Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1898 — Recognized the Description. [ARTICLE]

Recognized the Description.

A flowery young preacher was sent to a vacant city church to preach. His eloquence dazzled the younger members of the congregation, and the elders of the-church were besieged to have him down again. They at length consented; but thej’ had forgotten his name. So they wrote to one of the seminary professors, saying: “Please send us that floweret, streamlet, rivulet, starlight man to preach for us next Sabbath. We have forgotten his name, but we have no doubt you will be able to recognize him.” He was recognized. He was sent. He became minister of the church. To constitute larceny of money found in a pocketbook the Intent to appropriate it is held, m State vs. Hayes (Iowa), 37 L. R. A. 116, not necessarily to exist at the time when the pocketbook was found, if the fact that it contains money’ is not then known. It is sufficient if the intent is formed when the money is discovered. The authorities on the rights and liabilities of the tinder of property are reviewed in a note to the case. As time is the greatest of physicians, so silence is the greatest of arbiters. Time and silence succeed oftentimes where all other agencies and influences fail.