Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

To toe weather btrreaa of the tJnited States: “Come now, dry up!” John L. Sullivan’s book may properly be called a scrap book. The name of a Milwaukee saloonkeeper is Christian Dick. He ought either his name or his occupation. The feverish condition into which Paris has been cast by the anarchist troubles may be imagined from the report that .the fashionable society women of that city are now dyeing their hair red. Nothing will please the American people better than to have “the antitrust law” reach down and take every “trust” by the nape of the neck and 6hake its head until every tooth drops out. The devil has devised many methods of getting rich. “The trust” is his latest It is doubtful whether anybody but a Parkhurst detective would have conceived the idea of taking the lady of his choice up into the head of Bartholdi’s statue, there to wed her. More quiet persons, afraid of the notoriety which is in these days so easily obtained and so hard to get rid of, would have preferred the more orthodox seclusion of a church. But there is no accounting for tastes, as ■the old woman said when she kissed her coto.

| When one reads of the terribly severe and successive droughts that have occurred in some parts of Russia; the diseases induced by the unnatural and insufficient food consumed by starving millions; and of the countless hordes of Held rats which overran and devoured everything eatable, and then contemplates the Tearful outrages practiced by the Czar and his satellites upon the Jews, the whole is strongly suggestive of the plagues which befell Egypt in the time of Pharaoft for his persecution of.the children of Israel. jm ——

The late Mr. William Astor, in and by his last will, made charitable bequests amounting to about $200,000, and yet some people complain that this sum is insignificant We think Mr. Astor must be deemed the better judge. The objects of his bounty appear to have been judiciously chosen. Among them are the Home for Respectable Aged and Indigent Females in the city of New Yojk, $15,000; to the Astor Library, $50,000; and to the Women’s Hospital, 810,000. It is pretty safe to assume that about half the reported value of his estate is nearer its real value than the amount reported, and it is quite certain that he took nothing away with him.

Dr. Rainsford thinks “the workman has as much—yes, more—right to the saloon than the clubman has to his club.” The preacher start* on untenable ground. It may be true the clubman has less need for the chib, in one sense, than the workman has for the saloon, because the former has an elegant home. But the preacher is too well informed to believe therefore, there is an excess of right in eitTter”Mfe. Both gfoqd upon an «cact equality. -a? go to his "saloon as the dubjuanlias to enter either his home or his cltifr, ■end no argument based upon a con* Cfafy assumption I'T'wortfiy T~TspTy. Jf Mr. Rainsford Would apply the light he has to the Subject he would (discover a hettA work for the church thati the establishment of saloons to equalize the “rights” of the classes.

Curiosity to see the Queen, who is not now often to be seen in public, might excuse some American women torthe idiotic self-abasement involved in accepting the cheap and vulgar privilege of being presented at a “drawing-room” so-called in Buckingham palace. The scene in London recently when a number of supposed democrats of the female sex belonging to this republic made themselves objects of curiosity to curbstone j cockneys was not one calculated to j inspire respect for American institu- j tions. It was known in advance that the Queen would not be present. Her place was taken by the Princess Christian, the least “aristocratic” of the royal set. Notwithstanding this, Americans in London resorted as usual to petty intriguing that at- ; taches to the favor of the chamberlain and some of them, in hypocritical ! black for the mourning of the court, others in colors, took their places in the waiting herd and were permitted, after hours of delay that they would be very reluctpnt to spend in a better cause, to approach for an instant the person of the princeling. Such performances, if they have any value whatever to those who engage in them, may well make the people of the United States wonder whether American women of this generation are worthy descendants of those earlier women who sustained husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers in a tremendous effort to cast off the trumpery of a social system to whose dregs these democratic toadies are so anxious to pay homage. Let no one think the age of super- j stition now exists only in the backwoods districts. New York City furnishes a striking proof to the contrary. It seems to be widely spread j among one of it* most intelligent classes of citizens. The managers of the Stock Exchange have just flnlabed the task of assigning to mem-