Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1887 — Page 8

BARGAIN IN MUSIC.

This favorite Album of Songs and Ballads, contai. iDg 32 pieces of choice and popular music sud sheet music size, with complete words and rausio and piano accompaniment is finely printed upon heavy paper with a very attractive cover. The following are the tiLies of the so'gs and ballads contained in the Favorite Album: As I’d Nothing Else to Do; The Dear Old Songs of Home; Mother. Wa’ch the Little Feet; Oh, You Pret’y BlueEyed Witch; Blue Eyes; Katy’. Le n ter; The Passing Bell; I Saw Esau Kissing Kate; Won’t You Tell Me Why, Bobbin; The Old Garden Gate ; Down Below the Waving Lindens; Faded Leaves; All Among the Sum tner Roses; Touch the Harp Gently, My Pre’ty Louise; I Reflly Don’t Think I Shall Marry; Dreaming of Home; The Old Cottage Cioek; Across the Sea; A Year Ago; Bashelor’s Hail; Ruth and I; Good Night; One Happy Year A o; Jenny in the Orchard; The Old Barn Gain; Sack’s Farewell; Polly; Whisper in the Twilight. This is a very fine collection of real vocal gems, and gotten up in very handsome style. Published in the usual wav and bought at a music store these 32 pieces would cost you $11.20. We bought a job lotol ibis mus.e at great sacrifice and as the holidays are past, we desire to closo out our stock at once. Will send you the entire collection well wrapped and postpaid for only 40 ceDts Send immediately. Address, THE EMPIRE NEWS CO., 11-Gwl3 Syracuse, N. Y.

Grant, Stunner, and Stewart.

A. T. Stewart, the New York merchant prince, made large sales to the Government during the war for the suppression of the rebellion, and he displayed his gratitude by making Mrs* Lincoln handsome presents. He was also a large contributor to the fund of SIOO,OOO raised by the merchants of New York for Gen. Grant as an acknowledgment of his war services; and when the General was elected President, Mr. Stewart was selected by hiir as the man to reorganize the Treasury Department, prune oil its excrescences and reform its abuses. Mr. Stewart was delighted with the offer, and had a suite of rooms in the Ebbitt House, with a private entrance, fitted up for his occupation until he could go to housekeeping. A few days before the 4th of March he came to Washington and occupied these rooms, with Judge Hilton as his companion and adviser. After the inaugur.tion he was nominated by Gen. Grant; but Senator Sumner, who had been consulted as to the formation of the Cabinet, interposed his objection to the immediate consideration of Mr. Stewart’3 nomination. Late in the afternoon of that day a rumor got abroad that there was a law, understood to have been really written by Alexander Hamilton while Secretary of the Treasury, prohibiting an importer in active business from holding the position of Secretary of Ike Treasury. A newspaper correspondent obtained a copy of the law’ bearing on the case and carried it to Gen. Butterfield, who conveyed it to Mr. Stewart and his legal adviser, Jadge Hilton. They consulted Chief Justice Chase, and he confirmed the view which had been taken of the law by those who first brought it to Mr. Stewart’s attention. Mr. Stewart then proposed to retire from business and devote the entire profits that might accrue during the time that he should hold the office of Secretary of the . Treasury to charitable objects. But this was decided to be something which' would not be proper, either for him to carry out or for the Government to accept. Immediately after seeing Chief Justiee Chase Mr. Stewart and Judge Hilton drove to the White House and laid the facts and opinions before the President, who, on the next day, wrote a message to the Senate, Asking that the law of 17P8 be set aside so as to ! allow the c andidate to hold the office. This the Senate declined to do. It was a very natural ambition for a man of Mr. Stewart’s tastes and training to desire to be at the head of the Treasury, and it is not unlikely that the disappointment was a very severe one. This was the beginning of the “unpleasantness” between President Grant and Senator Sumner, which finally resulted in an open rupture.— Ben: Per ley Poore, m Boston Budget .

American Cooks and Cooking.

From the dreadful corned beef and cabbage and the fearful fisliballs of crude American cookery, the family of Delmonico has, by degrees, led the American public to the consideration of higher things. The favorite dishes of the great republic have been concentrated in New York, and recent arrivals have been hospitably challenged to compare anything in the old world with them. Politeness prevents such comparisons, which would hardly be in favor of either hemisphere. In fish and game, despite its wide area of river and prairie, America can in no way compare with the raw products of this country. But it has its specialties. The oysters of Blue Point and Shrewsbury Biver may not be denied, any more than the canvas-back nourished on the marshes of the Potomac, the terrapin captured on the shore of the Delaware, the snapping turtle from the far West, the gumbo soup of New Orleans, or the pampano fish which rejoieeth the Mexican Gulf. What the Delmonicos have done is to bring the enjoyments of the two hemispheres into combination. They have known how to make the clams, the oysters, the sheephead, and other strange fishes fanr'liar to the great army of gastrono- 1 mists who jreach Manhattan Island.— I London pziy A'eir*. _ 4

Diplomatic Courtesies.

A very interesting article might be written on the rights of diplomatists, and ou the rights of the governments sending and receiving such representatives. But only a few general principles can be mentioned here. In the first place, the diplomatists sent by each of two countries to the other should be of the same rank. Great Britain sends an Ambassador to Turkey, and Turkey sends an Ambassador to England. The highest rank of American foreign Ministers is that of Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and, accordingly, no Ambassador, which is the highest rank in diplomacy, is sent to Washington by any government. Again, the government to which a Minister is accredited has a right to refuse to receive him, and, if the reason be a personal one, the government which sends him need not take offense. In 1861 the Austrian Government refused to receive Mr. Anson Burlingame, who afterward did good service as American Minister to China, but no offense was taken, and the historian Motley was appointed Minister to Vienna. Moreover, if a Minister has been reciveed, it is the right of the government near which he is serving to ask that he be recalled, at any time. The United States Government has more than once taken this course —the most notable case having been during Washington’s administration, when M. Genet, the French Minister, had behaved himself with intolerable insolence. But, on the other hand, if the government whose Minister is thus virtually sent home regards the reasons of his dismissal as insufficient, the retaliation takes the form of leaving the mission vacant. The other government soon recalls its own Minister, and diplomatic relations between the two countries are suspended. If some time elapses before Mr. Sargent’s place at Berlin is filled, it may be expected that an excuse will be found for withdrawing the German Minister from Washington. So long as a Minister remains at a court, and the relations between his own government and that to which lie is accredited are friendly, he s entitled to all the official courtesies which are extended to the representatives of any government. To withhold one of these would be more than a slight—it would be an insult to the government from which the Minister came. Yet, outside of the purely formal courtesies, there are offered opportunities to a sovereign or a foreign Mitusfcur to show special friendliness, or the reverse. For example, Prince Bismarck was forced, by diplomatic usage, to invite Mr. Sargent to the dinner which he gave to all the foreign Ministers at Berlin on the Emperor’s birthday. But, while he shook hands with all his other guests, he put off - Mr. Sargent with a courteous bow. The late Emperor Napoleon was au adept at this sort of business. At his New Year’s receptions he graded his reception of the different Ministers according to his disposition toward theii respective governments, and his smiles, nods, and frowns were reported by telegraph all over Europe. Prince Bismarck seems to have sue 1 ceeded him in this trick, but it would be absurd for any one in America to be angry simply because a testy old man shows a lack of good-breeding. —• Youth’s Companion.

Proverbs for the Table.

Fast well, feast well. A w'se cook fondles his fire. Diplomacy lieth under the dish cover. Discretion is the proper sauce for cheese. Let the doubting cook roast his fish. Court the onion and flee the doctor. A bad dinner is often redeemed by a good salad. Rare beef and well-cooked fish betray a wise cook. Peace hideth herself under the lid of tßie well-managed pot. True economy in the household has heaven for its banker. Neither the nibbler nor the glutton know etli the value of feast. He who eatetlx without drink buildeth his well without mortar. Drink milk and wine, bnt keep them wide apart; Who joins their virtues will his stomach thwart. Eat like a hearty man. Drink like a sick one; So may life’s little span Not be too quick run. —The Caterer.

The Cactus.

The prickly pear, despised by foreigners, is, like adversity, not without its uses. Indeed, Ido not know what Mexico would do without it in some instances. In the long, dry seasons, when water is scarce, countless herds of sheep and goats are kept alive by splitting the leaves and allowing the animals to suck the natural moisture contained inside. The chief diet of Mexican donkeys is not tin cans and thistles, as elsewhere, but toasted cactus, which their owners prepare by holding the branches on a stick (it is too prickly to handle otherwise), over a fire till the thorns are burned off. Besides, each variety of cactus bears its fruit—pale green, scarlet, purple or black—all more or less palateable, ari(l good for man and beast.— Cor. Indianapolis Journal. . The owner of a pair of bright eyes says that the prettiest compliment she ! ever received came from a child of four j years. The little fellow, after looking | intently at her eyes a moment, inquired naively: “Are your eyes new i ones ?** He who is greet in little things can rev*: .* IR- ’.c 1: '.lli.j*.

THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.

Thing* Necessary to I!e Done If Civilization Is to Survive. Of the things necessary to be done to save our civilization, the first and most important is to cause a complete cfiange of attitude on the part of society toward wrong-doing. What is now the attitude maintained ? It is one either of indifference, toleration, or emmiv-uce, or one suggestive of paralysis of the power of indignation, and of every faculty needed for the f«»n‘e«sion of crime. Toward the criminal the attitude of the public is that of w. a’: pity, not unmingled with admiration. The criminal is an unfortunate man, to save whom from puni-hment scvms to be the chief end of the law. Look for a moment at his trial in a court of justice. The jury, carefully selected for their ignorance, are made judges of both law and fact; to convict they must be unanimous; if they have a reasonable doubt of guilt, they must acquit ; they are themselves to determine what is a respectable doubt; and to crown all, they are instructed t at it is better that ten guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished. These rules and maxims, devised centuries ago by merciful judges, then met the ends of justice, since, as the laws were, as against the crown officers, seeking to convict, a person accused had no chance of acquittal, for ho was allowed neither counsel nor witnesses; but., now they operate to screen the guil’y from punishment, save in a few eases where there is a general cry for vengeance against some atrocious offender. The maxim about the ten guilty men is pressed upon juries by every felon’s lawyer as the great safeguard of private rights. lu-truth, however, the interest of justice would be best subserved by making it read: “It is better tlm; ten innocent men should suffer than that one guilty, man should c. v ” VAre that declared to be ;• 'my of the law juries would be n. ’. r. .t that the innocent wc-volw-- u..!-.v.rving than before of acquittal, but that the guilty were a hundred ti, :es more deserving of conviction and punishment; and the result would be most salutary. In not one case in a million could an innocent man suffer; and hardly one in a thousand of the guilty, instead of three out of four, as now, would escape. How necessary- such a change of attitude is, may be seen from the constant recurrence of voluntary movements of private citizens inter deG to supply the defects of the law. Because great criminals generally escape punishment, lynching parties are of weekly occurence in our country. Citizens’ associations have been found necessary to secure the execution of our municipal laws. From the announcements constantly appearing in the public journals that from such a day laws, long in force, but left unexecuted, would be rigicfly enforced, one might infer that the duty of an executive officer is to cause the laws to be executed when ho pleases to do so, or not at all, if such be his will. — Judge Jameson, in North American Beview.

Life—The Tenacity of Women.

It appears from the gathered statistics of the world that women have greater tenacity of life than men. Despite the intellectual and physical strength of the hitter, the softer sex endures longest, and will bear pain to which a strong man succumbs. Zymotic diseases ate more fatal to males, and more male children die than female. Deverga asserts that the proportion dying suddenly is about 100 women to 780 men; 1,080 men in the United States committed suicide to 285 women. Intemperance, apoplexy, gout, hydro* cephalus, affections of the heart or liver, scrofula, paralysis, are far more fatal to males than females. Pulmonary consumption, on the other hand, is more deadly to the latter. Females in cities are more prone to consumption than in the country. All old countries, not disturbed by emigration, have a majority of females in the population. In royal families statistics show more daughters .than sons. Tho Hebrew women are especially longlived; the colored man exceptionally short-lived. The married state is favorable to prolongation of life among women. Dr. Hough remarks that there are from 2 to 6 per cent, more males born than females, yet there is more than 6 per cent, excess of females in the living population. From which statistics we conclude that all women who can possibly obtain one of these rapidly departing men ought to marry, and that, as men are likely to become so very scarce, they cannot be sufficiently prized by the other 3ex, —Modern Age.

LEAR HOUSE!, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite Court House. Monticelle, Ind ! Has recently been new furnished throngt < out. The rooms arelarge and airy.tho 10. I tion central, making it the most convenien ' and desirable hODSe in town. Trv it PIOIiIEJEK I 1 . - / fMEAH MARKET!: Rensselaer, • Ind., J, J. Eiglesbach, PROParE_oa BEEP: Pork. Yea. Mutton, Sausage. Bnlogna. etc., sold in quanti tit>i 10 > ' u ' t purchasers at the lowest price-', N-"*e but the best stock slaught* r •• u, j is invited to .call.

THE E ldredge L eads Ti WMy>! '9OIi3(CHANOLEB MRS. J AS. W. McEWEN, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind. V-j t WASHER - ‘ Jr ffjjrlgy Vy better work and do it easier nud in lent* time than any uHh■ J''nUnHnnfilnn S other machine in the world. Warranted five years, and if itdonjtwasli theclothea clean without rubbing, we will XMmM&HiK ace.jts wanted i farm '8 In every county. We CAN SHOW PROOF that Agents are making from 575 to $l5O l>er month. Farmers make S2OO to SBOO during the winter. Ladies have |rent -=nMLipie to cb '-w 1w. 1 *Alho the Celebrated KEYSTONE WRINGERS .at manufari er-rs’ lowest LOVELL WASHER' (XL," Erie, Pa. THE, WRIGHT UfflßTAlfflGf FURNITURE ROOMS. T. P. WRIGHT. NEW! ALL NEW!! I would respectfully announce to the people of Jasper County that I have made arrangements to sell -*FARM#MABHINERY>«F mpireYmowersT~~YF hpire~ R eopebp EMPIRE BINDERS. And will keep extras on hand at all times for the machines.— [ am also prepared to do REPAIRING. injthe best and most workmanlike madner, and at the lowest possible rates. WAGONS AND BUGGES repaired, and all other work usually done in that line. NEW WAGONS AND BUGGIES de to order, and of the best material and workmanship. fcjg~Shop on Front Street, South of Citizens’ Bank,.JS3 £ h. yeoman; Rensselaer. lad, 11.; r.. VUG ,i