Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Aa inn erecting a®; lea ®f meetings arc progressing at th# M. E. Church, la jtiUMlur. Iroquois Lodge I. O. O. F., of Rensselaer, donated $25 for the aid of flood sufferers. Monticel 10 Herald: FraakJW. Babcock. an attorney of the Rensselaer bar, attended court here last Monday. The aveiage of bana dividends in Eagiaad is 16 per cent; in the U. 8. it is 8 78-100 per neat. The popular Impression haa been that capital earned msr in this country tnaa in Eng land, but it appears to be a mistake—at least so far as the banking business s concerned. A. B. Southard, assi°tant to the president of the Louisville, New Albany&Ohicago road, and traffie manager. who ranks among the brightest railroad men in the West, began bis railroad career in 1865 aB a peanut bey on the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago road. -[lndiasaDoliv Journal. About 80 per cent, of the exports of this country consists es products of the soil. The prices of the wheat, torn and bacon of the farmer are determined in the foreign market, but he must purchase what he needs in a market in which the prices es all products but his owu are enhanced by the tariff, He must sell a - cording te the rates of one market, in ahert, and buy according to the rates of another. It would be surprising if the farmers of the country do not become tired of the pressure one es these days —Exchange. Here is a fact for workingmen, and so well stated by| the Philadelphia (Pa.) Recerd that it .s worth having attention thus specially ealled to it; After the workingman gets his house built and furnished for about 40 per cent mete than he ought to pay, in consequence of tariff exaction, the tariff still pursues him His breakfast is salted with 36 per cent, salt; he sweetens his csffee with sugar that isjtaxed 42 per cert.; his rice is taxed over 100 per cent; his vineger 26 per cent; his clothes, if of wool, are taxed 40 per cent; his woolen stookings and under shirt 75 per esnt; (if they are cotton they are tax ed 45 per esnt;) his hat is taxed 75 percent; his wife's clothing is taxed at equivalent rates, and. she must pay 45 per cent, extra for nair pins. The workingman pays duty on his shelter , clothing, food medicines and te Is. From the time he comes iato the world until ho gees out of it he pays his proportion of the protective tax, whieh goes into the pocket of his but be gets no protection himself, Yet preteetior could not stand one dav if it ware no! fast oned pon the country by the workingman’s vote. A Lick Back.— An excha ge tells hew a girl got rather the best of a minister as follows; Mary was a buxom country lass, and her father was an uprignt d a« con in the Methodist church es a Connecticut vil age. Mary’B plan of joining the beys and girls in a nutting party was frustrated oy the un expected arrival of a number of the ‘brethren” ob thpir way to confer ence, and Mary had to stay at, hojne an get dinner for her father’s ch rieal guests Her already ruffled tem per was increased by the reverend visitors themselves, who sat abour the stove and in the way. On ■ of obe good ministers noticed her wrathful impatience, and desiring te re)uke her sinful manifestations, said Aeinly; “Marv, what do you think vill be your occupation in holl ?* 'Pretty much the same as it is on arth,” she replied, “cooking for iethodist ministers.”

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V boy ana girl a sloghing vent, Ynd blither of them oared a cent How fast they rid. While on they slid— What fcr, and where! he air was very eold and raw—t’he litt'e hoy. he froee nis paw. Still en they sped la their little sled— What for, and where? he little girl, so young and fair, ■ io6t nearly all her golden hair, They went so fast, Their friends they passed— What fer. and where ! ' he horse, of ceorse, get badly seared, nd rao, and pitched, and kicked and reared, On went the pair— Now timost there— What for, and where? ' he boy and girl were tumbled outhe sprained her ear he broke his snout— Then up they got, And off they sot— What for, and where? or Levfao’s little candy store— To get soma candy—Nothing more— They got it, too. And so may you— What for? Why from 11 te 40 seats a pound; ‘•nd our nb'«. ({sweet magaolans and '•dicioO* or am candies and ehoco- • te goods, owtag to m heterrogene- • eouglomoratihn of unforseen • Seal ties, at prices to suit all. HF.NRI LEVINO. Proprietor •'Tino’t i j ly Eos »3S laer dlaoa.