Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — The Peach Crop. [ARTICLE]

The Peach Crop.

The fact that the Western peach crop has been ruined on schedule time is an assurance that as usual this autumn great measures will be taken for preserving it. —Philadelphia Times. The cheerful liar who always ruins the peach-buds in March and April has begun the relation of his customary tale of woe. He has'opened a branch office in South rn Illinois.—lllinois State Journal. Already has the report of a damaged peach crop come from Delaware. They didn’t even give us time to announce that the report was about due, and all well-reghlifted newspapers keep the announcement “standing," too. —Philadelphia Call.

A proposition is under discussion in certain circles to ask Congress tn enact a law creating a Secretary of Public Health. The Journal of the American Medical Association takes up the idea earnestly. It says: “We hope that every physician who receives this journal will take one hour in which to write to his Congressional Representative and Senator, and ask tfieir favorable and active support of this measure. Direst their attention to the filling of American hospitals, infirmaries, insane asylums, and other public and charity institutions with recent immigrants, and to the fact that from these people spread disease and death. Tell them that a cabinet officer would exercise a great power in the control, of immigrant-carrying vessels. That such an officer would be able to formulate laws and regulations which would prove of the utmost value. Direct their attention to the rapid growth of associate charity organizations in all our large cities and centers of population, whose chief function is to provide for these very immigrants. Tell them of the addition to the tax duplicates in every city, because of the immoral, diseased and defective classes of Europe that more than half fill our jails, workhouses and asylums. Tell your Congressman and Smator this, and tell it to them so strongly that they will not forget it.”

The peop'e of Canada dispose of boodling statesmen in a summary and satisfactory manner. At the la’st election for members of the provincial legislature, although Mcrcier, the late premier, was successful, his party was disastrously beaten. However, the Canadian government was not content to leave Mercier alone, even in a minority. He was notified that unless he resigned from the legislature and abandoned politics, he would be p:o9ecuted in the courts for his crimes. It was doubtless a painful performance, but in order to escape punishment for his corrupt practices while at the head of the ministry, he resigned and issued a letter to his followers announcing his retirement to private life. a - Gladstone is said to be one of the most pronounced believers In the efficacy of stale bread.