Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A QUEER PERSONAGE. Oea, Ton Hm«lw, tki Moltke •( the rro ent, end Hle Eccentrteftle*. One of the most extraordinary and at the same time important personages of the German army Is Gen. Count von Beseler. who commands In chief the troops in Alsace-Lorraine, and than whom no one stands higher in the esteem and regard of his Emperor. Yet there is no man whom one would imagine at first sight less likely to excite such sentiments on the part of a monarch like Raiser Wilhelm. The General has nothing of the trim, wellgroomed and natty appearance of the German officer about him. There is no man that dresses worse: his uniforms, hanging about him like old rags, are greasy and worn, and give him an aspect of an antiquated umorella. He disdains all the artifices of the toilet, lives on the coarsest kind of food and seems to grudge every moment that he wastes either at the table or in bed. He drinks nothing but water, has a heart that is utterly Insensible to the charms of the fair sex and is all twisted and warped in figure. This is owing to the face that he was dangerously wounded in the war of 1870 at the battle of Saint Private, where he lost two ribs. He has been obliged to wear ever since a sort of silver braoe, or oorset He has no ear for music, and has been heard to make the remark that it was only calculated to please imbeciles—-a remark which was naturally at once conveyed to the Kmperor, who had just been expressing the utmost enthusiasm about Wagner. But the Emperor puts up with everything from Heseler, whom he regards as the only man capable of succeeding Moltke. and who in his maneuvers a couple ot years ago, when his majesty assumed charge of one of the rival armies, had the temerity to surround and capture his sovereign. At the same time it is not agreeable to serve under the General as either officer or soldier. It is a frequent sight to see him stop a soldier in the most crowded thoroughfare of Meta and to make him remove his boots and stockings to see if his feet are as immaculate as demanded by military regulations.

DEATH AFTER ALL HOT SO GRIM. The Final Hour Usually Brings Neither Fear nnr Pain. Familiarity with death is apt to alter one’s earlier conceptions of it. Two ideas are very generally accepted which experience shows to be false. One is that the dying usually fear death; and the other, that the act of dying Is accompanied by pain. It is well known to all physicians that when death is near its terrors do not seem to bo felt by the patient. Unless the imagination is stimulated by the frightful portrayal of the “pangs of death,” or of the sufferings which some believe the soul must endure after dissolution, it is rare, indeed, that the last days or hours of life are passed in dread. Oliver Wendell Holmes has recorded his protest against the custom of telliug a person who does not actually ask to know that he cannot recover. As that loving observer of mankind asserts, so must everyone who knows whereof ho speaks assert that people almost always come to understand that recovery is impossible it is rarely needful to tell myone that this is khf, case. When nature gives the warning death appears to be as little feared as sleep. Most sick persons are very, very tired: sleep—long, quiet sleep is what they want. I have seen many people die. 1 have never seen one who seemed to fear death except when it was or seemed to be rather far away. Even those who are con tantly haunted while strong and well with a dread of the end of life forget their fear when that end is at hand. As for the act of dying—the final passage from life to death—it is al> solutely without evidence that the oftrepeated assertions of its painfulness are made. Most people are unconscious for some hours before they die and in the rare fuses where consciousness is retained unimpai ed until a few minutes before the end the last sensation must be of perfect calm and rest. It is worse than cruel to add to the natural dread of death which oppresses the majority of us while in good health the dread of dying.—Dr. J. W. Roosevelt, in Scribner.

PERSONAL. PARAGRAPHS. Mrs. Thomas Hardy has always been a most able second in her busband’s literary work. There’s a hospital in Soo Chow, China, in charge of Dr. Anne Walter, a Mississippi woman. Mrs. J. a B. Stewart, widow of the famous Confederate raider, is 'now the principal of a girls’ school in Missouri Gen. William Booth, of the Salvation Afmy, is about 66 years of age, and is as active and vigorous as many men of SO. Count Tolstoi laid the foundation of his literary reputation by writing news letters irom Sebastopol during the Crimean war. Miss Elizabeth Fleming has been appointed orier of the United States Circuit and District Court* at Portland. Miss Fleming was previously the court stenographer. A Western bishop of the Episoopal Churoh says that the suocess of the churoh’s missionary operations in the far West is largely due to the munificenoe of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs. Louibe Chandler Moulton has £ London home at W T eymouth street, Portland place, and she" is accredited with being one of the halfdozen women in London able to create and hold a salon. Herbert Gladstone has undertaken the task of raising money for a statue of Cromwell. If he succeeds in this, there will be no certainty that the statue will be permitted to : nd a resting place In Westminster Abcev.

Mice to Muitt. The State of Indiana, ) Jasper Comity f In the Jasper Circuit Court, January Term, 1897. William P Irwin 1 vs v Complaint No 5163 Lois Penwright, ) Now oomes the Plaintiff, by Arthur H Hopkins, his attorney, and files his complaint neruin, together with an affidi vit that the defendant Lois Penwright is not a resident of the State of Indiana Notice is therefore hereby given said Defendant, that unless she be and appear on the first day of the next Torm of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holden on the first JMonday of January, a d 1897, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in’said County and State and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in her absence In Witness Whereof I hereunto set my t —-1 hand and affix the Seal • f ] Seal [■ said Court, at Rensselaer, ' —i— J Indiana, this 28th day of Ootobar, A d 1896 Wm H COOVER, Clerk A H Hopkins, Att’y for’pl’ff October 30, 1896—f6