Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

test, but after all there is not as much practical ability in lifting chairs around as there might be in lifting—well for example, a Boston mortgage. '' Some of the most successful dramas recently presented on the American stage deal with the days when the wild throb of the war-drum thrilled the hearts of a whole people and the smoke of three million muskets obscured the light of the sun. In mimic warfare the Blue and the Gray strut the stage and, forgetful of past dissensions and mindful only of a common glory, the North and the South alike applaud. Dr. Ireland, in his “Life and Times of Andrew Jackson,” says that the ancestors of General Jackson on both sides were Scotch-Irish and that they had all been for generations Protestant in religion. He further tells us that both the General’s parents were Presbyterians; that his wife was a Presbyterian, and he was always a Presbyterian on general principles himself. About 1840 he joined the church and died in that faith. The Crown Prince of Italy threatens, to smash the royal conventionalities into smithereens by marrying a pretty little English girl whom he loves. This makes an American sovereign feel like patting him on the back, and it may make the Italian sovereign feel like doing the same sort of thing, only with more vehemence; and if the Crown Prince will refer to his map of Italy he will see that it is shaped significantly like a big boot.

An American who saw the German Emperor at the theater in London says he looks much more like a man than his uncle, the Prince of Wales, does. Well, he is much more like a king. Indeed, he is a good deal more king, but if this profoundly impressed American will not tell us what a king —a typical king—really looks like we shall know whether he has in mind the fierce, theatrical chap In the purple togs on the stage or the very meek and humble-looking king of clubs.

Everything seems to point to the fact that France and Russia have practically agreed upon a defensive and offensive alliance. But what an incongruous combination it is. France stands for the most advanced modern governmental ideas of any European nation. It is the very antithesis of Russia, which groans under the weight of a semi-barbaric, autocratic rule that is an eyesore to modern civilization. That alasting combination can be continued between the two seems hardly probable.

An Augusta citizen suggests in the Lewiston Journal that it would be a good scheme “to set up a lumber mill at Chicago as part of our Maine exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. If we could set out a boom on the lake and have a lot of river drivers' houses and men working the boom and chute, it would be a great thing. Maine is a lumber and pulp-mill State, and we ought to advertise.” The first little storm that came along would paralyze the whole Maine exhibit. Lake Michigan is no millpond.

It is related in the New York Truth that while the young German Kaiser was watching a sham battle between some Russian cavalry, he asked the Czar for permission to take charge of one side. It was granted, and the Kaiser proposed to show the Russians what a real soldier, who was not a shop-keeper or a tailor, could do. While he was following Rule 33 in his book on tactics, the Russians surrounded his army and he was captured. It is said he went to his tent and would tfot come out for the rest of the day.

Prof. Felix Adler’s proposition to appoint a board of judges with power to decide at what stage a physician might with propriety kill off a suffering patient opens up great realms of possibilities and of argument. Of course there are lots of people—and not all of them invalids by any manner of means—who would be better off dead. But at the same time it is an open question as to the right of any physician to administer a convenient and comforting potion looking to their removal. If a man’s sufferings are unbearable one might be excused in leaving a couple of morphine pills around loose, but it’s rather against nature that an outside party should administer them. It is a pity that grown people cannot be sent to school, like children, and sharply reprimanded. Grown people there are who pursue a foolish course in a community for years, and there is no one to point out theii folly. Could they be sent to school, the teacher would point out theii mistakes, and punish them if there was no immediate improvement. People are quick to notice the mistakes of others, but they say nothing to the face of those they would criticise. If a child is petulant, or greedy, oi whiny, or rough, or noisy, there are two or three members of the family to point it out. Grown people would be better off if their follies could be discussed in the same open and candid manner.