Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

From Wbeatfield. if Thos. Thornton, section boss on the C. & L C. 8y.., has resigned, and will move, shortly, to Michigan. Horace Marble, of Crown Point, made ns a flying visit this week. Dell Brown and Frank Taylor had a difficulty over a game of pool that resulted in a slugging match) and from the appearance of Brown’s “mug? he must have barked up the wrong tree. The most Right Rev. Wm M. Bowman, M. D., came from fthe Remington fair with flying colors, where we suppose he got rid of a goodly amount of his unlimited supply of natural gas. Quite a number from here attended the convention at Rensselaer and report a pleasant time, v . Mrs. John Greve is visiting at Momence, Ills. L. L. Ebbersold, who has been in Chicago, is at home fer the present. Our new trustee S. D. Clark, is going to build us a new school house in town and the one south of town will be removed further south a mile, and west a quarter. The most comical occurrence of the season that your correspondent has witnessed, occurred last Thursday in the hay-field southwest of town, in the shape of a quarrel between a big grown man and a strip of a boy. It was a clear case of “one afraid and tother glad of it.” Old Ironsides.

From Remington. Mrs. Levi Hawkins returned last Thursday from an extended visit with relatives and friends in Buchanan, Michigan. Particulars of the concert given by Miss Birdie Blye and Master l 3Bert Shepherd, assisted by our besf’;sfome talent, will be given nexfcjfreek. Mrs. T. J. McMurray, whose death has been daily expected for the past four weeks, is still living, at this date, Monday afternoon. Our former youDg townsman Harry Thomas, now of Colorado, is in luck. In a receht letter to his brother-in-law Mr. Warren Roadifer, lie informs him that fie has been offered $15,000 for a patent he has secured on an improvement in steam engines. Miss Grace Maxwell, of Duluth, Minn., is visiting relatives and many friends in this place. She will leave this week for Butler University, where she expects to finish her education.

Prof. Dickerson and family arrived last Friday. He has been conducting a very successful summer normal in the southern part of the state, and will no doubt conduct an equally successsul winter school in this place, beginning Sept. 15th,

A runaway team belonging to Wm Thurston created some excitement last Saturday afternoon. The streets were full of vehicles of every description, and it is a great wonder that no one was seriously hurt. The' wagon was a wreck and several persons were more or less scratched Jand bruis- ~ r: ' ' '

After weeks and months of suffering, Mrs. John Morehead found rest in death last Friday afternoon. Her father and mother from the vicinity of Cincinnati, were with her during the last few weeks of her life. Brief funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. L. Greenway, at the residence of the family on Saturday afternoon. at 4 o’clock, after which the remains were interred in the Remington cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Nelson and son, of Manchester, Ala., and Miss Agues Nelson and niece, of Braceville, 111., are all gathered under the parental roof tree once more. They will spend a few weeks in this place, visiting their many friends, after which Mr. Nelson and family will return to the sunny south, and Miss Nelson and ui&cc will take their departure for their new home in Chicago.

The attendance at the fair, which closed last Saturday, was very large, although not quite up to that of previous years, owing to a report that diphtheria was prevalent in the neighborhood of Remington. From the best sources of information at hand we are led to believe that everything is sound and satisfactory, financially and otherwise. The association is composed of the best men in this part of the country and everything has been conducted on honorable bueiness principles with the possible exception of the management of the department of textile fabrics in Floral Hall. This is a hard ahd trying position and the Association should see to it that no narrow-minded or incompetent person ia called upon to fill it.

Old - Soldiers’ Day at the fair ground last Friday, was the most interesting day of the entire fair. A glee club under the leadership of H. IL Walker, and composed of Mr. and Mrs. Will Townsend, Mrs. Walton, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. John Allman, Miss Winnie Draper, Frank Hardy and a strange gentleman whose name your correspondent could not ascertain, furnished excellent and appropriate music. Miss Laura Parks presided at the oigan. Eloquent speeches were made by Hon. M. L. DeMotte, Comrade Robt, Gregory, of Monticello, Col. Weeden, of Evanston, 111., and possibly others, but the oration of Col. Weeden was the only one to which your correspondent had the pleasure of listening, and it was indeed worthy of the rapt attention of the vast throng that surrounded him. The limits of a newspaper article prevents a very full synopsis of the speech, but briefly outlined, it treated of the dignity and utility of labor and the relations that exist between employer and em-

ployed. _The curse that follows him who robs labor of its just reward and the long years of hopeless, helpless, unremitting and unrewarded toil of the slaves of the south, was a topic dwelt upon at some length and it was made clear to every thinking mind that the one followed the other. He said, in substance, that the soldiers fought well and bravely when they thought they had God on their side, but they were defeated, but when the nation went over to God’s side there was nothing but victory. Although . Col. Weeden, who is on the staff of Gov, Fifer, of Illinois, is prematurely aged, broken in health and strength by the hardships of war, and the horrible, privations of a southern prison he has no words of bitterness for his foes, speaking of them only with true Christian courtesy. It is to be hoped that if we have a course of lectures this winter, that Col, Weeden will be one of the lecturers. Your correspondent has heard many orators but never one who appealed more forcibly to the hearts of the people than Col. Weeden. Remingto^ian.

The True Editor. The philosopher of the Elkhart Review expresses a correct line of thought in the following: If one were to judge from the utterances, of some newspaper writers the only standard of judgement by which to measure an editor’s fitness, is his ability to make his journal the reflex of his personal views, and the vehicle of his 'personal spites. The possession of this ability, however, is the best evidence of his lack of fitness for the conduct of a newspaper, whether it be a small local paper or a metropolitan journal. The true editor sinks himself, his prejudice, his spites, in short his entire personality, and makes his paper the reflection of truth as applied to politics, to public morals and to personal conduct. He does not establish himself or his school of thinking as the standard by which all theories must be measured. He does not strive to punish crime by exposing the criminal to public execration, nor to ruin reputations by needlessly parading the mistakes of the individual, nor

lacerate the sensitive feelings of innocent sufferers by relating the misdeeds of others. Fearlessness in expressing opinion is often nothing less than dyspeptic dislike of existing conditions. Reckless assaults upon existing evils are often only the results of bitterness at personal failure. Independence is very frequently nothing less than mulish obstinacy to progress. The true editor has independence not only of unwise outside influence but of personal prejudice, fearlessness of expression when the public weal is to be served, a conscience that presides over both opinion and expression, and a human sympathy that recognizes the Jfact that some sins are only weaknesses, and that some evil deeds cause the worst pain to those who are connected with the wrong doers by ties that cannot be broken, bht who are inno--cent sufferers. No man is a fit editor of a journal, great or small, over whose nature a sensitive conscience and a broad humanity do not sit in a constant judgement '' * . ,»i.