Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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Ai,fred McCoy, T. J, McCov E. L. Hollingsworth. A. M?€©Y & 0 £),, 11NII1S 3 (Successors to A. McCoy &T. Thompson,) Rensselaer Ind. DO a tie; eral banking business Exchange nought and sold Certificate.- '.-'.aring inter. sf Ufr.-A Colled i'.i.s n.a.le o 1 al' aiaiiahic points Office same place as old firm of McCoy A Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-L aw Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice* fin the Courts of Jasper and adorning counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington >freet, opposite Court House- vlnl si .. t ;;p. iT-ojirsaN, vavxd j.thoMpson A .orni-y "t- i Notary Public. A -t- ... -u i . dw ~O 1 _£? jf.- jTilv, tl • , k. *‘ 7 --i - Praeticeiii alltk.-. Courts. karion i-. :■ ■ - Gi/i ■ -retoy and Abstractor* We pay , irticulai attention to paying tax* , selling and leasing lands. v 2 niß FRANK \Y. B IiiCOCK, Attoriief at La m And Real Rotate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Nowtor and Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collectloigs a, Spocialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, DRNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, /S'” Office up stairs, in ?,T . j- over’.- now .uilding, lienssela.Fr. Ind. EQWINP, HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. £p“Office .Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885.

W WATSON, attokwby-at-law Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, aP* RENSSELAER, INI). H. W. SN iTDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. Yf W. HARTSELL, M D HOMCEOPATHIC 'PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty..jg3) OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeover House. July 11,1884. 3*o. I.OUGHRIDGE. T. p, BITTERS LOUGHRJBGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vim DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician Sc Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CTSP3IENS* BANIL RENSSELAER. IND., R. S. DwiGOtws, F. J. Sears, Val. Seir, President. Vic»-Presideut. Cashier. Does a general banking business-. C rtificates bearing interest issued; Exchange boneht and sold: Moneyloaned ou farms at low ist rales and ou most favorable terms. April 1885.

JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY JUNE 25 1886.

Longevity of the Ancients.

Gan a man reach or pass the age of a hun-Jred years? is a question discussed i. .. most interesting manner in a recent number of the Popular Science Monthly. Buffon was the first one m France to raise the question of the cxI" 1 ’’ )f human W. jn h’> mu, man, becoming adult at sixteen, ought to live to six times that age, cr to ninety-six years. Having been called ■ no: to account for the * m-no . ' .</-» attributed by the Bible r , • ti ia rolls, he risked the follow ing as an explanation; “Before the Hood the earm was less compact than it is nop . Tim la v of gravitation had acted for md. a little time; the productions of the globe had less consistency and the body of a man, being more supple, was more susceptible of extension, being able to grow for a longer time than now.” . The German Heusler has suggested on the same point that the ancients did not divide time as we do. Previous to the age of Abraham, the year among some people of the East was only three months, or a season; so that they had a year of spring, one of fall, one of winter. The year was extended so as to consi-d of tight months after Abraham, and of twelve months after Joseph. V oltaire rejected the longevity assigned to the patriarchs of the Bible, but accepted, with question, the stories of the great ages attained by some men in India, where, he says, “it is not rare to see old men of one hundred and twenty years.” The eminent French physiologist, Flourens, fixing the complete development of man at twenty years, teaches that he should live five times as long as it takes him to become an adult. According to this author, the moment of a completed development may be recognized by the fact of the junction of the bones with their apophyses. This junction takes place in horses at five years, and the horse does not live beyond twenty-live years; with the ox at four years, and it does not live over twenty years; with the cat at eighteen months, and that animal rarely lives over ten years. With man, it is effected at twenty years, and he only exceptionally lives beyond one hundred years. The same physiologist admits, however, that human life may be exceptionally prolonged under certain conditions of comfort, sobriety, freedom from care, regularity of habits, and observance of the rules of hygiene; and he terminates his interesting study of the last point with tiie aphorism, “Man kills himself rather than dies.”

Shying Horses.

This trick or vice is generally the effect of nervous timidity, resulting from an excitable temperament. It is aggravated by improper handling. To punish a horse for shying introduces a new cause of fear. The horse will be more alarmed and show more tokens of fear at the prospect of a whipping than at the imaginary object of danger if the road. Hence one bad habit is con* firmed by the introcduction of another. It is impossible to whip terror out of a horse or pound courage into one. Kindness and gentle persuasion are the best weapons to correct the pernicious habit of shying. The less fear exhibited by the driver, and the less notice taken of the shying by using harsh means, the sooner it will be given up. A careful, experienced horseman can generally detect an object likely to cause a nervous horse to shy, and bv word or touch will encourage him to pass it unnoticed. When this fails, give him time to look at the object of fear: pat kim and coax him up to it, then take him past it two or three times, till lie takes no notice of it. When defective sight is the cause of this bad. habit it is incurable, and if the eyesight is failing, the horse for ordinary driving and riding will be perfectly useless. A mare we knew nad gone quietly in harness for two or three years suddenly took to jumping the white stone crossings of an ordinary macadamized street, as if they were’ water brooks. In three months she was stone blind. —Scientific American.

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Editor Sentinel: ’There is abundant food for reflection furnished Democrats, and the people generally, in the disgraceful, unlawful and uncalled for RobimonJ nines pugilistic encounter. Poso far as the two men re concerned, there is little for us to waste sympathy upon. Mr. James’ whole career in politics has hem obnoxious in the extreme to Democrats and all who differed with him. He entered upon the years of manhood in the ranks of the Republican party, and the drill, discipline and associations of Republican teachings are impressed upon him. He engaged in the newspaper business, and became

the mouthpiece of the then dominant political party. His criticisms of the Democratic party and Democratic candidates were generally of such a character as neither to add strenth to his own or weaken the cause of his opponents. Of the local candidates of our party, Hon. Geo. Major, lion. George JBL Brown, Henry A. Barkley,, Ohalres H. Price, Ezra C. Nowels, Wm, E. Moore, Dr. J. H. Loughridge, W. G. Smoot and a score of others, have been the ol - jects of his vindictive spirit Notwithstanding his alacrity in the performance of the dirty work of his party, he has not been rewarded in proportion to his demand, nor in a manner in the least gratifying to his egotism. He demanded the mission to Panama, and fraud Hayes insultingly flung in his face the beggarly and unimportant appointment to Turk Island. After protracted pleadings, and extended visits to Washington, he was given the appointment to the Rensselar post-office. His ambit'on still unsatisfied, he craved the portfolio of- tne Indiana State Department, which was promptly

A ' X X. %J and emphatically refused. When in charge of the post office, without reg rd for the spirit of the civil service law, lie devoted time and labor in the interest of the republican candidates, his late eye decorator being one of them. As Democrats we entertain no respect, and need waste no sympathy in that quarter. To us it should be a matter of congratulation that his aspiration to resume a leadership lias been clipped, his hopes crushed, and his pride humbled by a robust pugilistic brother of his own political faith. There is, uowever, another tho’t in connection with this affair, and the position that the Jasper county Republtcans bear to it, that is, if anything, still more interesting, not only to Democrats, but to the candid, conservative and thoughtful of all parties. For years, and years, and years, the press and paid Hessians of the Republican party have charged the Democracy with being a party of lawlessness and brutality. ‘Harper’s Weekly’ and/The Judge’ always portray Democrats as long-haired, thicknecked bullies. Republican s have appealed in frantic terms to school ma’ams and Sunday school teachers to instruct their charges against the pernicious associations of the Democratic party. We are called the whisky party; the saloon party; the anti-morali+y party; the lawbreaking party; the buldozing and intimidating party; the party opposed to free speech and free press, and every other infamous stigm i that an organized gang of villains could devise and invent. Had Henry A. Barkley, Charles H. Price, or Ezra C. Nowels assaulted Mr. James in the same manner and urn er the same circumstances as did George M. Robinson, it would have been regarded as an unpardonable outrage, and there would have been no end to vigorous denunciations. Every yelping Republican editor in the State would have beeu st'ickon with terror. The Indiapolis Journal and Rensselaer Republican would have kept an embellished statement of the great ‘Democratic Outrage’ standing in their most prominent columns until election day. 'But a Republican Justice of the

Peace fines a Republican candidate for Auditor $8 for an assault on a Republican editor; a Republican wrou’d-be law maker sn s this fine is too severe, and the Republican organ justifies the assault us a means of grace, and publishes the justification to the world. Was ever more wanton and brazen hypocrisy manifest? With no love for Con el to Turk b land James, and no sympathy for those who deliberately violate the laws of Indiana aud the peace and dignity of our ivil community, I submit this matter to the honest, moral and temperate citizens of the county. Young Democrat. Rensselaer, Ind., June 21, ’B6.

IN THE ENEMY’S CAMP.

The meeting in favor of “free wool” in Philadelphia on Saturday evening is an incident in a movement that is carrying consternation into the hearts of the high tariff men in that stronghold of protection. It is particularly amazing to the Democratic branch of the high tariff conspiracy. The Philadelphia Times undoubtedly speaks the feelings of the whole Randall party when it bewails the progress of the movement as threatening “the surrender of the whole American market to the pauper worked looms of Europe.”— This gloomy prediction is based on the assumption—which is an assumption pure and simple, without a scrap of evidence or even reasonable inference on which to base it—that the entire woolen industry of the United States depends absolutely and completely u on high import duties, not merely for its prosperity, but for its continue ; existence. On this point one of the .speakers at the meeting on Saturday gave some Untiim ’ which is worth a volume of Times’ vaticinations. It ua-

testimony of a manufacture how the tariff had worked in h : case, from which it can Lm / inferr -cl how it would work in the future. Mr. William Deane, of Newark, Del., announced that he had Been engaged in woolen mills for fiftyone years, entering one at six years of age. He said: “I want to say that I am no longer a woolen manufacturer. They have protected me so that J am no longer a woolen manufacturer, but simply a shoddy manufacturer. Why? Because there is no duty on your old clothes when you have done with them. I can buy them as cheaply as any old clothes in the world.” He would like to go back to his old business. “I waDt free wool,” he stated. “As an American lam the equal of any Johnny Bull or Frenchman. I have been among them and have seen what they can do. I can manufacture yarn and other goods and pay the present price of labor and do it cheaper than they can. * * * We do not raise all the various kinds of wool in this country, nor can you make a cloth equal to those made abroad out of any wool raised here. Why not let us have these foreign wools, not only to clothe the American people but to make woolen goods for the people of the wo* kl?” This is ,a practical questicn. It can not be answered by sheer theorizing or by assumptions. Your protectionist says protection is necessary to woolen manufacture. — The actual manufacturer answers that it has driven him out of the business. Your high tariff theorist says that vou can not keep the home market without protection. Your working manufacturer, with his fortune at stake on the correctness of his opinion, says that with free wool we can compete in the markets of the world. The latter speaks for the interest of a great industry and a nation of consum,ers. The former speaks for Sam Randall’s seat in Congress. But it was not from Delaware alone that the voice of the mnnurer was heard as opposed to the mere theorist and politician’s organ. Mr. Rowland Hazard, of Peacedale, R. 1., who bears one of the most known and most honored

names* in the famous little mill State, writes: “I am very glad to see that practical workingmen n examining for themselves the protection theory and are reacliim u conclusion 1 have long held, ‘that to tax the materials with which he works is a very bad way u. the American laborer.’ ” Coni in*/ down to particulars and referring to the present Co) . b ■>, m foreign woolens, he says: “Nod, ing will check the importation * effectually ns a rise <n tin T .>. wool abroad. Such ar\ \. ,>uM follow nutting wool on the free list, for t :en all foreign market, would be Open to our competition. Prices would be equalized. The foreign spinner would have to pay as much jor the wool ns we paid. The woolen business would then be on a. safe and secure basis.” And Mr. Charles M. Beach, President of the Home Woolen Mills Company, of Hartford, Conn., writes:’ ‘ { , m truly in hen. y v .iiU your proposed movement for free wool, which I fully believe to be for the best interests of the wool grower as well as for the manufacturer, the workingman and the consumer of the goods-in other words, for the whole country.” And finally Mr. Charles S. Pairchild, Acting Secretary of the Treasury", who, of course speaks whereof he knows, writes: “One who reads the letters written upon the subject of wool and woolens in reply to the inq dries by Mr. Manning, and published by him, must ieel that the efforts of many years to ’create prosperity by means of excessive .duties have sadly failed.” There is no getting around such evidence as this. Tt is worse than useless- -it is ridiculous to try to evade it with the old cry that the high tariff, is the only salvation of 'rrmrieni! labor from pauperism. 1 leg of uommy has tost its u. I lie prooi that it lias is • e it ■ y oo wool • .-r Pminsylvaivja no long rb !i in it. - A e >*’ lor u I iii. , .

The National Greenback Labor Central Committee will meet at the Court House, in Rensselaer, Ind., on Saturday, the 20th day of -fune, 1880, at 2 o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of placing in nomiu aton a ounty Ticket, and to transact auy oth *r business which may properly come before said committee. A full attendance is requested. W. E. Moore, Chairman N. C. L (.’ mi ——————— -♦ <*+ ■ - Through the liberality of the citizens of Lafayette it has been made possible for the Indiana Legion to go into camp for instruction at the Tippecanoe County Fair Grounds, from July 26 to August 2, inclusive. In addition to which there will be a grand prize drill, open to all comers, for a prize of &1,000. In additi >n to these, prizes are_ offered to the State militia, making an aggregate of $3,600 to be offered for competition, including the above free for all. The Encampment will be under strict military regulations, exhibiting every phase of a soldier’s life in the field Ex-Sheriff John \V. Powell lias leased the Halloran Livery and Feed Stables, and respectfully solicits a liberal share of the public patronage. The new display of Goods, selected and bought by such a combination of experience and taste as Mr. and Mrs. Ludd Hopkins may justly claim to have, will certainly sell at the prices offered. It i* a notorious fact that Leopold gives greater bargains than any other house in town. Call and examine for yourself. ■ Special prizes are offered for the largest two G. A. R. posts in the the line of march, for the best uniformed post in attendance, and for leader of best band in attendance on .the Encampment, Lafayette, July 29,1886.