Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XII-

THE DEMOCRATIC SEHTIHEL. DEMOCRATIC NBWBPAPKR. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, /as. W. McEwen rates of subscription. . >* - - * l - 60 • 75 fejcxrtff *-<O. , „ . 60 / Avertising Rates. O'T iinmu car, *BO 00 ZeJi coluina, m 3 g o 0 Jr hth 1 “ 1000 # n ncroeot. added to foreKOiog price if & ertfsements arc set to occup/more than * 'AlSrtsSa year at equitable rates Businessmans d l inch spaoe, •ttfor Six months; $ a for three * notices and ad%«rtisements at es‘*®ft l iaifne S noUc6s P flrst publication 10cents thereafter s cents a Nearly advertisements may changed Advertisements for persona not reijidents of Jasper county must be for n advance when larger.

****** Holungswokth . T ‘ J ’ MCC ° Y A* M§C5©Y & Cso«* BA.N3OEMS* (Saccesftoisto A. McCoy &T.Thompson,) Rensselaer* Ihd. Dn & fie-, er»l ‘banking business. Exchange 'nnmyht and sold. Certificates bearing insist issued Collections made on all available L olnts Office same place as old finn P Thompson April mordecai f. chtlcote. Attorney -at-Law 1> KNSSELAEE. • ’ • INDIANA Pmetines lin thb Courts of Jasper and adninlnc counties. Makes collections a 8{*8" cialty. B Offi oo on north side of Washington sweet, opposite Court House- Yinl Thompson Attorney-at-Law. Rotary Public. THOMPSON A BBOTHEB, Bensbxdaeb. - - Practicein all the Courts. arion l sphler, Collector and Abstractor* We pay particular attention to paying tiur "selling and leasing tands. v 2 848 XT' H. H, GRAHAM, ’’ * ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdblatr, Indiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest. S@pt, 10) oO«

JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATXORNEYsAT-LAW and notary PUBLIC, 0r Office In rear room over Hemphill & Honan’s store, Rensselaer, Ind. Edwin P.Hahkond. William B. AustinHAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-ATvLAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, corner of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases,.sells and lease ß seal estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. m&yVt, 87. W WATSON, ATTOKNET-AT-LAW pjr Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER, IND. yf W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & BURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Vdhronic Diseases a Specialty.^3 OFFICE, in Makeover’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. ■ J. H. LOUBHBIDOE. VICTOR E. LOUGHRID6E' J. H. LOUGHRIDGE & SON, Physicians and Surgeons. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent. Interest will be added to all heeounts running uusettled longer than ihree months. vim DR. L B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind . Calls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. |J"ARY E. JACKSON, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Special attention jjiven to diseases of women and children. Officp on Profit street, corner of Angelica. 12.24. Zimri D WIGGINS, F.J, Sears, ' Val, Seib, President. Cashier CITIZENS’STATEBANK RENSSELAER, IND., Does a general banking business: Certificates bearing i-itorest issned; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at lowest rates and on. mos J. avdtable terms. Jan. 8, 88.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 24. LBBH

EL MONTON DE BASURA.

From the Spanish. L 4 certain morning Senor Juan, ragpicker, thrust his hook in a heap of rubbish that had awakened his coveteousness. It was a magnificent rubbish-heap, rich in colors, rich in smells, with many attractive rags, many pieces of fine paper, many fragments of broken victuals. As he thrust his hook in the heap of rubbish he remarked: “Here’s a good day’s job for us!" But, Immediately withdrawing the iron, he examined it with a look of inquietude and surprise. He had felt the hook come in contact with something soft, as if it might be flesh. He observed blood on the point of it. Senor Juan remarked to himself : “The notion comes to me that I have heard the complaint of some new-born? Generally, those that they throw in the street are dead; this one, goodness! they have thrown it out alive I

“And they have hidden it away in here a little carefully, he continued, separating with his hand the rubbish that covered the infant “Gracious!—it is several days old! I believe if it had not been for this wrap that it would have frozen last night.’’ As the rubbish-heap pertained to him, so to him pertained the baby also: accordingly, he carried it away and delivered it to the Senora Maria, his wife, who sent it to a wet nurse. And so, a son without a father, a son with several mothers,. the ehild was saved, was weaned, grew, and became Juan Maria—called by the neighbors whose sentiments were good, “the son of the Heap," and by the malicious and evil-spoken, “the son of the Rubbish. ”

Who could have foretold that, years '?ard, that red little castaway would n. owner of one of the most important color manufactories in Madrid? He is a millionaire, and even yesterday could have been seen in the avenue of San Isidro guiding a phaeton drawn by three superb nags, covered with gay tassels and bells, and satisfied to carry in the vehicle behind them his wife, Dona Evarista, his daughters Curra and Petrica, and othei ladies and gentlemen, the formor clad in costly robes of Manilla, and the latter covered with those great wide-winged white sombreros which are called fungii. And how did he attain to a position so opulent and comfortable? To ailswer this question would be a matter of writing a book. „ He reached it, and that is enough. IL The child of the rubbish heap was born to labor. He gained a few dimes, and pretty soon understood the science oi making the labor of others increase these dimes to dollars. He was a beneficent person. Senoi Juan, Senora Maria, and Senora Cokisa (the wet nurse) lived long enough to know that they had not sown their affection on a rock. In his way he encountered a pretty young tailoress. She was very sensible and he married her. His wife was an excellent person; of mild ftiaracter if she was not contradicted and always very amiable when she had her own way. For the rest, she was quick-tempered, but as quickly pardoned everything from her heart, which was of Soria butter. Both were happy six days of the week’, but the seventh clay they were less happy. Why? Because Everista got up in bad humor, with an inclination to quarrel, and a quarrel always brought up a grave question. "What can one expect of a man who has not wished to discover his parents?” she generally asked. 111. In fact Juan had related to Evarista, after their marriage, a certain episode of his life that for him was full of sadness. Here is what he had told her:

‘ ‘lt happened when I was some 12 years old. I was then apprentice to a painter of doors, and that day found me in a grand portal that we, my master and I, were restoring. Suddenly a carriage was detained in the street, and my attention was attracted by the loud voice of the coach man asking other coachmen whose vehicles were obstructing the street, to move out of the way. What I ;»w was a magnificent equipage, horses gaylv caparisoned; aixi an open barouche on whose soft cushions was reclining a lady so beautiful and so elegant that 1 stopped, with the brush in one hand and the paint-pot in the other, gazing and admiring her in a kind of a rapture. "I was only distracted from that delicious contemplation by the furious cry of a little lackey of my own age, resplendent with a thousand gilt buttons and with an enormous galloon of gold on his hat. ‘Come, Juanin, to work!' said the master. "Then happened something very surprising. A tall, robust gentleman of very respectable appearance, wno had stopped on the walk and was contemplating me and contemplating also the ladyjof the barouche, directing himself to the master, said: ‘Let him look! As the boy is learned to be a painter, it is best that he should form a good taste.’ ” Then turning to me, he said in a voice very low, and so close to my ear that the hairs of his mostachos tickled me: •Look at her, and look well, because that woman is your mother!’ "Having said this he went away. The dame, who had seen the gentleman talking to me, then directed to me a gaze full of wonder. The coach paflsed on, and, in passing, the impudent lackey laughed at me, seeing me so bedaubed with blue and red. ‘To work! to work, Juanin! All those are vanities!’ cried the master. I

»eui m j iiu.k mui teivui, urn, uuna, aeaf and stupid with confusion. ‘I tell thee, Juaain,’ said the master presently, that when thou hast a beard thou wilt resemble that gentleman who was talking to thfe. Nature performs strange things T " This is what Don Juan had related, very secretly, to Evarista. During the period of boyhood he gave not much importance to the episode. But in later years it came to be a subject of serious meditation. “Yes, yes, those persons were my parents," he said to himself. Evarista believes it as well as he; believes that Juan is the son of a duke, or a prince, and therefore must be a marques, that is to say, that she, his snouse, must be s marquesa. She urged him to make inquiries and bring an application to the courts. Over this subiect they quarreled one day, at least, of the week. Useless quarrels! Juan is Immovable, saying always this only: “The world has forgotten that I am the son of the Heap; let us not remind it that I am the son of the Rubbish."

uutniione-i ay stem oi noi-Kisg, One of the most strangely marked traits of Mr. Gladstone’s character is the method and exactitude which he brings to bear on his daily work, This is the great secret which enables him to get through an amount of labor which frightens ten ordinary men. It is owing to the possession of this quality that lie is able, in tne midst of his arduous Parliamentary toil, tc write articles, treating of such diverse subjects as the poems of Homer, the early Christian fathers, and modern theology. As a trifling instance of Mr. Gladstone's curious habits of precision, it may be mentioned that he rarely opens a parcel without untying—not cutting—the string, tying it carefully up, and putting it away for future use in h drawer which is reserved for the purpose. His papers and documents are also kept in scrupulous order by himself, so he can lay his hands on any one of them at a moment’s notice. It is to his habit of doing so much of his work for himself that the mastery of detail, which Mr. Gladstone shows on every subject with which he grapples, is in a great measure due. Preserving Fish Alive. It is proposed to preserve fish alive by placing tliem in vessels partly filled with water and hermetically sealed. It is said that fish so confined have been found alive after three weeks without air or water having been changed, while fish in an opep jar have died in forty-eight hours. If the air in the vessel is compressed the life of the fish is still further prolonged.

“In 1860 the burdens of national taxation were light. All our revenues, including loans, amounted to only $76,000,000. Our expenditures were $77,000,000, and our whole public deist but $65,000,000. In the year 1860 the tonnage of our ships upon the seas was 5,353,868 tons, which was more by 140,000 tons than in any other year of our history before or since. Twothirds of our imports were then carried in American bottoms, as were also more than two-thirds of our exports. Our exports that year reached the aggregate value of $400,000,000, which was forty-three and onehalf millions more than during any previous year. Our imports were $362,000,000, decidedly more han any other year. And I make this statement on the authority of David A. Wells, that in 1860 we were exporting te foreign countries more American manufactures than in any other year of our history. * * # * * * The fact is, Mr. Chairman, the decade from 1850 to 1860 was one of peace and general prosperity. —Extracts from speech of J ames A. Garfield in the House March 6, 1878.

Proverbs for the Tabls

Pad Veil, feaat well. A wise cook fondles his first. Diplomacy lieth tinder the disbttvec. Discretion is the proper sauce fbr 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. Bare beef and well-cooked fish betray a wise cook. Peace hideth herself under the lid of the well-managed pot. True economy in the household has heaven for its banker. Neither the nibbler nor the glutton kndweth the value of feast. He whoeatetb without drink buildeth his well without mortar, prink milk and wine, but keep tbemwtASkDSCtf Who joins their virtues will hf« Stenuu&mNSa Eat like s. hearty man. Drink like a sick on»j So may lire’s U*tle Bps* Not be too Qtx* raa. —The Caterer. Thebe is more philosophy in a worn* art’s little finger that & a man’s Old hat. Next to love, sympathy is the divinf of the heart

THE REPUBLICANS AND THE NAVY.

St. Louis Republic. Mr. James W- McClean of Colorado Springs, Colo., writes the Republic under date of July 18th, asking information on a point of current interest ‘Your i aper is sold on our streets and is good at statistics. 1 therefore come to you for facts. I made the statement Jhis morning in one of our hotels that the Republican party had spent over $400,000,000 on our navy during 19 years. I certainly read this and hope you can help me produce the authority for it. Please answer through The Republic.’ There is no difficulty about producing the authority. Thereports of the Secretaries of the Navy from 1866 to 1884 shewing the appropriations made by Congress for naval purposes and the expenditures made by the navy department prove that these expenditures reached the enormous total of $401,730,000. The figures for the 19 years are as follows: 1866 $ 43,285,000 1867 31,034,000 1868 26,775,000 1869 20,000,000 1870.... 21,780,000 1871 19,431,000 1872 21,249,000 1873 23,526,000 1874 30,932,000 1875 21,497,000 1876 18,963,000 877 14,955,000 1878 17,366,000 1879 15,125,000 1880 13,536,000 1881 15,686,000 1882 15,032,000 1883 15,283,000 1884 17,292,000 Total $401,730,000

In 1866 the government had a navy of 115 vessels in active service With thiß foundation the Republicans began “building a navy” in 1869 under Robeson and kept it up until driven from power in 1884. The result was no navy, and in fexplaining it, Secretary Chandler, under whose administration the frauds became more notorious than eycr, said in his report that “the real explanation of the disproportion between the expenditures and the results” was “the policy o/ attempting to rehabilitate worn out structures under the name of repairs.” “It appears,” he added, that “instead of maintaining our yards for the benefit of our ships, the ships have dragged cut a protracted existence for the benefit of our yards.” Chandler, of course made this remarkable confe >sion of Republican wastefulness and imbecility in the interest of John Roacb, for whosA benefit *nd for the benefit of the Republican campaign fnnd, the policy of turning over the construction of the navy to private contractors and disusing the navy yards was inaugurated. Under Grant’s administration five iron clads were ordered rebuilt. By 1883 over $8,000,000 had been spent on these five ships—the Puritan, Miantonomoh, the Monadnock, the Amphitrite and the Terror—and $6,000,000 more was asked te complete the “repairs and reconstruction’” They were originally old ships which had been useful in the war, and the jobbery began under the nretence that “they were somewhat damaged and needed repair. They were thus ordered into private yards and kept there year after year, while million after million was appropriated for them. After eight years the only one of them that was prono traced “rebuilt” had to be hauled into the government navy yard at Washington with her turrets off, “no more fit to go to sea than a mud turtle,” as w-’s explained in the Senate when more money was asked for repairs, During this period of private contract and jobbery, of which the work on these five vessels is only a sample, the Government was maintaining navy yards at Ports-

mouth, New York, Boston, Norfolk, Washington, League Island, Pensacola, and at Mare Island with a naval station at New London, Conn., and was spending on them over $4,000,000 a year, with nothing to dhow for it. All work done m repairing ships under private . contract was done as a part of th% Republican plan of holding the government by using the appropriations for campaign purposes. The history of the Puritan is the history of the navy uider Republican rule. She was built by the celebrated John Ericsson, and when the Republicans began repairing her was one of the most formidable navy vessels in the

world. She was accepted by the Government at a cost of $2,000,000. before completion, and Rowland, the Brooklyn ship builder, offer« 4 to comDlete her for $353,000. Af~ ;er the close of the war several foreign governments made large iffers for her, but they were re :used, as the ship was too valuable » part with. When “repairs” ou ler began, she waß turned over to John Roach, and the Secretary of the Navy under his authority to order repairs, authorized Roach to legin operations. He began by breaking the vessel up—actually charging $14,000 for destroying a a new $2,000,000 ship, and then he repairo i her bv beginning a new ship around the old name. Three special naval commissions reported against his work, the Isherwood commission declaring that, asilustrated in the Puritan, it was “a lagrant exhibition of gross igno - rance and culpable carelessness.” After nineteen years’ and be expenditure of $400, 000,000, the Republican party had little or nothing to show as results, except ;his “gross ignorance and culpable carelessness: ”

USELESS BURDENS IOF THE TARIFF.

(Springfield Republican, Mass.) Tariff taxes on raw materials not only enhance the cost of product and restrict the operations of the manufacturers but antagonize countries that produce them.— Thece taxes should be removed. We produce only about half the quantity of wool needed to make the goods demanded by oui people. Why burden the manufacturers and ourselves with a tax on the other half? We produce little of the hemp and flax here consumed. Whv load taxes on that which is not? We produce only a tithe of the raw sugar consumed. Why drive away trade with Mexico and other Southern countries by taxing it? Free hides gave such an impetus to our leather industry that it now monopolizes the home market and a good fraction of the foreign, and such has been its expansion that the demand for domestic hides has bee., increased. Free wool would work the same results. Free ores, coal, tin plate, flax, hemp, jute, lumber, salt, etc., wou*d yield untold benefits in the way of relieving people of useless burdens, industry of narrow re - strictions, and our market of ina - bility to expand.

On Monday last Representative Breckinridge of Arkansas introduced five tariff bills in the House. He does not expect that a general tariff bill will be passed during this session of congress and introduced these bills in the hope that congress may put a chock upon the trusts. mm m mm., , ■ How Capital is Fbiqhtlned.—Another glass works company was incorporated *at Indianapolis yesterday. This doesn’t look much like capital feared "free trade. Vincennes Sun. “We favor the entire repeal of the internal taxes Aon whisky and tobacco) rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system.”—Chicago platform. “The platform is in entire hnr ; mony with ray views.”—Ben Harrison.

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