Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — EASTER EGGS. [ARTICLE]
EASTER EGGS.
An “Innocent Men’s Club” was recently organised In Philadelphia Jersey at d the other Star Route * Il «*>VPS should apply for membership a 4-, onne. The young son of Dan Voorhees - u ho exhibits great skill as a sculptor has placed a bust of Don Cameron on exhibition in one of the Setia'c committee rooms.
The Chicago Time says that "The t n iff bill is hardly sufficient toonab’e the republican party to get along • without the grace of providence in the next election."
The charge in the massage of Gov* , i nor Pattison to the Legislature o r Pennsylvania that the Standard Oil company has been gujlty of bribery, rill be investigated by a joint legis--1 Jive committee
The decision of the national supreme court in the case of Elliot and others against the “board of liquidation” of Louisiana is no lees nterpi'ioing tnun remarkable. It goes to the full length of declaring that there is no power in the national constitution—or, at least, in the judicial phrt of it,—to enforce the pn vision that “no state shall make any ex post f teto law, ar law impairing the obligation of contracts.”
The Legislature adjourned Monday. xho Republican element, In the lead of Governor, his Lieut, and others endeavored to control and obstruct legislation by ‘bulldozing’ tactics, but failed By determined and persistent efforts on the part of tue Democrats measures were pushed through. The appropriation bill was passed at the last moment, and it is probable Dorsey’s protege—Governor Porter—will claim he has no au, t ority to sign it, and attempt to place the responsibility of failure on the Legislature. But then he will iugloriously fail, as both Govs. Mon ton and Baker have set precedents, and Baker says he would sign it.
The closing hours of Congress were enlivened by a little colloquy b-tween Randall and Hewitt,injwhich the New Yorker gave the Pennylvanian a pret ty taorough overhauling, Mr. Hewitt urged Randall to vote against the conference tariff bill, whenSthe latter got out of temper and told He vitt that he had been fighting the battle of the democratic party for twentyfive years and wanted to bo dictated to by nobody. Hewitt replied: “Yes. sir, I understand how you have been fighting the battles of the democratic party for years. If packing and as* sisting in packing the ways and means committee in the interest of monopolies and against tariff revision and the people for years means lighting thebattles of the democratic parly you have been doing it You have d.rne more, sir, to keep therein ocratio party out of power than any other man in the country, and I tell you, Mr. Randall, you will meet your /Waterloo in the democratic caucus which assembles to elect a speaker for the forty-eighth congress.” With feewitt and Cox, who will be influen tial in the New York delegation, against him; with the New Englanders dissatisfied at the out on the wool tariff; with the west urging either Morrison or Springer, and the south united on Carlisle or Blackburn. Randall’s road to tho speakership is uphill all the way there.
There were in the house of representatives a number of gentlemen who had the best reason for betters iug that Mr, Keif er, the speaker, had not been clear in his great office; he was not impartial, not fair not able. It was very well for Mr. Randall who with bis protection friends, had been the beneficiary of Mr. Keffer’s no tors ous partiality, to say under his breath that by the rule of common decency he had the right to offer without objection a resolution complimentary of tne retiring speaker. Ordinarily, there would be no objection at all but in the case of Keifer the lie would be so palpable, so uncalled for, so glaring, that a dofen members of the minority ottered their objection to the presentation of the Randall resolution. This resolution, Randall said, was only a compliment. But what is a compliment? It is defined as an agreebie truth, just as flattery is described as an agreebie falsehood.
No agreeble truth can be asserted of Keifer’s conduct in the chair. He has not been decently a partisan. He has not owned himself. He has been petulant, mistaken,. stubborn for others, and notoriously unfair. As a compliment was impossible, flat* tery was out of the question with men who had felt the injustice of the Speiker and knew that the history of the house does not show a speak, er who was less deserving a courteous word than the gentleman from Ob.o, whose term was as inglorious as, fortunately, it was brief, The resolution was objected to by several. A fact which has no precedent, we believe, in the case of any previous speaker. Poor, miserable Heifer!
ibe tariff is considered a bore by a great many people. It is forthw reason that so few will take the trouble to examine the question. Here now are a few thoughts put Very tersely and clearly. Bead them: 1 protection resulted in nothing worse than the Government giving a bo ue to the naif million of proteodonuts of SSO every time they sold a glut werth of goods, it would be al
small hardship and injustice to the people tn comparison with its evil influence in leading the country into periods of wild and iionaiura* smeulit ion for a rise, only to b< followed by corresponding periods of undue depression. Even ibis might be suffered without much complaint it it did not practically add gre-.tly to every comumei* cost 01 living. No one in the infancy- of this repub 1; c u d have obta n d* for the product of his inuiHtry a dishonest advantage over ihat of his fellowworkers elsewhere, bv—at.s in ih>se day there was no ar iff for protection; and no one would have then built a factory unless h> fe t pretty sure it was needed and woi Id prove profitable. Then was, consequently, no a t fleiai cause nt work to stimulate O>> reproduction ast e e Is now. The protec ionistimport me Cong ress at ever »e o «ton tor more protection, and muny of'hem urge as an argument in th -ir favor chat they r iresrnt muouf ctutiug property eqnivalen’ to $5,00b,000 to $lO 000,0**0 each'; and it is well known that in prosperous times not a lew manufacturing corporations pay dividends ranging from 50 to 100 per cent, on their original capital.
LL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELi. Siys the Indianapolis State Sentinel; ‘The Legislature has adjourned sine die. In several regards it challenges comparsl >n with the Led the State has ever had. T ue, Democrats Lave had to contend with the legacy which Dorsey, the Star Route thief, foisted upon the Governor Porter and Lieutenant Governor Hanna, but in spite of such obstacles, the Democratic Legislature has made a good record and the people will approve nd applaud results. What are the chief features which command this ap proval? Senator Hilligass, who has been one ct the most vigilant watchmen in t li Senate, outlinad them as follows:
First, the decendcnts’ estate law Tim obnoxious features of the law as it stood upon ‘he statute books of the State have been eliminated. The master commissioner no longer exists. The rights of administrators, without expense of Court proceedings, is secured, and the newspa. per notice of administrators’ account current is no longer required. These and other outrageouj features of the law of 1881, enacted by the Republican Legislature, that worked legalized robbery of estate, are eliminated, and the action of the Legislature m this regard is worth more to the people of Indiana than the r tire cost of the session.
Again: The Republican road law o' 1881 has been repealed, and the people have in its stead a* Supervisors’ law Widespread complaint justly existed among the farmers of the State over the law that has been repealed, and the work ot the General Assembly on that subject will prove to be a God-send to the masses.
The dog law is believed to be one of the best pieces of Legislation ever placed upon the Statute books of the State, one which will yield much more revenue to the school fund than the law of 1881 while it provides an easy and safe way tor the farmers of the State to secure pay for their sheep ki led by dogs. The law also protects owners of dogs, and is eminently just in all of its features.
The asylum bill, providing for the care of the State's insane, is a grand piece of Legislation, and is a severe rebuke to the Republican legislation ot 1881, which, with its 100 days’ session, failed to pro vide for 1,200 unfortunates scattered over the State in the County Poor Houses. The Democratic party of the State can well afford, in the light of all the facts, to go before the people with the record.
Governor Alexander H. Stephens died at the Executive Mansion, At lanta. Georgia, March, 4, 1883. The news of the death of the great states man while not altogether unexpect ed created a very profound sensation all over the land. Below we publish a short biographical sketch-of the life of the deceased: Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was bori! in Taliaferro Countv, Georgia, February 11, 1812. He graduated at Franklin College, Athens, Ga., in IS--32, and rapidly obtained a large and lucra ive practice at Crawfordsville. He was elected to the legislature of Georgia in 1636, and was re-elected to five successive terms. In 1842 he was elected to the State Senate, in 1843 he was elected as a Whig to Congress and held his seat until 1859. In February, 1847, he submitted a series of resolutions in relation to the Mexican War, which afterwa ds formed the platform of the whig party. He opposed the Clayton compromise in 1846, and took a lead in com romise in 1850. The passage of the Kansas and Nebraska act of 1854 in t e Hcuse of Bepresentati ves was strongly supported by him as Chairman of the Committee on Territories. After the breaking up of the whig party he acted with the Democrats. At the close of the thir ty-flfth Congress declined.again to be a candidate, and on July 2,1859, he made a speech at
Augusta, Ga., announing his retirement : from public life. During the Presidential campa gn of 1860 he sustained Douglas and denounced those who advocated the dessolutlon of the Union in case of Mr. Lincoln’s election; and in November 1860, he made a speech before the legislate of Georgia against secession, on which subject he had an interestfng correspondence with Mr- Lincoln in De-, cember. He,was nevertheless elect ed to the secession Convention, which met at Milledgeville, January 16,1861, and there spoke and voted against the seeccssion ordinance. He was a member of the Southern Congress which met in Montgomery Ala. in February, and was elected Vice President of the Confederacy. His public career all through the War of secession wat'a prominent one. Although a man of the most delicate physical nature, and at times so weak in body that he could hardly walk, his mind was most vigorous and his biack eye Keen and piercing. He was so thin and raw boned that when he removed bis thick waistcoat at Hampton Road**, where be wept dur ing the War tp sse President Lincplq and Mr. Seward in conference, Liusoln remarked, when the Vice Presi dent of the Confederacy removed his coat: “Well that is the smallest ear of corn I ever saw to have such a Dig chuck 1*
When Lee surrendered Mr. 8 options returned to Georgia; was arrest* ed and sent to Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, but was so<.n released op parole. He was footed to the Sen ate of the United States in February, 1867, but could not take his sea*, as Georgia had not been fully rwconstructed. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 18 !2, and
returned continuously until last year, ■ wh-o he wus elected Governor of G- or ia by Hn'overwnelming major1y on the Democrat!*- ticket. Among H,e books he wtote Is “A Uoustim-■ tional View cf the Late War Between j the States; Its Carnes, Ctaracter, I Conduct and Results,” Mr. Stephens was never married, bit no old bacl eior w;.s ever of a more gonial and hospitable, disposi* i tion. He does not leave a large es- ' ta’e; be was always ‘■ha’ituble with h e means. - He educated a number of poor struggling young men, and n ver refused to aid tn seme way a • ffering man or woman who applied to nun for rcii f. For the past eig >t or f< n years he had to be whet-L’d about iu a chair.
Easter comes very early indee 1 this ; yevu upon t> e 25ih Marc , which.is almost as early y«s It ran be, and befo e long, children will to think about what in olden times used to be called puts eggs. It is a good pl‘i». too. f r the egg*ce*l‘rers of a neigbb *rh*’od to ho’d a sort of ‘ bee,” and unite in the prodt ction of the dye, thus saving time and money. ■Ttie exchange of eggs between friends, as i token of love and friendship, is a very ancient custom, dating back almost to the fl. od. for it is a symbol ol the ark, as well as of the resurrection, which is the r a*on that we present them at East er. It is moreover a very universal custom prevailing mum* different nations and religions The Jews placed eggs on lheir passover tables, the Druid used them iu their ceremonies, and the Persians frequently give them as New Year’s gi ts. If you should happen in Ra»sia this mouth, a Russian would greet you on Easter morning with ‘’Christ is risen,” and offer you an Easter egg—and st'anger still, if you were in the far East, a Mohammedan would do the same. At city confectioners, fancy sugar eggs, some * f them of enormous size, and con taming panoramas of landscape and figures, or close filled with bon-bons —may be had at all prices; but appropriate homemade ones are worth twice as much. To dye cgs, onion skins put in the wfter in which they ate boiled will make them a bright yellow; or. it left longer in the solution-, a rich brown. Logwood or violet ink, gives a royal purple. Coehi nea'J pink and crimson; and manv pieces of chintz or ribbon that fade easily, if sewed tightly round the eggs, v ill color them nicely in figures, stripes or dots Another way is to dip the egg into hot water and then name or motto on the shell with tallow. ’ It is then boiled in the solution of dyewood, when the inscription will appear in white, upon a colored ground. those who are skillful with pencil and paint bursh can-present their friends with really exqui-ite souvenirs by ornamenting eggs with flowers and butter, flies, or appropriate text of Scripture. For these painted eggs it is better to puncture a tiny hole with a pin in each side and blow out the inside, leaving a clear shell, then to boil them; and the apertures cau be concealed by stars of silver or gilt paper. .