Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — A Deceptive Adage. [ARTICLE]

A Deceptive Adage.

The new excise law went into effect in South Carolina on the IstJ The amount of wine purchased for 1 sacramental purposes on the 30th of June is said to have been unparalleled in that State. Charity begins at home is practically illustrated by ex-Sen at or Ingalls. - He has dollar for an address delivered in Kansas, either political or literary, and says he never will. For all that, however, the prospects are that the verbose Senator will not soon represent that commonwealth in the halls of congress. Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, addressed the Sun day school children at Asbury Park, last week. In the course of his remarks he said that newspaper criticism seldom annoyed him, but he had serious objections to being accused of drunkenness, as had been recently done by some papers, when in fact he did not: .drin k at all and was strongly opposed to the liquor traffic. - A horse racing Duke and “Dookess” have been added to the list of notables who have come t > our shores in this Columbian year. They are the de Beauforts, and tKcy~arT rived at New York on the Ist. The Duke’s horses came in at the tail end of the procession at the Chicago races, but his ighness has cash that says they can lead at other trials that are- to take place in different parts of the country during the season. The directors of the Brooklyn bridge corporation have received an offer of $5,000 per year from an enterprising liquor dealer for the privilege of opening a saloon on the. bridge, but declined the proposition because they did not want the roadway blockaded by thirsty New Yorkers. This is a very uugentlemanly reflection on New York men,as it is notan established fact that they are any more given to intemperate habits than their Brooklyn brethren. Parisian dudes can give their American imitators a new point. Superlatively nice young men of that * gay capital now employ their surplus cash in having plaster casts of their legs construct®! for the purpose of keeping their trousers and underwear in proper shape. One young man is said to have sixty pairs of plaster counterfeits of his underpinnings standing around in a room especially devoted to that purpose. The effect is said to be startlingly uncanny. Pugilist Corbett advises Mr. Cleveland to run half a mile each dayy after which he should walk at least three miles with a blanket bound about the waist to make him perspire freely. As an additional flesh reducer he directs that the President perambulate the streets of Washington on a bicycle. In addition to the exercise the patient is to be limited to a strict diet and abstain from all liquids as far as possible. He guarantees that, if his advice is followed, Grover will soon be< the gamiest President that ever vetoed a bill. The sewer commissioner of St. Louis has recently been confronted with a condition of the underground channels in his charge that knocks but all of his previously conceived theories. A peculiar red gravel that has of late years been extensively used, on the thoroughfares of that city nas become a terror to his department because' of its being so largely composed of iron that, when ground up by the traffi of the streets, it becomes a powder that forms an adamantine cement when washed into the sewers by tbe rains. Huge piles collect in the arteries underlying the city that require the most strenuous exertions of men with sharp tools to remove. Ten thousand dollars is a large price for a handful of curled hair, yet that is the sum demanded by Mr. Arthur Massey from Moses King, of New York, for a slight souvenir which the said King plucked from the flowing beard of the aforesaid Massey during the progress of an animated argument over the possession of some photographs, taken by the said Massey for the aforesaid King. It all depend upop tbe locality whence ypu procure your su]> fdy of curled hair. £ ihattress man., ufaetured L ffWn i *wucli expensivtrcullings would comabigb) ang you don’t ba ve to Have that kind for a comfortable bed. If fence, people 1 fable to mi Men and uncontrollable, ebul it ions o! temper, and W destine Tor a Soft

bed, should procure, all the curled hair they are liable to need at the usual market rates before engaging in disputes with men whose flowing beards may tempt them to begin a collection of mattress material at such ruinous prices. The Edwin Booth, during the ■fast twenty years~oT his life, accumulated a fortune of nearly $700,000, all of his earnings previous to 1869 having been lost in the failure of the great theater which he endeavored to establish* in-New York, The- estate which he has left to his heirsconsists entirely of personal property. with the exception of a residence at Newport. This handsome return for a comparatively few years of professional effort has called attention to the thrifty habits of actors of great ability, which is in striking contrast to the profligacy which is characteristic of a majority of the common footlight favorites, whose mediocre talents often bring them very handsome incomes. The fact is recalled that Edwin Forrest and Charlotte Cushman both left very large fortunes, and Mr. Henry Irving, the eminent English tragedian. is also credited with being a wealthy man. This art of accumulation is rare among men of uncommon genius and ability, and very few w riters,’ no matter what their-abil-ity or distinction, have ever acquired a fortune from their literary productions. This is a very free country. The freedom of speech and action permitted to all, whether citizens or not, native or foreign bo,rn. is unknown in any other country on earth. It is a cardinal doctrine of our creed to allow this latitude of thought, expression and action in all things. Yet there is a point where liberty ceases to be a virtue, and where incendiary sentiment should not be allowed to insult the intelligence and patriotism of the great mass of our people who love their country and its flag. Socialism and anarchy have nothing in common with the aims and purposes of any free government, and when their advocates go to the length of publicly cursing a country and flag, whose benign blessings have insured to them a safe refuge from, in many cases, well merited punishment for crimes committed abroad, then if our laws can not reach them, our citizens will, at least, sympathize with and give their moral support to any man who. in the heat of passion, resents an insult to the stars and stripes as he would an assault upon bis own honor —by sturdy blows thaFarFacredit to his man - hood. Henep, it wlTr~be~axnffi<ult matter to obtain a jury that will punish John Schultze, of New York, who thus summarily dealt with one Frank Kraiger: of the same city, for cursing America and her starry banner. Mr. Kraiger died of the injuries received at the hands of the patriotic Schultze, as has been noted in our news columns, and there will be few who will not feel that his punishment, while severe, was well merited. / - - It is our aim to give our readers seasonable information at all times. In pursuance of this policy we note the departure of Lieutenant Peary for the Arctic regions in search of the North Pole.. Incoming steamers , arriving at New York on the 3d and 4th report encountering the most tremendous icebergs -ventable mountains of frigidity—on the trip across. In keeping with this cooling information we chronicle the arrival on one of these same steamers of the Governor of Siberia and his staff, who are making an American tour, and will visit the World's Fair. The assurance possessed by this official is in itself cool- very cool. He probably does not realize the detestation in which his government of that ill-famed and frigid region is held by the people of this country. Should he escape open insult at the hands of some hot-headed gathering of free American citizens before his tour is brought to a dose he will be fortunate This, however, is not germane to the object of this article, which primarily was to furnish cooling and soothing intelligence to our readers to thereby bet ter enable them to endure the heated term; to .hold out, in fact, the blessed assurance that there is ice and snow and frozen soil still in existence on this planet, and that in due course this seething, sweltering, sizzling, soul-destroying heat will puss away. '

St, LouH djobe Democrat. The <rid adagfe. “a pint’s a pound the world around, ” js as untrue, as go»eral i>ayingFare apt to be. A pint of common coffee weighs twelve ounces; a pint of flour, one-naif a pound; pint of brown sugar, tbirteen Ouhc««; -pint of granulated, feurteep; a pint of chopped meat, ten, iri nOcase does a pint of anything exactly equal a pound, '.'l C j l