Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — Page 1

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THE EAGLE TREES. BY SABAH OBNE JEWETT. Great pines that watch the river go Down to the sea all night, all day, Firm-rooted near Its ebb and flow, Bowing their heads to winds at play, Strong-limbed and proud, they silent stand. And watch the mountains far away, And watch the miles of farming land, And hear the church bells tolling slow. They see the men in distant fields Follow the furrows of the plow; They count the loads the harvest yields. And fight the storms with every bough. Beating the wild winds back again. The April sunshine cheers them now; They eager drink the warm spring rain. Nor dread the spear the lightning wields. High in the branches clings the nest The great birds build from year to year; And though they fly from east to west, Home instinct keeps this eyrie dear To their fierce hearts; and now their eyes Glare down at me with rage and fear; They stare at me with wild surprise. Where high in air they strong-winged rest. Companionship of birds and trees! 'I he years have proved your friendship strong; You share each other’s memories, The river’s secret and its song. And legends of the country-ride; The eagles take their journeys long, The great trees wait in noble pride For messages from hills and seas. I hear a story that you tell In idleness of summer days; A singer that the world knows well To you again in boyhood strays: Within the stillness of your shade He rests where flickering sunlight plays, And sees the nests the eagles made, And wonders at the distant bell. His keen eyes watch the forest growth. The rabbits' fear, the thrushes’ flight; He loiters gladly, n thing loath . To be alone at fall of night. The woodland things around him taught Their secrets in the evening light. Whispering some wisdom to his thought. Known to the pines and eagles both. Was it the birds who early told The dreaming boy .that he would win A poet’s crown instead of gold? That he would fight a nation’s sin? On eagle wings of song would gain A place that few might enter in, And keep his life without a stain Through many years, yet not grow old? And he shall be what few men are, Said all the pine-trees whispering low; Hie thought shall find an unseen star; He shall our treasured legends know; His words will give the way-worn rest. Like this cool shade our branches throw; He, lifted like our loftiest crest, Shall watch his country near and far. —Harper's Magazine.

WIDOW WICKETT'S WINDOWS.

Mr. Tibbetts was riding slowly along the /oad, thinking, for once in a way, what a brief life this was, and how quickly we left it behind us. He had just been making out Mr. Parkman’s will, and it was doubtful if old Mr. Parkman would live until night. The pompous, bustling, dictatory man was dying, and the world would get along well enough without him, as it would without any of us. One person would grieve for him, and that the very one who would be benefited by ; his death. Years ago Mr. Parkman had picked up in the streets of New York, on a cold winter night, a pool* little Italian boy, who had been sent by his padrone to scrape the violin on a bleak corner. Mr. Parkman had found that*the little fellow was illtreated, and had taken the legal measures to release and adopt him, and this boy, now grown to be 17 years old, was the old man’s great pride and comfort. “I want to give everything to Ludovico,” he had said to the lawyer. “He deserves it, and I love him. My nephew, Ralph Vennor, would pounce upon everything if I left no will. No, I should make one, even if I had never found this boy. I should leave all to some charity. Ralph is a brute—rich, greedy, contemptible. Ludovico will carry out my ideas and do good with his money.” So the will was written, and it was now in the lawyer’s breastpocket, to be carried to his office and locked up in a certain box. “I may live for years,” said the old man, “and Ralph would make no bones of destroying the will, He’s a bad fellow —a very bad fellow.” But at the door Mr. Parkman’s man had told him that the doctor had said his master’s hours were numbered; that he would not see the next sunrise. No wonder Tibbetts felt that this was an uncertain sort of world. But the hoys down in the hollow beside the road on which his horse slowly trotted, who were making the most .of a holiday, and some fire-crackers and other gun-powdery playthings, such as one might fancy Satan had invented for his offspring, were troubled with no grave thoughts or solemn emotions. The black figure of a lawyer, long and lean, seated on his quiet horse, instead of awakening awe in their small bosoms, aroused them to deeds of mischief. Suddenly an invention resembling a bomb-shell, though smaller and less destructive, hurled through the air, hit Mr. Tibbetts in the small of the back and exploded. Mr. Tibbetts started; the horse reared, and in a moment more Mr. Tibbetts was on his back in the hollow, the horse a mile away up the road, and the will sticking in the solitary gooseberry bush that decorated the Widow Wickett’s front door yard. Now the Widow Wickett was one of these people who are always wretchedly poor, no matter what is done for them, and, though she had more given her than any other person in town, she always had broken panes of glass in her window, and was always patching them with pasteboard, tin pans and straw hats. Toddling about after the accident, of which she heard nothing, being down cellar at the time, she found a fine piece of stiff parchment sticking in her bush, and, as it tras just the sisje of two panes of glass, appropriated it at once, fastening it well on with many tacks. As she c u’d not read writing, the names on the sheet never struck h6r eye, and as for the red tape, she used that for a shoe string immediately. Meanwhile, down at the hotel to which he was carried, Mr. Tibbetts came to himself, found he was not greatly injured, expressed his opinion of boys in general, and waite 1 for his clothes, which were being brushed for him. “And, by the way,” cried Mr. Tibbetts, “bring me the document in the waistcoat pocket, Will am, it’s very valuable.” William could not turn pale; he was the color of charcoal; but ne stared at Mr. Tibbetts. “For de Lord, massa, your watch, an’ pocket-book, an’ penknife, and cardcase, an’ handkerchief is all, dere wasn’t no dockyment dar!” “A paper —a parchment,” explained Mr. Tibbetts. “Sartinly., lis aware what a docyment am, sah,” replied William, with proper dignity; but there wasn’t none, sah. ” Vain search was made on the road, in the hollow—everywhere. The will was gone. Sore as he himself was from his fall, Mr. Tibbetts had himself driven back to the Parkman mansion. He arrived there before the sun set, but old

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Mr. Parkman was already dead; and all rewards that were offered failed to bring the will to light. The Widow Wickett never read the newspapers. The law had its course. The nephew came into the property. The two old servants, who had been well provided for by their master, lost their situations. Ludovico was left without a penny; but he had a good education, and Mr. Tibbetts offered him a place in his law office, on a salary that saved him from starving—a better salary than he would have given any other boy. Somehow he felt himself responsible for the boy’s changed fortune; and he never quite gave up hope about the will. But six months passed; a year; —two—and nothing was heard of it. Now Mr. Tibbetts had charge of the Van Note property, and, as every one knew, the Widow Wickett’s house was upon it. She owned the building, but not the land, and paid a modicum of ground rent. Mr. Van Note being very “close,” it became every year some one’s painful duty to extract that small sum from the Widow Wickett. It was worse than it would have been to extract her few remaining teeth. Ludovico was set at the work this time, and, being young and sympathetic, came out of it crushed and miserable. At the tenth visit a little pile of the dirtiest bills and crookedest coin procurable lay at his elbow. “There’s your money. Now you’ve extortioned it out of me, take it. It was give me by a good lady to put the glass in my windys and save me from rheumatics agin the winter; but no, I’ve got to suffer now. I hope you’ll think of it when you’re as warm as toast in your feather beds and blankets—yah I” “Indeed, it’s not I. I couldn’t ask it of you,” said Ludovico, almost in tears. “Look here!” said the widow. “See my panes. Two windys. Twelve panes in each. Three whole in the lot. This them boys broke, and this cracked unbeknownst, and this my elbow went through; and the stovepipe fell, it went through these four; and this is them boys again; and I put a bit of stick that give under it, is the way it was them went. The cat was on the sill under it at the time. Ah, well! the coryner’ll have me this winter.” Ludovico went away with a swelling heart. “Ah!” he said to himself. “If I was as rich as my dear old friend intended I should be, I’d not oppress the poor. ” “There, sir, he said, handing the money to Mr. Tibbetts, “the wretched soul has paid it and now she can’t have her window panes put in. She’ll die of cold. How cruel Mr. Van Note is.” “Oh, Widow Wickett’s panes. We all know about them,” said Mr. Tibbetts. “They’re her stock in trade. Why, lad, they’re always out.” “Always! all these bitter winters?” sighed Ludovico. ’ Then an heroic thought possessed him. He would take the money he had saved for a coat and go to the glazier and buy nine panes of glass and some putty and himself mend the Widow Wickett’s windows. And when office hours were over away he sped, carried out his good intention and appeared at the Widow Wickett’s door with his hands full of glass and smiles of benevolence on his face, and announced his intention. The widow was horrified. The broken windows brought her half her income in charitable gifts from pitying strangers, but she was obliged to submit and pretend to be grateful. She sat in her rocking chair, ruefully looking on, ■ while Ludovico extracted the old hats and pants, and ripped off the parchment, and threw the whole outside the window into the door-yard where the gooseberry bush grew. Happily he worked, and soon the windows were all restored to their original condition. “The Lord’s blessin’ on you,” whined the widow, meaning something else. “Oh, don’t mention it,” sail Ludovico, politely. “You mustn’t wash them until to-morrow, or they’ll fall out. Good-by.” “Mrs. Wickett never washed anything, but she began to meditate on doing it instantly; and Ludovico marched away. He would have no coat, but his conscience would not trouble him. “Oh, if I were rich, how good I would be to the poor,” he said. At this instant something hit his heel sharply. A blessed breeze had impelled one-half of the parchment he had taken from the widow's window after him. He stopped and picked it up. The first thing that struck him was his own name. He looked at it closely. It was part of a will in his favor. Back flew the boy. The widow was cramming the other part under her teakettle, but he snatched it from her without a word and rushed away. Mr? Tibbetts saw him coming, and his prophetic soul saw a great revelation in the boy’s pale face. “What have you got there?” he shouted. Ludovico answered, “The Widow Wickett’s window panes.” A few days after the widow was in court, explaining how she came by such window panes. And so the boy came to his own and really is the rich man he dreamed of being as he daubed the putty against the frames of Mrs. Wickett’s window; and that old lady is well provided for by the gratitude of the young heir, who has bought her house for her, furnished it and settled on her an income beyond her wants; but she keeps an empty snuff-box in her pocket, and amiable strangers are often heard to mention that they gave a few pennies just now to a poor soul, who never could save enough for her one luxury—a pinch of snuff.—Wew York Ledger.

Tricks of the Trade.

The stranger carelessly tucked away in his vest pocket the change of a $5 note that a Brooklyn bartender handed to him after serving a warm drink. There was nothing strange in that, but subsequently the bartender said to the bystanders: I have made a customerof that man. How ? Why, as easy as rolling off a log. I have given him a 50-cent piece with a hole in it. He’ll come in to-morrow when he’s going by, politely call for a drink, inform me in the kindest manner that I have unintentionally nut in on him a 50-cent piece with a hole in it. To all of which I will reply good-naturedly that I am really sorry, and ask the man to take a drink with me. We are both feeling quite satisfied with each other, and there is no refusing. Reminiscences follow. The man spends three or four half-dollars with me, and then leaves, saying that lam a jolly good fellow. I have bought all the perforated coins that I can lay my hands on. Business has increased 30 per cent, this week.”— New York Sun.

The Democratic Sentinel.

FARM NOTES.

The fleeces of any sheep are badly injured around stacks. Long-wooled fleeces are more damaged than the downs of fine wools, since they are longer and more open, and catch more beards, chaff and straw. An Eastern paper says lambs can be made to shear from two to four pounds more wool by a little extra care and feed during the winter. The extra wool will more than pay for the extra feeding, and*the result will be a much larger and stronger sheep. For this purpose feed good clover hay, with bran, oats and corn mixed equally. Henry Stewart, in the Hural New Yorker, says that no dairyman or farmer can afford to give more than S2OO for a heifer promising 20 pounds of butter a week when mature, as all that might be paid in excess of that sum is what might be called a “fancy” price, and the “bric-a-brac” value of the animal, paid merely for the pleasure of . owning it. No limit can be placed on this value, as it depends wholly on the fancy and pocket of the ultimate owner and the speculative recklessness of the intermediate dealer. Worth of Incubators. Fanny Field finds that many farmers and poultry raisers are afraid to purchase incubators for fear that they will not work satisfactorily, or that inexperienced hands cannot run them. Ido not blame them for this feeling. I lost a good bit of money on incubators before I found one that filled the bill, but at the same time I can assure them that there are incubators that will do all the makers claim for them, and that any one who can follow printed directions can run them. G. H. MoKinney, of Stanford, Ky., gives to the Louisville Courier-Jour-nal the following recipe for destroying lice on cattle and horses: “Boil Irish potatoes in such quantities as required, a peck if need be, until they are thoroughly cooked. Then take out the potatoes and boil the water a short to increase its strength. Then wash the animals, whether cattle or horses, with this ooze or tea. It will effectually destroy the lice. If one application fails, keep on trying, as the remedy is cheap and perfectly harmless otherwise. ” At times horses are habitually overfed, and their systems become so disordered by it that their health suffers, and, the power of digestion failing, they lose flesh instead of gaining it, and will recover condition only by diminishing from one-fourth to one-half the quantity of their allowance. Frequently old horses become thin on account of their teeth wearing unevenly, so that if is not in their power to masticate their food. In such cases a farrier should be employed to file them; or the owner, if he possesses the particular kind of file used, can file them himself. In this case much less food will soon restore the horse to a proper condition. Rock salt should, of course, be ever present in the manger, as a horse was never known to take too much of it.—Germantown Telegraph. Eli Elliott gives this advice to stock-raisers in the Diary and Farm Journal: “First, get good stock of some of the best beef breeds; then send them along in calfhood, and be sure you never let them lose their calf-fat, but push them on good feed, as well as good grass, at the same time; never let them know what hunger is, but make them weigh from 1,300 to 1,600 at 2 years old. In such case you may have fed them on good ground feed, such as oats, corn, bran, shorts and oil meal, every day of their lives, and still you will have a fine profit, as the time has never yet been that it did not pay to feed a good animal all it would eat of the best and most nutritous feed to be had, regardless of the cost of it—provided it had always been so kept, and was put in market at not more than 2| years old. ” •

Joseph Harris, author of “Walks and Talks on the Farm,” etc., asks and answers some important questions in farming in the American Agriculturist. We now have far better tools for cultivating lands than formerly. In fact, our tools are better than our agriculture. And we may rest assured that so soon as we adopt improved-methods of farming and gardening, our inventors and manufacturers will furnish all the tools, implements and machines necessary to do the work. But will it pay to adopt high farming ? That depends on what we mean by high farming. High farming, if we confine ourselves to the production of hay, Indian corn, wheat, oats, and ordinary farm crops, will not pav in this country. And Sir John Bennett Lawes once wrote a paper, or gave a lecture before a farmers’ club in Scotland,in which he demonstrated that' high farming was no remedy for the low prices of agricultural products of Great Britain and Ireland. I think, however, he would admit that thorough cultivation and heavy manuring could be profitably used for the production of what we usually term garden products. The advocates of high farming make a mistake. Neither Old England nor New England will ever raise all the wheat required by its population. Even the great State of New York, I hope, will not long continue to raise on its soil all the wheat it annually consumes. Commerce is the feature of the ag?, and wheat is carried ten thousand miles to market. Cheap bread is what the world wants, and what the world wants the world will get. Cheap wheat can never be furnished by high farming. It must and will be grown largely on land manured only by nature. There may be places in which wheat can be profitably grown, where many of the constituents of the’ plant must be applied to the soil, just as there are places where we can profitably use chemical processes for the production of ice. As a rule, however, nature and commerce will furnish ice cheaper than even modern science can manufacture it. We shall have two kinds of farming. One will consist largely in the production of wheat, corn, oats, barley, cotton, sugar and rice. The other, while it will not entirely neglect these great products, will aim to produce crops which cannot be kept from year to year, or ordinarily be transported long distance o .

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Fried Salt Fish.—Take thin pieces of the fish having the skin attached, soak for several hours, skin side up; soak over night if it is to be used for breakfast, and fry the same as fresh fish, after having dipped it in meal. Some pick the fish in small pieces, dip in rolled cracker, and fry like oysters. Veal Steaks.—Gut thin, season with salt, pepper and sweet marjoram, broil over hot coals, turning frequently; do not let one side remain over the fire till done, or it will be hard and dry; if turned frequently it will be juicy and

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tender; take up in a hot dish in which there is a little boiling water, with a lump of butter and a little lemon juice or catchup. Steamed Pudding.—One' cupful chopped suet or a half cupful butter, one cupful sweet milk, two-thirds cupful molasses, a teaspoonful of salt, if you use suet; if butter, not any salt will be needed; a teaspoonful soda, a cupful chopped raisins, three cupfuls flour; steam three hours. Sauce: Stir a ta-ble-spoonful of flour into two tablespoonfuls of melted butter till smooth; add a cupful and a half of boiling water and let it cook a while; add a half cupful of sugar and two table-spoonfuls of vinegar, nutmeg or lemon; boil up and serve. Lobster Croquettes. Take the meat of two small lobsters and chop very fine; add to it a slice of onion chopped fine and browned in a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter and two even spoonfuls of flour, with two spoonfuls of sweet milk; stir it together for a few minutes on the fire to make a thick dressing, sprinkling in a little pepper and salt and chopped parsley. When it has thickened turn it over the chopped lobster and stir in three well-beaten eggs. Form into croquettes, dip in yelk of egg, and then into bread crumbs, and fry in boiling hot lard. Rice Muffins.—You can’t match them. They make that dreariest of all meals, breakfast, a season of jov. They are unutterably delicious. They are the apotheosis of gastric enjoyment. It is an act of Christian enjoyment to tell your neighbors about it after you have made them just this way; One cup of boiled rice, one cup of sweet milk, two eggs, five table-spoonfuls of melted butter, half a small saltspoon of salt, one teaspoon of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, and enough flour to make a soft batter, which-will drop from the spoon. Stir after all the ingredients are in, lightly but thoroughly, and drop the batter into hot buttered muffin-rings for baking. Salad.—A scant pint of cold boiled or roasted meat cut in small dice. Veal, lamb or chicken can be used, or even two kinds of meat, if you have not enough of one. Twice as much cabbage as meat. Only that part of the cabbage which is white and brittle should be used, and it can be chopped about as fine as the meat is cut. The dressing: One-half pint vinegar, one heaping table-spoonful sugar, one teaspoonful dry mustard, two eggs, a little salt and pepper; heat the ingredients over hot water, stirring constantly tc prevent curdling, and remove from the fire as soon as it thickens; then add a piece of butter half the size of an egg, and pour it hot over the meat. When it is entirely cold stir in the cabbage. Pot-Roast of Beef.—Slice quarter of a pound of salt pork and lay it on the bottom of a dinner-pot; peel and slice a medium-sized onion and lay it over the pork; then put into the pot a rather square, solid piece of the round of beef, weighing about six pounds; season it with a table-spoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper; add sufficient hot water to reach one-fourth up' the side of the meat; cover the pot and set it where the meat will cook slowly; about half an hour to each pound oi meat is generally the time required for cooking. Turn the meat occasionally, and cook it very slowly until it is brown and tender; take care to keep only sufficient water in the pot to prevent burning. When the meat is done, keep it hot in the oven, while a table-spoon-ful of flour is boiled for two minutes in the gravy; then serve the gravy and pork on the dish with the pot-roast.

How the Elephant Carried Out the Joke.

One of those pests of society, “apractical joker,” visited a caravan in a West of England fair, and tried his tricks upon an elephant there. He first doled out to it, one by one, some gingerbread nuts, and when the grateful animal was thrown off its guard he suddenly proffered it a large parcel wrapped in paper. The unsuspicious creature accepted and swallowed the lump, but immediately began to exhibit signs of intense suffering, and snatching up a bucket handed it to the keeper for water. This being given to it, it eagerly swallowed quantities of the fluid. “Ha!” cried the delighted joker, “I guess those nuts were a trifle diot, old fellow.” “You had better be off,” exclaimed the keeper, “unless you wish the bucket at your head.” The fool took the hint only just in time, for the enraged animal, having finished the sixth bucketful, hurled the bucket after its tormentor with such force that had he lingered a moment longer his life might have been forfeited. The following year the show revisited the same town, and the foolish joker, like men of his genus, unable to profit by experience, thought to repeat his stupid trick on the same elephant. He took two lots of nuts into the show with him —sweet nuts in one pocket and hot in the other. The elephant had not forgotten the jest played upon him, and therefore accepted the cakes very cautiously. At last the joker proffered a hot one; but no sooner had the injured creature discovered its pungency than it seized hold of its persecutor by the coat-tails; hoisted him up by them, and held him until they gave way, when he fell to the ground. The elephant now inspected the several coat-tails, which, after he had discovered and eaten E ' all the sweet nuts, he tore to rags and flung after their discomfited owner.— Chambers' Journal.

Monopolists in the Senate.

The railroad corporations are making vigorous efforts to increase the number of their attorneys and retainers in the Senate. Their success so far has been uninterrupted. In a Democratic State these corporations work in the Democratic party, as witness the case of Senator Brown of Georgia. In a Republican State they work in the Republican party, as witness the election of Wilson in lowa, and Dolph in Oregon. * The next struggle will take j)jace in Kansas, where the corporations are supporting Plumb for re-election. Whether they can hold their grip on that State will soon be determined. The old parties will never make a square fight against the monopolies of transportation. The men who lead and control in politics are but puppets in the hands of the railroad kings.— Springfield {Mo.) Statesman.

Canoeing on the Amazon.

.Small, light draught steamers now run almost up to the rubber district of the Amazon, where they are met by canoes from above. Canoe travel is not comfortable or safe. The river is full of vindictive and venomous snakes, and alligators do not hesitate to attack voyagers. It is said that to capsize is certain death, as there is no escape from the crowd of saurian and reptile. ' ;

HUMOR.

The first theft: The baby’s crib. A friend every man turns his back on: His bed. An obscure, but yet not wholly unintelligible joke in regard to the mule is that “though he cares very little for precious stones in general, yet he generally affects topaz.” Canal mules do so? Con. by a wandering Briton: What is the difference between the City Fathers and the front benches at a burlesque show? One is a Board of Haldermen, and the other a horde of balder men. The man with a cheap Derby hangs it on the peg; but the man with a Derby lined like a coffin, and bearing the imprint of the swell hatter, always lays it down so that he who runs by may read the legend of its maker.— Puck. “How interesting these men of letters are, Susan!” “Do you think so?” replied Susan. “Now, I think the letters of men are more interesting,” at the same time holding up a dainty looking epistle she had received from “somebody.” That was a frank reply to a friend’s intimation of his approaching marriage: “I should make my compliments to both of you; but, as I don’t know the young lady, I can’t felicitate you, and I know you so well that I can’t felicitate her.” —Paris Figaro. ON AN OPERA COUPON. A bit of card that's black and blue • Remindethme, also, of you! It shows me, as this cola world goes, How Heaven opens, then comes to close. You Smiled, and I, in glances caught, For thee and me two tickets bought. The opera o’er, a smile for me— This coupon’s all that’s left for thee. When Mrs. Fogg asked her lord and master for a fur cloak and he replied that, really, my dear, I cannot fur get you, she did not feel so bad because she couldn’t get the cloak, but was quite broken down by the heartless manner of a man who could make a pun on a matter of such transcendental importance. • . „ Amkie was 6 years old, and was going to school with her sister of 9. One afternoon when school was near its close, her uncle came by and proposed to carry them home. The elder girl was at the head of her .class, and would not leave, but Annie said: “All right, Uncle Buck! I’ll go. lam foot, and I can’t get any footer?”— Youth’s Companion. A gentleman living in Austin is in the habit of receiving every year a venison ham from a friend living in the country. The Austin man desired to convey the gentle hint to his friend that two venison hams would be more acceptable than one, so he wrote: “Has your friendship for me grown cold, or the deer, in your section only have one hind leg?”— Texas Siftings. The Medical and Surgical Reporter is authority for the assertion that headache can be cured by wearing spectacles, and cites several instances where the experiment has been successful. We believe the statement implicitly. The homoeopathic principle is that like cures like. We all have heard of the adage that a hair of the dog will cure his bite, and as headaches are frequently brought about by glasses, it is not at all improbable that they can be cured by the use of glasses. Spectacles, therefore, will cure the man who makes a spectacle of himself.— Texas Siftings. “Would you object to a piece of criticism ?.” said a planter to an Arkansaw state official. “Oh, no,” replied the official. “It is the privilege of every one of my constituents to deliver a criticism. An officer is only a public servant, you know.” “Won’t object, then, if I criticise you?” “Certainly not.” “Won’t get mad if I tell you what I think ?” “No, sir.” “Well, then, what I wanted to say is that you are a fool.” Afterwards, while at the doctor’s office he referred to the official by saying: “He told me he wouldn’t get mad at criticism, but he is a liar. — Arkansaw Traveler.

Ma was out on one df her professional engagements, and I got in bed with pa. I had heard pa blame ma about her cold feet, so I got a piece of ice about as big as.a raisin box, just zactly like one of ma’s feet, and I laid it right against the small of pa’s back. I couldn’t help laffing, but pretty soon pa began to squirm and he said, ‘Why’n ’ell don’t you warm them feet before you come to bed,’ and then he hauled back his leg and kicked me clear out in the middle of the floor, and said if he married again he would marry a woman who had lost both her feet in a railroad accident. Then I put the ice back in the bed with pa and went to my room, and in the morning pa said he more’n a pail full in the night.— Peck’s Sun.

Wonders of the Vasty Deep.

As to the quantity of light at the bottom of the sea there has been much dispute. Animals dredged from below 700 fathoms, either have no eyes, or faint indications of them, or else their eves are very large and protruding, drabs’ eyes are four or five times as large as those of a crab from surface water, which shows that that light is feeble, and that eyes to be of any use must be very large and sensitive. Another strange thing is that where the creatures in those lower depths have any color it is of orange or ’ red, or reddish orange. Sea anemones, corals, shrimp and crabs have this brilliant color. Sometimes it is pure red or scarlet, and in manv specimens it inclines toward purple, jtfot a green or blue fish is found. The orange red is the fish’s protection, for the bluish-green light in the bottom of the ocean makes the orange or red fish appear of a neutral tint and hides it from enemies. Many animals are black, others neutral in color. Some fish are provided with boring tails so that they can burrow in the mud. Finally, the surface of the submarine mountain is covered with shells, like an ordinary sea beach, showing that it is the eating-house of vast schools of carnivorous animals. A codfish takes a whole oyster into its mouth, cracks the shells, digests the meat and spits out the rest. Crabs crack the shells and suck out the meat. In this way come whole mounds of shelln that are dredged up.— Prof. Pen'ill.

Men Who Lose Time.

There are four kinds of men who lose time—the man who is always waiting at street corners trying to persuade his little dog to catch up with him; the man who spends four or five hours a day trying to color a bogus meerschaum pipe; the man who is generally explaining to his friends how and under what circumstances he was presented with his expensive cane, and the man who, having pretty hair, wishes to keep the -part in exact shape and appearance. —Salt Lake Tribune.

REVENUE REFORM.

What Tariff Tax Reform Did for Workingmen in Great Britain—Protect ion the Gospel of Plunder and the Enemy of American Industry—Speech Delivered by Henry Watterson Before the Members of the Legislature of Tennessee, at Nashville. Senators and Representatives : Upon the southernmost coast of Spain, not far from Gibraltar, there is a little island connected with the mainland by a causeway, and upon this island stands an old town called Tarif a. It once belonged to the Moors, who made it, when they were a power in the world, a port of entry to the Mediterranean sea. They knew nothing about Custom Houses and schedules, and cared less about home industries and International exchanges A few junks and flintlocks sufficed to collect the tribute they exacted from the “pauper labor of Europa’’ Hence the origin of the word “tariff. ” Ido not find, however, in any history that they levied bounties upon their own people. They were rude and honest pirates, who did their pillaging in the oldfashioned way, having enjoyed none of the advantages of that modem economy which has discovered a gentler method of scuttling ships and cutting throats Doubtless, however, the natives of Tarifa thought they were doing a good thing for their country in exacting tribute of the stranger. They were subjects of an empire -whose splendor and whose squalor existed side by side.

The Moors have gone. Their temples and their palaces are a mass of decaying stuff. The little town of Tarifa scarcely appears upon the map. It is the vantage ground no longer of protection nor the home of monopoly except in shrimps and anchoviea But the system which it originated and the name it gave to that system survive to-day, and “tariff,” the science of plunder, is making its last stand for tenure and privilege in the United Statea The object of protection, which is, in the end, repressive and depressive, is to consolidate enterprise and wealth. It is a Federalist in origin and a centralizer in practice. Its effect is not to enlarge the happiness and open a vista of opportunity to the many, but to build up the fortunes of a few. •» • * * * * The truth is, under the protection system, which shuts us out from the markets of the world and turits us loose upon one another, the manufacturing interest and the agricultural interest are arrayed in direct antagonism. It is not alone that the agriculturist is taxed to support the manufacturer. It is that but for the extent of our arable lands and a natural preference in man for the freedom and sweetness of agricultural pursuits, the cheap labor of the unprotected farm hand—whom the protectionist would turn over perpetually to the tender mercies of the pauper labor of Europe annually pouring in—would be found to-day snatching bread from operatives who are lucky if they earn a dollar a day. This brings us to the fallacy that high tariffs make high wages. The exact reverse is true. Labor depends on supply and demand, just as prices are regulated by the foreign market, which enters our home market and takes what excess of production we have to offer it. A high tariff increases the profits of the privileged, ' or protected capitalist, who adds to the cost of production the rate of duty and the cost of transportation, and then a little private tax of his own as a sort of fee to his patriotism, and gets of the home buyer, who has no option, the maximum price demanded. But this same high tariff ,by limiting production to home consumption, takes from the operative what he might get through the excess of his work if the world were open to him. I cite a passage fiom Fawcett, a leading writer on political economy, which is very clear on this point. The eminent political economist says: “In any given case the more that is taken in form of profits, the less will be given in wages. If wages take a larger share of the produce, profits must take a smaller share. Suppose, however, that industry, by the introduction of new machinery, is rendered mere productive there will then be agreater quantity of produce to be distributed and more may be apportioned to profits without the slightest reduction in wages.” This is based upon the Taw that wages are labor’s share of the production, and it is fully sustained by experience. The example of England, which has tested the efficacy of free trade to the fullest, cannot be disregarded by any one who would thoroughly investigate and fully comprehend the doctrine of international exchangea In 1849 England let loose her grip upon the old feudal idea of commercial restriction and adopted the policy of freedom of trade. The statesmen who"led the movement had literally to take a leap in the dark. There were no precedents to guide them. But they were sure they were right, and they went ahead. They said, in effect: “Production, if left to Itself, will seek its levelCommerce is a simple interchange of com. modifies. England is afraid of nobody in the line of her own handicraft We will go Into the market of the world with our wares, and we will sell them for what we can get for them, and we will buy the products of other countries which we need with the proceeds, and we will trust the result to make us a profit We will put an end to protection which stimulates artificial enterprises, which lures men by the hope of privilege into paths wot mapped out for Goa and nature, and wfe will at one and the same time extinguish subsidies and force our whole people into fruitful pursuits by withdrawing from them Governmental support and compelling them to rely upon their own exertions applied tb resources better suited to them than those to which the state invited them by its mistaken bounty. ” This was the idea on which the Peels, "the Cobdens, and the Brights founded a new school of political economy. They were met by precisely the same outcry which at this present moment rallies to the side of monopoly in this country. But they kept on undaunted, and what was the results It reads like a fairy tale. I know that the protectionists contend that the cases are different betwixt England and us; but there, as everywhere else, as I shall presently show, they are at fault To give some idea of the wonders worked by the free-trade experiment in England, ! beg your permission to run over a few facts which stand out in bold relief. The statistics to which I wish to draw Sour attention were collected by Ernest [ongredien, whose authority will not be gainsaid by the most captious protectionist They institute a comparison oetween the state of the country in 1840, nine years before the new policy was adopted, and 1878, twenty-nine years after it went into effect In 1840 the foreign trade of England was a little of $800,000,000 of our currency. In 1878 it was nearly four thousand millions. In 1840, under a high protective tariff the public revenue was about two hundred and sixty millions. In 1878, upon a customs list embracing fifteen articles, and yielding only $100,000,000 on import duties, the entire revenue aggregated nearly five hundred. millions, which pressed less "hardly upon the people than did the former sum. In 1840 the tonnage of the registered vessels of England was 2,571,000 tons. In 1878 it was 6,236,000 tona In the improvement in the condition of the poorer classes the figures are equally startling. In 140 the de-‘ posits in the savings banks, which are Government institutions organized to receive small sums, amounted to $75,000,000 of our currency. In 1878 they were nearly four hundred millions. In 1840 the convictions for criminal offenses of all kinds in England were 34,000, with a population of 26,000,000. In 1878 they were 17,000, with a population of 33,000,(XX). In 1840 about 200 (M)0 paupers were supported by charities, public and private. In 1878 less than 100,(MX). These figures show a remarkable improvement of conditions—a revolution, in fact, for the better—and I cannot more fitly close it than by quoting a table prepared by Mr. Mongredien to show the consumption per head of the English people during the years named of certain articles of living. This table is conclusive as showing the Immense advance of the working classes in comforts and luxuries, for the wealthy and middle classes must have consumed as much sugar, tea, etc., in 1840 as they do now, leaving the largely-increased consumption to the poor, to whom the purchasing power of wages has been steadily increasing. Here is the table: 1840—lbs. 1878-lbs. Tea 1.22 4 66 Sugarls.2o 48.56 Coffee 1.08 0.97 Rice 0.90 7.50 Currants and raisins 1.45 4.49 Tobacco 0.86 '7.45 During the same period the consumption of flour increased from one barrel per annum to one and a half barrels for each laborer and his family, while the consumption of beef, pork, mutton, poultry, butter, cheese and eggs more tnan doubled per head. These figures tell a story of their own, though it is not half the story that might be told, of how the emancipation of the people at large, and of the working classes m particular, from the semi-barbarous system

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which flourished in England prior to 1849, widened the areas of trade, broadened the opportunities of men and diffused the blessings of an enlightened commercial freedom throughout those parts of the British i eidm included in its operations. Already the noble words of Sir Robert Peel, who did not live to see the fulfillment of the policy which he had made such sacrifices of power to confer upon his country, have come true. He said: “I shall surrender power severely censured, I fear, by many honorable men who, from no interested motives, have adhered to the principles of protection because they looked upon them as important to the interests and welfare of the country. I shall leave a name, execrated, I know, by every monopolist who would maintain protection for his own personal benefit. But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with the expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labor and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice. r So much for the example of England. Now can any man explain why it is that, with our vast resources and our peculiar aptitude for special pursuits, our inventive genius, and our enterprise, we may not repeat the experience of the mother country)* England is able to undersell all other nations, because, though she pays high wages, she gets skilled labor and has the world for a market We are unable to compete with her because we have taxed our machinery, surrounded ourselves by a Chinese wall, seduhed capital by excessive bounty into unprofitable channels, and Increased the price of everything. We have only to stop this short-sighted policy and devote 'our energies to the natural resources of our soil and climate, unaided by Government—in other words, to fling away the crutches of protection and step bravely into competition with England—to vie with her, yea, and to beat her in every neutral market in the world. It is not, as I have shown, the pauper labor of Europe that we have to contend with, but the high-waged labor of England, which is able to underbid us because the cost of production in England has been reduced to its minimum by cheap machinery and cheap raw material

There has never been a high tariff in this country that did not curtail, nor a low tariff that did not increase our exportation of fabrics. The more protection we give the manufacturer the more he wants, and the more he gets the poorer his employes grow. Before the present era of extreme protection, now twenty years old labor strikes were unknown in the UnJ ted States. The war tariff and the tramp came in together, and they have been playing a game of blind man’s buff with each other ever since. The reason is not fax a-field. American manufactories have been so stimulated by bounties that they are able to produce more than the home market can consume. Unless a foreign market can be obtained for the excess of production the mills must stop A foreign market can only be got by reducing the cost of production, and this can only be done by cheaper machinery and raw material, or cheaper labor. The tariff steps in and forbids the cheaper machinery and raw material, so nothing is left the manufacturer but to cut wages, which he proceeds to do whenever it suits his purpose. A very moderate duty would cover the difference between wages in England and wages here. But as Mr. J. 8. Moore, the Parsee merchant, shows in his admirable paper read before the Tariff Commission, “protection begets protection. ” Every article entering into manufactures being taxed, competition with England becomes impossible, and either a glut of the home market or the stoppage of work inevitable. This is the spectacle which we see at the present moment; mills closing; wages lowered; and a lobby at Washington clamoring for “more protection.” This after twenty years of trial Tfiis after many years of unexampled general prosperity contributed by agriculture to enrich the protected classes. It will continue as long as protection continues. There is a dreary monotony in the history of all high tariffs; first, an excess of manufacturing enterprises, then the swallowing of the little fish by the big fish, then depression, starvation, ruin, and cries upon the Government for help. Think of a system which, in a free and healthy country, depends for its success, not upon God’s bounty and man’s labor, but upon an act of Congress! Such is protection, which, pretending ,to be the poor man’s friend, is slowly out surely starving him to death. The time has come when this freedom of trade which, restricted to the States of the Union, has been as sunshine to the industries of the United States, should be enlarged. Those industries are as able now to stand alone as ever they will be. The longer they are protected the more they will need protection. And I stop a moment to ask why, if protection is to be such a good thing, the protectionists do not advocate it between the States so that cotton fabric's in Georgia may be protected from the cotton mills in New England, and the coal and iron of Tennessee from the ore beds and furnaces of Pennsylvania? That would be logical, at least, though it is not what we want We want the open.markets of the world. We want more consumers to take our surplus products. We want more partnerships and fewer corporations. We want cheaper production; and, to get it without cutting wages, we want cheaper machinery ana cheaper raw material. It is never high-priced labor that seeks protection against low-priced labor. It is exactly the reverse. No man can study tbe question, even in the light of the arguments advanced by the protectionists, without seeing that they answer and defeat themselves It is the only question I have ever encountered in which the greater the research the more extreme ana positive the opinion. Usually inquiry begets moderation. But it is impossible to be tranquil and patient in the presence of enormities that lurk l>eneath and rally about this system of gigantic rapine and wrong.

Political Notes.

Mb. Dobsey is satisfied that his exprivate secretary, Rerdell, is not a sight just now good for sore eyes. Ex-Speaker Randall’s inconsistent course on the tariff question and his frequent dodging of votes is making him no friends either among the protectionists or free traders. Iff the South especially the expressions of disgust are pronounced. The Republican party in New York, it appears, need expect no backing and support from the President. It is reported that Senator Warner Mill elcalled at the Executive Mansion, the other day, to discuss methods of effecting a reconciliation of the various factions of New York Republicans. To his surprise, the President declared himself indifferent to the situation in his State, and said that he had done all he intended to do to promote harmony and good feeling. He said, moreover, that he was determined to let political matters run as they might, and to take it easy for the rest of his term. It is evident that Mr. Arthur has no political aspirations. His determination to let Eolitics alone should fill the party with ope and encouragement. It will be bad news for the Democrats. Senator Tabor has made a speech. When the Senate passed its Tariff bill he raised his two hands high in air and shouted “Good.” It was the greatest effort of his life. Senatorships came very high in Colorado and Nevada, the : bonanza States, where bonanza kings j compete for the privilege of crowning a lucky “strike” with political honors. It would be interesting to know just liow much Senator Tabor paid for the privilege of uttering those four letters in the sanctuary of Sumner, Seward and Webster. The Senate Tariff bill protects lead, and Tabor is a great producer of lead, which is a refuse product of his silver mines. The philosopher who said speech was silver, but silence was golden, did not know Tabor. Whether vocal or mute, he is always. leaden. . The Tariff bill was “good” for him, and he knows that kind of a good thing when he sees it. y Almost any millionaire knows enough to be a “good” Senator of Tabor’s kind. — Chicago Tribune.

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Mr. Bundi offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 26th ult., directing the appointment of a committee of three Democrats and two ReSubficansto investigate the condition of the tate treasury, as it was a well-known fact that the Treasurer was loaning out about $60,000 of the State's money for his personal benefit, contrary to the law, which provides that the money shall remain in the vaults. The resolution provoked an acrimonious political discussion, in which Senator Magee stated that the greater part of the money was loaned to a bank of which Gov. Porter was the principal stockholder. The Democrats voted down the resolution by a party vote. The conference committee reported on the General Appropriation bill to both branches, and the minor amendments recommended were concurred in and the bill Anally passed. In the House, Mr. Frasier's bill providing for toe establishment of an Appellate Court was defeated by a vote of 37 to 6& The bill providing that legal advertising should be published in the daily instead of weekly papers in cities was under consideration and was discussed at length. The bill consolidating the offices of County and City Treasurer and Assessor passed the House by a vote of 69 to 23. A caucus of Democratic members of the Legislature, in toe evening, decided not to pass toe Congressional Apportionment bill and not to force the passage of toe Metropolitan Police hill. In the OverstreetJohnson contest they decided to allow Johnson, the sitting member, to retain his seat. The investigating,committee on the new State House made two reports to the Senate on the 27th ult., the majority recommending that the Legislature take no action on the matter, and the minority favoring the passage of a bill to allow the Commissioners to employ the old contractors, Howard and Derig, to complete the building, with the $2,000,000 limit provided by law. The claim of Mrs. Edwin May for SIO,OOO for services rendered by her late husband as architect of the new State House was allowed. The Senate passed, by 30 to 10, Representative Atkin's bill requiring the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in his next apportionment of the school fund to set apart SIO,OOO, and semiannually deduct toe same amount and set it apart, to be known as a normal school fund; also, Mr. Shirlev’s bill making mechanic’s liens good on all classes of structure and including attorneys’ fees. The Senate also passed House Mils to' enable counties to dispose of certain lands for the benefit of the school fund; to relieve the flood sufferers by allowing them to pay but 6 per pent, penalty on delinquent taxes instead of the heavy penalty allowed by law. The Senate Road bill, reviving the old law, was concurred in by the House; also the bill to prevent and punish the assessing and collecting of illegal or constructive fees. The House, with oply five dissenting votes, passed the State House Appropriation bill. It levies a yearly 2cent tax and appropriates SIOO,OOO from the general fund. The bill relating to the Bureau of Statistics, as amended by the House, left the geological and statistical departments separated, and the Senate concurred therein. The following Trustees of the various State institutions were elected by the Legislature, in joint session, all of them being Democratic nominees: President Of the Board of Benevolent Institutions, Thomas H. Harrison, of Boone county; Trustees Insane Asylum, Philip Gapen, Indianapolis; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, S. E. Urmiston, Franklin county; Blind Asylum, Howard Briggs, of Putnam; Trustees of the Feeble-minded Institute, John M. Gore, of Henry; Richard J. Wilson, of Washihgton; Robert D. Brown, of Dearborn. . . ,

The Senate was in session nearly the whole night of the 27th ulf., the bone of contention being the Metropolitan Police bill, and there were a number of turbulent and exciting scones The Republican members held the floor all night for the ostensible purpose of discussing the Railroad Commission bill, which was then under discussion, but in reality to prevent consideration of the Metropolitan Police bill, which is purely a jiolitleal measure. Lieut. Gov. Hanna overruled every point of order made by the Democrats, and refused to consider appeals, although the discussion was interrupted every minute by such questions. The Democrats denounced Lieut. Gov. Hanna’s rulings os being revolutionary and outrageous. The Senate adjourned between 8 and 4 o'clock a. m., and upon reassembling on the 28th the fight was renewed. The bill was passed by 27 to 21, Senator Youche (Republican) voting with the Democrats in the affirmative. The animus of the latter's vote was soOn made apparent, for when the vote was announced he made a motion to reconsider, and bn that got the floor for discussion. It then became evident to the Democrats that a repetition of last night’s filibustering proceedings was imminent, and they used every means in their power to fight it off, but to no avail, as the Republican minority, with the assistance of the Lieutenant Governor, prevented them from- getting the floor. A)»out midnight the Democrats tried to piit Senator Willard in the chair by main force, but the effort was futile. This action created such excitement that it was found necessary to clear the lobbies and galleries, which was done with considerable trouble. In the House, the entire day was consumed in considering the Specific Appropriation bill, fully two-thirds of the provisions of which were stricken out.

The Renata was In session nearly all night again on the 28th ult., as a result of the filibustering tactics of the Republicans to compass the defeat of the Indlanaptflls Police bill. When the Senate convened in the morning of the Ist the contest was renewed. The Democrats, to offset the tactics of their adversaries, reconsidered the vote by which the General Appropriation bill was passed, and then refused to concur in the amendments made by the conference committee, with the object of farcing the Governor to sign the Police bill or accept the alternative of calling an extra session of the Legislature. The proceedings were enlivened by an attack ujwn Lieut. Gov. Hanna by Senator McCullough, of Gibson county. Addressing the chair directly, fee denounced the Lieutenant Governor in the most unmeasured terms. He said Hanna was an accident; that he got his nomination under false pretenses, the delegates in the convention thinking they were voting for John Hanna; that he was a pigmy; that he had violated his oath of office; and much more to the same effect. The chair ordered the Secrfetary to take down McCullough’s words, which the latter offered to repeat if the Secretary desired. The proceedings in the Legislature, aside from this, were uneventful, the time being deVoted in the House to the consideration and passage of a great many minor bills, mostly of local significance, Among the most important bills passed was that of Mr. Button, which provides that any State, county, or township officer who falls to pay over any fines, forfeitures, docketfees, etc., as required by law, and allows the same to be collected of him by any authorised officer, and he cjoductlng therefrom his penalty or per cent., that said officer permitting the same to be done shall pay over and make good to the school fund the penalty or per cent, so deducted, and the prosecuting attorneys oi the State are required to brinrf* suit against such officials to enforce the collection of the same. The bill for the endowment of the State University onehalf 1 per cent, on the taxables of the State also passed the House.

A Submarine Treasure.

In 1780 the British man-of-war Hussar was wrecked in Hell Gate, having on board about $5,000,000 in guineas. In 1794 an expedition was sent out from England, and for two seasons attempted to raists the wrack, but was forbidden to -work longer by the United States Government. ‘ In 1819 another attempt was made by an English company with a diving-bell,, but with no success. Since then a number of companies have organized only to meet with failure. Within the past five years a new company has been at work, using the latest sub-marine armor and appliances. A sloop firmly anchored about 100 yards ftom the New York side of the East river; ’three-quarters of a mile above Ward’s Island, is the company’s headquarters, apd marks the spot where the Hussar sank, with her bows pointing to the north. The stock is divided into 48,000 shares of SIOO each. Cannon, cannon-balls,, menacies, gun-flints, silver plate and bones have been found. One day a brats box was brought to the stirface. It was full of jewels, with a necklace of brilliants. It was left for a moment on. the deck, and disappeared, never to be seen again on board again. A lump of isiiyer, made of various coins agglomerated by the action of the water, has been found, together with scattering gold coins. But the mail treasure remains yet to be found.

Bhakspeabe may have been a great writer,, bpt he was not consistent. Poloniusis made tosay to Laertes, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” and yet Mark Antony asks the Roman populace to fend him their ears.— Rochester PostExpress. ~ ■-■ 1 . Twei,ve years ago a Yankee ranchman in California started in the sheep Bn&iiess with one old ewe for a starter. He now has over 600 sheep, the multiplied increase of that old ewe. M Ji —7 ’ ~ ... 7 - jt he dairyman’s fortune- is his milky maid. u »; j ■ n ;■