Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1881 — For Consolidation. [ARTICLE]

For Consolidation.

Rensselaer, Sept. 3, 1881. Messrs. Editors: Allow me to suggest, for the consideration of those running county and other fairs, the propriety of some kind of consolidation,> or running into one, several fairs within a few miles of Rensselaer, viz.: Remington, Morocco and Francosville. Now avo don’t know how they are organized, or what the conditions are that bind them to their present locations. Rut we are fully satisthat, if, instead of having four fairs every fall within a few weeks of eacli other, tlnpr would unite their interests and stocks and have one annual fair, it would be much better for the proprietors and all who patronize such institutions. It would be a great saving of time ax.nd money to the people, give better shares or dividends to the stockholders, and enable them to give better premiums, which would invite for exhibition a better class of stock of all kinds, and give more general satisfaction. We have no stock or money invested in any of t-fiese places. Wo are mere visitors to see a good show. We are antimonopoly, but we have up fear that the suggested union of any or all the above named associations would in our day become a great money power that would excite any apprehension in the mind of the most tender anti-monopoly greenbacker. "We have nothing to say as to the name or location of the new association, if one should be formed. We belong to none of them, and are ecpially friendly to all, but we do think it would be better, and hope that as many as can will unite in one superior association which will prove advantageous to all concerned. We would further suggest that if Rensselaer expects to continue her annual exhibitions on their present grounds, whether i! would not be lit that they at once set out cpiite a number of rapidly growing shade trees, that the people standing out to witness the races (a leading attraction now at all the fairs, preachers even, of all denominations, looking at the speed ring with the greatest interest. Beecher .once said, “I like to ride after fast horses.” Some were a little fearful he might ride so fast as to make his head swim.) might have some shelter as well as those in the amphitheater.

A PATRON.

The plan of charging a regular admission fee has not proved altogether successful at a negro camp meeting near Marion, .Ohio, Brother Hart had just made a fervent prayer, and was laboring zealously among the mourners. when the six members of the Finance committee reminded him that he had climbed over the feme instead of entering by the gate. They demanded 10 cents for himself and 10 more for his wife, but he refused, and they dragged him off the grounds But he did not stay long expelled. He and his Wife armed themselve’s with clubs, knocked the ticket taker away from the gate, scattered the opposing committee of six financiers, thrashed the presiding minister himself, and resumed their work among the penitents.

A certain conceited old doctor, when called to children always pre ■scribed for one and the same remedy —worms. Being summoned one day to the bedside of a little boy, he gravely sat down, and. having felt the patient’s pulse, looked up over his spectacles, and said to the mother in n solemn tone: “Worms, madam, worms.” To which the mother re sponded, “I tell ye. Doctor, the boy bain’t got a worm. He stumbled over a stick of wood and broke his leg, and ,1 want it set quick. “Worms, madam, 1 assure you—worms in the wood,” “I hate that fool of a Flanders!” exclaimed Brown, impatently. “What a • coincidence!” remarked Fogg. “Coincidence? What do you mean?” “Why. he said just the same thing about, von only yesterday. Funny, ain’t It?”—Boston Transcript.