Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1890 — An Uawritten Romance. [ARTICLE]

An Uawritten Romance.

Wanamakeb, I. T., lias a colored lady postmaster. In St. Louis there are do basements used as stores, restaurants or saloons. There are thirty-one millionaires in Denver, and thirty-three men worth, on the average, $500,000 each. Count Ton Moltke’s coat of arms consists of three white doves on a shield. This is very pacific for a man of war. In fourteen States of this country ■women may vote for municipal officers and at school elections, and in some of them hold office in school districts. There is a great wave of juvenile crime in New York City just now. Some philosophers attribute it to the fact that so many children are out of school. Cincinnati is a wire center, and claims to make among other things 20.000 bird cages, 25,000 rat traps, 120,000 flv traps and 360.000 sieves annuallv. It is a big industry. It is reported that Boston, Galveston and California p arties have secured a grant of 10,500,000 acre* of land in Senora, Mexico, upon which they propose to place colonies of Europeans. A Maine girl, finding it inconvenient to carry chewing gum xrith her, established stations in various parts of the town, where she sticks her quids. One is in a dry-goods store, one in the church choir, one in her own dining-room, one at a school, and soon. The Canadian who offered to take murderer Birchall’s place on the gallows for SIO,OOO seems to be a firm believer in the doctrine of vicarious atonement. Unhappily for Mr. Birchall, the Canadian authorities have not yet adopted that article of faith. Great disappointment is expressed in naval circles at the remarkable loss of speed exhibited by our ocean cruisers. The Baltimore Averaged only seven knots an hour on her visit to Sweden, and on a run from Hawaii to the Pacific coast the Charleston barely made eight knots. The smallest division of money in Montana is a “bit,” “Two bits” make a quarter, which purchases a drink of whisky and a cigar. Higher wages are paid there for unskilled labor than in any other State, but there is enough gambling and drinking prevalent to offset the increase in wages. Every sensible man, who has the means and opportunity, recuperates himself by frequent pauses for recreation He does not defer his period of pleasure until the closing months of a worn-out life. He is too wise to expect impossibilities of nature—the recuperation of an utterly exhausted body. He has his comfort and enjoyment in due season, and is grateful to heaven that he possesses the means to procure all the comforts of life, which he wisely uses to prolong his existence. Lord Wolsely of Cairo has given it as his opinion that the Chinese are the coming race; so you’d better begin at once to let your pigtail grow if you want to be around smiling in the good time coming. The frivolous people who talked of those two big yachts as making the coming race are badly left this time, anyhow. When China rules the roost, it is assumed that all the ladies of the world will wear diminutive shoes; but do we understand that the fair creatures around us who are afflicted with rather large feet will then have to “turn up their toes ?” Malarial fever is the one sad certainty which every African traveler must face. Its geographical distribution is still unmapped, but generally it prevails over the whole east and west coasts within the tropical limit, all along the river courses, on the shores of the inland lakes and all low-lying and marshy districts. The African malaria spares no man; the strong fall as the weak; no number of precautions can provide against it; no kind of care can do more than make the attacks less frequent; no prediction can be made beforehand as to which regions are haunted by it and which are safe. It is not generally known how many insects are destroyed by the electric light. A German entomologist has been investigating, and reports that he has found as many as thirty-three thousand are destroyed in one night by a single globe light. Insects must be more plenliful in Germany than here to furnish such an item. There is no question but that the electric light might be made of great use in destroying many noxious insects which infest our gardens and fields. Mosquitoes, however, and grapevine pests and the pestiferous potato bug seem to be too wise to be thus ensnared. The chief species which succumb to the wiles of the electric light are gnats and midges. Residents of Peekskill have decided to establish a naval training school for the purpose of instructing young men in navigation. A stock company has been formed with a capital of $35,003 chares of $1 each. It is proposed to call it the Hudson River Navigation Training School. A vessel is to be employed, which is to be a full-rigged-ship, 270 feet in length, 30 feet beam, 31 feet ini depth of hold, and to have a

capacity for accommodating lOOoadets. The cadets will be continuously on board the ship, under the supervision of a corps of instructors. It is believed that such a school will be of assistance to candidates for admission to the naval academy at Annapolis, by enabling the students to understand the principles of navigation before entering the institution. The original stone monument which covered the grave of Thomas Jefferson is now in the grounds of the University of Missouri at Columbia. Some years ago, when a more pretentious monument was being erected over the grave, a professor of the University begged from the legal representatives of the Jefferson family the privilege of removing the monument, and it wa? brought to Missouri. It is a course granite obelisk in two pieces, resting on a base of the same material. The inscription, on a marble slab, which was cut into the face of the monument reads: “Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious free dom, and father of the University of Virginia.” Both monument and slab are in good preservation. j A singular runaway is reported from South Brooklyn, N. Y. A woman named Gildersleeve, who had lived with her husband for over thirty years and had lorne him four sons, some of whom have attained manhood, has left her home because, as she states in a letter, her husband had not furnished her means to properly clothe herself and had refused to give her the money to have her teeth attended to. She therefore secured a place at sl4 a month, and with her earnings for a year she said that she proposed to have her teeth properly cared for, and with the balance to buy clothes to last her during life. Then, if her husband would receive her, she intended to return to him, as she loved him. Mr. Gildersleeve has searched in vain for his wife; says he provided liberally for her and furnished her a horse, but did not approve of her having false teeth. While the Germans were laying sege to Paris about twenty years ago, M. Thiers came out of the city to consult with Bismarck about the proposed capitulation. Of course it was the Frenchman’s duty to present a cheerful front and to try to convey the impression that the people of Paris were not in the desperate condition imagined by the besiegers. On the other hand, Bismarck was pretty well satisfied that the Parisians were being starved out, but of course he intimated no such thing in the presence of M. Thiets. After the conference Bismarck invited M. Thiers to dinner, and the Frenchman only too gladly accepted the invitation. Then it was that the wily German noticed that Thiers ate voraciously of the breads and vegetables, rejected the canned and pickled foods, and partook with seeming avidity of the fresh meat. Tfiis quite confirmed Bismarck’s suspicions Paris was starving. After M. Thiers went back to the city there was found in the apartments assigned to him at Bismarck’s headquarters part of a Paris newspaper, and from items in it it was learned the conditon of things iu Paris was even more desperate than had been supposed by the Germans.

Amelie and Edward loved the first time they met. They found that both had great ambitions. “I feel,” said Edward, “as if I could master all happy philosophy. I shall blot out all blackness. I shall prove that the good always triumphs. I shall make men happier.” “And I,” returned Amelie, “feel as if I could interpret the hidden meaning of everything that God has ever made.” Bo they were married, and they determined to immediately begin a great career. “Fiction must be the medium by which we shall convey our message to the world,” decided Amelie. “Of course,” acquiesced Edward. “Fiction, is the hand-maid of truth.” “Fiction,” said Amelie, “is the touch which illumines the dark chambers of fact.” “Fiction,” chorused Edward, “is the chemical resolvent which married the insoluble quantities of fact. But for the explanations of fiction, life would be a mystery—history would be a paradox.” “Therefore,” said Amelie, “fiction should deal with motive. For it is character that makes plot. Man is the greatest study of man. And it is man that makes' circumstance. He is not the creature of it, but the creator of it.” “Ah,” cried Edward indignantly, “how can you be so mistaken ? It is circumstance that makes man! How could you have a Washington without your revolution ?” < “There you are wrong,” said Amelie, “for it would not have been possible to have had a revolution without Washington.” “A novel,” said Edward sententiously, “is a plot. The art of writing a novel lies in showing how the plot developed character.” “The art of writing a novel,” said Amelie, with dignity, “consists in showing how the unfolding of a soul caused events to transpire.” “Do you know what you would do with your ideas?” cried Edward. “You would take away inspiration. You would substitute photography for art.” “I would paint nature,’’replied Amelie. “Realism was created by God. I do not know who made romanticism. I suppose it was Walter Scott.” They argued this question for twenty years. Then Amelie died, and Edward spent his lifein regretting her. Neither of them ever wrote a line.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Each addition to one’s kindred is a relative gain.