Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Every loyal American citizen will applaud th!e Chicago police that “hauled down the red flag” of anarchy and compelled the unfurling of the Stars and Stripes. The most dull imagination must have received a fllip at the announcement last week of the discoveries at Chillicothe. The bringing to the light of day of the armor-encased skeleton of the hero who was buried six hundred years ago with his mouth full of great pearls is an incident which appeals not alone to the historian and the archuiologist, but which arouses the interest of whoever has imagination or curiosity. The romancer and the poet will not be slow to take advantage of this new light upon the mysterious MoundBuilders, and who knows what literary inspiration may not come from it. One of the most alarming results of the trial of the Earl Russell casein London has been the doubt which certain of its revelations have cast upon the heretofore well-received works of Mrs. Alexander and “The Duchess.” These authoresses have given us to understand that tne conversation be tween earls and countesses has always been marked by the courtesy of the courtier and the dignified eloquence of royalty. It seems, however, that during the exigencies of domestic disagreement countesses are in the habit of using profanity in order to express freely their opinion of their husbands. As there is no other appropriate place for French realism, it might be applied to the English aristocracy, in the hope that the ultimate result would be mutual destruction.

Southern farmers are considering the subject of limiting the area for the growth of cotton. They assert that cotton will impoverish both land and owner if its cultivation is persisted in. Even if the acreage is decreased on the old cotton plantations it will not decrease the crop, for in the Mississippi Valley, in Arkansas and in Texas new lands .are being planted in cotton. The movement for diversified crops, though long agitated, does not seem to make much headway in the South. Yet instances of its benefits are not wanting. An Alabama paper the other day mentioned that a farmer had come to town with seventy-flve dozenof eggs and seventy-five "chickens. He sold them for S3O cash. A friend came in the same day with a bale of cotton which he sold for S3O, but he had to pay out a part of this for guano. Outrages by policemen upon defenseless persons have become so frequent in New York that the drastic remedy applied a few days ago by a magistrate was fully needed. An officer arrested an aged and respectable woman, who has long earned a living by keeping a stand for the sale of newspapers, and took her before a justice, where he made oath that she was drunk. As these magistrates too often do, the justice accepted the word of the officer without question and committed the woman to the workhouse for nine months. But the case got into the newspapers; witnesses came forward to prove that the woman was not intoxicated, and the further investigation then had resuited in the discharge of the woman and in the holding of the officer tc answer a charge of 'perjury!” What ever may be the final end of this case, it ought to remind policemen everywhere that it is their duty to be as cautious in making affidavits as in the use of their clubs. Well, now! Did you ever? A finicky young Chicago schoolma’am, with the sweet name of Mabel Merrill, has struck a blow whiph threatens the fabric of American independence and the ostracism of the odor iferous onion. The children came tc her school-room with breaths that smelled strong as a high-holer’s nest, and the faint, delicious, just-barely-suggestive odor of eau de cologne which permeated the atmosphere surrounding the aesthetic young teacher wasn’t in it. The onion, which Noah Webster naively says belongs to the genus allium, and then quits right there, reigned snpreme. The children’s breaths sallied forth, percolated the ozone until further percolation was impossible, and then dropped in chunks upon the floor with a dull, sick , etc. The children were sent home, and then commenced the fun. An irate father interviewed the superintendent, and after a hard fight came off with flying colors. Miss Mabel’s action was pronounced an excess of authority, and at present the children are at liberty to carry their vociferous breaths to school with them. Mighty is the onion!