Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — Two Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Two Pictures.

The mme of uol. Hobeit (1. lngersoll is not as Dromiuont be fore the country as it was a few years ago. It is seldom the eloquent infidel’s name is now seen in print; bat on Wednesday of last week the dispatches to the daily press had occasion to use his name in two instances—notable because of the diametric conditions depicted. J Mr. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy, in an address to the grades ating class at the agricultural and mechanical University of Alabama, delivered the following ad* monition: “Permit me,” he sad, “to ex press the hope, young gentlemen, that none of you will leav,? this institution vannung on having got* ten av ay from the Bible lessons you learned at your mother’s knee; that none of vou will effect to look down with pity on the religion of yonr father’s as a superstition claiming that science, the little smattering of it you can acquire in' a year or so, has taught you all this. T here are now, as there have been in the past, men who, like Robert G. lngersoll, would tear forever trom the heart of man all of the Christian hope and leave him to contemplate in blank dismay the remedibss inequality of human conditions; who would rob the grief-stricken widow and or* phan of the consolations of religion. Tom Paine t. ought a hundred years ago that his ‘Age of Reason’ was to free mankind, as lngersoll now claims he is doing, from what they call the superstition* of Christianity; but Pniue’B Age of Reason has taken its plac* on the book shelf among the dusty volumes of forgotten literature, where Ingerso I’b leco tures will mold, while Christiauity is conquering the world.”

At about the same hour a resi* deut of New York killed bis faithful and helpless wife, and then sent a bullet through his own brain, leaving the following note: “Being unable to bear life’s mis** eries any longer, I determine to end my life, taking my dearly beloved companion with me. Col. Ingersoil is right in his vijws and lectures, and in my opinion, is the most sensible man of the century. Our social system is wrong and unjust, and our laws, churches and priests ara fakes. They ail serve but one God, and hjs name is Mammon.” It would appear that comment is entirely unnecessary. Our neighbors of the “Republican” and “Pilot” confers there is a boom on in business, resumption of work by factories and mills knocked out by the McKinley bill, the starting up of u w enterprises, and a general increase of wages all along th. line. The‘Republican a.tributes it to our cougressn man Hatch’s deliverance on the tariff, and the ‘Pilot’ asserts that is due to instruction received in **Ooio’s financial school,” the prospect of free silver, andfthe coming to the front of the principle of ‘referendum’? Jas. A.MoConahay, of Roweua, Mo., formerly of Monticello, an old time Duu njratio fri ud, gave

| A daughter at Geo. Striekfaden’s Thursday of last week. A son at Geo. Barcus’, Saturday. A daughter to Mrs Worden, widow of the late Charles Worden, Monday night M s. Nellie Spitler Learning and family, of Goshen, are visiting her parents and friends in Rensselaer. Jessup & Son have just finished a good residence for J. W. Pierce, on !>is farm south of Rensselaer. I. A. Bostwick returned from lowa, Saturday night. He reports good rains and good crop pros* pects.

Mrs. C D. Martin returned f-om Indianapolis, Tuesday, ac companied I v her niece, Miss Anna Scott, of K nsas, daughter of Samuel Scott, at ot:e time a resident of Keusselner. All day Children’s Day exercises will be held at Rose Bud ebureb, Lnion township, Sunday, June 30. “Come with full baskets a <1 *tay all day,” is die invitation extended to the public. J. C. Porter bas returned from Cameron Springs much improved in health.

NV. 'v. Wats' n, special pei.sior examiner, has been transferred from Paducah, Ky., to Nevada, Miss uri. Euronte to his new field he stopped off a few days here to visit his family. Married Samuel Ankeny, of Ohio, ard Miss Belle . Hall, of vening, by J ustice Burnham. Benjamin G. Oglesbv, of Medaryvillr, and Miss Laura Postill, at the iesidence of the or de’s parents, in Rensselaer, Suuday June 10, 1895, by Rev. Sebriuy, of Medaryvil e. Alpho”»o Phi.lips and Mis* Agnes Y. Whitt'eßey, Friday afternoon, June 14, at tin residence of the officiating minister, Rev. R. D. Utter. John E. Sutton and Miss Lizzie baitwell, of Milroy township, in Rensse a;r, Thursday June Uth, by Justice Morgan.

Mr. Alder ana wife, of Lafays die, visited Rev. M. R. Paradis and family this week. l'be man arrested for robber - , of the Monon station at this place goes ucquit; there was no evidence to implicate him. Jim Rodgers, we understand goes to Michigan City Jfor two years. lom. McCoy is making some very sensible additions and improvements to his residence on McCoy Avemn - Wm. B. Price, ex-county commisnoner, died at his home, iD Carpenter township, lost Saturday. His wife and seven children survive him. v Ye overheaid a lover of go< d cheese, rema-k, the other day, that the per pouud produc* of the creamery at this place is far supes nor to ‘he article retuled in our stores at 15 cents.