Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — Page 7

A ROMANTIC CAREER.

How a Son Succeeded to the Estates of His Father. Truth is stranger than fiction. With the advances made by science the ideal •wonders of past ages vanish, and with the bringing to light of buried records the romances of novelists grow tame. A case in point is that of Anglesey versus Anglesey, which was tried in the Dublin Court of Exchequer in 1743, and which occupied fourteen days in its hearing. The claimant was James Annesley, who assumed the title of Earl of Anglesey and claimed the Anglesey estates. The most remarkable evidence ever heard in a court of justice was given in this case. In 1714 Lord, and Lady Altham were residing in Dublin and the latter gave birth to a son. Lord Altham wished to dispose of the boy—his only direct heir —in order to borrow large sums of money on his entailed estates, for my lord was an extravagant peer. He commenced by ill-treating his wife, until she fled for protection to her father, the Duke of Buckingham. He then sent his son away to a country village, and had letters fabricated announcing that unwelcome little fellow’s untimely death. But the boy did not die. His father quit sending money for his maintenance, and his foster-parents abused him so badly that he finally ran away, and after tramping about the country for months found himself in Dublin. He had very shady ideas of his identity, but called himself James Annesley. Once, while running about the streets begging, he fell in with some friends of his uncle, through whom he was introduced to that gentleman. This uncle was heir presumptive to the title and estates of his elder brother and lost no time in getting rid of thfe true heir. H® htd him shipped to this country, as an illegitimate son, and the boy was sold and resold among the rich planters of the South. Erom overwork on one of the plantations he was taken sick and ■was brought to his master’s house to be nursed. Here he fell in love with his employer’s daughter, who accepted and encouraged his intentions. Unfortunately an Iroquois slave also fell jn love witli James, and assaulted his other sweetheart so viciously that her life was in danger. This led to the “young baron” being sold to another master. Further adventures befell him, for he detected his mistress in a scheme of elopement and robbery, reported the discovery to his master, and got nearly killed for his trouble. He ran away to Jamaica, where he secured passage for home on a man-of-war. Arrived at Dublin, his old nurse recognized him, and said if he were the heir lie had a peculiar mark on his left hip. The mark was there, and after other evidence was produced the question of his identity was clearly established. He accepted the estates, but refused the title, and through the bigamy of his dishonest uncle the title was soon afterward declared extinct.

Philanthropy a Big Thing Sometimes.

“Ha, ha !” said Bob, throwing down his morning paper. “What struck you?” asked Frank. “Oh, an item that I read.” “What was it ?” “That one,” pointing to one which chronicled how a farmer in Kansas set out three miles of peach trees iu the fence corners of his farmer, so that the hungry and thirsty travelers should have something* to eat as they drove along. “Well, there is nothing to smile at in that,” said Frank. “No.” ““Of course not. I think it betokens a kind heart in the breast of the old farmer.” “A kind heart? Yes. But not a sound head. It reminds me of a similar case by an old Ohio crank when I was a boy. He did the same thing, only on a smaller scale. His farm had a road on the north and west side—altogether about a mile and a half. The trees set out were alternately an apple, a peach, and a cherry. I tell you he anticipated giving the traveler a bonanza while going bv his place.” “Yes?” “But it didn’t work.” “Why not?” “Weil, I was a poor devil in those days, and had to do anything to turn a penny, honest or otherwise.” '“Well?” “I formed a partnership -with a fruit -dealer in town, and picked nearly all die fruit at night, and carried it in and sold it in shares. Made about fifty dollars on the transaction, and had the fun into the bargain. Oh, I tell you this philanthropic racket is a big thing sonletimes —for somebody. Yes, the travelers got left.” — Wasp.

Humor of an Irish Land Agent.

The sense of humor never deserts an Irishman, and constantly relieves his darkest hours. It would not be easy to discover a life more full of anxiety at the present time than that of the Irish land agent, honestly desirous of holding the balance justly. His life is somewhat that of the Galilean publican tempered w ith the dread of assassination, yet few men are brighter companions. Not a hundred miles from Kenmare resides, perhaps, the best known land agent in Ireland. Finn, shrewd, intelligent, just and kindly, ■withal the best pistol shot and bicycle rider in County Kerry. It is told of him that at a critical moment, when the tenants on a certain estate were hesitating as to the adoption of the plan of campaign, he desired them to assemble for conference at his office. When they arrived he was riding his bicycle round a ring, and at the pa« 4

of twenty miles an hour was, with unerring aim, smashing bottles with his revolver: he came in, wiped his brow, laid his smoking revolver on the table, remarking: “Well, boys?” “I think we had better pay, yer honor,” was the reply. Upon a certain occasion he met Killarney, an equally detested land agent from Clare. “What, H.,” he playfully remarked, “not shot yet ?” “No, T., bedad it’s safe enough I am,” was the retort ; “I’ve towld the boys that if I’m shot you’ll be appointed land agent in me } Jace, and there’s not a boy in Clare ’nd touch a hair of me head.”

A Wildcat’s Awful Leap.

“I’ve seen it disputed in the papers that a wildcat, or a catamount, can make a leap of twenty-five feet,” said a resident of Sullivan county to a New York Sun man, “and I would like to mention what I saw a wildcat do once. I was trout fishing on one of the upper tributaries of the Beaverkill and had clambered down into a deep ravine to get at a tempting pool at the foot of a fall, where I was sure my casts would be rewarded by the killing of some big trout. I was not mistaked as to that. I had landed four trout, the smallest one eighteen inches long, and sat down to ‘rest the pool.’ Both sides of the ravine ■were perpendicular walls of rock, probably twenty-five feet high. The summit of the wall on the side of the creek opposite to me sloped back gradually from its edge for several feet to a heavy growth of pine. “As I was sitting at the bottom of the ravine I happened to glance up to the top of the rocks opposite me and saw a hen pheasant, accompanied by her newly hatched brood, come out of the pines and scratch and peck her way along the sloping open space, hunting food for her young, which clustered closely about her. The pheasant came very close to the precipice, and it seemed to me that she was placing her brood in a most dangerous position when she turned as if to walk back with them to the pines. The instant she turned something like a shadow flitted across the top of the ravine, and half a second later I saw an enormous wildcat clinging to the edge of the opposite wall by its fore-feet, holding the pheasant between its jaws. The wildcat struggled for a moment to drag himself from the edge of the abyss to a sure footing on the top of the rocks, but his effort was in vain, and he came crashing down the face of the precipice still holding the luckless pheasant in his jaws. He fell with a splash in the water and lay motionless at the edge of the pool. “I supposed that the animal had been watching the pheasant from the bushes on top of the rocks opposite where the bird had appeared with her brood, and at his opportunity had leaped across to seize her, but had misjudged the distance, a.<d fallen short with the result so fatal to him, “The whirl of the water brought the wildcat around in a short time to the side where I was standing, and as I was bending down to examine him I saw a man with a gun scrambling dow n the rocks. The man soon reached my side, and then I learned that he had shot the wildcat as the animal was flying across the chasm upon his prey. Sure enough, just at the base of the animal’s brain was the hole made by the rifle ball. The hunter had been following the w ildcat for some time, and had lost track of him, but came near the edge of the ravine in time to see him make his leap and follow’ him with the bullet. It was that which had stopped the animal short in the tremendous leap it had calculated on, or it would hav6 cleared the space with safety and doubtless with ease. The wildcat was in reality almost in his death tlrroes when he struck the pheasant, which he had clung to with the clutch of death, and still held in his mouth w’hen we dragged him out of the water. We measured the width of the chasm across which the wildcat had made his -death leap. The measurement was lorty-three feet.”

Funny Mistakes.

The blunders >and misstatements of traveling journalists have furnished the small “wits” of society with many a threadbare joke, writes David Ker in Harper's Weekly., .and they have certainly some cause to smile when a man pronounces authoritatively upon the state of a country which he has just entered for the first time, or begins a letter with “Emit intelligent native with, whom I have conversed,” after exchanging a dozen words with two half-caste storekeepers and a native groom. I shall not easily forget how one <®f my brother correspondents in the East eloqtoently prophesied a time when every market of western Europe should be filled with “the preserved fruit stored in the ikhans .of Tart ary, and the rich fleeees sheared from the great lama of Thibet,” or how another, indistinctly overhearing some mention of the British wounded being carried away by a doolie (ambulance litter), began his next letter with a thrilling account (A '“the ferocionas doolie swooping down upon the battle-field and carrying off the helpless wounded.”

That Settled It,

“That settles it,” said a prisoner whom his Honor sentenced to the work house for sixty days the other morning. “Settles what?” asked the officer to whom the remark was addressed. “I have been troubled in my mind whether to go down to Long Branch or up to Mackinac this summer. Now I won’t have to go to either.”— Detroit Free Press.

The Philosophy of Tears.

I was in company the other day with my friend, the professor of chemistry, and being in a reflective mood I chanced to say: “Professor, tears are a curious thing.” “By no means,” replied hej promptly. “Their composition is quite simple; about ninety-eight parts water and two parts salt, albumen and mucus. I did not pursue the conversation, but thought, without sayiog«Bo, that if tears are not a curious thing a professor of chemistry certainly is. I happened a few days after to repeat the conversation to our professor of physiologv, w ho, bringing his superciliary muscles into play, said: “Simple as it may appear to Dr. Atom, the genesis of tears is quite a complex process, and they have multiple mechanical functions. They are secreted by the lachrymal gland and partly by the orbicularis canal and thence into the eye, which they flood, and thus effectuate detersion, facilitate the movement of the eyeball, and preserve the transparency of the so-called cornea.”

I could only respond: “I dare say, all you tell me is very wonderful and very complex, but how on earth do the little babies learn to cry so early and so well ?” I did not tell him that I did not comprehend a word he had uttered, and hence the wonder—omne ignotum pro magnifico. Much less did I reveal what was passing in my mind. It next occurred to me to find out what the poets say about tears. They travel from earth to heaven very rapidly, in a daring, desultory way, and always through mists and clouds, seeing things very indistinctly, and rarely telling the truth about w’hat they do see. Here is a definition of tears that we can accept without aversion—tears are the bright, bodily form of feeling. The poet does not tell us that when we W’eep we are doing nothing more than secreting a mucous fluid by means of the lachrymal gland. He feels bound, however, to state the fact that tears are not more pure than dewdrops. The whole truth would have been that they are not as pure by a good deal. Perhaps Mr. Bailey did not know that they contained mucus, albumen, and salt. We wish we did not possess the uncomfortable information. We shall never again be able to kiss the tears from her cheek with the same relish we once did.—Atlanta.

Hale and Hearty in Old Age.

What is more beautiful than an ancient tree clothed with an ample robe of verdure? Apt is the comparison between such a growth and an old man or woman infused with health and vigor. The sine qua non, the indispensable condition o' vigorous youth, robust manhood and a virile old age, is sound digestion. Without this life is shorn of the hearty zest that should attend it. No more beneficent and agreeable contributor to the attainment of a hale old age, and efficient means of counteracting the infirmities that too often attend life’s decline, can be found than Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Dyspeptic symptoms, a tendency to kidney complaint, nervous inquietude and rheumatic trouble are overcome by its use. The effects of exposure and oyer-work are nullified by it, and it affords efficient protection to all subjected to malarial influences. Give it a thorough trial.

Unintentional Offense.

Want of thought, not want of heart, occasions many of the evils of this life, It is doubtless because it is a little troublesome to word a phrase differently from the form in w hich it crudely presents itself to the mind that so many persons acquire the unfortunate habit of unwittingly offending their friends. A little careful study of the mode in which a disagreeable remark can be made positively palatable will be found a most useful accomplishment. Such a study, so far from checking, as might be supposed, that spontaneous expression of feeling which some value so highly will be found, on the contrary, after a little, to have increased the tone and suppleness of those who practice the art, and to liave become as facile a habit as the expression of the more outspoken, unvarnished truth. It is the wit and polish of the man or woman of the world which enables so many malicious little remarks to be uttered in a tone of such exquisite breeding as to render it impossible for offense to be taken. Then why not expend as much thought upon the smoothing over of disagreeable truths which should be spoken for the benefit of all those concerned ?

There is a man in our town And he is very wise, sir. When e’er he doesn’t feel just right One remedy he tries, sir. It's just the thing to take in spring The blood to purify, He tells his friends, and nothing else Is he induced to try ; because, having taken Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to cleanse his system, tone it up, and enrich the blood, and linding that it always produces the desired result, he considers that it would be foolish to experiment with anything else. His motto is. “Prove all thingsand hold fast to that which is good.” That’s why he pins his faith to the “Golden Medical Discovery.” Walking advertisements for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Are the thousands it has cured.

A Dubious Recommendation.

Husband—That new girl looks as if she had a violent temper. In fact, I should take her for a regular fury. Wife—l didn’t like her looks, but she handed me this recommendation from some one she had worked for. It says she is “very honest and easy to get along with.” Husband (examining the note) — Humph! This note is signed by John L. Sullivan.— Few York Weekly. When everything appears unusually fresh we say the season is forward, and when a person is unusually forward we say he is too fresh.

The Gravestone’s Inscription.

“How romantic,” quoth a sentimental lady from Boston, as a turn in one of the loveliest country roads in Kennebec County brought to her view a charming scenic vista with a sort of impromptu cemetery in the background. “There may lie together the children of some grief-stricken father, cut off perhaps all at once by a furious epidemic. His warm heart could not intrust his dear ones to the oold earth of a common graveyard, where the percolating waters might mingle their clay with that of those less pure than they. How touching to bury them alone by the roadside where even the most wicked passer-by may profit by their pure example. Let me alight and read the pathetic inscription w hich records their fate.” And brushing away her tears she read through her gold-bowed eyeglasses the following touching legend: “These stones are samples made by the Get There Granite Company, who are prepared to fill all orders with neatness a,nd dispatch. A few misfit gravestones at a bargain.”—Augwata Journal. Many industries having been established in the South, particularly at the rapidly growing city of Florence, Ala., the Chicago and Eastern Illinois (Evansville Home) has decided to run five personally conducted excursion trains as follows: August 6 and 20, Sept. 10 and 24, and Oet. 8. All the railroads in the Northwest have agreed to sell for those dates excursion tickets to points in Tennessee, Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana at one lowest first-class faro for the round trip. Tickets will be good rot turning thirty days. Persons desiring to join these excursions can obtain full particulars by writing to J. B. Morrell, Traveling Agent C. & E. I. R. 11., 501 First National Bank Building, Chicago, or (jo William Hill, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.

He Didn’t Talk Shop.

“What is your occupation, Mr. Wagner ?” asked the landlady of the new boarder. “I am the funny man on the Sunday Bugle,” was his reply. “It would be just as well, I suppose,” said the good woman, “to show you our rules before you engage board with us permanently.” And she handed him a card on which were printed the following : “1. When spring chicken is brought to the tableno reference to car-springs, the spring Noah went on an excursion, etc., will be permitted. “2. Any boarder who indulges in wild hilarity on finding a bean in his soup will be instantly expelled. “3. Remarks upon the cheapness of corrosive sublimate are prohibited, especially at the breakfast table.” The young man scanned the “rules” carefully and cheerfully remarked, “Oh, that’s all right, Mrs. Hashcroft. I never do talk shop.”— Terre Haute Express.

This is the age of wonders, and the average American citizen is no longer surprised at anything. If you want to experience that sensation, however, just write to B. F. Johnson & Co.. 10119 Main St., Richmond, Va., and hear what they have got to sav of the success of some of their agents. They have got the goods that sell, and any one out of employment will consult their own interests by applying to them. Thebe is in existence a curious class of knives, of the sixteenth century, the blades of which have on one side the musical notes to the benediction of the table, or grace before meat, and on Ihe other side the grace after meat. The set of these knives usually consisted of four. They were kept in an upright case of stamped leather, and were placed before the singer. You don’t have to take our word for the good quality of Dobbins’ Electric Soap. Just get one Oar ot your grocer, and let it tell you its own story next Jfoztdatz, and be go'y-rned by that, good or bad. Another American product in a foreign market —Hay sent to Russia.

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