Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

for, anyway. A man moving along Into that period where “the grass* hopper is a burthen,” without a wife or child present or in memory, calls for sympathy. There is no period in life when the good wife is more a necessity for a man’s happiness than during the last quarter of the race. ~

In the trying climate of Manhattan Island Cleopatra’s Needle continues to disintegrate. Experts estimate that it has fost 700 pounds in weight since it was brought over, and it will be necessary to spend at once $2,500 in giving it a coat of paraffine in order to save the hieroglyphics from peeling off completely. There is no money on hand for the purpose, and no feasible plan for raising it has been suggested. Why not put a high fence around it and as the fragments drop off sell them to relic hunters?

The break-up of an English club, which has been spreading abroad pamphlets teaching the manufacture of explosives for “persuading” bombs, is a fresh illustration of the need of sterner legislation in all countries against bomb-makers and artificers of infernal machines of every kind. The club taught the noble science in the coolest manner. Perhaps the society issued secret circulars of “Instructions how to blow up a Czar at sixty paces;” or “Manual for the annihilation of a King by dynamite, model number six. ” The law must proscribe all such manufacture and instruction, or the wild-eyed crank with the black bag will continue to haunt the timid millionaire.

TnERE is one thing which the East should learn from the West, and that is the habit of giving short sentences. In this part of the world whatever effectiveness there might be in the infliction of the death penalty is lost in the delays, the deliberation, and the postponement which seem to be the inevitable consequence of the long time which is allowed to elapse between conviction and execution. There should be on the statute books a law making it obligatory to the judge who pronounces a death sentence to limit the time of probation to a couple of months at least. The sentencing of Dr. Graves to be hanged in a month is an excellent precedent, if there is to be any hanging done at all.

A new cure for inebriety is annonuced, although its nature is not made known. Its owner has confidence enough in it to undertake the founding of a great institution at Washington, evidently believing that he will find more patients there than anywhere else. The remedy is a liquid, like the Keeley cure, but is said to resemble the latter in no other particular. If institutions for destroying the uproarious taste which leads to painting towns red are to spring up like this at every center of population, determined topers will have to migrate kindlier scene where one may drink until he sees snakes in his boots without having any other remedy offered him than “a hair of the dog which bit him.”

New Jersey has a million and a half dwellers, and is one of the wealthiest of American States. It is all the more surprising then that the cause of popular education languishes in this part of the Republic. According to the census given out the other day there are 430,279 children of school age, of whom 137,814, or more than a third of the tfttal, are not enrolled in any educational institution. In comparing the illiteracy of the country, the South is singled out as derelict in educating its young, but here is a proud Northern State with more wealth than any composing the Southern group of commonwealths, that is allowing a vast number of its children to grow up without schooling of any kind. In this age of enlightment it is nothing less than crime for any State to allow a considerable part of her population to grow up in ignorance when education can be so easily obtained. The injury inflicted through the ignoramus policy falls hardest upon the most deserving —the honest wage-earners. Their children of all others should not be deprived of the benefits of an education. To deny that handicaps them in the race for preferment in all the avenues open to the industrious and ambitious, and detracts materially from the happiness of life in a number of ways. New Jersey owes it to herself, those who people her areas and to the nation that she pass such laws as will prevent every third person within her borders from becoming a dunce as well as a reproach to American civilization.