Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Marguerite—to the New York baby whose parents asked him to do the naming. Nearly everybody knows that a girl baby is entitled to two or three names, or even more. Why did not Mr. Harrison call the little thing Marguerite Araminta or Marguerite Arabella or Marguerite almost anything? Any old bachelor would have done better than Benjamin did in this case.

When a woman begins -to look tired out and old, why do people look at her husband as if they thought him a brute? He is not to blame. Every one must grow old some time, and when a woman reaches that time, there is no reason why people should look reproachfully at* her husband. When the husband gets old and sick, they do not blame his wife. Bumsn justice is one of the most delicious things known to man. One of the latest cases which have attracted attention is that of a man in Jersey who was caught by the rising tide so that a boat had to be sent out to rescue him. On the next day the unlucky man was hauled before a magistrate and condemned to eight days’ hard labor “for the trouble he had caused.” Gilbert had better lay the scene of his next fextravaganza in the Isle of Jersey.

The sale of oleomargarine for butter has come to be a matter of general complaint. There is no question that the dairy interests suffer severely by this unfair competition. It is the business of the officials, both Federal and State, to enforce the laws concerning the sale of oleomargarine, and any failure to do so will not be overlooked by the public. No one wants to pay for butter and be given oleomargarine instead. The swindle can be stopped by the proper-author-ities.

The country will watch with a great deal of interest the fight which the citizens of Baltimore are now waging to secure lower telephone rates. If they prevail th‘e effort to reduce tolls to a more equitable basis will spread to other parts of the country. Another two years at the latest will see a great change In this respect, for when the patents expire and competition is free there will be not only better service, with new inventions that are brought out, but also cheaper service.

The modern dime museums in their mad race for queer freaks'and curious wonders might take a hint from an advertisement in The Flying Post, of London, July 20, 1099, reading: “The man that ate the live cock at Islington, and another since, on the 15th of June last, at Stand-up Dicks at Newington Butts, near the borough of Southwark, is to eat another there on Tuesday next, being St. James’ day, with the feathers, bones and garbage. Any person may see it performed, paying but two pence for their admittance.”

That bumptious, sillybiily sheet, Bradstreet’s, is getting “sot down on hard” by the Chicago Daily Trade Bulletin, the New York Produce Exchange Reporter and other well-in-formed journals. Bradstreet’s absurd crop figures are shown by its contemporaries to be absolutely valueless and unreliable. Amateur crop-guessing appears to be the principal occupation of Bradstreet’s, and in that line it has broken its own record during the past year. The trade no longer place any reliance upon its bungled and confused maunderings over the crops.

Australia seems to be giving the world an object lesson in the effect of strikes which it were well to heed. Recent travelers report that cotton is rotting unpicked, rich mines of gold, silver and tin cannot be worked, and that not because laborers are dissatisfied or have any reason to be, but because the professional agitators play on the cupidity and the indolence of the workingmen, clamoring for the undertaking by the Government of important public works, although this means borrowing money from England for the sake of employing men who refuse the employment now offered them and who are ruining the colony by their obstinacy.

Theodore Stanton, whose articles In the Westminister Review on Abraham Lincoln are attracting so much favorable attention, is not “an English writer,” as has recently been said, but an American, born and bred. He is a son of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. He has lived for some years in Paris, where he holds a high position, and X married to a French wife of exceptional literary and social gifts. Nor is he a newcomer in literature. Seven years ago the Putnams published a volume of which he was designer, editor and part author, “The Woman Question in Europe,” a large and comprehensive work exhibiting the status of woman in all relations in all European countries. Most Of the chapters were written by eminent women belonging to the countries which they represented. Mrs. Stanton has a daughter, Mrs. Balch, man led to an Englishman and living in London. Despite age and infirmity she frequently visits both her children, and is always, physically and intellectually, an impressive and welcome figure in the two great capitals.