Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — Good Story on Ingersoll. [ARTICLE]

Good Story on Ingersoll.

Col. Ilobt. G. Ingorsoll would never be suspected of being a respecter of persons, for be has such a free and easy way of discoursing upon religious matters. His legal protege was Judge Puterbaugh, then a Judge of the Circuit Court at Peoria, 111. Upon one occasion, while the Judge was engaged in lining a spectator for contempt of court, lngersoll offered some gratuitious advice which w«s resented with some show of indignation. Ingersoll retaliated by hinting that when the court was fishing in a polit cal way after the ermine he had not been so chary about accepting advice. This warmed the old man up in e irnest, and he at once imposed upon the presumptuous advocate a fine of $lO and costs. Ingersoll fumbled in his pockets for a moment, then walked up to the bar with outstretched hand and said: “Puterbaugh, lend me $10.” The stern expression of the court never relaxed for an instant. Turning to the clerk, he said: “Mr. Clerk, let the record show that Mr Ingersoll’s fine is remitted. Peoria County can better affor l to lose $lO than I can.” —New York Herald.

Not many Eastern people, unless they are acquainted with the forests of the Mississippi Valley, and more especially those found on the higher Allegheny Mountains, know what a really large hickory tree is. The shellbarks of Southern Indiana are sometimes 150 feet tall, with trunks four or five feet in diameter, and bare of limbs for seventy or eighty feet, and even larger trees can be found in the still almost untotxched forests of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. But these large trees are doomed, and before many years have passed every hickory tree of sufficient size and proper quality will have been sacrificed to supply the ever-increasing demand for the wood. An authorized memorial volume, containing the life, writings, and speeches of the late Henry W. Grady, compiled by his co-workers on the Atlanta Constitution, and edited&jr Joel Chandler Harris, will he published by Cassell & Co.