Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

would be to the man's discredit if known. This is so generally the case that the only happy people are those who have no secrets. Tni: old Romans were level-headed and knew some things which a great many people of to-day haven’t found out. Cato, the censor, said: “Our ancestors regarded it as a grand point in husbandry not to have too much land in one farm: for they considered that more profit came from holding little and tilling it well.” You see ttiat was In old Cato’s day, as lie says, “Our ancestors regarded it,” etc.; but it is new now.

There are many kinds of pride—the pride of wealth, of name, of birth, of social standing, or popular esteem — but none is quite so offensive as that of an imagined menial superiority. It looks down upon others with a supercilious compassion which awakens all the resentments of human nature. Deeper and truer thought banishes this delusion, and makes a man modest as nothing else can; for it is always discovering mistakes that he has made and must correct, mental work done that must be undone, hasty conclusions that must he repudiated, erroneous judgments that must he revised.

Count Tolstoi has written a long letter to a New York paper, giving his personal observations and experiences in the famine districts of Russia. It may correct some impressions in America to know that this celebrated philanthropist and author acquits the general government arid the local functionaries of either indifference or procrastination in relief for the sufferers from famine, but he finds that, with all that has been done, and with all that Russia can do, more than half the suffering must remain unless people more fortunately situated contribute to their relief. There has been so much misinformation in this country regarding the famine and the attitude of the Russian Government toward the starving peasants, that this appeal of Count Tolstoi’s ought to set matters right and open the purses of those who arc able to help these poor people.

Mil William L. Garrison has written a letter complaining of the treatment of his son, a student in Harvard College, b.v his fellow-stu-dents. It appears that young Mr. Mr. Garrison sought admission to the society of the I). K. K., which is accounted the toniest society in the college. His offer was accepted and he was put through the initiation performance, among whi<*l» was the burning of one of his arms by a lighted cigar, and in consequence he was made sick, and there was apprehension for a time among the family of blood poisoning. The rule of initiation, we believe, to be that t tie candidate must do some silly'act, or submit to some silly act being done to him; not alwaj* Hie same act, hut invariably a silly act; and this lie understands when he offers himself for admission. The thing Is mutual. If there Is no sense in it there is a want of sense on both sides. It is the price of distinction. The scar is Ills badge, of membership. Shortly after the war ijctween France and Germany in IK7O, when the war passion was high, the proudest and most popular young men of Germany were those, who had their faces mutilated by sword cuts.

To OAPT. W. T. H ARDIiNHROOK, (ll Company C, of the Second Regiment, I. N. G., belongs the doubtful honor of an attempt to conduct society on military principles. Company C was to give its first annual reception and ball. It came in uniform, as ordered by Captain Hardenbrook, and, with its fair ladles, disposed Itself about the armory hall. Suddenly, however, it was discovered that the hall was not Company C’s, but Captain liardenbrook’s. The Captain fnformed the guards that he had only ordered them to conn - to the ball to show off a little, and that, as several army officers were expected who would object to association with privates, they could not be allowed to dance. The guards protested that they had paid $2 each, and had been invited to dance. The Captain drew up like a drum-major. What w - us $2, he asked, to discipline? They could go home if they wished, but they could not dance. So most of the guards took their disappointed ladies and left the hull. The real soldiers, the army officers, interviewed afterward, declared that the insult to the guards was purely gratuitous, and that they had not thought of objecting to a participation with them in the dance. Captain Ilardcnbrook’s imitation of the cad is so perfect as to defy detection.