Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Page 3

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“John,” said Mrs. Wisely to her liege lord the other evening, “I want to have a very frank talk with you. Do you realize that the boys are old enough now to observe and are beginning to form their characters?” ‘‘Of course I do. Great boys.” “Yes, and we want them to be great men. They naturally look up to you, John, more than to anybody else. For their sakes you must be careful In what you do and say. You fell over a chair the other day and used some very improper language. I heard Willie repeat it when lie stubbed his toe in the back yard.” “The little rascal! He didn’t?” chuckled the father. “Yes, John, and they pretend to smoke cigars and pour drinks from an imaginary decanter. Can’t you set them a better example?” “Say, little one, I heard Amy playing keep house one afternoon lately. When callers were announced she sent out word that she was not at home. When she did consent to receive anyone she combed them down to beat the band before tliey were admitted. One was an old frump, another was an intolerable bore, and a third better a good deal be at home cleaning house or looking after her children. You couldn’t have done it better yourself.” “I see what you mean, sir. No use of rubbing It in. But wait, dear,” in a softer voice, “let’s both do better. It’s for their sakes, you know.” “I’ll go you,” and they shook hands. As John left that evening he slipped up on the front steps and made the air blue. Around the corner he lit his cigar. Mrs. Wisely had some animated gossip with a neighbor. And yet the children seem to thrive.—Detroit Free Press.

Fads of Composers.

Genius has a queer way of doing things. Haydn, when in the humor for composition, always put on his best suit and made his toilet as if going to a court ball. Another of his fads was to write his music on the finest paper that could be purchased. Gluck had his piano carried out in the meadow, acd, with a bottle of champagne on each side of him, went at his work like a wild man. Palsiello composed the whole of his operas, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Molinara,” while in bed. Saccliini could do nothing without having his two favorite cats on his shoulders. Clmarosa always wanted a crowd of friends about him when he composed his music, while Sarti always withdrew to a lonely chamber lighted dimly by a single lamp.

The Cost of Freeing Cuba.

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Failed to Tempt Her.

Clerk —Talk about close-fisted men. Why, that woman just going out at the door could give any man I ever saw cards and spades. Floorwalker—Oh, It’s a woman’s nature to haggle over prices, you know. Olerk—But she didn’t haggle. She selected her things and paid for them without a word, but during the nineteen minutes I kept her waiting for her change she never looked at a thing in the store. ’Fraid she’d see something she wanted, I suppose.

Wanted to Escape.

A traveling medium who recently gave a seance in a Georgia town began by saying: “I have been requested by some of the men present to recall the spirits of tlioir wives who have gone before. Keep perfectly quiet, friends—and in one moment they will be with you.” “John,” whispered an old man in the audience, “gimme my hat —quick! I don’t mind meetin’ Molly in heaven, but I’ll be durned if I want her to resume business on earth!”—New York Tribune.

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One Honest Man.

They had been married but two short months when the cook packed up and left without the customary notice and the young wife was compelled to preside over the culinary department temporarily. “Do you know, my dear,” began the husband, as they sat at the breakfast table, “that your biscuits are not ” “Oh, of course, I know,” she interrupted, a sickly smile flitting across her face. “It’s the old, old story; they are not like your mother used to make.” “Right you are, dearest,” he continued. “They are not to be compared with mother’s biscuits for a minute. You see, mother’s biscuits were invariably heavy and I could never eat more than one, while yours are so nice and light that I have already eaten four, and ” But there is a limit to human endurance, and the poor woman had fainted.

Not Professional.

“When they had the collision on the river that fellow Tape, the police court lawyer, absolutely refused to help get the water out of the yacht.” “What was the reason?” “He said he never balled anything without being paid for it.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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A Leader of Men.

“That man is a great political leader,” said Mr. Corntossel’s neighbor. “Well,” was the answer, “he isn’t exactly what I’d call a leader. But he certainly has a great knack of findin’ out which way the procession is goln’ an’ then gettin’ out in front an’ hollerin’, ‘Come on, fellers!’’’—Washington Star.

Heavy G. A. R. Business.

General Manager Rawn of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway has prepared a detailed statement of the number of people carried into Cincinnati on the occasion of the thirty-second annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic Sept. 3to 12, inclusive. According to the train records, 37,997 people were transported, the largest number being on Sept. 5, when the total reached 8,322. According to these statistics, the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern carried about 30 per cent of the travel.

Real Estate.

Wallace—We don’t want Hawaii. We want no heathen land. Ferry—Hawaii is no heathen laud. It has had missionaries for one hundred years, and While the natives may be heathen the land is in possession of the Christians. —Cincinnati Enquirer.

The Only Explanation.

“Briggs must have an angelic wife. He never shows the least bit of nervousness when we break up In the early morning.” “That’s easily explained.” “How?” “Briggs isn’t married.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Is That It?

Little Edward—Papa, why do they call those funny looking, two-wheeled carriages hansoms?” Papa—l think it’s because it takes some han’same balancing on the part of the drivers to keep from tipping the horses up in tihe air.

Time by the Forelock.

Money is welcome in these days. A man who had to leave his office and was expecting a caller to pay him some money left this notice on the door: “I have gone out for half an hour. Will be back soon. Have been gone twenty minutes already.”—Tit-Bits.

The Missing Word.

- Hostess—“ What would you like to eat, Effle?” Effie—“ Cake.” Mother' (reprovingly)—“Effie! Effie! What is the word you’ve forgotten? PI •” Piffle—“Pl—urn!”—Punch.

Generally the Case.

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A Stickler.

“Mamma,” said Bobby, wiho had been reading the geography of Mexico, “what kind of a bug Is a popooadergilUx?*’— Youth’s Companion.

ANECDOTE AND INCIDENT

A little girl rebuked her brother for laughing at a man with a crooked nose who passed the house. “You mustn’t do that,” she said: “God made him that way.” “Why do you s’pose he did it?” asked the small boy, with interest. "Oh, I don’t know,” responded the little sister, indifferently; “people flo funny things.” Professor Park, of Andover, figures rather amusingly in the reminiscences of the late Professor Sebaff Just published. In 1842, Schaff (being a privatdocent at Berlin) introduced Park to his German friends, and among the rest to Kahn is. He relates that, under the continuous pelting of Park’s questions, Kahnis finally exclaimed in despair: “God forgive Christopher Columbus for discovering America!” When Charles R. Thorne, Jr., was doing utility at the Boston Museum In the early sixties, he married the daughter of a well-known Boston detective oilicer named Calder. Afterward he came to California and did not return to Boston for some years. When he was a leading man, Calder went Into the apothecary store of Orlando Tompkins, then one of the lessees of the Boston Theater, and said: “I understand Charley Thorne is coming back to Boston.” “Yes,” was the reply of Tompkins. “Coming back to support Booth, is he not?” “Yes,” was again the answer. “Well,” drawled out Calder, “if he does not support Booth any better than he supported my daughter, he’ll be durned poor support.” Samuel Rogers, the banker-poet, was noted for his bitter wit, for w hich, however, he had an excuse. “They tell me I say ill-natured things,” he once observed, In his slow, quiet, deliberate way; “I have a very weak voice; If I did not say ill-natured things no one would hear what I said.” It was owing to this weakness of voice that no candles were put on his dinner-table; for glare and noise go together, and dimness subdues the voices in conversation ai a handkerchief thrown over the cage of a canary subdues its song. The light was thrown Upon the walls and pictures and shaded from the room. This did not suit Sydney Smith, who said that a dinner in St. James’ Place was “a flood of light on all above nf|fc below nothing but darkness and gnashing of teeth.” On a recent visit of inspection, the State superintendent of schools in Maine, while in the town of Pembroke, asked a number of questions of the pupils in a school about the little things in the world about them. “How many seed compartments are there in an apple?” he asked, and “On which jaw has the cow her teeth?” with several similar questions, to which the pupils could make no reply. The next day, one of the teachers was amused to overhear the following conversation among the pupils in the playyard. A little girl had got some of her companions about her, and said, . gravely: “Now, children, let us play I am the superintendent. You’ve got to know more about common things; if you don’t you will all grow up to be fools. Now, tell me,”jdie said, looking sternly at a playmats»“how many feathers has a hen?” The woman who had charge of a banquet recently-given In Washington by a patriotic society of women notified each member of .the toast she would be expected to respond to ten days or so before the meeting. To one young woman, whom she did not know personally, she sent the toast, “Our Flag.” The young woman received it, and at once went to call on the head of the society, in a state of great distress. She simply could not respond to the toast, she said. She didn’t know whether a joke was intended, but she had been chaffed unmercifully about it already, and wouldn’t go near the meeting if she were to be called on to speak on that subject. “Why, what on earth Is wrong with that sentiment?” asked the head of the society. The pretty young woman hesitated. She blushed. “Well,” she said, “you see I’m going to marry a man named Flagg.” “Journalism for Women,” a book recently published in England, relates a story of a woman journalist in the North of England who wrote to a London paper for permission td act as Its special correspondent during the visit of some royal personages to her town.. The editor of the paper, knowing her for a good descriptive writer, gave the necessary authority, with explicit information as to the last moment for receiving copy. The moment came, but not the copy; and the editor had. to go to press without it. The next day, no explanation having arrived, he dispatched to his special correspondent a particular scathing and scornful letter. Then came the excuse. It was long, but the root of it amounted to exactly this: “I was so knocked up, and had such a headache after the ceremonies were over, that I really did not feel equal to the exertion of writing. I thought it would not matter.”

Barometer to a Smoker’s Condition.

The late William S. Roose, who. for so many years sold cigars at the hotel stands owned by him in this city, and at his several stores, always disliked to sell cigars by the box to any of his regular customers. His theory was that customers who had a box of their favorite cigar handy were apt to smoke too many, and the Inevitable result was that they soon got tired of any favorite, while they would smoke the same cigar for years without any but pleasant consequences if they bought them in small quantities. The only remedy that I know is for a person, the instant he feels any unpleasant effect from a cigar, to throw it away, rinse the mouth out with cold water, and drink a large glass of the same. A large of cold water in the stomach seems to’neutralize the effects of the cigar better than anything I know of. My experience Is that cigars are a barometer by which persons are readily forewarned as to their physical condition. The mere fact that a regular smoker does not want to smoke shows that there Is something wrong within him, and it Is best to pay attention to the indication and leave cigars alone until he feels that he can enjoy them.—Washington Star.

How Godsend Luskin Got His Name

Perhaps Godsend Lufkin, of Tilden, has the distinction of owning the queerest name in Maine. Godsend’s grandfather, old Peter Lufkin, owned about all the wild land in the town. When he died he left his property to his four boys in trust, the whole of it to go the first grandson who should come into the world. At that time none of the boys were married,, but they at once remedied this fault, every one taking a wife inside a year from the time the

wffl of their father was made. Si* years after his wedding the wife of George Lufkin presented to him a son, who was entitled to the great estate under the terms of the wilL It Was agreed that the boy’s mother should bestow the name, bat she neglected to tell the minister about it. before the party had assembled In the church. Then when the minister asked what same he should bestow the child’s father spoke up and saidr “I think better call him a godsend, because he has proved that to my family.” The words spoken In jest were taken In earnest by the clergyman, who proceeded to formally christen the boy as “A Godsend Lufkin,” a name which he bears to-day. As he got nearly SIOO,OOO along with his name, he is trying to stand It."

ANECDOTE OF BOOTH.

Lawrence Hatton Telia How He Fell Under Richelieu's Spell. Booth chanced to be in a particularly happy frame of mind—and he was often cheerful and happy, tradition .to the contrary notwithstanding. He was smoking the inevitable pipe, and he was arrayed in the costume of Richelieu, with his feet upon the table, submitting patiently to the manipulations of his wardrobe man or “dresser.” After a few words of greeting the call boy knocked at the door and said that Mr. Booth was wanted at a certain “left lower entrance.” The protagonist jumped up quickly, and asked if I would stay where I was and keep his pipe alight, or go along with him and see him “lunch the cuss of Rum,” quoting the words of George L. Fox, who had been producing recently a ludicrously clever burlesque of Booth in the same part. I followed him to the wings, and stood by his side while he waited for bis cue. It was the fourth act of the drama, I remember, and the stage was set as a garden, nothing of which was visible from our position but the flies and the back of the wings; and we might have been placed in a great bare barn, so far as any scenic effect wa3 apparent Adrian, Baradas, and the conspirators were speaking, and at an opposite entrance, waiting for her cue, was the Julie of the evening. She was a good woman and an excellent actress, but unfortunately not a personal favorite with the star, who called my attention to the bismuth with which she was covered, and said that if she got any off It on to his new scarlet cloak he would pinch her black and blue, pufflng volumes of smoke into my face as he spoke. When the proper time came he rushed upon the stage, with a parting injunction not to let his pipe go out; and with the great meerschaum In nay own mouth I saw the heroine of the play cast herself into his arms, and noticed, to my great amusement, that she did smear the robes of my Lord Cardinal with the greasy white stuff he so much disliked. I winked back at the half-comic, half-angry glance he shot towards me over Julie’s snowy shoulders. I half expected to hear the real scream he had threatened to cause her to utter. I thought of nothing but the humorous, absurd side of the situation; I was eager to keep the pipe going. And lo! he raised his hand and spoke those familiar lines: “Around her form I draw the awful circle of our solemn church. Flace but a foot within that hallowed ground, and on thy head, yea, though It wear a crown, I’ll launch the curse of Rome!” Every head upon the stage was uncovered, and I found my own hat In my hand! I forgot all the tomfoolery we bad been indulging in; I forgot his pipe, and my promise regarding it; I forgot that I had been a habitual theater-goer all my life; I forgot that I was a Protestant heretic, and that it was nothing but stage play; I forgot everything, except the fact that I was standing in the presence of the great, visible head of the Catholic religion in France, and that I was ready to drop upon my knees with the rest of them at his invocation. —Harper’s Magazine.

With Numberless Eyes.

To say that a person “has eyes in the back of hia head” has long been a recognized way of paying a high compliment to his powers of observing everything going on around him. But the phrase when applied to insects becomes, as naturalists are well aware, simply a statement of facts. Indeed, considering that very many insects indulge in eyes by the thousand, the head of a horsefly, for example, being literally made up of eyes alone, it would be strange if some of them had not to be relegated to the back of their owners’ headr.

Thus it is said that if an ordinary dragon fly wore placed in the center of a globe he could see every part of it at once without moving his head. And this insect, though possessing about 20,000 eyes, is a long way from being the moJit liberally endowed in this respect, the mordella beetle, for instance, comfortably beating him by some 5,000.

These eyes often give off prismatic colors, and under the microscope are very beautiful objects, looking like a section of honeycomb. That each individual eye of the many thousand has its perfect lens ’system is proved by the fact that each makes a separate picture of any object placed before it. Of course, a microscope is required to see these pictures, but they are very distinct and aro known to microscopists as the “multiple image.”

Curly Haired Men.

It is not generally known that there is a well-defined prejudice against cur-ly-headed men when it comes to choosing a jury to try criminal cases, says the New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat. The prejudice, when ft is manifested, comes from the defense. When asked to explain the objection to curly-haired men a prominent practitioner recently said: “When I was jest starting my legal mentor inculcated that idea in me. He said that curly-hraded men had almost invariably been pampered darlings of their parents, ami in their youth had been so used to Having their own way that they had come to Relieve 'that everybody on earth was wrong except themselves. In this way the seeds of opposition are sown, and when they grow older they make it a point to disagree with everybody and everything. If everybody else on the jury votes for acquittal they vote for conviction, as a matter of course. They live on combat, and are as stubborn as the days are long. A curly-haired man never gets on the Jury when I am defending a man if I can see him in time.”

He Listened to All.

Fontenelle listened to everything, and he offended no one by disputing anything. At the close of his life he was asked the secret of his success, and he replied that it was by observing two maxims: “Everybody may be right, and everything may be so.” You can tell a year in advance when ; a man is a candidate for office; he is so genial, and pokes his nose into so many i things.

LINCOLN’S NOMINATION.

A Chicagoan Give. Inside Information of that Interesting Kvent. A Chicagoan, E. O. Lanphere, gives some inside history as to the nomination of President Lincoln In 1860. Lanphere was .young at the time of that famous convention in Chicago, and was working in the interests of William H. Seward, of New York. “It was pretty . thoroughly understood,” says Mr. Lanphere, “that the vote of Indiana must control the convention. The Republicans had to nominate a man who could carry Indiana. On the morning of the opening of the convention, May 16, matters were still in a very doubtful condition. The friends of Lincoln and the partisans of Seward were declaring that their candidate was the only man in the party who could carry Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illnois. On the morning of the 16th Parker Dresser, a friend of mine and a delegate from Indiana, told me the Indiana delegation was going to hold a caucus in the old court house, which stood where the Rookery Building now .stands. I knew that that caucus would name the next President of the United States, and I was determined to be present. I asked Dresser to help me, and he smuggled me past the doorkeeper, and I laid flat down on a bench at the back of the hall just as the hall opened.” One after another of tne southern Indiana delegates made speeches protesting against the nomination of Seward. They declared that he was entirely too radical, and that it would be Impossible for them to carry their districts for him if he were nominated. At last, according to a preconcerted plan, when sufficient feeling had been aroused, Henry S. Lane, the presiding officer, called Parker Dresser to the chair and took the floor. He began by reciting the weakness of Seward as a party leader and declaring that he could never be elected. “But there is a man,” continued the speaker, “whom we can elect. Nobody can pick flaws in his record. He is honest, he is able, he is the man for us to nominate.” “Hurrah, hurrah, name him,” shouted the delegates. But Lane was skilled in the management of caucuses. He veered away from the name and began again. He spoke of his candidate as a self-made man, a man of the people. “He Is not from our State, but he is a near neighbor of ours,” he said. “He has towed a canal boat up our rivers; he has split rails and hewed logs in Indiana forests.” “What’s his name?” yelled a score of voices. But Lane kept on with his oratory, striking out with his long right arm In gesture, his coat sleeve not much below his elbow. The delegates left their seats and crowded around jthe speaker. 1 “I raised up, too,” says Mr. Lanphere, “and ventured forward with the rest. In the excitement nobody noticed me, an alien in the camp. Lane kept on talking about the rail splitter of the Wabash, but all the while refrained from naming him. At last an old farmer delegate roared. “Well, if you won’t name him we’ll nominate the old railsplitter and elect him anyhow.” “I will name him, gentlemen,” then said Lane; “the man I nominate is honest Abe Lincoln.’ ’ Shouts of applause rang out through the old court house, and in five minutes Indiana had decided to east her twen-ty-six votes for the nomlnation’of Abraham Lincoln.

The Lion’s Petition.

Sultan Muley Abderrahman, of Morocco, was very fond of wild animals, and had coolness. of nerve in dealing with them. He was one day passing through the court of the palace, mounted on a magnificent white charger, when a lion which he had been in the habit of caressing sprang up the side of the horse, and placed his paws upon the sultan’s knee. The horse, wild with fear, snorted and reared, and the sultan held him In with a firm hand. Those who saw him, say that he was not in the least disturbed. He put his hand on the lion’s head and stroked it. Then he turned to the chief officer of the court and asked: “How many pounds of meat are given to this lion daily?” The officer told him the quantity. “Let the lion have ten more pounds,” said his majesty, and the beast, as if an actual petition had been granted, withdrew from the horse’s side and lay down again, quite pacified. “These animals,” said the master of the horse, “understand what is spoken, although they have not the power of speech to tell what they want.” “Mashallah!” gravely responded another.—Youth’s Companion.

A SOLDIER’S ESCAPE.

From the Democrat-Message, Mt. Sterling, TIL When Richmond had fallen and the great commanders had met beneath the historic apple tree at Appomatox, the 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers, prematurely

aged, clad in tatters land rags, broken in body but of dauntless spirit, swung into line for the last “grand review” and then quietly marched away to begin life’s fray anew amid the hills and valleys of the Keystone State. .Among the number Asa Robinson came back to the old home in Mt. Sterling, 111., back to the fireside that he had left at the call to arms four years previous. He went away a happy,

The Soldier's Return.

healthy farmer boy in the first flush of vigorous manhood; he came back a ghost of the self that answered to President Lincoln’s call for “300,000 more.” To-day he is an alert, active man and tells the story of his recovery as follows: “I was a great sufferer from sciatic rheumatism almost from the time of my discharge from the army. Most of the time I was unfitted for manual labor of any kind, and my sufferings were at all times intense. At times I was bent almost double, and got around only with the greatest difficulty. Nothing seemed to give me permanent relief until three years agp, when my attention was called to some of the wonderful cures effected by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I had not taken more than half a box when I noticed an improvement in my condition, and I kept on improving steadily. I took three boxes of the pills, and at the end of that time was in better condition than at any time since the close of my army service. Since then I have never been bothered with rheumatism. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People is the only remedy that ever did me any good, and to them I owe my restoration to comparative health. They are a grand remedy.”

Now He Never Will Get Hie $10.

Barker—l owe that man across the street a grudge that I’m going to pay one of these days. Ilempy—He’s in luck. Barker—What do you mean? Hempy—He’ll be the first man you ever owed anything to that got paid.

Bobby Knew Her.

“Bobby, you must not* talk when I am talking.” “Well, mamma, you don’t s’pose I can wait till you’ve gone t’ bed?”—Detroit Free Press.

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Our Coal Mines.

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The Plumber in War.

The Lieutenant—ls that one of our men over there in that field? The Orderly—lt is, sir. “Who is it?” “Fassett, the plumber.” “What is he doing in that onion patch ?”■ “Looking for leeks, sir.”—Yonkers Statesman.

His New Theme.

“Briggley has quit telling folks how the war should be conducted.” “That’s strange. I wonder why?” “He hasn’t time.”

“Why, what’s he doing now?” “He's busy arranging the policy that the government ought to follow in conducting peace negotiations.”—Cleveland Leader.

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Beyond Comprehension.

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Unexplored Canada.

Canada has still 1,000,600 .square miles of unexplored territory.

Hall’s Catarrh Care.

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