Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1889 — Page 8

A VALUABLE FIND.

A Hundred-Pound Lump of Ambergris Picked Up at Sea. The schooner Fannie Lewis, belonging to Lewis, Chase & Whitten, which arrived to-day says a Portland (Me.) dispatch to the Boston Globe, brought in a rare cargc. iVhile off Monhegan Cap • tain Henderson, who was sit - ting at the masthead, suddenly saw something white floating on the water. Moved by an impulse, he shouted to the helmsman to keep her off. As soon as he was on deck he regretted givihg the order, but concluded to run down and see what the object was. A dory was lowered; and several of the crew jumped in and pulled for the object, which seemed to be a mass of dough. The men smelt of it and set out to return and leave it, but at lasi concluded to take it to the vessel. On board, one of the seamen at once pronounced it ambergris. It was carefully put away in a barrel, which it twothirds filled, and on arriving at the port the owners were told the good news. Several experiments were at once made to see if it was really ambergris,and the result seem ed to t how that it was without • doubt. Samples were sent to New York and also to Cumming of this city, to be tested. The substance has a peculiar, penetrating odor and much resembles wax It will melt in the flame of a candle, but will not run like grease would. It is in making the finest kinds of perfume and retails for about S3O an ounce. The mass weighs 100 pound and therefore it would be worth a matter of $25,000. This sum will be divided in the same manner that fish wo’d be, the owners of the vessel taking half, and the crew, of which there are fifteen, taking the other hall. Eight or nine hundred dollars apiece will pay the men very well for a short trip and will do much toward counterbalancing the losses occasioned by the scarcity of mackerel. No Worse than the Democrats, Eh?—ln the art of decapitation Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson exhibits a skill which only long practice can give. With great frankness and just a flavor of ghoulish glee in his voice he declares that during the last five months he has turned out about 15,000 office-holders. That is to say, an average of 100 per day including Sundays and stormy weather. From the standpoint of an implacable partisanship this is a remarkably good record. If from aimerely patriotic point of view it does not seem creditable the reply ; s that Clarkson y as not thinking of patriotism, but of party. Patriotism has its place—before election. It serves to decoy the groundlings. But after the election the Republican boss has something better to attend to—namely, the perquisites. Lowell describes him to the life in the lines— A ginooing statesman should be on his guard, Es he must have beliefs nut b’lieve ’em *oo hard. Mr. Clarkson naively remarks that he is no worse than his Democratic predecessor. We may be excused, perhaps, if we smile at this chaste and eloquent statement. The Republicans have de nounced the Democratic party as venial and corrupt. Last autumn they affirmed on their honor— that is, on the remnant that remains—that the country was going to cne everlast ing smash. They gave the public the impression that they were themselves angels just arrived from the new Jerusalem and that they proposed to hang their white wings on a peg for four years and i. ♦

save this republic—unless it should perchance be too late—from Democratic ravages by the strict Ji mpartial and rigid enforcement of the civil service law. That was the “holt” on the community. TJ eir pledges fell thick and fast until the country was knee deepen them They even resorted to the wholesale purchase of votes in order that they might get into power at once and begin the evangelical work of setting the business of the country on its feet and purifying its politics. And now Clarkson offers as e n excuse for his course that he isn’t any worse tt an the Democrats. In one breath he curses the Democratic party as a horde of spoilsmen, grows red in the face as invectives follow each other in hot succession, and in the next breath coolly informs us that Le is a spoilsman also, just like those horirdly wicked Democrats. Mr. Harrison enjoys his respite at Deer Park and smiles as he hears the dull thud of official neads dropping into the basket. Mr. Blaine listens in the calm retreat of Bar Harbor to what the wild waves are saying and the falling heads have a sweeter sound than a symphony of Beethoven. Down through the circumambient ether come two other lines of Lowell which seem fitted to the occasion:— A merciful Providence fashioned us holler O’ purpose that we might our principles swaller. Well, 4t is just as we supposed. A Republican has great moral ideas, but is ready at all times to swap them for office They are his capital in trade. He may have a conscience, but it is active only when there is nothing within reach. He believes in protection because it cieatesa class ot mon opolists who willingly shed their dollars for a continuance of the policy which enabled them to make other millions by crowding small traders to the wall and killing competition. . He grows wroth at the indig’ nity done to the negro, but his philanthropy has the smell of the ballot box. The right and wrong of the matter be hanged If the negro votes the Republican ticket he is a man

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