Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1890 — POLITICIANS SHOULD MARRF. [ARTICLE]

POLITICIANS SHOULD MARRF.

Success Often Crown* the Man Who Haa a Sensible Wife. In an interview with Colonel C. M Woodcock a Nashville American reporter asked if a politician ought to "marry, "That is the very first thing he has got to do,” was the ‘•No man can hope to fill one ortho higher offices successfully without the aid of a wife. Take John A. Logan, for instance. He was one of those good-hearted, clever sort of fellows, but he didn’t know everything. His wife did. She was full of social magnetism that attracts. She was up on every point of diplomacy. Her information was thorough, broad and at ready command Logan’s political success was more his wife’s doing than his own. Harrison is the same way. All that austerity of demeanor which characterised him in his official relations wears off in his wife’s presence and he becomes the most genial of men. Blaine is an exception. He has the social attraction in himself. Yes, sir, the young politician must have a wife. She will save him from more expenses than when he has only the expenses of one to pay, and besides she will prove his best political ally in a thousand emergencies.” hi ».r,iu?niuerert Too Jbate, During the shower the other man was passing up State witt an umbrella over his head, says tht Detroit Free Press, when a stepped out of a doorway grasped th< handle, and said: "I’ve been laying for yeu for a month! I cla|jn this is my proparty. * “Ah! exactly—l see!” stammered the other, and he surrendered it without protest or struggle and bolted so» a doorway, while the other walked oft s ‘Was it a stolen one?” queried a Tian who had witnessed the affair. “Well—er—well, I suppose I picked it up somewhere,” He stood looking after the umbrellt for a minute or two, a sad expression mi his face, and then suddenly uttered a great oath and slapped his leg. “What is it?” asked his companion. “By the big spoon, but what a fool I wai. I now remember that I stole that umbrella in New Orleans a yeai ago and that fallow could nave had •4 aiwht to W*