Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1887 — “13.” [ARTICLE]

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Some little time ago a young lady wh had been teaching a class of half grown girls in the Sunday»schoo! of Dr B.’s church. Brooklyn, was called away from city rendering it necessary to fill her place. The superinten lent, after looking over nis available ma-erial for teachers, decided to request one of the young genflemea of the congregation ta take the class

It so happened that the young man Upon whom fell the superintendent’s choice, was exceedingly bashful - so much so. in fact, that he insisted uj). oh the superintendent going and presenting him to the class. Accordingly the two gent.emen ap i ured on the little platform, and the superintendent began: “YoungSadies, I wish, to introduce to you Mr. C., who will in furui e be yota t-uclier. I would like to have you t- 11 him what, your 1 .rmer teacher aid, so that be can go richt on in the same way:—” Immediately a demnr-'jmi&s of fourteen years arose hr i said: “Th* first thing our teacher always did was to hiss us all around .“—From the Port* folio of The American Magazine.

I always go by the moon's changes, because then I know I urn right. I see a great deal in the p ipers about how to ehoose a cow, out I can tell you a rule worth all the rest. If a cow is born when the horns of the moon point down, then she wiil be a ffo »d milker, but if Dorn ulien the h rns point ur>, then she will run to nothing but skin bone. I > lways butcher cattle in the new of the moon and then I have a quarter more meat I always sow and plant in the new of the moon, and have better crops than my neighbors. I always build fences when the horns of the moon point up, and put on the stakes and riders when the horns point down; then the two pull together, and iny f-mce# never tail uown. Our school~'n use. contrary to mv advice, was roofed in the full of the moon and it lenis badly, and lust winter all the children had the measles. I once atton led campmeeting and got converted in the dark of the moon, but I soon l ackglided wonderfully. Since t etl got oonverted again in the light of the moon, and my religion has stuck to me ever since.—Troy Times.

The entire lower portioa of Centre county. Pennsylvania, is at present plagued by a most extraordinary vis* Ration of snails or garden slugs.— They come from their hiding-places in crevices, under board walks, atones, •tc., only at night, and they cover ti © roads and walks by the million In Penn,s vallev and JBloomfleld and the surrounding country they have eaten every growing t\l >g in their path.— Some gardens hare been entirely d"* stroyed A letter from Penn’s valley says that mornings after warm nights ■ Waiks and roads are literally covered with the slum these inse.ts leave in their trails and by bushels of dead snails that nave been crushed by pedestrians and wagons. Lim 1 , oaris green, salt and other insect destroy* ers have been scattered liberally where the snails travel and feed, hut they have had no effect on them —N. Y. Sun. ,

The Daniel Drew began last Wed Pesdav night the custom of tolliug her bell as she passes the f omb c.f Gen- G r ant: tne Richmond. t.ie Drew’s companion boat, will do the same.— The idea was suggested t > the com pany by a letter from a passenger, who referred to the usage on the Po to mac in oassing Mount Vernpn.— The captain of the Drew r .-laces that several months -go an English tourist, who was evidently taking notes inquired of the pilot wh the boat’s bell was not rung when passing :«b;u spot. “What’s the use?”* id the sot esan.faced humorls* at Urn wheel; *hs wouldn’t hear it ” A-t ■ from 1 the Englishman and ch<u: ‘Uy }ov -. ’ I’ll book chat!“--New York linn. .

The zoological gardens in the Regent’s park have reeeiyed numerous additions within the last few weeks, several births having taken place in the gardens These vary from two lion cub 3 to two viviparous dwarf chameleons, and include sixteen puff adders, which were gu precocious that when only a day old they struck at and hided every small creature which was put in the cage as easily as if they hail been grown up Among presentations there is a fine Indian rhinoceros, given by the rajah of Dutch Be har two young Polar bears, and a pair of Auckland islands sea lions One rare acquisition is a “common” zri>ra, now almost supplanted by the Burebell zebra, and thus become scarce. It is a beautiful creature, half-grown and very tame. A pair of Jaoaue3c eagle-owls are also rare being the first of their breed brought alive to Europe. They eat fish as well as mice and small birds,—Lond( u Graphic. The women in and for eight ot ten miles around Anderson are just boiling over with wrath, because the ter rible roaring or the immense gas well at that village has been more disastrous to the egg crop than the loudest thunder ever heard. Not an egg wi’l hatch, aad even the old hens refuse to lay, tue noise being so great that the biddies become so bewilders ed that they cannot return to the nest and even forget to put a shell or the •gg. Muneie Herald "

The Mysterious Order That Played a Part in the Senatorial Contest— How the Republican Committee Sought to Bind Mr. Robinson by hd Oath—A Dark-Lantern Proceeding - Personal Vio lence for Breaking the Pledge—Mr. Robinson Addresses an Open Letter to the Journal, Calling I to Account for Its Falsehoods.

Indianapolis Sentinel; In a political deadlock as protract* ed as that which became the mem: r* able feature of the senatorial contest of the lust General Assembly, many things occur to illustrate the curious phases of human nature. To the public at large the resul:s and overt acts alone are to be seen. The warring of “influences” is silent and wholly beneath the surface The senatorial contest just rcierred to was an instance in point. To those who had no access oehind the scenes, the flight seemed to oe an affair simple enough; On ose side were ranged seventy five Democrats on the other seventy Republicans, and in tho middle, holding the balance of power, were four men claiming to be inden pendents. It was, apparently.a question of endurance, nothing more. When the end came, the issue was entirely natural—seventy six Democrats voted for Turpie, this number constituting a majority. A year from now many people, remembering only that seventy-six Democrats were elected to the Legislature in 1886, and that seventy-six Democrats vot»d lor David Turpie for United States Senator, will wonder what the row’ was about in view of the naturalness of the outcome. That Representative Robirson, of duy County, was sincere in his sup> port of J. 11. Allen, the independent candidate, nobody is now disposed to question. But the inside history of the independent movement has some chapters which are a little short of amazing. •It was the object of the Republican Suite Central Committee to keep Mr. Robinson voting for Allen and frum voting for Turpie as long as possible, in the nope ;hat some Democrats would die or turn up missing. Messrs, Glover. Cat«» and Mackey, who voted with Robi son for Allen, were nothing more than Republican stool-pigeons, opsratit g u Senator Harrison’s interest. To them was assigned the duty of holding Robinson fast to Allen. The Sentinel has told how a number of prominent all’ged Greenbackers of Indianapolis were employed by the Republican State Central Committee to preveat Robinson from abandoning Al'en, h it,the Sentinel has not indicated all the influences which these decoys broughr to bear. The most extraordinary expedient to which they resorted was the organ* izatinu of the mysterioue “Thirteen Club ”of which Mr 0. W Brouse of Indianapolis, is said to have : een the head center. Th’’ pair this organization pi i.vkJ gives to 'tr -lory of the senatorial contest a witrd interest It reminds one of th ■ times when scowling assessing lurked in tne shad* owe of It ii. t: i eouri* to «i i factional intrigue, or w: en ,onspjrt ors against kings bound tlitmselves i»\ fulsome incant tions and ritVs of supers ;tiou to wotk ou* mimh-jous cans. - It. must seem ab ur , In Joed, :i;aj tuch agenci s should n.-v«* hem t-m tried, under the sa oii -n of ri.a ib-pu ii n fcbats Ceri;i d (..uanuiiri•«*. ; , ..d.-i-r General Hai i iscii, t»..i such was inde«.d thcjj-asf. It iv.a Ini ed by■ the committee that Ms sms Glover. Cates aod Mackey mighi noi have sulbeient it flueuce to k»up Mr Kobtyjsmi wjii< ihem, and th;* id< a va- tcupu*i conceived that Mr i: bo or - '-1 be boun tm can. .id >* ; I

Messrs Brouse, Douglas and Meddeit, of the Greenback contingent, organized secretly what was known to rhe initia ed few as the “Thirteen” Club, Tho object of this club, so far as the constitution went, was apparently highly patriotic It professed to Have ia view the purification of politics and there was a lot of slush in the various sections about opposition to corruption md that i-ort vs thing.— So ingeniously was the declaration or princi, les drawn that the un-uspi ios novitiate would ?«e no wrong ot ulterior motive in the business. But the only thin whim was to the purpose of the men promoting the scheme was asoleuiu oath each member was required to t Uo, binding him to stjnd by the order in any movement which the leaders might see fit to undertake. To this oath the aew member was not apt to give much attention, so corns men.ladle were t e “principles* lud down in the constitution It was very much like a man swearing to protect his family when in distress. The leaders declared to fnose whom they desired to join thut the order already ad a national scop*, being, as they said, established in all putts of tha country, ami including hundreds of thousands of members. The schemers, it will be perceived, uad no lack of nerve-

The place of meeting and ini iaUa a tjoo was in the cedar of the Vance Bio k, where the candidate for admis sion was taKen During the ceremoo ny of induction the room wa6 kept in darkness, save where.tke gleam of a dark lantern revealed the ma ked faces of the high priests of t ie order, who, with solemn voices, received the pledges of the candidate. It was intended to lie a most awe inspiring

proceeding. In this caveruous recess the convocations of the incur era were held, and loyalty to Allen was the continual theme. Info this as. o eiation of polit.cal kuklax Air. Kob.neon was led, under the impressioi; that he wai joining an order which Was commendable in its objects, sincere in professions and widespread in its Turn bership. The oath which Candidate.- were requited to take csrriod wirfi it a penalty for infraction. To break it was to Incur | ersonal violence liy way of putishmenr. Foitunately it d'd nqt take Mr Itoti scu oug to iscertain that the win thing was a fraud, and he promptii threw it over, aliliough one of the members approached him on the day he, cast hi, vote far Turpie and made he sign of personal violence if he should dar do so

It is needless to say thaf with the election of Turpie the mysterious “thirteen’ - collapsed. As a political expedient it proved ineffectual, but as such expedient it was probably without parallel in partisan politics. “An Open Letter From Robinson” will be found ou fourl'h page in this Sentinel,

When Amos Cummings anc 7 oe Howard were youxg reporters both were assigned to the fun gai of a prominent man, where rep orters were rigorously excluded from he churc h , at the request of a relative of the deceased. Neither knew ’hat the other had tne fureral to wri.e up. Cummings kTiew.the undertaker and got him to permit him to be on* of the principal mourners. When Cu nmings got in the church he was surprised to see Howard opposite himself next o a bishop and diessect as an Episcopal clergyman. Each tho’t he had a “heat” oa all the other papers till then.