Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — An Appropriate Setting. [ARTICLE]

An Appropriate Setting.

“That shooting scrape,” inquired the foreman through the tube, “how shall I set it—solid or leaded?” “What shooting scrape ?” yelled back the editor. “The one that occurred this morning, in which Jones was shot.” “How many times was he shot?” “Twice.” “Set it double-leaded, of course."— Drake’s Travelers’ Magazine. Lieut. Boy, in command of the Arctic Colony on Point Barrow, Alaska, tells of two strange tribes of natives who have no chief or rulers, no congress or legislature, no fighting or quarreling, and their children are well-be-haved, modest and honest, without knowing what it is to be punished. Neither tribe has any marriage ceremony, but if a man is willing and the woman also there is no legal impediment and the twain are as one. The ideas that have inspired a generation shine on aver its grave and give light to the next. —The Interior.