Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1885 — Page 1

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law RBNSSELAEB. .... IXDIANA Practices [in the Courts of Jasper and adotnlng counties. Makes collections a specialty- Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- viiil SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Bensselaeb, - - . Indiana Practice in ail the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter. We pay j irtieular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n*B FRANK W. B it-COCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor tnd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a, Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEY'-AT-LAW and notary public, Office upstairs, in Maseever’s new building. Bent seitier. Ind. H. W, SN ?DEK, at; Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLEOTIONS A SPECIALTY. W-HARTSELL, MD, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Dd. dale, ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs. J. H. LOUGHBIDGE. F. P, BITTEBS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ' - : ...... .j R. S. Dwigglns, Zimrl Dwiggins, President. Cashier Citizens’ Bank, RENSSELAER, IND., Does a general Banking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances made on day of payment at current rate of exchange; interest paid on balances • certificates bearing interest Issued; exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the .Bu-glar Safe, which took the premium at the Chicago Exposition in 1878. This Safe is protected by one of Sargent’s Time Locks. The bunk vault used is as good as can be built. It will be seen from tbn foregoing that this .Bank furnishes as good sacurity to depositors as can be. ALFRED M COT. THOMAS THOMPSONBanking House HF A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successor M to A. McCoy it A. Thompson. Ranker nsselaer, Ind ■ Does general Nanking b ess Buy and sell exchaoge. Colleeuo de sn all available points. Money loan u_ erest paid on specified time deposits. St ee same place as clfi firm of A. McCo y mpaon. aprl4.’»i

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY APRIL 17. 1885.

Notice of Election. Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jasper County Agricultural Society, at the Court House, on Saturday, April 18th, 1885, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and fixing the time for holding the next Annual Fair. Ezra C. Nowels, Sec’y. Rensselaer, Ind., March 28,1885. WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL 2.— Where you can get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. — Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —-Where the expenses are least. 4. —Where things are just as represented, or all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Send for special terms and try the Central Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind. A. F. Knotts, Principal.

SUNSET COX.

llis Clean Record in Congress— A Man Who Will Be Missed

By Everybody.

Gen- Boyton. telegraphs The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette-' No one will have to ask ‘who is fcS.fcS, Cox?’ when he reads or bjs nomination as minister to Tarkey. For iweuty-eight years, with the exception ot short intervals, Mi, Oox has been a well-known figure in the house ot representatives- His actual service has covered only a few months less than a quarter of a century, and for more than twenty years of that time he has been one of the prominent men on the floor. Everybody is glad of his nomination, and at the the same time everybody is sorry that he is to leave with the exception of the small divisions among memb-rs among whom he has been brought into eonflect from time to time in the unavoidable rivalries of the floor, be has een universally and deservedly popular. His will be a vacancy which all who have been familiar with congress for any length of time will notice and regret. First, and best of all for him, it can be said that, in all this long public service, his name has never once been connected with a job, or with the interested support of quetionable legislation. He has kept his record and his Dame stainless. His prominence on the floor, his influence and relation to the great commerical city of the country, could have been used immensely to his own advantage had he chosen to so benefit himself. But he has lived throug these temptations at Washington, constantly putting them aside and behind him. and has built up for himself a name as an incorruptible public servant. In the broad sense, his record in congress is not a matter of party aloneThrough always a cosistent and often an extreme democrat, yet, in ganeral attainment, in variety of effort, in the support of meaures looking to the general good, in practical work in legislation, in keen debate, in brilliant repartee, in parliamentar z knowledge and skill in entertaininn discussion, and ever ready wit, his position rises above party and belongs to that portion ot the general history of the house of representatives in whica men of all parties take a pride. He has always been a student, a persistent reader, an industrious and entertainiug writer, and always a genial gentleman. He has been so long, so widely, and so favorably known here that his leaving is a matter of general personal interest and re o ret. The matter of party does not enter. Many of thoes who will miss him most are as pronounced in their republicanism as he as has been in his democracy. But they honor him for his steadfast integrity and varied attainments. Of late he has become somewhat weary of his congressional life. His reegnized fitness for the speakership has often made him a candidate, but with little hope of success, since the eastern wing of his party has heretofore been inclined to a more radical protection position than he could support, while the west had its own candidates. Bo on occount of of antagonisms in the epeakship contest, he has not recivel for many years the recognition in committee positions to which his long membership and abilities entitle him. It is not strang that, after a service extending further back' than that ot any other member, he should tire of being assigned to secondary positions when he has so long deserved the best. His service in eastern lands *i(l eventually yield rich returns to he public, since he can not fail to use his pen for its instruction andentertainment Everybody will mica him. Eveybody i* glad of the recognition ht | hat received, and Washington will surely wish him a prosperous journey, pleasant ye n of servlet, and a safe return.

Who Are the Better Classes?

An exchange very pertinently remarks: “We hear a great deal of the “better classes.” This orator speaks of the uprising of the better classes, and that newspaper refers to the candidate who is supported by the better classes. Tho’tless speakers and writers are continually sounding the praises of the better classes. One hears something about the better classes wherever he goes. It is where the better classes live, what the better classes are doing, what the better classes are saying, and who is in favor with the better classes. The better classes must be very prominent citizens.

“Now, who are the better classes ? Of what does their patent of nobility consist? What makes them better than any other classes, and by what right do we speak of classes at all in this free republic, where every man is a sovereign, and where pride, name and station do not in any legal manner effect universal equality ? Many a glib talker, if stopped peremptorily with the phrase “better classes” still lingering on his tongue and asked to whom he referred wo’d suffer some embarrassment. In the vulgar parlance of the day the “better classes” are not exactly what the words would seem to signify. Did anybody ever hear a person refer to a lot of hard-working and honest men as belonging to the better classes ? Would your downtown snob go to the quiet streets in various parts of town where humble homes stand closely side by side and point them out as the residences of the better classes? Can it be imagined that any thoughtless person would designate the thousands of men who throng the street cars in the early morning as members of the better classes, or wo’d it be customary for him to invade the small homes where one tired woman is wife, mother and servant and point her out as a member of the better classes? No, to all of these. These are not the better classes of whom we hear so much. The better classes, who assume to speak as one having authority, and who constitute in a vague sort of way an idol before whom many light-brained people bend the knee, are exclusively the rich and proud. It matters not what their characters may be or how they may have earned their money. It makes no difference whether they rob and oppress the poor or not, and if it was known that their fortunes were based on fraud, blackmail or downright theft the fact would not be laid up against them. The better classes are they who wear fine clothes, have clean and jeweled fingers, ride in carriages, live in choice neighborhoods and occupy large houses, enjoy a retinue of servants and generally maintain an attitude of exclusiveness and of half-way contempt toward their fellow beings as work hard for a living. * Since wealth and pride constitute the chief requisites for membership of the “better classes,” what an abominable thing it is to hear an ordinary clerk, bookkeeper, mechanic, laborer or teamster prating about the better classes and taking some glory to himself because he is acting with them. If the people who have been described are the better classes, then hundreds of thousands of honest, and hardy people who pay taxes and make good soldiers are inferior in some way, and the man who does not own a million and who glibly speaks of the better classes is tho’tlessly but none the less certainly making an ass of himself. ' There are no classes in this country, better or otherwise. Every good citizen, whether rich or poor, proud or humble, stands on an equality with all the others, has equal rights and is in every way entitled to as much respect as anybody else. The attempt to array one section of the people against another section, styling one the “better class” and the other by inference the criminal class, is an outrage on citizenship, a blow at liberty and practically that honest

poverty is a crime. The expression has become too common. Even the babes and sucklings echo it. — It is snobbery pure and simple, and no proper opportunity to rebuke it ought ever to be permitted to go by unimproved.”

Michigan’s Break for Tariff Reform.

Chicago Herald: The causes of the recent remarkable political revolution in Michigan are of interest to everybody, and whatever serves to throw light on the subject cannot fail to attract attention. At the last Presidential election the Democrats and Anti-Monopolists acting together polled for Cleveland 189,000 votes, as against 192,000 cast by the Republicans for Blaine. The Prohibitionists polled 18,000 votes, most of them being of Republican antecedents. Thus a state which gave Garfield a plurality of 55,000 in 1880 was barely saved to Blaine in 1884 by a plurality of 3,000, The election this spring was for a Justice of the Supreme Court and a regent of the university.— Judge Thomas M. Cooley, a distinguished member of the court for years, was renominated by the Republicans and the Prohibitionists. The Democrats and Anti-Monopo-lists named Major Morse, an attorney in good standing who had been a soldier. In the platform on which Maj. Morse stood the Cleveland administration was indorsed strong ground was taken in favor of tariff reform and a vigorous declaration wbs made against monopolies of all kinds. According to Mr. Don M. Dickinson, member of the National Democratic Committee for Michigan, the issue was clearly made by the Fusion in favor of indorsing the present administration, rebuking the aggressions of monopoly and declaring in behalf of a reform of the tariff. This being the case the victory gained becomes one of great significance. Judge Cooley certainly must have stood as the representative of some principles which were exceedingly distasteful to the people of Michigan or so eminent a jurist as he could not have been defeated by a man comparatively unknown. The tariff has worked many evils in Michigan, and the tendency of the Supreme Court to array itself on all occasions on the side of corporations has been most marked. — The lumber, salt, iron and copper lords of that state have been as insolent and selfish as they well co’d be. For many years, under various devices calculated to blind the people to their own best interests, these favored bosses have held the state in the palms of their hands. The fact that they have been beaten under the leadership of so good a man as Judge Cooley is suggestive of the popular revulsion against favoritism in legislation, the supremacy of corporate wealth and monopoly privileges of every kind. With a state once so strongly republiean as Michigan leading the way in favor of tariff reform and the abolition of monopolies no one need despair of the refdrm movement. The black slaves were liberated by the war, It is now time io emancipate the white slaves who have been held in bondage by the tariff favored classes ever since that time

CLEVER CROWS.

Some Curious Stories from “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.” While treading ‘Unbeaten tracks in Japan,’||Misß Bird found the silence broken in many places by the discordant notes of thousands of crows, who were both sagacious and impudent. She says: ‘Five of them were so impudent as to alight on two of my horses and so be ferried across the Yurapugawa. Tn the inn at garden Mori I saw a dog eating a piece of carrion in the presence of several of these covetous birds. They evidently said a good deal to each other on the übject, and now and then one or two of them

tried to pull the meat away from him, which he resented. ‘At last a big, strong crow succeeded in tearing off a piece, with which he returned to the pine where the others were congregated. ‘After much earnest speech, they all surrounded the dog, and the leading bird dexterously dropped the small piece of meat within reach of his mouth. He immediately snapped at it, letting go the big piece unwisely for a second, on which two of the crows flew away with it to the pine, and with much fluttering and hilarity they all ate, or rather gorged it, the deceived dog looking vacant and bewfldered for a moment, after which he sat under the tree and barked at them inanely. “A gentleman told me that he saw a dog holding a piece of meat in like manner in the presence of three crows, whieh also vainly tried to tear it from him. “After a consultation they separated, two going as near as they dared to the meat, while the third gave the tail a bite sharp enough to make the dog turn round with a squeal, on which the other villains seized the meat, and the three fed triumphantly upon it on the top of a wall. “Ih many places they are so aggressive as to destroy crops unless they are protected by netting.— They assemble on the sore backs of horses and pick them into holes, and are mischievous in many ways. “They are very late in going to roost, and are early astir in the morning, and are so bold that they often came ‘with many a stately flirt and flutter’ into the veranda where I was sitting. “I never watched an assemblage of them for any length of time without being convinced that there was a Nestor among them to lead their movements. “Along the seashore they are pretty amusing, for they ‘take the air’ in the evening, ’seated on the sandbanks facing the wind, with their mouths open.”

A Crow that Followed Poe’s Raven.

In the same room at Fordham in which the bones of sweet Annabel Lee, the wife of Edgar Allen Poe, were kept, waiting the transfer into the hands of relatives in Baltimore, was also jealously guarded the original manuscript of “The Raven,” which was destined to a place in the corner-stone of the Poe monument. Late one afternoon, while the window happened to be open, a raven flew in and lighted on the portfolia containing the precious manuscript. The gentleman in the room was, as can be readily conceived, at first much first much startled, but upon approaching the bird and finding it quite tame, explained the strange coincidence satisfactorily enough. The raven showed no disposition to move, and the gentleman having no provision for so unusual a guest, took him to a druggist near by, who kept him for his children, as there was no advertisement for him in the daily papers. Soon after, while visiting at the house of a prominent and wealthy New Yorker, the hostess expressed to him the desire for a tame crow. Thinking the raven as worthy a place in that household as a crow would be, the “gentleman in Nc y York who knew much of Poe’s life,” induced the druggist to return him the raven, which he forthwith sent to the lady before mentioned, and in whose home it still lives a quiet and uneventful life. —New York Tribune.

Thomas Jefferson built a small conservatory at Charlottesville in 1825. Now on the site of that there stands a new $46,000 observatory, endowed with $75,000, and with a new twenty-six inch telescope that cost $46,000. Of the sums mentioned Leander J. McCormick gave SIOO,OOO, W. H. Vanderbilt $25,000, and the alumni of the University of Virginia the balance.

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