Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — A Mender of Clothes. [ARTICLE]

A Mender of Clothes.

“When well-to-do men fail to die without leaving - property, their families .are often compelled,” said a lady conspicuous in charitable work, “to do something to help themselves. This is very hard for women who have been trained up in idleness. Some teach music and others teach school, but those ways of earning a living are already overcrowded. As for domestic service, it is simply impossible to make living wages at it. I have known of women who made money by preparing cakes and preserves. Many paint plaques, Christmas cards, and make other fancy articles, but they are hurt by the competition of women who do the same thing without the necessity of earning money, and who are willing therefore to sell for almost any price. I know of one practical young woman who supports herself in a singular way. She does the mending for a number of families. She is proficient in darning and in other ways of repairing clothing, and she makes visits at regular intervals and repairs all the clothing that needs repairing.”— New York Sun. Mr. H. H. Fudge is evidently angry, as appears from the following card, which he prints in the Albany (Ga.) News: “Whoever poisoned my dog is a low-down puppy, and mean enough to do anything. lam satisfied that it is a white man and of good standing in this town, and he ought to be found out. I am afraid of him only in one way, and that is he will burn me up while asleep. I hope whoever it may be when he reads this he will stop, as he is called a puppy, and is not man enough to resent it. I am satisfied it is a white man, as no negro could get so much poison from the druggist without some notice being taken of it. lam responsible for every word in this card, and can whip the man that poisoned my dog. No man will resent an insult that will steal, lie, burn houses, and slip around at night and poison a man’s dog.”

A Great Conspiracy Against the People.—A coterie of eight men, sitting in the parlors of a New York banker named J. Pierpont Morgan, decided recently to limit the anthracite coal production of Pennsylvania during the present year to 3.3,500,000 tolls. It is hardly necessary to point out the illegal character of the combination that issues such a decree. The parties to it are guilty of criminal conspiracy for attempting to restrain trade. They array themselves against public policy, and they endanger the charters of the companies for which they act. Since the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the Duncan and Patent cases, it has been evident that the Reading and other railroad companies which were engaged in the business of mining were violating the highest law in the State without a shadow of an excuse for their action. They could have no serious defense in any proceeding which might be brought against them to annul their charters. Under these circumstances their managers should have busied themselves to protect these great properties from the entanglements of litigations: but, instead of taking a wise course, they have gone in the contrary direction by combining to restrain trade and advance the price of an article which enters into general consumption. This was done by what they call “an understanding between gentlemen.” They decided, after an hour’s consultation, to levy a tax of $8,000,000 a year upon the coal consumers of the New England and Middle States, doing this by the issuance of an order for an advance of 25 cents per ton on the price of coal. —Philadelphia Record.

•Cure for Rheumatism.—A gentleman of this borough, *ho has been suffering for some time with rheumatism,received from a f.iend the following cure for that painful disease. It i, embodied in a letter from a German c to an English paper, and is as follows: I have had a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, and was healed in two days by a soup made of the staiks and roots of celery; therefore I desire to make this simple remedy known through the columns of your valuable paper, for the benefit of sufferers from font or rheumatism of any form. was induced to try it by seeing the following notice: ‘ Numerous cures of rheumatism by the use of celery have been announced by English papers. New discoveries—or what claim to be discoveries —of the healing virtue of plants, are continually being made. One of the latest is that celery is a cure for rheumatism; indeed it is asserted that the disease is impossible if the vegetable be cooked and freely eaten. The fact that it is always put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic power from being known.” —West Chester Republican.

Ex-Governor Curtin, according to the Washington correspondent of the Lancaster Intelligencer, is busy putting in shap* his correspondence and other data of the war period preparator /toturning it over to a friend for historical purposes, and they say it will make a sensation when given to the public. The governor has had numerous offers for an autobiography and publishers have besieged him with proposals. He won’t listen to any of them. He has made his selection of an editor. —Philadelphia Times. At the foot of Alain street, in Danbury, Conn., stands a house built by Elnathan Osborn in 1696. It is a low, hip-roofed house, studded with enormous beams, and lighted by very small diamond window panes. When the British under Tryon fired the village this was the only house spared. There is an increasing and bitter agitation in Nova Scotia for severance from Canada