Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — A GOOD MAN’S ANGER. [ARTICLE]

A GOOD MAN’S ANGER.

Charles Sumner’s Resentment of England's Attitude During the War. But especially toward Great Britain, Mr. Sumner felt his strongest, possibly his most bitter, resentment. Reared in the study of her history, filled with respectful admiration for her great men, learned in all the details of her constitutional existence, sincere follower of the liberal school from which her greater glories spring, and, so to speak, enamored of those abolitionists who, long before his day, had trodden the path upon which he had walked unflinchingly, Mr. Sumner, it may be said, felt, as regards that nation, which had wellnigh openly declared its hostility of the Union’s cause, a sentiment of love betrayed. How was it possible that Lord Russell, the impregnable bulwark of the abolitionist cause In England, had become In 1862 an opponent of American abolitionists? It was always with bitter sadness, though never angrily, that Mr. Sumner expiessed himself regarding the existing relations between the United States and Great Britain. To his mind that nation was guilty of a great moral wrong, and owed those who had suffered therefrom a manifest atonement. Such was the feeling which inspired his speeches, at times eloquently passionate, on the existing intercourse between the two Anglo-Saxon nations. On reading them one can readily understand what explosions such fiery words would provoke on the other side of the Atlantic. A challenge of war was thought to be concealed under them. The orator was even accused of exciting the worst of feelings and of appealing to the darkest of hatreds. But in all.this English public opinion was mistaken. Mr. Sumner only considered that Lord Palmerston, Lord Russell and their colleagues had wronged the United States, and it was by appealing to higher sentiments that he demanded justice of their successors.

Perilous Fishing:. Dynamite-fishing the killing of fish by exploding dynamite bombs under or upon the water, and then gathering the stunned or killed fish which are brought to the surface —is so generally condemned that there will not be much sympathy for the human performer in the following tragedy, recorded in some of the English newspapers: A man in Bideford, in the southwestern part of England, had a dog which he had carefully trained to bring to him whatever he had thrown into the water. Early one morning this man went out to a pond near his place, carrying with him a dynamite bomb, with which he intended to “make a haul” of the trout in the pond. He lighted the fuse, and threw the bomb into the wate^ Unluckily he had eituw failed to notice or else had forgotten that his dog followed him. On the instant the dpg sprang into the water, swam to the floating bomb, seized it and brought it ashore, to place it at his master’s feet. The man tried to command the dog to drop the terrible object, but the animal showed the excellence of his training by clinging to It and rapidly approaching the shore. Then the lazy fisherman took to his heels. The dog came ashore and followed him at a more rapid rate than the man could run, the dynamite in its mouth and the fuse burning. It was a wild race for a high wall not far away. The dog gained every instant. The man was in despair, for he knew the bomb would explode presently with murderous force. He reached the wall, and scrambled over It just in time, for at that instant, as the dog came to the foot of the wall, the dynamite exploded. The unfortunate dog was blown to atoms, hut the man escaped with a severe shaking up- and a disposition to fish in the future with a hook and line. Bits of News. An English teacher, Miss A. C. Graham, has taken a prize offered by the University Correspondent for the best collection of pupils’ blunders. She vouches for them all as literal

copies of tbc originals, and explains that si’ was led to set about their collection by reading one day the surprising statement that “Ilaied and Odessae translated Euripides.” We give a few of the choicest gems of her collection, in some of which the outcropping of the English idea that* all history converges on the British Isles is almost startling: Esau was a man who wrote fables and who sold the copyright to a publisher for a bottle of potash. The Jews believed in the synagogue and had their Sunday on a Saturday, but the Samaritans believed in the Church of England and worshiped in groves of oak, therefore the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. Titus was a Roman Emperor—supposed to have written the Epistle to the Hebrews—his other names was Oates. Oliver Cromwell was a man who was put into prison -for his interference in Ireland. When he was in prison he wrote “The Pilgrim’s Progress” and married a lady called Mrs. O’Shea. Wolsey was a famous general who fought in tne Crimean war. and who, after being decapitated several times, said to Cromwell: “Ah, if I had only served you as you have served me, I would not have been deserted in my old age.” Perkin Warbeck raised a rebellion in the reign of Henry VIII. He said he was the son of a prince, but he was really the son of respectable people. The heart is a comical shaped bag. The heart is divided into several parts by a fleshy petition. These parts are called right artillery, left artillery, and so forth. The function of the heart is between t?ie lungs. The work of the heart is to repair the different organs in about half a minute. Explain the words fort and fortress. A fort is a place to put men in, and a fjrtress a place to put women in. Hydrostatics is when a mad dog bites you. It is called hydrophobia when a dog is mad, and hydrostatics when a man catches it.

Few People Satisfied with Money Alone. As a matter of fact, the chief impression produced by great wealth, even in America, is simply curiosity, not admiration, hardly even*envy. There are many things that people really value more than wealth at any time—perhaps, thinks Harper’s Bazar, valuing wealth only as a means for these things. In youth people prize amusement, pleasure, love; and wealth is thrown away recklessly for the sake of such ends. After the maturer tastes are developed, people have no objection to wealth for the sake of other aims which it may promote, but it is not a substitute for those aims. An artist loves art, the man of science loves science, the student loves study, the inventor loves invention, the domestic man loves home. Even the man of action loves action mainly as a thing attractive in itself. He would readily accept wealth as a means of achieving his other purposes, but he would not sell those purposes for wealth. The proof of this is that he does not; indeed, he often impoverishes himself for his own pursuits. “Beyond a very moderate account,” wrote Coleridge, “I regard money as a real evil.” The man of other pursuits knows that one cannot possibly be very rich and carry on those other pursuits also, so engrossing is the mere care of property, and so difficult and absorbing is the wise use of it Many a prominent artist or author has been simply ruined for the purposes for which he was created by becoming heir to a large estate; not that it demoralized him otherwise, but it left him no time for his natural work. Volumes have been written on the suppression of genius through poverty, but very little has yet been said on the wrecking of genius through wealth.

The Mysterious .Loss. Mr. J. E. Emerson, a California “forty-niner,” relates a curious story in the Scientific American. Gold, while its melting point is over 2,01 6 degrees, will evaporate at a much lower heat. In 1803-4 the Government Inspector visited the (then) new mint at San Francisco, to “take stock,” and found a deficiency of $160,000. Tremendous excitement ensued, the sensation being almost equal to that caused by the acts of the famous “Vigilance Committee.” Wholesale arrests were threatened, until some cool head suggested that evaporation was the th;ef—that the missing gold had flown up the chimney. Sure enough, examination of the slate roof showed it covered with feathery gold, where the cold air had caused it to be deposited when it came out of the chimney. The slates were torn off; also those from several near-by buildings; these were ground to powder, and much of the gold recovered. So also was the furnace and chimney brick, and, after all was saved that could be profitably by the methods in use in San Francisco, the dust was sent to the mint in Philadelphia. Here it was worked over more closely, and then the dust was sold to French chemists, who shipped it to 1 aris and worked it over again there. More than one-half of the $160,000, as well as the good name of the San Francisco official, was saved by these various processes. Improved methods now prevent any recurrence of such mysterious losses. Delay of Malls. One curious cause of delay in the delivery of mail in inclement seasons is not generally understood. It results from the fact that mail is assorted for delivery, or “thrown” as they say in the business, on the trains. Two men cover a certain line of road and one is supposed to be atone end when the other is ready to start from the opposite end. If one gets caught in a snow storm er by accident the other goes out as usual and both get on one end. The consequence is that when the next train Is ready there is no railway mail clerk for the run and mail is not sent out. A Historical Jewel. At the court ball in Berlin recently the Empress wore in her hair the famous jeweled hat-buckle of Napoleon 1., which fell into the hands of the Prussian cavalry at'Waterloo. The stones in it, though not large, are magnificent It was originally made for the coronation ceremony in Notre Dame in 1804.