Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Saw Queer Things. [ARTICLE]

Saw Queer Things.

A. D, Smith, of Cranesville, Tenn., died to all appearances, but during ths funeral services a thumping was heard on the coffin lid, and wnen it was removed Mr. Smith sat up and stared at the group of fainting women and startled men. He was taken to hi* home and in a few hours seemed to recover. He told of many queer things whioh he saw in heaven and of friends with whom he shook hands. He said they showed him a book In whioh were written the name? of himself, his wife and children. His own name was partially erased. The next day he called out, “I see them,” end fell baok dead. B. 8. Fendig, the hide, fur and junk dea er, has moved his place of business into the room next door to Huffs jewelry store, recently occupied by Thomas’ meat market

The contract for a fine milling outfit has about been closed up by the Messrs. Saylera & Hollister. Go and see those solid gold watches, at Clarke’s. A horse belonging to surveyor J E. Alter slipped on the ice last Friday broke a leg and had to be shot. Oak Rockers from $1 50 to $8 at Williams’. Joe Reynolds, of the Republican had tho half of first jontof a finger taken off by the job press last Saturday. Ladies’ and gents’ chains, th® finest lines, at Clarke’s. Alf. Donnelly had a new boy take up his residence with him Monday. Ladies silver watch and silver chatetetes for, $9 50 at Clarke’s. The K. of P. will celebrate the anniversary of Pythianism next Sunday at the M. E. ohuroh.— Rev. Campbell will preach an ap* propriate sermon on the occasion.

See those niet uios writing! desks at Williams’. Rev. Geo. Hinds of Crown Point will conduct German Lutheran services, at the court house, Suno day morning, Feb. 26th. For the latest designs in jewehy go to Clarke’s t F J. liff & Son have bough th Q livery stock of Robinson & Clark. Fourteen different kinds of bed ounges, at Williams’ Edwin Mauck am 1 sister Sarah are visiting relatives and friends at Mattoou and Effingham, 111. For the nicest thing in watches, for presents, go to Clarke’s.

Last Saturday Solomon McCurtain, Barkley township, had a stroke »f paralysis. Dr Alter is in charge. Porter <& Wishard are now occupying their new quarters in the Hollingsworth building just comn’eted and will be pleased to wait upon customers, old a*.d 'new.— Give them a call. Jay Williams his filled his ware rooms with a handsome and exs tensive stock of goods especially for the holiday trade. Call and The town board is unanimously republican, and true to the tariff ideas of the republican party, adopted an ordinance requiring owners of cows io pay tribute to owners of pasture lauds. Miss Jessie Bartoo makes a spe cialty of children’s pictures at the World’s F?ir Pavilion. Give her a call

Advertised Letters — Miss Nora Barker, Mr. Frank Corbin, b. Skip, 2. Persons calling for letters in the above list will please say they are advertised. Ed. Rhoades. Boarding by the meal, day or week at the World’s Fair restaurant, C. H. Vick, proprietor. Capt. M. F. Chilcote, W. D. Sayier, B. L. Sayler and Joseph Burns attended the annual ieunion of the 48th Indiana regiment at LaPorte last week. The next reunion will be held at Rensselaer, Sept. 19,1894. Hi Day sold bis new house on Cullen street to John Q. Alter. Mrs Chas. Jouvenat, Chicago, is visions her father and friends in Rensselaer. Jess Grubb now occupies hi 8 new home. The witch party given by Misses Hattie and Nellie Hopkins at their home, Monday evening, is repor - ed to have been a unique and enjoyable affair.

Prices and good* guaranteed at Clarke’s. The marriage of David Leatheirnan and Miss Mary Fulks was solemnized at Rensselaer recently. Both parties are well known in this vioinity, and start out on their journey through life together with the best wishes of Wolcott friends. —-Wcicott Enterprise. A yom g man named Wilson, in the employ of Enos M, Timmons, Jordar township, arose early Wednesday morn'ng and took his departure, unexpectedly to hig em~ plover. His room mate, Mort Crockett, is out his coat, vest and money. Mr. JTimmons is out two watches.

Every Men Mis Own Protection. There lives In New York an Irishman who sometimes goes over to his native isle, and who learns a thing or two at each visit. Upon one at tyhese visits he found that one workingman in the region where the visitor found himself was paid considerable more pei; week than his fellows got. “Why do they pay you more than these other men get!” he asked the laborer. “Because I’m worth more,” was the answer. “I’ve been to America and learned how to work.” Any one who knows American working men and workingmen abroad can understand this. We are the nerviest, cleverest, hardiest people on earth. It is not boasting to say this; it is simple truth. Not only is this true, but it is also true that intelligent foreigners coming to Amerioa soon catch our ways and learn how to do almost the work of two days in one. A man who has studied the Italians says that when these men first come to America they are slow and awkward, but they presently learn how to work and develop into excellent workmen. This is as true of skilled as of unskilled workmen. The Italian mechanic is accustomed to lighter tools than we use in America, and he finds himself at a disadvantage until he learns the ways of our people, but if he has the stuff in him he gets to doing an American instead of an Italian day’s work. A contractor who had built railroads all over the world said that the cost per mile was no more in Illinois at $1.35 per day for labor than in British India at nine cents a day for labor. The talk about foreign pauper labor and the danger of its competition is a humbug. We need not fear it, because it is pauper labor. The laborer to be feared is the fellow who can do a bigger day’s work than the American laborer, and he has yet to be bom. In British India a man who is not more than fairly well off will havo a dozen servants in his house, each at ridiculously low wages, but they will not do the work of two wide awake women with American training, and their wages, taken altogether, amount to more than you’d pay to three such women.

Where American workmen are paid more than foreign workingmen it is because they are worth more and not because of protection. If you hire ten skilled workingmen of American birth or training to do a piece of work and pay them $3.50 per day, the cost of doing that work will be thirty-five dollars a day. ■ If you hire three times as many unskilled, untrained, inefficient men at one-third the wages, you’ll pay the same amount in the aggregate and get no more work done. But are there no foreign workingmen as skillful and efficient as American workingmen t In a few trades there are foreigners who can do things that our people cannot do, or can do but poorly, and those men are often as well paid as American workingmen. In other trades there are skilled foreigners whose hours are shorter than those of workingmen in Amerioa, or who use less labor saving machinery, and therefore get less work done. As a rule, however, the day’s labor of an American is worth more than the day’s labor of s foreigner who haa'nofi learned our ways, and for that reason the wages of the American are higher. The best protection of American labor lies in the energy, skill, intelligence and persistency of the American laborer. “Every man his own protection” is a good cry. This is how a New York widow got ahead of the Inman Steamship company. She owned a narrow strip of land which the company wished, and, of course, she asked an outrageous price for it. A compromise was finally readied. She offered to deed the land if the company would in return agree to give to her and her two daughters, as long as she lived, free passage upon the steamers of the line. As she was an elderly lady the company agreed to it. This was in 1889, Ever since then the lady and her daughters have lived aboard the company’s steamers, and as they run vessels to nearly all the principal parts of the world she travels whenever she wishes,

Of the effect of the increase of the wool duties, the Chicago Tribune (Rep.) ■ays: The wool grower will not have an increased price for his fleeces. They have gone down instead of up, because the higher cost of woolen goods will check consumption. That will lessen the demand* for American fine wool, and that will lower the price of wool. So the sheep owner who was meant to be the chief gainer will be the chief loser, for he will pay more for his woolen goods and get less for his wool. He will feel worse than the consumer who has no sheep, and who loses at one end only. A new instrument that possesses value and novelty is a speculum for examining horses’ mouths. It is the invention of an Illinois man, and consists of a bit broad enough to keep the horse’s mouth open and an arrangement of reflectors to determine easily the condition of the throat and mouth.