Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — Page 3

PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE

REM AUK ABLE PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO.

AMBASSADOR BRYCE.

ritory which land speculators and mining prospectors are not permitted to enter. Oar upward progress has been slow as well os gradual, and yet our ancestors had the advantage of living In A climate and on a soli which*-compelled exertion and gave that stimulus to progress which the Inhabitants of tropical Africa did-not receive. Progress will, we trust, be far more rapid among the colored people now than It was Wong the races of Northern Europe or among the aborigines of America, because all the influences which a highly developed civilization exerts are at work around and,on them. But when we remember how short a time has elapsed ahHS® freedom and responsibility, the factors that make , manhood, wgre attained, and how short even the time •lnce the progenitors of the colored people were living, as savages In the African jungles, we shall wonder not at the defects we see, but rather that those defects are not far There must be patience, and with patience hope. OUR IGNORANCE OF OUR DESTINY.

In the invincible ignorance where we are our imagination has the choice of our eternal destinies. A first hypothesis is that of absolute annihllatioa A second hypothesis, ardently caressed by our blind instincts, promises us the preservation, more or less integral, through the Infinity of time, of our consciences or of our actual ego. Remains a double hypothesis of a survival with consciousness or with a con-

■clousness' enlarged and transformed, of which that which we possess to-day cannot give us any Idea, which it rather, prevents us from conceiving, just as our Imperfect eye prevents us from conceiving other light than f’that which passes betweeiv-sub-red and ultra-violet The hypothesis resolves Itself Into a simple question of consciousness. To say, for example, as we are tempted to do, that a survival without consciousness is equivalent to annihilation, is to argue a priori and without reflection this problem of consciousness, the principal and the most

MICHIGAN LEADS IN DEER.

■•▼eral Eutern States Have a Surprisingly Larue Supply. According to reports received by the Agricultural Department, about 12,000 deer were killed or captured In Michigan last year, says the Kansas City Star* Pennsylvania Is not usually counted among the big game States, yet nearly 700 deer were killed, ir mountains there In the T. S. Palmer, of the Agrlcultt colt, 1 pertinent has embodied the repo 0 ' 4, the game wardens of the In Which there is big game In a jMarch; printed In the Agricultural ! aroh ' ment Year Book. . o wf, wt Michigan led In the number 800: 80 klllecfor captured. In Mlnneso .. . eonsln and Texas deer wore u n good plentiful. In the Adirondack tains In New York about SOO de I killed. Hundreds of deer wer or captured In Wyoming, Verm machine Maine. In Wyoming more tl Btrdsel elk and 200 nnteldpe were killg° 0< * bob An Invasion of Wyoming by driver esnl ted in serious Cbnsequeneep ll ®® • 1 game. Two bands of .Utes, eacition. 600 In number, entered the St|i clean latter part of July and the first week In August and penetrated northward >rr Converse, Weston and Cook counties. The Indians stripped the country of game wherever they traveled. They killed hundreds of sage hens and many antelope and deer. The game wardens and State authorities were powerless to prevent these depredations, and It was only .by the aid of federal troops that the Indians were finally returned their reservations. The demand for elk teeth was responsible, as In former years, for the killing of many elk. In Washington a few Indians from the Qulnalt reservation were engaged in killing elk. for tusks In the Olympic mountains, but through the efforts of the Indian agent the practice was promptly stopped. Nov. 20 a carload of trophies, composed of beads, skins, scalps and horns of many elk killed In Wyoming and on the border of the Yellowstone national park and shipped from Idaho to a taxidermist in Los Angeles, were seized in the latter city. Two of the shippers were arrested while unloading the car. At (be preliminary bearing it was shown that they belonged to four teeth hunters who had been operating In Western Wyoming, north of Jackson Hole land along tho southern border of the park. That teeth are used largely for watch toba for member of the older of Elks.

MRS. CORNWALLIS WEST.

Beautiful American Whou Engllih Marrlugn Proved Happy One*. The marriage of Jennie Jerome, daughter of thelalaXeoaafdJerome. of New York, gome years age to Lord Randolph Churchill was considered at that time one of the most interesting of the international alliances—at that thse comparatively few tfi dumber. Lady Churchill's experience contradict«d the general belief that an, American girl la not likely to jet along happily

By British Ambassador Bry[?].

In South Africa and the West Indies negro education Is advancing and the ayts and customs of civilization have made way. Nowhere, perhaps, does the progress seem to be quite so satisfactory, or, at any rate, / quite so Interesting and full of promise, as in Basuto land, where a Kaffir people of several hundred thousand! souls is developing, under the guidance of British officials, but retaining Its own tribal system, Its owj chiefs, Its own language, in-, dustrlous and prosperous In a ter-

By Maurice Maeterlinck.

wlth a foreign-born husband. • She was very happy In her married life and through her own qualifications took a conspicuous part In the most exclusive London social set She had mueh to do with her husband’s success and popularity In politics. , .- After Lord Churchill’s death she married George Cornwallis West and continued her activity In public affairs. Sh«.-JLvnU, nf the hospital ship Geo Bease, oonst OttS R -—j, •Inoob A Bensler, buptr Same It Brit-

ain and the Boers, and for her work she was made Lady of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem and a member of tho Red Cross. iS recent years she has founded and edited the Anglo-Saxon Review.

The planoforre-whs directly evolved from the clavichord and tflie harpsichord. In 1711 Sclplone Maffei gave a detailed aoeourit of the first four Instruments, which wefe built by Bartolommeo Crlstofori, named by him pianoforte, and exhibited in 1709. Marius In France exhibited harpsichords, with hammer action, In 1710; and Schroter In Germany claimed to have Invented the pianoforte between 1717 and 1721. Marius at first was generally credited with the Invention, for It was not until 1738, when Criatoforl’s Instruments bad become famous, that the Italian advanced hds claim, apd It was In 1703 that he brought forward the proof of his contention. Pianos of that period were shaped like the modern grand, thefirst square piano being built by Frelderlca, an organ bnllder of Saxony, in 1758. The first genuine upright was patented In England and the United States by John Isaac Hawkins, an Englishman, In 1800. —Scrap Book.

“Is It true we’re madeof dust, Auntie?" " “Ye*. dear," “Then why don’t we turn muddy when we drink T A man does not wear his diamond cottar button on the back of bis neck.

obscure of all those that Interest us. It J 3, as the metaphysicians have all proclaimed, the mqst difficult there is. Inasmuch as the object of consciousness Itself Is what, we would know. ; t - That which debars us and for a long time will debar us from treasures of the universe Is the hereditary resignation with which we sojourn to the limited prison Of our senses. Our imagination, such as we have today, Is accommodated too easily to this captivity. It does not cultivate enough the Intuitions and presentiments which tell It that It Is absurdly Imprisoned and that It should seek egress and search for the most grandiose and the most Infinite circles which It represents to, Itself. It tells Itself more and more seriously that the real world begins thousands of leagues farther away than the most ambitious and timorous dreams. MY LIFE DOES NOT BELONG TO HE.

Use Is strife; the law of life, reasoning; conscious life Is .union, love. Above the organic life, above the life of struggle. Is born the life''of reason linked to the first The end Is evident; tp destroy the struggle and to establish union where there was discord, at first among men, then between men and animals, and finally between animals and plants. * ; -- I would wish to accomplish the will of God, and to desire nothing so passionately as that one thing. Is It possible? Yes,-ft Is possible. COUNTRY’S DUTY TO THE INDIANS.

the Great Spirit. It Is not the bringing of the Indian to civilization that is needed, but the taking of civilization to the Indian, not as veneer, but as the fruit of Christianity. We owe him more than rations;-we are his debtor to give him the Gospel that saves. Already 60,000 Indians have become American citizens. They have needed paternal missions to make them strong for citizenship.

MRS. CORNWALLIS WEST.

The Pianoforte.

From the Months of Babes

The end of life I No such end exists, It canpot exist, and no science can discover It The law of direction, the path of life? Yes. Religion Is wisdom, If you like replies to this, ft answers that It gives the lie to all the ways that do not follow the one tnith. By the negation of false directions it Indicates and Illuminates the only true. way. This is how it presents itself to me: The law of organic

It Is not enough to make the Indians owners In severalty of their lauds and to teach them to till the soil and to trade; to teach them the laws of health and sanitation. That is simply to civilize them. One duty Is to do more—we must Christianize them. The Indian must know of a revealed religion and not simply the religion of nature. He must learn of the Holy Spirit, and not alone of

NEW ELECTRIC LAMP.

Bulb Which It Contain* Sal* fa Barn 3,500 Hoar*. Consul E. T. Llefeld forwards from Fselburg an abstract from a Paris newspaper concerning a new electric lamp which it Is said will revolutionize the present system of lighting. The article was wired from Vienna and reads: “An Austrian chemist, Dr. Hans Kuzel, has, after mapy years’ hard work, succeeded In constructing a new electric lamp which he calls, the Syrius lamp. As Is well known, incandescent gaslight is cheaper than electric light, because the filament wires of the light are, very expensive and the glarss bulbs soon wear out. Dr. Kuzel has now Invented a new substitute for the glowthread by forming out of comujon and cheap Eaetalloids Aoliolrta in a plastic mass which can be handled like clay and which when dry becomes hard as stone. Out of this mass veiy thin wire threads are then sharpened. which are of uniform thickness and of great homogeneity. These two characteristics arc of great value In the technics of Incandescent lamps. The Kuzel or Syrius lamp hardly needs qa<sa.uarfer_of the electric current which the ordinary electric lamp with a filament wire requires. Experiments, It is asserted, have shown that the lamp can burn for 3,500 hours at a stretch. Another advantage Is that the Intensity of the light of the new lamp always remains the same, the lamp bulbs never become deadened, as is now the case. The new lamp, It Is said, will be jtot on the market soon.

“I got a neat rebuke for my curiosity, once,” said a Well-known Baltimore man,“and. it was administered t 6 ms by a native of the Cheat river region In West Virginia. “I had stopped overnight In the district In question, and in the morning was strolling about the place, asking all sorts of quest lona Presently I met a lanky-mouritalneer, who greeted me with ‘Howdy’ and passed the time of day most pleasantly. _ Seeing that he was barefooted, a circumstance, It seemed to me, quite odd in a mountainous region, I asked: “ ‘ls it the custom of this country for the men to go without shoes?’ “‘Waal,’ the native drawled, ‘some on us do, but most on us atten’s to our own business.’ Llppincott’a

Fatal Disagreement.

Nan —What broke off the engagement between Dick Short and Millie Long Greene? - Fan —She wanted to put off the wedding on account of the financial etrlngency. -and be lnslated on having It right swart for the same reason.

Wise —Do come over to Mrs. Barker’s with me, John. Shell make you feel just as If you wets at borne. _ -fhsr Husband —Then wluU’s the was of going? - Judgo.

By Leo Tolstoi.

By Bishop Hendrix.

A Gentle Hint.

Porverse.

BILL IN CONGRESS TO CURB GAMBLING

Measures Introduced by Texas Members Would Prevent Options hi Cotton and Grain. MAY COVER DEALS IN STOCK. ' r - - - .. • ’ " * 1 _. Idea Threatens to Place an Embargo on Market Speculation of All Kinds. ~ j~ A r!|, V Washington cMK pondence:

kp HERE has been Pjl a sudden awakening throughout . the country to the fact that someV-* thing is going on a .In Washington ||& which threatens fra* gambling in cotIsSa* ton and grain, and possibly, too, which aims to gki place an embargo *’'"" ,lirr on speculation In |!EfE| stocks. . IndicaJtT* tions of t h 1 s I* ' awakening-appear •In a regular flood

of letters from the interests threatened to the members of Congress, who are identified with the proposed restrictive legislation. The reason which calls forth these letters lies in two bills introduced by Senator Culberson, of Texas, and Representative Burleson, of the same State, designed to wipe out speculation In cotton futures. The bills are identk cal and while they apply only to cotton, as originally drawn, there is likelihood that if either of them is reported out"of tlie committee to which they have been referred the provisions will be extended to apply to wheat and other grains. The central idea in the Burleson bill Is the application of the power to regulate Interstate commerce so as to restrain telegraph and telephone compa-

nies from transmitting messages relating to a contract for the fu-f ture delivery of cotton. The use of the mails also is prohibited to publications containing notices or records of )t.be transactions <jf ariy prod u c e exchange wherein the con-

tracts aimed at in the measure are made Heavy penalties' provide the means of restraining the telegraph and teleplioiie companies. It is the contention of Representative Burleson that if Information of the kind prescribed can be kept away from the people living outside New York and New Orloanß it will put the New York Cotton Exchange out of business. Frankly, it Is admitted, that such is the object of the bill. , , The Boards of Trade In several cities are- aroused. Probably what 4hey chiefly fearTs that public senti-

W. P. HEPBURN.

sentative Hepburn, of lowa, has In hand a plan to regulate dealing In stocks. Both France and Germany have adopted radical restrictive measures relating to dealings In stocks, grain, cotton and other things on margins, and their example is being pointed to by American legislators who are earnest in their intention of doing someof France prohibit gambling In several securities and provide heavy fines and Imprisonment for Infractions thereof. The French penal code also prohibits “corners” or attempts to control the supply or affect the prices of grain, flour, bread and other food products.

Steel Exports Increase.

Reports from New York and other eastern seaboard ports indicate November shipments of steel products of 76,199 tons, bring an increase of nearly 55 per cent over the previous month's record, and rhe heaviest shipments for any similar period during ihe last two years. The leading cargoes of rails went to the far East. as did the shipments of nails and pipe, while South A merit a was the largest purchaser of wire.

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

New York brewers have announced - that after Jan. 1 they will increase the price of beer $1 a Larfel. ? The Swedish steamer Uppland, from Philadelphia for Vera - Cruz, which grounded on Chester island,-in the Delaware river, has been floated. Mies Mary Elizabeth Lewis, who inher--Red a fortune of $1,500,000. has been released from a New York insane asylum after twenty-five years’ Incaroeration and will bow be allowed ro look after her estate

C. A. CULBERSON.

ment against speculation in both stocks and bonds, which lias been accentuated by the r e cent financial condition, may hasten a demand for the passage of the bill. In addkkss $3 the Burleson mcosure, Repre-

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS COMMITTED TO PROTECTION.

Deprecates Hasty Revision and’ Ad- ' vocates Minimum Tariff that Shall Be Adequately Protective. On the subject of tariff revision the President In his annual message if December 3 recognizes unqualifiedly the fact that protection has been installed as the permanent |>olley of the United States. Moreover, ihe records his full acceptance of the proposition that there must always be in such an economic system a stable minimum tariff adequate alike for the purposes of revenue and for the protection of American labor and industry against the unfair competition of lower foreign payrolls. Protectionists will welcome this plain declaration regarding two points of cardinal consequence—first, the permanent cy of protection as a national policy, and second, the maintenance of a fixed minimum tariff that shall at times be adequately protective and only subject to change by legislative action. Carried to a logical and necessary conclusion this Would completely 1 uegative the maxinnnn and minimum tariff plan of the advocates of reciprocity in competing products. It requires instead a minimum and a maximum tariff, if we are to go into dual tariffs for trading purposes.. The minimum shall, as in the case of Germany and France, provide adequate protection, while the maximum, again as in the case of Germany and France, shall operate as a penalty and a discrimination against the exports of countries refusing to grant their most favored tariff ratea to exports from the United States. This is sound protectionist doctrine. IMs also sound economically and commercially. The President says: “This country is definitely committed to the protective system and any effort tef uproot it could not hut cause widespread industrial disaster. In other words, the principle of the present tariff !aw could not with wisdom be changed. But in a country of such phenomenal growth as ours it is probably well tlfitt every dozen years or so the tariff laws should be carefully scrutinized so as to see that no excessive or Improper benefits are conferred thereby. that proper revenue Is provided and that our foreign trade is encouraged. There must al ways be Us a minimum a tariff which will not only allow for the collection of an ample revenue, but which will at least make good the difference' in cost of production, here and abroad; that is, the difference in the labor cost here and abroad, for the well being of the wageworker must ever be a cardinal point of American policy. The question should be approached purely from a business stanch point; both the time and the manner* of the change being such as to arouse, the minimum of agitation and disturbance in the business world, and to give the least play fob selfish anil factional motives. The sole consideration- should be to see that the sum total of changes represents the public good. 'Phtenneany that the subject cannot with wisdom be dealt with In the year preceding a presidential election, because ns a flatter of fact experience has conclusively shown that at such a time it is impossible to get men* to treat It from ilie standpoint of the public good. In my judgment the wise time’'to deal with the matter is immediately,, after gugfar election.!* .i." As to the prpper time for tariff revision that is and must remain a matter of individual judgment. Most certain of all things is the fact that the present would be the worst possible Pure for tariff disturbance. Too much has already been done along that line. I low to undo the mischief already dune, and not how to do more, should be the. study of the day.—American Economist. ■ ... - - For the Farmer** Benefit. Those who are crying out against the tariff laws and say that the farmers are not g«Ong the benefits of protection, should look over the records of the past, and see If there ever was a period when the farmer in this countiry got so rnuc-h for his produce ns within the past ten years. With 7,000 millions of produce to the credit of agriculture this year. It is a good time for those who dig wealth from the ground to look closely ipto the matter and see what part tlie'yroteetlve policy of the Republican party has taken In securing remunerative prices. In the interest of his own financial prosperity let the farmer lay aside any consideration of the partisan view, and do a little flguron the problem of the conditions changed, so that his products would be seeking a market In foreign countries to feed the poorly paid working men there, instead of at home to better paid and better fed and clothed- workingmen.—Mtilhall (Okla.) Enterprise. x .] ' Merely Pontponed. I The fact that the annual message to Congress embodies no recommendation either for such a modification of customs administration as would give a 10 per cent leeway .for undervaluation without penalties or for a “comprehensive pommercia 1 ; treaty"—that Is, a treaty embodying tariff reductions on competitive products of all kinds —does not indicate a policy of non-action on the part of the President. By the terms of the German tariff trade agreement the President is obliged to urge upon Congress both of these recommendations. Failure to do so would violate the compact. The matter is only postponed temporarily. It will come up later in the form of special messages

Indiana State News

WOMAN HEIR HEARD FROM. Turned Up at* Step* Were BeIMM Taken to Declare Her Dead. Jl The name of May Hettlemeyer, as sol heir of the estate of Busan Graves on Columbus, has besn on the books of 'Mu couflty clerk for two years, and repeated! efforts have been made to find the woman >j so the money held in trust could be distributed. A large amount of money was involved, but it conld not be distributed until all the heirs were found. Nothing had been beard from Miss Settlemeyer tor ten years, and it was thought she was .--dead. Steps were taken to bring an action to have he woman declared legally dead. Steps were taken to bring an aeclerk from her husband. She is now Mrs. James B. Turpen of Eberfeld, Ind. Mrs. Turpen did not know there was anything due her until she read something about the efforts Which would shortly be matte to dec Wilier legally dead. She will now prove her right to a share estate and the distribution will follow^,**, , \ OCTOGENARIAN RECLUSE. Asred Farmer Lives Alone and Tilln Eighty Acre* of Land. William Oliphant, who lives near Bitrnej station, is perhaps one of the Oldest men in the State who lives entirely alone. He is past 83 years of age, and in spite of the fact that his children have begged him to come- and live with them, he refuses their offers, and says he would not be satisfied anywhere except at the old home. - He made a rule early in Use to arise every morning at 4 o’clock, and he adheres strictly to this rule even at his advanced age. In summer he tills a farm oi eighty acres. lie enjoys the best of health, and has not needed the services of a physician in twenty-five years. 'The aged man has lived alone for fifty-five years. ENEMIES WRECK STORE. George W. Gilbert, Sew Parley Suiter* Severe Lou. An explosion wrecked the hardware store of George W. Gilbert, in New Paris at 9:30 o’clock the other night. The one-story frame building was entkridy demolished, and the stock is a total lons. Gilbert denies that he bad any dynamite in stock, but a small quantity of gasoline and powder was stored in a different part of the building., It is believed that private enemies are responsible for (ho loss. The shock was a severe one, and was felt for ten miles away. Fortunately there was' no person in the building at the time. ■ - -ffiffijgj WIDOW DIES OF GRIEF. Mr*. Clifton Gardner Survive* Her Hnahand Only Three Week*. Mrs.-Clifton Gardner, 1)0 years old. ind ■ the first white child born in Berrien county, Michigan, died of grief in South Bend, broken-hearted over the loss of ter husband, who died three weeks ago, after fifty-five y<®rs of wedded life. She was known throughout that part of the country as a woman who never ha.! a lamp in her house and who always depended on candles for light. af Refuse* to Take Drink; Saves Bay. Refusal to take a drink of whisky cn a cold night, from two vagabonds, oa a long tramp, saved Raymond Lewenioht in South Bend from a long reformatory sentence. The jury held that Lewenicbt. who is but a bOT, showed unmistakable traits of manliness by the act. also considerable fortitude. He was one of three boys found guilty of stealing when arraigned in the Superior Court. Lewen-k-ht got off with a thirty days’ jail sentence. “ .>» - —— — — ~~ ... Die* In Reformatory. Charles Shepherd, 23 years old, committed to the Indiana reformatory from St. Joe county Oct. 17, 1900, died in the institution of cardiac insufficiency, after an illness of,eight hours. He was convicted of petit larceny. The body probably will be shipped to the- State anatomical board, as it is not known that Shepherd had any friends. Man «( 30 Wed* Hl* Grandmother. After keeping their secret for a month. Fred Shot well of South Bend. 30 year* old, and Mrs. Emma Sbotwell, 71 yeinp old, have announced their marriage, which (•ecurred at Pottefville, Mich., Nor. 18. The bride is the step-grandmother of tM groom. Fatally Hart In Exploalon. The plant of the Prestolite company n» Indianapolis blpw up on a recent noon. Elmer Jessup and John'Vangoa der were fatally injured. SHORT STATE ITEMS. James Ray. teamster, and well known in labor circles, was kicked by a virions mule in Evansville and killed. Perry King, near Brazil, while working in the Monarch mine, was caught by a fall of slate, breaking his arm and inflicting internal hurts which may prove fatal. Clark Mills, former sheriff of Grant county, has agreed with the County Commissioners to settle a shortage in bis accounts for $1,700. : Most of this amount is for “in and out" charges which Milia collected and retained prior to the decision of the Supreme Court awarding such fees to the .county. A. S. Ayres, president of the Fort Till* Gas and Oil Company, says that Fortville is assured of plenty of fas for yearn to come, the back pressure at the regulator being twenty-five pounds. New wells will be drilled at au early date,, increasing the output. Gov, IJanly has pardoned two m«n under life sentence fbr murder. They are Samuel Harmon, 73 years old, sentenced In 1901 from Clay county for killing Charles Reynold*, and Joseph Osborn, 55 years old, sentenced, in 1906 from Adams County for killing his father-ln lsw. John Busenbank.