Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1898 — Page 2

THE RICH AMERICAN.

Points About the Man Who Has a Large Fortune. He Becomes the Mark o's Mallee and Envy and. Han Hie Troubles In Life with All Hin Money. In the popular imagination the very rich man occupies a peculiar position. Everyone would like to be very rich, for the possession of a million, or, not to be too primitive, let us say two millions, represents independence, freedom from toil, a life of ease, if not pleasure, opportunities for making one’s self felt, or for benefiting 'bne’s fellows, or carrying out long-cherished schemes of some sort. Yet the very people who long for wealth picture those, who possess it in a very different light. In proportion to their distance from the world of the very rich is their ignorance of it; and much as the man in moderate circumstances may long Tor wealth he never fails to misrepresent to himself the result of possessing it. while among the poor the very rich man is gradually coming to be looked upon as a sort of public enemy who becomes richer and richer, while the rest of the world grows poorer and poorer. Explain to them as much as you will that this is not a fact; that the very rich are so few in number that their wealth divided among their fellows would make no one appreciably richer, or that all great fortunes are very soon broken up, or that the poor are improving their condition quite as steadily and surely as the rich, what you say makes no impression. To be rich is every man’s dream. To be poor is to suffer that others may wax fat and kick.

The very rich man of real life is, for a variety of reasons, difficult to describe, so that the picture will seem fair. His peculiarity is that he has so few typical peculiarities. He is neither necessarily lavish, nor loud, nor noisy, nor fond of self-assertion. Though he may, of course, be one, or all, of these, he is just as apt to be a rather quiet man. whom you would pass in a crowd without thinking twice about him. Inexperienced persons, sometimes, hearing that one of the very rich is near them, try to pick him out—almost always unsuccessfully, because they inevitably think he must be a noticeable person. Their mistake comes from their not knowing that the effect of wealth, after the first froth is off, is often to sober and chasten. Even noisy, boastful braggarts, suddenly overtaken with wealth, sometimes become noted for their quiet, retiring manners. A multimillionaire may spend a whole evening without letting the cat out of the bag. On the other hand, he may make the room echo with his boasts; but in this case it almost always turns out that he is something else besides a very rich man—a philanthropist, or a corruptionist, or a journalist, perhaps. Our remarks are intended to be confined to those who are merely very rich. Their aim seems to be as often as not to render themselves in dress and manners and speech indistinguishable. The law is not made any easier for them on account of their weatlh. The tuxes fall upon them with equal weight, so far as houses and lands are concerned, and though they may be “let off” a little as to their stocks and bonds this is not owing to the law. but through the cleverness, of some attorney whom they must quietly 7 retain and pay for the work. The law is always on the alert. The wealthiest may any day be confronted by a decision of the court of last resort that the right to a glass of sherry and bitters at his club has been taken from him; if he keeps any considerable amount of valuables on his premises, he must have private detectives to guard them; if he gives a ball, he is loudly criticised for his extravagance, and his wife is caricatured; if he does not subscribe liberally to public objects, he is held up to public reprobation as a miser; if he is bo unlucky as not to get into a club the fact is advertised as if he had been defeated in an election to congress, and any objections to his life and conversation, or to his personal appearance which may 7 have affected the result, are bawled out under the head of “club news."

The result of the dangers which threaten, and the jealousy and suspicion which surround him, is that in the end he is very far from daring to be the arrogant, purse-proud creature he is painted by popular imagination. So far from being haughty, he has seldom even the high spirits and power of enjoyment that ought to go with wealth. The very rich American, in short, is apt to be embarrassed. His tastes are still more or less those of a primitive, semi-rural community, founded upon equality, managed under democratic forms, in which runk and title and etiquette do not exist, yet this social organization, which was in its full flower u generation ago. is submerged by a new civilization, of which he is the head, which is not arranged for him or prepared to receive him. and of which he'is at once the boastand the butt. He is the victim of a social order which he represents but does not understand. He knows that he is one of the great of the earth, but does not know how to manage it all. It. has to be managed for him by private secretaries. ami “major domos." and above all by his wife and children, who make Idin build a house us big us u hospital ou a twoacre lot. and entertain “house parties” of young people whose names be does not know. Quiet is the role of such a man, and quiet he generally is. In his own set he may find relief and momentary solace in boasting about his liquors and cigars, or stocks, but when he goes abroad among those who would give their eyes to change places with him, his one idea is often to escape notice.—N. Y. Post.

KISSED HIM BY MISTAKE.

i . ■ Error of a Pretty In*mi*rant Brinara Bluahes to a Yonnfif Man’s Cheek*. Some men are born to be kissed, some achieve kisses, while others have kisses thrust upon them. The last seems to be the case with a visitor to the immigrant station at the foot of Washington avenue recently. Among the passengers who disembarked from the American line steamer Waesland, which had reached her dock, were a little group of rosy-cheeked maidens from Ireland. They were conducted to the immigrant station, where the inspectors started in to ply them with the usual questions as to their financial condition, ability to earn a living, relatives residing in this country, etc. z “Shure, 1 have a brother here," replied the prettiest one of the Jot to the inspector who was questioning her, “and he was to meet me this day." “Do you see him?” queried the inspector. “I don’t,” was tlie answer, the lassie’s red lip pouting prettily. “But that’s not sthrange. We were childer when he left the ould counthry, an’ I wouldn’t know him at all, at all." The inspector looked around among the crowd. Spying a stalwart, handsome young fellow among the onlookers he pointed to him. “Is that your brother?” he asked. The maiden gave one glance at the young fellow and then threw herself into his arms with a glad cry. “It is, it is,” she exclaimed. . “Shure, Pathrick, an’ it’s glad I am to see you.” The next instant she was planting ret sounding smacks upon the y oung man’s lips. The latter was too much surprised to say a word at first. Finally he pushed the girl gently away. “It’s mistaken you are,” he said, blushing to the roots of his hair; “I never had a sister.” , The pretty immigrant would have fallen in a heap if the inspector had not caught her in his arms and led her weeping to a seat. “Shure, I thought you said he was my brother,” she wailed. “Oh. wurra, wurra, what have I done?” The arrival of the real brother a few minutes later dried her tears and brought the smiles to her face once more. It was noticed the young fellow who got the kisses lingered around until the brother and sister went away, afterward making vigorous inquiries as to who they were, and it is not beyond the possibilities that—well, love affairs have grown out of much less promising incidents.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

ATTACKS ON THE QUEEN.

Victoria’s Numerous Escapes from Assassinatioa. On June 22 Queen Victoria, who is now in her seventy-ninth year completed a reign of 60 years. In doing this she has had to surmount dangers which do not beset ordinary mortals. In spite of the queen's amiable and irreproachable character and her unvarying and scrupulous regard for the constitution of her countA’, she has been the subject of several attempts on her life. They have all failed entirely, but at least three of them came near to doing harm. The queen showed considerable personal courage on these occasions. The first attempt was made by Edward Oxford, on June 10, 1840. He discharged a pistol at her majesty when she was going up Constitution hill. The man was quite mad, and after being captured was sent to Bedlam and thence to Dartmoor, where, after 35 years, he was transported to Australia, where he set up in business as a house painter. Nearly two years later, on May 30, 1842. and almost in the same place, John Francis fired at the queen. He was sentenced to death for this act, but was afterward reprieved and was transported to Tasmania. The third attempt was made on July 3 by a deformed youth named John William Bean, but his pistol missed fire. He was imprisoned for 18 months in Newgate. Again, in May, on the 19th. in the year 1849, ami a third time on Constitution hill, William Hamilton fired at her majesty. He, however, was only sentenced to transportation for seven years fbi* this act. In the following year Lieut. Pate committed another outrage, but he had no murderous intent. Just as her majesty was leaving Cambridge house Pate struck her over the face with a cane, and, like Hamilton, was sentenced to transportation for seven years. The last occasion on which anybody attempted to injure her majesty was two days after the Thanksgiving for the recovery of the prince of Wales, when a young man named Arthur O’Connor approached her majesty’s carriage in the courtyard of Buckingham palace and threatened the queen with a pistol. John Brown, who was then her majesty’s closest personal attendant, seized the youth and took the revolver from him. which was found tortie uHh>aded. —N. Y. Journal.

Staffed Onions.

Take one or ifiore large Spanish onions. Skin them. Place them in boiling salted water, and simmer steadily for half an hour. Then carefully remove son < of the center so that there is it hollow. Fill in this with finely chopped meat, mixed in equal quantities with bread crumbs. Season this stuffing with finely chopped parsley, hcrl s. pepper and salt. Then bind together with enough beaten egg to kiep it from crumbling. When you l ave carefully filled in the onions, put them in a pan with good «toek or gravy, to come more than half way up the atiiovv Simmer till jhey can be quite ens : > . reed with a thin skewer. They w ill . ike about an hour; then lift them oti* Keep hot. Reduce the stock by boiling it quickly with the lid off till only half pf it is left; then strain it over and pound the onions.—Boston Globe.

WHEN MR. LEWIS ENTERS.

Two Door* Admit tbe Visitor, and the I Senate Chamber Is Impressed. ! The character of the present congress l is J. Hamilton Lewis. He Is a character not to be comprehended all at once. He grows upon you. It takes some time to realize how strange he is. His extravagance of dress and his attitude first attract attention. When he enters the house, no matter what is doing, every eye instinctively turns toward him, like the eyes of the audience in a theater turn to tbe leading man when he breaks through the throng of minor actors. Mr. Lewis visits the senate frequently. There is nothing more dramatic than his entrance into the presence of that august body. He never by any chance enters through one of the side doors. The senate may be engaged in a heated debate or deeply’ absorbed in a bewildering schedule of the tariff bill. Suddenly a sense of soniething happening comes upon everyone. People in jthe galleries look dow«i and the interest of the senate is arrested. Both the swinging doors of the main entrance at the head of the center aisle, facing the vice president, swing open and Mr. Lewis appears. The doors close behind him and he stands for a moment under the archway, his hat and gloves in one haind in front of him, and looks toward the vice president with a slight inclination of the head, as much as to say: Do not let me interrupt you. Then he looks with a sweeping glance to the right and to the left, slightly inclining his body. He then straightens himself up and sweeps the galleries with a glance. By this time every eye is upon him, and, with the graceful, daintysteps of a dancing master, he walks over to the democratic side of the chamber, greeting in the most graceful manner imaginable each senator who happens to be in his path to the vacant seat he is making for. His manner of greeting is to shift his hat and gloves from his right hand to his left with a flourish, taking two steps forward, as if about to extend his right hand, at the same time inclining his body’ gracefully’ and giving his hat a great sw’eep by’ his side, as the ideal cavalier trails his plume to the ground in bow’ing to “my lady.” It would be impossible for him to enter into any presence w-ithout attracting attention, and apparently he has no intention of trying to do so. With his fluffy’ hair and whiskers, both parted in the middle, he looks like some of the portraits of Capt. John Smith of about the time when he is supposed to have excited the imagination of the impressionable Indian maiden. Instead of the’glittering trappings of a knight. his dress is a display of the highest skill of the tailor, setting off his slender form in all its graceful lines and clinging to him with an affectionate softness. His every movement ends in a posture, and, with a gentle undulation, he passes from one posture to another. His voice is music and his w’ords flow like poetry being reeled off 220 words to the minute.— Philadelphia Telegram.

THE LIGHT OF THE FUTURE.

Stwdyinir That Produced by Animal and Vegetable Life. The incandescent electric light wastes and throws away 98 per cent, of the energy utilized, only two per cent, appearing in the shape of light rays. On the other hand, the light emitted by the firefly and the glow worm wastes but two per cent.. In other words, the animal light is 48 times cheaper. In the course of recent experiments Dr. Raphael Dubois, of Lyons, has made elaborate studies of a great many kinds of light-producing creatures. There is no lack of them in nature; in fact, thousands of species possess this curious photogenic power. Not a few plants also have it, and among the latter may be mentioned certain mushrooms that grow in Brazil and Austria. Some of them enough light to make it possifble to read by the aid of a single specimen. The luminosity frequently seen in autumn in the forests on dead leaves or on bits of wood is due to fungi. The yellow flowers of the nasturtium emit a small amount of light. But in the animal kingdom the torchbearers assume an immense variety of forms, the minute organisms that are responsible for much of the ocean’s phosphorescence to the deep-sea fishes that carry’ lamps of their own and form endless torchlight processions through the otherwise black and gloomy marine abysses. Many jelly fishes are luminous, and so are some of the star fishes. A few earthworms are light-givers and numerous crustaceans have a luminosity of their own. One kind of shrimp has a brilliant circle surrounding the eye, which is really a luminous socket. A European species of “thousand legs” emits light in autumn. But no animals are better light-givers than certain insects, and even the eggs of some of these are luminous. From generation to generation the light-bearing creatures transmit the torch that is never extinguished, and which seems to have been lighted at the very dawn of creation. —Boston Transcript.

Raśian Clergy.

The clergy of Russia are divided into two classes—the white, or village, clergy. who must all be married, and the black clergy, or monks, who are vowed to celibacjf. The higher dignitaries of the church are invariably chosen from this last class. The great majority of them have no particular duties to perform, and a movement ii on foot for utilizing them us assistant* to parish priests in villages.—Chicago Times-Herald.

A Telling Shot.

At last Erin has sent tin arrow straight "to the English heart. The shoes <>f British manufacture are too big for feminine Irish feet, nnd even the pedals of the- wheels made by the English are so large that the tiny feet of the daughters of the Emerald isle will rot stay upon them.—Chicago Tribune.

New Store and New Goods. r J r I HAVE (JUST OPENED OUT A ‘ . MOST COMPLETE LINE OF Dry Goods, Notions, Working-Shirts, Overalls, Boots and Shoes. ....I CARRY A FULL LINE 0F.... —Fresh Fancy and Staple Groceries Goods delivered to any part of the City. Nowels Block. N. F. MUIR, Telephone 223RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA.

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sio. 74 carries passengers between Monon .nd Lowell. No. 80 mnkes no stop between Rensselaer and and Englewood. No 82 makes no stop between Rensselaer and Hammond. Train No. 5 lias a through coach for Indianapolis and Cincinnati via Roachdale arrives at Indianapolis 2:40 I*. M. Cincinnati 6 o’clock P M. No. fi has through coach; returning, leaves Cincinnati «:3oA. M. leaves Indianapolis 11:00 . M. arrives at Rensselaer 8:80 P.M: dally. Enquire of agent about half rate excursions to all points south, and for the new lout) mile Interchangeable mileage books, good on a dozen railroads. W. H.BEAM, Agent

Plumbing and Steam Fitting.

The undersigned is now permanently located with his plumbing nnd steam-fitting shop, in the former J. P. Warner wagon shop, on Front street, and ready for all work in his line. Special attention given to plumbing for waterworks. Fdr sample of this line, refer to court house, White's livery barn, Strickfaden's saloon, E. A. Kirk's and L. Wild berg's residences, and others. A. T. Perkins.

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