Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — HOW IT WORKS. [ARTICLE]

HOW IT WORKS.

Calvin S. Brice lias been elected United States Senator by the Democratic legislature of Ohio. The Republican last week copied from the Hammond Tribune (a Republican paper with which Horace E. James is now connected) an article from the pen of Mr. James, concerning Gen. Milroy and one Gideon C. Moody. He says: “Gen. Milroy had been a a f alwart Democrat” * * “that when Oliver P. Morton, Alvin P. Hovey and others of the same stamp of character determined to leave the Democratic party, Milroy did the same, * * . Soon after the presidential election of 1860 Milroy became satisfied that an attempt would be made to put into force the fierce threats of se~ <I6BBIOO that were freely breathed by the southern wing of tl e Democratic party aud their sympathizers at the North. At t this period Milroy lived in Rensselaer, the county sea’ of Jaspei countv, and was engaged in the practice of law. Rensselaer contained a population of perhaps 500 people at that tim°,. the inhabitants being intelligent and patriotic. ' (Excepting, we presume, the aforenamed “sympathizers’?) ‘They had organized a mock congress whose weekly debates attracted people from many miles distant. Gen. Milroy and Hon. Gideon C. Moody, at present a TT. S. Senator from South Dako-

ta, were conspicuous members of the society. It was comparatively easy for Milroy, Moody and others to organize the nucleue of a milis tary company,” etc. No person disputes the courage of Milroy, but the effort of James to boost Moody, in the face of records which show him to have been dismissed for the gjqd of the public service, is lost. Then, again, James’ allusion to “sympathizers at the North” is, to say the least, false, and unkind to* ward a few who not long since believed they had thoroughly ocn-> vei ted him from his political errors. It aloo brings to mind the old proverb of “the sow returning to its wallow.”

On a certain quantity of imported ribbon the customs officials have for a long time been collecting 50 cents duty, and ths supreme court of the United States has decided that the rate ot duty should be 20 cents in dead of 50 cents, and nrdered the over charges that have been collected refunded. Under this order John Wanamaker, the prince merchant of Philadelphia, and at present postmaster generalput in his claim for $500,000 and he will receive that amount of funded duty. Now the, question is—is he en> titled to it. True, as an importer Le paid it in the first instance, out he immediately added it to the price pf the ribbon and the consumer who bought the ribbon aud ware it out paid the bill, duty and So Wanamaker is out nothing and has a profit already on his siMoo. Now he comes in for the - duty which belongs in to every consumer who a yard of that ribbon, l&tfi aoamaker gets it and the imis the bill. It is a chil - I^<&s’ John gets left. Why dloulH* Hp Iwive ne penny of that -MH'fvidP Who will tell?— J formal

Attorney General Miller’s re- | markably prompt report to the Senate , in compliance with the resolution calling upon him for in- : formation regarding tbe instructions given by the department cf ( justice to the Indiana district at- i torney, relating to the bloeks-of-five case, shows vjry strange indifference on the part of the administration, where,»if there were proper appreiation of the demands of justice, regardless of personal or political considerations, there should have been more than ordinary zeal and effo t When Sim Coy and a number of Democratic politicians were indicted in the Indiana district court for a political conspiracy of local effort, the attorney general, then a member of the party to which Coy belong ed, gave the district prosecuting officers lull and Sequent instructions regarding the case. It has been supposed that,{in the blcks-of-five case, in which was contemplated one of the most infamous attempts at wholesale corruption ever knewn, the department of justice had been, if not equally, as alert and zealous as in the Coy ca c e, at least in correspondence w th the chief officers as to their important duths. The attorney genersi, however, says that the department of justice has given absolutely no advice or orders in regard to the case. The attorney general’s indifference is certainly remarkable. It is a |ki d of indifference that looks very much like delibeiate neglect of duty When the Indiana district attorney went so far as to decl°re, in an interview published in the Republican Siate organ, that he saw nothing wrong or dishonorab c in that brib?ry“Counßelling blocks of five let er, for which he should have been iustantly removed from office —then, surely, was a time when the attorney general should have addressed a letter of reprimand or at least ca .tion so his subordinate for evincing such shameless lack of settee of right and disregard of the demands of justice. Prove: - bially, silence is interpreted as as sent. Can this be true of the attorney general? Another phase of the blocks-of five infamy which doesjnot favorably impress one who is not in sympathy with it, is the rejoicing of the Republican newspapers ov » the Edmunds speech and Rip thwarting of the proposed investigation. They appear to find great satisfaction in the showing of political immorality in Democratic campaign methods, and a circular suggesting bribery, purporting to have been issued by N. A. WMttaker, of Moigan county, is specially pointed to as an offset toths blocks-of-five letter. The circular is in violation of State laws, and tfie author of it certainly should be punished. It was issued in a Republican county by, as alleged, a’Democrat. The Republican court officials surely ought to be able, by proper effort, to bring the author to trial, and have him punished as the law provides. —lndianapolis News, reput lican.

Of course what has boen done by the Republican department of justice, and the administration, in the obstruction of law in the Dudley case, has at no time been made a matter of record. Quay interfered by verbal process. Harrison did the and immediately on his return to ashington Dudley was assured he could visit Indianapolis without sea • of molestation. He visited Indianapolis, and a warrant was sworn out for his arrest, but a verbal order from the republican U. S. attorney prevented its service.

While many are suffering, really or in imagination, with the ‘grippe,’ it may out of place to remind suchj <r ti.ose who may bejoxpeeting an attack,Jthat, as the first symptom is a chill, wh th°r noticed or not, th patient should tike a hot bath, hot pack, or even a thorough foot-bath, then retire io bed to sweat, but which should first show itself on the face befo; • he comes out of the bath; and, tee, whll a in it the water should be ke; s warm; or if in a pack, one hot sheet after another should be placed m the first one until the persDiration appears. Then, after he ip in bed and the sweating has ceased and' an inflamed condition of the lungs | developed, which is indicated bv a \ difficult breathing and pain in the | stomach, a oold, wet cloth should

be laid on tbe stomach covered ! with a dry one, and take* off every j hour or two rinsed in clean w ater,! ana then returned to its pUee. j After this treatment has beenfol - lowed a few hours it can be substituted by a*' nion poultice, and which is thought by some to be better by frying tne onions in bacon grease ;or the poultice can be used at first instead of the we‘ cloth; yet the cloth is a thorough remedy for ever in the stomach. Th s treatment wiii prevent what is ea led pneumonia. It will Have the same effect in drawing t; e fever from tae stomach and lunas as a cold bath has in di awing seer, or the poison, that produces it, from all the vitals aud the whole body. A few hours of such treatment will relieve any one who may be suffering from the present dreadod grippe or influenza