Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1889 — SCARED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCARED TO DEATH.

A H ealthy Kentucky Woman Succumbs to a Queer Case of Fright. Bellevue (Ky.) dispatch: The largest funeral seen here for years was that of Mrs. Angelo Rusconi, one of the riches* women in the State. She was frightened to death by a ghost. For some time ant “uncanny” visitor has appeared nightly in a room over Boro’s grocery and cfbwds gathered nightly to see It. Saturday night Mrs. Rusconi went to see the “ghost” She was very fleshy and was afflicted with a tumor. When suddenly the ghost appeared she fell dead; Last night a thorough investigation was made and it was found that the “ghost” is the reflection of an eleetrio light at the river landing.

Our neighbor says he does not b olieve in “the divine and unimpeachable right to buy where you can buy the cheapest,” and that “equitable rates” doesn’t mean “al s things being equal, give home institutions the preference. The term ‘Equity” seems to be a puz** zler to him. There have been five important failures in Pennsylvania within the past few weeks. One of the unfortunate men, John Lees, says his failure was “duejdirectly to an overstocked market, and indirectly due to the tariff on raw material.” Yet great is protection. The members of a Grand Armr •* post in Wisconsin have expelled General Bragg from the orderThere is nothing singular about this. The commander of the Iron Brigade was a redoubtable fighter, but he is a Democrat. The Republicans think a great deal more of a Republican Confederate guerilla than of a Democratic Union soldier. They love Mosby and hate Bragg. They do nut love soldiers for their ratriotism, but for their partisanship.

Ex u President Cleveland, in a letter announcing his inability t " respond to an invitation to be present at the tariff picnic held at Plattsburg, Miss' uri, sent a strong message of encouragement for the cause. “The tariff question,” he says, “is so deep and has so much to do with the welfare and happi** ness (f the American oeople, that its consideration ought not to be retained within the limits of party subserviency, and it will not be thus retained if it is nndsrstood.” To be thoroughly understood the tariff question must be explained to the people, and when this has been done thousands of men who are avowed protectionists will become converted. There are comparatively few people, ontside political circles, w o understand this momentous question or give it much thought. The Kansas City Star, in discussing the situation* says: “No false theory can stapd the test of practical experience. The results of protection have completely discredited the proph ecies that were made by its champions and advocates in the national campaign. The benefits which they predicted would follow a popular endorsement of the high tariff idea have failed to materialize. — Trusts have advanced the cost 01 all eommon necessities of life.— The tribute which they exact from consumers is the penalty which the people are paying for refusing to be brought earlier to a knowledge of the truth. Bu they are learning rapidly.” The farmers at Soringfield, last week, favored placing a tariff nn the luxuries instead of the necessities of life and want a gradual reduction of the tariff, wliieh will eventually lead to f/ee trade. They are tired of a system of protection which protects everything but the farmer and laborer. Tariff reform is the great need of the country, and the organization of Tariff .Reform Clubs everywhere is ihe proper way to enlighten *he voters of the country, irrespective of party, as to the pernicious effects of the high tariff policy. Let the move-, ment be inaugurated and carried on in every locality, with honest sincere men 11 the front.

And now our neighbor has “ocular evidence that the Indiana School Book Company is an organized and systematic fraud” —that the Indiana School Books, after all, are not printed by Van Antwerp, Bragg &Co in Cincinnati, tie has made this wonderful discovery? and now the d —'s to pay! “What a pity!” In the U. S. Court on Saturday Judge Woods overruled the peti - tion of Ivison, Blakeman <fc Co. for an injunction upon the Indianapolis board of school commissioners to restrain the introduction of the Indiana series of geographies in the city schools. The court held that there was no con tract pending between the school board and the petitioners for the use of +heir geographies in the city schools, and, in effect, that such a contract, if one had been entered into, would not have been binding. According to this decision none of the pretended contracts which the trust firms claim to hold with various school boards fhtoughout the state are of any validity, and the claim that the new law is unconstitutional, because it ; mpairstheol ligation of contracts is untenable, since there are, and can be, no contracts for it to affect.

Hon. S. S. Cox, of New Yerk> died at hie re idence in that city last Tuesday evening. Of him the Indianapolis Sentinel says: The announcement of 8. SCox’s death will be received with profound sorrow all over the country. A brighter, brainier, or more brilliant man never sat in the American congress, md a more lovable and attractive personality never was on earth. His fund of t.umor was inexhaustable, and it made him a universal fa. orite, but he was more than a joke-maker.— was a man of rare intellect and solid attainments. His scholarship was profound and varied. He was a broad statesman, an eloquent orator and a charming writer. He never touched any subject that he did not adorn. He was clever in the realm of poetry and humor, but equally so in the domain of political economy and the science of government. His versatility was phenomenal, and his industry prodigious. He was always a democrat, and no man in the party had deserved better of it acd of his country. He will be missed from the councils of tha nation i whic'i he had long been such an honorable and commanding figure as few public men of the day would be missed, and his memorj T will be cherished, not only as that of an honest man, a patriotic legislator and a wise statesman, but as recalling the ideal of tLe scholar and.gentlemanin politics.

Editor Sentinel: Please say that the Annual Tent meeting held in the interest of Christianity at large, and regardless oi denominational lines, is in progress, and much interest manifested by the best citizens of our place, and much good being done by the plain presentation of the doctrines of Scriptural Holiness and Bible Christianity. Elder Thomas has lost nothing in earnestness and vigor since with us before. Evangelist Parker brings a new fire force and power to which the old Tabernacle is quite unaccustomed. While Butler, with his undeniable arguments for future punishment proves tl e necessity of following with quick action the lines of practice laid down by the other two. Let us hope that the churchgoing community will keep up thair line of march Tabernacleward, and help on the good work of saving s a Is.

Whoever wrote thus got the whole truth down in a nutshell: “If you h-<ve a little farm or business, and ara out of debt, don't fret and work yourself and good wife into the grave tor the sake of making money. You have but one life to live and it is very brief at best. Take a little comfort and pleasure as you go along day bv day, and try to do a little good to others. A morbid, insatiate desire to possess the earth, to grab every - thing in sight, is at the foundation of more misery than almost any one thing. We.dth alone will never keep your memory green after you are gone—a good life and Lind action will.”