Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — A Mississipian's Artifice. [ARTICLE]

A Mississipian's Artifice.

John Sherman will how lie one ol three men of the country elected to five full terms to the United States Senate. Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, was the only man who served thirty consecutive years in the Senate. Henry B. Anthony was elected to five full consecutive terms to the Senate by Rhode Island, but he died soon after entering his fifth term. The principals and employes of the London banks have a “prayer union,” which meets once a month. A recent meeting was held at the Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Sir R. N. Fowler, the Lord Mayor, presided, and Rev. C. H. Spurgeon gave an address. Many of the leading bankers were present, and the large Egyptian Hall was crowded. Norristown Herald: A New York physician, who looks fifteen years younger than he really is, attributes this favorable condition to the use of lemonade taken regularly four times a day. He has used 3,003 lemons a year for ten years. If he were making lemonade for sale at a circus he wouldn’t use 3,000 lemons in 100 years. A lady asked Dion Boucicault oqe <Dy, as Harper's Weekly learns, how it was that on the evening before, when he appeared as Conn, his moustache was wanting, though it was both black and brilliant when he did not act. “Madam,” he replied, stroking it softly, “there is no mystery here. In making up as Conn I simply soap it well and cover it with rouge. " A woman’s club in Chicago has made a move in the right direction by opening a school for the training of servants. All branches of housework are taught, and an intelligence office established in connection with the school secures places. for competent graduates. This is putting charity upon a practical and substantial basis, and the example is one which should be widely followed. A Georgia negro maintains that the efficacy of prayer depends entirely on the manner in which the petition is worded, and says: “If I ask the Lord to send me a turkey I won’t get it, but if I ask Him to send me after a turkey I always get one before daybreak.” Prof. Tyndall, who, as the result of scientific tests, has declared that there is no efficacy in prayer, has evidentally been proceeding on insufficient data. Here is a case that will no doubt baffie his boasted science. The manager of an electric company says that it is found that wherever steam is used to obtain twenty-five horse power or less, electricity is more economical. The advantages are: a smaller space occupied, much less noise and no heat, and the fact that the power can be turned on or stopped at will. There is no boiler required and no fire, as the power is supplied to the motor by wires from a central station, on the same principle that gas or steam heat is supplied. Among the Irishmen who have gained an illustrious name in New Zealand is the Most Rev. Dr. Croke, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, whose removal to the see of Cashel is still deplored, not only by those in his former diocese but by Roman Catholics all over New Zealand. To the native race he was a special object of admiration on account of his splendid physique, and the ease with which he cleared a six-foot fence if it stood in his way. These qualities, with the warlike Maoris, went quite as far as his eloquent efforts to induce them to become members of his spiritual flock.

Mk. D. A. Coffin is the most truthful if not the most facetious hotelkeeper in Maine. He advertises on his envelopes: “The original and only third-dlass hotel in Mane—where everything fails to suit—tough beefsteak, dirty rooms, useless servants, debilitated coffee. This house, of worldwide bad reputation, is owned, occupied and presided over by the laziest man in the State. not guaranteed; no money refunded. Dilapidated stable in connection. Everything warranted strictly shoddy.”

In Kentucky a man who was married a second time died, and his second wife survives him. His children by his first marriage now seek to deprive the widow of all interest in his estate ou

the ground that he was married to her, Dot in his real name, but under an assumed name. In Indiana that case would be quickly decided in favor of the widow. By Indiana laws marriage is recognized as a public institution, but it is held also to be a civil contract. A contract binds the individuals who make it. The names assumed at its execution are wholly immaterial. To fix legal responsibility the only requirement is the identification of the contracting parties, go this dead Kentuckian, without regard to the name he may have assumed, if identified as the contracting party, should be held to have been bound by his contract. As the contract binds the ancestor, it likewise binds the heirs. The widow should take her dower.

Sir Harry Yerney, who entered the Commons in the first reformed Parliament, will not accept re-election this year. He is eighty-three years old, and has a brother, Mr. Calvert, Q. C., seventy-nine. Sir Harry changed his flame from Calvert to Yerney on inheriting the estate of the Bai-oness of Fermanagh, sixty years ago or thereabout. Mr. Talbot, “the father of the House,” also retires this fall. He is of the same age as Sir Harry Yerney, and was first elected to the uureformed Parliament of 1830 as member for Glamorganshire, and without a break he has sat for Glamorganshire all the fifty-five years since. Mr. Villiers is another veteran, eighty-two years old, who has represented one constituency for now just half a century. Sir Robert Carden was bora in 1801, but never entered Parliament until 1880. The O’Gorman Mahon is eighty-two years old, and was elected to the unreformed Parliament, but has not yet had enough of it, and hopes so secure a return this fall.

One of the causes of the terrible distress and pitiful poverty of the mining regions of Pennsylvania, says a Philadelphia paper, is the importation of foreign labor. Poles, Hungarians, and Bulgarians swarm through the coal mines. The Poles sometimes make good citizens, and so do the Hungarians. The old Irish and Welsh miners confound the Bulgarians who come here with the Hungarians. The Bulgarians are a wretched lot. They come in great numbers, and will work for almost nothing. They rarely become skilled miners, but are content to remain laborers. They spend nothing. A dollar a week is a good income for one of these Slavs. Fifty or sixty of them will live in a single shanty, sleeping on the floor and eating the refuse oi slaughter-houses. With their bread they use lard instead of butter. When a Bulgarian has sent home S3OO he quits the country. He has acquired an ample fortune. These people, brought here to make strikes impossible, are at the bottom of the distress in the anthracite regions, and they are beginning to make their appearance among the bituminous coal fields. Low wages, half time, and the tyranny of the company store are starving . the miners anp their families, and compelling them to bring up their children without education. In a few years the region will be black not only with coal dust but with the darkness of ignorance and of the crimes which spring from ignorance. The Slav is now often the victim of the miner’s unconcern, and the casualties in anthracite coal mines have greatly increased within the last two years. The grumbling against these foreign pauper laborers is becoming so loud and threatening that more open enmity is to be feared. The Slav may be the cause of the revival of Molly Maguireism.

planter boarded a steamer off Natchez. He purchased a paper from a newsboy and was soon lost in its perusal. “Colonel, ” said a bland young man, a few moments after, “you have just dropped this,” handing him a SSO note. “I reckon not,” said the old gentleman, as he overlooked his spectacles. “I have just picked it up under your chair,” replied the young man, “and see no other way to dispose of it. However, since it seems to belong to neither of us, we might just as well divide it.” The plan worked well. The old gentleman passed over $25 in change, and the young man sauntered carelessly out on land. A few minutes after the vessel had taken to water the old gentleman presented the SSO note to the clerk in payment for his fare. “Counterfeit!” exclaimed the clerk, and then for the first time the whole truth dawned upon the old man’s m.'nd. “Somehow,” said a philosopher, “things are usually kept at an equilibrium. For example: the more prices go up, the more everybody has to ‘come down’ for everything.”