Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

study of army surgeons sholud be directed.toward relieving wounds caused by rifle bullets. W. R. Goodall, a Chicago newspaper man, has just sold a play to Boland Heed which the actor declares gives him the best opportunity of his life for genuine comedy work. The play will be first given next spring at the Boston Museum and will doubtless score a splendid and immediate success. Boston does not produce much of anything nowadays in the way of literary or dramatic art, but what it has lost in the creative faculty it has gained in the critical. Chicago is glad to write books and plays for Boston—proud of the honor and confident of the verdict. Boston naturally demands what Chicago gives—the best. In the case of Kraus, the New York druggist's boy who sold oxalic acid for salts, the proprietor of the pharmacy who left an ignorant youth in charge is the one that should he prosecuted. Important lessons are often conveyed in the “true words spoken in jest” in humorous writings. Charles Dickens excelled in the art of corveying needed public monitions in this this way. In Bardwell vs. Pickwick a dispensing chemist whom the judge refused to excuse from serving on the jury said: “My lord, there will lie murder. I have left, to come here, my shop in charge of a young assistant whose prevailing opinion is that epsom salts and oxalic acid are the same thing. “

China, as was expected, will take no part in the World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893. It is to be regretted, because the Chinese exhibit at the Centennial was one of the most beautiful and interesting of all. The exhibition, however, will be a success. Attention is being directed to it all over the world. New York is now coming forward, and although the Sun is doing its best to prevent an appropriation being made by that State, its opposition will not avail. New York is a great State and a wealthy one. It owes its prosperity almost entirely to the rest of the country—particularly the West. New York cannot afford to be mean or small in matters of this’kind.

It is now time to call John Chinaman to a halt. The Chinese “rebellion” appears to be another name for a deliberate wholesale attack upon civilization. wherever it has taken root in the miscalled Celestial Empire. If China expects to escape punishment for such misdeeds as the slaughter of more than a thousand native Christians. the massacre of missionaries, and the spreading throughout the empire of documents reviling Christianity, she will find herself vastly mistaken. Let us hope that the United States will be represented in Chinese waters, when the time comes to bring John back to his senses, by at least two or three good war ships. John is anything but Celestial just now.

It has always been cause of wonder that in the act of Congress authorizing the World’s Fair the women’s portion of the national body was designated the board of “lady” managers. With precisely like right the commission should have been called the board of “lord” managers. “Lady,” whatever its original source, when used in conjunction with public duty means in good English the wife of a lord. We dispensed with “lords” jr, this country a little more than a hundred years ago. Man is the noblest work of God, and woman is correlative of man. President Calmer said at the Delmonico banquet that he regretted the mistake. To express this regret—which every person not illiterate or vulgar, if American, must so conspicuous a place and to make no effort to correct the implied flunkeyism, which is laughable as well as vulgar, is- not becoming the most distinguished national officer of the World's Fair. Let the official designation be altered by authority to “the Women's Board, World’s Columbian Exposition.” Does President Palmer know that another egregious error was committed in issuance of commissions to the womeif? They were described as “Mrs. General” Tom Thumb, etc., instead of by the names they bear as women, not as wives or daughters or widows or other relatives of men having no relation to the World’s Fair. Since the fair is to stun the world with its wonders, it would be well to have all its incidents arranged decently.