Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Page 3

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How to Tell a Good Banana.

When you are buying bananas never purchase the long thin ones unless you want fruit that will pucker your mouth. No matter how well ripened these thin bananas may appear to be, they will always be found both soar and acrid. This is because the bunch which contained them was picked too soon. The banana grows faster at first in length. W T hen It has reached its full development in that direction, It suddenly begins to swell, and In a few days will double In girth. It is at the end of this time that it begins to ripen nautrally, and the effort of the banana importer is to have tbe fruit gathered at the last possible moment, and yet before the ripening "has progressed even enough to tinge the bright green of the fruit witb-yellow. difference of 24 hoars on the trees at this time will make a difference in the weight of the fruit of perhaps 25 per cent., and all the difference in it* fine flavor, between a pnckery sour and the sweetness and smoothness which are characteristic of the ripe fruit. To get the bananas to onr market in good condition requires fast steamers, which must be provided ■vfrith ventilation and other means of keeping the fruit from ripening too fast in the hold. Much of the finest fruit does ripen in the few days of passage, and this is sold to hucksters for street sale—Boston Traveler.

Growing Erect.

In the pictures by Gibson and others of that class depicting social life, it Is remarked that the women are drawn sitting, with heads erect and splendid carriage, or standing In stately attitude, tall, graceful creatures, while the men almost invariably appear roundshouldered, bunched down In their chairs until they lose the benefit of their extra height, and often appear shorter than their well-poised companions. "Why cannot the new man rise to his full height, either sitting or standing, and assume the splendid poise of the new woman? It may be the reason that the girls now are taller than they used to be, is that emphasizing all the height they have their statute Increases. At all events this matter of the difference in carriage between most men and women has been remarked by the observant ones in our audiences this winter.—Boston Traveler.

A Bad Twist.

An Irish laborer, having overslept himself one morning, and in his hurry to get to work on time put his trousers on hind side before, arrived at the building on which he was working a little late, and hurriedly ascended the ladder. When about half way up he slipped and fell to the ground. A crowd of fellow laborers soon assembled and at once began to shout, “He’s dead! He’s dead!” But Mike, looking over him carefully and turning around, said, in a solemn tone: “No, he’s not dead, but he got a bad twlsht.”

FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD.

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Paralyzed by the Fall.

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POLITICS OF THE DAY

*TI3 A DEMOCRATIC YEAR. This is a Democratic year. Republicans fear it; Democrat* know It Republican* who are not apathetic are demoralized, Vermont and Maine'have caused thrills of apprehension among the leaders of the grand old party. “Slain in the house of a friend” Is the verdict on the mortality caused by the action of the voters in the two great citadels of Republican polities. Alger is too heavy a load. Hanna weighs on the party like an incubus. McKinley is blown about by every wind of doctrine and panic threatens to ensue. Democrats will undoubtedly control the next House of Representatives. The probable status of affairs may be tabulated as follows: PRESENT HOUSE. Democrats 130 Republicans f. 202 Populists 21 Fusionists 1 Silver party "3 Republican majority 47 PROBABLE NEXT HOUSE. Democrats 167 Republicans -129 Fusion , 1 26 Doubtful 32 Should the Republicans manage to elect every one In the doubtful list they would still have eighteen less than a majority in the House. Reports from many districts now represented by Republicans give the most flattering indications of Democratic success. Indeed, the members of the national Democratic Congressional Committee at Washington are highly pleased with the outlook and find that their most liberal estimate gives the Republicans but 134 members in the next House, thirty-five less than a majority. Truly, this is a Democratic year. But that should not cause Democrats to slacken in their labors. It should encourage them to renewed efforts and ■tir them to the most vigorous action. “Honest Money.” The fundamental objection to free coinage in this country has been and Is that it is “dishonest.” The “market price” of silver is less than 60 cents on ounce, and tbe coinage rate at 16 to 1 Is $1.29. It is claimed that the dishonesty of coining 60 cents’ worth of silver into twice as much moni*y is too clear to require any argument. The same contention has been made right along whether silver was worth 60, 70, 80, 90 or 100 cents per ounce. It has always been dishonest, according to gold standard reasoning, to coin it at any higher rate than the market price. This, of course, excludes the coinage use of the metal as an element in its value, and assumes that silver will be worth no more with the American mint open, thus creating an enormous demand for It, than it is now with the mint closed and silver deprived of that demand. Laying aside this palpable absurdity, there are a few simple questions we would like to propound: First, if to lower the value of money below the gold level, or to cdin silver a* a rate above its market value in gold, is dishonest in America, it is not equally dishonest everywhere? What, then, has the gold advocate to say of the action of Japan in reducing the weight of the gold yen one-half and establishing the gold standard on the basis of what has been called in this country a “50-eent” silver dollar? Have we heard any outcry from that sourca about the “dishonesty” of Japan? Russia has acted in a similar way. She has reduced the weight of her gold coins so that the quantity of gold which formerly made ten rubles will now make fifteen. Have the gold men indulged In any denunciation of the “dishonesty” of such action on the part of Russia?—National Bimetallist. Alger’s Belief in Himself. Secretary Alger may see nothing wrong in tbe management of the war department—men of his small caliber are always satisfied with their own doings—but President McKinley, who is responsible for him, ought not to add another blunder to that of his selection for the cabinet by accepting as &>rrect his own estimate of himself. Alger needs Investigation and if the President’s friendship 'for him is so great that he cannot order it and see that It is thorough and impartial, then he should eall Congress in extra session at once and let that body appoint a committee in whom the country will have confidence. There are ugly stories afloat, not only about political “pulls” having secured the appointment of incompetent men to positions of responsibility in the war department, but about influences being; at work of a much more serious and' disgraceful character. These should be| ssarched into, and if there is any truth 1 in them somebody should surely go to! jail. | Alger i* conceited enough to think j that his perfunctory strutting around i the camp at Montauk Point for a sow hours and talkng loudly about what “1” have done and about what “I” will do is going to be accepted by the public as a thorough vindication of himself, and as a spectacle before which the hundreds of needless dead and the thousands of needlessly i]'l are bound to be forgotten. If President McKinley agrees with h m then there are breakers ahead for him and his party such as wire not dreamed of when the war with Spain began.—New York Times. The Silver Issue. It is now so certain that the Democratic party at the election of 1900 will stand by the Chicago platform of 1890, and reaffirm it, that a refusal on the part of any local or State organizations of the party to distinctly approve ' of that platform would be worse than folly. Any one who advocates such a course—who prates of Ignoring national questions and conciliating unfaithful leaders—must be desirous of Democratic defeat. He must wish to Introduce discrepancy and confusion Into onr councils. He must desire to divide the party upon issues concerning which a national convention, and also our regular State convention of 189 Q, have announced their deliberate declarations, and which declarations are as certain to be reaffirmed for future political contests as such political contests are to occur. He may. utter such pretenses as he chooses of a desire to strengthen the party, but he must be aware that his policy would fatally weaken it Behind the Democratic organization to every State stands a vast body of

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voters who will abandon it if It abandons its principles. If the Democratic party fails to stand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver they will find one that wilL If the Democratic party fails to sustain the gold and silver coin of the Constitution—the silver dollar of the days of George Washington—another party will adopt the war-cry and welcome them. By advocating silver coinage the Democrats lost a very few thousands votes two years ago, and by ceasing to advocate it now It would lose millions and go into a minority for a generation. History is fall of examples of disappointed and selfish leaders who have proved unfaithful to their friends and followers. The only thing for the rank and file to do in such case Is to let them go. We have waited for two years for the men who bolted from us, and helped elect McKinley, to return to duty. Patience is exhausted, and those who are not with us must be reckoned to be against us.—New York News. Wheat at 84 Cents. How do our Republican brethren think the price of wheat and the price of silver coincide nowadays, say since Leiter’s wheat corner collapsed? We dislike very much to refer to this painful subject, but our anxiety to print the truth as it Is compels us to make a suggestion along that line occasionally. Last winter when wheat was selling at $1.40 a Democrat hardly dared say wheat and silver. The Republicans laughed lustily and loudly. They still laugh, but It is out of the other end of their mouths. Wheat at 64 cents is not nearly as funny as at $1.50. Wheat and silver do not travel together, according to the Republican theory, but you can’t tell a thing about a Republican. They are all such jokers. Last spring they had all the elections carried on the $1.50 wheat deal. Democrats were despondent, but only temporarily, because anybody that knew enough to come in when it rained knew that wheat was high because of the unusual foreign demand and because Joe Leiter had it cornered. Free silver had nothing to do with wheat last year. How is it now? We are willing to concede that the price of wheat is regulated by supply and demand. Probably free silver or a single gold standard has nothing to do with It. We don’t know and don’t care. Wheat was high last winter because Europe had none, and it is cheap now because it is plenty everywhere. Granting that proposition also proves the other, viz., that silver is cheap when not used and high when given an equal chance with gold. Wheat has not been kind to the Republican party. It has come down ker-plunk when for political purposes it ought really to have been sky high.—Washington (la.) Democrat.

Gloomy for Republicans. When the Republicans realize that 96,000 critics of the administration have been mustered out of the army and sent all over this nation to their homes, then the Republicans will become possessed of a very gloomy fact. Gloomy for the politicians, the money grabbers, the soldier starvers, the incompetent, impertinent, heartless, scheming followers of the heartless, impertinent, incoinpetent and scheming Alger. But not gloomy for the peopled For them the return of the soldiers is an event full of joy. The loved ones have been snatched from the perils of camp life, which have proved more disastrous than the rifles of the foe. And when these 96,000 soldiers tell the story of their sufferings what will the administration have to say in reply? Surely the outlook of the Republicans is gloomy, and most surely the outlook for the Democrats is cheerful. Cheerful because the soldiers are now safe; cheerful because the abuses existing in the army will be corrected; cheerful because the Republican boodle gang will be turned out of power and honest men put in their places. There will be no necessity for a speedy report of any Investigating committee on the conduct of the war. The returned soldiers will give their report and the people will hear and heed it.—Chicago Democrat. Too Much Hanna. There Is going to be a popular revolt against Hanna. Too much Hanna has resulted in too much Alger, and too much Alger has caused disease, starvation and death among the soldiers who went forth brave and strong to fight the Spaniards and to the stars and stripes. Public patience has been tried to its very limit. Corrupt political bosses have ruled the Republican administration. The most shameful appointments have been made to official position both in civil and military circles. Such a conduct of affairs i musit inevitably bring about but one re-sult-popular revolt. Hanna has flaunted Ms gross commercialism in the face of patriotism. | He has “conciliated with an ax” and | has forgotten there is no truer saying [than this: “He who lives by the sword j shall perish by the sword.” Mark Hanna has not yet been overthrown. He still retains power to force the Republican administration into acts Which will end in its destruction. But the reign of Hanna is nearly ended, and whim he falls the Republican party will fall with him. Vernftmt and Silver. There are other things besides the failure of the war department which the Republicans will have to investigate. One of these things is the slump in the Republican vote in Vermont. Ia that state the contest was between sliver and gold. The Republicans advocated the gold standard, while the Democrats stood solidly on the Chicago platform and spoke and voted for free silver. There was a spirited contest, and the returns show that the Republicans suffered great losses, while the Democrats made substantial and lurprising gains. At the election which preceded the one under discussion the Democrats secured but eleven representatives; now they have thirty-three. It is needless to say that the Republicans of Vermont are demoralized. Sham Investigation. No wonder that a large per eenit. of the investigating commission appointed by President McKinley would not consent to serve. When it is understood that the commissioners will have to pay their own salaries and bear their own expenses, and that they will have no authority to summon, swear or examine witnesses, the disinclination of these appointed to serve Is fully explained. Of what use would an investigat*on

ewfcea all of its ,|| mm mvmt volunteer their testimony in the case? What would that testimony prove when It would be given without the sanction of an oath? Army officers would riot testify before such a commission. They might desire to have the truth known concerning the incompetence, carelessness and cruelty of the commissary department, for instance, bnt they would not put themselves in the position of tale-bearers. McKinley’s commission appears to be a very inadequate method of securing the facts desired. The administration is. facing a crisis and it is meeting the emergency in a shuffling, ineffective and cowardly manner. If the President desires to save his party from utter defeat and ruin he will take hold of this investigation with sincerity and force. The people are in no mood to accept excuses, nor will they be satisfied with a sham commission, bereft of all power to do effective work. Gov. Tanner’s $2 Shave. When Governor Tanner went down to Golconda and sought to divert'attention from himself and the issues with which his name is associated by crying “Thief!” at the Altgeld administration be pursued the tactics best calculated to bring his own record into public review. That speech has had the effect of rousing ex-Governor Altgeid, who promises to give the Tanner administration a very thorough reviewing before the public in due time. Just as a beginning he told how Tanner gets himself shaved at the expense of the state. lie says one Herman Gaa, a barber in the Leland Hotel barbershop, was put on the state house rolls as a janitor at $2 a day; and that his sole duties in that capacity consisted in shaving the governor, thus making the chief executive’s shaves cost the state $2 apiece. Governor Tanner asserts that he paid Gaa extra for the service rendered in shaving him. Altgeld says Gaa performed no service but to shave the governor, and If that service was paid for extra what did Gaa do to entitle him to draw money from the state treasury? It will strike some people as queer that the governor of Illinois should employ a Janitor to shave him, but perhaps that is due to Tanner’s.simple, unaffected ways. The number of men whose names arc on the pay rolls as janitors is so large that there cannot possibly be anything for all of them to do at the state house. This is a scandal, and the Tanner-Alt-geld controversy will be productive of good If it leads to the abatement of the evil.—Chicago Record.

lowa Democracy, The Populists and Silver Republicans of lowa indorsed the Democratic State ticket, and the probability of a triumph over the Administration party in. the November election is very great. The platform of the National Democratic convention adopted at Chicago in 1890 was unequivocally reaffirmed, and the policy of free silver coinage, without awaiting the consent of the government of Great Britain, was declared. The platform also Indorses W. J. Bryan for leader In 1900, upholds the commencement of the war with Spain, but scores Secretary Alger and the national administration for the conduct of hospital and camps. The election In lowa In 1896 went heavily for the McKinley electors, the Populists having declned to support the Democratic ticket Last year, however, they united with the Democrats, and the Republican majority consequently fell to less than half. With the aid of the large contingent of Silver Republicans who have since joined them, our friends expect still better fortune this year.— New York News. Maine Republicans. Maine Ibas returned Speaker Reed to Congress with a marked falling off in the Republican vote. Leweilyn Powers was re-elected governor by a plurality of about 27,000, whereas two years ago he went into office with a plurality of 42,000. The decrease in the Republican vote is discouraging to the party in power and explanations and excuses are now in order. Reed’s constituents showed a lack of interest In their candidate and the result was a decrease of 4,000 votes in his usual majority. Analyzing the vote, it becomes apparent that the Republicans have lost 21 per cent., which is much more than the normal loss shown dn an “off year.” Such a thing as a Democratic victory In Maine Is not to be expected, but Democrats can find encouragement in the showing of the polls because it demonstrates that many thoughtful Republicans have become disgusted with the administration and have refused to give it the seal of their approval. Horrors After the War. If there was only a lull in the painful proceedings and If there was only a promise of better management and results to come we would be patient, but there are no such signs descernlble—the horizon is still as black as night. Still come into port the transports from the South, each with its addition to the court of criminal culpability on the part of someone in authority, each with the same indictment of bad water, decayed and unsuitable rations and insufficient ■medical attendance.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Democratic Policy. Whatever the reason, the growth of public opinion in favor -of municipal ownership generally has for the last half dozen years been steady and rapid—and in spite of the general opposition of the newspapers, not a few of which have been retained as special advocates of the private corporation. And this, in itself, is strongly suggestive that this change in public opinion is based on solid grounds,— Grand Rapids Democrat. Commissions Badly Distributed. If the government had made the officers of the regular army the arbiters of the distribution of commissions, as they di<s In the case of the navy, the glaring incompetence which is now throwing shame on our entire military establishment would never have had power lb work evil. The officers of the regular army would have seen to It that of ly men properly qualified had eommlrbions.—-New York Times. McKinley’s Unfortunate Slip. President McKinley’s declaration to Senate*!* Bacon, that this “is the war of no paS-ty and no section” will rise to plaguft those Republican politicians who Ire endeavoring to capture the by claiming the credit for ad the good that has come from this war, -Atlanta Constitution. An Obio Administration. T<? the head peace commission, \yi]j. lam R. Day, of Ohio; for the Secretary of £taite, John Hay, of Ohio; for «m* haofodioh to Great Britain, Whitelaw Reid, an Ohio man; to head the Cuban commission, Gen. Wade, an Ohio man. And (there are Constitution,

THROUGH THE STRAITS.

Experience of the Battleship Oregon Passing from Pacific to Atlantic. Tudor Jenks contributes to the St. Nicholas an account of “The Voyage of the ‘Oregon,’ ” with Illustrations by an artist with the fleet. Mr. Jenks says: Thursday, April 7, the Oregon sailed, In a dense tog, ran by the city of Valparaiso one night without giving the Spanish residents a chance to carry out any plots they might have formed, and within nine days was off the Strait of Magellan, near Desolation Island. Entering the strait, the Oregon anchored for the night in a small bay, thirty miles inside. In the darkness a little fishing-vessel passed not far from the Oregon* and the Yankee sailors were at their guns quicker than the searchlight could be turned on the stranger. At daybreak next morning she was under way again, making 165 miles in eleven hours, with her men at the gnns, and cleared for action, ready for the torpedo-boat—which, as a matter of fact, was thousands of miles away. At half-past six In the evening the Oregon reached Pnnta Arenas (Sandy Point), a settlement devoted to selling coal and provisions, and stopped to coal—the men leaving their hammocks in the nettings, and sleeping about the decks in the short intervals of their hard work. The Marietta arrived next day, with dispatches she had brought from Valparaiso. These dispatches showed that matters were coming to a warlike situation, and whenever a strangef vessel appeared thereafter, the sailors ait once went to the guns, ready for trouble. At daybreak on Thursday, April 21, the anchor was raised, and under light forced draught the battleship started through the strait, always on the keen lookout for the tiny torpedo-boat that was supposed to be lurking there like a coiled rattlesnake In a path. At the narrowest point, called the English Narrows, the channel is but half a mile wide; and here the speed was reduced, and all the sailors peered about for the treacherous little foe—the only thing a battleship dreads. The scenery in the strait was superb —lofty snow-covered mountains, great glaciers coming to the water’s edge, and inlets opening here and there. Once in the Atlantic Ocean, the great vessel gladly swung around and pointed her prow toward home—and Cuba. As yet the people on board knew nothing of what was going on between America and Spain. They met two merchant steamers, but could hear nothing later # than they already knew. And yet, while the Oregon was on her way to her next port, Rio de Janeiro, war had been declared; Dewey had set sail for Manila; the Spanish torpedoboat “Temerario” had left Buenos Ayres; and Spain’s fleet, four cruisers and three torpedo-boats under Cervera, being ordered away by Portugal, had left the Cape Verde Islands.

French Parents.

French parents are perhaps the most affectionate in the world. The Interests and welfare of their children are their first consideration, and wonderful sacrifices of their own pleasure and enjoyment are made in favor of theii* sons and daughters by the most worldly men and women. These are taken as a matter of course; no one thinks of doing otherwise or seeing any merit in such acts. The mothers, especially, are unequaled; nothing will stand in the way of a French woman where her children’s interests are concerned. This love is so engrossing that it swallows up every other; they are more mothers than wives, and if called upon to choose between allowing a husband to gp alone on a foreign mission or leaving their children they would not hesitate. “Mes enfants avant tout”—Miss’ Anna L. Bicknell in Century.

PRACTICAL KINDNESS.

One Hundred Thousand Grateful Soldiers. These war times have tried men’s souls intaany unexpected ways, but like a shaft of sunshine and good cheer out of the cloud of privation and endurance has been the work that The American Tobacco Co. has done among the U. S. soldiers and sailors ever Bince the war began—for when they discovered that the camps and hospitals were not supplied with tobacco they decided to provide them, free of cost, with enough for every man, and have already given outright to our soldiers and sailors over one hundred thousand pounds of “Battle Ax Plug” and “Duke’s Mixture” Smoking Tobacco, and have bought and distributed fifty thousand briar wood pipes, at a total cost of between fifty and Bixty thousand dollars. This work has been done quietly and thoroughly, by establishing headquarters in each camp so that every camp and every hospital of the United States army has been supplied with enough tobacco for every man- and. the sailors on thirty United States ships ip Cuban waters have shared with the soldiers this most welcome of all “rations.” Perhaps it will be only fair to remember when we hear the remark again that “corporations have no souls,” that there is one American corporation whose soul has been tried and has not been found wanting in "practical kindness.”

The Really Important Question.

Doomore—Shay, Georgie, zhoo know—know zhat it’s 2 o’clock (hie) in the morning? Doolittle—Yesh, corshe, I do; but whlsh mornin’, thazh what I wantzh know?—Roxbury Gazette.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

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Pleasure Even in a Picnic.

Colonel Yerger—Well, how did you like the picnic? Gilhooley—l was so glad to get home again that I was glad I went.—Glasgow Mail.

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“Duke” Joyner’s Fortitude.

I have heard of many cases of fortitude, but that of “Duke” Joyner excels them all. Charles J. Joyner, during his lifetime lived near the head of Crooked Fork Valley, in Morgan County. He was a man of powerful physical development, brave, fearless, and of wonderful endurance. He fought on the Union side in the civil strife, and then after the contention was over he married and went to farming. In some way when a boy the title of “Duke” was given to him, which ever afterwards he was known by. “Duke” Joyner was a hard worker and a good farmer. One day while building an underdrain, assisted by two small sons, he had a stroke of paralysis and was unable to move, but could talk. “Duke” concluded that he would superintend the operation of taking his half dead body home. He had the two boys put a log.chain around Ms body. Then he had them put down a couple of planks. Next they hitched the chain to the ox chain and th£ oxen drew his body up in the "wagon. While lying in the wagon the “Duke” by the use of his voice drove the oxen to his house. He survived and lived a number of years after.— Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune.

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Too Mach of a Watch Dog.

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Hall's Catarrh Cure.

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