Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — Page 8

Another Lie Hailed to the Counter.

Washington, D. C-,) May 28,1884. J Mr. E. Zimmerman: I have just read telegrams from " ashington going through the Republican press of the Tenth District. Republican editors should send me a copy of their issue containing such untruthful and slanderous charges. I do not see them until they are about worn ©ut by Republi cans. It would be strange, indeed, if I did not know who were Democrats and who were Republicans in Congress after a service of six months with them. I did introduce a homestead bill for the benefit of the old soldiers of the Union armies, and afterwards the chief organization of the Grand Army of the republic—the high shoulder-strap men—passed a resolution and sent it to Congress and to the proper com mittees. requesting that no homestead law be passed by Congress. This quelled the enthusiasm, only among members but in the committees having the bill in charge. I did go round with the bill and worked very hard for it on the floor of the House. My heart was in it, and I worked tor it with all my energy, as I thought it necessary, after such a resolution was sent to Congress. In all my earnest and faithful labor for the bill not one word was uttered by me about the Senate not passing the bill; not one word about votes for me in my district; notone word about any aid to me whatever. Where I live the old soldier knew me to be his friend long before I thought of going to Congress I did argue his case with all my ability, and declared frequently that this country wo|uld be written down in history as an ungrateful country, unless it sooner or later gave the old solder a free and substantial homestead out of her great unoccupied public domain. He sho’d have it in preference to railroad companies and the, lordly English barons. lam willing to have my acts, judged by impartial countrymen; but'to be abused and slandered by entire falsehood is galling indeed to a sensitive nature.

This Congress ha s d me.mibch for the soldier, and I hope it will do more before adjournment. I labored with the bill doing away with proof «©f soundness to enlistment on application for a pension. # I favored the Mexican pension bill. I favored the bill increasing soldiers 1 widows’ pensions from 18 to sl2 per month, and which will soon pass the House.

I favored the passage of about two hundred bills granting pensions to soldiers who were unable to make proof of disability before the pension . department. I favored the equalization /bounty bill and the soldiers’ -prison pension bill Some of the employes from the Tenth District should attend to their duties when drawing salaries, and not lay around the galleries to find items to build falsehood upon about a member not of their political faith. These fellows are known here, and it is common talk that their retention in office on good salaries with half time for work, and the other half hanging arounc the Capitol is a public disgraoe. Ido not allude to the great body of department clerks, who are really overworked. But I have said enough to nail these falsehoods ,to the mast head, and 1 want my constituents to hear from me before believing any statement about my conduct here. Your friend,

THOMAS J. WOOD.

A story is told of a .Republican (per se) protectionist who would have ransacked the earth to obtain cheap labor, beingdriven to the polls at the last Presidential election by an Irish operative, who when questioned, told his employer chat he proposed to vote for General Hancock. He was informed with some show of temper by his employer, that Democratic success meant what the liepublican platform now says it means, namely, reduction of the wages of labor to pauper rates. Patriok promptly replied: '‘Your Honor can’t fool ine. If you believed what you

sayyou would vote for Gener al Hancock yourself.” Chicago Times: The presi' dential candidacy of Mr. JasG. Blaine is a menace of evil to the republic. Of all the citizens that were proposed to the assembly of partisan electors yesterday, and of all whose names have been mentioned in connection with that office, Mr. Blaine is the least fit, the least trustworthy. He is perhaps the most intense partisan in America. — Moreover, his partyism is not the partyism of a statesman who is guided by sincere convictions founded on broad knowledge and understanding. It is the partyism of a mere passion for leadership actuating a man of intense prejudices, of ugly temper, and of defective understanding, whose highest happiness is in playing ringleader in a disturbance. This character of Mr. Blaine was fully displayed during his leadership of the house, at a time when passion rather than judgment was the guide of nearly all the members of that chamber. In no respectable sense of the word is Mr. Blaine a statesman. When he entered the senate—a body in which statesmen is not yet wholly extinct —he stepped out of his own place, and into one which he failed to manifest the faculty of filling respectably, So far from adding to his public reputation, his,brief career as senator served only as a means of making more conspicuous his notable defects by comparison with superior characters. It has been said by some of his personal Champions thai he made himself conspicuous by his advocacy of the Chinese emigration prohibition bill He made a speech for that measure whichfgained for him no admiration among those who listened to its delivery.— Without any foundation in reason, knowledge, or understanding of his sub.’ect, it was the painful liaran tie of an aspiring demagogic who, as everyone plainly perceived, was already fishin < for the “sandlot” votes.

The fatal error of Garfield in placing Blaine at the head of his cabinet (Counselors—an error which The Times emphasized at the moment —was the beginning of a tempestuous ana perilous voyage for the government and the country, that was arrested only by the death of the mistaken chief. — In that tempest Blaine was “in his element,” but his was and is the faculty of leadership that raises the storm without the power to still, the storm. His strange and more than auspicious South American diplomacy was a further exhibition of a meddling and reckless propensity to “rush in where angels fear tj tread,” and to undertake what neither .angels nor mortals of good judgment or right prudence would either undertake or approve. That chapter alone in the public career of Blaine contains conclusive proof to all .sound minds of the peril with which his selection for the presidency menaces this republic.

The republican platform alludes in very touching terms to the laboring man, and the tenderest solicitude for his happiness and welfare was expressed in the speeches, but it was observed that no laboring men were given tickets to the convention.—Chicago paper. Mr. Foraker promised the state of Ohio to the republicans, but the latter must not count too surely on it. Mr. Foraker sometimes fails to deliver the goods. For particuf lars inquire of Gov.Hoadly Ex. “Hooray for Blaine,” Mulligan, Fort Smith, Spencer rifles, Credit Mobilier, Peruvian claims, Shipherd, railroad corporations, and—magnetism. It will not be necessary for Mr. Tilden to go into training to “knock out” such a ticket as the republicans have nominated. SfFort Smith railroad stock will now come to the front as a leading feature of the market

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Habitual Constipation. —ln the British Medical Journal Dr. J, I Mortimer Granville offers three prescriptions which he claims are generally applicable to the treatment of all well recognized forms of habitual constipation. He sees three forms of the disease, one due to deficient peristaltic j action, one due to deficient glandular secretion and one due to interruption of the habit of periodic evacuation. For the relief of the first form he prescribes : R Sod® valerianstls gr. xxxvj. j T nctur® nucis vamic® m lx Tinctur® capsici m xlviij. Syrupi aurantii oz Isa Aqu® adoz vi. M. Ft mistura Sig.—Tablespoonful in water half an hour before meals. For the second form: R Aluminis dr iij. Tinctur® quassi® oz j. Infusi qu;i*si® oz vij. M 81g.—Dessertspoonful alter meals For the th rd fonn. R Ammoni® carbo atis dr j. 1 Tinctur® valerian® oz j. Aqu® camphor® oz v. M. Sig.—Tate one ounce as directed on arising from bed. Dr. Granville insists upon a regular hour for going to stool, at least to make an effort at evacuation. He proposes to establish in this way the normal habit, and thinks apei-ients in habitual constipation do no good.— Druggists' Circular. Scuofula.—This, in the past, was known as “King’s Evil,” probably from the fact that it prevailed in the families of royalty, among those who “fared sumptuously every day,” or were the victims of a luxurious style of living. The name is derived from the Latin Bcrofa, “a sow,” since it was long ago marked by an indolent swelling of the glands, particularly in the neck, followed by suppuration and breaking, in some instances running for a long time, because the supply of waste and putrid matters is still kept up by false habits of living, by a want of cleanliness, pure air and sunlight, the healing also proceeding slowly. From thi3 fact, and many bad habits of living, the idea lias prevailed among the ignorant, that these discharges are “running the life away,” an idea too absurd to deserve a moment’s thought. It may* be that such half-created victims of sensuality may not live, even with all that nature oan do by these discharges of putrid and poison matter, while a sudden check, this poison being thrown inward, would destroy life in a few hours; not only let this pass off, but urge its discharge by the use of poultices, or, far better, wet cloths, kept warm by bandages; and then direct attention to the removal of the causes, since such filthy suppurations nro rarely, if ever, found among the Jews, or even blotches on the surface, or humors, or indeed in any non-pork-eating nation. The first cause to be removed is the use of the most diseased of all meats found on the tables of civilization, iporic, and its concentrated filthiness—lard. Let the doubters carefully examine the entrails of the hog. the fat (deposits, the neck, and see how many (Corrupt abcesses may be found in these fatty deposits, sometimes holding a quart of “matter,” as dealers will assure yon, if the hog is very fat and thureloie very much diseased. To see, is be convinced. Or, let them a«k Moses, who was instructed by Jehovah, as seen in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. These victims at birth are “rickety,” have large abdomens, joints, heads, flabby muscles, a clear skin filled with corruption, so filled and so slightly vitalized, that most of them, aside from a great .deal of good nursing and training, will become consumptive. To avoid this, let them be subjected to correct treatment, as well cared for as are our favorite horses by the intelligent expect, or as are the pugilists while being trained for,an ignoble, disgraceful fight! Let totem be put on to a bread and milk diet, taith eggs, fruits, potatoes, using but little meats, and then only the lean, plain fish, the bread being the gemaine article, not the impoverished fine flour product. Let them be kept clean by washings daily, if they are warm afterward, (salt may be added,) rubbed or brushed thoroughly. Let them be regular in their meals and in all respeets, sleeping as much as possible. But above all, let them have an abundance of out-door exercise, as much air and sun as possible, well clad and fed, and kept out of school till they are vigorous.—Dr. J. H. Hanaford.

How Mr. Bluejoy Got Rid of His Last Year’s Stock.

“Here, Tomkins, we must do something to get rid of this old stock. Ah! I have it; we have a great fire, water and smoke Kale of damaged goods. Take this lot of linen we have marked ■6 cents down into the basement, and trail it in the dust; after you have trailed it around sufficiently throw a little water on it, and then we can get 10 cents a yard for it.” “All right, sir.” “Now I’ll see about these cloaks, here Smith,” to the cloak man. “How many of these $5 cloaks have you sold?” “Not one, sir.” “Great Scott! then they must go into the sale of damaged goods to-morrow. Take them down stairs and singe the for a little, and then mark them down to sl2 from $20.” The next week Mr. Bluejoy said gleefully to his partner, “Nothing like fire, smoke and water to raise the price of goods; there’s not a single one of our last year's styles left over in any of our goods. We’!! send for our new stock to-morrow.’ - —Carl Pretzel's Weekly.

Taking time by the Forelock.

“Oh, mamma, my doll has got an awful cold,” said little Mattie, the other day, “and I must have some whisky to give it.^ “Who told you whisky was good for a cold,” asked her mother. “That’s what papa says he takes it for.” “Oh, yes, he says that, but he ha'sn’t got any cold. He just takes it for the cold he is going to have. ” , “Well, my doll’s goin’ to have an awful, awful cold to-morrow.”

A Good, Healthy Snake Story.

In North Carolina there is a reptile known as the joint snake. When attacked it Hies to pieces, < aeh piece taking* are of itself. A .1 ..key attacked one of them one day, dto Isis utter amazement it broke .. up, each section jmcph gt ir vt t. rent direction. In the course ci lJ* our iie returned that way and wa* utterly amazed again to see it all to- .« er except the tail piece. After vra .g a few minntes he saw the tail com; m> to join the body, taking sharp, q- k ii't'e jerks. It came nearer and n rer until within a few inches of ti o threeqnarter snake, when it gave a sudden jump and hitched on in its prone• place with a fuss resemblipg the pop i ig of a cap. The darkey knocked it pieces several times, and each time ' came together again. He carried his amusement too far, however, in tbroving the tail pairt of the snake across the* creek, just to see, he said, “how long it would take it to catch up,” but it never caught up. The snake, with its three joints, was carried to the house, where a new tail is beginning to grow to repl ice the lost one. A gentleman who knows much about this singular species says n head will grow on the detached trunk, and there will be two snakes instead of one. —Charleston News and CtsuriPF.

The Happy By-gone Days.

There was a time when the children in all parts of the State could detect the odor of broiling spare-ribs in the air. There was a time when they fattened on back-bone pie, and when they could go to bed and dream of the great hunks of fatty-bread they had consumed. Those were the golden days of prosperity, and the State will never be prosperous until the farmers, renew the system of making their own provisions. The State may be tilled up with factories of one sort or anbthey, but all prosperity is fictitious that is not based on the substantial prosperity of the farmers. —Atlanta Con- jation. The symptoms are moisture, like per spiration, intense itching, increased bv scratching, very distressing, particularly at night, seems as if pin-worms were crawling i>i and about the rectum; the private parts are sometimes affected. If allowed to continue very serious results mao follow. “Swayne’s Ointment” is a pleasant, sure cure. Also for Tetter, Itch, Salt Rheum, Bcald Head, Erysipelas. Barbers’ Itch, Blotches, all scaly, crusty Skin Diseases. Sent by mail for 50 cents; 3 boxes, $1 25, (in stamps. — Address, Dr. Swayne & Son, Pliilatlelpnia, Pa. Sold by Druggists. v7u2(j

R P. BENJAMIN, Having purchased the stand of F. L. Cotton, will keep constantly on hand a full and complety supply of Lumber, Latti, Shingles, Windows. Doers. S sit, Etc., HARD & SOFT GOAL. My stock has been bought for cash, and I can offer superor inducements to cash buyers. Please call before going elsewhere. Rensselaer Ind., Dec. 7,1883. V 11 W Hill* ikfe c We would most respectfully announce that we now have a mplete line in new styles of . FDRNITORR, Parlor and Chamber sets Cottage sets, Walnut and common beds, Mattresses and Springs, Book Cases, Ward, robes, Bureaues, Marble and wood top stands and Tables, Easy Chairs Cane-seat and wood chairs, Kitchen furniture, Safes, &c PlgtdreYfbameS, Carpets, Floor and Table cloths. Rugs, Ottomans, Foot-rests, Window-shades, Queensware, Table and Pocket cutlery Plated Spoons, and many Novelties on our 5 CENT COUNTER. , Undertaking dSartment Our Undertaking Department is complete. We carry • the best stock to be found in the county, Metalic, Draped, Walnut and White Caskets, all sizes and prices. Nice stock of Burial Robes. No charge for Hearse. r C. Gr. SEARS, Opposite Court House.

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