Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Page 2

AS SUMMER GOES. Bow nunmer oil her golden treasures Before a* smiling that her work is _snoe; And as we take the gift—lo, she is gone! Withdrawing from us with her harvest _ days, Nor stops to hear our gratitude and praise. Asd when I sec her go, then I entreat _ That it may be with me when I complete The task Life sets, and vanish in the base, - ■o; let there be no parleying at the last, Bat take the harvest, be it large or small Assured, oh, friend, that it is my great And let me join the summers of the past Aa peacefully as drops the harvest moon Adown the sky lulled by the west wind’s tune. • : : •-Womankind.

TWO OPAL RINGS.

CHARLIE CLIFTON, of the Fangal Cavalry, had bought.two opal rings of a wandering peddler. 'What ffid ho care about thn superstltion regarding the stones? His fellowofficer, Allonby, was only laughed at for warning him against the purchase. Clifton rode off With the rings, while his friend strolled over to where the peddler was tying up his pack. “See here,” he said, “here’s a rupee for yon. Now tell me about those rings. The sahib has bought them, and you can tell me the truth now.” “Master promise not to toll the other •ahib, and I will tell him,” replied the old man. Allonby gave the required promise. “Those jewels very unlucky jewels,” began the ancient vender. “They making very bad luck to different peoples. First sahib who bought them was Maharajah of Karospoor. The sahib knows what happened to him. Then Fortescue, sahib at Rotibad, bought them. That poor gentleman killed out riding very next day. After Rotibad merchant buying those jewels,, and fils.

house burnt down next week. Then all the people saying: ‘These very bad Jewels,’ and all very much afraid to to buy them. That merchant wanting to sell them to me; but I too 'anch afraid to buy. Then another man told me—those jewels only bad for three people. You buy and then sell them, and next purchaser will have good luck. That’s all, sahib. I tell sahib whole truth. The sahib who has bought those Jewels will have good luck, if God wills.” The old man took his departure and AUonby continued to muse over his queer story. After all, hedjiought, it may simply have been a coincidence that those three people should have come to grief. Anyhow, I hope old Clifton won’t have bad luck. Meanwhile the subject of Allouby’s thoughts had reined In in front of a pretty little bungalow half way up the Kliarpur Hill, where most of the residents of the station had their bungalows, and where what breeze there was in the place could be enjoyed by the jaded plain dwellers. At the sound of his horse’s hoofs a youug girl who had been reclining at ease on a deck chair in the reranda hastily rose. Nettie Vernon was a pretty sight that afternoon, with her golden hair and the English roses ■till in her cheeks. So thought Clifton, and he thought, too, what a lucky fellow he was to have won her. “Why, Sir Officer,” said the young lady, with the light of laughter in her eyes and its dimples in her cheeks, “what brings you here so early this afternoon? Have you been promoted? Are you ordered to the frontier to fight the Russians, or what? Do tell he, and don’t—oh! don’t look so serious.” The young officer looked down at the bewitching upturned face, and then ! “Bid you come all this way to do that?” asked Miss Vernon with mock reproach. “Oh, how foolish and hotheaded the young men of the present day are. Now, when fewas young—oh!” The sentence was not finished, “Look here, Nettie,” said her lover, “what do you tliiuk of this ring? That’s what brought me here. Isn’t it a beautiful opal? And the most beautiful girl In Tangal shall wear it if she likes.” “Oh, Charlie, what a dear you are!” cried the young lady, in delight, “but arep’t opals dreadfully unlucky?” “There you go,” said the discomforted lover, “yon are as bad as Allouby, who has been croaking ou the subject tOec Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Raven.’ ” “I didn't say they were unlucky,” pleaded Miss Vernon; “I only asked if they weren’t. - I am sure, Charlie dear, nothing will be unlucky that you give me,” she added sweetly., In another moment the ring was on, and the two loren, comparing their Jewels, thought them quite the nicest in Kbarpur. A few days later Charlie Clifton was driving to the Kbarpur station. It was the day of the Sawarbad races. Sawarbad was some forty miles from Kbarpnr, and a large party was going over. The railway station was a couple of miles from Clifton's bungalow. He had driven about half way when he discov-

ered his famous opal ring was not 04 his finger. “Confound it!” he exclaim, ed. “I must have taken it off when T washed my hands. I must hare it 1 promised Nettie never to take it off} j besides, it might be stolen. I shall have to go back.” He turned his horse’s bead and drove rapidly home. He found the ring; and he found also when ha got to the railway station that thetraln had gone without him. Poor fellow, how sick he felt as he walked out of the station. Nettle must have gone without him; and he had been looking forward so much to the outing. A dreadful feeling of desolation took possession of him. It seemed to hint that lie was separated forever from his beloved. He cursed the opal ring which had been the cause of his misfortune. Was it really going to bring him ill luck after all, he wondered? A souhd of wheels approaching made him look up. Was It possible? He knew the cart He knew the driver. Miss Vernon drove up looking the prettiest of pictures in a new straw hat and a most becoming frock. After all, there is not always such a great gulf fixed between Paradise and the other place! “Wo must be quick, Charlie,” cried the young lady, as she threw down the reins. “I have run it very fine; I know.” “Don't hurry, darling,” was her lov* tt’s reply, given in a calm and leisurely manner—he could afford to be calm and leisurely now—"the train has gone without us.” “Oh, what a pity!” cried Nettie, claspher hands, “but never mind, dear, we have got ekeh other,” and she looked at the young man in a way that more than consoled him for all his disappointment' “And now,” said the young lady, “I daresay you’d like to know how it is lam so late. Do you know, sir, It is really all your fault? Yes, it was. It’s no good denying it It was that opal ring of yours that fell off—you know It was rather large for me. Well, I spent no end of time looking for it I thought I should never find it; but I did, and here lt~la. Biit what ea-ear-tfa-makea. you stare so? Don’t do It, dear; you look so ugly, and you are really not such a bad-looking boy in your normal state.’’ Poor Qlifton explained the cause of his own delay, which he had been trying to do for some time, but his fair lady had not given him a chance. “Now, dearest,” he concluded, —doesn’t it strike you as very curious that we should both of us have been delayed on account of our opal rings? I wonder what it means?” “Yes, I wonder, too,” said Nettie, nodding her golden head reflectively. But they both of them knew an hour or two later, when the terrible news of the breaking down of the Patharpar bridge under the train they would have gone by reached the station. And in the days of grief and desolation that followed for Kharpur they found time to wonder why they two should have been saved. Charlie and Nettie are older now, bat they still wear their opal rings—those rings which, instead of bringing them ill luck, saved them from an awful and sudden death. At least, they so regard the matter. And so do I also, for I, too, am superstitious, and not ashamed to own it.—Great Divide.

When Irving Was Hissed.

Sir Henry Irving recently told the following story about his early experience: “In my early days I accepted a stock engagement at a provincial theater, and did not know until I got there that I had been put into the place of an actor who was locally very popular. He had not left, I believe, on altogether good terms with the management; so the audience vented their spleen upon his successor. I was that unfortunate person, and for a whole week or more Iwas hissed every night; not for my bad acting, but out of love for my predecessor. I remember bow every night I walked to my rooms, some two miles out of town, very wretched, and walked in again the next night no less miserable. To this day I never pass the place by railway without a shudder.”

Cobwebs.

Since Annie has been big enough to take care of her own room, she has had a rage for neatness and orderliness very encouraging to see. Not long ago she said to her mother: “May Bridget brush down that horrid cobweb in the corner over my bookcase?” “Yes,” said her mother. “But don’t call It ‘horrid.’ It’s only because It’s la the wrong place. In Itself, It's very beautiful.” “Oh, I don’t see how any one could think a cobweb beautiful!” said the fastldious maiden, witn a shrug, "juxeepty perhaps, the cobs.” And why built by a spider, why shouldn't a cobweb have been spun by a cob?

Bicycles as Revenue Producers.

An ingenious Idea has been hit upon by the president of a Canadian railway for creating travel on the company's cars. Along the railroad, running some distance out of the city, the company has allowed bicyclists to construct a cinder path, for their own convenience, as well as giving the company better ballasting on the road. The only revenue thecompany expects to derive from tlie path Is fPbtn the fares of the wives and families of the riders who take the cars to watch the wheelmen practice. As the ridetfe oif the wheel in Toronto number about 10,000, the enterprise of the railway company Is like'7 to be well rewarded.

Magnificent.

The North British Railway Company is building a station at Edinburgh at a cost of $1,200,000.

Cheap Enough.

The feeding expenses of the animals In the London Zoo are SSOO weekly.

HE CURES BY FAITH.

WONDERS WROUGHT BY JOHN A, DOWIE’S AID. Either the Man a Worker of Miracles or Else He Xs a Monstrous Fakir—A Nice Point of Law to Be Settled. Prays Away Disease. A unique case of great interest Is soon to come before the courts of- Chicago. The question to which an answer must be given is whether John A. Dowie is possessed with the power of working miracles of healing such as are attributed to the Apostles and Christ himself, or whether the man is a mountebank, a conscious humbug, who has deluded people for his own gain. It is but a few years that Mr. Dowie has been at work and already bis fame is as wide as the continent and not a day passes that does not witness a crowd of pilgrims from every section of the country who have come to have their sickness healed by him. He started with one small wooden building where religious exercises were performed and cures

JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.

were made and this was called Zion’s Tabernacle. Now he has two others, but. the first remains the head of them all. It is these wooden buildings which have been the means of bringing Dowie into court. People who live about these have become disgusted with the crowd of halt and maimed and blind who are constantly flocking to these buildings and they have prayed the authorities that the tabernacles may be suppressed as nuisances. It is maintained on the other side that they are beneficial institutions, inasmuch as they help suffering humanity, and thus are

worthy of the law’s protection. Thus the question resolves itself into this: whether true cures are performed there or is the tvhole thing a fake. This is the delicate question the courts must decide. The Gift of Healing. Dowie, the head of this healing movement, was a Congregational minister in Sydney, Australia. He was an orthodox believer in the dogmas 'of that sect, nor did he allow his interpretation of Scripture to go contrary to authority. For years this was his mental attitude. Then a plague broke out in the city. People died by hundreds; one after another his own congregation wa3 smitten. The physicians were in despair and human skill appeared vain. Dowie sat himself down to think when, suddenly, there flashed into his mind thnt verse of the Bible which says that the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, instantly he arose and went to the house of a parishioner where lay two children whose lives had been abandoned by the doctors. He knelt down, prayed for them and laid his hands upon them and they—arose well. Such is Dowie’s story of his first cure. Ever since then, he says, he has gone on with ever-increasing faith and he claims- that 18,000 people owe to his method their cure from all manner of disenses. Dowie does not claim that any power of healing rests in himself; his whole mission is to pray arid animate the faith dt tho patient, for it is the man’s individual faith alone which affects the cure. The laying on of hands and the admonition to arise and walk in the Lord’s name Dowie regards as ceremonies and as such parts of the divine institution of healing But

MRS. DOWIE.

faith is the main thing; without this success is impossible, but so great Is Dowie’s own faith that he can inspire the minds of those who possess it in a less degree than himself. The opponents of Dowie are prepared to show, they say, that the cures wrought have been perforated only on persons troubled with hysteria or else are the results of pure delusion. Dowie, on the other hand, points to a mass of affidavits made by those who claim cures and their friends to the effect that they have been really made welL

Tke New Yacht Is a Craft That Will Surely Make Her Mark. The trial race between the Defender and Vigilant demonstrated that the new yacht is a craft that will surely make her mark. Two-thirds over the thirty-mile triangular course the winds were very

AMERICA’S CUP CHAMPION, THE DEFENDER.

light and variable, but under this condition of affairs the new boat was more than seven minutes in advance of her really fast competitor. The Vigilant seems to be outclassed in almost every condition of wind and weather' by the Defender. The only time that the old .champion can be -considered as having any kind of a chance with the other yacht is in a light wind in running, The Defender is perceptibly the better craft by the wind and in reaching. And when is considered the short time that has been had to put the Defender in shape her speed is all the more creditable.

Work on It Has Been Finished at Cambridge, Mass. After a year’s work the 40-lneh lens of the Yerkes telescope has been finished at Cambridge, Mass., and will be shipped soon to its destination. This lens is four inches larger than that of the Lick telescope. With this monster telescope great. tilings are predicted in the field of astronomy, and it is expected to reveal some interesting facts of- Mars and its canals. The lens of the Yerkes telescope, when the glass came frori Faris in the been done upon it to fashion it into its present delicate and beautiful shape, cost $40,000. Probably the grinding and polishing of the lens, which have been going on for two years, cost as much again, while several hundred thousand dollars were required to furnish the grounds and buildings for the new observatory, with its numerous instruments and the elaborate and enormous brass tube for the great telescope, besides the endowment requir-

THE ZION TABERNACLE.

ed to supply a permanent fund for the maintenance of the institution. The great crown glass now at Cambridge is about three Inches thick in the middle and one arid a quarter inches at the outer edge. The two pieces that make up the lens weigh together 1,200 pounds. Being fragile, in spite of their great size, they must be handled with the utmost care. The

lens will soon be shipped from Cambridge to the shores - of Lake Geneva, in Wisconsin, where the observatory is to be situated.

MORTON DEFENDS PACKERS.

Denies the Statement That Inferior Ji' Meats Come from Chicago. Absolute denial is given by the agricultural department to the report from Germany that Chicago packers buy the most inferior qualifies of beef for canning and packing purposes. The statement was made in a German Journal, which asserted that, owing to the poor quality of the beof, it was injurious and wrong to sell it in Germany. Secretary Morton said, concerning the story. “Personally, with a veterinary Inspector, I have several times passed through the larger beef-cunning establishments in Chicago. My visits to those establishments were always unheralded, and therefore there were no special preparations made for a general viewing of their premises and their methods of slaughtering, cooking and canning beef. From those thorough, official investigations I am justified in denying as wholly untrue all that is asserted in that statement in regard to Americun canned meats.” —^

Jose Acaova, a Cuban leader, was killed by a civil guard on a sugar estate. John Dutton is dying at LcadvUle, Col., from starvation. Ho was too proud to beg. Gov. Morrill finds there is no destitution in Ellis County, Kan., and the appeals for aid sent out were groundless. The commandant at Toulon has been ordered to dispatch a fresh detachment of troops to Madagascar to replace the troops ordered home. The malting house of the municipal brewery at Pilsen, Bohemia, burned with a damage of 1,000,000 fiorlne. One workman was killed and two firemen were injured.

THE DEFENDER.

THE LARGEST LENS.

THE YERKES TELESCOPE LENS.

Told in a Few Lines.

BABB FOR GOVERNOR.

lOWA DEMOCRATS CHOOSE THEIR CANDIDATE. State Convention at Marshalltown Reaffirms the National Democratic Platform of 1892- Lively Contest Over Silver. ~ —-™ —- The Ticket. Governor Walter I. Babb Lieutenant Governor .8. L. Bestow Supt. of Instruction L. B. Parshall Railroad Commissioner.... ..'.G. Jenkins Judge Supreme Court... .. .T. G. Harper The lowa Democratic State convention was called to order by Chairman Howard at 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning in Marshalltown. The convention was held at the Odeon Theater, and the handsome auditorium had been prettily decorated, with bunting. The delegates left little room for spectators. Prayer was offered by ReV. Father Leniman. F, G. Pierce, the yopthful Mayor of Marshalltown, made a brief speech of welcome and put the convention in good humor by saying he extended the freedom of the city, especially to the Scott County delegation. Temporary Chairman French, who was received with applause, attributed the special invitation of the Mayor to the known modesty of the Davenport delegates, and then launched upon his speech. He dwelt fully upon the prohibition question and scored the mulct law unmercifully. He then took up the several vital State issues in detail, together with national questions, strongly approving President Cleveland’s course during the panic. Mr. French thought silver monometallism would cut wages worse than during the war and demonstrated how free coinage would decrease the value of the workingman’s earnings in savings banks fully 50 per cent. The volume of money, he declared, was sufficient for business demands. Low prices, including the decline in wheat, were next considered, and Mr. French closed with the hope that neither the gold nor silver mouametalism would drive the other coin from circulation. The convention reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic national convention of 1802. ‘ The silver men made a strong fignt, but they were heafen. They had been claiming from 700 to 800 of the 1,179 delegates, but when it came to the test they were able to muster few more than half the number claimed. They fought for the permanent chairman and were beaten by a vote of 000 to 417. They fought for a silver plank in the platform and went down under on adverse vote of 652 to 420.

Ex-Judge Walter I. Babb, of Mount Pleasant, was nominated for Govennor without opposition. Mr. Babb is bimetallist and indicated his position in a short speech before the convention. There was no candiate for Lieutenant Governor. Mayor Vollmer was too young and Joseph Eiboeck, of Des Moines, would not permit the use of his name. W. A. Groneweg, of Council Bluff?, ex-State Senator, had been mentioned, but without consultation with him, as he was not present. It had been designed by the old party leaders to name a representaive German for the place, but when the silver men, smarting under their defeat, sprung the name of .ex-Lieut. Gov. S. L. Bestow, ol .Chariton, tho opposition saw a good opportunity to soften the asperities of the fight and heartily joined in nominating the man who had been beaten a few minutes before for-permanent chairman of the convention. Thomas G. Harper, of Burlington, was named for judge of the Supreme Court in a contest with E. E. Hasner, an old lawyer of Independence, but Lyman B. Parshall, of Maquoketa, for superintendent of public instructiutn, and George Jenkins, of Dubuque, were nominated without opposition. It was a large and enthusiastic convention, with a bitter fight on the silver question, but the result was accepted with a show of grace.

The Platform. The Democratic party of lowa, In convention assembled, reaffirms the national platform of the party adopted in Chicago In 1592 Pokits with satisfaction to evidences of the wisdom of that convention, in results accomplished according.,to promises, to evidences of returning prosperity,- restoration of wages and the re-establishment of industry upon a prosperous basis—conditions which have extorted congratulations from even the Republicans of lowa. We declare tire rescue of the flnanecs of the country from the baleful effects of the Sherman law, the repeal of the un-American Federal election law, and the uprooting of McKlnleylsm works worthy of tho history and the prestige of the great Democratic party, and of a courageous Democratic administration. We reaffirm the following portion of the seventh plank of the last national Democratic convention: “We hold to the use of both gold and silver ns the standard money of the country, and to coin both gold nnd silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and value, or be adjusted by international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall Insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal powor of every dollar at all times, and we demand that paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin.” We Insist upon tills policy as especially necessary for protection of farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money nnd fluctuating currency. Wo condemn the cnwnrdlpe nnd trickery of the Republican party of Ifrwn In falling to meet in Its last State platform any of the Issues Important ami vital to tho interests of our State. We believe the mulct law fails to meet the requirements of a good excise statute. It is unfair as between communities and Imposes hardship upon property owners, and compromises the honor of the State in declaring the sale of liquor a crime and condonlpg the offenso for a money consideration. We repent onr demand of the last five years for a local option, high license law, and, on behalf of the commercial interests of the State, wo favor a law permitting the manufacture of liquor, we favor the election of United-States Senators by direct vote of the people. We favor Just nnd liberal pensions to all deserving veterans, reiterate our unflinching opposition to all monopolies and trusts and cnll for enactments which will abolish combines of all kinds. Wc demand that State Institutions be governed by a single nonpartisan board of control, which can Intelligently comprehend their relative wants and economically and Justly apportion among the whole that which their Just requirements demand. We favor the speedy completion of the Hennepin cnnnl and the deepening of tbs waterways from the great lakes to the ocean, to enable ocean vessels to pass through.

Notes of Current Events. The Good Citizenship League of Wichita, Kan., has taken steps to start a daily paper. Plows are being operated by electricity in Germany more cheaply than they could be by steam. Twenty-two prisoners were injured by a falling bridge in the penitentiary at Jefferson Lee Thomas was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of J. M. Farley, The .murder was the result of a game ol cards.

The Library Corner

. The English sales of “Trilby,” counting all tie editions, have reached thir-ty-four thousand copies. The recently issued large-paper edition was practically exhausted by subscribers and booksellers before it was published. Mr. Stead, for the better inculcating of public taste, is bringing nut editions of the English poets at the low cost of one penny per volume. The first issue was Macaulay’s “Lays,” the second “Marmion,” the third “Cbilde Harold.” The fourth Is to be “Selected Poems from Lowell.” Longfellow will follow soon. A granduncle of Rudyard Kipling, an ancient gentleman verglng on OO years, has lately burst upon the world as a poet. His verse does not suggest the powers of his honored relative, but it is comparatively well-meaning. Dr. Ibsen is to have a monument erected in his honor during lifetime. It is to be by a well-known sculptor, Herr Stephan Sinding, and will stand in front of the Royal Theater at Christlania. Stevenson’s pew story, “St. Ives,” deals with the adventures of a Frenchman captured in the Peninsular War and shut up in Edinburgh €astle, where he falls in love with a Scotch maiden and has a duel over her with a fellowprisoner. “St Ivea»” it is said, was left practically completed by Stevenson. He had been at work on it for more than a year when he died; the first half of it had been entirely rewritten several times, and many chapters had received his final revision.

Mine. Lardin de Musset, sister of the poet, has emphatically declared that she has no intention of publishing any of the posthumous works of her brother. Nothing of the kind in her possession 1I r "calculated, she says, to add to the fame of Alfred de Musset as a poet. Gossips will be disappointed, no doubt, to hear that Mine. Lardin de Musset has likewise determined to keep secret her brother’s letters, and notably the correspondence between him and George Sand, with whom he was passionately in love.

Boy’s Essay on Cleanliness.

A London magazine submits the following essay on “Cleanliness” as the product of a 12-year-old boy in a grammar grade: “Do not go and say that you are feared of making yourself clean, just bccose It is cold and it hurts to get the dirt off, or becose the suds get in your eye. For when you are clean people do not edge away from you, never mind about your clothes, but they shy unto you like our teacher that Is next to godlyness. Be thankful unto him becose y our mothers can afford - soap, and becose they make you use it Also when your mother puts her fingers down your coat-neck afore breakfast and peeps to see If there Is any black there, and then sends you back to the sink again to wash yourself better, say unto her, yes mother, also smiling. On Saturday night say also unto her, mother, don’t forget to get my bath-tub reddy for me, and a new pace of soap, for I love to wash myself course of cleanliness for it Is next to godlyness. Do not be same as them there Blacks, and Amerikens, and Ingoos, which Just splashes their faces with water and no soap, and never gets Inside of a tub, only a paddlin about bits of rovers. When you say to a dirty boy, ‘Dirty Dick wants the stick,’ only say it about once, so as he can’t say as you are wicked. Say unto him, look at the thoteful cat, which spits on its pores Just to get a bit of lather for a fair start, and then wipes its nose, and into Its eyes, also behind Its ears, not counting over. Then say unto liim as it will actshelly lick Itself when It can't get its pores, rather Jhan be hitching anywheres round. Tell him to look at the necks of the masters and superintendents and preachers, and he will never find a ring, which Is always a sine as you have not gone far down.”

A Fable of the Springtime.

Once upon a time the Sun and the Wind disputed as to which was the stronger. Presently a wayfarer approached, and, to settle their differences, they agreed that superiority should be conceded to that one who could produce the most marked effect upon the man. “Oh, I won’t do ft thing to him,” remarked the Wind, and blew violently. But the wayfarer only drew his coat more closely about him and tossed down a ball or two of Medford. “Now, watch me,” said the Sun, and shone fervidly, whereat, the wayfarer thought It was Spring and changed his flannels. Whenever thereafter the Wind became boastful, the Sun had but to point to a little mound In the churchyard.— Detroit Tribune.

An Effective Freight Carrier.

A. conveyor erected at Bridpeport, Ala., Illustrates the facility which has been attained In the handling of freight by mechanical means. The convey or is about 175 feet in length, and is designed to carry sacks of grain, boxes, packages, bales, etc., to and from the boat at the river landing and the warehouse on the top of an adjacent .bill. It is constructed of two strands of roller chain, each link having an attachment to which wooden slats are bolted, forming an endless apron. The roller chain used in the conveyor makes it run smoothly and with the minimum amount of power. The carrier houses a largo cargo in abort order, and frequently bandies 1,500 sacks in an hour. The finest musician Is he who has a fiddle in his heart.