Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

occupants. Why is It? The men Interested in Southern prosperity should find out. There are million* In it.

The Southern train brigand has got a new wrinkle in his arduous but remunerative profession. He waits until a train has moved out upon some trestle hanging high over a dizzy gulf, and then appears on the scene. With the train halted and his trusty guards placed at either end of the trestle, he has things his own way for a few minutes. During that time he gives passengers, express agents and others the choice of delivering up all their valuables or walk, ing the plank into the abyss. The neatness of these land pirates ha* rarely been exceeded by anything at sea.

French hatred to such cruelty and crimes as are perpetrated by King Behanzin seems suddenly quickened by the announcement that at the capital of Dahomey are buried the vast treasures accumulated by a sue. cession of absolute rulers. Cable ad. vices are that France is actively preparing for war against the brutal Behanzin, and that incidentally the hidden treasure will be seized upon as an acceptable addition to the national exchequer. This age may see the spectacle of Dahomey’s Amazons contending in the field with a soldiery representing the most polite people on earth.

What absurd little things people quarrel about! What trivial matters cause ill-feeling in families! The mutton being roasted too little or the beef too much, an opinion about the temperature of the house, or the style of curtains that ought to be bought for the front windows, the definition of a word or its .pronunciation, are not topics worth a quarrel when peace and good-will are of so much importance in the home. A little ill-feeling is like a little seed that may grow into a large tree which will shadow the whole house. Many a man and woman must look back with regret on the hasty word or the cold reproach which was the entering wedge that split a household in two; and yet how few make a point of uttering the soft word that turneth away wrath.

The modus vivendi with Great Britain, which has just been renewed, is substantially that which was agreed upon for last year. Under its provisions both governments will prohibit the killing of seals within the limits laid down in the treaty of 1867 with Russia, except 7,500 for the subsistence of the natives on the islands of St. Paul and St. George. The clause which has been added to the agreement provides for a settle ment of damages sustained by Canadian poachers in case the arbitration goes against this country. The naval vessels selected by this country for patrol duty are the Ranger, Yorktown, Mohican, and Adams, which will be reinforced by the revenue vessels Corwin, Rush, and Albatross. Several British warships of the Pacific station will also take part in this duty.

There Is a gentleman in America whose undoubted genius has fallen short of securing the appreciation that it should command. People have even gone so far as to make jokes about him. The person In question is General Garza ; who has by his good right arm and lead pencil achieved fame throughout the continent. He has fought scores _of battles without once being in range of so much as a blank cartridge. He has been lost and found more times than Jack the Ripper, and all the time was peacefully writing special dispatches about the probability of his capture in the .retirement of his private office. Like Caesar he undertook the task of embalming his deeds in literature. He outdoes Caesar, for where there were no deeds to record Mr. Garza invented them. There are a number of illuetrious historical figures whose careers were devoid of much of the able generalship that Garza’s has shown. Take Napoleon, for example. He got intc real battles, risked his life and endured all sorts of personal inconvenience only to end his life in banishment and humiliation. Garza avoided all these things. He kept the people interested in him and at the same time enjoyed the luxuries and associations that make existence endur able to a man of refined instincts. He did not allow circumstances to force him into indiscretions. When he found that dangers were thickening about him he took his eraser anc changed his base of operations. It is expected that he will settle down as an editor in Texas as soon as he gets a little experience as a genuine fighter.