance o| his fellow men of such an immenselj Influential character that the rac< has never recovered from theii effects. Confucian rules are very good as far as they go, but they wil not protect a nation against a powei that tries to keep up with the pro eession in all that pertains to wai and its accessories.

A monster cable for - a new cable car line was hauled through th* streets of New York to its destination, April 7. The cable was made at Wilkesbarre, Pa. It was si? miles lone, weighed sixty-five tons, and forty-two horses were required to draw it. The cable was wound or a gigantic spool which weighed four tons. The truck on which the load was mounted weighed ten tons, making an aggregate load of seventynine tons. Thirty men attended the novel “turnout.” The New York World improved the opportunity to State, that the paper used for the edition of the Sunday World, of that date, weighed twice as much, and estimated that ninety-one horses would have been required to draw the same could it all have been loaded on one truck. New York can undoubtedly exhibit the “biggest things” in almost any line that ear be seen in this country.

Pacific railroads have been some thing of an elephant on the hands o: governments guaranteeing then bonds. Uncle Sam “got his foot in it’’ pretty bad in connection with the Central and Union Pacific, and is not even yet. clear of the trouble, although Huntington, Stanford, et al. are known to havb realized enor tnously. The Canadian Pacific was handsomely endowed by the Dominion Governmeat. The road was capitalized at 1177,0(10,000 and has always paid the regular dividend up to the last that became due, but has defaulted on this. The earnings of the road have been constantly falling off for three years, until it does not even pay running expenses at this time. The road will probably go into the hands of a receiver, and the effect of this on the financial as fairs of Canada cannot be foretold, but it is certain to be disastrous

He Found Out.

It is not easy to tell a self-conceited man how he is regarded, but now and then some one proves equal to the bsk. During the civil war & man. great bi his own eyes, was, by some influ»nce, appointed a brigadier-general. His sense of his own importance was it once greatly increased. He could hardly speak of anything else but his •ew dignity. Meeting a ‘'homespun” Funkee one day he accosted him thus : ‘‘Well, Jim, 1 suppose you know 1 have been appointed brigadier-getier-slP” “Yes,” said Jim, “I heerd so.” “Weil, what do folks say about it?” •They don’t say nothin’, ’’ replied truthful Jarnos, “Jhey jest laugh." Fouth’s Companion.

AFTER THE BATTLE.

How the Philistines of All Times Strip the Slain. Lmons Drawn From an Ancient Battle —Field—Dr .-Tal mage's S-ermo’ ; Dr. Talmage preached at . York Academy of Music, last Sunday, and chose for his subject “After tht Battle,” the text selected being I Samuel xxxi. 8, “And it came to pass on the morrow', when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they fot;nd Saul and his th roe sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.” Saul and his arm v had been horribly cut topieces7~ MountGird'dA’was' ghastly_ with the dead. On the morrow the stragglers came on to the field, and they* lifted the latchet of the helmet from under the chin of the dead, find they picked up the swords and bent them on their knees to test the temper of the metal, and they opened the wallets and counted the coin. Saul lay dead along- the ground, eight or nine feet in length, and I. suppose. Ihe..cowardly Philistines. to show their bravery, leaped upon the trunk of his carcass and jeered, at the fallen slain and whistled through the mouth of his helmet. Before night those cormorants had taken everything valuable from the field, “And it came to pass on the morrow-wh’ens“the Philistines came to strip the slain that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.” There are tens of thousands of young men every year coming from the coun try to our great cities. They come with brave hearts and grand expectations. The country lads sit down in the village grocery, with their feet on the iron rod around the red hot stove in the evening, talking overthe prospects of the young man who has gone off to the city. Two or three of them think that perhaps he may get along very well and succeed, •out the most of them prophesy failure, for it is very hard to think that , those whom we knew- in boyhood will ever make any great success in the world. But our young man has a fine portion in a dry goods store. The month is over. He gets his wages. He is not accustomed to have so much money belonging to himself.

He is a little excited and does not know exactly what to do with it, and be spends it iq some places where he ought not. Soon there comes up new companions and acquaintances from the bar-rooms and the saloons iftlie city. Soon that young man begins to waver in the battle of temptation,-and soon his soul goes down. In a few months or few years he has fallen. He is - morally dead. He is a mere corpse of what he once was. The harpies of sin snuff up the ...faint and. corue. on the field.... His garments gradually give out. He has pawned his watch. His health is failing him. His credit perishes. He is too poor to stay in the city and he is too poor to pay his way home to the country. Down, down! Why do. the low fellows of the city now stick to him so closely? Is it to help aim back to a moral and spiritual life? Oh, no; I will tell you why they stay; they are Philistines stripping the slain. An ex member of Congress, one .if the most eloquent men that' bver stood in the House of Representatives, said in his last moments: “This is the end. lam dying —dying on a borrowed bed, covered by a burrowed sheet, in a house built by public charity. Bury me under that tree in the middle of the field, where I shall not be crowded, for I Save been crowded all my life.” Where, were the jolly politicians ind the dissipating .comrades who had been with him laughing at his jokes, applauding his eloquence and plunging him into sin? They have left. Why? His money is gone, his reputation is gone, his wit is gone, bis clothes are gone, everything is gone. Why should they stay any longer? They have completed their work. They have stripped the slain. There is another way, however, of doing that same work. Here is a man who. through his sin, is prostrate. He acknowledges that he has done wrong. Now is the time for you to go to that man and say, “Thousands of men have been as far astray as you are and got back.” Now is the time for you to go to that man and tell him of the.omnipotent grace of God —that is sufficient for any poor soul. Now is the time to go and tell him' how swearing John Runyan, through the grace of God, afterward came to the celestial city. Now is the time to go to that man and tell him how profligate Newton came, through conversion, to be a world renowned preacher of righteousness. Now is the time to tell that man that multitudes of men who have been pounded with all the flails of sin and|d ragged through all the sewers of pollution, have at last risen to positive dominion of moral power. You do not tell him that, do you? You say to him: “Loan you money? No. You are down. You will have to go the dogs. Lend you a dollar? I would not lend you five cents to keep you from the gallows. You are debauched. Get out of my sight now. Down! You will have to stay dowp.” And thus those bruised and battered men are sometimes accosted by those who ought to lift them up. Thus the last vestige of hope is taken from them. Thus those who ought to go and lift and save them are guilty of stripping the slain, A man who had rejected Christianity and thought it all trash came to die. He was in the sweat of a

great agony, and fils wife’said7'“We had better have some prayer.” “Mary, not a breath of that,” he said. “The lightest word of prayer would roll back on me like rocks On a drowning man. I have come to the hour of test. Tbac a chance, but I forfeited it. I believed in a liar, and He has 1 est me in the lurch: Mary, bring me “Tom Paine,” that book that 1 swore by and lived by. and pitch it into the fire, and let it burn and burn as I myself shall soon burn.” And then, with the foam on his lip and his hands tossing wildly in the air, he cried out, “Blackness,* of darkness! Oh. my God, toojate!” And the spirits of darkness whistled u p f romthe depths and wheeled round and round him, stripping the slain. You are hastening on toward the consummation of all that is sad. To’luy you stop and think, but it : s only for a moment, and then you will tramp on, and at the close of this service you will go out, and the q uestion wi 11 be, “How did you 1 ike the sermon?” And one man will say, “I liked it very well,” and another man will say, “I didn’t like it at all,” but neither of the answers will touch the tremendous fact, that, if impenitent, yon are going at thirty knots per hour toward shipwreck. Yea, you are in a battle where you will fall, and while your surviving relatives will take your remaining estate, and the cemetery will take your body, the messengers of darkness will take your soul and come and go about you stripping the slain.

When the Philistines came down on the field, they stepped between the corpses and they rolled over the dead, and they took away everything that was valuable, and so it was with the people that followed after the armies at Chancellorsville, end at Pittsburg Landing, and at St me River, and at Atlanta, stripping the slain, but the Northern and Southern women—God bless them!— -came on the field with basins and pads and towels and lint and cordials and Christian encouragement, and the poor fellows that lay there lifted up their arms and said, “Oh, how good that does feel since you dressed it!” and others looked up and said, “Oh, how you do make me think of my mother!” and others said, “Tell the folks-at home I died thinking about them,” and another looked up ‘and.said, “Miss, won’t you sing me a verse of ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ bedie?” And then the tattoo was sounded, and the hats were off, and the service was read, “I am tht* resurrection and the life,” and in honor of the departed the muskets were loaded and the command given : , “Present! Fire!” — 3 One night I saw a tragedy on the. corner of Broadway and Houston streets. A young man, evidently doubting as to which direction he had better take, his hat lifted high enough so that you could see he had an intelligent forehead, stout chest; he had a robust development. Splendid young man. Cultured young man. Honored young map. Why did he stop there while so man y were going up and down? The sact 1 is that every man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the mas tery of-his spirit, an d th ere was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that man’s soul at the corner of Broadway and Houston streets. | “Come with me, 1 said the good angel. “I will take you home. I will spread my wings over your pillow. I will lovingly escort you all through life under supernatural protection. 1 will bless every cup you drillk ou t of, every—couch you rest on, every doorway you enter. I will consecrate your tears when you I weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the last 1 will hand over your grave into the hand of the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. In answer to your father’s petition and your mother’s prayer I have been sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your guardian spirit. Come with me,” said the good angel in a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops from a lute of heaven when a seraph breathes on it. “No, no,” said the bad angel. “Come with me. I have something better to offer. The wines I pour are from the chalices of bewitching carousal. The dance I lead is over floor tessellated with unrestrained indulgences. There is no God to frown on the temples of sin where I worship. The skies are Italian. The paths I tread are through meadows, daisied and primrosed. Come with me.” The young man hesitated at a time when hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel smote the good angel until it departed, spreading wings through the starlight upward and away until a door flashed open in the sky, and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point in that young man’s history, for, the good angel flown, he hesitated no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the beginning but blasted at the last.

The bad angel, leading the way, opened gate after gate, and at each gate the road became rougher and the sky more lurid, and wbat was peculiar as the gate slammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated that it would never open. Passed each portal, there was a grinding of locks and a shoving of bolts, and the scenery on either side of the road changed from gardens to deserts, and the June air became a cutting December blast, and the bright wings of the bad angel turned to sackcloth, and the eyes of light became hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains that at the start had tossed with wine poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on the right side of

the road fhere was a serpent, ~an< the man said to the—bad- angel “What is that serpent?” and the an swer was, “That is the serpent 0 stinging, remorse.” On the left sid* of the road* there was a lion, and th, man asked the bad angel, “What if that lion?” and the answer was ’“TTrat”is-~-the-M4en- oL-aU-cdeveurihp dcspair.” A vulture flew througl the sky, and the man asked the bac angel,''“What is that vulture?” ant the answer was, “That is the vultun waiting for the carcasses of the slain.” And then the man began t< try to pull off him the folds of some thing that had wound him round am? round, and be said to the bad angel, ‘ - W hat is it that twists me inth ii awful convolution?” and the answer was, ‘‘That is the worm that ne.y.ei dies.” And then t-he man said t( the bad angel, “What all this mean? I- trusted—in what you said at the corner of Broadway and Houston streets. I trusted it all, ami why have you thus deceived me?" Then- the lasLdeception fell off the charmer, and it said: “I was sent forth from the pit to destroy your soul. I watched my chance for many a long year. When you hesitated that night on Broadway, I gained my triumph. Now you are here. Ha, ha! You are here. Come, now, let us fill these two chalices of fire and drink together to darkness and woe and death. Hail! Hail!” Oh, young man, will the good angel sent forth by Christ or the bad angel sent forth by sin get the victory over your soul? Their wings are interlocked this moment above you, contending for your destiny, as above the Apennines eagle and condor fight mid-sky.‘ This hour may decide your destiny.

Aaron Burr and Tammany

McClure's Magazine for April. Burr, however, nearly wrecked the local organization, or, at least, put in great peril the influence of Tam- ' many. lie secured a charter from the Legislature, ostensibly for the creation of a company to supply New York City with pure water. During the excitement caused by the Parkhurst revelations in the fall of 1894, there were dug up fn the vicinity of j the Court House, where the sessions were held, pieces of the wooden water pipe which were laid by that company, cKlrfd the Manhatthn Company. One of these wooden pipes lay for some days exposed to the view of those who attended the meetings at which the monstrous revelations of the later Tammany were being made. It was the visible evidence of the first legislative trickery of Tammany Concealed in that charter was one provision which enabled Burr and his associates to organize the Manhattan Bank. Burr and his Tammany associates controlled the stock. The public indignation was intense. That anger was due in part to the belief of the community that it had been cheated by a legislative trick, and in part to a fear that the power which this bank could exercise would perhaps be dangerous, or, at least, costly, to the community. in the election of 1799, the Democratic party lost the prestige which it had gained in the election of 1797 and 1798. The Federalists hoped that by reason of this tricky charter the Democracy would lose the State in the approaching Presidential election. This fear was not justified, however, Burr managing the bank, and men as well, with exceeding tact, so that there was no opposition to the placing of his name on the National ticket with that of Jefferson, the understanding being that Jefferson would be chosen President and Burr Vice-PresieentL

What the Monroe Doctrine Is.

From the Message of President Monroe to Congress, Dec. 2, 1823. We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and the allied powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any I part of this hemisphere as dangerj ous to our peace and safety. With | the existing colonies or independencies of any European power we have not interfered and s.hall not interfere; but with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose indepedence we have on great consideration and just principles acknowb j edged, we could not view any . interposition for the purpose of opj pressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States.

Wonderful Eyes of the Bee.

Every bee has two kinds of eyes; the two large, compound ones, looking like hemispheres on either side, and the three simple or single eyes, which crown the head. Each compound eye (as one would naturally suppose from the term which designates it) is really an immense aggregation of eyt?s, each being composed of 3,500 facets, which means that every object seen has its image reflected 3,500 times in ,the bee’s tiny brain. Every one of these facets is the base cf an inverted hexagonal pyramid, whose apex is fitted snugly to the head. Each of these pyramid facets may be termed a perfect eye, for each has its own iris and optic nerve. The late King Lobengula’s sons hßve been visiting Cecil Rhodes al Cape Town. They are not promising youngsters, being averse to work oi instruction, and much under the influence of their misfit divine right

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

THE INDIANA OIL FIELD, The possibilities for Indiana in the way es material development seem to be almost limitless. Natural gas with in ten years has work ed a revo • lution in such a large portion of . our territory that any one predicting the -Present situation at the inception of the discovery would have been regarded as a fit subject—for a lunacy commission to draw an exorbitant allowance from the count}* treasury. Week after week the -precious fluid continues.to flow and work its wondrous, transformations, and the gloomy ending so often predicted is not yet in sight. Recently the gas belt has begun to be the center of another field of wealth that promises to reach great proportions. The oil oQ-Utput is apparently iff its infancy, yet Indiana even now has a throng of embryo “Coal Oil Johnnies” whose easilyrgotten cellars are going into circulation at a desirable rate. A correspondent of the Indianapolis News, writing from Montpelier, gives details that are interesting. He says: The Indiana oil field is on a genuine boom, and operations are branch ing out in all directions. The in • crease in the priceof the crude product to 60 cents a barrel has caused the hustling of the oil operators on the outside, and brought many an Eastern oil man to this field. These men bring capital with them, and while they are making money for themselves, they are at the same time helping otfiers. The Indiana field has heretofore been confined to ! Wells, Blackford, Jay, Grant, Adams, and Huntington counties, but from this on it will be different. The six counties mentioned have only been partially drilled, as they still contain sufficient territory undrilled to keep the drill busy for five or six years. The field is extending, and that rapidly. The venture made by Doddson & Meeks on the Murray

farm in Monroe township, Randolph county, a short distance from Parker City, that is a good twentybarrel producer, leads the trade in that direction, and shows that the oil field runs a great many miles south and west from the famous Camden pool. The territory for thirty miles south of Camden has been taken under lease, and that signifies coming activity in that direction. Another prominent venture is now under way about a mile southwest from the Murray farm well. It is owned by the Standard Oil Company, located on the Fowler farm, in Liberty township, Delaware county. The outcome of this venture will be watched with in terest by the trade: Another prominent test well was the one completed by the Standard Oil Company four miles south from Portland. This well is located nineteen miles south from the nearest oil pool, and adds a large area of undeveloped territory to the Indiana field. Many are of the opinion that the last mentioned well will cause the finding of a very productive belt which will run to the northeast and connect with the famous reservoir field at Celina and St. Marys, in the Ohio field. If the connecting link is found between Indiana and Ohio, it will then be the longest and most productive oil field in existence. The oil well struck near Elwood, a few days ago. has stirred up any amount of excitement in that vicinity. The report is that a majority of the Elwood gas wells are more or less impregnated with crude oil. This is the case of most of the gas fields laying in close proximity to the great, oil pools. At the present price of the product operations will again start up in Royal Center, Francisville, Noblesville and Terre Haute, is well as man y other portions of the State, wfyere some oil was encountered in the early days while boring for gas. There is without a doubt m oil belt extending from Terre Haute to the famous fields near this place. Taking a right course the field would pass between Indianapolis and Noblesville. The most productive portion of the Indiana field is yet to be found. The field is certainly a much larger one than the Ohio field, if the theory of oil and gas fields prove correct. This will, be a great the oil industry in this Stat?. The year of 1894 was a large, and prolific one, but the operations the present year will be nearly double. The Indiana field for the month of March shows 235 completed wells, of which eighty-three were worthless for oil, and the output of the balance are 3,095 barrels in twenty-four hours. The dry holes arc not altogether worthless, as many are gas producers and can be utilized for tpat purpose, The February report showed 171 completed wells, seven-ty-two dry holes or gas wells, and a new daily production of 2,425 barrels. This shows an increase for March over February operation of sixty-four completsd wells, eleven

dryboles,4l7o -bari:el&in newjpm. duction, and a decrease in abaa doned wells of seven. The daily average of the January wells wa 25j barrels; February, 24» : ■ barrels, and in March 20 2-3 bar rels. In drilling wells there are for the eommencement of April 187.an< rigs up 131, or a total of 318, against the number at the start of March which aggregated 155 drilling welh and HI rigs up, or a total of 26fi making a difference in April againsMarch of 32 in drilling wells and 2| rigs up, or a total increase of new work of 52 in drilling wells and rig up. These figures show for them selves and speak volumes for the in dustry. The increase in new worl is large, and shows that a genuim oil boom is now on in the vast ares of oil territory. More money will bu. expended in the Indiana oil field thi present year than ever before. The farmers who are lucky enough to b< * located in the oil districts are be coming very wealthy from theii royalty, which runs from bne-eightl to one-sixth of the product, while many receive a big bonus beside; the royalty. The money is spun; with the business people, and s large portion of the farmers are re alizing so much from the oil industri that they lay aside the farming an< move to the larger cites to enjoi their wealth which come to them sc easily. Wells county, as usual,takes the lead for March, having 67 completed wells to its credit, six o: which were dry, 1,120 barrels nevi production daily, 62 drilling well: and 43 new rigs up. Blackford coun ty shows 12 completed wells, 331 barrels production, 3 dry holes, 16 drilling wells and 9 rigs up, Jaj county shows 41 completed wells 610 barrels production, 6 dry hclei 31 drilling wells and 24 rigs up. Adams county shows 24 completed wells, 440 barrels production, 4 drj holes, 20 drilling wells and 17 rig.* up. Grant county shows 16 com pleted, 206 barrels production, I dry holes, 12 drilling wells and t rigs up. Huntington county shows 6 completed wells, 60 barrels production, 3 dry holes, 5 drilling welh and 3 rigs up. All other counties where operations are going on show 69 completed wells, 330. barrels dailj output, 52 worthless wells for oil, 41 drilling wells and 29 rigs up.

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

It is said that a pinch of sail placed on the tongue and allowed t* cf solve slowly is a certain cure foi sick headache. ' Sprinkle salt over the coal in you* bin in liberal quantities; it will maki it burn more evenly and prevent “clinkers.” If you cannot procure dampeneo sawdust for use in sweeping, us* bits of dampened paper sprinkled over the floor, Tea leaves stain and salt makes the carpet sticky. A cloth dipped in grease and then in salt is the best scourer for all sorts of dirty and greasy dishes ir , the kitchen. Do not wash them, bu! [ employ this method instead. For small family a baked kidney I pudding should be baked in a deep. ' covered earthen pot; I use a beas pot; bake slowly for five or six hours; , three pints sweet milk, set in tin d>st over kettle of boiling water; when milkisscaldinghotsift in nineslight i ly rounded tablespoons of sifted Indian meal, stirring constantly that it does not lump; have ready ii: earthen pot one quart sweet apples, peeled, cored and quartered, on* and one-half cups of molasses poui over same, one cup chopped suet; pour hot milk and meal into pot and stir all together; now add one pint cold milk and do not stir again; put to bake immediately ; one cup stoned raisins may be added if desired; the apple may be ommitted; please follow directions exactly. Net has quite taken the place o: chiffon and mousseline de soie when lace is not used, and black net (is put over every conceivable color, white preferred. There is but on* model for these waists. Full from the shoulders across the bust, from there to the waist tight fitting, Sleeves either leg o’ mutton or bish op, and long over the hand. There are signs of bustles in th* wide silk petticoats with the back breadths finished with’ whalebones and trimmed with numberless small ruffles. There must be something to hold out the wide skirts, which are wider than ever around the bottom, and for which the steel tape ii not enough to give the requisit* “flare." - pThe creases can be taken out ol velvet and the pile raised by drawing it across a hot iron over which a wet cloth has been spread. If thereat* pin marks over which the pile re fuses to rise, brush it up with a still brush and steam it, repeating th* operation several times. Mrs. Rorer is an earnest ad vocal* of whole wheat flour. She says bread made from this flour not only contains seventy-three per cent, more nourishment than white breac but it is nature's own remedy foi dyspepsia and kindred ailments, brought on by excess of starch ii white flour bread. Apoplexy and Bright's disease can be traced Ib many cases to an excessive use ol Starchy food. Plunge your knife into hot watei before attempting to cut warm bread qr cake.