Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

The course of nature is soon run. It has no need of a kite-shaped track. Economy is the parent of integrity, liberty, and ease, and the sister of temperance, cheerfulness, and health. Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon that generally involves her followers in dependence and debts. If England were in search of an excuse for quarrel with France, one might be found in the affair of the two Englishmen, Cooper and Bod well, who have been arrested for trying to get a pattern of a military rifle manufactured in France for Russia. As the alleged spy work was done at a private establishment, John Bull might claim that the arrest was not justified by international usage, which relates only to the secrets of Government Works.