Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It there were a “strike" at a clock factory now, one could see weighty reasons for it. Ptn.t, many a can of purest kerosene Doth expedite the slowly kindling fire; Full many a Bridget, Maggie, or Kathleen Doth by its aid join the celestial choir. * A few theatrical men are talking of abolishing bill boards. If they could do away with board bills it would be more to the purpose. Bernhardt, Langtry, Patti, and Mary Anderson are writing books They will be offered to the soap trade at a liberal discount for use as premiums. The man who has the courage to fail in trying to do right, rather than succeed in wrong, is the real hero, no matter whether he wears a paper cap or a crown on his head. That war cloud in Europe has beoome so dense and threatening that there is no telling what might happen if an American rainmaker with a few bombs should go over there and begin experimenting. Puck has been cut off the list of papers in the reading-rooms of the Boston Public Library, because it is not considered healthy reading for the young. Boston takes life too seriously to laugh at jokes. After a five-years’ term in the penitentiary. Mr. J. Finley Hoke, the thrifty bank cashier who robbed a Peoria bank of $200,000 and fled to Canada, is now free and can go where he pleases with his money. Forty thousand dollars a year is a good salary for a man to earn in prison. -f When men, weary withthe world’s baCtle, return to the shelter of their own home, they need the kindness, the refinement, the high cultivation, the usefulness, the gentle piety which woman as she was meant to be knows how to afford him. The cultivation of a woman’s mind cannot be a cultivation proper to her—to her constitu tlon, her marked gifts, her work in the world.

■ The latest thing is a “repairing outfit” of shoemakers' tools that enables the thrift}’ father of a family to do his own shoe mending and dispense with the services of cobblers entirely. The worst thing about this invention is that it seems to be the work of some experienced shoemaker who wants to get rich at the expense of his brethren. The numerous accidents which befall people who confide in the happy-go-lucky ministrations of boy drug clerks ought to serve as warnings, but they do not. Some additional legislation seems needed before the public can feel certain that no ignoramus or person of immature judgment will be found in the position of a dispensing clerk. Children cannot be allowed to clerk. The conduct of that spirited girl in a town close to New York City, who publicly horsewhipped a man because he had followed and accosted her on the streets on every possible occasion for three years, will meet with general approval. But it is too much to hope that it will serve as a salutary lesson to the race of “mashers.” Those unworthy persons are possessed of such overweening conceit that each thinks such a mishap could never occur to him. Yet horsewhips are cheap and American girls are plucky.

What will Stanley Africanus say to the news that Emin Pasha claims to have discovered the real and only Simon-pure sources of the Nile? There is a touch of bitterness in Emin’s triumphant announcement, as much as to imply, “Oh, yes; you thought a bug-hunter couldn’t find sources! But here they are, and all the others are spurious.” Having thus set his trademark at the springs of ancient Nile, Emin is getting warlike, and talks of engaging the Mahdi of the moment in battle. But’twere well to be prudent, for the Mahdi is a bad man with a bad eye, and he and his have already brought more than one white exploring expedition to grief. That ancient suggestion that railway accident! be avoided by strapping a member of the board of directors to the engine might not, it appears, prove effective after all. The ex-president of the road and his wife were on the Monon train which met with a serious accident at Crawfordsville, Ind. In the reports of the disaster, which was a horrible one, the statement is made that “it was due to a loose rail, two section-hands being at work on it at the time. ” That the condition of the rail should have Been known and still no effort made to warn an approaching passenger train is a startling evidence of the B*ppy-g»l uck y system which prevails on too many railroads. Stanley is lecturing in Australia, and tells an interviewer there that •Emin Pasha is an utterly indecisive man—a man with no mind of his own —a man Just suited, for instance, for a lady’s afternoon tea party." The Xsct that immediately after escaping ftom Stanley’s janizaries Emin made W» way hack to the very spot in the depths of the African Jungle whence he had been “rescued," while Stanley few ever since been dangling at the apron-strings of rich women on the