Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1889 — A Fresh Masculine Craze. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Fresh Masculine Craze.

The freshest masculine “craze” is the tailless dress-coat. It is just what the name describes —the regulation dresscoat, minus the claw-hammer finish. | The innovation is not followed on strictly full-dress occasions, such as weddings, large dinners, dances, and the like; but it is permissible for evening calls, operas, and even afternoon teas. Now the tailless coat has been known for some time abroad as the “Cowes coat;” but now that it is finding favor with us we distinguish it as the “Tuxedo.” The “Tuxedo,” which is similar to the dress-coat in front, but is otherwise the counterpart of the ordinary sackcoat, is made of fine ribbed black cloth; the rolled collar is of black silk, and there are three pockets without laps. With the “Tuxedo” is worn a black-satin necktie, a black or white low-cut vest, according to taste, aid a low hat, which is a requisite accompanii ment. —Table Talk.

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The school book act is in the hands of the Governor. The new election law also awaits the approval if t e Governor. Dudley refuses to swear that he did or did not write the “blocks of five” letter through fear that he May criminate himself. Tho State Senate has found it necessary to elect a pro tem presiding officer to occupy tho chair in the absence of the Lieut. Gov.> and thns prevent republican obstruction to legislation. ■ . ««» . If the Democrats carry the same states in 1892 that they n 1884, the new states, if they sho’d all go republican, cannot defeat them.

Thompson, s*uator, and Johnston, representative, from tkis senatorial and representative district, voted in the interest of the school book trmst. Th egrand jury has finished the investigation of the libel suits of Inspector Benfield, Capt. Schaack and Deteotive Lowenstein vs. the Chicago Times, and found “no bill.”

From the reported proeeedinge of the House, at Indianapolis, last Wednesday, we take it ths assault of Linek upon Mr. Willard was premeditated, brutal and cowardly. Linek has been suspended and fined $l5O.

The Indianapolis News (republican) says: reported statements of President Cleveland that he would be glad to retire from public office, may be tak j n as the truth coming from a man who must be very weary. The retiring President has been a busy man. In no sense brilliant, he*has been a hard worker, and his term of office has been four years of close applicacation. The social pleasures in whieh he has participated were the perfunctory ones of nis office, for he is not a man to care for society in any of its forms. Having been used to hard work all his life and possessing industrious habits, which were formed in the transaction of his own and public business through many years, he became one of the most diligent the eountry has ever had. The same indefatigable labor by a more brilliant man wo’d have been productive of beiter or more noticeable results, yet Mr. Cleveland has doubtless satisfied himself in the performances of his dutie , doing everything with the care of a man who has disciplined Li.-iGelf to carefully consider small as well as large affairs.— While belonging to a newer schosl of public men, the President is really of the old line of statesmen in his manner and method. As President he has stood as a model of the public man who, so far as strict attention to business is concerned, has eonsidered his office a public trust.” Notwithstanding the persistent opposition of one branch of Congress to the polioies of the President, and its power and will to defeat them, it is a great pity Mr. Cleveland didn’t do something extrordinary in order to establish his •laims to “brilliancy” according to the conceptions ®f the News and it* ilk.

The Indianapolis Sun: In a few days there will retire from a high pnblio office a man who deserves the sympathy as well as the respect of every American citizen irrespective of party. He comes from a long line of illustrious ancestry, and is himself a statesman. He is Thomas Franeis Bayard, of Delaware. True his conduct as Secretary of State has been criticized py partisan papers. He is a man of peace. His enemies and lukewarm friends objected to this. — They desired that he pat on the swagger and braggadoeia so characteristic of bantam statesmen, and because he did not do so, he was made the object of indecent attacks. The fact remains, however, that during his four years of service as premier secretary Bayard has conducted well the foreign buiiness of the country, and no man can point to neglect or lack of promptness on his part in protecting the interests of American citizens abroad. He had many entanglements to ..nravel, and many questions of national concern to settle, and in all he preserved the dignity of his country and the credit of its people. He accomplished this not by rushing into wile talk of war and sanguinary conflict, but by the weapons of statesmaeship. Republics are not strengthened by constant conflicts at arms, and their people are not benefited by wars. To monarchies no such means of preservation belong. r he power and strength of the republic rests in its statesmanship. That statesmanship should be for peaee firat, and war as a last resort. That was Bayard’s idea, and he carried it thro’out his cabinet faieer. Bowed down by domestic afflictions, railed at by his party enemies, denounced by his political opponents he has not wavered from the course he marked out, and the time will come when the people will recognize that, in the history that secretary Bayard has made, there entered the true elements of lofty statesmanship. Above and beyond all else, they will reoognize that, on taking his high office, he so i got that he was % partisan, and labored for the good of all the people and the honor of his country.

Mr. Bayard’s successor will be one J ames G. Blaine, a blusterer and known corruptionist. A well-known physician of tkis city, fading himself rather “out of sorts,” determined to c usult some «f his medical brethren on the subject, fer few pkysioians like to trusrjthim selves with thdmselves. He accordingly called upon fire eminent members ®f th® facnlty in succession, a d it is a fact tkat sack oho of them gave a different opinion as to the aaturo of his disorder and recommended a different mode of ireatment. It i his own belief that they were all wreng.— New York Ledger.

A disgruntled Georj iaa says that with a muatard plaster aad two green flies he eaa reproduce the climate of Florida.—Atlanta Constitution.