Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — Sound Advice. [ARTICLE]

Sound Advice.

Thebe is some real satisfaction, notwithstanding the crime, in the report that some of “Old Hutch’s” clerks have decamped with several thousand dollars of the old man's money. “Old Hutch” engineered the recent corner on Chi•ago wheat and by the methods employed realized a million and a half dollars or more by the transaction. To draw a fine moral point his clerks were fully as justified in robbing him as he was in robbing grain dealers and the poor by force of. their necessities. At any rate “Old Hutch” won’t get much sympathy, whatever betide him.

John Hopkins University is not alone in itstroub’es. Cornell has lost its huge lawsuit for over SI,OO ',OOO, left to the university by Jennie McGraw Fiske, wife, when she died, of Prof. Fiske. The Professor, not content with a fortune received from his wife, who died soon after marriage, contested the will, and has won the case in the Court of Appeals. By charter, Cornell can not own property in txcess of $5,000,000. The lands, the interest of which go tc university, are worth fully that sum but the land, it is claimed, is not unithe Supreme Court. The sympathy of the public is, of course, with the great institution that has done so much for education; and can use the additional million without detriment to the interests of anyone ■

It is very clear that if any high-toned briber, or one in any way illegally connected with ballot corruption, falls into the hands of Judge Gresham, he will fare hard. The judge does not consider the small fry as worth prosecuting; but he wishes to see one of the heavy corruptionists who organise bribery, and' go regularly to church, punished as he deserves. There is no questioning the wickedness and danger to free institutions from bribery. The only question is whether it is on the increase or decrease. In the last century votes were openly bought in the streets attables set out for convenience id making change. But give tne Judge a chance by ail means. We must break up the system in all forms nt all risks.

A Connecticut chap is. reported'who bet all bis cash and convertable property on Cleveland’s re,-election. Then he mortgaged his house and furniture and bet that. Then he had his life insured, and his wife’s, and net the insurance. Then he agreed to pay a neighbor’s grocery bill if Harrison was elected, or live in a cave that he would dig .in a sand hill until Harrison’s inauguration. He has his cave finished, and is in it; while his wife, who is sick, is on the charity of her neighbors. Such a fellow should be declared incapable of betting, otherwise transferring property; while a commission should be empowered to soundly spank him three times a day. It is a sort of cross between lunacy and idiocy that can not be handled by ordinary methods.

Judge. Pa lent—Doctor,l can’t sleep of nights What shall I dp? 4 Doctor—Get a position as night watchman. ■