Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Willing to Oblige. [ARTICLE]

Willing to Oblige.

I Football has apparently kicfted 1 . out its base rival of “the diamond field. ”

The city of Rutland has been incorporated, and Vermont is wearing a large-sized white marble bouquet in honor of the event.

I Jesse Grant, the youngest son of the famous General, is now settled down with his family at Piedmont, Cal., where he has been quite successful in the mining business.

Judge Roger A. Pryor has made a friend of every woman in the country. He has laid down the rule that a man who would kiss a girl and then tell about it should not be believed under oath.

The Sultan of Morocco has 6,000 wives, while the Sultan of Turkey has only 300 The descendant of Ottman must feel quite lonesome when he contemplates the social con- 4 dition of the African potentate.

The penitentiary is too good a place for the members of “the coal trust” who are now arranging to reduce the output of coal and freeze the people into accepting their terms. The enforcers of the law are poor sticks if they stand idle while these magnates plot and plan.

A French scientist figures it out that the number of deaths in the entire world in a century amounts to 4,500,000,000. And yet the relatives of John Smith get mad as soreheeled mules when the rural editor refuses to give him more than a stickful of obituary taffy.

At the top of Pike’s Peak the air is so rarefied that cats taken there invariably have fits and die before they get acclimatized. If there were more Pike’s Peaks in the country and a few millions of cats were transported to them, blessed sleep would fall on the weary and there would be an immense economy in missiles hurled into back yards.

George T. Kibling, of Norwich, Vt., who was sentenced to sixtyseven years’ imprisonment for selling liquor to Dartmouth students, does not seem to be suffering much from his incarceration, seeing that he is around the streets every day, only calling in at the jail every month or so to let them know how he is getting along and to swap cigars and stories.

True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.

A book which has just been published in Germany, reciting the horrors and hardships of female workers in the factories, and the immoralities resulting therefrom, has aroused the government to appoint a commission to report upon the facts. The book nays “cheap wages and cheap goods have done this for the working women of Germany.” The book is written by a woman who gives her personal experience as an operative in the factories.

A striking example of honesty in politics was shown in the Probate Court of Philadelphia a few days ago. The late Samuel J. Bandall was for years one of the most trusted leaders of the Democratic party in Congress. He was the only Democrat In the State who was certain of reelection to Congress, and. by the way, after the death of Mr. Kelly, was the leader of the protectionists in the House, and yet his widow appeared In court and made oath to the fact that he left nothing in the way of property to account for. He lived simply and died poor, a fact that is the crowning glory of one of the most distinguished of republican statesmen.

A meeting of the National Committee on the International Congress to be held in connection with the Columbian Exposition at Chicago next summer was held at Drexel Institute. Among the members of this committee are William T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education; President Gilman, Johns Hopkins University; General Francis A. Walker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston; Dr. Nicholas Hurray Butler, Columbia College; Superintendent Edwin P. • Seavor, Boston; Professor E. H. Cook, President National Education Association; Dr. E. O. Lyte, .Principal MiliersVille State Normal School; President James Mac Alister, Drexel Institute. The rumor that the removal of Capt Irving, of the White Star steamer Teutonic, is due to displeasure of the management of the company with his attempts at “breaking the record,” recalls the old days of ateamboatrracing on the Ohio and the Mississippi. People like to travel rapidly, but they like also to travel •afely, and a reputation for racing hurts the patronage of a ship. It is quite reasonable that it should. There are times when it is the part of the . prudent captain to “slow down,” even at the risk of bringing his vessel into port behind her schedule. But the racing spirit is incompatible with the

exercise of'prudence. Racers are Ilka gamblers, and will risk everything

No possible condition would make everybody rich. So in discussing the inequalities of present social life thq fact of inequality does not argue one way or the other in the matter. It is practically true in this country that any young man, however little he may have to begin with, may by industry and saving accumulate a competence. He may not be able to save it after he gets it. That is the trouble with most who complain of poverty. They do not begin to make the small savings on which prosperity depends, or if they do a little prosperity turns their heads, capsizes their craft, and in modern phrase puts them “in the soup” again. If it is notalways tube so the reform must be made by educating a better race of men and women.

There is little doubt that the determination of the Federal authorities to maintain strict quarantine regulations as to steerage immigrants will meet the approval of all sensible persons. The new modifications by which cabin passengers and Americans returning in the steerage are permitted to land after passing inspection by the local health authorities divest the previously prevailing precautionary regulations of their more burdensome features without unduly relaxing their efficiency. It would be madness to allow our vigilance to wane now, when cholera is reported as spreading in other parts of the world. We have kept it out so far, and should endeavor to do so till the danger has entirely disappeared,

The king is dead, long live the king! The time-honored game of base-ball, like the American buffalo, and nearly everything else mundane, has had its day, and now the “national game,” with all its exhilaration and excitement, with its charleyliorses and scores and umpires and extras and daisy cutters, and all its familiar paraphernalia, is a thing of'the past, to be buried in the archives of the long ago beyond the hope of resurrection. And foot-ball has come to take its place and the chances are that it will have even a longer lease of life than the sport which it supplants. The one thing in which football has the vast advantage over the other game is the superior facility with which it turns out gore-covered victims and wrecks of humanity. Like the gladiatorial combats of old, its superiority lies in its bloodthirsty character, and as long as it retains its popularity the young men of the country will have no craving to go to the wars. With rival elevens the nations of Europe may even be persuaded to disband their standing armies and trust their destinies to the foot-ball field in preference to the arbitrament of the sword, on the principle that in the new game there is a much better chance to satisfy the prevalent taste for gore.

The Senatorial investigation of the Homestead riots threw no favorable light upon Pinkertonism as a means of settling labor troubles. The system, on the contrary, seems to be worse than had been popularly supposed. No private citizen should bo empowered to employ .a band of irresponsible armed men. The fact that such bodies are allowed to march through the coantry as the retairiers of some individual or corporation paying for their services is in itself .an insult to the law of the land, which should be able to furnish protection to every citizen by means of the legal authorities. According to the testimony brought 'Out before the committee, it has been proved on various occasions that strikers ars •enraged and rendered desperate by the presence of agency detectives, while they usually submit with good grace to the authority of the police »r the militia. This is wry natural, for fchej look yjv-r. che av enemies hired by their employers to intimidate them, while eiioy realize that it is the duty erf the legal authorities to protect roc rights oi all citizen? impartially. The tesviaony aiso brought out the fact tints these companies of private detectives were frequently made up of ruffians, tramps and disreputable characters—men whom it is certainly not wise to arm and send into a region already disqjaieted and on the verge of an outbreak. In arbitration lies the ultimata hope of settling labor troubles peacefully and satisfactorily, but arbitration becomes impossible the minute au employer opposes his men with a band of Hessians. Pinkertonißm is a relic of the middle ages and must go.

There was a certain master of foxhounds in one of the English shires who was greatly angered by the awkwardness of one of the gentlemen who invariably rode over the hounds. At one of the meets, the M. F. 11. rode up to the awkward hunter, and, in the most chilling tones said: “Mr. So-and-so, there are two dogs in the pack to-day, Snap and Tatters, which I am especially fond of, and I would esteem it a favor if you would avoid killing or maiming them with your horse’s hoofs.” “Certainly, my dear fellow,” replied Mr. So-and-so; “but, as I do not know them, will you be kind enough to put tags on them tor me?”