Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1881 — No Good Preaching. [ARTICLE]

No Good Preaching.

No man can do a good job of work, preach a good sermon, try a lawsuit well, doctor s, patient, or write a good article when he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a when Jfc -ban fie so easny arid cheaply removed by a little Hoff Bitters. See other column.— Albany Tiniest Cotton planting requires only twelvfe months of hard work during the yea? J- - Orleans Picayune,

Taxes Levied Upon Bachelors. It has been repeatedly said, and written, that “in these days young men cannot afford to marry,” but with the constant demands fashion makes upon the bachelor’s purse; the married man seems to have the best of it. An eastern paper says; “He who is invited to a box party must pay his footing with at least ten dollars’ worth of bouquet; a ‘German’ costs as much—while the assembly, to skip at once to the most appallingly extensive form in which the tax is levied, may be made to cost almost anything, since manams as well as maids expect tribute from all their faithful followers, and make their entry fairly hidden beneath a mountainous aggregation of flowers.” This reminds me of a little comedy, written in the early days of women’s “rightism,” and called “The Spirit of *76,” defining woman’s rights and privileges, the chief one of which was to assess all unmarried men sixty per cent on their property for the privilege of being a bachelor. The author little knew that his would-be satire would some day prove a truth, the only difference being in the way the tax was levied.