Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1889 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XIII

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T.J,ilcCcr '■ E. L. worth. A. MW & '■!% banke®s, fiueeeaaois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Renssblabr, Ind. i «ei oral banking business. Exchange 0 bought and sold Certificates J?***!®? jLt iisued Collections made on al. •▼“£’>}* pi *“*■ ° ip«> « ORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorn®y-at-Latr xIW.SELAEB. - - ITOIANA Praotlees Hn the Courts of Jasper and adenine counties. Makes collections a spe<*alt,ys Office on north side of MnshingtoH Iveat, opposite Court Housey. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM MON Attorney -at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, WBRggBXAEB, - - IMDIAIA Praetloein all the Courts. ART ON L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor' '¥• oay n wtaeular attention to paying tax- . selling and leaslag lands. v 2 n*B GT-. H. H. GRAHAM, ’’’ * ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdelate, Indiana. Money to loan on longtime at low interest. J Sept. 10,’86. JAMES W.DOUTHIT, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Office in rear room over Hemphill A ERman’s store, Rensselaer, Ind. JSCwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin HAMMOND & AUSTIN, . ATTOKNEY-AT'LAW, Rensselae I ', Ind qjfffg on second floor of Leopold’s Block, come of Was inston and Vanßennselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases, sells and let see real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable tastruments. may 27, 87. yyM. V - WATSON, ,a_t to ircixrww- at-l aw jggr” Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, RENSSELAER IND. yy w. HANSELL, M D SOMQSOPATEIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. VChronic Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. t. H. LOUGHRIDGE. VICTOR E. LOUOHRIEGE J. H.LOUGHRIDGE & SON, Physicians and Surgeons. Office in the new Leopold Biock, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all ascounts running uusettled longer than ffiree months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon oaUe promptlyhttended. Will give special attes tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ||~ARY E. JACKSON. M. D., PHYSICIAN ft SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of women ana children. Office on Front street, corner of Angelica. 12..24. Emu Dwiggins, F. J. Smabs, Val. Sbib, President. Vic—President. Cashier CITIZENS’STATEBANK RENSSBLAEB, IND., TWES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS: JEF Certificates bearing i nterest issued: Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on fhrma ytowest rates and onmosfavorable terms. jWta. 8.88.

RENSSELAER lASPEB COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY JANUARY 25. 1889

ZEKE'S HAD HIDS.

ti»w a Boy Trird to Const tho Ratta **■ the M»ne of a Frighten d Maraa, [From the Philadelphia Tifitea.J Zeke was thought to be the dunce of the family. He wasn't dull but 'zecauie of his quiet ways und his love ol sleep he got to l ie known as the most tk/jkvar.L <,i .h • bright Barnwell boys Zesa was so lazy that he couldn’t count, though twelve year* of age. When, along a; out noon, his father would say: “ Run, Zeke, and tell me wnat time it is.” Zeke would look at the clock and remark : “ Little hand’s a stickin’ straight up 1” One day Jerry, the black marr, made fun jf Zb'ke, saying,' “G’lang wid ye, ye io’an know yer foot from a hole in de ground; g’way from heah en larn to or ant up yer A B O’t. ” What Jerry said made the lad feel ashamed. That right be covered his head with a quilt, and said to himself that he wished a bugaboo would catch him by the toesand take him to Vie bad p’wee. As he was feeding the horses next morning he asked liis friend Joe, the y ibleman, how he could learn to count. . uughed and winked at a big horse rTa 1 Bob. “Why, you pester you, way don’t you get up onto Bob’s back and count them air hairs in hia mane?” Ik.u made Zeke’s blood feel hot in his Lc . “/Il right,” he said, and bounding from t’ e hay-mow he lighted upon Rob’s back Bob was taken by surprise. H‘ wa rn't in the habit of having boys on his back at breakfast, so he started on i wild run. If Zeke couldn’t count he could ride a horse as a swallow rides the air. Away went Bob out the lane and up the country road. Zeke grasped a handful of the mane and began to pick out th<3 black threads.

‘One, two, three, four, five—” but t ns he was about to say six a violent jerk of the house's head drew the mane from his hand. Nothing daunted, however, the boy began again. Bob was running up the road at full speed. “Ha! ha!” hallooed a man by ths roadside, “ what are you doin’ ?” “ Countin’ hairs,” said Zttke. “ What a xittle fool!” exclaimed the tnan; “he might as well try to number ihe hairs of head, but before hs could get through with his job every hair would be gray.” But the dashfag horse and his bold rider were out of hearing and out cf sight. They went steadily on for nearly an hour. Zeke had counted a thousand and Bob’s run had dropped into a swift trot. “Hold on,” said a gentleman whom they met on the bridge; “where are you going to, without saddle or bridle ?” “Counting the hairs of the horse’s mane,” replied Zeke, never looking up. “ Why don’t you count the hairs oi his tail?” roared the gentleman, with much merriment; but on sped Bob with Zeke bending closely over his neck. Soon afterward the frightened horse oame to the Schuylkill Biver. Into the water he trotted, and soon he was swimming for the other shore. This Zeke had not expected. The shock of the cold water caused him to forget his count, and he was obliged to cling to the mane to save his life. “ Anyhow,” Zeke said, U I find the mane of some use.” When Bob reached the other bank he kept on as madly as before, but seeiug that his rider was more than a match for him, he at last stopped short and began to turn the head toward Zeke. Meanwhile Zeke had given over his attempt to count the hairs of the mane. What he was thinking about was how he could procure a bridla. His hands still grasped the hairs, which felt so smooth and strong that the lad decided to try and make a bridle out ol them. Wii>h his jackknife he succeeded in cutting off several strands, which he tied and twisted together in a clumsy fashion. A stick of crooked oak, whittled smoothly, served as a bit. Zeke looked with pride upon his odd pieces of harness, and he was delighted when Bob, responding to a pull of the r in, trotted off homeward. That night Zeke ate hig supper in pain in bed, but the str&ngc. adventure so worked upon his mind that it resulted in good. He appli <1 hims- 1 to his books, and now he is professor in ana of the best colleges of the country

Spiritualism to Be Investigated.

By the terms of the will of the late Henry Seybert, a rich and eccentric citizen of Philadelphia, the later years of whose life were absorbed in the vain effort to get at the truth of what is known as Spiritualism, a considerable legacy ($50,000) has been bequeathed to the university to found a professorship of intellectual and moral philosophy, with the proviso that the authorities shall undertake to make a thorough investigation of the phenomena of moj.era Spiritualism, and publish the evidence and the conclusions to which it leads. The university has accepted the bequest, and has appointed a committee of five members of its faculty to conduct the investigation. This committee comprises among its members the provost (an M. D.), and the professors of chemistry, social and anatomy, and a tutor, who is a clergy man.— PhrenolooC-'’ 1 Journal Ckun and effect are not well balanced. A man with a good CMueoften make little or do effect

No Fun Being President.

It is not an enjoyable treat sometimes to be the editor of a paper, and mould public opinion at so much per mould, and get complimentary tickets to the sleight-of-hand performances, but with its care and worry, its heartaches and apprehensions, it is more comforting on the whole than being President. When we were a boy, and sat in the front row among the pale-haired boys with checked gingham skirts at the Sun-day-school, and the teacher told us tc live uprightly and learn a hundred verses of the Scriptures each week so that wt could be President, we thought that unruffled, oalm, and universal approbation waited upon the man who successfully rose to be the executive of a great Nation. With years, and accumulated wisdom however, we have changed our mind. Now we sit at our desk and write burning words for the press that will live and keep warm long after ws are turned to dust and ashes. We write heavy editorials on the pork outlook. and sadly compose exhaustive treatises on the chinch-bug, while men in other walk. 4 ol life go out into the health-promoting mountains, and catch trout and woodticks. Our lot is not, perhaps, a joyous one. We swelter through the long July days with our suspenders hanging in limp festoons down over onr chair, whil/? we wield the death-dealing pen, but we. do not want to be President. Our salary is smaller, it is true, but when we get through our work in the middle of the night, and put on our plug hat and steal home through the allpervading darkness, we thank our stats, as we split the kindling and bed down the family mule, that on the morrow, although w'e may be licked by the man we wrote up to-day, our official record can not be attacked. There is a nameless joy that settles down upon us as we retire to our simple couch on the floor, and pull the cellar door over us to keep us warm, which the world can neither give nor take *way. We plod along, from day to day, slicing great wads of mental pabulum from our bulging intellect, never murmuring nor complaining when lawyers and physicians put on their broad brim chip hats and go out to the breezy canyons and the shady glens to regain their health. We just plug along from day to day, eating a hard boil id egg from one hand while we write a scathing criticism oa the sic transit gloria cucumber with the other. No, we do not crave the proud position of President, nor do we hanker to climb to an altitude where forty or fifty mil lions of civilized people can distinctly see whether we eat custard pie with a knife or not. Once in a while, however, in the still ncss of the night, we kick ths covers off, and moan in our dreams as we imagine that we are President, and we wake with the cold, damp sweat (or perspiration, as the case may be) standing out of every pore, only to find that we are not Presi dent after all, by an overwhelming ma jority, and w* get up and steal away ti the rainwatc barrel and take a drink, and go bach to a dieamless, suorelee 1 deep.— JLaranie Boomer tng. a member ol the Western New ivrk Farmers’ Club sprayed his orchard v. 'th a solution of parts green, to exterminate the canker-worm, and reports the apple aphis, which had formerly infest* ed his trees, had wholly disappeared.

Thebe is no excuse whatever for the slovenly appearance of many yards or lawns about the farmer’s home. It is not the sign of good farming, sincr carelessness in one place denotes very clearly carelessness in another.— Chico* go Journal. Turnips for Cows.—l have tried every way to destroy the flavor of turnips in milk, but without supcess. 1 have boiled it, fed the cows after milking, but it was all the .same —turnip flavor unmistakable—and as we do not like our butter so flavored, I only feed turnips when the cow is dry.— Mrs. G. Bourinol. Ottawa, Canada. The best Sewing Machine in the market is the Eldredge. Call at the residence of Mrs. J. W. McEwen. Agent, Rensselaer, Ind The surest evidence of the efficiency of Mr. and Mrs. Brewn as instructors in Art is the continual increase in the number of pupils.

Personal. Mr-N. H. Frohlichstein, of Mobile Ala., writes: I take great pleasure in recommending Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, having used it for a severe attack of Bronchitis and Catarrh: It gave me instant re* lief and entirely cured me and I have not been afflicted since. I also beg to state that I had tried other reme dies w ith no good result Have als ussd Electic Bitters and Di King New Life Pills, both of which I ca recommend. Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, is sold on a positive guarantee. Trial Bottles free at F. B. Me ver’ Drugstore. 11-211.

Judge Woods, of Indianapolis, yesterday, in the course of instructions asked for by the U. S. grand jury, substantially declared that Co*. Dudley could not be indicted on account of his letter proposing to buy up “floaters” in “blocks of Hvq” for the reason that, to make out.a case of comspiracy, it would be necessary to prove that Dudley’s advice had been acted upon. Hus declaration reverses a recently expressed judicial opinion by Judge Woods, audit seems t® be at once bad logie and bad Jaw.- Philadelphia Telegraph—republican.

Evansville Courier: The proofs of Dudley’s guilt were overwhelming. Indeed no one cared to deny it, because he praoticaHjhadmitted the authorship of the / ’nM»cks of five” lette \ But law-abi Aig citizens believed that he wijild be punished for his crime. That there was no law to punish him was preposterous. Judge Woods himself found the law and interpreted it in his first c arge to the gra- d jury so plainly and fairly that even thos who had feared his partisani»m blamed themselves for misjudging him. The day came, however, when the question of his indictment v ad to besettlod. He had threatened an explosiop of “dynamite” that vould create “a rattling among the drv bone s,” and ir was plain that his threat caused uneasiness in high quarters. Something had to be don®. He was known to be a bosom friend of Harrison, and it would be an awful thing for the president-elect to be involved in election frauds, especially for his own b nefit-r Dudley's : artner, W. A. Bateman, came to Indianapolis, had an interview with Harrison, saw Judge Woods in person, and “supplemental instructions,” by which Judge Woods’ original charge was completely reversed, was the result.

This is the whole shameless story, and it has stirred the country to the depths ,of indignation.— Dudley will probably go free, but horEst republicans are asking themselves seriously whether a victory associated with such instances of fraud and judicial partisanism was not too dearly bought. Such paltering with words ea this would scarcely be worthy of the shabbiest pettifogger who hangs around police- ourts, deriving his precarious existence from the filthy ooze of jails, Yet here is a man so lost to all sense of offl cial dignity as to adopt the disreputable functions of the most brazen “shyster” to save a scoundrel whos crimes have brought success, along with everlasting shame upon a political party, from the penitentiary. Because Judge Woods’ sophistries are not even ingenious enough to hide from view t eir apparent meaning, which is to assure Dudley and other republican wretches like him that the courts will stand between them and punishment so tbeir crimes result in republican victories.

Judge Woods says that he is supported in his views by one of the highest judicial authorities in the land. No documentary evidence of the truth of this state ment has been published. But it is natural that be should cower in the presence of the storm of in diguation now howling about his ears, and attempt to hide behind Justice Harlan’s gown. If his statement be true, however, se much the worse. For if Chief Justice Fuller and every member of the supreme bench should rati fy these “supplemental instruc tions, intelligent and honest peo pie would despise them none the less, and the highest tribunal of the land would have to share the obloquy and unspeakable abhor rence with which Judge Woods is now regarded.

THE DUDLEY MATTER.

Labor Signal: It is doubtful whether court annals present a more remarkable instance oi the subordination of law and justice to party exigencies than is found in the modification of his instruction

to the grand jury regarding elec tion fraud by J udge Woodss of the F< deral Cou t. In his original charge the Judge referred directly to Colonel Dudley’s “blocks of five” letter, and said: “The letter clause of the section makes any one guilty who counsels bribery. * * This clause makes it an offense for any one to advise another to attempt,to commit any of the offenses named in this section; so that while it is not a crime to make the attempt it is a crime to advise another to make the attempt. If k attempts to bribe B th*»t is no offense under the statute; but if A advises B to bril e C, then the one who commends or gives this advice is an offender under this law; and 1 wi'l say that f here is some wisdom in this provision.” Every good citizen commended the vigorous manner in whi<h Judge Woods referred to a transaction that had cast more odium upon the good name of the st te than the two-dollar bil 1 infwu’of 1880. It had I ' eviden' since the publication of Dudley’s Mtcr that every effort his friend ... md put fortii would bo exerted to shield the writer, an I when Mr Sellers resigned his. commission as prosecutor, friends of the boss boodler were jubilant, while lovers of justice and good government, were emazed and disheartened. - But Woods’ instructions were so clear and j osiive that the despondent regained confidence. The final appointment of ] udge Claypool was iiotiee served to Dudley and his colleagues that their illegal transactions in the last campaign would be probed to the very bottom, and straightway it became evident that something must be done to checkmate the abl prosecutor or Mr. Dudley would find limself with n the clutches of the aw. Judge Woods was equal to he emergency, and on Monday ast again instructed the grand ;ury, this time in a way which makes the indictment of Dudley next to impossible. He said: “It results, of course, that the mere sending, by another, of a letter or a document containing advice to bribe a voter, or setting forth a scheme for such bribery, however bold and repiehensible is not indictable. There must be shown in addition, an attempt by th • -eceiv' r of the letter or some other instigated by him to execute the scheme, by bribing or attempting to bribe some voter in respect to the election of congressmen, or such way as to effect such election. / “Another point deserves consideration in this connection. If th e view be adoj ted that advice not acted upon may constitute a crime, then the exact words used in giving the advice, whether oral or written, must be arcertained, and every poss ble intendment in favor of innocence must be allowed a d all doubts resolved in favor of the accused. It the use of money be advised but the particular purpose of ils use be not clearly and indeed conclusively indicated, a possible innocent use will be presumed; and even if the purpose to bribe be unquestionable and yet it appear. that the design to purchase votes for (ther officers than representatives in congress itwou d b® mo crime under the statute which is designed to protect the election for that office alone.”

It is onderstood that o large am’t of damaging evidence has been gathered, and that a bill against Dudley was almost assured when Mr. Judge Woods stepped in and kicked the matter <ut of court. — Much indignation is felt, and Ju ge Woods may prepare to take a position alongside of Dudley in the estimation of men in all parties who do not approve of Dudley methods. It might have added solemnity to the transaction had Woods closed the latest instruction with: “There, Mr. Dudley; if that does not save you, may the Lord have mercy on your soul!”

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