Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

resort to the old-time method of burial at the cnJfes-roads, but it might be effective as a preventive. A New Orleans clergyman says that if the lottery company is not beaten at the polls next spring it “will be wiped out in revolution.” If there were less of that form of public sentiment, in New Orleans which looks to revolution as the only proper means for righting a wrong, there would be fewer wrongs 90 firmly rooted that the ordinary methods of law cannot cope with. uynch law is a poor substitute for the cool and deliberate justice administered by the courts. The name of Omaha has been made to suffer by the intemperate folly of the mob that overawed the officers of the law and dragged a prisoner from the jail to his death the other night. Two wrongs never yet made a right, and the original crime, though heinous, was little worse than that committed by its avengers.

Michigan raises twice as many peaches as Delaware without telling half as many lies about the failure of the crop. Illinois produces much more whisky than Kentucky and does not have to bear the stale jokes of the humorist concerning the disproportion between corn juice and water within the commonwealth. "Westward indeed does the course of empire take its way, and a little northward as well. It is the fashion to jeer at the hunters in this country who merrily follow the anise-seed bag over hill'and dale, but certainly this is more commendable and less contemptible than the sort of thing they do in England, if one may judge by the account given of a recent hunt in Leicester. A party of hunters came upon a stag and caught it alive. Then it occurred to them that it was the lawful prey of other huntsmen who had been chasing it before they took a hand. They therefore put the unfortunate animal in a barn with its legs hobbled and its eyes bandaged. Presently the second party—or the first in starting —came up, and in this state the stag was let out and killed. The anise seed bag is better than so unsportsmanlike a piece of butchery as this.

At a conference of the European representatives of the transatlantic steamship lines in Bremen it was resolved that the examination of emigrants with a view to determining whether they should be permitted to enter the United States ought not to be made by the consular agents of this Government, hut by agents controlled by the companies. Presumably the next step will be to attempt to force this view of the matter upon the Government, but it is an attempt which should have no success. Faulty as is the present consular inspection of emigrants, it is perfection jn comparison with the results likely to follow the surrender of this duty to the steamship companies. It is the business of those corporations to carry as many emigrants as they possibly can secure, and no regard for the interests of the United States is likely to impel them to rigidly weed out the pauper, the diseased, or the criminal from the vast hordes of people who seek transportation to that new world which they think an El Dorado.

The Supreme Court has decided that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company shall pay a fine for refusing to obey the law of New York which forbids the heating of passenger cars with the deadly stove. The corporation Will go to the United States Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of this question. It is foreign corporation, and claims not to be liable to the statute because it does no^operate fifty miles of railroad within the State of New York. No court has yet agreed with the company on this point, but its adherence to the car stove is remarkable, not only for its blindness but for its obstinacy. The car stove has caused the company a good deal of trouble. It burned up a train in the tunnel last spring and it roasted several people to death. The consequence was the indictment of President Clark and the directors, and, it is reported, much mental anguish on the part of the principal offender. In the meantime the company has announced that it has adopted a system of steamheating and it is known that its new cars are fitted up for such a system. Yet it is so wedded to the stove that it continues to fight in behalf of its memory, notwithstanding that the fatal thing has dragged its officers into a criminal court.