Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

extensive system of advertising is invariably resorted to by those who have trash to dispose of, and it succeeds; how much easier, then, to sell a useful and valuable article. Advertising and politeness are the main levers to get customers. Advertising will draw them, ability to fill theii orders will satisfy them, and politeness will induce them to buy. The jury in the case, of the seven victims slain by the fall of the Pearce street building at Chicago has introduced a pleasing innovation by holding the Commissioner of Buildings and the building inspectors who passed the tottering structure equally responsible with the contractoi and the owner for the fatal consequences of its collapse. Public officials have long been accustomed tc accepting the emoluments' of office and shirking its responsibility. Inspectors have industriously drawn comfortable salaries for not inspecting. It is high time thfit some of those who have long enjoyed rewards for incompetence and inefficiency should be made to understand that penalties attach to the neglect of official duty.

Capt. L. P. Leathers, the most experienced boatman upon the Mississippi River, tells a States reportei that the cause of the great cotton fire recently was due to the manner 1b which cotton is baled at present. Nowadays there is hardly sufficient bagging to cover the sides, so that the lint is left exposed to catch the slightest spark or flame. Captain Leathers ran and owned seven steamers named Natchez, on which he transported to New Orleans ovei 3,000,000 bales of cotton, and on that amount and during the existence ol those boats the underwriters did not pay one dollar of damages caused by careless handling of that amount ol cotton. Leathers says in the day mentioned cotton was properly covered and baled in merchantable order, and notwithstanding the fact that boats used the old torch basket with flying pieces of fire during strong wind, it was safer to handle cotton then than now. To-day cotton if packed in bales weighing from 700 tc 800 pounds, with merely sufficient covering to get corporations to handle it.

The estimate of Walt Whitman has not been uniform. It has not been in his lifetime and it is not probable that he supposed it would be after his death. Mr. Ingersoll, in his eulogy at Whitman’s funeral the other day, said: “The most eminent citizen of this lepubllc is dead—before us.” Some have said this was extravagant praise. Others have said that he was the equal of Emerson; still others that he was greater than Longfellow,, but not greater : than Lowell. It seems to us there is I not much profit nor yet much sense iin the comparisons. While it is true ■ that Whitman did not and probably could not write after the manner of Longfellow, nor either Whitman nor Longfellow after the manner of Lowell, it is also true that neither Longfellow nor Lowell has written as Whitman wrote. In thought and expression he was nearer to Emeiuun. It seems to us the relative places of thes? eminent men is of little consequence. It were well worth while for the curious to read them all, in which case the reader may think the last one be reads is the greatest. AU Konor toeacm of

Friends and relatives of Mr. Claus Spreckels, the sugar kitlg, are mourning his majesty’s premature burial with sincere regret ur relieved by the sure and certain hope of a blessed resurrection. Particulars of the interment are not yet at hand: it is known only that the royal refinery at Philadelphia has passed into the possession of the trust. As the country has had Mr. Spreckels’ solemn assurance that this would never occur while he was “on top of the earth,” and as he is a disciple of the late George Washington, the inference is obvious and inevitable. It is obvious, too, that the interment must have taken place during life, or the transfer could not have been made by him, as it appears it was. It seems rather a mystery with the light we now have, but doubtless the customary public statement will be made under some such title as “A Voice from the Grave,” “Hark! from the Tombs,” or “Talking Back,” and we shall then Jcnow how the thing was done. At present we can only wait, cheered by the hope that if the inhumation is permanent an appropriate monument maybe reared at the spot to commemorate the virtues of the heroic soul who preferred burial alive to refusal of a good offer. He leaves a large ; circle of sorrowing friends.

A Woven Book. A curious book, in which the text is neither writen nor printed, but woven, has lately been published at Lyons. It is made of silk, and was published in twenty-five parts. Each part consists of two leaves, so that the entire volume contains only fifty leaves, inscribed with the service of the mass and several prayers. Both the letters and the border are in black silk on a white background. Large Heathen Temple. The largest heathen temple in the world is in Seringham, India, and it (jpmprises a square, each side being one mile in length, inside of which are six other squares. The walls are twenty-five feet high and five feet thick, and the hall where the pilgrims congregate is supported by a thousand pillars, each cut from a single block of stone. Evanston. Ills., is now a city. All it needs to complete the sum of its civic grandeur Is few boodlere in its common council, and they, no doubt, will come .in due time.